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Daredevil Nik Wallenda completes Niagara Falls tightrope walk
(AP) NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario - Daredevil Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk on a tightrope across the Niagara Falls, taking steady, measured steps Friday night for 1,800 feet across the mist-fogged brink of the roaring falls separating the U.S....
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Nik Wallenda will tightrope walk over the Grand Canyon on Discovery
Nik Wallenda, the man known as "King of the High Wire," will venture into Evel Knievel territory this summer when he makes a daring high-wire walk across the Grand Canyon. And those curious to see if he makes it will be able to watch the whole thing...
Tags: Today (tv program), Lena Dunham, Jane Campion, U.S. Department of the Interior, Matt Lauer
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A New Documentary Follows Extreme Skateboarder Danny Way to the Great Wall of China
Waiting For Lightning Dec. 7, call for showtimes, Criterion Cinemas, 86 Temple St., New Haven, (203) 498-2500, bowtiecinemas.com "Goals can be dangerous." So says pro skateboarder Rodney Mullen about 35 minutes into Waiting for Lightning, a...
Tags: X Games, ESPN (tv network), Tony Hawk, Movies, Entertainment
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Niagara Falls, NY, wants daredevil Wallenda to pay
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — The New York city of Niagara Falls says daredevil Nik Wallenda still owes about $25,000 for public safety costs from last month's tightrope walk across the falls, and it's having a tough time collecting. Mayor Paul Dyster...
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Wallenda to take on Niagara Falls on tightrope
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — Nik Wallenda (wuh-LEHN'-duh) says he can't visit a new place without envisioning a wire strung high above his head. Even as a 6-year-old visiting Niagara Falls, he pictured walking a tightrope over the raging,...
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Ripley's Believe It or Not opens this weekend at Inner Harbor
Wondering where you can find Harry Potter's Hogwarts Castle made out of 600,000 matchsticks, or a Mini Cooper car covered with one million Swarovski crystals, or a one ton U.S. Lincoln penny made from 10,000 copper pennies? Where else but the new...Tags: Justin Bieber, Inner Harbor, Harry Potter (fictional character)
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Baltimore woman joins Wallenda at Niagara Falls
A Baltimore circus-arts instructor and her students are at Niagara Falls today, where they'll be helping to prime the live audience for Friday's televised walk across the falls by high-wire artist Nik Wallenda. "It's going to be chaotic," Erica Saben,...
Tags: Education, Inner Harbor, ABC (tv network), Teaching and Learning, Students
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Egyptians vote in presidential runoff, choosing between Islamist, Hosni Mubarak's ex-PM CAIRO (AP) — Faced with a choice between Hosni Mubarak's ex-prime minister and an Islamist candidate, Egyptians voted Saturday in a presidential runoff the...
Tags: Oslo (Norway), Aung San Suu Kyi, Marco Rubio, Government, Cairo (Egypt)
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New Orleans Man Knows High Wire Walking
ABC26 NewsWhen thrill seeker Nik Wallenda crossed Niagra Falls on a tightwire Friday night, it captured the attention of the country. A west bank man is pretty familiar with the feat. He wrote a book about the first man who ever completed the task, The Great... -
Daredevil completes walk across Niagara Falls
KIAHAerialist Nik Wallenda made a historic tightrope walk over Niagara Falls Friday night. He stepped onto Canadian soil after an 1800 foot journey on a two inch cable. Wallenda is a member of the famed flying Wallendas family of aerialists and took more... -
This weekend: NBA Finals; ‘Falling Skies’ returns; ‘The Killing’ ends season
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelA few highlights this weekend: ***Nik Wallenda takes over ABC prime time Friday evening. His walk by tightrope wire above Niagara Falls will fill a live, two-hour special, “Megastunts,” starting at 9. ABC begins the night with the special &#... -
Nik Wallenda’s next stunt: “Danger by Design” for Science
Channel Guide MagazineI shouldn’t say the word “accident,” but it isn’t one that Nik Wallenda chose last Friday to attempt his tightrope walk across Niagara Falls. Seventh-generation descendent of the famous Flying Wallenda family, Nik’s timing...
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