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Remember that cool house from Ferris Bueller's Day Off?

punkfloyd — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:21:21 -0800

Remember that cool house from Ferris Bueller's Day Off? Yeah...well it's for sale. Great house as long as you don't have a frustrated teenager and a Ferrari.

Big Wheel Keeps on Turning

grouse — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 03:21:57 -0800

Ferris wheels making a comeback. Wheels across the world, past, present, and future, big and small. Graphic comparing various wheels. The London Eye. The Singapore Flyer. A triple Ferris Wheel that closed 10 years ago. And George Washington Gale Ferris's 1893 wheel that started it all.

KKK: You must be THIS bigoted to ride this ferris wheel

spock — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:35:11 -0800

Somehow the Canon City, Colorado branch of the KKK was not quite as fear-inspiring as their brethren to the South. Home page.

The White City

sodalinda — Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:57:02 -0800

This book was discussed last week, but in all the fuss about serial killers, we may have missed the extraordinary setting of the book: The 1893 World's Fair. The white city had some of the most beautiful architecture Chicago has ever seen, some of which still survives today. Of course, there are better remembered world's fairs, but the Chicago fair of 1893 is where the ferris wheel was invented, the pledge of allegiance was popularized, and PBR made its national debut.