Children's Palace (Bucharest)
Children's Palace may refer to *Child World, a toy store company that operated a chain of stores under the name Children's Palace * Vorontsov's Palace (Odessa), also titled ''Children's Palace'' *Children's Palace (China) (in ), Government-funded recreation centres for minors throughout China ** Children's Palace station, a station of Shenzhen Metro ** Shanghai Changning Children's Palace, in Shanghai *Mangyongdae Children's Palace, in Pyongyang, North Korea *National Youth and Children's Palace National Youth and Children's Palace ( ka, მოსწავლე ახალგაზრდობის ეროვნული სასახლე), sometimes referred as Pioneer Palace, National Palace or by its original name – Viceroy ...

Child World
Child World was an American toy retailer founded in 1962. It grew to 182 sites and revenues of $830 million before failing in 1992. It was known for the distinctive stylised castle store exterior adopted after its 1977 purchase of the Children's Palace store chain. History Beginnings and early expansion Child World was founded by Sid Schneider and Joseph Arnesano in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1962. It became a publicly-traded corporation in 1968, based in Avon, Massachusetts. After its acquisition of Children's Palace, from Kobacker Stores in 1975,Alternate Link
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Vorontsov's Palace (Odessa)
The Vorontsov Palace ( uk, Воронцовський палац; russian: Воронцовский дворец) is a 19th-century palace and colonnade in Odesa, Ukraine, at the end of the Prymorskyi Boulevard pedestrian walkway. History The buildings were built between 1827 and 1830 by the Sardinian-born architect Francesco Boffo for Russian Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov, one of the governor-generals of the Odessa region. The palace was built on the site where the Turkish fortress of Hajibey used to be. Palace complex includes main building, stables, colonnade and two lions, which used to stay near the gate of a main entrance.https://www.odessitclub.org/publications/almanac/alm_21/alm_21_25-38.pdf Vorontsov was so impressed with Boffo's work, that he contracted Boffo to design the Potemkin Stairs. p. 133, 337 p. 119. p. 39 ''The main corpus was erected in 1824-27, and already in 1828 splendid balls and celebrations took place inside. Construction was completed in 1 ...
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Children's Palace (China)
The Children's Palace (in ) is a public facility in China where children engage in extra-curricular activities. History and activity The Pioneer movement and Pioneers Palace of the Soviet Union which began in 1930 spread to other Socialist countries, such as the People's Republic of China, where they are called Children's Palaces. At a Children's Palace, the Chinese youth engage in extra-curricular activities, such as learning music, foreign languages, and computing skills, and doing sports. In larger cities, each district has set up its own Children's Palace, while there is also a City Children's Palace whose larger auditorium and planetarium A planetarium ( planetariums or ''planetaria'') is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation. A dominant feature of most planetarium ... are shared by the children of all the City's Districts.
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Shanghai Changning Children's Palace
The Shanghai Changning Children's Palace () is located at Number 31, Lane 1136, Yuyuan Rd in the Changning District of Shanghai, China. It was originally built for Wang Boqun, former Minister of Communications, including transportation, post, bank, and education, for the Kuomintang. The large 40-room mansion was built from 1932 to 1934 in the Victorian Gothic style. The house is currently used as a community children's center for art, music, and dance classes. History The house was built by Wang Boqun for his new bride, Bao Zhining, to celebrate their marriage on June 18, 1931. He was the 46-year-old Kuomintang Minister of Transportation, the President of Great China University, and held the position of Guizhou representative to the Nationalist Parliament. Zhining was a 22-year-old honors graduate with a degree in social sciences from Great China University Great may refer to: Descriptions or measurements * Great, a relative measurement in physical space, see Size * Gre ...
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Mangyongdae Children's Palace
The Mangyongdae Children's Palace (or Mangyongdae School Children's Palace) in Pyongyang is a public facility managed by Korean Youth Corps in North Korea where Pioneer movement, pioneer members can engage in extra-curricular activities, such as learning music, foreign languages, computing skills and sports. It was established on 2 May 1989 and it is situated in , in the north of Mangyongdae-guyok. It is the largest of the palaces in North Korea dedicated to children's after-school activities. In front of the Children's Palace there are a grand sculpture group and two enormous fountains, rising 90 and 100 metres. The Mangyongdae Children's Palace has 120 rooms, a swimming pool, a gymnasium and a 2,000-seat theatre. The Mangyongdae Children's Palace is not to be confused with the situated in the north of the Kim Il-sung Square and founded in 1963. See also *Mangyongdae-guyok *Education in North Korea *Children's Palace (China) References Further reading * External ...
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