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This is a on ride POV of the Sky Tower ride at Sea World Orlando. I believe it opened with the park on Dec 15, 1973. It is Sea World's oldest opperating ride and costs extra to ride it as it always has. The tower is about 330ft/100.58m tall, but the observation pod rises only to the 300ft/91.44m mark which affords everyone a spectacular view of the area, including Walt Disney World, Universal Studios Orlando, and downtown Orlando.

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This is the Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit roller coaster at Universal Studios in Orlando, FL. This was built and designed by Maurer Sohne and it's the largest coaster they've ever built. This coaster is one of the most unique coasters ever built. To start out, there's the world's tallest vertical lift at 167ft tall, then it drops you right into the worlds first non inverting loop, then a run through the trim brakes and into the Treble Cleff turn around which runs through a wall and around a ...

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This is the Harry Potter Construction update when I was there on 10-4-09. In this video, you can see Hogwarts Castle Tower is now at it's full height. This is where the dark ride will be, it can also be seen from Interstate 4

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This is a video of Woody Woodpecker's Nuthouse Coaster at Universal Studios in Orlando, FL. This coaster opened in 1999 and is a standard Junior coaster (207m) from Vekoma. It's 679ft 2in/207.02m long, 27ft 11in/8.26m high, with a top speed of 21.7mph/34.9kmh, and a ride time of 44 seconds.

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This is the Mystic Fountain at Universal's Islands of Adventure. It sits just outside of the *th Voyage of Sinbad in the Lost Continent section of Islands of Adventure. This fountain opened with the rest of the park on 5/28/1999. It has many water jets located in the mouth and in the beard as well as a circular fountain and water bombs up top. I always watch when the fountain is "awake" as it can be pretty funny at times, especially with a few familys around.

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This is the burial site of Benjamin Franklin. He's buried with his wife, Deborah at the Christ Church Burial Ground at the corner of 5th St and Arch St. There are four other signers of the Declaration of Independence in this burial ground as well as one of the two surveyers of the Mason-Dixon Line. Unfortunately, they have no idea where Mr Mason is buried as some of the records from that time were lost to posterity. Also, people that were buried before the Civil War were placed where there ...

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This is a video of the Pennsylvania Turnpike from New Stanton to the Susquehanna River Bridge. This video includes a drive through of the following tunnels in order, the Allegheny, Tuscarora, Kittatinny, and Blue Mountain tunnels allong with a shot of the South Somerset (eatsbound side) travel plaza at the 112 mile marker and some scenic shots of Pennsylvania. The following are the orinigal tunnels from when the turnpike first opened, eastbound of the Allegheny and Tuscarora Mountain tunnel ...

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This is a video of Independence Square which includes Independence Hall in the first 11 scenes, Congress Hall where the house of Reprasentatives met on the first floor and the Senate met on the second floor followed by two meeting rooms, then the Supreme Court Chamber, also known as the old City Hall.

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This is a video of the room where we declared our Independence from England and where our government was formed. The entire presentation was thirteen minutes long so unfortunately, I had to cut the first three minutes off. During that time, he talked about how the actual date was July 2, 1776 as that was the date the actual vote took place. The reason we celebrate it on the 4th of July is that's when the Declaration of Independence was finalized and released to the public. It should be noted ...

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This is the Liberty Bell Museum located right across the stree from Pennsylvania's State House also known as Independence Hall in the historic section of Philadelphia, PA. Admision to the Liberty Bell Museum as well as Independence Hall is free curtisy of the US National Park Service. I learned quite a bit about the bell that wasn,t taught in school. The most interesting thing was when I learned what the number 7 meant when Allen Sheppard named his capsule "Liberty Bell 7". I never ...

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