* 1946 – Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.

* Dogpatch USA amusement park.

* The Sea World amusement park on the Gold Coast ( Australia ) operated a ride called Bermuda Triangle.

It is also a criminal offense to fly an aircraft or ( in some American states ) to assemble or operate an amusement park ride while drunk.

In 2010 the Space Needle Corporation submitted a proposal for an exhibition of Chihuly's work at a site in the Seattle Center, in competition with proposals for other uses from several other groups. The project, which sees the new Chihuly exhibition hall occupy the site of the former Fun Forest amusement park in the Seattle Center park and entertainment complex, received the final green light from the Seattle City Council on April 25, 2011. Divisive Dale Chihuly Glass-Art " Museum " Approved for Former Seattle Amusement Park ARTINFO. com It opened May 21, 2012. Chihuly Garden and Glass Opens with Dedication Ceremony on Monday, May 21 prnewswire. comDale Chihuly's ' Glass House ' shines in Seattle publicbroadcasting. net

Since 1971, Eureka has been known as the home of the amusement park formerly known as Six Flags Over Mid-America and now called Six Flags St. Louis.

Eureka is the home to the last amusement park to be built under the " Six Flags Over " name.

A turnstile, used to control access to subways and amusement park rides, is a gate with three rotating arms at waist height, one across the entryway.

* Director Hal Ashby appears in an uncredited cameo, watching a model train at an amusement park.

In 2005, a controversial amusement park scheme at the site was abandoned when builders unearthed many archaeological artifacts during the early stages of construction work.

Styne wrote original music for the short-lived, themed amusement park Freedomland U. S. A. which opened on June 19, 1960.

Nearby the Lunapark opened in 1909, then Europe's largest amusement park modelled on Coney Island, where boxer Max Schmeling won his first title of a German Lightheavyweight Champion in 1926.

In 1905, Baum declared plans for an Oz amusement park.

Applications include stage productions, museum exhibits, recording studio control systems, and amusement park attractions.

* Nokkakivi amusement park Hedge Maze

Locals of Mazar-i-Sharif enjoying rides at a small family amusement park which is still under construction.

Rave parties may be attended by as few as a score of people in a basement or, more likely, by a few hundred people in a club, to as many as thousands in a large warehouse, field, or even tens of thousands in a sporting arena, amusement park, or other large space.

* Riverside Amusement Park ( Indianapolis ), amusement park in Indiana that operated from 1903 to 1970

* Riverside Amusement Park ( La Crosse ), amusement park in Wisconsin

* Austria: In Vienna, Segways can be rented in the Prater amusement park ; a Segway dealer in central Vienna also offers Segways for rent.

* Ultimate ( roller coaster ), at Lightwater Valley amusement park near Ripon, North Yorkshire, England

** Millennium Force opens at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio as the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster.

** Magnum XL-200 opens at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio as the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster.

* May 4 – Top Thrill Dragster opens at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, as the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster.

A visitor from a more peaceful country across the sea was taken to one of our amusement parks, and after he had seen it all, he said to a friend: `` You must be a very sad people ''.

The game of mall was a fashionable amusement in the reign of Charles the Second, and the walk in Saint James's Park, now called the Mall, received its name from having been appropriated to the purpose of playing at mall, where Charles himself and his courtiers frequently exercised themselves in the practice of this pastime.

Gambling with two or three dice was a very popular form of amusement in Greece, especially with the upper classes, and an invariable accompaniment to symposia.

It was simpler because of the fact that before the cinema people would have to travel long distances to see major dioramas or amusement parks.

His attire in the Spanish Civil War, along with his size 12 boots, was a source of amusement.

According to Junius, sometime in the 1420s, Coster was in the Haarlemmerhout carving letters from bark for the amusement of his grandchildren, and observed that the letters left impressions on the sand.

This was not an issue in an era where the major highways became Main Street in every town along the way and inexpensive land at the edge of town could be developed with motels, car lots, filling stations, lumber yards, amusement parks, roadside diners, drive-in restaurants and theatres and countless other small roadside businesses.

The reactor hall remains an amusement to many as once it was next door to what used to be Sweden's first nuclear reactor.

In December 1873, Major Walter Clopton Wingfield designed and patented a similar game – which he called sphairistike (, from ancient Greek meaning " skill at playing at ball "), and was soon known simply as " sticky " — for the amusement of his guests at a garden party on his estate of Nantclwyd, in Llanelidan, Wales.

The Doctor attempts to repair the circuit in " Logopolis " and " Attack of the Cybermen ", but the successful transformation of the TARDIS into the shapes of a pipe organ, a painted Welsh dresser ( much to the amusement of Perpurgilliam " Peri " Brown and the Sixth Doctor's annoyance ) and an elaborate gateway in the latter serial was followed by a return to the police box shape.

He notably was quoted as saying that " all the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement.

Additionally, Carroll inserted on his own expense an " Easter Greeting " into the first edition of his poem after it already was printed: "... And if I have written anything to add to those stores of innocent and healthy amusement that are laid up in books for the children I love so well, it is surely something I may hope to look back upon without shame and sorrow ( as how much of life must then be recalled!

Astrology, including everything from serious study to whimsical amusement regarding personal traits, was integral to hippie culture.

Playland in Rye, a National Historic Landmark, opened to the public in 1928, was the first totally planned amusement park in the country.

" While this claim didn't garner the same level of controversy as some of his other statements, it was generally received with mild amusement by the Pacific Northwest media.

The La Ronde amusement park was always intended to be a lasting legacy of the fair.

; a $ 500, 000 airship that had been built as a prop was sold to an amusement park.

Originally a state fair was just a competitive exhibition of livestock in various competitions, the display of farm products which were not necessarily for sale, and the competition among various fair goers and participants in such categories as handicrafts, baked goods, jams and jellies, etc., but has since been expanded to include carnival amusement rides and games, music, races, tests of strength and skill, etc.

During the ride, George talks to Alan about the amusement park ride he was too scared to ride as a kid: The Bullet in Thrill Village, Laconia, New Hampshire.

In 1925, the amusement park was taken over by the municipal company Liseberg AB.

Perhaps about 1970 if there was a Tory government some ass might make me Lord Chancellor " – a remark which caused some amusement when in June 1970 there was a Conservative ( also known as " Tory ") government and Edward Heath did indeed make him Lord Chancellor.

The game was followed by a 2006 sequel titled Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis, where Donkey Kong, who is infatuated with Pauline, kidnaps her and takes her to the roof of the Super Mini-Mario World amusement park when she ignores a Mini Donkey Kong toy in favor of a Mini-Mario.

The Jordans ' participation in Look Who's Laughing was set up in the Fibber McGee & Molly episode " Amusement Park " ( 6 / 17 / 41 ), in which Gale Gordon played an RKO pictures representative who followed the McGees around the amusement park and chose the McGees as a representative American couple to star in a movie with Edger Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.