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Devil’s Pool and daredevils

nickyskye — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:23:24 -0800

Taking risks at really large waterfalls: Swimming at the edge of Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe with video, closeups here and Niagara Falls Daredevils. Daredevils of Niagara Falls Niagara Falls interactive map The world's largest waterfall, Victoria Falls, Wikipedia

Going Over Niagara Falls

GuyZero — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:58:40 -0800

Vinyl Cafe: The Story of Roger Woodward. Stuart McLean tells the story of the last person to go over Niagara Falls - with only a lifejacket - and live to tell the story. (go to the 28:00 mark in the audio to get the story) The first 28 minutes are fine too, but I think Roger's story is the best.

Daredevils

davebush — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:04:31 -0800

What's behind Niagara Falls? Some dudes investigate.

"The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac".

matteo — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:15:25 -0800

The Niagara Fortissimo. “Mahler was to conduct in Buffalo, New York, and we took advantage of the trip to visit Niagara Falls. We spent hours near and even under the roaring falls... and then with that roar still in his ears Mahler went to conduct Beethoven’s ‘Pastorale’. I was waiting for him as he stepped off the podium. ‘Endlich ein fortissimo!,’ he said, ‘At last a fortissimo!’” The fortissimo in question is Beethoven's, not Niagara's. The point, as Alma elaborates it in her memoirs, is that music can offer experiences more overpowering than Nature itself — a kind of extreme aestheticism that Oscar Wilde also propounded in "The Decay of Lying" when he said that most sunsets are attempts at second-rate Turners. More inside.

Niagara Nutcase

rikabel — Wed, 22 Oct 2003 01:16:49 -0800

Man Jumps off Niagara Falls and survives. Kirk Jones is my kinda guy. He always thought he could jump off of Niagara Falls and survive, and yesterday he proved it. Final word must go to his mother "We'd rather he hadn't done that"...

dhartung — Wed, 18 Apr 2001 23:46:00 -0800

Love in a bottle -- the new herbal drink from Sweden named Niagara apparently works almost as well as its rhyme. [X-rated account of beta test.]