Infants--Wounds and injuries; Falls (Accidents); Neck--Wounds and injuries; Head--Wounds and injuries
The purpose of this study was to determine the risk of severe head and neck injury in short distance falls for a 12-month-old child. A series of free falls and falls from standing were experimentally simulated using an instrumented anthropomorphic...
Cumberland Falls State Park (Ky.); Historic preservation--Kentucky
This thesis is an examination of Louisville Times editor Tom Wallace's fight to prevent the construction of a hydroelectric dam at Cumberland Falls, Kentucky between 1926 and 1931. By mining Wallace's recently cataloged personal papers, this study...
Falls (Accidents); Children's accidents; Children--Wounds and injuries; Child abuse--Investigation
Pediatric short-distance falls, especially from beds or other furniture, are common
false histories given by caretakers to cover up abusive trauma. However, short-distance
falls are also a common occurrence in young children. Knowledge of the types...
Cumberland Falls Kentucky. Shimmering photograph of Cumberland Falls--white water streaming over cliffs in three main areas and two tiers, landing in the lake. The top part of the photograph is covered in leafy trees which are above the falls. Text...
Niagara Falls, with a large building in the background and a boat on the water in the foreground. Text printed on verso reads, "View of Niagara Falls, Niagara Falls, New York. Niagara Falls is located in Niagara River which flows from Lake...
The Falls after a heavy rain, Cumberland Falls, Kentucky. A shot of the same subject as 959, taken back from a greater distance. View of Cumberland Falls, both the upper and lower levels. The waterfall is completely covered in fast-moving water;...
Cumberland Falls after a heavy rain. Upper and lower levels of the falls. The waterfall is completely covered in fast-moving water; there are not separate streams. Boulders line the left of the lower level, as well as some trees, and the area right...
Falls of the Ohio almost at flood stage near Louisville, Kentucky. View of the Falls taken from under a bridge. The water of the lower level of the Falls is so high that it nearly reaches the upper level, over which water is flowing thickly. At the...
View of Niagara Falls with a wooded area to the left. People stand on a platform near the falls. Title: Grandeur of the Waters, Niagara Falls, N.Y. Copyright statement: Copyright 1905 by H.C. White Co. N.Y. Text on left: Polychrome Stereo View,...
Tornadoes; Disasters; Falls City Hall (Louisville, Ky.); Buildings
Ruins of Falls City Hall at 1126 West Market Street. Large piles of rubble on a lot surrounded by standing buildings. People pass by on the street on foot and in a wagon. A tornado struck Louisville on March 27, 1890. Caption: Louisville Tornado....
Niagara Falls seen from Goat Island. The falls themselves fill most of the image, but a bridge is visible in the background, and human figures can be seen looking over a railing on the right. Postmarked 1908 on verso.
Emotions (Philosophy); Literature--Philosophy; Ethics; Philosophy of mind
This dissertation offers a brief survey of the rise of reason and the tum to the self at the expense of emotion in Western thought. This marginalization of emotion has had deleterious effects on two areas: the cultivation of virtue and the...
Men and boys fishing at Falls of the Ohio near Louisville, Kentucky. Men and boys fish from rocks below the Falls. Most are wearing dark pants and white shirts. Some hold long fishing poles.
Falls of the Ohio frozen over near Louisville, Kentucky. Two levels of the Falls are frozen. The smaller, lower level is the height of a man standing beside it; another man kneels beside him. The photograph has been touched up with paint.
Waterfalls; Hydroelectric power; Power plants; Hydroelectric power plants
Kanawha Falls in Glen Ferris, West Virginia. The Glen Ferris Hydro Electric Station sits on the bank on the south side of the falls. A. W. Terhune wrote on the front of the postcard, to his daughter: "Saw these today, Father, June 11/07."
Map, on a scale of 400 feet to an inch, showing the Louisville and Portland Canal, with Sand Island, Rock Island, Goose Island, Shippingport, Corn Island, Louisville, Portland, New Albany, Clarksville, Falls City, and Jeffersonville also labeled....
Billboards; Brewing industry; Advertisements; Falls City Brewing Company, 1905-1979
Billboard for Falls City beer at Barret Avenue and Broadway. The sign reads "Enjoy Falls City The Good Time Beer. If You'll Try It You'll Like It." Above the sign is a clock and the phrase "At All Times."
Rushing water under a covered bridge. Rocks are to the right. A wood building is on the left near the end of the bridge. Title: 'Glen's Falls in the Days of the Flood,' April 23, 1869. Text on top: Stoddard, Photographer, Glen's Falls, N.Y.
A Pontiac convertible is hitched to a boat and parked in front of the Falls City Boat Works. The boat has L-9 and E-42 painted on the side as well as "Miss Houston IV, Worlds Champion 1925-26-27-28." Seven men stand behind the boat. Some...
