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Rulon Gardner (born August 16, 1971 in Afton, Wyoming) is an amateur wrestler in the Greco-Roman discipline from the United States. His strength is often attributed to the physical labor on the dairy farm he grew up on. He graduated from Ricks College (BYU-Idaho) with an Associates Degree and the University of Nebraska. He has his teaching credentials in Physical Education, yet he has never taught in the classroom. - Kendall Simmons
Henry Alexander Simmons (born March 11, 1979 in Ripley, Mississippi), known as Kendall Simmons, is an offensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the NFL. He played college football at Auburn University, and was selected 30th overall in the 2002 NFL Draft by the Steelers. Started the first two years of his career. After being hurt all of 2004 he came back in 2005, and started all 20 games and won the Super Bowl with the Steelers. - Stephen Venables
Stephen Venables (born 1954) is a British mountaineer and writer, who in 1988 became the first Briton to ascend to the summit of Mount Everest without bottled oxygen. His ascent, as far as the South Col, was by a new route up the Kangshung Face from Tibet, with just three other climbers, Americans Robert Anderson and Ed Webster, and Canadian Paul Teare. All four reached the South Col but Teare decided to descend from here, concerned about incipient altitude sickness. - Doug Swingley
Doug Swingley (born May 14, 1953) is an American dog musher and dog sled racer from Lincoln, Montana, who is a four-time winner of the 1,049-mile Iditarod sled dog race across Alaska. His victory in 1995 marked the first time a non-Alaskan won the race, and he followed it by winning in 1999, 2000, and 2001. He competed in every Iditarod from 1992 to 2002, and during his rookie outing he won the Dorothy G. Page Halfway award, … - Dominick Arduin
Dominick Arduin (1961-2004) was a Frenchwoman who disappeared in her attempt to ski to the North Pole. In 1988 Arduin moved to Finland. For 15 years she worked as a guide in Finnish Lapland and received dual citizenship. She said that she had grown up in the Alps, that she had been orphaned at an early age, had recovered from cancer and had been the only child aside from a dead sister. Arduin reached the Magnetic North Pole in the spring 2001. - Jim Wickwire
Jim Wickwire (born 1940) is an attorney in Seattle, Washington, most famous as the first American to reach the top of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, and then for surviving the night in the open just below the summit. His first attempt on K2 was in a 1975 expedition that broke down in disputes and never got above 22,000 ft. Wickwire reached the summit with Louis Reichardt on September 6, 1978, but while Reichart went down right away, … - Joe Tasker
Joe Tasker (May 12, 1948, Hull - May 17, 1982) was one of the most talented British climbers during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Born into a traditional Roman Catholic family, he was one of ten children and spent his early childhood in Port Clarence, Middlesbrough then attended Ushaw Seminary, County Durham between the ages of 13 and 20, in training to become a Jesuit priest. - Alfred Brendel
Alfred Brendel (born January 5, 1931) is an Austrian pianist, born in Czechoslovakia. He is renowned as one of the most distinguished classical pianists of the second half of the 20th century. - Jan Baalsrud
Jan Baalsrud (born 1917 - died 1988) was a commando in the Norwegian resistance trained by the British. He was born in Oslo and lived in Kolbotn from the 1930ies to the 1950ies. He arrived in Britain in 1941 where he joined the Norwegian Company Linge. In 1943, he and numerous other commandos embarked on a dangerous mission to destroy a German air control tower and recruit for the resistance movement. This mission was compromised when he and his fellow soldiers, … - Frankie Yankovic
Frankie Yankovic was a polka musician. Known as "America's Polka King", he was the premier artist to play in the Slovenian style. Of Slovenian descent, he was from Cleveland, Ohio. Yankovic released over 200 recordings in his career. In 1986 he was awarded the first ever Grammy in the Best Polka Recording category. Yankovic seldom strayed from the Slovenian-style polka, but did record with country singer Chet Atkins, pop singer Don Everly, … - Will MacKenzie
William Ruggles MacKenzie (born September 28, 1974) is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour. MacKenzie was born and raised in Greenville, North Carolina. He was a golfing prodigy growing up but burned out on golf at age 14 and completely quit the game after high school. After attending East Carolina University for a period, Will then spent five years snowboarding, … - Noah Lewis
Noah Lewis (born September 3, 1895 in Henning, Tennessee, died February 7, 1961) was an American jug band musician, generally known for playing the harmonica. - Marc Aurel Stein
Sir Marc Aurel Stein, Stein Márk Aurél in Hungarian. In 1901 Stein was responsible for exposing forgeries of Islam Akhun. During his expedition of 1906-1908 while surveying in the Kunlun mountain range in western China, Stein suffered frostbite and lost several toes on his right foot. When he was resting from his extended journeys into Central Asia, … - Nellie Unthank
Ellen Pucell "Nellie" Unthank (born November 6, 1846, Tintwistle, Cheshire, England; died July 21, 1915, Cedar City, Utah) was a Mormon pioneer who immigrated to Utah from England with her family as a young girl, traveling with the Martin Handcart Company. During the journey her parents died, and she had to finish without them, walking most of the way without shoes. Because of the bitter cold and snow, she suffered frostbite. When she arrived in the Salt Lake Valley, … - Wolfgang Borchert
Wolfgang Borchert (May 20, 1921 - November 20, 1947) was a German author and playwright whose work was affected by his experience of dictatorship and his service in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. Borchert was born in 1921 in the German city of Hamburg, the only child of teacher Fritz Borchert and author Hertha Borchert. Far from being an enthusiastic Nazi, Borchert hated his (compulsory) time in the party's youth wing, the Hitler Youth ("Hitlerjugend"), … - Ben Abruzzo
Benjamin L. Abruzzo was an American hot air balloonist and businessman. He helped place Albuquerque on the map as the balloon capital of the world. Abruzzo was born in Rockford. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1952, and then entered the United States Air Force. After graduation, Abruzzo was stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. He would adopt New Mexico as his home state after leaving military service in 1954. - Raymond Greene
Charles Raymond Greene (1901-1982) was a Doctor of Medicine and mountaineer, brother of the novelist Graham Greene and the broadcaster Hugh Greene. Known by his second name, Raymond Greene qualified as a doctor in 1927. In 1931 he was part of the team which climbed Kamet (at the time, the highest mountain to have been climbed), and in 1933 he was the senior doctor on the fourth British expedition to Mount Everest (in 1953 when the mountain was finally climbed, … - Wilmot Brookings
Wilmot Wood Brookings was an American pioneer, frontier judge, and early South Dakota politician. He was the first provisional governor of Dakota Territory, and both the city of Brookings and county of Brookings South Dakota are named for him. Brookings was born October 23 1830 in Woolwich, Maine to Abner and Susannah Bayley Brookings. (It should be noted the 1860 Dakota Territory census lists his birthplace, possibly incorrectly, as North Carolina). - Francis A. Nixon
Francis Anthony "Frank" Nixon, father of United States President Richard Nixon, was born in Vinton County, Ohio. Nixon moved to California at the turn of the century after having been frostbitten working as a motorman in an open streetcar in Columbus, Ohio. After working as a farmhand and oil roustabout, he attempted to cultivate lemons outside Los Angeles. Frank was a Methodist who had sincerely converted to Quakerism to marry Hannah Milhous on June 25, 1908, … - Eddy Wynschenk
Eddy Wynschenk (b. Amsterdam, Holland, July 18, 1927, d. December 16, 2003) was a Holocaust survivor who became renowned throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond for sharing his story frequently at schools throughout Northern California. Speaking to students, he often got angry, and cried often, too. But sharing his story with students became his mission in life. Before the Russian Army liberated the Auschwitz death camp in January, 1945, … - Joe Kieyoomia
Joe Kieyoomia (1925 - 1997) was a Navajo soldier in New Mexico's 200th Coast Artillery unit and was captured by the Imperial Japanese Army after the fall of the Philippines in 1942. Initially tortured because his captors thought he was Japanese-American (and therefore a traitor), Joe Kieyoomia suffered months of beatings before the Japanese accepted his claim to Navajo ancestry. He survived the Bataan Death March that killed thousands of starved U.S. soldiers. - Danny Corcoran
Danny Corcoran (1916-April 7, - 1938) A relatively well-known Newfoundland Ranger (Game Warden) who perhished in tragic circumstances while only 22 years of age, on a solo expedition across the wilds of Newfoundland's Great Northern Peninsula. Corcoran had set off into the wilderness in the dead of winter in an attempt to protect the local caribou population from poachers, however, the young ranger became lost and suffered severely from frostbite and starvation. - Traian Căldărar
Traian Căldărar is a Romanian Roma boy who lived for approximately three years in the wild. In February of 2002 a shepherd found him huddling in a cardboard box naked and barely alive. Although aged seven at the time he was still the size of a three year old, suffering from severe malnutrition and rickets and scarred from frostbite. He was cared for in an orphanage in Braşov, 110 miles from Bucharest. - Stephanie Furman
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