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In winter 1994, Bob Burden self-published Flaming Carrot Stories No. 1, referred to on the cover as a "Text Version of Future Issue". From 1997-1998, the company published four volumes of the Flaming Carrot Comics Collected Album , which was the first time the series had been reprinted, and the 64-page "Flaming Carrot Comics Annual No.1 ...
The Jumping-Off Place is a children's novel by Marian Hurd McNeely about homesteading in South Dakota.It is set on the Dakotan prairie in the early 1900s. The novel, illustrated by William Siegel was first published in 1929 and was a retrospective Newbery Honor recipient for 1930.
Eureka is a considerable distance from Sutter's Mill, but was the jumping off point of a smaller gold rush in nearby Trinity County, California in 1850. It is the largest of at least eleven remaining US cities and towns named for the exclamation, "eureka!".
Nowadays, this tradition has been carried on by adventurous folk who jump off various other objects: a diving board, a bungee-jumping cliff, a deck into a large pile of leaves. You’ve probably ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Jumping off a bridge may refer to: BASE jumping, a recreational ...
Carl Ronald Boenish (/ ˈ b eɪ n ɪ ʃ / BAY-nish; [2] April 3, 1941 – July 7, 1984), considered the father of modern BASE jumping, [3] was an American freefall cinematographer, who in 1978 filmed the first jumps from El Capitan using ram-air parachutes.
A jump consists of a sprint to the pole (polsstok), jumping and grabbing it, then climbing to the top of the pole while trying to control its forward and lateral movements over a body of water, and finishing by landing on a sand bed opposite to the starting point.
Refusals and runouts are counted against riders in jumping competitions. In show jumping and the stadium phase of eventing, a refusal is worth four penalty points. In the cross-country phase of eventing, a refusal counts as 20 penalty points. [1] Refusals also have the potential to unseat the rider, which may result in rider injury.