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Title: Museum of Niagra Falls daredevils
Post by: TehBorken on Mar 24 06 08:05
  [font color="#800080" face="Times New Roman"][em][font style="font-weight: bold;" size="2"][span style="font-family: Verdana;"]Cool "Museum" of Niagra Falls daredevils.
[a href="http://www.niagarafallslive.com/daredevils_of_niagara_falls.htm"]http://www.niagarafallslive.com/daredevils_of_niagara_falls.htm[/a]
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[/em][/font][hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"][font color="#800080" face="Times New Roman"][em][/em][/font][font color="#800080" face="Times New Roman"][em]DAREDEVILS OF NIAGARA FALLS[/em][/font]              [div align="center"]  
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Title: Re: Museum of Niagra Falls daredevils
Post by: kitten on Mar 24 06 09:48
Just proves that jumping over the Falls is bad luck!