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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

"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"...