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/ August 5, 2026
Pipeline: The Surf Coaster made history when it opened at SeaWorld Orlando on May 27, 2023, debuting as the world’s first B&M Surf Coaster and the first new stand-up roller coaster design since 1999’s Georgia Scorcher. Manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard, the ride reimagines the
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/ August 4, 2026
Edinburgh Zoo has announced the birth of a pygmy hippo calf to parents Gloria and Otto, born on Friday, July 31, 2026, just hours after the zoo publicly revealed Gloria was pregnant. Keepers had expected the birth in August, so the early arrival caught the
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/ August 4, 2026
Boone Pickens Stadium has served as the home of Oklahoma State University football in Stillwater, Oklahoma, since the site first opened as Lewis Field on October 2, 1920. The venue was renamed in 2003 to honor OSU alumnus and oil executive T. Boone Pickens, whose
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/ August 4, 2026
Husky Stadium has been the home of Washington Huskies football on the University of Washington campus in Seattle since it opened on November 27, 1920. Built into a hillside overlooking Lake Washington and the Cascade Mountains, the stadium’s open east end and U-shaped bowl give
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/ August 4, 2026
The EARL, short for East Atlanta Restaurant and Lounge, is a beloved live music venue, bar, and restaurant located at 488 Flat Shoals Avenue in Atlanta’s East Atlanta Village neighborhood. Opened in July 1999 by John Searson, a local resident who had no prior restaurant
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/ August 4, 2026
Cat’s Cradle is a live music venue and nightclub in Carrboro, North Carolina, located less than a mile from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus. Founded in 1969 by Marcia Wilson, Mike Cross, and Larry Reynolds, it started as a basement space
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/ August 4, 2026
The Stone Pony is a live music club at 913 Ocean Avenue on the Asbury Park, New Jersey boardwalk. It opened in February 1974 in a building that had previously housed a restaurant and beer garden called Mrs. Jay’s, and it quickly became a proving
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/ August 4, 2026
Ueno Zoo sits inside Ueno Park in Taitō, Tokyo, and has operated continuously since March 20, 1882, making it Japan’s oldest zoological garden. Over nearly a century and a half it has grown from an early Meiji-era menagerie into the country’s most-visited zoo, home to
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/ August 4, 2026
The Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, known simply as the Chengdu Panda Base, is a non-profit research and conservation facility founded in 1987 in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. It began with just six giant pandas rescued from the wild and has grown into the
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/ August 4, 2026
Beijing Zoo is the oldest zoological garden in China, tracing its roots to 1906 when it was established as a menagerie and botanical garden during the late Qing dynasty. It formally opened its gates to the public on June 16, 1908, for an admission price
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/ August 4, 2026
Skull Mountain is the enclosed, mine-cart-style indoor coaster hidden inside a giant skull-faced mountain at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey. It has been a park staple since 1996, and while it doesn’t chase the height and speed records of neighbors like
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/ August 4, 2026
Gold Striker is the wooden roller coaster at California’s Great America in Santa Clara, California, and the reason enthusiasts make the trip to the South Bay on its own. Built by Great Coasters International (GCI) and designed by Jeff Pike, it opened on May 31,
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/ August 3, 2026
Kumba, one of Busch Gardens Tampa Bay’s signature roller coasters, took its final ride on Sunday, August 2, 2026, closing permanently after 33 years of operation. The Bolliger & Mabillard steel looper had been a Tampa Bay thrill-ride staple since it opened on April 21,
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/ August 3, 2026
Doak Campbell Stadium, officially Bobby Bowden Field at Doak S. Campbell Stadium, has been the home of Florida State Seminoles football in Tallahassee, Florida since it opened on October 7, 1950. Named for Doak S. Campbell, the university’s first president, the stadium later added Bobby
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/ August 3, 2026
Autzen Stadium is the home football venue of the Oregon Ducks, sitting along the Willamette River just north of the University of Oregon campus in Eugene. Opened in 1967, it has grown from a modest 41,000-seat bowl into a roughly 54,000-seat facility renowned as one
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/ August 3, 2026
Rockefeller Oslo is a concert venue in downtown Oslo, Norway, entered from Mariboes gate 5B. It occupies a building known as Torggata Bad, or “Market Street Bath,” which once housed a public bathing facility before the space was converted into one of the city’s leading
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/ August 3, 2026
Zénith Paris, officially Zénith Paris – La Villette, is a multi-purpose indoor concert arena in the Parc de la Villette in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, France. It opened on January 12, 1984, replacing the Hippodrome de Pantin, a circus tent that had previously served
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/ August 3, 2026
La Cigale is a concert hall and theatre at 120 boulevard de Rochechouart in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, just steps from Place Pigalle. Built in 1887 on the site of the former Boule Noire cabaret and rebuilt in 1894 under architect Henry Grandpierre, the
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/ August 3, 2026
Prague Zoo opened its gates on 28 September 1931 in the Troja district along the Vltava River, founded under director Jiří Janda. Nearly a century later, it has grown into one of the most respected zoos in the world, prized for its hilly, naturalistic terrain
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/ August 3, 2026
Tiergarten Schönbrunn, known internationally as Vienna Zoo, opened on July 31, 1752, on the grounds of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria. Founded by Francis Stephen of Lorraine as an imperial menagerie for the Habsburg court, it holds the distinction of being the world’s oldest zoo
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