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Partly due to the demands of restoring and maintaining Stenton, Logan gave up his career as a physician and became a gentleman farmer and politician. [2] At Stenton, the couple entertained a wide circle of politicians, artists, writers, and businesspeople, counting among their friends Thomas Jefferson and the painter Charles Willson Peale. [3]
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The high winds that blow around Niagara Falls can be severe in the cold months from November through March, when the average temperature is 30-36 degrees Fahrenheit (-0.9-2 degrees Celsius).
Overacker's body was recovered the next day and he was pronounced dead at Niagara General Hospital. [53] [54] 22 October 2003: Kirk Jones: Survival: Horseshoe Falls [55] Jones went over the falls and became the first person to survive the drop without any aid in the fall, having swum from approximately 100 yards (91 m) before swimming over the ...
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"Stenton" at Visit Philadelphia "Stenton Museum" at Visit Pennsylvania "Stenton" at Independence Hall Association; Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) documentation: HABS No. PA-1714, "Stenton", 4 photos, 10 measured drawings, 1 photo caption page; HABS No. PA-1714-A, "Stenton, Kitchen Wing", 3 measured drawings
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company Historians date the oldest photograph to 1826 France. At least that's the oldest one that we know of today. That's when Joseph Nicéphore Niépce started ...
Kirk Raymond Jones (1962 or 1963 – c. April 19, 2017) was an American who became the first person to survive going over Horseshoe Falls, the largest waterfall of Niagara Falls, without safety equipment, in 2003. He then went over Niagara Falls again in 2017 with a plastic ball and died.