What is "niagara falls"

Niagara \Niagara\, Niagara Falls \Niagara Falls\prop. n. A large waterfall on the Niagara River near Buffalo remarkable for the volume and constancy of the water flowing over it. That part of the waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls; the U. S. portion is called the American Falls.

Niagara Falls is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the international border between Canada and the United States; more specifically, between the province of Ontario and the state of New York. They form the southern end of the Niagara Gorge.

From largest to smallest, the three waterfalls are the Horseshoe Falls, the American Falls and the Bridal Veil Falls. The Horseshoe Falls lie mostly on the Canadian side and the American Falls entirely on the American side, separated by Goat Island. The smaller Bridal Veil Falls are also on the American side, separated from the other waterfalls by Luna Island. The international boundary line was originally drawn through Horseshoe Falls in 1819, but the boundary has long been in dispute due to natural erosion and construction.

Located on the Niagara River, which drains Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, the combined falls form the highest flow rate of any waterfall in the world that has a vertical drop of more than . Horseshoe Falls is the most powerful waterfall in North America, as measured by vertical height and flow rate. The falls are north-northwest of Buffalo, New York, and south-southeast of Toronto, between the twin cities of Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Niagara Falls, New York.

Niagara Falls were formed when glaciers receded at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation (the last ice age), and water from the newly formed Great Lakes carved a path through the Niagara Escarpment en route to the Atlantic Ocean. While not exceptionally high, the Niagara Falls are very wide. More than six million cubic feet (168,000 m) of water falls over the crest line every minute in high flow, and almost four million cubic feet (110,000 m) on average.

The Niagara Falls are renowned both for their beauty and as a valuable source of hydroelectric power. Balancing recreational, commercial, and industrial uses has been a challenge for the stewards of the falls since the 19th century.

Niagara Falls is the set of large waterfalls on the Niagara River.

Niagara Falls may also refer to:

• Niagara Falls, New York, United States
• Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
  • Niagara Falls (electoral district), a Canadian federal district
  • Niagara Falls (provincial electoral district), a Canadian provincial district
• Niagara Falls State Park, in Niagara Falls, New York
• Bushkill Falls, also known as Niagara Falls of Pennsylvania

region of British Columbia, Canada

• Niagara Falls (Réunion), waterfalls in Réunion
• Niagara Falls (1926 film), produced by George Kirke Spoor
• Niagara Falls (1932 film), directed by Fatty Arbuckle
• Niagara Falls (1941 film), directed by Gordon Douglas
• Niagara Falls (Greg Hawkes album), a 1983 album by Greg Hawkes
• Niagara Falls (Phish album), a 2013 album by the band Phish
• Niagara Falls (EP), an EP by Boxhead Ensemble
• Niagara Falls (band), American experimental band
• " Slowly I Turned", a comedy skit sometimes called "Niagara Falls"
• "Niagara Falls" (Chicago song), a song by the band Chicago on their 1986 album Chicago 18
• "Niagara Falls" (composition), a concert band work composed by Michael Daugherty
• Niagara Falls station (disambiguation), stations of the name

Niagara Falls is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1953.

It consists of the city of Niagara Falls and the towns of Niagara-on-the-Lake and Fort Erie.

Niagara Falls is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Fatty Arbuckle. It was the last film that Arbuckle directed.

Niagara Falls is a provincial electoral division in Ontario, Canada. It was created prior to the 1914 provincial election, and has existed continuously since then.

Its boundaries were significantly redrawn in 1999, when Ontario adjusted all of its provincial electoral divisions to match those at the federal level.

Niagara Falls is a 1941 American comedy of errors film directed by Gordon Douglas that was one of Hal Roach's Streamliners.

Niagara Falls is a waterfall in the commune of Sainte-Suzanne on the island of Réunion. Its height is approximately .

It is of easy access by car, and its pool is a popular picnic place on weekends and holidays.

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Niagara Falls is the first solo album released by Greg Hawkes, best known as an original member of the Cars. It was released in 1983 by Passport Records. Hawkes plays all instruments (with one exception—see below), with programmed drums and multiple layers of keyboard parts, as well as rhythm guitar. It was recorded at Syncro Sound, then The Cars's private recording studio. Tuneful and not overly experimental, it sounds (despite the instrumental nature of the material) very much like the Shake It Up era of The Cars.

"Jet Lag" and "Voyage Into Space" are the only tunes to feature lyrics: "Jet lag / It's a real drag" and "Voyage into space / Check out some other place"—sometimes processed through a vocoder. "Voyage Into Space" also features the artist's wife, Elaine Hawkes, on flute.

Hawkes would not release another solo album for 25 years. His second solo album, though also instrumental, was very different in sound than this, his first: The Beatles Uke (2005) featured Hawkes playing instrumental versions of Beatles songs on the ukulele.

As of this writing, Niagara Falls has yet to be released on CD.

Niagara Falls is an experimental band from Philadelphia, PA that has ties to the recent psychedelic folk resurgence as well as the burgeoning noise and neo-ambient or space music movements. They formed in 2004 as a quartet of Norman Fetter, Jeff Carpineta, Erich Breimhurst, and Jennifer Lee, and became known for their live improvised performances, and constantly shifting instrumentation. Comparisons are often made to German groups such as Tangerine Dream and Popol Vuh. Their music references German krautrock, and Minimalism, as well as contemporary artists such as Thuja, Jackie-O-Motherfucker, and Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice.

Norman Fetter and Jeff Carpineta also co-founded the Honeymoon Music record label in 2004, which releases Niagara Falls albums.

They released their first album, Barrel Vault in 2004 which was a live improvised recording of their fist meeting. They followed in 2006 with Zwei, which saw the band drastically changing instrumentation, and performance approaches. Released in late 2006, Plays Spiral Isles saw the band exploring a more electronic approach to creating their signature drone.

Carpineta and Lee left the band in 2007. In late 2007, Noah Levey and Sam Cusumano joined the group. Breimhurst left the band in spring 2008, and Geoff Bucknam joined on electric guitar.

Niagara Falls for Symphonic Band (1997) by American composer Michael Daugherty, is his first composition for concert band. It is a 10-minute, single-movement work, that (through evocative timbres) explores the most visited waterfalls in the world. Niagara Falls was commissioned by the University of Michigan Bands in honor of its centennial, and dedicated to H. Robert Reynolds. The premiere was performed by the University of Michigan Symphony Band, under the direction of Reynolds, on October 1997, at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

In 2000, the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps performed a variation of Daugherty's Niagara Falls to a first place tie with the Cadets Drum & Bugle Corps at the DCI World Championships in Washington, D.C.

"Niagara Falls" is the fourth single released by the American rock band, Chicago, from their 1986 album, Chicago 18. Lead vocals were shared by Jason Scheff and Bill Champlin. When writing the song, the band misspelled "Niagara" as "Niagra"; this mistake can be seen in the music video's title and most likely on the album, as Warner Bros. Records and Chicago never corrected it.

Following the successful singles, " Will You Still Love Me?" (#3 US pop) and " If She Would Have Been Faithful..." (#17 US pop), "Niagara Falls" only reached #91 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart.

Niagara Falls is a EP by Boxhead Ensemble, released on November 15, 1999 through Atavistic Records.

Niagara Falls is a three-CD live album by the rock band Phish. It contains the complete concert recorded on December 7, 1995, at the Niagara Falls Convention Center in Niagara Falls, New York. It was released by JEMP Records on November 12, 2013.