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riversedge

(70,204 posts) Wed Oct 25, 2017, 04:54 AM Oct 2017

1901, Annie Edson Taylor, school teacher, becomes first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel

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Justin Franz‏ @jfranz88 15h15 hours ago

#OnThisDay in 1901, Annie Edson Taylor, a cash-strapped 63-yr-old school teacher, becomes first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel

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Did she survive the attempt? longship Oct 2017 #1

longship

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1. Did she survive the attempt?

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Wed Oct 25, 2017, 06:21 AM

Oct 2017

Just kidding.

Reminds me of Niagara, a famous Marilyn Monroe flick, with Joseph Cotton and Jean Peters. It's climax features a similar event to Ms. Taylor's, with a rather sadder outcome, which is rather typical. Thankfully it was fictional in this case.

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