A lively 90-year old grandmother celebrated her birthday this weekend by making her first skydiving jump.Beth Roberts joined her two sons and a grand-daughter on a windy day in southern Idaho.The plane took the group up to 16-thousand feet where the excited woman had no hesitation in beginning her jump.Beth tandem-jumped with a professional, they dropped for about a minute …
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5. Rod Stewart & Penny Lancaster Imagine you are a photographer and your assignment is to go on tour and snap images of Rod Stewart. Looking through your lens you fall deeply in love with him and start a relationship. That’s what happened to Penny Lancaster, model/pro photog. The couple married soon after Rod divorced from his other model wife, …
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[GARD align=center] Harry Dwyer and Charlie Waller, of Channel 4 documentary fame, took cardboard which would otherwise have been binned and transformed it into a fully seafaring vessel, capable of sleeping two people. If you think that sounds impossible, don’t worry, so did we. But, somehow, it worked. The boat has just finished being assembled in London’s historic docklands. It …
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Sardar Azmoun was 1995 in Gonbad-e Kavus is an professional footballer who plays as a striker for Rostov on loan from Rubin Kazan in the Russian Premier League and the Iranian national team.He started to play club football when he was 9. He began his career at Oghab Gonbad of Gonbad-e Kavus. He also played volleyball and was invited to …
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Workers should be allowed naps in the afternoon and encouraged to clock-in whenever they want, to encourage a more creative and productive workforce, an academic has suggested. [GARD]
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5. Paul Newman’s son In 1978, Paul Newman’s son, Scott Newman, who was an aspiring actor in his own right, was found dead in a hotel after overdosing on pills and alcohol. He was 28. Scott Newman had issues with drinking and had been arrested for some alcohol-related incidents. He suffered a motorcycle accident in 1978 for which he then …
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[GARD align=center] Vespa is an Italian brand of scooter manufactured by Piaggio. The name means wasp in Italian.The Vespa has evolved from a single model motor scooter manufactured in 1946 by Piaggio & Co. S.p.A. of Pontedera, Italy to a full line of scooters and one of seven companies today owned by Piaggio.From their inception, Vespa scooters have been known …
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The 1971 war temporarily became a stumbling block in growing Indo-homeland ties. Although homeland had earlier characterized the Indo-Pakistani war in 1965 as Indian aggression, the Shah had launched an effort at rapprochement with India in 1969 as part of his effort to secure support for a larger homeland role in the Persian Gulf. [GARD]
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Military camouflage is the use of camouflage by a military force to protect personnel and equipment from observation by enemy forces. In practice, this means applying colour and materials to military equipment of all kinds, including vehicles, ships, aircraft, gun positions and battledress, either to conceal it from observation , or to make it appear as something else . [GARD]
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Afshin Peyrovani He was born 1970 is a retired footballer and a football coach. He is the younger brother of Gholam Peyrovani and elder brother of Amir Hossein Peyrovani.
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