For Ms. O'Neil, her record — which still stands — was the highlight of a career in daredevilry.
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Though they came from the post-Bowie period of his work, their ingredients of androgyny, camp and daredevilry now seem closely akin to Bowie.
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They may also be some of the best, if your idea of skillful driving is expansive enough to include the lawlessness and daredevilry that Dhaka demands.
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They were freed by a mob, not Mr Perot's daredevilry, but that did not spoil the story—or the thriller by Ken Follett and subsequent TV miniseries.
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"A lot of us including yours truly is a fan of daredevilry attempts of standing at the edge of cliffs and skyscrapers," Moorthy wrote in one of her Instagram captions.
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While the seventies and eighties were dominated by Soviet and European gymnasts who combined balletic elegance with supple acrobatics, the rise of American gymnasts featured air time and daredevilry at the expense of toe points and grace.
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The American Plunge’s theme is centered on Ozark daredevilry. The trip is a race to the plunge. Along the way you encounter others trying to beat you to the summit. Your opponents are facing obstacles of their own, tumbling off cliffs, broken boat and a whirlpool.
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The book also features a significant event between Dirk Pitt and Congresswoman Loren Smith. He and Al retire from their life of daredevilry and settle down. Pitt asks for the hand of Loren who also steps down. Pitt assumes the responsibility of head of NUMA as Admiral Sandecker accepts the Vice Presidency.
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Rajeev vows to see that such a thing never happens. In Singapore, responding to Vijayakanth's overtures, Nadhiya first tries to knock him dead with her Datsun, and then tries to drown him with her motorboat daredevilry, but ultimately undergoes a change of heart and is eating out of his hands. But misunderstandings again cloud the relationship, and when it is cleared Rajeev is again at his insidious tricks invidiously playing up another suitor (Suresh).
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Manohar Arjun Surve (8 August 1944 – 11 January 1982), popularly known as Manya Surve, was an Indian thug and robber in the Bombay underworld. He was one of the educated gangsters and had some degree of unfinished education. Surve was known for his daredevilry and strategic planning. As a young man and graduate of Kirti College, Surve was implicated in a murder that he did not commit and was sentenced to imprisonment in Yerwada Jail.
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Sanjay Gandhi died instantly from head wounds in an air crash on 23 June 1980 near Safdarjung Airport in New Delhi. He was flying a new aircraft of the Delhi Flying club, and, while performing an aerobatic manoeuvre over his office, lost control and crashed. Sanjay was a novice pilot but given to flashy daredevilry and dangerous low-flying. His elder brother Rajiv Gandhi had repeatedly warned Sanjay to wear proper shoes and not Kolhapuri chappals in the cockpit.
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Manna Dujoya (Manna) is a small-time thief and crook who is crazy about acts of daredevilry who falls in love with Poorna (Purnima) who is in Dhaka to attend a marriage. Dujoya makes his way into her heart and she also starts loving him. Dujoya tells her the truth about him being a thief and resolves to give up crime forever. But before that, he decides to swindle one last person for a large sum of money along with his con-friend Duvva.
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Each of the competitors, which commonly number 10 or 12, mounts his or her yak, and the yaks run towards the opposite end of the race course. Yak racing is also known to be performed in parts of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and in Pamir in Pakistan. The race attains a feverish pitch with the daredevilry of the yak rider and the yak displaying their pluck to reach the target. Yaks and their riders gather at the venue of racing from different villages of the region.
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" M.L. Dhawan from The Tribune, while documenting the famous Hindi films of 1988, remarked that Khoon Bhari Maang was "a crowning glory for Rekha, who rose like a phoenix ... and bedazzled the audience with her daredevilry." Encyclopædia Britannica's Encyclopædia of Hindi Cinema listed her role in the film as one of Hindi cinema's memorable female characters, noting it for changing "the perception of the ever-forgiving wife, turning her into an avenging angel."Gulzar, p. 401 In a similar list by Screen magazine, the role was included as one of "ten memorable roles that made the Hindi film heroine proud.
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Murarbaji turned down the offer due to his loyalty to the ideals of Hindavi Swarajya. He was extremely enraged at this very suggestion and in an act of extreme daredevilry charged with his commandos right into the heart of the Mughal troops, killing hundreds. The remaining Marathas retreated inside the inner walls (baalekilla) of the fort, refusing to surrender and willing to fight to the last man. The battle of Purandar showed the Marathas the difficulty in facing the overwhelming force led by Mirza Raja Jai Singh, and revealed to the Mughal the tenacity of the Marathas.
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In one such skirmish close to the Indo-Burma border, Jemadar Nawab Malik (Shahid Kapoor) and a group of fellow soldiers are cornered by the Japanese infantry. Running to escape on a barge, he is shot and captured as a prisoner of war. Meanwhile, the INA's top brass desperately seeks finances to replenish its heavy ammunition to aid the charge to Delhi. Concurrently in India, Julia (Kangana Ranaut) a leading film star of the Indian cinema is the star performer of a dance troupe that entertains civilians and armed forces alike through films espousing her daredevilry.
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Early history The village can trace its establishment from around 1516 when it was built by two Sikh brothers, Bahhar and Chahar as a small pind. Bundala later became a part of the Ahluwalia Misl led by Sultan ul Quam Nawab Jassa Singh Ahluwalia as Misaldar during the Sikh Misl from 1716–1799. Colonial Era Bundala gained the title of Inqalabian Pind (Punjabi: ੲਿਨਕ਼ਲਾਬੀਆਂ ਪਿੰਡ) meaning village of revolutionaries which was attainted by the village following the daredevilry of Harkishan Singh Surjeet who was an Indian nationalist. During his early teens he became politically active in the Indian national liberation movement joining Bhagat Singh’s Naujawan Bharat Sabha movement in 1930 and on the anniversary of the martyrdom of Bhagat Singh, some of his followers had decided to pull down the British colonial flag that was flying above Hoshiarpur court and hoist the Indian tiranga.
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