As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

Rome was too far from the frontiers, and hence from the armies and the Imperial courts, and it offered an undesirable playground for disaffected politicians.

The scene, which is still remembered by some older residents, was commemorated in 1999 as part of the elaborate " History of Parma " section of the playground at Groner Park.

First to the scene were 116 cadets under the direction of Lieutenant Commander H. J. Copeland from USS Nantucket, a training ship of the Massachusetts Nautical School ( which is now the Massachusetts Maritime Academy ), that was docked nearby at the playground pier.

In this period, the Pier was described as a summer playground, with recreational facilities that included picnicking areas, dining pavilions, a dance hall, auditorium, and children's playground.

The first known mass shooting in the U. S. where students were shot, was on April 9, 1891, when 70 year old, James Foster fired a shotgun at a group of students in the playground of St. Mary's Parochial School, Newburgh, New York, causing minor injuries to several of the students.

Leedy was discovered on the playground of the Booker T. Washington school in Phoenix, AZ by a talent scout from the Disney studio.

Named after the former Mercy convent that was located in the same place and began performing in the middle 19th century with the planting of trees and installation of a source, later replaced by the current, more broad and stately ; playground available.

An adventure playground was added in 1983, and a venue for talks and exhibitions called Oak Barn was opened by television gardener Alan Titchmarsh in 2005.

Invented ( 1888 ) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies ' baseball.

* Edward Lear, poet and illustrator, was born in Bowman's Place, now replaced by the playground of Grafton Primary School.

The Winfield brothers honed their athletic skills in St. Paul's Oxford playground, where coach Bill Peterson was one of the first to take the young Winfield under his wing.

There was a playground for children whose parents were touring the model homes, and Art Linkletter came to cut the ribbon at the Grand Opening!

While Hialeah was once envisioned as a playground for the elite, Cuban exiles, fleeing Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution as well as World War II Veterans and city planners transformed the city into a working-class community.

The playground was dedicated and named in honor of Wallace E. " Moses " Marriner a former Police Chief of the Waverly Hall Police Department.

The building was purchased by Mike Gillette, who agreed to let local children utilize the modest and rusty playground equipment ( which is has since been removed ) as a makeshift park.

Named after Riley Jean Tomlinson, a local toddler who accidentally drowned in a swimming pool, the park was built in 2001 and contains two-and three-story wooden castles and other structures for children's play ( along with swings, slides, and similar playground equipment ).

While the town on the west side of the River was always called Lehigh, the east town was called Slabtown, and a piece of history marks the east side's roots –– a sign that hangs over the playground with the words " Slabtown Traders ," perhaps alluding to the flea market that occurs there every summer during Lehigh River Days.

The area that includes Point Pleasant Beach was first used as a seashore playground by the Lenape Indians.

The Johnson heirs property adjoining the school was purchased for $ 6, 000 in 1959 and old home on that lot was razed for playground space.

Schmidt Park, located just west off Illinois Route 128 and behind the Dairy Bar, is a large park dedicated to picnic pavilions and playground equipment for children.

is " Annie ’ s Playground ", a playground and recreation area dedicated to a victim of drunk driving and to other children who were taken too early in life.

* Aldan Veterans Memorial Park ( 2000 – Present ), dedicated to the veterans of Aldan, There is playground equipment in the background of the park.

Hinkler Park, a popular park and playground in Katoomba, New South Wales, was dedicated to Hinkler in 1934.

Sometime in the 1970s two basketball courts were also added alongside the playground and dedicated in honor of Jim Bradley.

Gunongan is a private playground and bathing place, built by Sultan Iskandar Muda, dedicated to his wife Putroe Phang.

Across the road from the playground is the Church of the Transfiguration ( also known as Metamorphosis ) and not far from this church are the ruins of a tiny chapel dedicated to Saints Zinovia and Filonilli.

In 2007, the site of the first Lender's bagel bakery was dedicated as a playground and named after one of Harry Lenders sons “ Murray Lender Playground ”.

The parks and recreation department dedicated a universally accessible playground, a playground designed for handicapped and non-handicapped children, at the Beilenson Park on Monday June 9, 2008.

In 1940, Mount Prospect Park was moved to the Parks Department as a city park and playground.

One particularly memorable piece of tabloidesque worldplay parody, involving a fictional plot to assassinate Paul McCartney by a disgruntled former roadie, read ' Mop Top Pot Shot Plot Flops ', or with a gonad-focussed violent encounter with Mr T and a 70's playground toy, ' BA Baracus in Macca's clackers knackers fracas '.

For the first time, they allowed short advertisements by indoor playground manufacturer Discovery Zone, their first corporate sponsor, to air before and after each episode.

The characters were inspired by the view from the D. C. Thomson & Co. office windows, overlooking the playground at the High School of Dundee.

Today, most of the former cemetery grounds are covered by a paved playground behind the Mission Dolores School.

In 1845 Cartwright and a committee from his club drew up rules converting this playground game into a more elaborate and interesting sport to be played by adults.

Designed by Shane ’ s Inspiration, a non-profit organization that designs and builds universally accessible playgrounds, Brandon ’ s Village is about in size and all playground equipment is over 70 % independently playable for children with disabilities and will also provide meaningful and stimulating play opportunities for able-bodied children.

In the nineteenth century, there had been a tension between the romantic advocates of the “ sacredness ” of the Alpine peaks ( such as John Ruskin ), and modern mountain climbers ( such as Leslie Stephen ), who promoted the notion of the Alps as the “ playground of Europe .” In the twentieth century, the mountains acquired a clearly positive, iconic, status as places unsullied by undesirable urban influences such as pollution, noise and so on.

It is cognitively undemanding and contextual and is better understood as the language used by students in informal settings, say, on a playground or cafe.

It has a memorial garden bordered by hedges, a grass area, three hard tennis courts and a children's playground.

It also has Home Park which boasts an Adventure playground and is situated next to Sydenham Library, funded by Andrew Carnegie in 1904.

He wrote " The Father of a Boy Named Sue ", in which he tells the story from the original song from the father's point of view, and the 1962 song " Boa Constrictor ", sung by a man who is being swallowed by a snake ( recorded by the folk group Peter, Paul, and Mary ) although it is now better known as a children's playground chant.

By summer 1927 they had built the lake by damming a creek and had created a beach, water slide, diving platforms and a playground with " equipment of the most novel design.

* Local parks managed by the Weed Parks and Recreation District include: Lincoln Park ( renamed Charles Byrd Community Park in 2004 ) which is an park with restrooms, a playground, basketball courts, and is the home to the Weed Skatepark ; as well as Bel Air Park, adjacent to College of the Siskiyous and home to the community swimming pool.

Playtown Suwanee is a super playground built by 1, 200 volunteers who worked to build it in 2004.

There is a lighted ball field, a playground, and two parks for use by citizens.

Louise F. Cosca Regional Park, a public facility operated by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, offers camping, hiking, fishing in a lake, an excellent playground, and a nature museum with nature activities.