For those of you
that don’t know who martin Handford is, which I’m guessing is just about everybody reading this blog post, he is the creator of the childrens picture book “Wheres Waldo”. Handford was born in Hampstead, London in 1956. He was a British children’s author that began to gain worldwide fame from his picture books called ”Find Wally”, known in the U.S. and Canada as “Wheres Waldo”. Handford began drawing as a child, creating stick figures on scrap paper. As an adult he began to work as a painter, he painted large crowds of people for clients that asked him to do so. These paintings were the basis for his world famous “I-spy” typed book. if you havent seen any of Handford’s Wheres waldo books, which i doubt anybody can honestly say that they have never seen one, they consist of a large seen of a cartoon town or marketplace type scene with a man wearing red and white hiding somewhere in the back round. Your objective is to simply find him. Handford became a mild celebrity, gaining worldwide fame beginning in 1985. By 1987, Handford was almost of celebrity status, known worldwide in 28 countries. His famous children’s novels and picture books are the basis for his fame and glory. He is not well know but he deserves to be in my top 10 list because if you don’t like “Wheres Waldo”, you are nuts. He is “tha man” simply because who else would ever create a book such as these.
n a small town just outside Bentonville Arkansas, Wayne Goldsberry was visiting his daughter’s first home after she had graduated from college and moved out for the first time. Its was a normal relaxing Sunday with numerous NFL football games on when things turned for the worst. In a matter of 40 minutes, the newly furnished home looked like a crime scene.
Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius was born on the 22 of November in 1986 and is a south African Paralympic runner. Known as the “Blade Runner” and “the fastest man on no legs”, Pistorius is the double amputee world record holder in the 100, 200 and 400 meters events and runs with the aid of Cheetah Flex-Foot carbon fibre transtibial artificial limbs by Ossur. In 2007 Pistorius took part in his first international able-bodied competitions. However, his artificial lower legs, while enabling him to compete, generated claims that he has an unfair advantage over able-bodied runners. The same year, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) amended its competition rules to ban the use of “any technical device that incorporates springs, wheels or any other element that provides a user with an advantage over another athlete not using such a device”. It claimed that the amendment was not specifically aimed at Pistorius. After monitoring his track performances and carrying out tests, scientists took the view that Pistorius enjoyed considerable advantages over athletes without prosthetic limbs. On the strength of these findings, on January 14 2008 the IAAF ruled him ineligible for competitions conducted under its rules, including the 2008 Summer Olympics. This decision was reversed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport on May 16 2008, the Court ruling that the IAAF had not provided sufficient evidence to prove that Pistorius’s prostheses give him an advantage over able-bodied athletes.
Rounding off the list at number ten is Marcus Luttrell. Luttrell joined the U.S. navy in 1999 and became a combat trained SEAL in 2002. After service in Baghdad, he was sent to a military base in Afghanistan. This is where the truely amazing story begins.
