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1. Orlando Home -- Central Florida
   The Orlando area is home to a wide variety of tourist attractions, including the Walt Disney World Resort, Universal Orlando Resort, and SeaWorld Orlando. The Walt Disney World resort is the area's largest attraction with its many facets such as the Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney's Animal Kingdom, Typhoon Lagoon, Blizzard Beach, and Downtown Disney. SeaWorld Orlando is a large adventure park that features numerous zoological displays and marine animals alongside an amusement park with roller coasters and water park. Universal Orlando, like Walt Disney World, is a multi-faceted resort comprising Universal Studios, CityWalk, and the Islands of Adventure theme park. Orlando has ... become one of the fastest growing retail markets in the USA with at least five major upscale department stores opening last year alone and more than 50,000,000 square feet (4,650,000 m²) of shopping space in Central Florida. [9]
2. Williams -- Years
   Prior to his broadcasting career, Williams worked in the White House during the Carter administration, beginning as a White House intern. He later worked as assistant administrator of the political action committee of the National Association of Broadcasters in Washington. A native of both Elmira, NY and Middletown, N.J., Williams is particularly proud of his several years of service as a volunteer firefighter in New Jersey.
3. Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site -- White Haven
   Description: Site includes a portion of the 1,100-acre plantation where Ulysses S. Grant lived during the 1850s. Although Grant never returned as a permanent resident during the Civil War and his Presidency, he bought the property in 1863 from his father-in-law, Frederick Dent, and held it until a few months before his death in 1885. Five historic structures of Grant's home, known as "White Haven," remain, including a two-story residence, a barn, and a stone building believed to have housed Grant's father-in-law's slaves. Property was originally purchased by the Dent family in 1821.
4. Miller Brewing -- Miller Brewing Company
   Milwaukee-based Miller Brewing Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of SABMiller plc, the world's second largest brewer. Principal beer brands include Miller Lite, Miller Genuine Draft, and Miller High Life. The company imports Foster's; produces SKYYTM Blue, SauzaTM Diablo, StolichnayaTM Citrona and Jack Daniel'sTM. Original Hard Cola flavored malt beverages; and has primary products ICEHOUSE and Red Dog from the Plank Road Brewery, a small division of Miller. Specialty regional brands include Leinenkugel's and Henry Weinhard's. The company brews Sharp's, a non-alcohol brew, and has malt liquor brands including Olde English 800 and Mickey's Malt Liquor.
5. Orlando Area -- Central Florida
   Long before the Orlando vacation rentals and Mickey Mouse came to Kissimmee Florida, making it one of the happiest places on earth, the area was a trading post known as Allentown. It is reported that the purchase of the land, that later became the city of Kissimmee, saved the state of Florida from financial disaster. The purchaser of the land drained his new swamp and deepened the Kissimmee River. This was done to open up a trade route to from Allentown to the Gulf of Mexico. The area became a prosperous community producing cattle and sugar cane. On March 24, 1883 the area was incorporated into a city.
6. Goth
   The first use of the term Goth in its present meaning is believed to have been on a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) TV program. Anthony H. Wilson, manager of Joy Division described the band as Gothic compared with the pop mainstream. The name stuck.
7. Ice Cream Recipes -- Desserts
   The cookbook of Mary Eales, which appeared in 1718, is considered the first to feature an ice cream recipe printed in English, and it varies in technique from the basin method just described. Eales placed her cream in pails in an ice chest and still-froze them, a method developed by professional French confectioners and similar in shape to the crank-turned freezers of the nineteenth century. The appearance of ice cream in domestic cookbooks of the period may be taken as evidence that ice cream had moved from strictly palace fare of earlier times to the tables of the literate well-to-do. This is confirmed in America by a 1744 reference to ice cream on the dessert table of Governor Blandon of Maryland—a thing to be marveled at and noted diligently in a dinner guest's diary. The governor's ice cream was served with fresh strawberries, a foreshadowing of the ubiquitous strawberry and ice cream festivals that today have become such an integral part of the American cultural scene. As for Governor Blandon, it goes without saying that many wealthy colonial Americans owned icehouses, which made such luxuries possible.
8. The Easybeats -- Australia
   The Easybeats occupy a unique place in the pantheon of 1960s British rock acts. For starters, they were Australian, except that they really weren't -- they met in Sydney alright, and being based in Australia with the talent they had gave them a leg-up over any of the local competition. But lead singer Stevie Wright originally came from England (although he'd been in Australia for some years), and bassist Dick Diamonde hailed from the Netherlands, as did guitarist Harry Vanda, while the others, guitarists George Young and drummer Gordon "Snowy" Fleet, were recent arrivals from Scotland and England -- most significantly, Fleet was Liverpool born and raised, and had been a member of the Mojos, one of that city's more promising bands of 1963 and 1964. They all had talent, but he had a sense of style and an idea of what worked in rock roll; it was Snowy Fleet who came up with the name "The Easybeats," and the sharp image for the early group, which made them a piece of authentic Brit-beat right in the heart of Sydney, 13,000 miles from Liverpool and as precious there as water on a desert.
9. Thomas Haden Church
   Thomas Haden Church (born June 17, 1960 in El Paso, Texas) is an Academy Award nominated actor. He was raised in Harlingen, Texas and graduated from Harlingen High School in 1979. He is ... a television actor and cartoon voice actor who started in the entertainment business as a radio personality. A part in an independent film convinced him to move to California to pursue an acting career. Church played the part of dim-witted airport mechanic Lowell Mather for six seasons (1990–1995) on the NBC sitcom Wings. He worked in television for two more seasons with a lead role on Ned and Stacey opposite Debra
10. Hilarious
    COACHELLA, Calif., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Hilarious, politically charged and sitting on top of the comedy world, Katt Williams has been seen on HBO, MTV, BET, in movies even in music videos. Rolling Stone magazine named him the "hottest new comedian," and now Williams is bringing his unique personality, pimp-esque charisma and endless supply of original jokes to Spotlight 29 Casino on January 26. (Logo: here) Known as much for his permed hair as he is for his animated performances and quick wit, Williams has been making his mark in Hollywood for more than 10 years. His influence in comedy took off in 1999 when he became a large presence at The Improv, The Comedy Club, The Icehouse and even had his own room at The Hollywood Park Casino where he had a large, loyal following. His HBO specials have pulled more than 8 million viewers, and he has been widely seen on multiple networks in shows such as "Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam" and "Wild and Out." He has become a staple on the BET Network, appearing on shows such as "Comic View," "Rip the Runway," "Black Carpet," "106th & Park," The BET Awards and BET Comedy Awards.

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