QUEEN OF THE MIST

Rank: Tom xyop96
Nominated by: xyop96
AwesomeOff: June 2009
Total Points: 5424

With a cat or a turtle or a friend; with nothing, or in a pickle barrel, clad in kevlar or sans life preserver....CRAZY people are the ones who attempt to go over 'the falls'. The leader of this elite daredevil club was Annie Edson Taylor. A school teacher and a dance instructor with a lifestyle more then her means made her attempt to a retirement of fame and fortune with her fall. Her modified pickle barrel was padded with a mattress and pressurized with a bicycle pump. The 63 year old was wise enough to send her cat Iagara on the test run. Sealed with a cork Annie went next and in 1901 went down in history as the first person to go over Niagara falls in a barrel. She survived but received very little fortune.



Queen of the Mist was voted MORE AWESOME than:

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Stinky Cheese


Chindogu


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Queen of the Mist was voted LESS AWESOME than:

Teddy Roosevelt


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Library of Congress


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Image Credits
Filename: queenofthemist_heroine.jpg
Source: Public Domain
Url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Annie_Taylor.jpg
Filename: queenofthemist_before.jpg
Source: Public Domain
Url: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Annie_Taylor_before_her_trip.jpg
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Source: Public Domain: Author M. H. Zahner
Url: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Annietaylorwater.jpg
Filename: queenofthemist.jpg
Source: Public Domain: Author GG Bain News Service
Url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Queen-of-the-Mist.jpg
Word on the Street

Rank: Tom xyop96
xyop96 commented ( about Queen of the Mist ) on 6/9/2009
The Day you put yourself in a Pickle Barrel and Get tossed over the Niagara Falls is the day you get to vote against The Queen of The Mist

Rank: Blade the_mad_nader
the_mad_nader replied to xyop96 on 6/9/2009
I'm not questioning the stones it took to do this amazing feat - I'm just wondering whether it's Awesome courageousness or pointless and kinda lame.

Rank: Tom xyop96
xyop96 commented ( about Queen of the Mist ) on 6/7/2009
WORD! Going Over Niagara Falls is No JOKE

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