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Iguazu Falls, as Eleanor Roosevelt famously observed, "make the Niagara look like a kitchen faucet." This may be an exaggeration but not by much?after all, the Iguazu Falls are four times wider than Ontario's most famous body of water. Located amid lush rainforest at the border of Brazil and Argentina, they present one of the best (and most deafening) opportunities you will ever have for an encounter with the unbridled power of nature. The Brazilian side has the panoramas, while the Argentinean side offers proximity to the falls themselves. But viewing from both sides is necessary to complete...
Iguazu Falls, as Eleanor Roosevelt famously observed, "make the Niagara look like a kitchen faucet." This may be an exaggeration but not by much?after all, the Iguazu Falls are four times wider than Ontario's most famous body of water. Located amid lush rainforest at the border of Brazil and Argentina, they present one of the best (and most deafening) opportunities you will ever have for an encounter with the unbridled power of nature...
...before in Washington, at about 5 p.m., Vice President Truman had been summoned to the White House. "Harry," Eleanor Roosevelt said as she greeted him, "the President is dead." Truman found himself unable to speak for a moment. Then he said, "Is there anything I can do for you?" She answered, "Is there anything we can do for you? For you are the one in trouble...
...whole generation of Americans, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the most accessible of figures. Millions felt intimately familiar with all the details of his life: his wife Eleanor, his Scottish Terrier Fala, his cigarette holder, his stamp collection. Yet F.D.R.'s Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. described him as simultaneously evasive and frank, frivolous as well as grave, "a man of bewildering complexity." The playwright Robert Sherwood, who served for years as the President's speechwriter, admitted that he had never been able to penetrate Roosevelt's "heavily forested interior...
...proposes to his cousin Eleanor, who comes from an even weirder branch of the family. Her father Elliott, younger brother of President Theodore Roosevelt, was afflicted by alcoholism and drug addiction. Her mother's brother, Vallie Hall, liked to get drunk and fire his shotgun out the window...