Liaraike is a political party in Madagascar. In the 23 September 2007 National Assembly elections, the party won 1 out of 127 seats.

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Tarrafal de São Nicolau
Municipality
Country	Cape Verde
Island	São Nicolau
Seat town	Tarrafal de São Nicolau
ISO 3166-2 code	CV-

Tarrafal de São Nicolau is a recently created municipality on the island of São Nicolau, Cape Verde. It was detached in 2005 from the municipality of São Nicolau.

Parishes

The municipality includes only one parish:

• São Francisco

Settlements

• Baixo Rocha
• Barril
• Cabeçalinho?
• Cachaço?
• Carvoeiro
• Covada
• Hortelão
• Jalunga
• Morro Brás
• Praia Branca
• Tarrafal de São Nicolau

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Jay Charles Needham (born September 30, 1984) is an American soccer player from Fort Worth, Texas. He primarily plays as a central defender. He also plays outside defender, sweeper and defensive mid-field.

Youth career

As a youth, he played club soccer for the Dallas Texans Soccer Club. His team, the ‘85 Texans Red, won four consecutive North Texas State Cups, three Regional Cups and appeared in two U.S. Youth Cup Final Fours. The ‘85 Dallas Texans also won the Under 19 division of the prestigious Dallas Cup in 2003. Other professionals playing on this Texans team were Hunter Freeman and Ramon Nunez.

After graduating from Fort Worth Arlington Heights High School, Needham attended Southern Methodist University (SMU). While at SMU, he and the team earned numerous honors. SMU was the 2003 Missouri Valley Conference tournament champion and were the Missouri Valley season and tournament champions in 2004. In 2005, SMU moved to Conference USA. In their first season, SMU won the season champion honors. In 2006, SMU won both the season and tournament honors for Conference USA. SMU participated in the NCAA Tournament in all four seasons that Needham played. In 2005, they made the NCAA College Cup, losing in the semi-finals to the ultimate winners Maryland.

Jay Needham was a four year letterman at SMU. He was one of the team’s tri-captains in 2005 and 2006. He was a member of the Missouri Valley Conference All Freshman Team in 2003. He was selected first team All Conference USA as a defender in 2005 and 2006. He was also elected First Team All Midwest Region in those same years. Conference USA named him Defender of the Year in 2006. Jay was named a First Team All American and was one of three finalist for the MAC Hermann Award (honoring college soccer’s player of the year) in 2006.

During his college years, Needham also played with the DFW Tornados in the USL Premier Development League.

Professional career

Puerto Rico Islanders

Jay Needham was drafted by D.C. United in the third round of the 2007 MLS draft. After attending training camp, he and D.C. United were unable to come to contract terms. Jay signed with the Puerto Rico Islanders in the USL First Division. On arrival, he was asked to change positions from center to outside fullback. While with the Islanders, Jay played both right and left fullback, logging over 2,000 minutes of play. The Islanders advanced to the USL semi-finals where they were defeated by the ultimate champions, Seattle. They also advanced to the semi-finals of the 2007 Caribbean Cup.

At the end of the season, Jay Needham was named the 2007 USL Division 1 Rookie of the Year.

Alta IF

In March 2008, Jay transferred to Alta IF in Alta, Norway. Alta had just won promotion to play in Norway’s 1st Division. He made his debut on April 13 and retained a starting Central Defender position throughout the remainder of the season. During the 2008 season, Needham appeared in 24 league games, logging more than 2,000 minutes of play. He also appeared in two Norwegian Cup matches. Jay was named Alta’s Captain for the team’s final four games.

At the end of the season, Alta retained its position in the 1stDivision. This was the first time in the club’s history that it had not been relegated the season after being promoted into the 1stDivision.

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Works published

• Hamzah Fansuri writes in the Malay language.
• The compilation of Romances de los Señores de Nueva España, a collection of Aztec poetry (including pre-Columbian works).

Births and deaths

Japan

• Arakida Moritake ????? (1473–1549), the son of Negi Morihide, and a Shinto priest; said to have excelled in waka, renga, and in particular haikai
• Hosokawa Fujitaka ????, also known as Hosokawa Y?sai ???? (1534–1610), a Sengoku period feudal warlord who was a prominent retainer of the last Ashikaga shoguns; father of Hosokawa Tadaoki, an Oda clan senior general; after the 1582 Incident at Honn?-ji, he took the Buddhist tonsure and changed his name to “Y?sai”; but he remained an active force in politics, under Shoguns Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu
• Satomura Shokyu ???? (1510–1552), Japanese leading master of the linked verse renga after the death of Tani Sobuko in 1545
• S?gi ?? (1421–1502), Japanese Zen monk who studied waka and renga poetry, then became a professional renga poet in his 30s
• Tani Soyo ??? (1526–1563), renga poet; a rival of Satomura Joha; son of Tani Sobuko
• Yamazaki S?kan ????, pen name of Shina Norishige (1465–1553), renga and haikai poet, court calligrapher for Shogun Ashikaga Yoshihisa; became a secluded Buddhist monk following the shogun’s death in 1489

Other

• Hwang Jin-i (1522–1565), Korean

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Joseph Hotchkiss Durano (born April 3, 1970), popularly known as Ace Durano, was one of the youngest to be elected representative to the 11th congress (1998-2001). He was an Assistant Majority Floor Leader and Vice Chairman of the Committee on Trade and Industry during this time.

Born to Elizabeth Hotchkiss-Durano and Ramon Durano III, son of Manong Amon the political warlord of the Philippines Ramon D. Durano III, Ace, as he is fondly called by his family and his constituents in the Fifth District of Cebu, took his high school and college education in America after finishing elementary education in Cebu City. He finished his Bachelor of Arts in Asian at the University of Redlands, California. When he came back to the Philippines, he took up law studies at Ateneo de Manila University and graduated in 1997. He became a member of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines in 1998.

While in law school, he was a research assistant of the Free Legal Assistance Group in Cebu City and at the Regional Trial Court Branch XXV in Davao City.

In the 12th Congress (2001-2004), he was the Chairman of the Committee on Public Order and Security and Vice Chairman of the Committees on DPWH and on Dangerous Drugs.

Congressman Durano is an honorary member of Class ‘79 of the Philippine Military Academy. He is also a Lieutenant Colonel (Reserve) of the Philippine Air Force.

As Representative of the Fifth District of Cebu, he is credited for the following;

• - initiated infrastructure projects for the Port of Camotes worth PI 22 million which generated more than 3,700 Jobs and 15,000 tourists;
• - afforded scholarship grants and aid worth more than P5 million to 132 high school students (27 graduates, 85 still in school) and to 233 college students (124 graduates, 109 still in school);
• - initiated the construction of school buildings and other related projects worth P35 million with 46 new classrooms for high school students, 29 new elementary classrooms and a total of 33 renovated elementary and high school classrooms which 5,400 grade school and high school students now enjoy;
• - instituted Hospitalization Assistance Fund and other Health Related Programs worth P5 million benefiting almost 6,000 constituents;
• - initiated Agriculture-related projects worth P50 million to more than 11,000 farmers and fisher folk;
• - implemented the rice subsidy and Basic Commodities Program worth over P2 million for more than 25,000 DSWD-identified indigents and 25 small entrepreneurs in 25 barangays in ten municipalities;
• - provided housing assistance fund worth P2 million to 4 Teachers’ Cooperatives with 1,100 members;
• - provided additional capital outlay and infrastructure assistance fund worth P 3 million to 6 multipurpose cooperatives.

Currently, he is serving as the tourism secretary. On May 2, 2008, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo appointed Department of Tourism Secretary Joseph Ace Durano, general manager of the Philippine Tourism Authority (PTA), after Robert Dean Barbers’ term expired.

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AIB UK is a subsidiary of Allied Irish Banks. It is registered in Northern Ireland. Regulated by the Financial Services Authority, it serves as the legal entity for the United Kingdom banking division of the group.

It trades under two names:

1. Allied Irish Bank (GB) in Great Britain. Here it is primarily a business bank.
2. First Trust Bank in Northern Ireland. Here it offers a full range of banking services, both to business and residential customers.

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Donald Francis Tovey’s Essays in Musical Analysis are a series of analytical essays on classical music.

The “essays” actually came into existence as programme notes written by Tovey to accompany concerts given (mostly under his own baton) by the Reid Orchestra in Edinburgh. Between 1935 and 1939 they were published in six volumes as Essays in Musical Analysis. Each volume focused on a certain genre of orchestral or choral music (for example, Volumes I and II were devoted to ‘Symphonies’; Volume III to ‘Concertos’), with perhaps two or three dozen works discussed with the help of plentiful music examples. In 1944 a posthumous seventh volume appeared on chamber music.

As befits their origin in introductory notes for the concert-going public, Tovey’s Essays are unforbidding and occasionally even light-hearted in tone. His fondness for “Humpty Dumptyish” language may irritate at times, but overall Tovey’s achievement is impressive: very few commentators have been able to communicate clearly with a non-specialist readership at the same time as revealing so much that is of interest to the trained musician and musicologist. (Readers who wish to see Tovey at his most densely technical may care to examine his book A Companion to Beethoven’s Pianoforte Sonatas and its bar-to-bar analytic commentary).

In the Essays Tovey saw his role as being “counsel for the defence” (Introduction to Volume I): in speaking up on behalf of the work about to be performed, he was seeking to facilitate the listener’s appreciation of its artistic content and technical merits. As a result, his approach tends to ‘track’ the structure of a work as it unfolds through time before the ear of his imaginary “naive listener”.

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The Lower Elements Police (LEP) is a fictional law enforcement organization of the fairy People, who live in the Lower Elements (underground) in the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer.

The LEP is made up of several different units, as with all police forces. Overall, their job is to maintain order and to stop humans from getting word of their existence. They are also the closest thing the fairy People have to a dedicated military.

Ranks

The ranks of officers are, in order from lowest to highest:

• Private
• Corporal
• Sergeant
• Warrant Officer
• Lieutenant
• Captain
• Major
• Commander

There are also three regional commanders and a seven-member Council which is in charge of the entire LEP.

LEPrecon

The Lower Elements Police reconnaissance squad, better known as LEPrecon, is the celebrated stealth reconnaissance division of the Lower Elements Police (LEP). In the underground world of the fairies, most reconnaissance entails tracking down fairies who wander where they shouldn’t, particularly away from the secret fairy civilization of The Lower Elements and onto the surface of the Earth.

The Reconnaissance and Retrieval Squads are the elite, ‘SpecOps’ division of the LEP.

Members of the squad are also called LEPrecons, or leprechauns, the name of which is a pun, and in the context of the books, this is where the term originated.

LEPretrieval

The Lower Elements Police retrieval team is better known as LEPretrieval. Retrieval’s most elite unit is LEPretrieval One, led by decorated fairy, Commander Trouble Kelp, who appeared in book one as a Captain. It is said that every young fairy’s dream is to join LEPretrieval One and don the stealth black jumpsuit. Highly trained as they were, the fairies were easily “removed” by Butler on their first encounter. Retrieval has made many appearances throughout the series. Their job is to use information from LEPrecon, perform mind wipes to humans who may have seen a fairy, retrieve rogue fairies, retrieve/destroy trolls who have made their way to the surface and other various tasks.

LEPtraffic

The Lower Elements Police traffic team, better known as LEPtraffic, is the traffic-policing division of the LEP. They patrol the streets and overlook road construction. Traffic police are often referred to as “Wheelies” and are known to use magna-bikes and cruisers for transport. They wear a computerized suit which can display all common traffic signs as well as eight lines of text comparable to a walking traffic road sign. The suit is also coded to the wearer’s voice ensuring that should the wearer ask a driver to do something, it would also be displayed as text across the wearer’s chest. Every corporal who has signed up to the Lower Elements Police Academy must serve a period of time in LEPtraffic before being allowed to enter a specialized department, such as LEPrecon.

Section Eight

Section Eight in is a secret branch of the Lower Elements Police, similar to the role of the CIA or MI6. It is a covert intelligence-gathering division. Their foremost purpose is intelligence on the location, rehabilitation, and general welfare of all demons that materialize from Limbo. It is first introduced in the US military sense of the term Section 8 meaning crazy, as Holly in the first book says she’s gone, “Section 8″ risking her life for a human fighting a troll. By the time of Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony (where Section Eight is introduced), Wing Commander Vinyáya is the Council’s chairwoman to Section Eight and its technical director position has just been filled by the centaur Foaly. Holly Short is recruited as a Captain into the organization after leaving her own small private investigation firm. Vinyáya reveals the Section’s original founder to be the late Council Chairman Nan Burdeh who left her enormous fortune to Section Eight after her death, allowing the organisation to purchase state of the art equipment and offer “excellent overtime and medical insurance”.

It is presumably named for the fact that Demons are “the eighth family of the fairy People”.

Telekinetic Division

Mentioned once in the first book, the Telekinetic Division was called to fix the wall of the restaurant that a Troll,which Captain Holly Short fought with ,severely damaged. Apparently the Division consists of fairies who are trained in more advanced magic (i.e. telekinesis,mind wiping) than the average LEP officer. They seem to be used mainly in quick repairs and construction.

Internal Affairs

Internal Affairs is a section of the LEP that deals with rogue LEP operatives. It is mentioned in Book 4 when it is believed that Holly Short is responsible for the murder of Julius Root. Ark Sool commanded this before getting promoted to LEPRecon Commander in Opal Deception after Root’s death.

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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
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Location:	Rye, NY
Nearest city:	City of Rye, NY
Coordinates:	40°57?57?N 73°40?26?W? / ?40.96583°N 73.67389°W? / 40.96583; -73.67389
Area:	280 acres (1.1 km²)
Built/Founded:	1928
Architect:	Frank Darling; Walker & Gillette
Architectural style(s):	Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Art Deco, Other
Governing body:	Westchester County
Added to NRHP:	July 04, 1980
Designated NHL:	February 27, 1987
NRHP Reference#:	80004529

Playland, often called Rye Playland and also known as Playland Amusement Park, is an amusement park located in Rye, New York. Run by Westchester County, it is the only government owned-and-operated amusement park in the United States.

History

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the waterfront area of Westchester County, New York along the Long Island Sound was the site of a growing collection of recreational developments, including hotels, resorts, and “amusement areas.” Local residents concerned about what a County report described as “unsavory crowds” induced the Westchester County Park Association to purchase two existing theme parks, Rye Beach and Paradise Park, and planned a local-government-sponsored amusement park in their stead.

Frank Darling, a veteran park manager with experience at Coney Island and the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, was hired to design and run the new park, called Playland. Construction commenced in September 1927 and was completed in six months. A design firm was commissioned to decorate the entire park in the Art Deco style.

The park began operation on May 26, 1928. The original design included a boardwalk, ice-skating rinks, a swimming pool, and two beaches, as well as amusement park rides, some of which are still in use.

Built in 1929, the Dragon Coaster serves as the park’s mascot and appears in the Playland logo. The Dragon Coaster is one of roughly 100 wooden roller coasters still in operation in the United States.

Historic status and modern use

Playland was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987.,,

There is no charge for admission, and “fun cards” or wristbands may be purchased to go on rides. There is a charge for parking during the summer season. According to its website, “Playland also offers free entertainment and has a great beach, swimming pool, boardwalk and pier on scenic Long Island Sound, lake boating, picnic area, mini golf and indoor ice skating.”

The “Ice Casino” , built in 1929, originally contained a main ice rink as well as a full dance floor on the second floor that functioned as a dance hall through the 1940’s and 1950’s. It also had a full service fine dining restaurant and an outdoor cafe. It had smaller dining rooms upstairs for upscale private dinners. A renovation in the 1970s added a kiddie rink as well as a mid-sized ice rink. A renovation to the main ice rink that included a new surface, boards and glass was completed in 2007 for the Empire State Games.

Playland is home to a “Grand Carousel”. The Grand Carousel is a 1915 Mangels-Carmel. It has 4 rows with 48 jumpers, 18 standers and 3 chariots. It was originally in New Haven, CT and moved to Playland when the park opened in 1927. The Grand Carousel has a rare band organ built by the Gavioli company in Italy. The beautiful organ enclosure features two male figures that strike bells in time to the music while the central female figure moves a baton. The Grand Carousel contains designs including those on the horses that are completely hand-carved and painted by Charles Carmel from Brooklyn, New York. The Horses contain many unique traits that include elaborate “fish scale” blankets, gorgeous armor, and a lolling tongue on many of the horses.

Playland is also home to one of only three “Derby Racers” still in existence. The Derby Racer was built in 1927 for Playland by Prior & Church with horses carved by Marcus Charles Illions, a turn of the Century famed New York master carousel horse carver. The Derby Racer is not a carousel for the faint of heart as it rotates at 25 miles per hour (40 km/h) - three times the speed of a normal carousel. The horses move back and forth as well as up and down, simulating a true gallop as it races around the track. The other “Derby Racers” are located at Cedar Point, in Sandusky, Ohio; and Blackpool Pleasure Beach , in Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

Dragon Coaster?

The Dragon Coaster, Playland Amusement Park’s iconic attraction, is a wooden roller coaster which was opened in 1929. Designed and built by legendary amusement ride creator Frederick A. Church (also was the co-inventor of the Derby Racer) the Dragon Coaster has approximately 3400 feet of track and is approximately 85 feet tall at its highest point. It has a tunnel along its span, a common feature of wooden roller coasters from the 1920’s. The tunnel resembles the body of a Dragon and the opening of the tunnel resembling the mouth of a Dragon, it has eyes that light up and it blows steam from its nostrils. Playland Park removed the classic Prior and Church trains in the mid-eighties and replaced them with Morgan trains because the P.T.C.’s did not have up-to-date safety technology such as lap bars and other items. The Dragon Coaster is still in operation to this day and is classified as one of the park’s seven “classic” rides.

In 1927 construction began on the Airplane Coaster, overseen by Frank W. Darling. The footers were poured and the towering walls of timber soon began to take shape. It was originally thought that the Traver Engineering Company had been responsible for the construction of this ride; however, in 1983 the original blueprints, signed by Fred Church, were discovered in an attic at the park. These proved that Traver had nothing to do with the Airplane. Construction was completed in early 1928, and the coaster opened on May 26 of that year. After exiting the curved loading station, the coaster made a 90º turn to the left and began climbing the lift. After the lift, the track dipped straight into a tight, left hand turn. Then the track dropped straight into a tunnel, faded slightly to the right, and climbed. The next drop was a descending right hand spiral that banked so hard that riders were thrown to one side and rattled around. The rest of the layout was full of spiralling drops and high speed plunges.

Airplane Coaster?

The Airplane coaster was a phenomenal ride because of many factors. The ride was extremely fast and full of curves so that riders never knew what to expect. The track crossed over, under, and through its own structure often, and also travelled alongside its structure for much of the ride. The presence of the structure and groves of trees close to the track created a feeling of great speed over the entire ride. Its two whirlpool sections and distinctive “bottleneck” created a symmetry that was extremely visually appealing. At night, Airplane was an incredible sight, lit with lights all along its structure. Known originally as Airplane Dips, its name was changed to Aero-coaster and then finally to Airplane Coaster. For almost thirty years the it stood majestically over Long Island Sound, terrifying its riders. In 1957 Airplane ran its last train and thrilled its last passenger. Later that year Fred Church’s great masterpiece was dismantled.

Playland is also home to the Kiddie Coaster, built in 1928. It is an ACE Coaster Classic.

In 1966, an historic fire claimed some of Rye Playland’s classic and most beloved attractions, such as the original Bumper Car ride, as well as the famous “Magic Carpet” Fun House. The Magic Carpet Fun House allowed visitors to be able to enter into this attraction, traveling through mysterious and magical corridors and passageways, ane one would eventually get to the center of the Fun House. Once inside the center of the fun house, visitors were able to travel on wobbly walkways, that also sometimes shot out a blast of air. Also inside was a large walk-through barrel, a spinning circular ride and an inside carpet slide that amused many visitors.

The latest coaster to be installed is “Super Flight,” in which the rider lies on their stomach, in a caged car with three other people, all in a single row. Cars are released one at a time, allowing multiple cars to be at different spots on the coaster at the same time. The coaster contains two 360 degree turns; giving the riders a zero-gravity experience.

Until the beginning of the 2002-2003 NHL season, the New York Rangers hockey team practiced at the Playland Ice Casino. Currently, the hockey team from Manhattanville College, located in nearby Purchase, New York, plays its home games at Playland.

Free Entertainment

Playland features entertainment performances on its main stage on the north side of the park towards Manursing Lake. 2006 included the dance show Oh-Zone as well as Magic and Spice featuring magician Brendon Yancey. In 2007 it had New York Nights and Shakin’ at the ‘High School Hop’; a “Grease” style performance. In 2008 dance shows included ‘I Hear America Singing’ a mix of new pop songs and ‘Summer Cruisin’ a mish-mash of 50’s and 60’s songs.

There is also strolling entertainment including kids dance and singing shows, costumed characters and drum acts that occur multiple times a day.

Free Concert Series

Playland features a free concert series every summer that is sponsored by tri-state radio stations, Pepsi, CulinArt, Manhattan Beer Distributors, Westchester County and the Westchester County Parks Department. The free concerts are usually on Thursdays and Fridays in July and August.

In 2007, Plain White T’s performed on July 31, Bowling for Soup on August 9, and Teddy Geiger on August 23. The Plain White T’s attracted a very large crowd at around 12,500 people.

In 2008, four Free Concerts were scheduled at Rye Playland. On May 24: the new Menudo performed. On July 18th: Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child, George LaMond, Kim Sozzi, and DJ Serg performed. On August 7th, second runner up on American Idol Elliott Yamin performed. Finally, on August 14th, British pop star Natasha Bedingfield performed to a crowd of over 15,000 in the rain.

Past free concerts at the park include Joan Jett, Lifehouse, Cindy Lauper, The Bangles, Daniel Bedingfield and Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.

Film appearances

Playland Beach

• The 1984 film The Muppets Take Manhattan features a scene filmed in Playland, although the scene is set in Michigan.
• Playland was the amusement park featured in the 1988 movie Big starring Tom Hanks, where “Zoltar the Magnificent” fortune teller machine induces Hanks to become younger.
• Playland appears in a scene from the film Fatal Attraction with Glenn Close.
• The park is featured in the Woody Allen film Sweet and Lowdown (1999) starring Sean Penn.
• In 2004, the Playland beach was used for the film Tenderness with Russell Crowe, it is set for release in 2008.

TV appearances

• “BET Now” taped a series of episodes from around the park including the pool, beach, boardwalk, Double Shot and Carousel on Friday July 25, 2008. The episodes aired the week of July 28, 2008.
• The third episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark, “The Tale of Laughing in the Dark,” takes place in an amusement park called Playland, however, it was not filmed at the actual park.
• The Naked Brothers Band made a free live appearance at Playland on Friday, August 24th at 6pm on the Music Tower Stage. They were taping an episode for the second season of their Nickelodeon show.
• Mariah Carey filmed 1995’s “Fantasy” music video, including appearances on the Boardwalk, the Dragon Coaster and the parking lot.
• In 1980 the entire amusement park was used for a storyline on one of Procter & Gamble’s soap opera’s that they produced - CBS’s/ABC’s The Edge Of Night.

Deaths

There have been five deaths at Playland since 1920. See Incidents at independent parks for more information.

See also

• Incidents at independent parks
• Playland Parkway

References

1. ^ “National Register Information System”. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23. http://www.nr.nps.gov/. 
2. ^ ^{a b} “Playland Amusement Park”. National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. 2007-09-18. http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1835&ResourceType=District. 
3. ^ . National Park Service. 1979-10-22. “Playland Amusement Park”, October 22, 1979, by Karen Morey KennedyPDF (2.75 MiB). 
4. ^ . National Park Service. 1979-10-22. Playland Amusement Park–Accompanying 7 photos, from 1980.PDF (679 KiB). 
5. ^ ACE Coaster Classic Awards

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