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/ September 3, 2026
Texas Cyclone was a wooden roller coaster that opened on June 12, 1976, at Six Flags AstroWorld in Houston, Texas. It was built as a near mirror-image tribute to the original Coney Island Cyclone in New York, after AstroWorld’s operators decided it would be too
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/ August 29, 2026
Arrow Dynamics was an American roller coaster manufacturer whose engineering breakthroughs defined the modern steel coaster industry. Tracing its roots to Arrow Development, founded in Mountain View, California in 1946 by Ed Morgan and Karl Bacon, the company reorganized under the Arrow Dynamics name in
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/ August 29, 2026
Anton Schwarzkopf was a German engineer who took over his family’s business in 1960 and turned it into Schwarzkopf Industries GmbH, one of the most influential roller coaster manufacturers of the 20th century. Based in Münsterhausen, Bavaria, the company built rides that traveled with European
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/ August 17, 2026
Volcano: The Blast Coaster was an inverted launched roller coaster at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, that thrilled riders from 1998 until its abrupt closure in 2018. Built by Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel, it made history as the world’s first inverted launched coaster
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/ August 16, 2026
Son of Beast was a towering wooden roller coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, that opened on April 28, 2000, as the tallest and fastest wooden coaster in the world. Built by the Roller Coaster Corporation of America with track design by Werner Stengel’s
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/ August 16, 2026
Mean Streak was a wooden roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, that opened on May 11, 1991, in the park’s Frontier Town section. Designed by Curtis D. Summers and built by the Dinn Corporation from more than 1.5 million board feet of treated
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/ August 8, 2026
Miami Seaquarium opened on September 24, 1955, on Virginia Key in Biscayne Bay, Florida, and was, at the time, billed as the largest marine-life attraction in the world. Founded by Fred D. Coppock and Captain W.B. Gray, the 38-acre oceanarium became one of the oldest
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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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/ July 18, 2026
Silverstone Circuit began life as a wartime bomber base, its concrete runways and perimeter roads repurposed for racing almost by accident once the war ended. Within two years it was hosting the very first round of the Formula 1 World Championship, and more than seven
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/ July 14, 2026
Lincoln Park Zoo sits along Chicago’s lakefront in the neighborhood that shares its name, and it has welcomed visitors free of charge since it opened in 1868. That makes it one of the oldest zoos in the United States, predating most of the country’s major
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/ July 1, 2026
Municipal Stadium stood at 2123 Brooklyn Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, serving the city’s sports fans for nearly five decades under four different names. Originally built in 1923 as Muehlebach Field for $400,000, the park became the heart of Kansas City athletics, hosting minor league
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/ July 1, 2026
Sicks’ Stadium opened on June 15, 1938, in Seattle’s Rainier Valley as the home of the Seattle Rainiers of the Pacific Coast League. Named after Emil Sick, the Rainier Brewing Company owner who financed its construction, the ballpark originally seated around 11,000 fans and became
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/ June 30, 2026
Roosevelt Stadium stood at Droyer’s Point in Jersey City, New Jersey, as one of the finest minor league ballparks of its era. Built with $1.5 million in federal Works Progress Administration funds and designed by architect Christian H. Ziegler in the Art Deco style, the
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/ June 30, 2026
Washington Park was the collective name for three successive Major League Baseball stadiums built on two adjacent sites in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, near the intersection of Third Street and Fourth Avenue. The grounds took their name from George Washington, whose
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/ June 27, 2026
Vetch Field was a football stadium on Glamorgan Street, Swansea, Wales, and served as the home of Swansea City A.F.C. — then known as Swansea Town — from the club’s formation in 1912 until 2005. The ground took its name from the vetch legume plant
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/ June 20, 2026
Goldstone Ground stood on Old Shoreham Road in Hove, East Sussex, and served as the home of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. for 95 years. First used for football in September 1901, the ground became Brighton’s permanent base from the 1902–03 season and grew into
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/ June 20, 2026
The Victoria Ground, known affectionately as ‘The Vic’, served as the home of Stoke City F.C. from March 1878 to May 1997 — a span of 119 years that made it the longest-tenured ground in English Football League history. Located in Stoke-on-Trent, the stadium took
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/ June 17, 2026
Filbert Street was a football ground in Leicester, England, that served as the home of Leicester City F.C. from 1891 to 2002. The club, founded in 1884 as Leicester Fosse, played their first match at the ground on 7 November 1891 and remained there for
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/ June 16, 2026
Sportsman’s Park stood at the corner of Grand Boulevard and Dodier Street on the north side of St. Louis, Missouri, serving as one of baseball’s most storied addresses for more than six decades. The modern steel-and-concrete structure opened on April 23, 1902, as home to
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/ June 16, 2026
Crosley Field stood at the corner of Findlay Street and Western Avenue in Cincinnati’s Queensgate neighborhood for nearly six decades, serving as the home of the Cincinnati Reds from its opening on April 11, 1912, until the club relocated to Riverfront Stadium in 1970. Originally
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