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Thundering water, daredevils in barrels and a waterfall that was once switched off. Ten questions about the famous falls between Canada and the United States.
Day tripper 0–4 · Soaked by the mist 5–8 · Niagara insider 9–10
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The falls sit on the border between the US state of New York and the Canadian province of Ontario. There is a town called Niagara Falls on each side.
Photo: Saffron Blaze, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Niagara Falls is a group of three: the Horseshoe Falls, the American Falls and the small Bridal Veil Falls next to it.
Photo: Robert Linsdell from St. Andrews, Canada, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
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The Horseshoe Falls is named after its curved shape. Most of the river's water thunders over it, and most of it lies on the Canadian side.
Photo: Thomaswm, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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The Niagara River carries the water of Lake Erie north to Lake Ontario. Halfway along, it drops over the falls.
Photo: Reading Tom from Reading, UK, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
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Maid of the Mist boats take visitors so close to the falls that everyone gets a plastic poncho, and still gets wet.
Photo: Bona1858, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Annie Edson Taylor was a 63-year-old teacher. She climbed into a barrel with a cushion inside, went over the Horseshoe Falls and came out with only a cut on her head.
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Blondin crossed the gorge many times in 1859 and 1860: blindfolded, on stilts, carrying his manager on his back, and once with a small stove to cook an omelette in the middle.
Photo: unknown photographer, picture taken before 1897 (probably 1860s-1870s), Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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In 1895 a power plant at Niagara started making alternating current using ideas from Nikola Tesla. Soon it sent electricity all the way to the city of Buffalo.
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Engineers built a dam of rock and earth to stop the water so they could study the rocks underneath. For about five months the American Falls were almost dry. The falls had already been lit up at night long before.
Photo: Robert F. Tobler, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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The water wears away the rock at the edge, so the falls creep back upstream. Over the last 12,000 years or so they have moved about 11 kilometres and carved out the Niagara Gorge.
Photo: Ad Meskens, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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