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Niagara Falls is a huge waterfall. That is located in Canada and New York. It is 2 big waterfalls. The water originally comes from The Great Lakes. It then runs over the falls. In the end, it ends up in the ocean. The falls are 180 feet high!! These falls can also make power. The water makes power for the U.S. and Canada. Long ago a woman named Annie Taylor went over the falls in a barrel made of wood. she was the first to go over the falls and live. She was 63 at the time. A man named Nik Wallenda went over the falls on a tightrope. Well he's brave! You can take a boat over Niagara falls. On the boat you get wet. There is a lot of mist. The crayons we know today were invented in the1900s. The idea to blend wax with pigment ismuch older though. It is thousands of years old.People used to mixed beeswax and pigment.They used this to color on stone. Europeans alsoused early forms of crayons. Americans made thefirst child-friendly crayons.
Joseph Binney started a company in 1864. He made lampblack. This was a color pigment. It was made from burnt oil soot. Binney’s son Edwinand his cousin Harold Smith then took over the company 20 years later. They made more colors.They made red pigments for barn paint. They also made carbon black for car tires. An ad for Crayola crayons in 1905's. The two cousins kept creating. They made pencils and chalk for schoolrooms. Finally came color crayons. Their first box had eight colors. It was sold for just five cents. Edwin’s wife came up with the name Crayola. It combined two words.The first word is craie. This is the French word forchalk. This is the word for wax. “Crayola” quickly became a common name. The Olympics came from Greece as many as 3,000 years ago. From the 8th century to the 4th century the Olympics were held in Olympia, Greece. This event was to honor the Greece god Zeus. The first modern Olympic started in Athens, Greece. Since then, they have been held every four years except during the 2 world wars. But starting in 1994, the winter games were held two years before the Summer Olympics. Almost 250 athletes from 14 nations compete in 43 events. The first written records of the ancient Olympic games are from 776 B.C. Coroebus, a cook became the first Olympic champion. when, he won the ONLY event (192 meters called Shade). The ancient Olympics were held every four years between August 6th and September 19th. Each four years were known as Olympiad. After, 13 added just 2 more races! the 43 events include, Track and Field, Gymnastics, Swimming, Wresling, Cycling, Tennis, Wightlifting, Shooting and fencing.
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