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Six Flags Magic Mountain

Six Flags Magic Mountain, Valencia, California, USA: 260-acre theme park opened 1971, joined Six Flags 1979; world-record roller coaster count (19–20), 'Thrill Capital of the World', Six Flags–Cedar Fair merged owner since 2024.

Six Flags New England

Six Flags New England is an amusement and water park in Agawam, Massachusetts, formerly Riverside Park and Gallup's Grove, acquired by Premier Parks in 1996 and rebranded in 2000; known for the Intamin hyper coaster Superman The Ride.

Six Flags New Orleans

Six Flags New Orleans, originally Jazzland (2000), was a New Orleans East amusement park bought by Six Flags in 2002 for $69M and permanently closed after Katrina flooding in 2005; its ~230-acre site is now being redeveloped by Bayou Phoenix.

Six Flags Over Georgia

Six Flags Over Georgia is an Austell, Georgia theme park, opened June 16, 1967, as one of the first in the Southeast, and is named for six flags.

Six flags over Texas

Six flags over Texas names the six nations that held sovereignty over Texas (Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, CSA, USA) and the 1961 Arlington theme park named for them, founded by Angus G. Wynne Jr.

Six Flags Over Texas

Six Flags Over Texas, the original Six Flags park, opened August 5, 1961 in Arlington, Texas, founded by Angus G. Wynne Jr. and named for six flags that flew over Texas; 205 acres, 14 coasters, partnership-owned.

Six Flags Qiddiya City

Six Flags Qiddiya City is a theme park in Qiddiya City near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, opened December 31, 2025 as the first Six Flags park outside North America, with 28 rides across six themed lands and five record rides including Falcons Flight.

Six Flying Dragons (육룡이 나르샤)

Six Flying Dragons (육룡이 나르샤) is a 2015-2016 SBS 50-episode fusion sageuk by Kim Young-hyun and Park Sang-yeon, directed by Shin Kyung-soo, starring Yoo Ah-in as Yi Bang-won; it depicts Goryeo's fall and Joseon's founding, averaging 14.3% ratings.

Six Four

Six Four is a 2023 four-part ITVX British crime drama by Gregory Burke and Ben A. Williams, adapting Hideo Yokoyama's Japanese novel to Glasgow, starring Kevin McKidd and Vinette Robinson as parents searching for their missing daughter.

Six Garrisons

The Six Garrisons (六镇) were six military garrisons the Northern Wei dynasty kept on its northern frontier to guard the capital Pingcheng against the Rouran nomads.

Six Garrisons Rebellion

The Six Garrisons Rebellion (六镇之乱) was a series of uprisings by the garrison populations of the Northern Wei's six northern border garrisons, beginning in 523 and ending in 529.

SIX Group

SIX Group AG is a Zurich-based Swiss financial market infrastructure operator, formed in 2008, that runs the securities exchanges of Switzerland and Spain and the Swiss payment system.

Six Jwapyeong

The Six Jwapyeong (육좌평; 六佐平) were the six first-rank ministerial offices of the Korean kingdom of Baekje, traditionally established under King Goi in 260, though historians dispute the dating.

Six Kings Slam

The Six Kings Slam is a six-player men's tennis exhibition held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, during Riyadh Season since 2024, offering the largest prize money in tennis.

Six Living Ministers

The Six Living Ministers (생육신) were six early Joseon officials who refused to serve King Sejo after he deposed the boy-king Danjong, living in retirement as exemplars of loyalty.

Six Ministerial Clans of Jin

The Six Ministerial Clans of Jin (晋国六卿) were hereditary noble houses of the Spring and Autumn period state of Jin that monopolized its army and government.

Six Ministries

The Six Ministries (육조) were the six departments handling the practical administration of Korea's Joseon state, reorganized by King Taejong in 1405 and replaced in 1894.

Six Ministries of the Le court

The Six Ministries of the Le court (Lục bộ) were the central executive organs of Vietnam's Later Le dynasty, completed between 1459 and 1471 under the Ming model.

Six Minutes to Midnight

Six Minutes to Midnight is a 2020 British spy thriller directed by Andy Goddard, starring Eddie Izzard and Judi Dench, inspired by the real Augusta-Victoria College, a Bexhill-on-Sea finishing school for daughters of the Nazi elite (1932-1939).

Six Monopolies

The Six Monopolies (六筦) were six state-controlled economic operations instituted by Wang Mang of the Xin dynasty, enforced under separate regulations with death as the penalty for violators.

Six Months Ago

"Six Months Ago" (Heroes season 1, episode 10) is a flashback episode aired on NBC on November 27, 2006, written by Aron Eli Coleite and directed by Allan Arkush, showing Sylar's origin, Nathan's accident, and Hiro's failed attempt to save Charlie six months before the series begins.

Six Nara Schools

The Six Nara Schools (南都六宗, Nanto Rokushū) were six Buddhist study lineages at the state temples of Nara, Japan's capital, during the Nara period (710–794).

Six Nations Championship

The Six Nations Championship, also known as the Five Nations Championship, is an annual rugby union tournament for England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, and Wales, first played in 1883.

Six Nations of the Grand River

Six Nations of the Grand River is Canada's most populous First Nation (29,400 members, 2024), near Brantford, Ontario, home to all six Haudenosaunee nations, holding under 5% of its original 950,000-acre Haldimand Tract grant.

Six of Crows

Six of Crows (2015) is Leigh Bardugo's young adult fantasy heist novel, first of the Six of Crows duology with Crooked Kingdom (2016). Set in Ketterdam, Kerch, in the Grishaverse, it follows Kaz Brekker's crew of six outcasts on a heist to extract a scientist from Fjerda's Ice Court.

Six Offices (Northern Zhou)

The Six Offices (六官) was the six-ministry government system of China's Northern Zhou dynasty, established in 557, run by military chiefs, and recorded in the Book of Zhou.

Six Offices of Scrutiny

The Six Offices of Scrutiny (六科給事中) were six Ming dynasty supervisory offices, each matched to one of the six ministries, that reviewed documents and impeached officials.

Six operations

The six operations are a system of six interrelated functors, developed by Grothendieck in his duality work, that attach to categories of geometric objects such as schemes.

Six Persimmons

Six Persimmons (六柿圖) is a 13th-century Chinese ink painting of six persimmons attributed to the Southern Song Chan monk Muqi, held at Daitoku-ji in Kyoto, Japan.

Six Principles of Chinese Painting

The Six Principles of Chinese Painting (六法) are six criteria for making and judging painting, set out by the critic Xie He around 500, from spirit resonance to copying.