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Of Man and Beast
if your choice is to live you should do something more than to survive.... to live you have to do whatever that makes you happy, even if you could die by doing it. Just watch some of the worlds best Free Solo Climbers doing their thing.
Slammed by a Monster Wave
Amazing footage of Volvo Ocean Race competitor Team Telefónica being slammed by two monster waves as they blast through the Southern Ocean in over 40 knots of wind on Leg 5 from Auckland, New Zealand to Itajaí in Brazil . The crew experience life at the extreme as they hang on to whatever they can grab a hold of in a near capsize.
Dog Strangled by Phone Cord Saves His Own Life
A Basset Hound named George (actual dog not pictured) saved his life by dialing 999 as he choked on a telephone cord.
George, a 2-year-old Basset Hound from South Heindley, West Yorkshire, U.K., was strangled by a phone cord — and miraculously saved his own life by calling 999, the British equivalent of 911, reports The Sun.
Suffragettes: women who dared
Women called Suffragettes fought for women's rights. It took 70 years for them to win the right to vote. In a world ruled by men, 19th century women became revolutionaries and reformers who dared to confront their oppressors, not unlike the Occupiers of this century. Suffragettes were scorned by both men and women, religious leaders and in the press for challenging the social construct called the “cult of true womenhood” that defined women only as mothers and homemakers because they were wrongly characterized as not having the intellectual capacity to participate in worldly matters.
