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He toured the United States and was known for crossing the 1,100 ft (340 m) Niagara Gorge on a tightrope. During an event in Dublin in 1860, the rope on which he was walking broke and two workers were killed, although Blondin was not injured. He married three times and had eight children. His name became synonymous with tightrope walking.
Stephen Peer (1840-1887) was a tightrope walker who, though he completed the feat successfully many times, fell to his death while walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Biography [ edit ]
Philippe Petit (French pronunciation: [filip pəti]; born 13 August 1949) is a French highwire artist who gained fame for his unauthorized highwire walks between the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in 1971 and of Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1973, as well as between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City in August 1974.
Tightrope walking, also called funambulism, is the skill of walking along a thin wire or rope. It has a long tradition in various countries and is commonly associated with the circus . Other skills similar to tightrope walking include slack rope walking and slacklining .
She later toured with Rose's Parisian Midget Follies and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show where she performed a tightrope act. [1 ... On 24 August 1984, she died at age ...
Add criminal tightrope walking to the list of problems besieging Oceanwide Plaza, the unfinished, bankrupt, vandalized, graffitied towers marring the skyline of downtown Los Angeles.
A 52-year-old man and his dog have been stabbed to death in their own basement after an alleged intruder broke into their home, police said. The incident occurred on Monday morning at 11:42 a.m ...
A person was killed when they crossed railroad tracks in Durham and was hit by an Amtrak train Saturday afternoon. Train 72 hit the person walking on the tracks just west of Durham at 1:01 pm ...