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Evel Knievel
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Language - English
7th Grade
05/22/2016

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{who knows who Evel Knievel is}

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{who knows what Knievel did and why he did what  he did when he did} {Knievel is a daredevil that did crime because he was in a influence of doing bad thing}

 

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{who knows Knievel's real name}



[Robert Craig Knievel]



 

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Talk about who he was and when he came an icon
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{Robert Craig Knievel also known as Evel Knievel was an American daredevil who became an icon in the 1970s for his incredible motorcycle stunts.}

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Why he kidnapped his girlfriend
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 {Knievel kidnapped his girl friend 2 the first was because he loved her and the 2nd time was because he wanted to marry her}

 

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Talk about the stunts he did
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{Knievel did a jump over the caesars palace multiple times and failed sometimes doing the jumps, Knievel also jumped over the snake river canyon, and he also jumped sixteen cars and tried to clear one more before a serious crash when he lost control when landing.}
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Talk about how many bones he broke
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{While Evel Knievel never actually broke "every bone in his body," ultimately, the 433 broken bones he suffered during his career earned an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records as the survivor of "most bones broken in a lifetime.}



 

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Talk about the The Legendary Salesman
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{Knievel's success was due just as much to his ability to sell himself as it was to his fearlessness. And if he could sell the appeal of a guy running his motorcycle off of ramp, you could damn well bet he could sell some insurance, which he did while still living in Butte, where he famously went into a mental hospital and sold 271 policies.}

 

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He was a fashion icon.

Once Knievel started making money—which largely came through licensing his name and image through products like the Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle—he spent it. His philosophy was that you can't take it with you when you die, so you better as hell spend it while you've got it. Clothes were no exception. Just take a look at this fur coat and cane he rocked on the Tonight Show

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His first public jump was a stunt to sell motorcycles.

To drum up motorcycles sales in Moses Lake, Knievel decided he would stage a publicity stunt in which he would jump a bike over "cougars and rattlesnakes." He did… kind of. As he would several other times in his career with slightly more drastic results, Knievel shorted the jump, landing the motorcycle's tire on the edge of the tank holding the snakes, which then flipped into the air, sending rattlers flying into the audience. Publicity achieved.

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There's a story behind his name.

This may come as a shock, but "Evel" is not Knievel's real name. Born Robert Craig Knievel, the future daredevil once found him in jail with a man named Knofel, where together they became known as "Awful Knofel and Evil Knievel." The nickname stuck, and Knievel changed the "i" in evil to an "e" because he didn't want it to sound too evil.

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He conned his way into his famous jump at Caesar's Palace.

Before Knievel could jump over the fountains at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, he was going to have to convince the casino to let him make a spectacle of the death-defying feat on their property. Because at this point no one had heard of him, this was going to be difficult

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