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Archview Investment Group LP
Archview Investment Group LP is an institutional alternative investment firm based out of Stamford, Connecticut. The firm was founded in 2009 by Founding Principals Jeffrey Jacob and John Humphrey. |
The Blackstone Group
The Blackstone Group L.P. is an American multinational private equity, alternative asset management and financial services firm based in New York City. As the largest alternative investment firm in the world, Blackstone specializes in private equity, credit and hedge fund investment strategies. |
Cowen Group
Cowen Inc. is a diversified financial services firm that provides alternative investment management, investment banking, research, and sales and trading services through its two business segments: Cowen Investment Management (formerly Ramius LLC), a global alternative investment management business, and Cow... |
James Man
James Man (1755–1823) was the founder of Man Group, the United Kingdom's largest alternative investment management business. |
Hamilton E. James
Hamilton Evans "Tony" James (born February 3, 1951) is president, chief operating officer (COO) and a director of Blackstone, a New York-based global asset management firm. He is also a known philanthropist. James has also served as chairman of Costco since August 2017. |
Crescent Capital Group
Crescent Capital Group is an alternative investment firm focused on below investment grade markets with primary strategies that include funds that invest in senior bank loans, high-yield debt, mezzanine debt, special situations, and distressed securities. The firm has approximately $25 billion of... |
Kenneth C. Griffin
Kenneth C. Griffin (born October 15, 1968) is an American investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. He is the founder and chief executive of the global investment firm Citadel, founded in 1990. s of March 2015 , Citadel is one of the world's largest alternative investment management firms wit... |
Bain Capital
Bain Capital is a global alternative investment firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. It specializes in private equity, venture capital and credit products. Bain Capital invests across a range of industry sectors and geographic regions. As of June 2014, the firm managed more than $75 billion of investor cap... |
Harvard Avenue Historic District
The Harvard Avenue Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by Linden Street, Commonwealth Avenue, Harvard Avenue, and Park Vale Avenue in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Its spine is Harvard Avenue, a major north-south thoroughfare connecting Allston ... |
Amherst Avenue Historic District
Amherst Avenue Historic District is a national historic district located at Ticonderoga, in Essex County, New York. The district contains 16 contributing buildings on ten properties; 10 houses and six garages. It includes single-family homes built between 1921 and 1923 by W.A. Gale for ... |
Lake George Battlefield Park Historic District
Lake George Battlefield Park Historic District is a national historic district relating to the French and Indian War Battle of Lake George and located near Lake George in Warren County, New York. The parkland was purchased and developed by New York State between 1896 and 1... |
Greenwich Avenue Historic District
The Greenwich Avenue Historic District is a historic district representing the commercial and civic historical development of the downtown area of the town of Greenwich, Connecticut. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 31, 1989. Included in th... |
Swiss Avenue Historic District
The Swiss Avenue Historic District is a residential neighborhood in East Dallas, Dallas, Texas (USA). It consists of installations of the Munger Place addition, one of East Dallas' early subdivisions. The Swiss Avenue Historic District is a historic district of the city of Dallas, Texas. ... |
Lake George Avenue Historic District
Lake George Avenue Historic District is a national historic district located at Ticonderoga, in Essex County, New York. The district contains 20 contributing buildings on 14 properties; 12 houses and eight garages. It includes single-family homes built between 1919 and 1921 by W.A. ... |
Avery Street Historic District
Avery Street Historic District, is a national historic district located at Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It is to the east of the Julia-Ann Square Historic District and south of the Parkersburg High School-Washington Avenue Historic District. Primarily residential, it encompass... |
West Garrison Avenue Historic District
The West Garrison Avenue Historic District is a historic district encompassing the oldest commercial section of Fort Smith, Arkansas. When listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, the district included just a five-block stretch of Garrison Avenue, the major east... |
Boston–Edison Historic District
The Boston–Edison Historic District is a historic neighborhood located in the geographic center of Detroit, Michigan. It consists of over 900 homes built on four east/west streets: West Boston Boulevard, Chicago Boulevard, Longfellow Avenue, and Edison Avenue, stretching from Woodward Av... |
Ochre Point–Cliffs Historic District
The Ochre Point–Cliffs Historic District is a historic district in Newport, Rhode Island. The district includes a significant subset of the Bellevue Avenue Historic District, a National Historic Landmark District, including all of the major Gilded Age mansions on the waterfront faci... |
Frances Greenslade
Frances Greenslade is a Canadian writer born in St. Catharines, Ontario, where she grew up with four sisters and one brother playing among the orchards of the Niagara Peninsula. The family moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, when she was ten. Greenslade earned a degree in English at the University of Winnip... |
Cary Wolfe
Cary Wolfe (born 1959) currently teaches English at Rice University. He has written on a range of topics, from American poetry to bioethics. He has been a significant voice in recent debates in Animal Studies and advocates a version of the posthumanist position. He is series editor for Minnesota Press's Post... |
Tina Manker
Tina Manker (born 3 March 1989 in Ludwigsfelde) is a German rower. She currently teaches English at Onslow College, where she is in charge of the school's rowing club. |
Aaron Parrett
Aaron Parrett (born 1967) is an American musician, author, and letterpress printer. Born in Butte, Montana , he earned a PhD in Comparative Literature in 2001 from The University of Georgia. He is currently Professor of English Literature at the University of Providence in Great Falls, Montana. |
Ramabai Espinet
Ramabai Espinet (born 1948) is an Indo-Caribbean poet, novelist, essayist, and critic from Trinidad and Tobago. Espinet was born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. She attended York University in Toronto, Canada before earning a Ph.D. at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. She... |
Ankur Betageri
Ankur Betageri (born 18 November 1983 in Bangalore, Karnataka) is an Indian poet, fiction writer, photographer and arts activist. He currently teaches English at Bharati College, University of Delhi. In 2012, he was named as one of the ten best writers in the country by the English daily Indian Express. ... |
Nitoo Das
Nitoo Das, a poet from Assam, first came to Delhi to study English Literature in Jawaharlal Nehru University. She decided to stay on in this city and now teaches English in Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. Her doctoral thesis is a study of ‘British Representation of Colonial Assam’, which ... |
Lakshmi Raj Sharma
Lakshmi Raj Sharma (Hindi: लक्ष्मी राज शर्मा) (born 1954) is an Indian author, novelist, and academician. He teaches English literature and literary theory. He is currently a Professor at the Department of English and Modern European Languages at the University of Allahabad, Allahabad. Recently his n... |
Kevin R. Griffith
Kevin R. Griffith (born January 22, 1964) is an American poet and short fiction writer. He has published several books and currently teaches English at Capital University in Bexley, Ohio. In addition to his books, he has had over two hundred poems published over the last twenty years. |
Peter Brown Hoffmeister
Peter Brown Hoffmeister is an American author and rock climber. His books include "Too Shattered For Mending", "This Is The Part Where You Laugh", "The End of Boys", "Let Them Be Eaten By Bears - A Fearless Guide To Taking Our Kids Into The Great Outdoors", and "Graphic the Valley". He has also ... |
Familienbande
Familienbande (German for "Family Ties") is a card game designed by Leo Colovini. |
Clans (board game)
Clans is a German-style board game designed by Leo Colovini. The game centers on the creation of villages. |
Leo Colovini
Leo Colovini is an Italian designer of German-style board games born in Venice 1964. His most popular game is "Cartagena". He is one of the few top board game designers who has owned a game store. |
David Parlett
David Parlett (born 1939) is a games scholar, historian, and translator from South London, who has studied both card games and board games. His published works include many popular books on games and the more academic volumes "The Oxford Guide to Card Games" and "The Oxford History of Board Games", both n... |
List of word board games
Word board games are those games played on a board as players of the game attempt to construct words that use a scoring system. The player with the highest score wins the game. Many if not most board games are also available as software programs and online. Online word board games can be organi... |
Glossary of board games
This page explains commonly used terms in board games in alphabetical order. For a list of board games, see List of board games. For terms specific to chess, see Glossary of chess. For terms related to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems. |
Alex Randolph
Alexander Randolph (4 May 1922 – 28 April 2004) was an American designer of board games and writer. Randolph's game creations include TwixT, Breakthru, Inkognito (with Leo Colovini), Raj, Ricochet Robot, and Enchanted Forest (with Michael Matschoss). |
Francis Tresham (game designer)
Francis Tresham is a United Kingdom-based board game designer who has been producing board games since the early 1970s. Tresham founded and ran games company Hartland Trefoil (founded 1971), a company well known for its "Civilization" board game, until its sale to MicroProse in 1997. His... |
Drunter und Drüber
Drunter und Drüber is a multiplayer board game invented by Klaus Teuber, first published in 1991 in Germany by Hans im Glück. A second edition was released in 1994 by Hans im Glück and featured art by Franz Vohwinkel. "Drunter und Drüber" translates to "over and under" although the phrase "topsy-turv... |
Inkognito
Inkognito is a board game for 3 to 5 players designed by Alex Randolph and Leo Colovini first published in 1988 by Milton Bradley Company. It has since been republished several times including by the company Venice Connection established by the designers and Dario De Toffoli. |
1986 WAFU Club Championship
The 1986 WAFU Club Championship was the ninth football club tournament season that took place for the runners-up of each West African country's domestic league, the West African Club Championship. It was won again by Africa Sports after defeating Asante Kotoko from Ghana 6-5 in penalty shoot... |
Mahammed Dionne
Mahammed Boun Abdallah Dionne (born 22 September 1959) is a Senegalese politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Senegal since 6 July 2014. He is the third prime minister appointed by President Macky Sall. Dionne served at the Central Bank of West African States, the United Nations Industrial D... |
1988 WAFU Club Championship
The 1988 WAFU Club Championship was the twelfth football club tournament season that took place for the runners-up of each West African country's domestic league, the West African Club Championship. It was won by ASFAG Conakry after defeating New Nigerian Bank FC under the away goals rule. A... |
1987 WAFU Club Championship
The 1987 WAFU Club Championship was the ninth football club tournament season that took place for the runners-up of each West African country's domestic league, the West African Club Championship. It was won again by Africa Sports after defeating Asante Kotoko from Ghana 6-5 in penalty shoot... |
1994 WAFU Club Championship
The 1994 WAFU Club Championship was the 17th football club tournament season that took place for the runners-up or third place of each West African country's domestic league, the West African Club Championship. It was won again by Nigeria's Bendel Insurance after defeating Plateau United in ... |
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau ( ), officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (Portuguese: "República da Guiné-Bissau" , ] ), is a country in West Africa. It covers 36125 km2 with an estimated population of . |
1985 WAFU Club Championship
The 1985 WAFU Club Championship was the ninth football club tournament season that took place for the runners-up of each West African country's domestic league, the West African Club Championship. It was won by Africa Sports in two-legged final victory against Ifodje Atakpamé. |
Ali Badjo Gamatié
Ali Badjo Gamatié is a Nigerien politician and civil servant who served as Prime Minister of Niger from October 2009 to February 2010. He was Finance Minister of Niger from 2000 to 2003 and then served as Vice-Governor of the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) before being appointed as Prime ... |
Paul Bérenger
Paul Raymond Bérenger GCSK, MP (born 26 March 1945) is a Mauritian politician who was Prime Minister of Mauritius from 2003 to 2005. He has been Leader of the Opposition on several occasions — from 1983 to 1987, 1997 to 2000, 2005 to 2006, 2007 to 2013, October 2013 to 15 September 2014, and again since D... |
1981 WAFU Club Championship
The 1981 WAFU Club Championship was the fifth football club tournament season that took place for the runners-up of each West African country's domestic league, the West African Club Championship. It was won by Stella Club d'Adjamé in two-legged final victory against AS Police of Dakar, Sene... |
Schultz Preserve
Schultz Preserve is a 120 acre nature preserve south of Gibsonton, Florida in Hillsborough County, Florida. It is managed by Hillsborough County and includes estuarine and freshwater wetlands, artificial reefs, and coastal lands in the northern part of Port Redwing. It was purchased by Southwest Florid... |
Lettuce Lake Park
Lettuce Lake Park is a 240 acre Hillsborough County-run park just outside the city limits of Tampa, Florida. It is located on Fletcher Avenue between Interstate 75 and the University of South Florida. The park opened in 1982. |
Egypt Lake Partnership Library
The Egypt Lake Partnership Library is part of the Tampa–Hillsborough County Public Library System. The Egypt Lake Partnership Library is located at 3403 W. Lambright St. in Tampa, Florida. The Egypt Lake Partnership Library was formed by a partnership between the Tampa- Hillsborough Count... |
East Lake, Hillsborough County, Florida
East Lake (or East Lake Park) is an unincorporated community in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States. It is combined with Orient Park to form the census-designated place of East Lake-Orient Park. According to Rand McNally in 2002, the population estimate for the community ... |
Coronet Industries
Coronet Industries Incorporated is a chemical company that operated a plant converting phosphate to animal feed located in Hillsborough County just four miles outside of Plant City, Florida. The plant operated for almost 100 years under several corporate ownerships before closing in March 2004 in the... |
Riverview Public Library
The Riverview Branch Library is part of the Tampa–Hillsborough County Public Library System and the Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative. The library is located in Hillsborough County, Florida. |
Temple Terrace, Florida
Temple Terrace is an incorporated city in northeastern Hillsborough County, Florida, United States, adjacent to Tampa. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 24,541. It is the third and smallest incorporated municipality in Hillsborough County. (Tampa and Plant City are the others.)... |
Edward Medard Park and Reservoir
Edward Medard Park and Preserve, originally known as Pleasant Grove Reservoir Park, is located south of Plant City, Florida, on Turkey Creek Road in Hillsborough County, Florida. The 1284 acre park just north of Durant, Florida was the site of phosphate mining in the 1960s by the Americ... |
Tampa–Hillsborough County Public Library System
The Tampa–Hillsborough County Public Library System (THPL) is a public library system based in Hillsborough County, Florida. The State Library of Florida is the main library source for Government of Florida as well as governs a large portion of Florida's public and privat... |
Strawberry Crest High School
Strawberry Crest High School is a public high school in East Hillsborough County, Florida. It opened on August 25, 2009 with students from Armwood High School, Durant High School and Plant City High School. It was built to relieve the over-population of the students in these high schools. A... |
Kwadjokrom
Kwadjokrom is a small town and is the capital of Sene District in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Eastern Region in south Ghana. Kwadjokrom is in the east of Brong-Ahafo Region, and is situated by Lake Volta. Kwadjokrom is connected by road highway to Ejura and Yeji. Kwadjokrom is connected by a ferry to the town ... |
Kete Krachi
Kete Krachi is a town in the Krachi West District of the Volta Region of Ghana. Kete Krachi is the capital of the Krachi West District. It is in the West of the Volta region, and is adjacent to Lake Volta. Kete Krachi is connected by a ferry to the town of Kwadjokrom, and by road to Bimbila and Dambai. The ... |
Dambai
Dambai is a town that is the capital of Krachi East district, a district in the northern part of the Volta Region of Ghana. |
Krachi West District
The Krachi West District is one of the twenty-five (25) districts in the Volta Region. Krachi West district capital and administrative centre is Kete Krachi. |
North German federal election, August 1867
Elections to the Reichstag of the North German Confederation were held on 31 August 1867, with run-off elections during the following weeks. The National Liberal Party continued to serve as the largest party, winning 81 seats. These were the first regular and last elections du... |
French constitutional referendum, 1870
A constitutional referendum was held in France on 8 May 1870. Voters were asked whether they approved of the liberal reforms made to the constitution since 1860 and passed by the Sénatus-consulte on 20 April 1870. The changes were approved by 82.7% of voters with an 81.3% turnout.... |
Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres
Prince Robert Philippe Louis Eugène Ferdinand of Orléans, Duke of Chartres (November 9, 1840 – December 5, 1910) was the son of Prince Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans and thus grandson of King Louis-Philippe of France. He fought for the Union in the American Civil War, and then for F... |
French ironclad Marengo
Marengo was a wooden-hulled, armored frigate of the "Océan" class , built for the French Navy in the mid to late 1860s. The ship was running her sea trials in July 1870 when the Franco-Prussian War began and was immediately placed in until after the war was over. "Marengo" participated in the Fr... |
1870–71 Commemorative Medal
The 1870–71 Commemorative Medal (French: "Médaille Commémorative 1870–71" , Dutch: "Herinneringsmedaille 1870–71" ) was a Belgian campaign medal established by royal decree on 20 September 1911 and awarded to all members of the Belgian Army who were mobilized during the period from 15 July 1... |
Army of Châlons
The Army de Châlons (French: "Armée de Châlons (1870)" ) was a French military unit that fought during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Formed in the camp of Châlons on August 17, 1870 from elements of the Army of the Rhin (1870) (French: "" ) which the unit was issued from, the Army of Châlons was enga... |
Ems Dispatch
The Ems Dispatch (French: "Dépêche d'Ems" , German: "Emser Depesche" ), sometimes called the Ems Telegram, incited France to declare the Franco-Prussian War in July 1870. The actual dispatch was an internal message from the Prussian King's vacationing site to Otto von Bismarck in Berlin, reporting demands ... |
Kashubian diaspora
The Kashubian diaspora resulted from the emigration of Kashubians, in two waves occurring in the second half of the 19th century. The majority of Kashubian emigrants settled in the United States; others emigrated to Canada and Brazil. An online genealogical project, "The Great Kashubian Migration," i... |
Franco-Prussian War
The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War (German: "Deutsch-Französischer Krieg" , French: "Guerre franco-allemande" ), often referred to in France as the War of 1870 (19 July 1870 – 10 May 1871), was a conflict between the Second French Empire of Napoleon III and the German states of the North G... |
La Promenade (Renoir)
The forest was a popular landscape subject for nineteenth-century French artists, particularly the forest of Fontainebleau. Before Renoir, Claude Monet (1840–1926) painted "Bazille and Camille (Study for "Déjeuner sur l'Herbe")" (1865), showing a couple together in the forest. In 1869, Renoir and ... |
Tryon County, North Carolina
Tryon County is a former county which was located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It was formed in 1768 from the part of Mecklenburg County west of the Catawba River, although the legislative act that created it did not become effective until April 10, 1769. Due to inaccurate and delay... |
Tryon D. Lewis
Tryon Dexter Lewis (born September 29, 1947) is an attorney in Odessa, Texas, who is a Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 81 (Ector, Andrews, and Winkler counties). He is also a former state court judge. |
Odessa, Texas
Odessa is a city in and the county seat of Ector County, Texas, United States. It is located primarily in Ector County, although a small portion of the city extends into Midland County. Odessa's population was 118,918 at the 2010 census making it the 29th-most populous city in Texas; estimates as of July ... |
Tryon, Gaston County, North Carolina
Tryon is an unincorporated community in Gaston County, North Carolina, United States. It is in Cherryville Township, located approximately 4.7 mi southeast of the city of Cherryville on North Carolina Highway 274. The rural Gaston County election precinct centered on Tryon had a vot... |
Sunnydale (Tryon, North Carolina)
Sunnydale is a historic commercial building located at Tryon, Polk County, North Carolina. It was designed by noted architect J. Foster Searles and built about 1930. It is a one-story, five bay, side-gable log building with flanking two bay setback side-gable wings. It features an exte... |
Presidential Museum and Leadership Library
The Presidential Archives and Leadership Library (formerly, the Presidential Museum) is a museum and library complex located at 4919 East University Blvd. in Odessa, Texas, on the campus of the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. Unlike the many presidential libraries, t... |
Bank of Tryon Building
Bank of Tryon Building, also known as the Tryon Daily Bulletin Building and Hester Building, is a historic bank building located at Tryon, Polk County, North Carolina. It was built in 1907-1908, and is a two-story, two bay, Romanesque Revival style brick and stone building. It features granite qu... |
Brooks Landgraf
Brooks Frederick Landgraf (born March 15, 1981) is an attorney and rancher in his native Odessa, Texas, who is a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 81, which encompasses Ector, Andrews, Ward and Winkler counties. In January 2015, he succeeded the three-term Republican T... |
Tryon Creek State Natural Area
The Tryon Creek State Natural Area is a state park located primarily in Portland, in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is the only Oregon state park within a major metropolitan area. The 645 acre park lies between Boones Ferry Road and Terwilliger Boulevard in southwest Portland in Multnomah C... |
Odessa High School
Odessa High School (OHS) is a public high school located in Odessa, Texas, United States. It is one of three high schools in the Ector County Independent School District. The full name of the school is Odessa Senior High School. This name was originally to differentiate it from Odessa Junior High Sch... |
La Luz del Mundo
The Iglesia del Dios Vivo, Columna y Apoyo de la Verdad, La Luz del Mundo, (English: "Church of the Living God, Column and Ground of the Truth, The Light of the World")or simply La Luz del Mundois a Christian denomination with international headquarters in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. La Luz del Mundo... |
Tazumal
Tazumal (/täsuːˈm äl/ ) is a pre-Columbian Maya archeological site in Chalchuapa, El Salvador. Tazumal is an architectural complex within the larger area of the ancient Mesoamerican city of Chalchuapa, in western El Salvador. The Tazumal group is located in the southern portion of the Chalchuapa archaeological ... |
Mundo Perdido, Tikal
The Mundo Perdido (Spanish for "Lost World") is the largest ceremonial complex dating from the Preclassic period at the ancient Maya city of Tikal, in the Petén Department of northern Guatemala. The complex was organised as a large E-Group astronomical complex consisting of a pyramid aligned with a... |
Target One
Target One, also called T1, is an ancient Mesoamerican city described by author Douglas Preston as located in the mountains of the Mosquitia region in the easternmost part of the modern state of Honduras (this despite the fact that there are no mountains in this part of the country). T1 is of particular arch... |
Teotihuacan
Teotihuacan , also written Teotihuacán (] , ), is an ancient Mesoamerican city located in a sub-valley of the Valley of Mexico, located in the State of Mexico 40 km northeast of modern-day Mexico City, known today as the site of many of the most architecturally significant Mesoamerican pyramids built in ... |
Ossu (East Timor)
Ossu is a town in Ossu Subdistrict, Viqueque District, East Timor. Located 622 meters above sea level it lies approximately 13 km in a straight line north of the district capital of Viqueque and about 91 km southeast of the capital Dili. Ossu is surrounded by several mountains: the Monte Mundo Perdido... |
Sind Valley
The Sind Valley is a Himalayan sub-valley of the Kashmir Valley in the State of Jammu and Kashmir of India. The entrance of the Sind Valley lies 33 km northeast of Srinagar the capital of Jammu and Kashmir. It is a 65 km long gorge valley with an average width of 1 km . |
Lidder Valley
The Lidder Valley or Liddar Valley in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India, is a Himalayan sub-valley that forms the southeastern corner of the Kashmir Valley. The Lidder River flows down the valley. The entrance to the valley lies 7 km northeast from Anantnag town and 62 km southeast from Srinagar, the ... |
Stari Ras
Ras (, ), known in modern Serbian historiography as Stari Ras (, meaning Old Ras), is a medieval fortress located in the vicinity of former market-place of "Staro Trgovište", some 11 km western from modern day city of Novi Pazar in Serbia. |
Capacha
Capacha is an archaeological site located about 6 kilometers northeast of the Colima Municipality, in Colima State, Mexico. This site is the heart of the ancient Mesoamerican Capacha Culture. |
Third Man on the Mountain
Third Man on the Mountain is a 1959 American Walt Disney Productions film set during the golden age of alpinism about a young Swiss man who conquers the mountain that killed his father. It is based on "Banner in the Sky", a James Ramsey Ullman novel about the first ascent of the Citadel, and w... |
Wooden Roller Coaster (Playland)
The Wooden Roller Coaster (formerly Coaster) is a wooden roller coaster at Playland in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Opened in 1958, it is the oldest roller coaster in Canada. The ride is 2840 ft long—which established it as the largest roller coaster in Canada at the time it was... |
Bob Gurr
Robert Henry "Bob" Gurr (born October 25, 1931 in Los Angeles, California) is an American amusement ride designer and Imagineer. His most famous work was for Walt Disney's Disneyland Park, and its subsequent sister parks. Gurr is said to have designed most, if not all, of the ride vehicles of the Disneyland at... |
List of Kings Island attractions
Kings Island is a 364 acre theme park located in Mason, Ohio, 24 mi northeast of Cincinnati. Since the opening of the amusement park in 1972, at least one attraction has been added every year except 1978, 1980, 1983, and 2008. The park is known to have attractions such as Flight of Fear... |
Submarine Voyage
The Submarine Voyage was an attraction at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. The attraction, which featured ride vehicles designed to resemble submarines, opened on June 14, 1959, as one of the first rides to require an E ticket. It was part of a major expansion of Tomorrowland and Fantasyland, which a... |
Matterhorn Bobsleds
The Matterhorn Bobsleds are a pair of intertwined steel roller coasters at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. It is modelled after the Matterhorn, a mountain in the Alps on the border with Switzerland and Italy. It is the first known tubular steel continuous track roller coaster. Located on the bord... |
White Cyclone
White Cyclone (ホワイトサイクロン , Howaito Saikuron ) is a wooden roller coaster at Nagashima Spa Land in Mie Prefecture, Japan. At 1700 m in length, White Cyclone is the third longest wooden roller coaster in the world, and is the longest wooden roller coaster outside of the United States. Despite its length, Wh... |
Arrow Dynamics
Arrow Dynamics was a roller coaster design and manufacturing company based in Clearfield, Utah, United States. Successor to Arrow Development (1946–1981) and Arrow Huss (1981–1986), which were responsible for some of the most influential advancements in the amusement and theme park industries. Among the ... |
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