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Niagara Falls

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Niagara Falls is a group of three waterfalls at the southern end of Niagara Gorge, spanning the border between the province of Ontario in Canada and the state of New York in the United States. [1]

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  1. 267 relations: Aaron Burr, Adams Power Plant Transformer House, Aerial tramway, Albert Bierstadt, Alonzo B. Cornell, Alternating current, Alvan Fisher, American Anti-Slavery Society, American Civil War, American Falls, Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant, An East View of the Great Cataract of Niagara, Annie Edson Taylor, Appalachian Mountain Club, Associated Press, Asteroid, Astrodome, Atlantic Ocean, Between the Lines Books, Bobby Leach, Bonaparte's gull, Bridal Veil Falls (Niagara Falls), British Columbia, Bruce Trigger, Buffalo Niagara International Airport, Buffalo, New York, Calvert Vaux, Canada, Canada–United States border, Cantilever bridge, Canton, Michigan, Casino Niagara, Cathy Marie Buchanan, Cave of the Winds (New York), CBC News, Champlain Sea, Charles Blondin, Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Stephens (daredevil), Christie's, Concert band, Cornelius Vanderbilt, CTV News, Cuesta, Cumberland House, Saskatchewan, Daguerreotype, Daniel-Marie Chabert de Joncaire de Clausonne, David B. Hill, David Copperfield (illusionist), Direct current, ... Expand index (217 more) »

  2. Block waterfalls
  3. International waterfalls
  4. Landforms of the Regional Municipality of Niagara
  5. Landmarks in New York (state)
  6. Niagara Escarpment
  7. Niagara Falls National Heritage Area
  8. Niagara River
  9. Segmented waterfalls
  10. Waterfalls of Ontario

Aaron Burr

Aaron Burr Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was an American politician, businessman, lawyer, and Founding Father who served as the third vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805 during Thomas Jefferson's first presidential term.

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Adams Power Plant Transformer House

Adams Power Plant Transformer House in Niagara Falls, New York is a National Historic Landmarked building constructed in 1895. Niagara Falls and Adams Power Plant Transformer House are Niagara Falls National Heritage Area.

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Aerial tramway

An aerial tramway, aerial tram, sky tram, aerial cablecar, aerial cableway, telepherique, or seilbahn is a type of aerial lift which uses one or two stationary ropes for support while a third moving rope provides propulsion.

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Albert Bierstadt

Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was a German American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West.

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Alonzo B. Cornell

Alonzo Barton Cornell (January 22, 1832 – October 15, 1904) was a New York politician and businessman who was the 27th governor of New York from 1880 to 1882.

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Alternating current

Alternating current (AC) is an electric current that periodically reverses direction and changes its magnitude continuously with time, in contrast to direct current (DC), which flows only in one direction.

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Alvan Fisher

Alvan Fisher (August 9, 1792February 13, 1863) was an American landscape and genre painter.

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American Anti-Slavery Society

The American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS; 1833–1870) was an abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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American Falls

The American Falls is the second largest of the three waterfalls that together are known as Niagara Falls on the Niagara River along the Canada–United States border. Niagara Falls and American Falls are Block waterfalls and waterfalls of New York (state).

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Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant

The Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant, constructed in 1890 near Ophir, Colorado, was one of the first (if not the first) commercial system to produce and transmit alternating current (AC) electricity for industrial use and one of the first AC hydro-electric plants ever constructed.

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An East View of the Great Cataract of Niagara

An East View of the Great Cataract of Niagara is a historic watercolour of Niagara Falls painted on site by Thomas Davies (–1812) in 1762.

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Annie Edson Taylor

Annie Edson Taylor (October 24, 1838 – April 29, 1921) was an American schoolteacher who, on her 63rd birthday, October 24, 1901, became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

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Appalachian Mountain Club

Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) is the oldest outdoor group in the United States.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Asteroid

An asteroid is a minor planet—an object that is neither a true planet nor an identified comet— that orbits within the inner Solar System.

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Astrodome

The NRG Astrodome, formerly and also known as the Houston Astrodome or simply the Astrodome, was the world's first multi-purpose, domed sports stadium, located in Houston, Texas, United States.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Between the Lines Books

Between the Lines Books (BTL) is an independent Toronto-based publisher of non-fiction, most of which offers a critical perspective on culture, economics, and society.

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Bobby Leach

Bobby Leach (born Lancaster, England; 1858 – April 26, 1926) was the second person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, accomplishing the feat on July 25, 1911 —while Annie Taylor did it on October 24, 1901.

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Bonaparte's gull

Bonaparte's gull (Chroicocephalus philadelphia) is a member of the gull family Laridae found mainly in northern North America.

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Bridal Veil Falls (Niagara Falls)

Bridal Veil Falls is the smallest of the three waterfalls that make up Niagara Falls. Niagara Falls and Bridal Veil Falls (Niagara Falls) are waterfalls of New York (state).

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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Bruce Trigger

Bruce Graham Trigger (June 18, 1937 – December 1, 2006) was a Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist, and ethnohistorian.

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Buffalo Niagara International Airport

Buffalo Niagara International Airport is in Cheektowaga, New York, United States.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Erie County.

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Calvert Vaux

Calvert Vaux FAIA (December 20, 1824 – November 19, 1895) was an English-American architect and landscape designer.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Canada–United States border

The Canada–United States border is the longest international border in the world.

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Cantilever bridge

A cantilever bridge is a bridge built using structures that project horizontally into space, supported on only one end (called cantilevers).

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Canton, Michigan

Canton Township (commonly known simply as Canton) is a charter township in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Casino Niagara

Casino Niagara is a commercial casino located in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

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Cathy Marie Buchanan

Cathy Marie Buchanan (born 1964) is a Canadian novelist.

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Cave of the Winds (New York)

The Cave of the Winds was a natural cave behind Bridal Veil Falls at the Niagara Falls.

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CBC News

CBC News is a division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca.

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Champlain Sea

The Champlain Sea (Mer de Champlain) was a prehistoric inlet of the Atlantic Ocean into the North American continent, created by the retreating ice sheets during the closure of the last glacial period.

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Charles Blondin

Charles Blondin (born Jean François Gravelet, 28 February 182422 February 1897) was a French tightrope walker and acrobat.

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Charles Eliot Norton

Charles Eliot Norton (November 16, 1827 – October 21, 1908) was an American author, social critic, and Harvard professor of art based in New England.

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Charles Stephens (daredevil)

Charles Stephens or the Demon Barber of Bedminster (1862 – 11 July 1920) was an English barber and daredevil.

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Christie's

Christie's is a British auction house founded in 1766 by James Christie.

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Concert band

A concert band, also called a wind band, wind ensemble, wind symphony, wind orchestra, symphonic band, the symphonic winds, or symphonic wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of members of the woodwind, brass, and percussion families of instruments, and occasionally including the harp, double bass, or bass guitar.

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

Cornelius Vanderbilt (May 27, 1794 – January 4, 1877), nicknamed "the Commodore", was an American business magnate who built his wealth in railroads and shipping.

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CTV News

CTV News is the news division of the CTV Television Network in Canada.

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Cuesta

A cuesta (slope) is a hill or ridge with a gentle slope on one side, and a steep slope on the other.

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Cumberland House, Saskatchewan

Cumberland House (Wāskahikanihk) is a community in Census Division No. 18 in northeast Saskatchewan, Canada on the Saskatchewan River.

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Daguerreotype

Daguerreotype (daguerréotype) was the first publicly available photographic process, widely used during the 1840s and 1850s.

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Daniel-Marie Chabert de Joncaire de Clausonne

Daniel-Marie Chabert de Joncaire de Clausonne (1771) was a French army officer and interpreter in New France who established Fort du Portage near Niagara Falls and fought in the French and Indian War.

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David B. Hill

David Bennett Hill (August 29, 1843October 20, 1910) was an American politician from New York who was the 29th governor of New York from 1885 to 1891 and represented New York in the United States Senate from 1892 to 1897.

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David Copperfield (illusionist)

David Seth Kotkin (born September 16, 1956), known professionally as David Copperfield, is an American magician, described by Forbes as the most commercially successful magician in history.

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Direct current

Direct current (DC) is one-directional flow of electric charge.

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Diversion dam

A diversion dam is a dam that diverts all or a portion of the flow of a river from its natural course.

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Dolomite (rock)

Dolomite (also known as dolomite rock, dolostone or dolomitic rock) is a sedimentary carbonate rock that contains a high percentage of the mineral dolomite, CaMg(CO3)2.

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Drift (geology)

In geology, drift is a name for all sediment (clay, silt, sand, gravel, boulders) transported by a glacier and deposited directly by or from the ice, or by glacial meltwater.

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Dynamite

Dynamite is an explosive made of nitroglycerin, sorbents (such as powdered shells or clay), and stabilizers.

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Edward VII

Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.

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English Channel

The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France.

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Erosion

Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.

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Erosion control

Erosion control is the practice of preventing or controlling wind or water erosion in agriculture, land development, coastal areas, river banks and construction.

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Ferde Grofé

Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofé, known as Ferde Grofé (March 27, 1892 April 3, 1972) (pronounced) was an American composer, arranger, pianist, and instrumentalist.

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Ferdinand Richardt

Joachim Ferdinand Richardt (10 April 1819 – 29 October 1895) was a Danish-American artist.

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Fort Erie, Ontario

Fort Erie is a town in the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada.

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Fort George, Ontario

Fort George was a military fortification in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Frederic Edwin Church

Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut.

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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, or February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.

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Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava

Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, (21 June 182612 February 1902), was a British public servant and prominent member of Victorian society.

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Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator.

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George R. Stewart

George Rippey Stewart Jr. (May 31, 1895 – August 22, 1980) was an American historian, toponymist, novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Ginger Strand

Ginger Strand is an American author of nonfiction and fiction.

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Glacial Lake Iroquois

Glacial Lake Iroquois was a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed at the end of the last ice age approximately 13,000 years ago.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.

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Goat Island (New York)

Goat Island (previously called Iris Island) is a small island in the Niagara River, in the middle of Niagara Falls between the Bridal Veil Falls and the Horseshoe Falls.

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Government of Ontario

The Government of Ontario (Gouvernement de l'Ontario) is the body responsible for the administration of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Grand Trunk Railway

The Grand Trunk Railway (Grand Tronc) was a railway system that operated in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario and in the American states of Connecticut, Maine, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

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Great Lakes

The Great Lakes (Grands Lacs), also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the east-central interior of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River. Niagara Falls and Great Lakes are Canada–United States border.

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Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales.

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Grover Cleveland

Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837June 24, 1908) was an American politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897.

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H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer.

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Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Niagara Falls and Hamilton, Ontario are Niagara Escarpment.

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Henry Hobson Richardson

Henry Hobson Richardson, FAIA (September 29, 1838 – April 27, 1886) was an American architect, best known for his work in a style that became known as Richardsonian Romanesque.

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Henry Schoolcraft

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (March 28, 1793 – December 10, 1864) was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his 1832 expedition to the source of the Mississippi River.

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Herring gull

Herring gull is a common name for several birds in the genus Larus, all formerly treated as a single species.

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Honeymoon Bridge (Niagara Falls)

The Upper Steel Arch Bridge, also known as the Honeymoon Bridge or Fallsview Bridge (less frequently Falls View Bridge), was an international bridge which crossed the Niagara River, connecting Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, with Niagara Falls, New York, United States.

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Hornblower Cruises

Hornblower Cruises is a San Francisco–based charter yacht, dining cruise and ferry service company.

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Horseshoe Falls

Horseshoe Falls is the largest of the three waterfalls that collectively form Niagara Falls on the Niagara River along the Canada–United States border. Niagara Falls and Horseshoe Falls are Block waterfalls, waterfalls of New York (state) and waterfalls of Ontario.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, and reference works.

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Hudson River School

The Hudson River School was a mid-19th-century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism.

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Hugh Lee Pattinson

Hugh Lee Pattinson FRS (25 December 1796 – 11 November 1858) was an English industrial chemist.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power).

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Hydropower

Hydropower (from Ancient Greek -, "water"), also known as water power, is the use of falling or fast-running water to produce electricity or to power machines.

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Hypothermia

Hypothermia is defined as a body core temperature below in humans.

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IMAX

IMAX is a proprietary system of high-resolution cameras, film formats, film projectors, and theaters known for having very large screens with a tall aspect ratio (approximately either 1.43:1 or 1.90:1) and steep stadium seating, with the 1.43:1 ratio format being available only in few selected locations.

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Important Bird Area

An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.

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Indigenous languages of the Americas

The Indigenous languages of the Americas are a diverse group of languages that originated in the Americas prior to colonization, many of which continue to be spoken.

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Induction motor

An induction motor or asynchronous motor is an AC electric motor in which the electric current in the rotor that produces torque is obtained by electromagnetic induction from the magnetic field of the stator winding.

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International Control Dam

The International Control Dam, also known as the International Control Structure, operated by Ontario Power Generation, is a weir that controls the water diversions from the Niagara River and dispatches the water between the New York Power Authority and Ontario Power Generation in accordance with the terms of the 1950 Niagara Treaty. Niagara Falls and International Control Dam are Niagara River.

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Iroquois

The Iroquois, also known as the Five Nations, and later as the Six Nations from 1722 onwards; alternatively referred to by the endonym Haudenosaunee are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in northeast North America.

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J. P. Morgan

John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) was an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

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Jacob F. Schoellkopf

Jacob Friedrich Schoellkopf (November 15, 1819 – September 15, 1899) was a pioneer in harnessing the hydroelectric power of Niagara Falls.

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Jane Urquhart

Jane Urquhart, LL.D (born June 21, 1949) is a Canadian novelist and poet.

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Jérôme Bonaparte

Jérôme-Napoléon Bonaparte (born Girolamo Buonaparte; 15 November 1784 – 24 June 1860) was the youngest brother of Napoleon I and reigned as Jerome Napoleon I (formally Hieronymus Napoleon in German), King of Westphalia, between 1807 and 1813.

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Jean de Brébeuf

Jean de Brébeuf (25 March 1593 16 March 1649) was a French Jesuit missionary who travelled to New France (Canada) in 1625.

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Jet Ski

Jet Ski is the brand name of a personal watercraft (PWC) manufactured by Kawasaki, a Japanese company.

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John Franklin

Sir John Franklin (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator.

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John Jacob Astor IV

John Jacob Astor IV (July 13, 1864 – April 15, 1912) was an American business magnate, real estate developer, investor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish–American War, and a prominent member of the Astor family.

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John Neal (writer)

John Neal (August 25, 1793 – June 20, 1876) was an American writer, critic, editor, lecturer, and activist.

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Johns Hopkins University Press

Johns Hopkins University Press (also referred to as JHU Press or JHUP) is the publishing division of Johns Hopkins University.

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José María Heredia y Heredia

José María Heredia y Heredia, also known as José María Heredia y Campuzano (December 31, 1803 – May 7, 1839) was a Cuban-born poet considered by many to be the first romantic poet of the Americas and the initiator of Latin American romanticism.

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Joseph Alston

Joseph Alston (1779 – September 10, 1816) was the 44th Governor of South Carolina from 1812 to 1814.

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Joseph Cotten

Joseph Cheshire Cotten Jr. (May 15, 1905 – February 6, 1994) was an American film, stage, radio and television actor.

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Journey Behind the Falls

Journey Behind the Falls (known until the early 1990s as the Scenic Tunnels) is an attraction in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada located in the Table Rock Centre beside the Canadian Horseshoe Falls.

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Karel Soucek

Karel Soucek (April 19, 1947 – January 20, 1985; né Karel Souček) was a Czech professional stuntman living in Canada who went over Niagara Falls in a barrel in 1984.

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Karl Bodmer

Johann Carl Bodmer (11 February 1809 – 30 October 1893) was a Swiss-French printmaker, etcher, lithographer, zinc engraver, draughtsman, painter, illustrator, and hunter.

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Lake Algonquin

Lake Algonquin was a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed in east-central North America at the time of the last ice age.

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Lake Chicago

Lake Chicago was a prehistoric proglacial lake that is the ancestor of what is now known as Lake Michigan, one of North America's five Great Lakes.

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Lake Erie

Lake Erie (Lac Érié) is the fourth-largest lake by surface area of the five Great Lakes in North America and the eleventh-largest globally. Niagara Falls and lake Erie are Canada–United States border.

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Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. Niagara Falls and Lake Ontario are Canada–United States border.

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Landscape painting

Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition.

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Landslide

Landslides, also known as landslips, or rockslides, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, mudflows, shallow or deep-seated slope failures and debris flows.

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Last Glacial Period

The Last Glacial Period (LGP), also known as the Last glacial cycle, occurred from the end of the Last Interglacial to the beginning of the Holocene, years ago, and thus corresponds to most of the timespan of the Late Pleistocene.

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Leonardo Torres Quevedo

Leonardo Torres Quevedo (28 December 1852 – 18 December 1936) was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, and inventor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (14 August 1802 – 15 October 1838) was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L. Landon's writings are emblematic of the transition from Romanticism to Victorian literature.

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Lewiston, New York

Lewiston is a town in Niagara County, New York, United States.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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List of Niagara Falls hydroelectric generating plants

Niagara Falls hydroelectric generating plants are the hydroelectric powerplants in the vicinity of the Niagara Falls, a large geological feature which straddles the joint borders of Canada and the United States.

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List of waterfalls by flow rate

This list of waterfalls by flow rate includes all waterfalls which are known to have an average flow rate or discharge of at least.

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Lockport Group

The Lockport Group is a geologic group in the Appalachian Basin and Michigan Basin in the northeastern United States and Canada.

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Lord Kelvin

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, (26 June 182417 December 1907) was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast.

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Louis Hennepin

Louis Hennepin, OFM (born Antoine Hennepin;; 12 May 1626 – 5 December 1704) was a Belgian Catholic priest and missionary best known for his activities in North America.

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Louis Rémy Mignot

Louis Rémy Mignot (February 3, 1831 – September 22, 1870) was an American painter of Catholic descent.

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Luna Island

Luna Island is a very small uninhabited island in the Niagara River in the U.S. state of New York.

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Lydia Sigourney

Lydia Huntley Sigourney (September 1, 1791 – June 10, 1865), Lydia Howard Huntley, was an American poet, author, and publisher during the early and mid 19th century.

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Maid of the Mist

The Maid of the Mist is a sightseeing boat tour of Niagara Falls, N.Y., U.S.A., starting and ending on the American side, crossing briefly into Canada during a portion of the trip.

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Maria Spelterini

Maria Spelterini (sometimes spelled Spelterina and occasionally referred to as Marie, July 7, 1853 – October 19, 1912) was an Italian tightrope walker who was the only woman to cross the Niagara gorge on a tightrope, which she did on July 8, 1876 as part of a celebration of the U.S. Centennial.

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Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 August 4, 1962) was an American actress and model.

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Matthew Webb

Captain Matthew Webb (19 January 1848 – 24 July 1883) was an English seaman, swimmer and stuntman.

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McGill–Queen's University Press

The McGill–Queen's University Press (MQUP) is a Canadian university press formed as a joint venture between McGill University in Montreal, Quebec and Queen's University at Kingston in Kingston, Ontario.

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Meltwater

Meltwater (or melt water) is water released by the melting of snow or ice, including glacial ice, tabular icebergs and ice shelves over oceans.

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Michael Daugherty

Michael Kevin Daugherty (born April 28, 1954) is a multiple Grammy Award-winning American composer, pianist, and teacher.

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Michigan Central Railroad

The Michigan Central Railroad (reporting mark MC) was originally chartered in 1832 to establish rail service between Detroit, Michigan, and St. Joseph, Michigan.

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Michigan Central Railway Bridge

The Michigan Central Railway Bridge is an out-of-service steel Deck arch bridge spanning the Niagara Gorge between Niagara Falls, Ontario and Niagara Falls, New York.

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Mohawk people

The Kanien'kehá:ka ("People of the flint"; commonly known in English as Mohawk people) are in the easternmost section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy.

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Mount Morris, New York

Mount Morris is a town in Livingston County, New York, United States.

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Nameplate capacity

Nameplate capacity, also known as the rated capacity, nominal capacity, installed capacity, maximum effect or Gross Capacity, is the intended full-load sustained output of a facility such as a power station, Energy Information Administration.

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Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.

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National Museum of American History

The National Museum of American History: Kenneth E. Behring Center is a historical museum in Washington, D.C. It collects, preserves, and displays the heritage of the United States in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific, and military history.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.

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Neutral Confederacy

The Neutral Confederacy (also Neutral Nation, Neutral people, or Attawandaron) was a tribal confederation of Iroquoian peoples.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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New York Central Railroad

The New York Central Railroad was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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New York Power Authority

The New York Power Authority (NYPA), is the largest state public power utility in the United States providing some of the lowest-cost electricity in the nation, operating 16 generating facilities and more than 1,400 circuit-miles of transmission lines.

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Newcastle University

Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England.

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Niagara (1953 film)

Niagara is a 1953 American film-noir thriller film directed by Henry Hathaway, produced by Charles Brackett, and written by Brackett, Richard L. Breen and Walter Reisch.

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Niagara (Frederic Edwin Church)

Niagara is an oil painting produced in 1857 by the American artist Frederic Edwin Church.

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Niagara Cantilever Bridge

The Niagara Cantilever Bridge or Michigan Central Railway Cantilever Bridge was a cantilever bridge across the Niagara Gorge.

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Niagara Escarpment

The Niagara Escarpment is a long escarpment, or cuesta, in Canada and the United States that starts from the south shore of Lake Ontario westward, circumscribes the top of the Great Lakes Basin running from New York through Ontario, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

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Niagara Falls (composition)

Niagara Falls for Symphonic Band (1997) by American composer Michael Daugherty, is his first composition for concert band.

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Niagara Falls International Airport

Niagara Falls International Airport is located east of downtown Niagara Falls, in the Town of Niagara in Niagara County, New York, United States.

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Niagara Falls Review

The Niagara Falls Review is a daily newspaper distributed in Niagara Falls and also serving the nearby towns of Fort Erie and Niagara-on-the-Lake area in Ontario, Canada.

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Niagara Falls State Park

Niagara Falls State Park is located in the City of Niagara Falls in Niagara County, New York, United States. Niagara Falls and Niagara Falls State Park are Niagara Falls National Heritage Area.

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Niagara Falls Suite

The Niagara Falls Suite is a musical composition written by Ferde Grofé in 1960, and performed at Niagara Falls in 1961.

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Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge

The Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge stood from 1855 to 1897 across the Niagara River and was the world's first working railway suspension bridge.

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Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center

The Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center is a museum in Niagara Falls, New York, based on the history and legacy of the Underground Railroad.

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Niagara Falls, New York

Niagara Falls is a city in Niagara County, New York, United States. Niagara Falls and Niagara Falls, New York are Niagara Falls National Heritage Area.

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Niagara Falls, Ontario

Niagara Falls is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario, adjacent to Niagara Falls.

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Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort

The Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort, commonly known as Fallsview Casino, is a resort casino in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

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Niagara Gazette

The Niagara Gazette, also referred to as The Gazette, is a morning daily newspaper published in Niagara Falls, New York, United States, which covers several parts of Niagara County, including the Town of Niagara, and the City of Niagara Falls.

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Niagara Gorge

Niagara Gorge is an long canyon carved by the Niagara River along the Canada–United States border, between the U.S. state of New York and the Canadian province of Ontario. Niagara Falls and Niagara Gorge are Canada–United States border, Landforms of the Regional Municipality of Niagara and Niagara River.

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Niagara Parks Commission

The Niagara Parks Commission, commonly shortened to Niagara Parks, is an agency of the Government of Ontario which maintains the Ontario shoreline of the Niagara River.

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Niagara River

The Niagara River flows north from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, forming part of the border between Ontario, Canada, to the west, and New York, United States, to the east. Niagara Falls and Niagara River are Canada–United States border.

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Niagara Scow

The Niagara Scow (also called the Old Scow or Iron Scow) is the unofficial name of the wreck of a small scow that brought two men perilously close to plunging over the Horseshoe Falls, the largest of the Niagara Falls, in 1918.

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Niagara Tunnel Project

The Niagara Tunnel Project was part of a series of major additions to the Sir Adam Beck hydroelectric generation complex in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

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Niagara University

Niagara University (NU) is a private Catholic university in the Vincentian tradition in the census-designated place Niagara University, New York, within the town of Lewiston near Niagara Falls.

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Niagara Whirlpool

The Niagara Whirlpool is a natural whirlpool within the Niagara River located along the Canada–U.S. border between New York and Ontario. Niagara Falls and Niagara Whirlpool are Canada–United States border, Landforms of the Regional Municipality of Niagara and Niagara River.

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Niagara: Miracles, Myths and Magic

Niagara: Miracles, Myths and Magic (known as Niagara: Legends of Adventure for digital projections) is a 1986 IMAX film directed and produced by Kieth Merrill.

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Nik Wallenda

Nikolas Wallenda (born January 24, 1979) is an American acrobat, aerialist, daredevil, high wire artist, and author.

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Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.,; 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American engineer, futurist, and inventor.

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Noël Paymal Lerebours

Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours (16 February 1807 – 23 July 1873) was a French optician and daguerreotypist.

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North America Railway Hall of Fame

North America Railway Hall of Fame (NARHF) is a not-for-profit organization housed in the recently restored Canada Southern Railway Station in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada.

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Ontario

Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada.

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Ontario Power Generation

Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG) is a Crown corporation and "government business enterprise" that is responsible for approximately half of the electricity generation in the province of Ontario, Canada.

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Ophir, Colorado

Ophir is a home rule municipality town governed by a general assembly and is located in San Miguel County, Colorado, United States.

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Ordovician

The Ordovician is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era.

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Ottawa Citizen

The Ottawa Citizen is an English-language daily newspaper owned by Postmedia Network in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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Paul Ragueneau

Paul Ragueneau, SJ (18 March 1608 – 3 September 1680) was a Jesuit missionary in New France.

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Pehr Kalm

Pehr Kalm (6 March 1716 – 16 November 1779), also known as Peter Kalm, was a Swedish explorer, botanist, naturalist, and agricultural economist.

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Personal flotation device

A personal flotation device (PFD; also referred to as a life jacket, life preserver, life belt, Mae West, life vest, life saver, cork jacket, buoyancy aid or flotation suit) is a flotation device in the form of a vest or suit that is worn by a user to prevent the wearer from drowning in a body of water.

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Pierre Berton

Pierre Francis de Marigny Berton, CC, O.Ont. (July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004) was a Canadian historian, writer, journalist and broadcaster.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is a 2007 American epic fantasy swashbuckler film directed by Gore Verbinski, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and written by the writing team of Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio.

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Prospect Point Observation Tower

The Prospect Point Observation Tower (also known as the Niagara Falls Observation Tower) is a tower in Niagara Falls, New York, United States just east of the American Falls.

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Provinces and territories of Canada

Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution.

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Queen Victoria Park

Queen Victoria Park is the main parkland located in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada opposite the American and Canadian Horseshoe Falls.

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Queen's Park (Toronto)

Queen's Park is an urban park in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Queenston

Queenston is a compact rural community and unincorporated place north of Niagara Falls in the Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada.

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Queenston Formation

The Queenston Formation is a geological formation of Upper Ordovician age (Maysvillian to Richmondian Stage), which outcrops in Ontario, Canada (along the northern and eastern flanks of the Niagara Escarpment, as well as east of Ottawa) and New York, United States (just south of Lake Ontario).

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Rainbow Bridge (Niagara Falls)

The Niagara Falls International Rainbow Bridge, commonly known as the Rainbow Bridge, is a steel arch bridge across the Niagara River, connecting the cities of Niagara Falls, New York, United States, and Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

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René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle

René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (November 22, 1643 – March 19, 1687), was a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America.

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Reservoir

A reservoir is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.

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Retaining wall

Retaining walls are relatively rigid walls used for supporting soil laterally so that it can be retained at different levels on the two sides.

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Rhode Island

Rhode Island (pronounced "road") is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Ring-billed gull

The ring-billed gull (Larus delawarensis) is a medium-sized gull.

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Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant

The Robert Moses Niagara Hydroelectric Power Station is a hydroelectric power station in Lewiston, New York, near Niagara Falls.

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Rock flour

Rock flour, or glacial flour, consists of fine-grained, silt-sized particles of rock, generated by mechanical grinding of bedrock by glacial erosion or by artificial grinding to a similar size.

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Saint David's Buried Gorge

Saint David's Buried Gorge is an ancient pre-glacial river bed that existed 22,800 years ago on the present-day Niagara Peninsula.

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Sam Patch

Sam Patch (1799Johnson, Paul. Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper (New York: Hill and Wang, 2003). – November 13, 1829; some sources believed his birth year to be 1807) was known as "The Jersey Jumper", "The Daring Yankee", or the "Yankee Leaper" became the first famous American daredevil after successfully jumping from a raised platform into the Niagara River near the base of Niagara Falls in 1829.

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Samuel de Champlain

Samuel de Champlain (Fichier OrigineFor a detailed analysis of his baptismal record, see RitchThe baptism act does not contain information about the age of Samuel, neither his birth date nor his place of birth. – 25 December 1635) was a French explorer, navigator, cartographer, draftsman, soldier, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Scree

Scree is a collection of broken rock fragments at the base of a cliff or other steep rocky mass that has accumulated through periodic rockfall.

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Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel

Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel is a casino in Niagara Falls, New York, United States.

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Shale

Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.

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Sierra Club

The Sierra Club is an American environmental organization with chapters in all 50 U.S. states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico.

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Silurian

The Silurian is a geologic period and system spanning 24.6 million years from the end of the Ordovician Period, at million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Devonian Period, Mya.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster LLC is an American publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

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Sir Adam Beck Hydroelectric Generating Stations

Sir Adam Beck Hydroelectric Generating Stations are two hydroelectric generating stations in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

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Skylon Tower

The Skylon Tower, in Niagara Falls, Ontario, is an observation tower that overlooks both the American Falls, New York, and the larger Horseshoe Falls, Ontario, from the Canadian side of the Niagara River.

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St. Lawrence River

The St. Niagara Falls and St. Lawrence River are Canada–United States border.

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St. Lawrence Seaway

The St.

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Steve Trotter

Steven Trotter (November 13, 1960 – October 14, 2022) was an American daredevil who at age 24 became the youngest person to have gone over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

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Stunt performer

A stunt performer, often called a stuntman or stuntwoman and occasionally stuntperson or stunt-person, is a trained professional who performs daring acts, often as a career.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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Sun Sentinel

The Sun Sentinel (also known as the South Florida Sun Sentinel, known until 2008 as the Sun-Sentinel, and stylized on its masthead as SunSentinel) is the main daily newspaper of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Broward County, and covers Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties and state-wide news, as well.

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Superman II

Superman II is a 1980 superhero film directed by Richard Lester and written by Mario Puzo and David and Leslie Newman from a story by Puzo based on the DC Comics character Superman.

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Tampa Bay Times

The Tampa Bay Times, called the St.

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Terrapin Point

Terrapin Point (formerly Terrapin Rocks) is an observation area located in Niagara Falls, New York at the western tip of Goat Island, next to the Canadian Horseshoe Falls.

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The Buffalo News

The Buffalo News is the daily newspaper of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area, located in downtown Buffalo, New York.

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The Falls (1991 film)

The Falls is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Kevin McMahon and released in 1991.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Walrus

The Walrus is an independent, non-profit Canadian media organization.

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The War in the Air

The War in the Air: And Particularly How Mr.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Theodosia Burr Alston

Theodosia Burr Alston (June 21, 1783 – January 2 or 3, 1813) was an American socialite and the daughter of the third U.S. Vice President, Aaron Burr, and Theodosia Bartow Prevost.

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Thomas Allom

Thomas Allom (13 March 1804 – 21 October 1872) was an English architect, artist, and topographical illustrator.

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Thomas Cole

Thomas Cole (1 February 1801 – 11 February 1848) was an English-born American artist and the founder of the Hudson River School art movement.

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Thomas Davies (British Army officer)

Thomas Davies FRS FLS (c. 1737 – 16 March 1812) was a British Army officer, artist, and naturalist.

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Three Sisters Islands (New York)

The Three Sisters Islands are islands which lie off the south shoreline of Goat Island.

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Tightrope walking

Tightrope walking, also called funambulism, is the skill of walking along a thin wire or rope.

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Toronto

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Toronto Star

The Toronto Star is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper.

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Tower Hotel (Niagara Falls)

The Tower Hotel, opened in 1962, is located in the Fallsview district of Niagara Falls, Ontario and was the first of the contemporary observation towers built near the brink of the Falls.

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Twin cities

Twin cities are a special case of two neighboring cities or urban centres that grow into a single conurbation – or narrowly separated urban areas – over time.

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U.S. state

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.

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Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century.

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United Office Building

United Office Building, now known as The Giacomo, is a historic Mayan Revival, a subset of art deco, skyscraper in Niagara Falls, New York, US.

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United States Army Corps of Engineers

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is the military engineering branch of the United States Army.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.

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University of British Columbia Press

The University of British Columbia Press (UBC Press) is a university press that is part of the University of British Columbia.

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Vanderbilt family

The Vanderbilt family is an American family who gained prominence during the Gilded Age.

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War of 1812

The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in North America.

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Waterfall

A waterfall is any point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops.

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Watermill

A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower.

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Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3.

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Weir

A weir or low-head dam is a barrier across the width of a river that alters the flow characteristics of water and usually results in a change in the height of the river level.

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Welland Canal

The Welland Canal is a ship canal in Ontario, Canada, and part of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes Waterway.

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West Lincoln

West Lincoln is a township in the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada.

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Westinghouse Electric Corporation

The Westinghouse Electric Corporation (later CBS Corporation) was an American manufacturing company founded in 1886 by George Westinghouse and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Whirlpool Aero Car

The Whirlpool Aero Car or Spanish Aero Car is a cable car located in Niagara Falls, Ontario that transports passengers over a section of the Niagara River referred to as the Niagara Whirlpool.

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Whirlpool Rapids Bridge

The Whirlpool Rapids Bridge, commonly known as the Whirlpool Bridge or the Lower Steel Arch Bridge (before 1937), is a spandrel braced, riveted, two-hinged arch bridge that crosses the Canada–United States border, connecting the commercial downtown districts of Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Niagara Falls, New York.

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William "Red" Hill Sr.

William "Red" Hill Sr. (November 17, 1888 – May 14, 1942) was a Canadian daredevil and rescuer, born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, in 1888.

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William Dorsheimer

William Dorsheimer (February 5, 1832, in Lyons, Wayne County, New York – March 26, 1888, in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia) was an American lawyer, journalist, newspaper publisher, and politician.

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William Leonard Hunt

William Leonard Hunt (June 10, 1838 – January 17, 1929), also known by the stage name The Great Farini, was a well-known nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Canadian funambulist, entertainment promoter and inventor, as well as the first known white man to cross the Kalahari Desert on foot and survive.

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William Morris Hunt

William Morris Hunt (March 31, 1824September 8, 1879) was an American painter.

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Wisconsin glaciation

The Wisconsin glaciation, also called the Wisconsin glacial episode, was the most recent glacial period of the North American ice sheet complex, peaking more than 20,000 years ago.

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Wonderfalls

Wonderfalls is a 13-episode American comedy-drama television series created by Todd Holland and Bryan Fuller.

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Woody Woodpecker

Woody Woodpecker is a cartoon character that appeared in theatrical short films produced by the Walter Lantz Studio and Universal Animation Studio and distributed by Universal Pictures since 1940.

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Woody Woodpecker filmography

This is a list of animated cartoons that star Woody Woodpecker, who appeared in 202 cartoons (195 Woody shorts and 7 miscellaneous shorts) during and after the Golden age of American animation.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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Wyandot people

The Wyandot people (also Wyandotte, Wendat, Waⁿdát, or Huron) are Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands of North America, and speakers of an Iroquoian language, Wyandot.

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See also

Block waterfalls

International waterfalls

Landforms of the Regional Municipality of Niagara

Landmarks in New York (state)

Niagara Escarpment

Niagara Falls National Heritage Area

Niagara River

Segmented waterfalls

Waterfalls of Ontario

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Falls

Also known as Cataratas del Niágara, Daredevils of Niagara Falls, New York Falls, Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.), Niagara Falls Power Generation, NiagaraFalls, Niagra Falls, Over Niagara Falls, Over the Falls in a barrel, Roger Woodward (Niagara Falls).

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