amusement parks
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Monster Machines: The Life And Explosive Death Of The World’s First Ferris Wheel
1893 marked the 400-year anniversary of Columbus’s landing in the New World. To commemorate the anniversary, the 51st US Congress of 1890 declared that a great fair — the World’s Columbian Exposition — would be held on April 9, 1893, in Chicago. Daniel H. Burnham, father of the skyscraper, would oversee its construction. If only…
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Happy 40th Birthday, Disney World!
Today marks the 40th birthday of the largest, most visited amusement park in the world, Walt Disney World. Part of Walt. Disney’s dream for the theme park was a planned community where people could live with the technology of the future, today.
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Welcome To Singapore’s Most Baffling Tourist Attraction
Remember the haunted-hayride depths of Daoist Hell? Well, that was a cakewalk compared to Singapore’s Haw Par Villa. At this unique bemusement park, you can tour the annals of Chinese mythology, such as the 10 Courts of Chinese Hell.