Distance education is becoming a trendy way to learn in today’s educational environment. While it is still growing in popularity, it has been around for some time. It may not have been as sophisticated as it is now, but it has enjoyed a sustained history. The history of distance education is a long and storied one. Some of the greatest minds on the planet like Thomas Edison have been involved in its development.

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Harvard University is the oldest and, arguably, the most prestigious university in the United States. In 2005, the Times Higher Education Supplement and the Academic Ranking of World Universities both ranked Harvard University first among the universities of the world. In addition, the US News and World Report rankings placed Harvard at the top of the list in a tie with Princeton. Moreover, with a financial endowment of $25.5 billion in 2005, Harvard is considered the wealthiest university in the United States and in the world.

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One of the largest theme parks, and most famous tourist attractions in the world, is Disneyland. Feverishly fabricated over the span of 1954-55, the project was the only theme park Walt Disney personally oversaw in his lifetime. Today it is second only to Disney World as the most visited theme park in the world.

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Do you remember the first Disney movie you ever attended? How many Disney movies have you been seen since childhood? How many Disney DVDs do you own? If you have children, the answer to the final question could easily be “dozens.” Disney has been entertaining people for more than eight decades! There are hundreds of movies in the Disney vault after all these years.

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In 1942, Walt Disney released his fifth animated movie, Bambi. It was based on the Austrian book Bambi, A Life In The Woods, by Felix Salten. Published in 1923, the book followed the adventures of a male roe deer from birth to maturity. The book was popular both in Europe and the United States. Salten, whose real name was Siegmund Salzmann, was Hungarian by birth but spent most of his time in Vienna. The popularity of the book inspired Salten to write a sequel entitled Bambi’s Children.

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Sleeping Beauty was the sixteenth film in Walt Disney’s body of work, following Lady and The Tramp and preceding One Hundred and One Dalmatians. It was the last feature to be based upon a fairy tale, authored by Charles Perrault. Indeed, Disney Studios would not return to a fairy tale again until the 1989 production of The Little Mermaid. Moreover, this was the last feature to showcase hand-inked cells.

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In 1995, Walt Disney Pictures released the first Disney feature where, as the tagline states, “an American legend comes to life.” Pocahontas, the first Disney film based on an genuine historic figure, was the 33rd animated film ever released by Disney Studios and marked the high-watermark for the Disney Renaissance which had begun in 1989 with The Little Mermaid. This film was one of the few Disney films to ever portray an interracial romance (between Pocahontas and John Smith).

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Because of the internet, the world is a different place, and changes happen overnight. It has metamorphosed the way we make friends with one another, the way we study, and the way we entertain ourselves. About a year ago, for instance, the Xbox Live Marketplace was started to allow users to download movie rentals on demand.

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The creation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs began sometime in early 1934. This was Walt Disney’s first effort at producing an animated film. To this point, Disney had effectively produced a series of animated shorts entitled The Alice Comedies as well as Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies.

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The Fox and the Hound is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney Productions. The twenty-fourth animated feature in the Disney animated canon, The Fox and the Hound was released in 1981 to generally positive reviews and great box-office success. The story was based on the book of the same name written by Daniel P. Mannix in 1967.

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