Golden Books Family Entertainment was acquired by Classic Media Inc. and Random House in a bankruptcy auction for $ 84. 4 million on August 16, 2001, with Classic gaining rights to Golden's film and TV library ( including Lamb Chop, Lassie, the pre-1974 Rankin / Bass library, among other titles ) as well as the production, licensing and merchandising rights for Golden's characters, while Random House grabbed Golden's publishing rights.

The Golden Lamb Inn, photographed November 15, 1936.

* Golden Lamb Inn

The Golden Lamb Inn, photographed November 15, 1936.

The Golden Lamb Inn is the oldest hotel in Ohio, having been established in the Warren County seat of Lebanon in 1803.

It is known as the Golden Lamb because that image appeared on its signboard for the benefit of the illiterate.

On January 12, 1978, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Golden Lamb.

The Golden Lamb has been visited by twelve American Presidents: William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, Warren G. Harding, William Howard Taft, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush.

Other famous guests to visit the Golden Lamb include Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Daniel Webster, Bill McIntire, Thomas Corwin, Clement Vallandigham, Cordell Hull ( who went to school in Lebanon ), Robert A. Taft, Dewitt Clinton, and Lord Stanley, who later became prime minister of the United Kingdom.

Most recently on September 8, 2008 Republican presidential and vice-presidential candidates senator John McCain and Alaska governor Sarah Palin dined and spoke at the Golden Lamb.

In 1926, the Golden Lamb was purchased by Robert Jones, grandfather of congressman Rob Portman and husband of Virginia Kunkle, who refurbished the inn and decorated it with Shaker furniture.

In 1969, Mr. and Mrs. Jones leased the Golden Lamb to the Comisar family, who owned and operated the now defunct five-star Maisonette restaurant.

* The Golden Lamb website

* History of the Golden Lamb

* Ghosts of the Golden Lamb

* A chapter from M. T. Lamb, The Golden Bible ( 1887 ), an early skeptical view of the lost manuscript problem.

On his trip to the Buckeye State, he visited Lebanon, staying at the Golden Lamb Inn.

There are four public houses in Eversley: The Frog and Wicket ( formerly called The Cross, before that Le Toad and Stumps, and originally The Lamb ), The Golden Pot, The White Hart and The Chequers.

The festival starts at midnight on May Eve when townspeople gather outside the Golden Lion Inn to sing the " Night Song ".

* A historical interest is also attached to the Gasthof zum Goldenen Kreuz ( Golden Cross Inn ), where Charles V made the acquaintance of Barbara Blomberg, the mother of Don John of Austria ( born 1547 ).

To the left can be seen the famous Golden Cross Inn, with signboard outside.

Beginning in early 1967, a new area of the prison was opened for incoming American POWs ; it was dubbed " Little Vegas ", and its individual buildings and areas were named after Las Vegas Strip landmarks, such as " Golden Nugget ," " Thunderbird ," " Stardust ," " Riviera ," and the " Desert Inn.

The town has a number of bars and restaurants and, beyond these, there are 27 pubs, most of which traditional, which makes the town attractive to many tourists, such as the Railwayman's Arms, Golden Lion, New Inn, King's Head and Stable Bar, Bear, Shakespeare and Bell & Talbot.

The Inn of the White Cross opened in 1550 for merchants and wealthy travelers, followed in 1688 by the inn of the Golden Lion, which was built beside the town hall.

The Students ' Union Building ( Bloomfield Centre ) houses the offices of the Students ' Union Executive and various societies, the Golden X Inn, the MacKay Room ( a large space for events ), a cafeteria, Jack's Lounge, the campus post office, and the university bookstore.

The Wallaby Track Drive Tour visits various sites associated with Lawson including the old Eurundee Public School, the Henry Lawson memorial, the Budgee Budgee Inn, Sapling Gully, Golden Gully and the Albury Pub which was owned by Lawson's grandfather.

Rainford has many noted public houses, including the Bottle and Glass, the Star Inn, the Derby Arms, the Golden Lion, the Eagle and Child and the Bridge Inn.

Speeches at the Golden Cross Inn ; futurism ; they narrowly escape prison ; the desk for two

Examples of historic sites of coaching inns in central London include the plaque on the Nomura building close to the Museum of London on London Wall commemorating the " Bull and Mouth " Inn ; Golden Cross House, opposite St Martin's in the Fields recalls the Golden Cross, Charing Cross coaching inn.

In Australia, Ramada Inn is a traditional motel in Parkville, Melbourne affiliated with the Australian " Golden Chain " group of hotels and motels.

Named the Golden Lion Inn it is a Grade II listed building but is now in a very poor state of repair and fenced-off.

There is also a recreation of a York pub the Golden Fleece Inn where visitors are told ghost stories.

The Niagara SkyWheel took the place of the lobby and Golden Griddle restaurant of Quality Inn Clifton Hill.

Sadly the Quality Inn was torn down within a few years of the Golden Griddle, for reasons currently unknown.

For tourists, Batu Ferringhi features hotels such as Hard Rock Hotel, Hydro Hotel, Holiday Inn, Bayview Beach Resort, Golden Sands Resort, Grand Plaza Parkroyal Penang, Shangri-La's Rasa Sayang Resort and Spa, etc.

`` This girl is the Golden Girl of cafe society.

Apollo is often associated with the Golden Mean.

It was the cover story of the issue of Astounding that is sometimes described as having ushered in the " Golden Age " of science fiction.

It is usually marked as the first day of " Golden Week ", a week-long holiday period.

The Golden Horde capital city, Sarai, is razed to the ground and Timur installs a puppet ruler on the Golden Horde throne.

Even though this period-known in its earlier part as the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period-in its latter part was fraught with chaos and bloody battles, it is also known as the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy because a broad range of thoughts and ideas were developed and discussed freely.

The urban center lies in the middle of the " Golden Triangle " between Zurich, Bern, and Basel, and Aarau is having increasing difficulty in maintaining the independence of its economic base from the neighboring large cities.

The city lies on the Golden Quadrilateral National Highway ( NH ) 8, midway between Delhi and Mumbai and is located about 400 km from Delhi and 135 km from Jaipur.

His period of activity as a painter is traditionally limited to the two decades between 1639 and 1660, fitting directly within the generally accepted limits of the Dutch Golden Age ’ s most significant period, 1640-1665.

Acrylic paints with gloss or matte finishes are available, although a satin ( semi-matte ) sheen is most common ; some brands exhibit a range of finish ( e. g., heavy-body paints from Golden, Liquitex, Winsor & Newton and Daler-Rowney ). Politec acrylics are fully matte.

A good example is the work of Professors Ingo Potrykus and Peter Beyer in creating Golden rice ( discussed below ).

The De Anza Expedition led to establishment of the Spanish Presidio of San Francisco at the entrance to San Francisco Bay ( the Golden Gate ), which is due west of Berkeley.

Cambodia is a transshipment site for Golden Triangle heroin, and possibly a site of money laundering.

Love received critical acclaim, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, and a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, for what film critic Roger Ebert called " quite a performance ; Love proves she is not a rock star pretending to act, but a true actress ".

Confucius ' concept of humaneness () is probably best expressed in the Confucian version of the ethic of reciprocity, or the Golden Rule: " Do not do unto others what you would not have them do unto you.

The introduction of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's Superman in 1938 turned comic books into a major industry, and is the start of the Golden Age of comics.

Fire is one of the five elements that appear in most Wiccan traditions influenced by the Golden Dawn system of magic, and Aleister Crowley's mysticism, which was in turn inspired by the Golden Dawn.

In the Golden Dawn and many other magical systems, each element is associated with one of the cardinal points and is placed under the care of guardian Watchtowers.

An important study of this figure is James George Frazer's The Golden Bough, which traces the dying god theme through a large number of myths.

She is best known for playing the title character in the Fox comedy-drama series Ally McBeal for which she won a Golden Globe Award.

The period of the 1920s and 1930s is generally referred to as the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.

Various conventions of the detective genre were standardized during the Golden Age, and in 1929 some of them were codified by writer Ronald Knox in his ' Decalogue ' of rules for detective fiction, among them to avoid supernatural elements, all of which were meant to guarantee that, in Knox's words, a detective story " must have as its main interest the unravelling of a mystery ; a mystery whose elements are clearly presented to the reader at an early stage in the proceedings, and whose nature is such as to arouse curiosity, a curiosity which is gratified at the end.