1889 was the year the very first ride, a 60-foot toboggan-like waterslide was built along the bank in what would become Arnolds Park Amusement Park in Arnolds Park, Iowa. Located in the heart of a resort area known as the Iowa Great Lakes, you can see that ride in the background ...
Matchbox’s release of Monster in My Pocket had kids in the ’80s hiding plastic figurines in their garments. Inspired by true-to-life monsters from mythology, religion, literature, and film, the brightly colored toys first sold based on a “scary” point series, with the Great Beast from ...
As a teacher in high school teaching English, I often used small group discussions or group projects to let students be creative and interactive with the literature. However, I think that what they learned about mutual respect and cooperation was far more important than what they learned about ...
But it was certainly an intriguing read, if not exactly brilliant literature. It's basically hastily thrown-together pulp fiction, padded out with passages borrowed from multiple sources (not just Stoker) and markedly interested in theories of evolutionary degeneration and the supremacy of a superior...