Word: orlandos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before her two-week stay at the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, Turner and the 49 other state winners spent four days vacationing in Orlando, Fla., the home of Walt Disney World...
DIED. MARY THOMPSON, 120, indefatigable centenarian who reportedly "always kept her .22 in her bra"; in Orlando, Florida. The daughter of former slaves, Thompson never had a birth certificate, but the Social Security Administration traced her birth back to 1876. Until last week, that made her the oldest living American...
...hard-throwing 10-year-old growing up in Orlando, Florida, Dot Richardson wanted to play Little League baseball. But a coach said she'd have to cut her hair first and call herself Bob. Dot passed up that invitation and opted for girls' softball instead. Two decades and a gold medal later, she notes that things have improved for sports-minded girls. "You can see the change in women's athletics," she says. "Young girls today have more opportunities than I ever...
...price is $123 million for seven years--call it sticker Shaq. That's what the Los Angeles Lakers will pay Shaquille O'Neal to leave the Orlando Magic and play basketball on the left coast. "I am a military child," said O'Neal, son of an Army sergeant. "I'm used to relocating." The Shaq's signing capped a frenetic week that reshaped the rosters of many National Basketball Association teams and marked a radical shift in the way team owners spend money. When the music stopped, the owners had agreed to dole out more than $600 million...
...growing." The former dinner-theater operator left Hard Rock Cafe in 1992 for Planet Hollywood, which he started the year before. (Hard Rock creator Peter Morton sued Earl for allegedly purloining Hard Rock's business plans. The issue was settled without a trial.) Last year Earl, a die-hard Orlando Magic fan, opened the Official All Star Cafe; he will soon launch MarvelMania (comics) and Chefs of the World (imagine--food...