IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) — Today is October 24. On this day in 1901, Annie Edson Taylor was the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. A school teacher, with a school teacher's ...

Imagine a barrel 4 1/2 feet tall, about as big as an antique ice box, or — perhaps more to the point — a small coffin. It’s in a treacherous spot: bobbing and dunking in the waters of the Niagara ...

Oct. 24 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1901, daredevil Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. In 1929, $5 billion in market values were swept away in the ...

Award-winning children's book creator Chris Van Allsburg is a master of fantasy and the surreal, whether conjuring up a mysterious train to the North Pole for "The Polar Express" or a board game ...

Where did the attempts to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel come from and has anyone successfully done it? –Anonymous, via the Internet What do you mean, where did they come from? They came from the ...