World Most Traveled Man in History,Mike Spencer Bown is finally Returning Home After spending 23-years visiting 195 countries
Globetrotting Mike Spencer Bown is finally heading home after 23 years of traveling the world and visiting 195 countries.
Mr Spencer Bown, 44, could be the most traveled man in history after a marathon odyssey which has taken him from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe and every nation in between.
He was the first ever tourist in war-torn Mogadishu, hitchhiked through Saddam Hussein's home town during the U.S. invasion of Iraq and lived with pygmies in the Congo.
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Mr Spencer Bown has lost count of the times he has been arrested but despite visiting some of the most dangerous places on Earth he has escaped serious harm or illness, other than two brief bouts of malaria.
He hitchhiked for most of his journeys and says that unlike most world travelers he stayed and immersed himself in the countries he visited.
And he has done it all with the same trusty rucksack he had when he first left his native Canada in 1990.
Mr Spencer Bown said: 'Every day of my adult life has been an adventure.
'I was 21 when I got thinking about my future and wondered if anyone had ever set out to see the whole world.
'I thought if not, then why not give it a go - and I took off.'Link
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Meet 23-Year-Old Jamal Edwards who has become a multimillionaire just by uploading Videos on Youtube
From a teenager on a
council estate in west London to self-made multimillionaire, Jamal
Edwards hasn't done too badly for himself in a very short space of time.
Jamal is the owner of SBTV, a broadcasting company that makes videos - typically music videos featuring rap and pop music stars - and puts them up on YouTube.
Attracting millions of hits, the business continues to make a fortune by taking a percentage of YouTube's advertising revenues for adverts that are linked to its videos.
It is not a bad living for a young man who got into film-making after his parents gave him a basic video camera as a Christmas present when he was 15, and someone who by his own admission has no formal training.
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Jamal EdwardsThe more effort I put in, the more views the videos get, and the more advertising revenues I get back”
Jamal says it is just a question of believing in yourself, and finding your talent, which for him is making videos.
Woman, 86, Dies After Completing Her 25th New York Marathon
Joy Johnson's joy was running.
The 86-year-old, who spent some two hours every morning running the track and bleachers at a local high school in her hometown of San Jose, Calif., collapsed and died Monday, the day after completing her 25th New York City Marathon.
"She went out happy," her daughter, Diana Boydston, tells the Wall Street Journal. "She couldn't have asked for more than that, except maybe a few more years."
The former PE teacher, who didn't begin running until she was nearly 60, fell around mile 16 of the marathon and suffered abrasions to her face, but got up and finished in a time of 7:57:14. (Johnson's best marathon time was 3:55:30 in 1999.)
Part of Johnson's longtime, post-NYC marathon routine had been to stand outside the Today show with her medal and greet weatherman Al Roker.
Roker interviewed Johnson, and after leaving Today, she told her sister she was tired, so they returned to their hotel to rest. Johnson never woke up, and was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital.
The 86-year-old, who spent some two hours every morning running the track and bleachers at a local high school in her hometown of San Jose, Calif., collapsed and died Monday, the day after completing her 25th New York City Marathon.
"She went out happy," her daughter, Diana Boydston, tells the Wall Street Journal. "She couldn't have asked for more than that, except maybe a few more years."
The former PE teacher, who didn't begin running until she was nearly 60, fell around mile 16 of the marathon and suffered abrasions to her face, but got up and finished in a time of 7:57:14. (Johnson's best marathon time was 3:55:30 in 1999.)
Part of Johnson's longtime, post-NYC marathon routine had been to stand outside the Today show with her medal and greet weatherman Al Roker.
Roker interviewed Johnson, and after leaving Today, she told her sister she was tired, so they returned to their hotel to rest. Johnson never woke up, and was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital.
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