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Alpengeist
Rhinefeld, Germany hamlet, Busch Gardens Williamsburg, Williamsburg, VA
Alpengeist is an inverted rollercoaster located on the outskirts of Rhinefeld. It opened on March 22nd, 1997. This is just some of the theming outside of the ride's entrance, featuring several pairs of skis and a photo opportunity.
Students explored both the Huli clan and the Mudmen of Papua New Guinea as inspiration for their cardboard sculptures.
Opened in 2004, Thunderhead has taken the Smoky Mountains by storm. Featuring 32 cross over points, a 100' drop, and over half a mile of track, Thunderhead is one of the world's best wooden coasters.
The designers clever use of terrain makes Thunderhead unique to Dollywood. The ride reaches speeds of over 50 mph throughout the course. Manufactured by Great Coasters International, it also brought the introduction of the company's signature station fly by in which the coaster speeds through the station house in the middle of the course.
Thunderhead is one of the most popular rides in the park, so on busy days, beware of lines. However, by our opinion it is worth the wait.
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Eden Camp Modern History Theme Museum is a large Second World War-related museum near Malton in North Yorkshire in England.
It occupies a former Second World War prisoner-of-war camp of 33 huts. After the prisoners left, the camp was used for storage and then abandoned. Its grounds then became overgrown. As the museum was being set up, much clearing, as well as repair and renovation of the buildings, was required.
One of its buildings contains three human torpedoes and a "Sleeping Beauty" Motorised Submersible Canoe.The museum is also restoring a Super Sherman (M50) to its original working classic.
Timeline
Early 1942: The War Office identified and requisitioned the site from Fitzwilliam Estates. Tents were established inside a barbed wire enclosure.
Mid-1943: By then a permanent camp was completed and the first Italian prisoners of war were moved in.
End of 1943: By then the Italian prisoners of war were moved out.
Early 1944: The camp provided accommodation for Polish forces amassed in the North Yorkshire area in preparation for an invasion of Europe.
Mid-1944: By then the first German prisoners of war arrived at Eden Camp.
Early 1949: The last German prisoner of war left the camp.
1950 to 1955: Eden Camp was used as an agricultural holiday camp where guests paid for board and lodgings to work on local farms. School children stayed at Eden Camp during school holidays to learn more about the countryside and agriculture.
Shoes made by an Italian POW at Eden Camp
1952: It was used as a Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries depot.
1955: The site was returned to Fitzwilliam Estates who leased it to Headley Wise and Sons who owned Malton Minerals. The huts were used for drying and storing grain and rearing pheasants on grain.
1985: Stan Johnson bought the site intending to set up a potato crisp factory. But three Italian ex-Eden Camp prisoners of war approached him seeking permission to look around the camp, and thus the idea of preserving the camp and opening it as a museum was born. By then the site had become severely overgrown with wild vegetation, which had to be cleared.
21 March 1987: Eden Camp Museum opened to the public. It is billed as the world's first Modern History Theme Museum and ten huts were used for display.
1990: Hut 24, the first of a series of five huts designated to display the military and political events worldwide between 1919 and 1945, opened.
1992: Eden Camp won the Yorkshire Tourist Board's 'Visitor Attraction of the Year' and came second in the England for Excellence English Tourist Board's Awards for Tourism.
1995: The last remaining empty hut opened and was dedicated to coincide with the 50th Anniversary VE Day celebrations. The museum also won its second Yorkshire Tourist Board 'Tourism for All' award.
1996: It won the award again.
1998: Eden Camp won the Yorkshire Tourist Board's 'Visitor Attraction of the Year' award.
1999: Hut 13 opened to cover military conflicts which British Commonwealth forces have been involved in since the end of the Second World War up to the present day.
2000: Hut 11 opened to include the events of the First World War.
2001: Eden Camp was voted runner up attraction to the London Eye by the readers of Group Travel Organiser magazine.
8 November 2002: Prince Philip visited the museum.
2002: Start of refurbishment of Hut 10, which now houses a comprehensive collection of P.O.W artefacts
2006: Medal Room set up.
2009: Completion of redevelopment of Hut 22, Forces Reunion, where hundreds of photos of personnel can be seen.
This is a song my friend Marc did a couple years ago. It is "The Matt Cook Theme"
Yes. I have my own theme song. Do you?
I love Dr. Seuss!
"Be who you are...because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind!
I quite like this one even though the letters are subtle colors. I may just have it printed.
We took our 11 years old daughter to Las Vegas last year. Big mistake! She loved it; she is only 12 years old and wanted a Vegas theme birthday! First fondant cake ever.
This week's theme, degeneration, has taken me from a snapshot of reality through someone else's artistic interpretation and now back to another snapshot. The artistic impression dates from the late 1980s or early 1990s. This picture was taken yesterday. China Man and Hy-tek you can see in the collage, the funeral director Cribb used to be called Kendall. How much has changed? How much of the prosperity of the City of London in its fifteen year boom managed to travel one mile up Kingsland Road and turn the corner into Dalston Lane? Why does the funeral director look comparatively prosperous and why is the Chinese take-away derelict? How and why has Hy-tek held on in there?