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    are so many things in the world that we are wondering about. Niagara Falls is one of them. It's the largest waterfall in the world. Niagara Falls, a place 20,000 kilometers away from Bangladesh, is a great story of nature. It's hard to find people who have not heard of this waterfall. Niagara Falls is a thrilling place for all nature-friendly tourists to travel. Anyone who thinks that here is breaking the sky, all the rains of the world are falling down on the stairs by climbing monsters. Like the 'Statue of Liberty', it is a sign of the United States today, just before 28 October 1886, Niagara was the main attraction here. Today's text is arranged with some interesting and surprising information about Niagara Falls. Where is the Niagara Falls located? The Niagara Falls is located on the international border between New York and the province…

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    There were no reported direct casualties stemming from the disaster. However, there were numerous miscarriages and birth defects directly caused by the hazardous waste. Countless children were injured from burns procured from playing near chemical exposure (Beck, 1979). The Environmental Health Perspectives conducted a study to determine the mortality rates of previous Love Canal residents compared to New York mortality rates as a whole between 1979 and 1996. Their study showed no elevated…

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    With its beautiful cascading waters, Niagara Falls draws over twelve million visitors a year to stare awestruck at the falls and drink wine from any one of its sixty wineries. In addition to being a tourist attraction, Niagara Falls doubles as an inexpensive source of hydroelectric power for a planned industrial community. However, in the early 1940s the United States government diminished the beauty of this once pristine place. They allowed the Hooker Chemical Company to dump twenty-one tons of…

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    My best friend should come to Niagara Falls because they might have fun, in fact, the Niagara Falls are located on the border of Ontario, Canada and New York, USA, some of the movie Pirates of the Caribbean was filmed at Niagara Falls, around 20% of the populations drinking water in the United States Of America goes through and over the Falls, It is a beautiful and extravagant area to take photos. ” Fish actually travel over the Falls. Don’t believe it? Visit the Cave of the Winds for $10. This…

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    The Love Canal Tragedy is regarded as one of the most notorious hazardous waste dumpsites in United States history. In 1942, Hooker Chemicals and Plastics Corporation (now Occidental Petroleum Corporation) purchased the site of Love Canal. During the time period from 1942 to 1953 Hooker Chemical dumped approximately 22,000 tons of mixed chemical waste into the Love Canal. After Hooker Chemical was finished using the site it was sold to the Niagara Falls School Board for the price of $1.00, with…

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    With steady improvements and with more of the tourist looking for a backwoods area with excellent fishing and hunting the Summer Resort started to flourish. On of the earliest guests of John 's Summer Resort was two families of Bampfield 's, James and his brother along with their wives on an 1895 fishing excursion. The Bampfields were one of the wealthiest families in Niagara Falls Ontario whose success emanated form various commercial development such as the Great Western Restaurant and a…

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    In the 1970's, the working-class community in the Love Canal area of Niagara Falls, New York, was evacuated due to deadly chemicals seeping into the environment and harming people and pets. Before that, the Hooker Chemical Company dumped industrial chemicals in the unfinished canal, and capped it only clay. The Niagara Falls City School District was in need of land, so in 1953, Hooker sold the land to them for $1. Homes were built on top of the chemicals and more than 80 industrial chemicals…

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    Using the canal as a chemical waste dump Hooker Chemical Company sold to 99th street school for $1 Abnormally high birth defects, miscarriages and, illnesses 239 families were relocated In 1978, people in the neighborhood Love Canal of Niagara Falls, New York were discovering all sorts of different illnesses and noticed that there was an abnormally high percentage of birth defects and miscarriages. Later on they figured out it was because of former owners of the contaminated 15 acres,…

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    go to sleep for the night. One of the things kids don’t like at first but then make it a competition is to go bird watching and to see who can find the rarest or the coolest looking. For example there are 200 different types of bird specimen throughout a rather small size of our natural park, because it only takes up 232 miles of the 147,000 acres of land that takes up Zion the amazing national park. Here if you like trips that are longer than a day you can enjoy our fancy lodges and hotels, but…

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    Every family has a place that they like to go every year, and my families place is Ontario, Canada. We drove and drove and drove and drove and drove for days! Well, actually it was only fourteen hours, but it felt like eternity. We stayed at a place called Stanley’s Resort and everyone there was very friendly and would make an effort to get to know you. We went with my grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles, and my parents and siblings. At the resort, we stayed in a gorgeous cabin and near our…

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