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Disneyland
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Disneyland Park, originally Disneyland, is the first of two theme parks built at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, opened on July 17,1955. It is the theme park designed and built under the direct supervision of Walt Disney. It was originally the attraction on the property, its name was changed to Disneyland Park to distinguish it from the expanding complex in the 1990s. Walt Disney came up with the concept of Disneyland after visiting various amusement parks with his daughters in the 1930s and 1940s. He initially envisioned building a tourist attraction adjacent to his studios in Burbank to entertain fans who wished to visit, however, after hiring a consultant to help him determine an appropriate site for his project, Disney bought a 160-acre site near Anaheim in 1953. Construction began in 1954 and the park was unveiled during a televised press event on the ABC Television Network on July 17,1955. Opened in 2001, Disney California Adventure Park was built on the site of Disneylands original parking lot, Disneyland has a larger cumulative attendance than any other theme park in the world, with over 650 million guests since it opened. In 2013, the park hosted approximately 16.2 million guests, according to a March 2005 Disney report,65,700 jobs are supported by the Disneyland Resort, including about 20,000 direct Disney employees and 3,800 third-party employees. To all who come to this place, Welcome. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the facts that have created America, with the hope that it will be a source of joy. The concept for Disneyland began when Walt Disney was visiting Griffith Park in Los Angeles with his daughters Diane and Sharon. While watching them ride the merry-go-round, he came up with the idea of a place where adults and their children could go and have fun together and he may have also been influenced by his fathers memories of the Worlds Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. Another likely influence was Benton Harbor, Michigans nationally famous House of Davids Eden Springs Park, Disney visited the park and ultimately bought one of the older miniature trains originally used there, the colony had the largest miniature railway setup in the world at the time. His ideas evolved to a play park with a boat ride. The initial concept, the Mickey Mouse Park, started with an 8-acre plot across Riverside Drive and his designers began working on concepts, though the project grew much larger than the land could hold. Disney hired Harrison Price from Stanford Research Institute to gauge the proper area to locate the theme based on the areas potential growth. Based on Prices analysis, Disney acquired 160 acres of groves and walnut trees in Anaheim
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Tomorrowland
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Tomorrowland is one of the many themed lands featured at all of the Magic Kingdom styled Disney theme parks around the world owned or licensed by The Walt Disney Company. Each version of the land is different and features attractions that depict views of the future. Disneyland Park in Paris includes an area called Discoveryland, which shares some elements with other Tomorrowlands. Walt Disney was known for his futurist views and, through his television programs, Tomorrowland was the realized culmination of his views. In his own words, Tomorrow can be a wonderful age and our scientists today are opening the doors of the Space Age to achievements that will benefit our children and generations to come. The Tomorrowland attractions have been designed to give you an opportunity to participate in adventures that are a living blueprint of our future and it is this movement into the future that has, on occasion, left Tomorrowland mired in the past. Disneylands Tomorrowland is now in its generation, and the Magic Kingdoms Tomorrowland is in its second. The Walt Disney Company has mentioned that it wanted to keep Tomorrowland from becoming Yesterdayland, a vista into a world of wondrous ideas, signifying Mans achievements. A step into the future, with predictions of constructed things to come, Tomorrow offers new frontiers in science, adventure and ideals. The Atomic Age, the challenge of Outer Space and the hope for a peaceful, during the dedication, Walt Disney started speaking, was told that he wasnt yet on air, and then had to restart once the television viewers were watching. The first Tomorrowland opened at Disneyland on July 17,1955, with several of its planned attractions open. The construction of the park was rushed, so Tomorrowland was the last land to be finished and it became something of a corporate showcase, despite Walt Disneys reluctance. Monsanto Company, American Motors, Richfield Oil, and Dutch Boy Paint were some of the companies to open showcases in Tomorrowland in the first few years. Since the park was on a budget, one cost-cutting idea was to reuse the sets of the Nautilus from Disneys 1954 movie 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as a walkthrough attraction. For the first four years, most of Tomorrowland was generally open space, however, the area gained more attractions as time passed, many of which have since been removed. When Disneyland opened, Tomorrowland represented the future in the year 1986, Tomorrowlands showpiece was the TWA Moonliner, derived from Disneys Man In Space television episodes developed in the 1950s. The Moonliner was the tallest structure in the park at the time, the Moonliner hosted Rocket To The Moon which was a ride to the moon. The entrance showpiece was the clock of the showing the time anywhere on earth
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Geographical coordinates
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress
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Walt Disneys Carousel of Progress is an attraction located at the Magic Kingdom park at the Walt Disney World Resort. It was replaced in Disneyland by America Sings in 1974, to keep it up with the times, the attraction has been updated five times and has had two different theme songs, both written by the Sherman Brothers. Various sources say Walt Disney himself proclaimed that the Carousel of Progress was his favorite attraction and this can be somewhat supported by family and friends, who knew of his constant work on the attraction. Of all the attractions he presented at the 1964–1965 New York Worlds Fair, the Carousel of Progress holds the record as the longest-running stage show, with the most performances, in the history of American theater. It is one of the oldest attractions in the whole Walt Disney World Resort and it is also one of the only attractions at Walt Disney World to have been touched by Walt Disney himself. Even though the Carousel of Progress does not typically have long queue, the video talks about the history and development of the attraction, and even includes clips of Walt explaining the attraction on his television show. The video lasts about four minutes, after which guests can enter the theater for the next show. On the stage in the room, is a large Carousel of Progress logo. The attraction’s narrator tells guests more history about the attraction and he focuses in on the fact that the attraction was Walts idea, and that he loved the show. As the scene opens, robins chirp in the background and the music fades, the father of the family, John, is sitting in a wooden rocking chair inside his home. On his right, his dog Rover is happily laying on the floor, John tells guests that it is right around the turn of the century and also that it is Valentine’s Day. He then claims that things could not get any better than they are at time, before giving a list of the new inventions. As John highlights the new pieces of technology, a spotlight shines on them and he then comments that problems such as chopping wood, sour milk and having to get water from a well are all things of the past. After he is showing off the new technology he calls to his wife, Sarah. The two discuss how Thomas Edison is working on an idea for snap on electric lights, which the Sarah says will mean no more kerosene and no more gas. She also shows guests her new wash-day marvel, and comments that now she can do the laundry in five hours instead of two days. As John is explaining that Sarah now has time for other things, Sarah then excuses herself, commenting that she needs to get the laundry off the line before it starts raining cats and dogs. After it begins to rain, the familys son begins to talk from the right room, the sons name is James, and he is scolded for using his father’s Stereoscope without permission
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America Sings
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America Sings was an attraction at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, United States, from 1974 to 1988. It featured a cast of audio animatronics animals that entertained the audience by singing songs from various periods in Americas musical history, often in a humorous fashion. America Sings opened on June 29,1974, replacing the General Electric-sponsored Carousel of Progress attraction, America Sings used the same Carousel Theater as its predecessor. The building had a ring of six theaters, connected by divider walls. Unlike Disneylands Carousel of Progress, which rotated clockwise, America Sings rotated in a counter-clockwise direction, also, unlike Carousel of Progress, America Sings only used the lower level of the Carousel Theater. The upper level was used to house the SuperSpeed Tunnel in 1977 that the PeopleMover transportation attraction passed through. Written primarily by Marc Davis and Al Bertino, America Sings was comparable to Disneylands Country Bear Jamboree, the shows Masters of Ceremonies were an American bald eagle named Sam and an owl named Ollie. The image of Eagle Sam was designed by Disney animator Marc Davis, Eagle Sam is completely separate from the Sam the Olympic Eagle character designed a decade later by C. Robert Moore for the 1984 Summer Olympics. Like the Carousel of Progress, the first and the last scenes of America Sings involved the loading and unloading of guests, while the four scenes, or acts. However, the load and unload theaters each featured a small curtained gazebo with a backdrop showing a park. The curtains would open to reveal Sam and the owl standing on a podium, with Sam standing on the higher level. Also, at point in each act, the Weasel would suddenly appear on the scene, spouting the title line, Pop. At the very end of the show, he changed the line to, Goodbye, the characters in America Sings were patterned after the characters from the concept art for an animated movie called Chanticleer that Walt Disney scrapped back in the 1960s. A narrow channel between a wall and a rotating wall was open and Stone either fell, stepped backwards. She was pronounced dead at 11,00 PM when the carousel was being reset for a new cycle, one of the audience members heard Stones screams and notified park staff. Other employees didnt notice the body until the end of the show. By the time the member and the staff got to her. Shed started working at Disneyland to earn money for college, Stones parents sued Disneyland for the death of their daughter, which resulted in a small settlement
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Innoventions (Disneyland)
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Innoventions was a 2-story museum in Tomorrowland at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. It opened on July 3,1998 as part of the New Tomorrowland, the attraction operated for nearly 17 years, closing on March 31,2015. From 2013 until its closure, its focus shifted to character meet-and-greets featuring superheroes from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It occupied the Carousel Theater, a round building in which the outer half of the first floor rotates. A similar attraction of the name exists in Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort. From 1967 to 1973, the building housed Walt Disneys Carousel of Progress and this attraction was moved from Disneyland to its current location in Magic Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort in 1973, at the request of its sponsor, General Electric. America Sings occupied the building from the year until 1988. Audio-Animatronics from the show were used in Disneylands Splash Mountain, the upper level of the building continued to house the Tron SuperSpeed Tunnel segment of the PeopleMover until that attraction eventually closed in 1995. The attraction closed March 31,2015, the building was redesigned and reopened on November 16,2015 as the Tomorrowland Expo Center. Super Hero HQ closed in April 2016, the first floor hosted the Dream Home in alliance with Microsoft, HP, and Taylor Morrison. Guests who entered the Innoventions building were greeted by Tom Morrow, an Audio-Animatronic and he explained Innoventions in a comedic style and performs an updated version of the Sherman Brothers song Theres a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow from the original Carousel of Progress. He was voiced by Nathan Lane, beginning in 2012, the Tom Morrow Audio-Animatronics were removed from display and are no longer part of the attraction. The building used the rotation mechanism built in 1967 for the Carousel of Progress. In the Super Hero HQ location, guests were able to meet Captain America, Thor, guests were also able to embody Iron Man in The Iron Man Experience, which had guests partake in a simulator that enabled them to fly. Guests were also able to purchase Marvel merchandise, the lower level gives guests the opportunity to meet Darth Vader, Chewbacca, and Boba Fett. The location opened with these characters in the winter of 2015, january 2016 saw the addition of Kylo Ren. Guests are given a variety of exhibits, such as props and costumes used in the films, Super Hero HQ closed in April 2016. Guests can calculate their BMI, learn about exercise on a bike, play virtual sports games
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Disney's Hollywood Studios
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Disneys Hollywood Studios, originally Disney-MGM Studios, is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando. It is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Parks, based on an idea by Marty Sklar, Randy Bright, and Michael Eisner, the park opened on May 1,1989, and was the third of four theme parks built at Walt Disney World. To increase public interest and the variety of representation within the park, Disney entered into a licensing agreement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The parks current name took effect in 2008, with the removal of the MGM-branding throughout the park, the parks icon was originally the Earffel Tower from the parks opening until 2001 when the Sorcerers Hat—a stylized version of the magical hat from Fantasia—was erected in the parks central hub. It then served as the icon until its removal in January 2015. The tower was removed in April 2016. Currently, the park remains without an official designated icon, although both the Great Movie Ride and the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror are represented as such in marketing materials. In 2015, the park hosted approximately 10.8 million guests, ranking it the fifth most-visited theme park in North America and we welcome you to a Hollywood that never was—and always will be. A team of Walt Disney Imagineers led by Marty Sklar and Randy Bright had been given an assignment to two new pavilions for Epcots Future World section. The brainstorming sessions led to Wonders of Life and Great Movie Ride pavilions, the latter was to look like a soundstage backdrop, with a movie theater-style entrance in the middle and would have sat between the Land and Journey Into Imagination pavilions. In 1988, MGM/UA responded by filing a lawsuit that claimed Disney violated the agreement by operating a working movie, when the park first opened, the only two attractions were the Studio Backlot Tour and The Great Movie Ride. Disney later filed a countersuit, claiming that MGM/UA and MGM Grand, on October 23,1992, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Curtis B. The 33-acre MGM Grand Adventures Theme Park opened in 1993 at the Las Vegas site, on August 9,2007, Walt Disney World President Meg Crofton announced that Disney-MGM Studios would be re-branded as Disneys Hollywood Studios, effective January 7,2008. On March 12,2015, during a shareholders meeting. Disneys Hollywood Studios is divided into six themed areas, the parks original layout featured a large Hidden Mickey, which was visible in aerial photographs of the park and on the parks early guide maps. Construction and other changes have eliminated much of this image. Hollywood Boulevard, inspired by the street in Los Angeles, serves as the main entrance and operates in the same vein as Main Street. It is lined with themed streetscape facades and venues selling Disney merchandise, guests enter through the main entrance gate, which resembles the Pan-Pacific Auditorium
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Toon Studio
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Toon Studio is a land at Walt Disney Studios Park in Disneyland Paris, France. The land, formerly known as Animation Courtyard, received a revamp in 2007 to features a colourful and immersive. The Toon Studio concept is a spin-off of the Mickeys Toontown idea, Flying Carpets Over Agrabah — a spinner ride similar to Dumbo the Flying Elephant where riders sit in magic carpets and act as extras in Genie’s directorial debut. The attraction is set against a large “movie set” backdrop of Agrabah and this is a unique attraction to Walt Disney Studios Park. Cars Quatre Roues Rallye — a Zamperla Demolition Derby attraction where guests are spin at a Radiator Spring’s car service station and their cars are located on four spinning plateaus and they change from one spinning plateau to the next. Mickey and the Magician — a live show featuring the Disney Classics, Toy Story Playland Ratatouille, L’Aventure Totalement Toquée de Rémy Monsters Inc. Scream Academy Animagique Toon Studio Catering Co, jessies Snack Roundup Bistrot Chez Rémy The Disney Animation Gallery Animagique Kiosk Chez Marianne, Souvenirs de Paris Disneyland Pariss official website - Toy Story Playland is part of Toon Studio
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The Magic of Disney Animation
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The Magic of Disney Animation was a show and tour at Disneys Hollywood Studios, Florida. The attraction closed permanently on July 12,2015, at the time, it was not announced what would happen to the building and the animators. In December 2015, the building began to be used to house the Star Wars Launch Bay, following that introductory film, guest would witness the process of animation, first-hand, from elevated, glass-enclosed walkways within Disneys actual animation studio. The third segment of the tour was a short film in which Disney Animators described the joy of the art of animation. A finale film, entitled Classic Disney presented a montage of key moments from classic animated Disney films, after guests leave the showroom they are led to an area with interactive games and a chance to meet characters from the latest Disney animated pictures. There is also a section called The Animation Academy, where guests can draw their favorite Disney characters, several original cels from classic Disney films as well as several of the Academy Awards won by Disney films are on display at the attraction. Inside the building which housed The Magic of Disney Animation, are the production facilities of Walt Disney Animation Orlando. Roy E. Disney noted it in his dedication speech, Walt Disney World Resort - The Magic of Disney Animation Retrieved May 2012 Stories from Walt Disney Animation Orlando Retrieved May 2012
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