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Date Posted: 08:22:17 06/16/11 Thu
Author: Serendipity (BC)
Subject: today in history - america's first roller coaster

- june 16, 1884 ...
- the first roller coaster in America opens at Coney Island, in Brooklyn, New York ...
- known as a "switchback railway" ..
- brainchild of LaMarcus Thompson ...
- traveled approximately six miles per hour ...
- and, cost a nickel to ride ...

link to article: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
- history.com


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[> we've come a lonnggg way ..." -- Serendipity (BC), 08:47:49 06/16/11 Thu

- the top 10 fastest roller coasters in the world 2010-2011 ...

- # 1
- at 240
- "Formula Rossa"
- the world's fastest roller coaster ...


and, then there's ...
- the "kingda ka" ...


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