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  FAIRYLAND - FACTS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Created in 1950, Children’s Fairyland is a historic 10 acre outdoor park and educational facility in which children’s literature is "brought to life" through fairy tale exhibits, animals, and talking storybooks that children activate by turning a "Magic Key".
Fairyland is located at 699 Bellevue Avenue in Oakland, California (just inside the main entrance of Lakeside Park) at the intersection of Grand Avenue and Bellevue Avenue on the north side of Oakland’s Lake Merritt.
Children's Fairyland is a renowned regional storybook park dedicated to stimulating a child's imagination, creativity and desire to learn through fairytales, fantasy sets, performing arts, animals and related exhibits and programs.
www.fairyland.org /facts.html   (396 words)

  
 Children's Fairyland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Children's Fairyland, U.S.A. was the first theme park created to cater to families with young children.
Fairyland was built in 1950 by the Oakland Lake Merritt Breakfast Club.
The park was nationally recognized for it's unique value, and during the City Beautiful movement of the 1950s it inspired numerous towns to create their own parks.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/children_s_fairyland   (593 words)

  
 Fairyland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In 1994, a nonprofit corporation was established to operate and manage Fairyland, allowing the park to apply for bond money, grants, and contributions.
This year Fairyland also took great pride in the success of their new School Readiness Outreach Program.
Fairyland is often the first experience many children have with animals, because their animals "aren't scary." Their park is also one of the first experiences many urban children have with vegetable gardening through the Summer Camp programs and field trips.
www.familyworks.org /magazine/1-05Issue/fairyland.html   (748 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Fairyland: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
For two-thirds of its length Fairyland is an enjoyable character-driven science fantasy, but unfortunately it falls at the final hurdle with an overly obscure and anticlimactic ending.
Fairyland also suffers in comparison with Richard Calder’s Dead Girls – another novel that tackles the idea of engineered dolls gaining their freedom, only with a lot more style and emotion.
Fairyland is patchy and rather staid in comparison, but this is still an interesting read for sf fans.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0575600314   (1017 words)

  
 Recreation Centers & Facilities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Children's Fairyland was the first three-dimensional storybook theme park in the U.S. It was build for $50,000 in 1950.
For thirty years, Children's Fairyland remained a treasure that welcomed 10 million visitors including Walt Disney, who was so impressed with the children's park that he based his theme park on Fairyland and enticed its first director, Dorothy Manes, to become his director.
Fairyland is in the midst of a major renovation project meant to improve customer service and achieve self-sufficiency to include a new exciting and vibrant entrance, an expanded restaurant facility and a larger gift shop.
www.oaklandnet.com /parks/facilities/points_childrens_fairyland.asp   (220 words)

  
 Toddler Heaven - Camping in Fairyland. By Michael Lewis
Fairyland is a toddler-sized Disneyland smack in the middle of Oakland.
Every other day she has asked me, "When are we going camping in Fairyland?" or "Can we sleep in a tent up today?" She's never been camping or slept in a tent and can't possibly know what any of it means.
Tallulah is more interested in the fact that she appears to have Fairyland entirely to herself, and she rushes off past the Ferris wheel to pet the donkeys.
www.slate.com /?id=2067301   (1712 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Children's Fairyland
Lake Merritt, Fairyland includes 10 acres (40,000 m²) of play sets, small rides, and animals.
He was also the creator of an American-based theme park called Disneyland, and the founder of the highly profitable...
Walt Disney even came to Fairyland often to get ideas for This article is about Disneyland in California.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Children%27s-Fairyland   (1001 words)

  
 RPG Vault: Mystic Journey: Fairyland USA Interview
Fairyland is a game developed in Taiwan by Lager Interactive in 2002.
Fairyland is a very hot game in Southeast Asia and Asia Pacific.
Since Fairyland's background was created with western traditional fairytales that are loved by everyone, young and old, we believe this online game will do well, judging by the response of our testers and players.
rpgvault.ign.com /articles/610/610217p1.html   (877 words)

  
 George Monbiot » Media Fairyland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
On Thursday, the fairy king of fairyland will be re-crowned.
He was elected on a platform suspended in mid air by the power of imagination.
Anyone who tries to bring the people back down to earth is denounced as a traitor and a fantasist.
www.monbiot.com /archives/2005/01/18/media-fairyland-   (924 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Fairyland: Books: Paul J. McAuley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
With FAIRYLAND-- his most compelling, vividly imagined work to date he firmly establishes himself as one of today's major talents in the world of speculative fiction.
The two processes have come together to produce a new species of intelligent dolls called "fairies" who are being manipulated by artificial intelligence constructs to take over the world (creating their own "fairyland") and eliminate their human creators.
Alex Sharkey pursues Fairyland, Utopia, his Little Miss, and it is all like being stretched on the rack.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0380794292?v=glance   (1588 words)

  
 Fairyland
So they said their goodbyes and were off but then Julia’s mom stopped them and asked if they would take Julia with them, they said they would and then her mom continued, it would be the biggest adventure she ever had.
Now Julia knew this was going to be the biggest adventure she ever had because she’d never been this far out of fairyland before and she was excited.
Then they all decided to go back to fairyland but when they said the magic password someone they had not been warned about spotted them.
www.goodnightstories.com /read/story119.htm   (1746 words)

  
 peeps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Peeps Into Fairyland are Scotlands newest exponents of alternative country.
With a large number of very well received gigs in Scotland and a high profile UK tour supporting Idlewild under their belts the live scene is sure to embrace Peeps Into Fairyland.
Muddy Water/last Day is a truly great single and is more than likely to become a classic."Muddy Water" is the more catchier and more easily accessible of the two tracks, and it is superbly complimented by the slower and slightly darker "Last Day".
www.roisinrecs.demon.co.uk /peeps.html   (133 words)

  
 .::. Fairyland .::. Account Registration .::.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Fairyland requires that you be at least 13 years of age to register for an account.
Fairyland users must abide by the Fairyland Rules of Conduct.
By submitting this registration, I agree to be bounded by Fairyland User Agreement and Rules of Conduct.
www.fairyland-europe.com /members/signup.php   (1821 words)

  
 Fairyland to go pay-for-play in two months - INQ7.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
AFTER half a year of beta testing, the new multiplayer online game Fairyland is set to start a pay-for-play scheme in two months, paid for either by traditional prepaid cards or through mobile phone electronic loading.
Fairyland is being distributed in the Philippines by the Cebu-based Beetlerock Inc.
Though he did not specify exact figures, Arculli said the number of Fairyland players during the beta testing was in the five-digits range.
beta.inq7.net /infotech/index.php?index=1&story_id=44661   (457 words)

  
 Fairyland Ballroom Archive Page, Long Grove (Dewitt), Iowa--Ballroom is Closed Permanently
Fairyland is NOT closing: it will be available as a rental hall only.
Fairyland Park Ballroom Lunch & Supper Club is open year round for lunches, Friday night dinners, receptions, dances, meetings and civic events.
Fairyland Park is a rental facility only as of 2002.
soli.inav.net /%7edance/fairyland.html   (625 words)

  
 Lady K's Fairyland devoted to Kula Shaker and Crispian Mills
Lady K bids you a warm welcome to Fairyland.
Fairyland used to be a site exclusively devoted to Kula Shaker, but now (since 3 November '99), I also have a Crispian Mills site.
I will leave you now, and hope you will have a pleasant stay in Fairyland and do come again soon.
users.compaqnet.be /fairyland   (176 words)

  
 Fairyland Airedale Terrier   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Fairyland also obtained many placements with Fairyland for Ever Good Florence, Ch.
Fairylands is at its sixth generation of dogs, bred at home.
Fairyland Candy our last champion winning during 1996, judged by the Australian judge Gisela Lesh.
www.todoservicio.com.ar /personal/cristofa/candy_i.htm   (181 words)

  
 FileFront - The Most Gaming Files on the Web   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The world of FairyLand is located on the continent of Mysteria where elves, dwarves and humans each have a kingdom of their own.
From then on, anyone can live the wonderful tales passed down through the ages and be part of them.
Anything and everything is limited only by our imagination, in the world of FairyLand.
files.filefront.com /3598306   (759 words)

  
 Fairyland
Playlands owners, George and Leo Whitney were hired by Disney as advisors and Disney made a trip to the San Francisco Bay Area to inspect Playland.
When he was here George suggested that they cross the bay and go to Oakland to see Fairyland.
They notified Fairyland that Walt Disney was on his way over there and Fairyland, aware of the publicity potential, called the local news media.
www.elvision.com /tunneloflaffs/fairyland   (317 words)

  
 Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland - Twelve Stories and a Dream - H.G. Wells, Book, etext
And of that night I am in doubt whether he was in Fairyland proper or out where the rings and rushes are, in those low meadows near the railway line at Smeeth.
And he, you know, hypnotised as it were by his earthly position, went his way with her hither and thither, blind to everything in Fairyland but this wonderful intimacy that had come to him.
It is hard, it is impossible, to give in print the effect of her radiant sweetness shining through the jungle of poor Skelmersdale’s rough and broken sentences.
whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au /words/authors/W/WellsHerbertGeorge/prose/twlelveanddream/skelmersdale.html   (4575 words)

  
 Fairyland players support Internet literacy program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Recognizing this fact, Beetlerock, Inc., the company behind the online gaming community of Fairyland, has been supporting private companies and civic organizations in their initiative to provide Internet access and basic Internet literacy programs to all public secondary schools in the Philippines.
Players of Fairyland took part in Beetlerock’s charity drive by using their hard earned in-game coins to buy virtual apples, which cost 1,000 coins each (normally priced at less than 10 coins).
What’s more, for each $2 donated by Beetlerock and the Fairylander, the GILAS consortium in turn matches this with an equivalent $2 donation.
www.thefreeman.com /community/index.php?fullstory=1&issue=articles_20050422&id=29588   (290 words)

  
 Berkeley Parents Network: Children's Fairyland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Fairyland in Oakland is one-of-a-kind and is really getting shined up.
Although I haven't been there in years, Fairyland at Lake Merritt in Oakland is a fun and inexpensive place to take little kids.
The opinions and statements expressed on this website are those of parents who subscribe to the Berkeley Parents Network.
parents.berkeley.edu /recommend/places/fairyland.html   (156 words)

  
 Children's Fairyland staging puppetry festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Children's Fairyland on Lake Merritt in Oakland is the subject of a book and to celebrate, the storybook park will host a weekend of special events.
The first of two large-scale puppet shows in Fairyland's Main Plaza area is on Jan. 31.
For the children: Three bands are playing at a benefit concert for the Middle East Children Alliance, which is providing humanitarian aid for Iraqi and Palestinian children.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/01/23/EBGOP4DIKK1.DTL   (686 words)

  
 OldKC.com - Vintage Pictures of Kansas City Amusement Parks
Kansas City, MO - Fairyland Park - Circa '30s-'40s
Kansas City, MO - Fairyland Park - Ferris Wheel and Teeter Dip (1945) - Copyright Raymond Crawford - Courtesy of Judy Crawford
Kansas City, MO - Fairyland Park Map - Circa 1961
www.oldkc.com /images_missouri_amusementparks.htm   (890 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | A televisual fairyland
On Thursday, the fairy king of fairyland will be recrowned.
As the website wsws.org has pointed out, it's hard to think of a single investigative story - Watergate, the My Lai massacre, Britain's arms to Iraq scandal - which could have been proved at the time by journalists "beyond a reasonable doubt".
But Turner did what was demanded of him, with the result that, in media fairyland, the atrocity is now deemed not to have happened.
www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,3604,1392770,00.html   (1078 words)

  
 S.H.E's Magic Fairyland concert to hit Beijing
Taiwan female singing group S.H.E's "Magic Fairyland" concert tour will come to Beijing's Worker's Stadium this September 23rd.
To give the audience a journey to fairyland, the stage will have a clover-shaped elevator, animal performance, fireworks and multimedia.
Since most of the fans are students, the pricing of the concert is below average and discounts will be available.
en.ce.cn /Life/entertainment/people/EPNews/200506/28/t20050628_4079318.shtml   (94 words)

  
 Fairyland cheats, Fairyland cheat codes PC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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www.abby-cheat.com /html/Pc_cheats/Fairyland_cheat.html   (148 words)

  
 prosperfahey.com » Blog Archive » Return to Fairyland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Nathan has his first official four-day weekend off from school this weekend.
As my friend Cory warned me, the more you pay for school, the more days your kids have off.
In an effort to ween Nathan from the thrills of Disneyland (which, by the way, he thinks we’re headed to each time we get in the car), we joined his friends Omar, Matthew, Emma and Cole for a trip to Children’s Fairyland.
www.prosperfahey.com /blog/2005/10/08/return-to-fairyland   (273 words)

  
 Cheat Codes Club - Fairyland Cheat Codes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
If you have difficulty using any of the cheats found on these sites, we recommend discussing Fairyland cheat codes on Game Score's Game Forums.
If none of these sites have decent Fairyland cheats, it probably means that Fairyland is either a very new game or that it just doesn't have any cheats.
Someone there can probably answer Fairyland game, cheat, or strategy questions and pretty much everything else related to gaming.
www.cheatcodesclub.com /search.php?gamename=Fairyland&system=all   (114 words)

  
 Fairyland Online 1.0 - Download Fairyland Online
You will be able to use the evaluation version available for download during a limited period, after what you will have to buy the full version to continue to use Fairyland Online.
Size of Fairyland Online 1.0 download is less than 492000 Kb.
DSL users will only need 256 minutes to achieve the download, when 1171 minutes may be required when using a 56k modem.
www.filesclub.com /download/fairyland_online_912873.html   (636 words)

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