1.
Disney, Walt
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
...Walt Disney (Walter Elias Disney) (dĬz´nē), 1901–66, American movie producer and pioneer...career as a cartoonist making animated film advertisements. In 1928 Disney created the character Mickey Mouse in the silent film Plane Crazy......
2.
amusement park
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
......in a traditional amusement park. Walt Disney World, opened near Orlando, Fla...leisure, pitched by personalities from Disney animation and operated by 26,000 employees...areas added later include Epcot Center, Disney-MGM Studios, and Animal Kingdom. The......
3.
Florida (state, United States)
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
......in 1996 visitors to Florida spent over $48 billion. Walt Disney World, a massive cluster of theme parks near Orlando that...restricted to elected governments. A special district approved for Disney World in the 1960s allows it to oversee land drainage, and......
4.
Graves, Michael
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
......completed projects include the Portland Building in Portland, Oreg.; the Swan and Dolphin Hotels in Walt Disney World, Fla.; the Walt Disney Company Corporate Headquarters in Burbank, Calif.; the Newark Museum in Newark, N.J.; the Emory......
5.
Jobs, Steven Paul
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
......public in 1995, Jobs became an overnight billionaire. In 2006 Pixar was purchased by the Walt Disney Company, making Jobs the largest shareholder in Disney.In 1996, Apple acquired NeXT and Jobs returned to the company, serving as chief executive......
6.
Cirque du Soleil
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
......entertainment empire. In 1993 the company premiered its first Las Vegas show; another show is regularly presented at Walt Disney World in Florida. By the early 21st cent. Cirque du Soleil was presenting more than a dozen touring shows simultaneously worldwide......
7.
Rossi, Aldo
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
......Biennale; the Palazzo Hotel, Fukuoka, Japan (1989); the Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, the Netherlands (1994); and the Disney Development Corp., Celebration, Fla. (1995). Rossi also designed furniture and household items and taught at the Architecture......
8.
San Francisco
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
......now part of the national park system, was headquarters of the Sixth Army and is the site of a national military cemetery; a Disney museum is there.In Golden Gate Park the California Academy of Sciences building includes a natural history museum, an aquarium......
9.
Anaheim
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
......is also one of the great tourist and convention centers in the United States. The theme park Disneyland (opened 1955, with Disney's California Adventure, opened 2001) is world famous; the California Angels (baseball) and Anaheim Ducks (hockey) play......
10.
Glass, Philip
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
......on a Coetzee novel; Appomattox (2007); Kepler (2009); and The Perfect American (2013), a surreal portrait of Walt Disney during his final days. Glass's other compositions include symphonies, concertos, string quartets, songs, and film scores......