"It's been a dream of mine for a long time, " Wallenda told CNN before the Niagara Falls attempt.
New York State is trying to leverage access to relatively inexpensive electricity from the Niagara Falls hydroelectric generators to support solar-power manufacturing.
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Most of it went in 90 minutes, at a rate that at its maximum was faster than the average flow of the Niagara Falls.
Assuming that about 50.5 thousand gallons of water fall over both sides of the Niagara Falls each second, 1 trillion gallons would require more than three weeks.
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Once, when I was asking too many unanswerable questions in the Local History section of the Niagara Falls Public Library, librarian Maureen Fennie held up a hand to stop me.
Poised between these two worlds, oblivious, inexorable, is the third Niagara Falls: the waterfall.
He was there again this week, struggling to turn back a Conservative tide which has engulfed a swathe of small cities and rural areas across the centre of the province, from the outskirts of Ottawa in the east to Niagara Falls in the south and the university town of London in the west.
Thanks to the parks movement, Niagara has enjoyed public protection since the 1880s when it became a state park, and just four years ago, the US designated Niagara Falls a heritage area under the National Park Service.
The people of Niagara Falls must unconsciously look for it, the way the Swiss glance up at the Matterhorn, or the citizens of Portland, Oregon, locate Mount Hood: Where's the mountain?
When asked by ABC how he planned to top the walk over Niagara Falls, Wallenda said he hopes to become the first person in the world to walk a tightrope across the Grand Canyon, in Arizona.
This time, he says he'll stick to performing through March 31 at the New Victory before moving on to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls and a 10-week stint at the Beau Rivage Casino in Biloxi, Miss.
An obsession with the ways in which the history of Niagara Falls is a history of falsification, prevarication and omission.
Toronto's Northland Power wants to convert an old open-pit iron ore mine in Ontario into a waterfall five times the height of Niagara Falls, which could be used to generate power.
The New York government is counting on Niagara Falls to provide the area with a comparative advantage in competing with foreign producers.
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The falls are 741ft, almost five times the height of Niagara and two times the height of Victoria Falls.
Americans need only go to cities on or near the Canadian border such as Windsor, Niagara Falls and Vancouver to purchase the famed Cuban cigars.
Bluhm is in a joint venture with the Pritzker family's Hyatt Development Corp. to build a casino on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls.
From a French fur trader with an iron hand to the Army Corps of Engineers reshaping the riverbed, Indian casinos built on brownfields to 280, 000 radioactive mice buried at the Falls, many of Niagara's stories are like the drums secreted in its landfills: shoved out of sight, covered over to look presentable, and driven by with glazed eyes, a quick flick of the radio volume.
Niagara Falls, the most famous waterfall in North America, was on the brink of destruction less than a century after the US was born.
Niagara Falls, the collective term for the three waterfalls that dominate the border between New York state and Ontario, Canada, flows at a rate of up to two million litres per second.
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And then, I thought of the economic consequences of spilling over Niagara Falls.
An undulating series of verdant falls on the border of Argentina and Brazil, Iguazu Falls almost puts Niagara to shame, though it has less water running through it.
Bridges in the Buffalo, New York, and Niagara Falls area were also heavily congested Thursday.
"Nearly everyone who sees Niagara Falls is struck by the wonder of it, " proclaims Fodor's.
On every level, Niagara Falls is a monument to the ways America falsifies its relationship to nature, reshaping its contours, redirecting its force, claiming to submit to its will while imposing our own upon it.
Nik Wallenda, a seventh-generation member of the Flying Wallendas family, raised money and walked across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
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