Escape The Colosseum at The Great Escape Room
A multi-room adventure of up to 100 minutes set in ancient Rome where you must follow Spartacus’ path to freedom!
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The Great Escape Room is one of the oldest escape rooms in the United States with 12 locations throughout the country
-Florida: Jacksonville, Orlando, Miami, Tampa
-Illinois: Chicago
-Michigan: Grand Rapids, Royal Oak
-New York: Rochester
-Ohio: Akron
-Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh
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-Washington D.C.
Room Details:
-Minimal Scavenger Hunting (1/5)
-Escape Rate: 38%
-Next Generation Remote Monitoring: Minimal guidance with a unique, progressive hint delivery system integrated into the storyline.
Room Description:
As a prisoner deep below the Colosseum, you await your turn in battle. Spartacus was once imprisoned in the very cells you currently occupy, and he managed to escape. To help others follow his path to freedom, he left a series of clues and challenges showing the way but made them clever enough so the guards couldn’t follow his path. Studying the timing of the guard patrols, you realize you have a 100-minute window with which to make your escape or face the uncertainty of the arena against tested gladiators.
Get ready for a unique adventure like no other! You will work your way through multiple distinct rooms under the Colosseum, working together with your fellow prisoners – and maybe a little help from unsuspected allies – finding clues and solving puzzles in your effort to Escape the Colosseum! May the Gods of Rome have mercy on you and bless your path to escape!
Escape the Colosseum is one of the longest escape adventures in the world at up to 100 minutes. The attention to detail makes this a deeply immersive experience and you truly feel like you have been transported 2,000 years into the past. If the ancient Romans didn’t use a Master Lock or modern tool, you won’t find them in this period themed experience! There is no in-room Game Master and our hint delivery system is unique and incorporated seamlessly into the storyline.
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Escape: The Museum Robbery - 2016 Ridgewood School
Educational Escape Room Experience for students entering Grades 6-9. $15 per student. June 7th and 10th, 2016 at Ridgewood School in Springfield, Ohio. Please contact (937) 399-8900 for more info and to book your adventure.
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Howard Johnson Enchanted Land Hotel Kissimmee, FL near Old Town theme park, Orlando Premium Outlets and The Mall at Millenia, a family hotel featuring specially designed bunk beds in a tree house setting, a game room and a seasonal heated outdoor pool.
ECHD Riding Academy American Heroes Learn To Ride Program
Now until September 30th, 2018, Emerald Coast Harley-Davidson is offering all Military, Veterans, First Responders and their Spouses, an appreciation discount for the Riding Academy New Rider Course at just $99. Upon course completion, receive $100 gift card to ECHD.
Located close to the Mississippi and Alabama borders, we proudly serve guests from Fort Walton Beach, Destin, Panama City Beach, Pensacola, Mirarmar, Orange Beach, Navarre, Gulf Shores, Tallahassee, Mobile, Atlanta, Montgomery, Fort Walton Beach, Destin, Freeport, Niceville, Pace, Milton, Baker, Orange Beach, Crestview, Holt, Gulf Shores, Seaside, Rosemary Beach, Santa Rosa Beach, Defuniak Springs, Gulf Breeze, Choctaw Navy Guests, Valparaiso, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, and ALL over the United State and the world! Our full service dealership provides top rated service on all makes and models of Harley-Davidson motorcycles, an incredible selection on H-D t-shirts, Motorclothes, boots, helmets and gloves. We also offer genuine H-D parts and accessories including seats, helmets and windshields.
Never-Before-Heard Audio of Killer Ted Bundy Released
Ted Bundy's trail of death spread over at least five states in the 1970s and the handsome, charismatic man confessed to killing at least 28 women. Conversations Bundy had while in prison are the subject of a new Netflix docu-series called “Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes,” directed and produced by Joe Berlinger. Journalist Stephen G. Michaud interviewed Bundy on death row and his tapes are the backbone of the series.
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Invite the whole family! Up to 8 people can vacation here with King-Sized bed in Master Bedroom, King-Sized bed in the 2nd Bedroom, and two Twin Beds in the Bunk Area. There is also a Queen Sleeper Sofa, if necessary.
This 4th floor, 2Bedroom/2.5Bathroom unit is decorated with platinum grade furnishings. The condo features 9 ft. ceilings, crown molding, Washer/Dryer, Free High-Speed Internet, and all the extras that you would want. The large Master Bedroom and 2nd Bedroom are on the gulf side of the condo and have access to the huge balcony. Both the Master Bedroom and the 2nd Bedroom have a large private Bathroom. The condo also has a large Bunk Area for the kids. The kitchen is fully-equipped with beautiful cabinets and Stainless Steel appliances that compliment the granite countertops and breakfast bar.
Waterscape, on Okaloosa Island, features:
~ More than 10,000 square ft. of amenities
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Waterscapes's location is ideal! On Fort Walton Beach's scenic Okaloosa Island, you are only six miles from downtown Destin. There are several excellent restaurants within a walking distance. Tons of shopping, golf, fishing, and more world-class restaurants are close by. All will enjoy Big Kahuna Water Park, The Track Recreation Center, the Gulfarium, museums, miniature golf, and more. On the beach, you can go a little wild with nearby parasailing, jet skiing, and wind surfing, or just relax under the beach umbrella with a good book.
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Geronimo's Story of His Life | Full Audiobook with subtitles | Native American History
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Geronimo’s Story of His Life
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Geronimo’s Story of His Life is the oral life history of a legendary Apache warrior. Composed in 1905, while Geronimo was being held as a U.S. prisoner of war at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Geronimo’s story found audience and publication through the efforts of S. M. Barrett--Lawton, Oklahoma, Superintendent of Education, who wrote in his preface that “the initial idea of the compilation of this work was . . . to extend to Geronimo as a prisoner of war the courtesy due any captive, i.e. the right to state the causes which impelled him in his opposition to our civilization and laws.” Barrett, with the assistance of Asa Deklugie, son of Nedni chief Whoa as Apache translator, wrote down the story as Geronimo told it --beginning with an Apache creation myth. Geronimo recounted bloody battles with Mexican troopers, against whom he had vowed vengeance in 1858 after they murdered his mother, his wife, and his three small children. He told of treaties made between Apaches and the U.S. Army--and treaties broken. There were periods of confinement on the reservations, and escapes. And there were his final days on the run, when the U.S. Army put 5000 men in the field against his small band of 39 Apache.
Geronimo had been a prisoner of war for 19 years when he told his story. Born in 1829, he was by then an old man, no longer a warrior, and he had come to an accommodation with many things “white,” including an appreciation of money. U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs personnel took him to the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904, where he roped cows in the “wild west show” and signed his name for “ten, fifteen, or twenty five cents.” By then he was perhaps the United States’ most “famous” Indian. In 1905 he was even invited to ride horseback in President Theodore Roosevelt’s inaugural parade (though still a prisoner of war!).
Geronimo dedicated his book to Roosevelt with the plea that he and his people be allowed to return to their ancestral land in Arizona. “It is my land, my home, my father’s land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to spend my last days there, and be buried among those mountains. If this could be I might die in peace.” Geronimo died at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in 1909, still a prisoner of war. (Introduction by Sue Anderson)
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Early European Settlement of North America Explained
Here's the story of the first Europeans to permanently settle in North America. If you like these Story Time videos, please subscribe to my podcast!
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Each year, it picked up, with the English, Spanish, French, and soon Dutch setting up more and more colonies.
Three main groups came to settle in the colonies.
1. Economic immigrants, who were those looking for a better life. This group included the indentured servants, or people who paid for their passage to the New World by being forced to work for somebody for a certain number of years before getting their freedom. Most of the indentured servants were English farmers who had been pushed off their lands due to overcrowding. Up to ⅔ of European immigrants who came to the American colonies between the 1630s and the American Revolution were indentured servants.
2. Religious immigrants, who came to practice their religion freely. Included in this group were the famous Pilgrims who settled at Plymouth Colony.
3. Forced immigrants, who came over as slaves, mostly from Africa.
It was the English immigrants who dominated in what later became the United States of America, probably because they came to live in larger numbers during the 1600s. From about 1630 to 1640 alone, around 20,000 Puritans crossed the Atlantic to live in New England. Even today, people with English ancestry arguably make up the largest group of Americans, though it is hard to know for sure. 8 out of the 10 most common last names in the United States are of English or British Isles origin.
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Let other people have cats and dogs! Jungle Bob is here to show you that owning a pet reptile or amphibian is not as crazy as you might think. In this video, he tells you six cool facts about green anoles and brown anoles.
For many people, a trip to Florida is often a chance to encounter one of Florida's most populace lizards, and that is the green and brown anoles. Little tiny lizards with quite a temperament to them, they are a little bit on the tenacious side.
Predators for sure. They look like mini velociraptors to me sometimes, because of their tenacity when they hunt their favorite prey which, of course, is insects.
Two distinct different species, and sometimes I refer to as anolies, anoles. It's almost like tomatoes, tomahtoes; you can say it a lot of different ways. But there's two distinct ones, the first one here is biting my right finger, is the green anole, or the Carolina anole, which is native from the Carolinas all the way down to Florida. This is a native American species that was quite popular in the pet trade for many many years.
In my left hand is the brown anole, which lives in Florida but now more of them, most of them, come up from the Caribbean, and the Bahamas, they're hitchhikers, and they've gotten into the United States. They're somewhat an invasive species, and they're so tenacious they're kind of pushing our green anole friends up the border and out of competition for food. They're very, very aggressive as well.
Green anoles are beautiful, little creatures, in that they have, particularly the males of the species, they throw out this gorgeous dewlap. It's a flap of skin underneath the neck that is brightly colored, and that serves a dual purpose. It's first function, certainly, is to attract a girlfriend. A male anole with a beautiful dewlap is most likely to mate with his female counterparts.
The other part of it is just to scare off another male. A male will puff up and show big he is, even though we're looking at an animal that's about 3 to 4 inches in total length, and maybe a couple of ounces in weight. He's trying to show how big and bad he is by throwing out his dewlap, bobbing his head, and saying territorially, this is my area; I live here, you back off.
So, the green and brown anoles are something that I'm sure everybody who's visited Disney World, or has seen grandma in Florida, you're going to encounter these. They cohabitate beautifully with mankind. They are everywhere: crawling across houses, inside of houses, in porches; a daytime diurnal animal that you'll see all day long.
At night they sleep on walls and tree-trunks and they're extremely easy to catch when they're sleeping. During the day, not so much. They are very, very quick, as we can see, our guys here in the branch, how fast they can scurry. This is an animal that suffers from the malady known as autotonomy, which is, if I grab it by the tail, he'll detach that tail, and I'll be left with a wiggling tail in my hand, and the lizard will actually escape.
It's natures way for lizards to defend themselves from not being eaten by some of their favorite predators. Snakes birds of prey, etc, will grab him by the tail because they're so fast and all they'll get is that tail meal, and the lizard lives to see another day. Their tail regenerates, but it's never quite as nice as the original.
This is the green and the brown anole, a treasure of the American southeast, and something you'll see on any trip to the Florida area. They also make wonderful jewelry, should you be so inclined.
Shocking video shows brazen shooting in broad daylight in Fairfield
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A 28-year-old man gunned down at a Fairfield gas station in March was apparently killed in a dispute over an engagement ring, and the brutal shooting was captured on store surveillance video.
Adarius Elon Williams, a father of four who celebrated a birthday the day before he was killed, died April 8 in the parking lot of the Citgo station on Milstead Road. Vincent Washington, 25, and Barbara Washington, 31, are charged with murder in Williams’ death. Additionally, Vincent Washington is charged with first-degree kidnapping because the woman who drove him to the gas station said she wanted to leave, and he threatened her with her life.
The Washington siblings, who lost their own sister to murder last year, are set to be in court this afternoon for their preliminary hearings. AL.com has obtained the store surveillance video of the killing, which shows a man with a towel wrapped around his head – identified by police as Vincent Washington – shoot Williams multiple times, nine of those shots fired almost point-blank after while Williams had already collapsed on the ground. Police have said Williams was not armed. According to police and court records, the brother and sister told a friend of Barbara Washington they would buy her gas if she drove them to the Citgo station that day. They were going to meet Williams because he wanted the engagement ring back that he had given to Barbara Washington. Williams’ fiancé at the time of his death was also with him at the gas station the day he was killed.
The friend drove them to the service station, but told police she didn’t know what was going to happen. Once they arrived there, Vincent Washington got out of the car with a towel wrapped around his head. When the friend realized something was amiss, she said she wanted to leave. At that point, according to court records, Vincent Washington told her, “(Expletive), if you drive off I’ll shoot you in the back of the head.”
The friend said she was afraid, and did what she was told to do. The video shows Washington and Williams arguing outside of the vehicle for about 12 seconds, and then Washington opens fire on Williams. Williams fell to the ground on his back, and Washington stood over him and fired nine more shots.
Witnesses on the scene gave a description of a white Nissan Altima leaving the area. They said the vehicle was occupied by two females and a male. A short time later, Bessemer police said, a man suffering from gunshot wounds to the stomach and the hand showed up at UAB West, and a white vehicle reportedly had brought him there.
Authorities confirmed that man – later identified as Vincent Washington - at the hospital was involved in the Fairfield shooting. About 8 p.m., Fairfield police spotted the white Altima and stopped the vehicle. Barbara Washington and another woman were taken into custody. The second woman wasn’t charged.
After the shooting, according to court records, Barbara Washington took the gun used in the slaying to a friend’s house to hide it.
At some point during the incident, Vincent Washington was also shot by someone trying to help Williams. Police have never said who shot the suspect. He spent several days in the hospital before he was released and booked into the Jefferson County Jail. Both of the siblings have remained jailed since then with bond set at $60,000.
Bill Veitch, the district attorney in Jefferson County’s Bessemer Cutoff, confirmed he has seen the video and said it shows the urgency needed in stopping the violence. “Any of us could have been out there at those gas pumps that day,’’ Veitch said. “This war on violence cannot be won unless the communities unite, tear down the walls that have built between us and see, hear and report.”
“It’s going to take a great deal of individual courage to become involved in this struggle,’’ he said. “Join with me and our law enforcement officers, our churches, our judges, to fight these heartless hoodlums. This video is graphic evidence of how great this epidemic has become.”