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  2. List of big-game hunters - Wikipedia

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    Major Chauncey Hugh Stigand (1877–1919) was a British soldier, colonial administrator and big-game hunter. Serving in Burma, British Somaliland, British East Africa and the Sudan, Stigand was a keen big-game hunter who took greater risks than most hunters and often came close to being fatally injured. Stigand was gored in the chest by a rhino ...

  3. Big-game hunting - Wikipedia

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    The Duke of Algeciras with a trophy African leopard, one of the 'Big Five', Southern Rhodesia, 1926. Big-game hunting is the hunting of large game animals for trophies, taxidermy, meat, and commercially valuable animal by-products (such as horns, antlers, tusks, bones, fur, body fat, or special organs).

  4. Jim Shockey - Wikipedia

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    Jim Shockey (born 1957) is a Canadian outdoor writer, a professional big game outfitter and television producer and host for many hunting shows. Shockey is the former producer and host of Jim Shockey's Hunting Adventures and Jim Shockey's Uncharted on Outdoor Channel and Jim Shockey's The Professionals on Outdoor Channel and Sportsman Channel.

  5. W. D. M. Bell - Wikipedia

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    Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell (8 September 1880 – 30 June 1954), known as Karamojo Bell after the Karamoja sub-region in Uganda, which he travelled extensively, was a Scottish adventurer, big game hunter in East Africa, [3] soldier, decorated fighter pilot, sailor, writer, and painter.

  6. List of best-selling video games - Wikipedia

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    Grand Theft Auto V is the only other video game that has sold over 100 million and 200 million copies. The best-selling single platform game is Wii Sports, with nearly 83 million sales exclusively for the Wii console. Three of the most represented video game franchises on this list feature Pokémon, Mario, and Call of Duty.

  7. Ben Lilly - Wikipedia

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    Benjamin Vernon Lilly or Ben Lilly (1856 – December 17, 1936), nicknamed Ol' Lilly, was a notorious big game hunter, houndsman and mountain man of the late American Old West. He remains famous for hunting down large numbers of grizzly, cougars and black bears.

  8. List of best-selling video game franchises - Wikipedia

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    The games generally revolve around the story of special forces operative Solid Snake, and his missions to find and destroy the mecha superweapons known as Metal Gears. The Elder Scrolls: March 25, 1994: 59.3 million [131] The Elder Scrolls (abbreviated TES) is an action role-playing and open world video game series by Bethesda Softworks.

  9. Selous Game Reserve - Wikipedia

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    The area was first designated a protected area in 1896 by the German Governor of Tanganyika Hermann von Wissmann, and became a hunting reserve in 1905.The reserve was named after Frederick Selous, a famous big game hunter and early conservationist, who died at Beho Beho in this territory in 1917 while fighting against the Germans during World War I.