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Tulse Luper is mentioned in Greenaway's early films A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist, Vertical Features Remake, The Falls and The Draughtsman's Contract, and appears as the major character in The Tulse Luper Suitcases.
The name dates back to days when the native freshwater shrimp Atyoida bisulcata were plentiful in the stream and were seen rolling and tumbling down the falls and into the churning waters at the fall's base.
Businessman Paris Gibson visited the Great Falls of the Missouri River in 1880, and was deeply impressed by the possibilities for building a major industrial city near the falls with power provided by hydroelectricity.
The waters of Bash Bish Falls begin at a spring in Mount Washington and after the falls, Bash Bish Brook continues on a gentler course through New York State until joining the Hudson River and flows through Copake.
In 1920, the first reported sighting of the falls was by Pacific Northwest photographer Asahel Curtis, who also photographed the falls.
The falls is located in an area rich with mosses, eastern hemlock, and Rosebay Rhododendron.
Supposedly the name refers to the falls in the Sault Ste. Marie region of Michigan and Ontario.
Big villages lay near the falls and the mouth of the Clackamas River; others lay near Estacada and Eagle Creek.
When traveling by railway between Nanu Oya and Ambewela the falls can be seen picturesquely.
According to the Matigsalug tribe ancestor, long time ago the falls has been the witness of forbidden relationship of a lover.
The Rochester, Lockport and Niagara Falls Railroad, also known as the "Falls Road", once operated on the same route as its namesake
According to tradition, a carp that could leap the falls of the Yellow River at Dragon Gate (near Longmen, Zhejiang), would be transformed into a dragon: this motif symbolizes success in the civil service examinations.
The falls comprised 18 cataracts clustered in seven groups—hence their Portuguese name, Sete Quedas (Seven Falls)—near the Brazilian municipality of Guaíra, Paraná and Salto de Guairá, the easternmost city in Paraguay.
Disaster struck on January 17, 1982, when a suspended footbridge affording access to a particularly spectacular view of the falls collapsed, killing 80 people.
The Falls of Chippewa River in This Township are a Succession of rapids over which the Lumbermen raft in safety Lumber Hewed timber and shingles The River falls about 25 feet in 3/4 of a mile, Making a excellent water power which is improved by James Allen and Company.
There is one Store, one Tavern, and one Blacksmith Shop and several dwelling houses at the Falls all situated on the West half of the S.W. 1/4 of Section 5 and the East half of the S.E. 1/4 of Section 6.
Helicopter rides offering aerial views of the falls have been available.
Ron Donachie starred as Rebus in BBC Radio 4's dramatizations of The Falls (2008), Resurrection Men (2008), Strip Jack (2010), The Black Book (2012) and Black and Blue (2013).
Other works were ‘The Falls of the Rhine,’ after Turner, for the Keepsake of 1833; some plates after Clarkson Stanfield and Thomas Allom for Charles Heath's Picturesque Annual, and others after Samuel Prout, Roberts, Holland, and James Duffield Harding, for Robert Jennings's Landscape Annual; and ‘The Grand Bal Masqué at the Opera, Paris,’ after Eugène Lami for Allom's France Illustrated.
From 1996 to 2009, Lankford was the student ministries and evangelism specialist for the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, and he was director of the Falls Creek youth programming at the Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center in Davis, Oklahoma.
He held lands in northern Portugal near the falls of the river Paiva and also in Aragon, near Monzón, Tudela, and Pamplona, near the border with Navarre, as fiefs of the King of Aragon.
He is a founder member of the O'Donovan Rossa Club, Belfast – founded in 1916 on the Falls Road.
The 2009 movie Jennifer's Body depicts a highly fictionalized version of the falls and a wholly fictitious town named after them.
Early American naturalist John Bartram and his son visited the falls on his famous 1753 expedition to the area.
The most famous painting featuring the falls, painted by Lucius Richard O'Brien in 1882, is held by the National Gallery of Canada.
The Lafon family were descended from French Huguenot immigrants, who settled in Virginia in 1700 above the falls of the James River.
Their ancient burial ground is on Inchbuie in the River Dochart, just below the Falls, and is visible from the bridge.
On 14 September 2007 President Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon confirmed that a dam would be built at the falls to provide electricity to a large iron mining project in Belinga further north.
David Livingstone's 1859 Zambezi Expedition came up the Shire but were unable to proceed beyond the falls.
Miss Smithson of Drury Lane Theatre in the character of Ellen in the Falls of the Clyde (exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1823).
The Metal Aircraft Corporation Flamingo that crashed above the falls was recovered by helicopter in the 1960s by the Venezuelan government and is on display at the entrance of the Ciudad Bolívar airport, in Venezuela.
Within days after the revelation of the alleged lying of bar manager Daniel Dorrian in St. Guillen's disappearance and murder, a New York City writer named Jeff Ragsdale organized a group of people through Craigslist to start a demonstration in front of The Falls bar.
He was so impressed with the waterfall that he wrote a letter from his remote camp to Sir Richard McBride, British Columbia's premier, asking "may I name the river the McBride River and the falls the McBride Falls in honor of the distinguished Premier of British Columbia?"
The outdoor sequences were shot in the grounds of the Falls Hotel in Ennistymon, County Clare, Ireland.
The park ranger at Niagara Falls boasts about his impeccable record of enforcing the prohibition related to going over the falls in a barrel.
After Morgan's death, the Falls Church chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution took up the effort with a letter to Morgan's son, requesting the will.
Accessible via the Aishihik Road (see Yukon roads, miscellaneous ), the site of the falls has long been visited by lovers of the outdoors due to its picturesque nature, bird life (American Dipper and Harlequin Duck amongst others) and sport fishing opportunities.
The falls are 18 metres (60ft) in height and the water flows over the drop and then continues down Paddys River.
Bradt's media agent released the video footage of him dropping over the falls to Sports Illustrated, who carried it on their website.
On April 21, 2009, Tyler Bradt ran the falls in a kayak setting an unofficial world record for the highest waterfall run.
The nearby area also features the Darwin Falls, a small but scenic waterfall, grotto and creek that are the only year-round water supply in the driest part of North America; despite the similarly named wilderness, the falls are located in and administered by Death Valley National Park.
Jimmie Angel (1899-1956), discoverer of Angel Falls - his ashes were later removed and scattered over the falls.
In 1680, the falls became known to the Western world when they were observed and published in a journal by Father Louis Hennepin, a Catholic friar of Belgian birth, who also first published about Niagara Falls to the world's attention.
It was called the Bowdoin Canyon for Bowdoin College of Maine which sponsored an expedition in 1891 to visit the falls.
The film also explores the Kaieteur Falls themselves, a local man named Marc Anthony Yhap, a local diamond miner, and the white-tipped swifts (Aeronautes montivagus) which roost in an inaccessible cave behind the falls.
SwarnaMukhi translates as 'Golden-Faced' de route at Kagalpura (Kaggalipura) off the Bangalore - Kanakapura road will lead to a place called Byalemaradadoddi, from where a mud road leads to the falls.
It also has a few offshore moorings, a mall (The Falls at Westmall), a government college (St. Anthony's College), the International School of Port of Spain, and a private primary school.