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Diggin' It
You’re an archeologist searching for a lost desert city. A Navy Seabee helping build the Burma Road. You’re James Bond commandeering a bulldozer to get away from the bad guys. Or you’re just a guy digging a really, really big ditch....Tags: Heavy Engineering, Manufacturing and Engineering, Personal Service, Trips and Vacations, Travel
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Britain: Horror attraction combines dark ride with haunted maze
A unique new haunted attraction opening this summer at a small United Kingdom theme park will combine a walk-through horror maze featuring live actors with a dark ride journey inside an abandoned mine shaft. The Hobs Pit maze and ride is set to open...
Tags: Marketing, Frankenstein (movie, 1931), Tourism and Leisure, Trips and Vacations, Media Industry
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'Brady Bunch' kids reunite to celebrate Kings Island episode
Kings Island, an Ohio amusement park, doesn't get the headlines and attention of Disneyland and Disney World, but for a shining moment in 1973 it was the center of the pop culture universe. Why? Because those lovable Brady kids from "The Brady Bunch"...
Tags: Eminem, Trips and Vacations, MSNBC (tv network), Christopher Knight (actor), Arrested Development (tv program)
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'Medieval Times: The Movie' - coming soon to a theater near you?
And so, with Hollywood having pillaged every other conceivable milieu for intellectual content – toys (“Transformers,” “G.I. Joe: Retaliation,” “Bratz: The Movie”), video games (“Mortal Kombat,”...
Tags: The Hangover (movie), Trips and Vacations, Entertainment, G.I. Joe: Retaliation (movie), Travel
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Prince Harry tours Sandy-battered N.J.: 'This used to be a house?'
Britain's Prince Harry expressed astonishment at the damage still evident on the New Jersey shore from Hurricane Sandy on Tuesday as he toured hard-hit towns and took in the view of the historic Seaside Heights roller coaster, which was washed into the...
Tags: Jersey Shore (tv program), Greenwich, Human Interest, Imperial and Royal Matters, Entertainment
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Poll: Where should Vin Scully's voice be heard?
Readers are talking a lot about a man who talks for a living: Vin Scully. Times data editor Doug Smith's Op-Ed article Tuesday musing on "the voice of L.A." closed with a question: "As far as I'm concerned, the voice of L.A. should be heard every day in...
Tags: Cheesecake Factory, Apple iPhone, Jack in the Box Incorporated, Los Angeles Dodgers, Juan Uribe
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What the future may hold for Tomorrowland at Disneyland
The eternal problem with Tomorrowland is that the commonplace reality of today inevitably catches up to and ultimately surpasses the ultramodern imagined future of yesterday. Disneyland's forward-looking land of tomorrow has seen many evolutions since...
Tags: Tron Legacy (movie) , Star Wars (movie), Tourism and Leisure, Trips and Vacations, Iron Man 3 (movie)
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What may come to Wizarding World of Harry Potter 2.0 at Universal Orlando
After a year of construction, Universal Orlando has finally admitted that the Wizarding World of Harry Potter will expand in 2014 with a detailed re-creation of London's Diagon Alley from the wildly popular series of books and movies. Photos: Top 10...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Artists, Tourism and Leisure, Trips and Vacations, Travel
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Top 20 water parks in the world
By now, everybody knows what to expect from your standard-issue ho-hum water park: body and tube slide complexes with funnels and bowls, deluge-inducing water play towers for the little ones, undulating wave pools and relaxing lazy rivers. Photos: 20...
Tags: Aquatica, Tourism and Leisure, Trips and Vacations, Wildlife, Amusement (movie)
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Gibson Amphitheatre to close, make room for Harry Potter attraction
A celebrated musical venue will close at Universal City to make way for a new magical venue. The Gibson Amphitheatre, a 6,100-seat hall that has hosted the likes of Frank Sinatra, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton, will close in September, clearing...
Tags: Bob Dylan, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Trips and Vacations, Tourism and Leisure, Fiction
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Disney dreamer turns boyhood passion into lifelong career
As a guy who started his own company before he graduated from high school, Garner Holt is just a big kid who owns a giant toy factory. "I feel like I've never worked a day in my life," said the founder and president of Garner Holt Productions, the...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, Tourism and Leisure, Schools, Trips and Vacations, Media Industry
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Legoland Hotel is built, brick by brick, with kids in mind
CARLSBAD, Calif. — The Legoland Hotel, which opened April 5, got plenty of little things wrong in its first weeks. But its designers got one thing enormously right, and that will make this place a screaming success: kid-centricity. "The dragon...
Tags: Electronics, Science and Technology, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Tourism and Leisure
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