Over The Falls
See also: List of objects that have gone over Niagara FallsIn October 1829, Sam Patch, who called himself "the Yankee Leapster", jumped from a high tower into the gorge below the falls and survived; this began a long tradition of daredevils trying to go over the falls.
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Famous quotes containing the words over the and/or falls:
“And we won’t be back till its over over there.”
—George M. Cohan (1878–1942)
““Dark times” is what they call it in Norway when the sun remains below the horizon all day long: the temperature falls slowly but surely at such times.—A nice metaphor for all those thinkers for whom the sun of mankind’s future has temporarily disappeared.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)