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  2. Five Flags Speedway - Wikipedia

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    Paved oval. Length. 0.5 miles (0.8 km) Banking. 15° (corners) Five Flags Speedway logo. Five Flags Speedway is a half-mile (0.8 km) paved oval racetrack in Pensacola, Florida. It opened in 1953 and is located on Pine Forest Road. [1] It is christened after the nickname of Pensacola—"City of Five Flags."

  3. Pensacola, Florida - Wikipedia

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    Pensacola (/ ˌ p ɛ n s ə ˈ k oʊ l ə / PEN-sə-KOH-lə) is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle.It is the county seat and only incorporated city of Escambia County, Florida, United States.

  4. Six Flags - Wikipedia

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    Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, formerly Six Flags Theme Parks, Inc., is an American amusement park corporation, headquartered in Arlington, Texas. It has properties in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Six Flags owns the most theme parks and waterparks combined of any amusement-park company and has the seventh highest attendance in ...

  5. Snowball Derby - Wikipedia

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    Length. 0.5 mi (0.80 km) Turns. 4. The Snowball Derby presented by Bayou Fox Hooters is a 300-lap super late model stock car race held annually at the Five Flags Speedway, a half-mile paved oval track in Pensacola, Florida, United States. The race has been contested every year since 1968 and is typically run on the first Sunday in December ...

  6. History of Pensacola, Florida - Wikipedia

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    The history of Pensacola, Florida, begins long before the Spanish claimed founding of the modern city in 1698. The area around present-day Pensacola was inhabited by Native American peoples thousands of years before the historical era. The historical era begins with the arrival of Spanish explorers in the 16th century.

  7. USS Forrestal - Wikipedia

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    USS Forrestal (CVA-59) (later CV-59, then AVT-59 ), was a supercarrier named after the first United States Secretary of Defense James Forrestal. Commissioned in 1955, she was the United States' first completed supercarrier, and was the lead ship of her class. The other carriers of her class were USS Saratoga, USS Ranger and USS Independence.

  8. Six Flags America - Wikipedia

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    Six Flags America is a theme park and waterpark located in the Woodmore CDP of Prince George's County, Maryland, near Upper Marlboro, adjacent to the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Founded as a wildlife center in 1974 by Ross Perot , ABC television operated the park as a drive-through safari called The Largo Wildlife Preserve, from 1974 [5 ...

  9. Cordova Mall - Wikipedia

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    Cordova Mall, located in Pensacola, Florida, is the largest shopping center on the northwest Gulf Coast of Florida . Opened in 1971 and renovated twice, in 1987 and 2008/2009, Cordova Mall comprises 929,685 square feet (86,370.6 m 2) of commercial property, with two major and six junior anchor stores. Five are situated in the mall ( Dillard's ...