Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Disneyland may surprise you...

*Disneyland's address is 1313 Harbor Blvd - this address was picked by Walt, not automatically given to the park.
......13 may stand for M, the thirteenth letter in the alphabet, resulting in "M.M." [Mickey Mouse]. 1313 was also Donald Duck's address and 313 was Donald's license plate number.

*Lost and Found has recovered false teeth, a prosthetic leg, a glass eye, toupees...and a canary.
*The ground at the park's entrance is red to give the feeling of a red carpet treatment. 
....The pavement on Main Street is black. Black asphalt heats up and keeps guests on the move into Main Street's shops.


Friday, December 20, 2013

Eight abandoned construction projects

1. Sanzhi UFO Houses - San Zhi, Taiwan


1. Source: picc.it
These homes were intended to be sold to U.S. military officers when construction began in 1978. In 1980, work was halted due to loss of investment.

Source: wikipedia.org

3. Ryugyong Hotel - Pyongyang, North Korea


4. Source: imgur.comThe Ryugyong Hotel is a true display of North Korea's madness. Work started on this 105 story hotel only a few years before a massive famine plagued the country. Abandoned for 16 years, work once again began in 2008, when it was coated in $150 million worth of glass.

Source: dailymail.co.uk

5. Mirny Diamond Mine - Eastern Siberia, Russia


6. Source: imgur.com
The world's second largest man-made hole, Mirny was constructed by Stalin to satisfy the Soviet Union's demand for industrial diamond. Further digging efforts were eventually abandoned.

Source: atlasobscura.com

6. Aniva Rock Lighthouse - Sakhalinskaya Oblast, Russia


SAMSUNG DIGITAL CAMERA Source: michaeljohngrist.com/

A formal penal island used by the Russians, Aniva was once sought after by both the Russia and Japan. This now Russian controled territory sits unihabited in the seas between Japan and the eastern coast of Russia. 

Source: wikipedia.org

7. Gulliver’s Travels Park - Kawaguchi, Japan


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Constructed in the shadow of Mt Fuji, this theme park opened in 1997. Despite financial help from the Japanese government, it lasted only 10 years before being abandoned.

Source: weburbanist.com

8. Bannerman Castle - Pollepel Island, New York


11. Source: snackish.comBannerman Castle's owner, Francis Bannerman VI, built the structure as storage space after buying the American military surplus from the war with the Spanish. After 200lbs of ammunition exploded in 1920, much of the castle was destroyed and the rest abandoned.

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Do you know how "Black Friday" was named?

The day's name originated in Philadelphia, where it originally was used to describe the heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle traffic which would occur on the day after Thanksgiving. Use of the term started before 1961 and began to see broader use outside Philadelphia around 1975. Later an alternative explanation was made: that retailers traditionally operated at a financial loss from January through November, and "Black Friday" indicates the point at which retailers begin to turn a profit, or "in the black".

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Finding Nemo in Monster's Inc.?

Nemo appeared in a Pixar film called "Monsters Inc." two years before he was created for his feature film "Finding Nemo".

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Challenge Accepted

Editor Bennett Cerf challenged Dr. Seuss to write a book containing exactly 50 words. The result? Green Eggs and Ham.