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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two daredevils who rode barrels over Niagara Falls say they support Nik Wallenda's bid for official approval to walk a tightrope across Niagara Falls. In fact, say Steve Trotter and Dave Munday, who ...