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49-year-old Paul Templer, an experienced safari guide, was attacked by a “monster” hippo who swallowed him head first in a terrifying assault in his native Zimbabwe, near Victoria Falls. This happened in March 1996. The hippo left him with 39 'major' bite wounds which resulted in Paul having his left arm amputated. Templer, a wildlife expert, was attacked by the rogue hippo while guiding a small group of tourists down the Zambezi River. Prior to becoming a safari guide, Templer had served with distinction in the British army. Today, he is a business consultant, public speaker, philanthropist, adventurer and CEO. He created the Templer Foundation to support and empower families navigating disability. The assault started when the hippo knocked one of Templer's pals out of his canoe. Paul Templer recounted the story of his near-fatal hippo attack to The Sun Online as follows:  “As I paddle towards him, the hippo was coming towards me under the water and the ripples on...

Aron Lee Ralston, is the US climber who cut his arm off to free himself from a boulder after 5 days of entrapment underneath a 360kg chockstone boulder. This happened on the 1st of May 2003. He amputated his lower right arm with a dull knife to set himself free. This is the story he had to tell GQ Sport's James Mullinger. photo credit: Telegraph "My plan was to climb all of Colorado's peaks that were over 14,000 feet high. On the canyoneering trip in Blue John Canyon in Utah, a boulder fell and pinned my right forearm, crushing it. It was the third day of the planned 5-day trip. It was four days later that my mother sent a helicopter to rescue me, the same day that I cut my arm off. I was trapped there for six days and during that time didn't get a wink of sleep. I was going through very extreme transformations. I was in an altered state of consciousness from sleep deprivation, blood loss and lack of oxygen to my brain, dehydration, hypothermia and starv...

"Jim Springer and Jim Lewis were born in Ohio in the USA. They were identical twins but they were orphans and they were brought up by different families in different cities in Ohio. (If they hadn't been separated, they wouldn't have had the same first name!). They were each told that their twin brother had died at birth and they did not meet until they were 39 years old. This was an opportunity for scientists to discover if twins really do share more than just their appearance. The result was amazing and their story appeared in magazines and newspapers all over the world.  At 39, the twins were the same height and the same weight. Both were divorced; both had had wives named Linda; both had named their first son James Allan. Each brother had a dog, and they had given the dogs the same name. The brothers had the same hobbies and each year they went to the same resort in Florida (a long way from Ohio) for their holidays. In fact, if they had chosen the same hotel, th...

Blogs (short for Web Logs) first emerged almost a decade ago as a medium for posting online diaries. (In a perhaps apocryphal story, Wired Magazine claimed the term “Web Log” was coined by Jorn Barger, a sometimes homeless, yet profoundly prolific, Internet poster). [1] Blogs in the typical sense, provide comment mechanisms where users can post feedback for authors and other readers. The blogging community form what is today known as the blogosphere (a powerful voice for change). Popular blogs are discovered via blogging apps like ‘trackbacks’. Blog popularity is reinforced mainly through the use of ‘blog rolls’. Blog-ranking indexes and websites then take over with the blog classification. Trackbacks are links in 
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