Sam Patch

Before Evel Knievel was a twinkle in his father’s eye, Sam Patch was thrilling audiences across America. As a child laborer in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Patch would entertain his friends by jumping off the mill dam. By 1827, now living in New Jersey, his increasingly higher jumps had started to attract large crowds. Wanting something more than the life of a mill worker, the 22-year-old Patch began a jumping tour across the then 24-state Union.

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“Sam Patch the Yankee Jumper” quickly became a household name, and his catchphrase “Some things can be done as well as others” become popular among his fans. A whopping ten-thousand people came to watch him jump 125 feet from a cliff near the base of Niagara Falls. Shortly after, another eight-thousand came to Rochester, New York to watch him jump the 99 foot Genesee Falls.

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Perched atop a rocky Andalusian outcrop lies the culturally rich village of Ronda; one of the Pueblos Blancos, or famous White Villages. With its perfectly preserved 18th century construction, one might think that the township’s foundations are incredibly sturdy and flat. That, however, is not the case; the ancient Moorish village was constructed over a 120-meter deep gorge known as El Tajo. A single bridge, Puente Neuvo, connects old Ronda with the new town.

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The famed primatologist, ethologist and anthropologist spent the majority of her life in Tanzania, where her unorthodox approach (Goodall lacked collegiate training) granted her keen insights into chimpanzees, ultimately leading Goodall to conclude that similarities beyond genetics exist between ape and man–especially in terms of intelligence, emotions and relationships.