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2 unusual facts about Playground


Marjory Allen, Lady Allen of Hurtwood

She campaigned for facilities for children growing up in the new high-rise developments in Britain's cities and wrote a series of illustrated books on the subject of playgrounds, and at least one book on adventure playgrounds, spaces for free creativity by children, which helped the idea spread worldwide.

Moerenuma Park

The park has some playground equipment, outdoor sports fields, and objects which are designed by Isamu Noguchi, a Japanese American artist.


Allen Shamblin

"Don't Laugh at Me" was a hit for Mark Wills and was later recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary resulting in a school program designed to teach children tolerance and prevent bullying in the playground.

American Cooperative School of Tunis

A three-year expansion project was completed in May 2006 and includes a new elementary playground space with new equipment, an amphitheatre and green space.

Arnold Hill Academy

A large "Dutch barn" meant a covered 'all weather playground' and served as a viable sports area for netball, basketball etc. when the weather was bad.

Barra Hall Park

The Barra Hall building was officially opened as town hall on 23 February 1924 and its grounds became a municipal park with playground, tennis courts and a paddling pool opened by music hall star Jessie Matthews.

Creative Playthings

Frank Caplan worked with such notable artists, architects, and designers as Isamu Noguchi, Louis Kahn, Henry Moore, and Robert Winston on comprehensive playground designs - although some of these designs were not fully realized.

Dimitris Pikionis

He utilized similar techniques in creating the children's playground of the municipality of Filothei, an affluent Athens suburb.

DWSM

It was instrumental in inspiring rock artists such as The Dawn, Identity Crisis, and Violent Playground.

Eleanor Tinsley Park

The park houses the Lee and Joe Jamail Skatepark, the Shady Grove Victim Memorial, a Henry Moore sculpture entitled "Large Spindle Piece", the Houston Police Officers' Memorial, Glenwood Cemetery, the San Felipe playground, jogging trails, and a sand pit which can be used for volleyball.

Emu Heights, New South Wales

Clissold Park is host to great diversity of Australia's fauna and flora and features basketball, netball and children's playground facilities.

Fourways

The mansion now serves Fourways as Norscot Manor Recreation Centre, the majority of it being a library, but also encompassing an art gallery, lessons for children in Irish & Highland dancing, Ballet, Biodanza, Indian and Modern dancing as well as Judo and Karate, a playground and a tea garden.

Frick Park

Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller's album Blue Slide Park, the first indie top of the charts recording in a quarter of a century, is named for this playground.

Gendron, Inc.

Catalogs from the 1950s and early 1960s show playground equipment and hand car racers with the trade name Howdy Doody.

Gene Wojciechowski

These works include The Bus: My Life In and Out of a Helmet (Doubleday 2007) with Jerome Bettis; I Love Being the Enemy: A Season on the Court with the NBA’s Best Shooter and Sharpest Tongue (Simon & Schuster 1995) with Reggie Miller; Nothing but Net: Just Give Me the Ball and Get Out of the Way (Hyperion Books 1995) with Bill Walton; and My Life on a Napkin: Pillow Mints, Playground Dreams and Coaching the Runnin’ Utes (Hyperion 1999) with Rick Majerus.

Glover Playgrounds

The playground on East Terrace was established in 1925 on the corner with Wakefield Street.

Despite maps to the contrary he had no relationship with the West Terrace playground.

Grand Lake, Louisiana

In November 2010, the state of Louisiana approved disaster recovery funds for infrastructure improvement projects with $9,054,344 going to Grand Lake High School for an addition to the Career and Technology Center, installation of two new emergency generators, renovations to the gym and cafeteria, construction of a pre-K playground, the addition of a new track facility and enhancements to the softball field.

Hawaiian language

However, Hawaiian was not taught initially in any school, including the all-Hawaiian Kamehameha Schools, and many children who spoke Hawaiian at school, including on the playground, were disciplined.

Heaven Is a Playground

Heaven Is a Playground is a 1976 book by Rick Telander.

Illescas, Toledo

Once a playground for kings, it lost its royal favour because of the Revolt of the Comuneros where Francisco de Guzman (a local) was an army captain of a commoner company of Juan de Padilla.

Joe Howell

Joe started his music career by working as a recording engineer in studios such as NYC's Chung King Studios, Playground studios under Untouchables/LaFace Entertainment, Sound on Sound, and Platinum Island.

John E. Swift

In 1950, after a Special Audience with Pope Pius XII, Swift instituted a fund for the purchase and construction of the last playground in Rome.

Jonathan Power

Jonathan received a Silver Medal at the Venice Film Festival, 1972, for the BBC documentary film,"It's Ours Whatever They Say", about a group of mothers who fight for a piece of railway land to be made into a playground after one of their children fell to his death while playing on the roof of their block of council flats.

Jurong Central Park

Jurong Central Park is a 8-ha regional park and the first in Singapore to have life-sized board-game features including life-sized Snakes and Ladders playground and Ludo Garden.

KMB Route 70

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Lord Anthony

It became a school playground legend and even the subject of a song by Belle & Sebastian on the album Dear Catastrophe Waitress.

Mat Osman

He co-wrote some of the band's songs, including "Lost in TV", "Europe Is Our Playground", "Attitude" and "Golden Gun".

Matt McGinn

After graduating, he trained to become a teacher at Huddersfield Teachers' Training College and went on to work as a teacher in Lanarkshire for three years before becoming the organiser of the Gorbals Adventure Playground.

Neal Macrossan

Macrossan was a warden of the council of the University of Queensland, president of the Playground (and Recreation) Association of Queensland, president of the Twelfth Night Theatre Company, and also President of the Royal Automobile Club of Queensland.

Newry, Pennsylvania

The two yearly events celebrated by the community, both held by St. Patrick's Parish, are the Lenten fish fries, held in the cafeteria of the school, and the summer festival, held near the end of July early August on the school playground and in the gymnasium.

Nina Kinert

In October 2007, she was featured on the Steve Jansen album Slope, singing on "Playground Martyrs (Reprise)" (another version of that song on the album featured Jansens' brother David Sylvian).

Pašino Brdo

Name of the playground is "Vrbica", celebrating Lazarus Saturday, called Vrbica in Serbian and generally considered a children's holiday.

Perot Museum of Nature and Science

Dallas Skyline Climber allows kids to traverse a miniature Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, climb a playground made of tiny Dallas landmarks that includes the Dallas County Courthouse, Reunion Tower, the Magnolia Hotel, Thanksgiving Tower and Neiman Marcus building.

Playground 52

Originally built in the 1950s as a playground for PS-52, the playground suffered decay during the 1970s.

Recreo

The city's economy is driven mainly by industries that export their products to other countries and the rest of the country, which are: food industries, Arcor, clothing, Fabrizzi; armed accumulator, Plaka, footwear, Willy; appliances, Barbero, textiles, Sabri and Tejica, minerals, ores of the Playground.

Rock 'n' Roll Star

The song's video consists of clips of the band performing the song from their Live by the Sea gig, interspersed with clips of them on Southend Pier, in and around the amusement park, 'Adventure Island' then named 'Peter Pan's Playground' and in the bowling alley which was located on Southend Pier before it burnt down in June 1995.

Satan's Playground

Satan's Playground is a 2006 American horror film directed and written by Dante Tomaselli, starring Felissa Rose, Ellen Sandweiss, and Edwin Neal.

Sofia Hellqvist

Since 2010 Hellqvist spends most of her time in Langa, South Africa with Project Playground a center for abused and orphaned children, a center she and her sister Frida Vesterberg has started together.

Spielplatz

Spielplatz (German for playground) is believed to be the UK's second oldest naturist club, and consists of 12 acres (5 hectares) (49,000 m²) located in the village of Bricket Wood, in the county of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.

Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

In Further Considerations on Afrofuturism, Kodwo Eshun explains that modernity has caused the growth of a new kind of esteem for the future, as the avant-garde’s playground.

Sveti Stefan

An Adriatic playground for the rich and famous from the 1960s to the 1980s, the hotel is now a 5-star franchise hotel of the international group of Aman Resorts, completed in 2009 and operating under a 30 year lease.

The Law of the Playground

The Law of the Playground is a British television series broadcast on Channel 4 produced by Zeppotron in which various British comedians and celebrities recollect the past times of childhood at school.

Tin Can Bay, Queensland

The seaside town is a popular holiday destination and launch pad to the aquatic playground of the Great Sandy Strait - a pristine waterway protected by World Heritage listed Fraser Island.

Tsing Yi Fire Station

The fire station is located between Tsing Yi Police Station, Chung Mei Road Temporary Playground, a telephone exchange of PCCW and under a Tin Hau Temple.

Victoria Playground, Hyderabad

Victoria Playground is a playground located in Hyderabad, India.


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