Stroud Sentence Examples

He later went on to become principal of Stroud School of Art, a post he held for over six years.

Keith Stroud will take control of Preston's trip to table toppers Reading.

Many of the current Governors were returned unopposed but the level of interest in Stroud resulted in a three-cornered contest for two positions.

Keith Stroud will take control of Preston 's trip to table toppers Reading.

Sade and Ila currently live with Sade's partner Ian and his son, Jack, in Stroud, England.

The tour includes fun narration about Alcatraz's history and its famous criminals like Al Capone, Clyde Johnson and Robert "The Birdman" Stroud.

Robert Franklin Stroud - The infamous "Birdman of Alcatraz," Stroud, convicted for manslaughter, was famous for raising and selling canaries and other birds from his cell.

Les Stroud, who is known to television fans as Survivorman, heads up the show.

Stroud is very well-respected as a survival expert, and has consulted with and produced programs for The Discovery Channel, The Outdoor Life Network, and The Science Channel.

Survive This is filmed in Huntsville, Ontario, Canada, which is Les Stroud's hometown.

There are camera crews following them all the time, a medical doctor and paramedic are available at a moment's notice, and Stroud himself is always on hand even if he can't be seen.

Adam was scared of spiders, but applied to be on the show to meet Stroud.

Discovery Channel and Science Channel show Survivorman puts survivalist expert Les Stroud in dangerous situations in the wilderness where he must rely on his skills and wits to escape.

Perhaps the most realistic of all of the survivalist reality shows, the tolls of filming Survivorman eventually led Stroud to quit the program.

The show is a spin-off of another Stroud show, Stranded.

In each episode, Stroud is dropped off in a remote location completely alone.

During each episode, Stroud must get by for seven days in his location and find his way out so that he can be rescued.

Viewers also get to see Stroud try techniques that fail.

Stroud's mental state is also a big part of the show; using his camera, he spends a great deal of time letting the audience know how he is coping with the isolation, which is an important part of survival.

A rescue team is always on hold near where Stroud is stranded.

Stroud admits that before he goes out into the wilderness to film the episodes, he does extensive research on the locations.

The team behind the show also checks out locations to see what situations could arise to make the show interesting to the viewers and chooses locations in which there is potential for Stroud to encounter challenging situations.

Unlike other shows in the genre, including Man vs. Wild, Stroud is completely alone in the wilderness.

After filming six episodes for the third season of Survivorman, Stroud decided he had to stop participating in the show.

Les Stroud is a Canadian survivalist, who appears in the kids' reality show Survive This, as well as his own show, Survivorman.

Les Stroud was born on October 20, 1961, in the small town of Mimico, Ontario, Canada, where he grew up and attended school.

Upon graduation, Stroud found employment in Toronto with Much Music, the Canadian equivalent of MTV, and moonlighted as a garbage collector.

Through his job as an associate producer with Much Music, Stroud had the opportunity to assist with the filming and production of music videos for well-known Canadian artists such as Corey Hart and Rush.

Stroud was also a member of a David Bowie tribute band called Diamond Dogs.

While Stroud had always had an affinity for the great outdoors, a wilderness canoe trip through Ontario's Temagami region sparked a desire for something new.

In 1990, Stroud began leading canoeists through the Northern Ontario wilderness as a guide for Black Feather Wilderness Adventures.

After studying survival training with a number of experts, Stroud and his wife, photographer Sue Jamison, spent a year in Northern Ontario living as if they were settlers there from hundreds of years ago.

After spending time in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories as an outdoor instructor, Les Stroud and his wife returned to Ontario where they set up home and business in Huntsville.

In 2001, Stroud approached the Discovery Canada network with an idea for a real-life reality program based on the concept of Survivor.

In this weekly documentary-style reality show, Les Stroud is left completely alone in various locations and has to survive on his own.

Survivorman is unique in that Stroud himself wrote the original theme song, films the episodes, and edits them for airing.

Survivorman lasted for three seasons before Les Stroud decided to call it quits, citing the toll it was taking on his health and his family.

Even with all of his television projects going on, Les Stroud still finds time to devote to his original career, music.

In 2005, Stroud teamed up with the band The Northern Pikes.

Calling themselves Les Stroud and the Pikes, the group toured locally and eventually released a CD called Long Walk Home.

To learn more about Les Stroud and hear samples of his music, visit his official website at LesStroud.ca.

Similarly, this industry was of early importance along the line of the Cotteswold Hills, from Chipping Camden to Stroud and beyond, as also in some towns of Devonshire and Cornwall, but though it survives in the neighbourhood of Stroud, the importance of this district is far surpassed by that of the West Riding of Yorkshire, where the woollen industry stands pre-eminent among the many which, as already indicated, have concentrated there.