Described as "an impetuous and daring young fellow," the stout, thickset 23-year-old with a dark complexion and beard resembled a familiar face on playing cards: he was popularly known throughout the regiment as the "Jack of Clubs".
He crossed the Pacific in a balloon, which is particularly daring for a fellow with a steel rod in his leg.
While few can claim to rival Legend and Allen's daring career changes, fellow Penn alumnus Andrew Chung has a rare - and somewhat antithetical - story.
From there, his secret mission took him to an upscale Irish pub and a seafood restaurant, where he again made his way to the men's rooms and pasted up that sticker and another, "Stop Immigration!" A few days later, Wendell Duke Witten detailed his daring exploits to fellow members of the neo-Nazi group he'd joined seven months earlier, and on whose behalf he had been propagandizing.
He played electric keyboards and made pop-funk hits; he also played daring jazz piano with fellow members of the late-60's Miles Davis Quintet as V.S.O.P. Appropriately, "The Herbie Hancock Box" splits the same way.
Last year, club chairman Ian Bankier said some fans were criminally racist for daring to criticise his fellow director, Ian Livingston, a Conservative peer who had voted in favour of cuts to tax credits, a measure that would have adversely affected many of the families who support Celtic.
We locals, who are lucky enough to be employed by INGOs bite our tongues and accept our relative privilege over fellow citizens, not daring to risk questioning the inequality within the workplace lest we lose our jobs.
Picasso is wary yet daring, a look few other fellows wearing a cardigan over a waistcoat could pull off.
The song explores Ai's efforts to scale the Great Firewall of China, and his fellow dissident Chen Guangcheng's daring escape over the wall of his compound.
