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On 6 July, stunt motorcyclist Steve Lewis suffered extensive foot and knee injuries while attempting to jump over two cars speeding toward him at over 100 mph (160 km/h). [170] On 15 September, while performing a 170-foot (52 m) jump over the fountains of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada , stunt motorcyclist Gary Wells missed the landing ...
Rocket jumping has appeared in other media as well. In William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, a reference is made to being hoisted with his own petard, or being lifted by the explosion of one's own bomb. In the live-action film Transformers, the character Ironhide performs a rocket jump over a screaming woman after transforming from his truck mode ...
Peter Fechter (14 January 1944 – 17 August 1962) was a German bricklayer who became the twenty-seventh known person to die at the Berlin Wall.Fechter was 18 years old when he was shot and killed by East German border guards while trying to cross over to West Berlin.
The child had climbed the wall and fallen 24 feet (7.3m), breaking his hand and receiving a large gash on his face. Binti walked over and cradled the boy in her arms.
Act of Valor is a 2012 American action film produced and directed by Mouse McCoy and Scott Waugh and written by Kurt Johnstad. [2] The film stars active duty U.S. Navy SEALs and U.S. Navy Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen, as well as Roselyn Sánchez, Jason Cottle, Alex Veadov, Nestor Serrano, and Emilio Rivera.
Night Crossing is a 1982 thriller drama film starring John Hurt, Jane Alexander and Beau Bridges.The film is based on the true story of the Strelzyk and Wetzel families who, on September 16, 1979, escaped from East Germany to West Germany in a homemade hot-air balloon during the Inner German border-era, when emigration to West Germany was strictly prohibited by the East German government.
Jillian Ludwig, an 18-year-old Belmont University student in Nashville originally from Wall, was wounded by a stray bullet Tuesday afternoon.
A 20-year-old college student and musician was injured by an errant bullet fired from the apartment next door into her bedroom this week. Daria Tolokonnikova, who lives with her grandmother in ...