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Amusement
Amusement is the state of experiencing humorous and usually entertaining events or situations, and is associated with enjoyment, happiness, laughter and pleasure. Amusement may also be experienced through the recollection of events which have given rise to amusement in the past.
Reactions
Humans will typically laugh or smile to display amusement. For most people at some time, situations which would normally elicit amusement may not always have the same effect, due to various reasons such as one's state of mind. People with certain disorders or disabilities may sometimes appear to experience amusement without an obvious cause or reason.
Although various animals may be perceived as experiencing amusement, this may simply be a case of anthropomorphism. Interpretations of "amusement" may be attributed to animals that do not behave as expected, such as where an animal runs instead of walks, or becomes more alert. Other animals such as dogs may wag their tails or spin around, birds may chirp more loudly or frequently, while racoons or bears may not react at all.
However, there are instances of animals reportedly, "playing jokes" on other animals or humans. While they may not show any outward signs of amusement, it would seem as if there is no other explanation.
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| Palm Springs Air Museum |
The Palm Springs Air Museum is dedicated to the restoration, preservation and operation of America's legendary fighters, bombers and trainers. It contains one of the world's largest collections of flying WWII airplanes. Hear the pounding roar of the mightiest piston engines ever built! Climb up and look in the cockpits of the legendary fighters and bombers of WWII! See the actual planes that won the greatest war in history!
www.air-museum.org |
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| The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies |
A world-famous, Broadway-caliber celebration of the music, dance, and comedy of the 30's and 40's, with a cast old enough to have lived it. Of even greater importance is what the Follies has done to the stereotypical image of old age. Our performers, who range in age from 55 to 80+, dance and sing with a zest that even younger folk envy.
www.psfollies.com |
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| Palm Springs Pavilion Theatre |
The Palm Springs Pavilion Theatre, directly across the street from the Palm Springs Art Museum, replacing a section of the former Desert Fashion Plaza in Palm Springs. Cirque Dreams: The Journey Continues returned to producer Dick Taylor’s fabulous 1000-seat Pavilion Theatre.
www.pspavilion.com |
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| Palm Springs Aerial Tramway |
Today, the world's largest rotating tramcars carry visitors from an elevation of 2,643 feet to a Mountain Station located at the 8,516-foot level of Mt San Jacinto State Park and Wilderness. It has the steepest vertical cable rise in the U.S. and the second steepest in the world.
www.pstramway.com |
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| Desert Adventures |
Experience Jeep Eco-Tours and Special Events by Desert Adventures. Desert Adventures' offers jeep tours of the San Andreas Fault and Joshua Tree National Park as well as numerous corporate programs and special events at our exclusive desert venues. Enjoy jeep eco-tours, hiking adventures, teambuilding programs, and wonderful parties at Desert Adventures' Metate Canyon Ranch, our exclusive and unique 1000 acre private desert preserve. We have been providing the most talked about off-road adventures in California. Whether you’re seeking adventure, Native American history and culture, old mining lore, nature, ethno-botany, geology, or panoramic vistas, Desert Adventures offers a program for you!
www.red-jeep.com |
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| Desert Imax |
The Desert IMAX® Theatre is proud to be the only IMAX® 2D/3D facility in the Coachella Valley. The theater includes a six-story high screen and crystal clear surround sound that will have audiences feeling as if they are part of the picture. Private screenings available. Full-service restaurant under development.
www.desertimax.com |
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| Big League Dreams Sports Park |
Big League Dreams is the premier developer and operator of amateur recreational sports facilities in the country. Built in 1997 for $4.4 million, the Cathedral City Big League Dreams Sports Park is a sports complex that replicates Yankee Stadium. The park also offers inline hockey, softball, basketball, indoor/outdoor soccer, flag football fields, batting cages, sand volleyball courts.
www.bigleaguedreams.com |
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| Knott’s Soak City |
Deluxe, family-oriented water playground in a private beach club atmosphere. Thirteen waterslides including the new and exciting Shark Attack, a three-person Tube Ride in a speedy, twisting open flume, wavepool for body and board-surfing, the relaxing Lazy River ride. Monte Carlo Beach with mist-cooled private cabanas, gift shop, food and beverage.
www.knotts.com/soakcity/ps/index.shtml |
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| Joshua Tree National Park |
Mojave and Colorado deserts join to form this wondrous place with awesome rock formations, many varieties of flora, wildlife sancturary, campgrounds, horse and hiking trails. Visit the Official Visitor Centers for Park information, ranger-conducted activities and bookstores at three locations. Admission is $15 per car for 7 days.
Website: www.joshuatree.org
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| The Living Desert |
You will also find out about one of the most unusual institutions in the United States. There isn’t a single word to describe all that The Living Desert is and does. We must string words together, like beads: zoo and endangered species conservation center – botanical gardens – natural history museum – wilderness park – nature preserve – education center. The thread that holds all the beads together is the word “desert.”
Website: www.livingdesert.org |
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| The International Journal Of Out-Of-Home Entertainment |
Amusement Business is the premier publication for the out of home entertainment industry and is read worldwide for its comprehensive news on events, revenue, attendance, talent, promotions, financial and business operations, sponsorships and endorsements.
www.amusementbusiness.com |
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| Uprising Outdoor Adventure Center |
Anyone can do it! Specializing in beginner lessons for those 6 years and up. Come try rock climbing at a most exciting outdoor rock climbing facility. Open-air, shaded, micro-cooled and open year-round. Also, high adventure Rope Course for local and visiting team building and training- Corporate/group rates.
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The website,
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Tobacco History:
The Social History of Smoking
by George Latimer Apperson
First published in 1914
"The Social History of Smoking" by George Latimer Apperson, can be purchased at Amazon.com in two different versions. Depending on the quality of the edition, prices range between $35 and $104.
From Chapter 1: "Tarlton, as other gentlemen used, at the first comming up of tobacco, did take it more for fashion's sake than otherwise, and being in a roome, set between two men overcome with wine, and they never seeing the like, wondered at it, and seeing the vapour come out of Tarlton's nose, cryed out, fire, fire, and threw a cup of wine in Tarlton's face. Make no more stirre, quoth Tarlton, the fire is quenched: if the sheriffes come, it will turne to a fine, as the custome is. And drinking that againe, fie, sayes the other, what a stinke it makes; I am almost poysoned. If it offend, saies Tarlton, let every one take a little of the smell, and so the savour will quickly goe: but tobacco whiffes made them leave him to pay all."
From Chapter 6: Even children seem to have smoked sometimes in the coffee-houses. Ralph Thoresby, the Leeds antiquary, tells a strange story. He declares that, one evening which he spent with his brother at Garraway's Coffee-house, February 20, 1702, he was surprised to see his brother's "sickly child of three years old fill its pipe of tobacco and smoke it as audfarandly as a man of three score; after that a second and a third pipe without the least concern, as it is said to have done above a year ago." A child of two years of age smoking three pipes in succession is a picture a little difficult to accept as true. As this is the only reference to tobacco in the whole of his "Diary," it is not likely that Thoresby was himself a smoker.
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