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Let’s Talk Trash! NOV / DEC 2019
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Edward Michael “Bear” Grylls
Jaque Cousteau
Daniel Boone
BIRTH DATE June 11, 1910 Jacques Cousteau was a French undersea explorer. DID YOU KNOW? Jacques Cousteau co-invented the Aqua-Lung, a breathing device for scuba-diving, in 1943. DID YOU KNOW?
BIRTH DATE June 7, 1974 Bear Grylls is an
BIRTH DATE November 2, 1734
Daniel Boone was an American explorer and frontiersman who blazed a trail through the Cumberland Gap, thereby providing access to America's
adventurer popularly known for his bizarre survival tactics in reality television series Man vs. Wild. DID YOU KNOW?
western frontier. DID YOU KNOW?
source: celebrityboss.com
His elder sister is named Lara Fawcett, and it was she who nicknamed him as Bear. DID YOU KNOW? He went on a fund raising
Daniel received little formal education. Boone learned how to read and write from his
Source: biography.com
In 1951, he began going on yearly trips to explore the ocean on the Calypso. He recorded his trips on the TV series The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau DID YOU KNOW? As he entered adolescence, he showed a strong curiosity for mechanical objects and upon purchasing a movie camera, he took it apart to understand how it operated. His curiosity notwithstanding, he did not do well in school. PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-André-de-Cubzac, France
mother, and his father taught him wilderness survival skills. DID YOU KNOW? The legend surrounding Boone was so popular in American culture that NBC launched an action-adventure TV show about him in 1964 lasting six seasons. PLACE OF BIRTH Reading, Pennsylvania
Source: biography.com
expedition for the ‘Royal Nat‛l Lifeboat Institution‛ (RNLI) and led a team on Jet Skis to circumnavigate the UK in the year 2000. This was a pioneering initiative and the expedition took 30 days to complete. PLACE OF BIRTH Donaghadee, Northern Ireland source: www.thefamouspeople.com/ profiles/bear-grylls-6100.php
Ed Stafford
jessica Watson
BIRTH DATE December 26, 1975 DID YOU KNOW?
BIRTH DATE May 18, 1993
PHOTOGRAPH BY SERGIO DIONISIO, GETTY IMAGES
Jessica Watson sailed around the world, alone, as a teenager. DID YOU KNOW? On May 15, 2010, after 210 days, the smiling 16-year-old arrived in Sydney Harbor, the youngest single-handed, non-stop, unassisted circumnavigator of all time. PLACE OF BIRTH Gold Coast, Australia
Ed Stafford is the Guinness World Record-holding first person to walk the Amazon River. In 2011 he was awarded Mungo Park Medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in recognition of outstanding contributions to geographical knowledge through exploration. PLACE OF BIRTH Peterborough, United Kingdom
source: nationalgeographic.com/adventure/features /adventurers-of-the-year/2010/jessica-watson-2010/
https://www.edstafford.org
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