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Los Angeles
Los Angeles , city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. A port of entry on the Pacific coast, with a fine harbor at San Pedro Bay, it is the second largest U.S. city in population and one of the largest in area. Two mountain ranges, the Santa Monica and Verdugo, cut... Read more |
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Los Angeles race riots
LOS ANGELES RIOTS LOS ANGELES RIOTS, an uprising that occurred in May 1992 following the acquittal of four white police officers in the 1991 beating of Rodney King, a black man who had led Los Angeles police on a high-speed automobile chase. The beating was videotaped by a bystander and broadcast... Read more |
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Victoria de los Angeles
Victoria de los Angeles , 1923-2005, Spanish soprano, b. Barcelona. After a concert debut in Madrid in 1944, de los Angeles toured Scandinavia, France, England, and South America. Her debut in the United States was made at Carnegie Hall in 1950, and she joined the Metropolitan Opera Company the same... Read more |
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Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra founded in 1919 by William Andrews Clark, Jr. After his death the Southern California Symphony Association was formed in 1934 to sponsor the orchestra. It was housed in Philharmonic Auditorium from 1920 until 1964, when it moved to the newly constructed Dorothy... Read more |
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Carson
Carson city (1990 pop. 83,995), Los Angeles co., S Calif., an industrial and residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1968. Oil refining is the major industry; fabricated metals, paper, and other products are manufactured. The California State Univ. Dominguez Hills is there.... Read more |
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Montebello (United States)
Montebello city (1990 pop. 59,564), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a growing residential and industrial suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1920. A wide variety of products are manufactured in Montebello, and there are oil wells.... Read more |
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Culver City
Culver City city (1990 pop. 38,793), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1917. It is a center of the U.S. motion-picture industry, whose roots in the city date to c.1915. Its chief manufactures are rubber products and computers. Directly south of the city is Los... Read more |
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Pomona
Pomona , city (1990 pop. 131,723), Los Angeles co., S Calif. at the foot of the San Gabriel Mts.; inc. 1888. It is a residential, industrial, and commercial suburb of Los Angeles where citrus fruits and vegetables are canned and shipped. Manufactures include foods; paper, metal, and plastic... Read more |
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San Marino (city)
San Marino , residential city (1990 pop. 12,959), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1913. Of interest is the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.... Read more |
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Paul Verhoeven
Verhoeven, Paul 1938- (Jan Jansen)PERSONALBorn July 18, 1938, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; married Martine, 1967; children: three. Education: University of Leiden, Ph.D., mathematics and physics.Addresses:Office—Verhoeven Productions, 1345 North Hayworth Ave., Suite 104, Los Angeles, CA 90046.... Read more |
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles. El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles was founded in 1781 at Yanga, a Tongva Indian village along...accellerated by the rise of Hollywood. By the 1920s, Los Angeles’ population surpassed one million—90 percent of ... |
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Los Angeles Theatre Center
Los Angeles Theatre Center, Los Angeles, opened as Los Angeles Actors' Theatre in 1975. Its productions, beginning with O'Neill's The Hairy Ape, were noted for their controversial content and presentation, over 200 world, ... |
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Los Angeles, Victoria de
Los Angeles, Victoria de (1923– ) Spanish soprano. She gave her first public concert in Barcelona (1945). Los Angeles made her debut at the Paris Opéra and La Scala, Milan, in 1949. In... |
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First English Evangelical Lutheran Church of Glendale v. County of Los Angeles
First English Evangelical Lutheran Church of Glendale v. County of Los Angeles, 482 U.S. 304 (1987), argued 14 Jan. 1987, decided 9 June 1987 by vote of 6 to 3; Rehnquist for the Court, Stevens in... |
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Hispanic Americans
...Latino concentrations included Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Chicago, and...workers, living in the barrios of Los Angeles and other cities. During the...Force hero José L. Holguin, a Los Angeles Mexican American, won the ... |
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Mark Taper Forum/Center Theatre Group
...Forum/Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles, one of the most important and enterprising theatre organizations in Los Angeles, a city which with several notable...the University of California at Los Angeles and Artistic Director ... |
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Aircraft Industrialists
...incorporated in Baltimore and moved to Los Angeles in 1935 under the guidance of James...made it an important innovator in Los Angeles. During the 1930s, Howard Hughes also began competing from Los An |
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California
...II brought the incarceration of Japanese Americans, Los Angeles riots targeting Mexican Americans, and discriminatory...with the 1955 opening of Disneyland in Anaheim, near Los Angeles. San Francisco, meanwhile, became not only a mecca... |
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Geffen Playhouse
Geffen Playhouse (Los Angeles). During its young history this theatre company has attracted...opening. The group is affiliated with the University of California at Los Angeles. Neil Simon's latest work, then titled Rose and Walsh, premiered... |
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Lummis, Charles Fletcher
...more a popularizer than a scholar, as librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library he assembled an important collection of Southwest material. He also founded the Southwest Museum (Los Angeles) and the Landmarks Club. |
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Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Founded 1919 with W. H. Rothwell as cond. 1919–27. Since Dec. 1964 has played in Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of Los Angeles Mus. Center. Gives summer concerts in Hollywood Bowl. Prin. cond... |
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Los Angeles-class submarine
Los Angeles-class submarine a class of nuclear-powered submarine of which the USS Los Angeles, built in 1976, was the first example. They are armed with Harpoon and Tomahawk missiles and MK-48 torpedoes. |
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles •Andes •Hades, Mercedes •Archimedes • Thucydides • aphides •Eumenides, Parmenides •Maimonides...Ganges • Apelles •tales, Thales •Achilles, Antilles •Los Angeles • Ramillies • Pericles •isosceles • Praxiteles • Hercules... |
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Los Angeles race riots
Los Angeles race riots, see race riots, Los Angeles |
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De Los Angeles, Victoria
De Los Angeles, Victoria. See Los Angeles, Victoria de. |
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Los Angeles abrasion test
Los Angeles abrasion test A method for measuring abrasion resistance in which the sample and a set of steel spheres are tumbled inside a closed, hollow, steel cyclinder, about 700 mm diameter and 500 mm long, which is rotated on a horizontal axis. |
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Los Angeles, Victoria de
Los Angeles, Victoria de [ García, Victoria López] (b Barcelona, 1923; d 2005). Sp. soprano. Début while student in Monteverdi... |
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race riots, Los Angeles
race riots, Los Angeles (USA) The sporadic eruption of racial tension in a city which is home to the largest community of Mexican Americans, and one... |
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Angeles, Victoria de los
Angeles, Victoria de los. See Los Angeles, Victoria de. |
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Lewis, Henry
Lewis, Henry (b Los Angeles, 1932). Amer. conductor, clarinettist...double-bass player. Db. in Los Angeles PO. Member and later cond. US 7th...Founder and dir. String Soc. of Los Angeles (later Los ... |
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deprecate
...e.g.: “He's smart, articulate, funny, alternately self-deprecating and proud of his success.” (Los Angeles Times; Sept. 1, 1996.) —BG |
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disinterested
...wrestle with being a disinterested observer or becoming emotionally involved with what he sees through his lens.” (Los Angeles Times; Aug. 26, 1996.)Yet disinterested is frequently used (or, in traditionalists’ eyes, misused) for uninterested... |
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recant
...s special victims unit. ‘It's not unusual for victims of domestic abuse to recant,’ Nilsson said.” (Los Angeles Times; Dec. 7, 2001.) —BG |
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dastardly
...epithet—e.g.: “Samuel Ramey is the dastard of the piece, the treacherous, lecherous, murderous Assur.” (Los Angeles Times; May 22, 1994.) British writers, on the other hand, have remained truer to the word's original sense... |
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edification
...hidden cameras record, for our edification [read titillation], sundry couples’ first kisses.” (Daily News of Los Angeles; June 2, 2002.)· “Quinn and his best friend Creedy (Gerard Butler) reenact the climactic light-saber battle... |
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myself
...dollars of profit to the film industry if we could make films and television shows about the lives of real women.” (Los Angeles Times; Oct. 22, 1989.)· “My wife and myself [read I] were in a religious cult for over 15 years before the... |
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Maric College - Los Angeles Hosts Graduation for 172 Students Thursday...
LOS ANGELES, July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Maric College -- Los Angeles will hold graduation ceremonies this evening...Theater at 4401 West Eighth Street in Los Angeles. Mark Buch, Vice President of Operations... |
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Los Angeles Stars Announce Schedule for Inaugural ABA 2000 Season; Season...
Sports Editors LOS ANGELES--(BW SportsWire)--Nov. 30, 2000 The Los Angeles Stars of the new ABA 2000 men's professional...note that the entire schedule for the Los Angeles Stars is attached. DATE AWAY HOME... |
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Los Angeles Fact and Fiction.
...Site and Media Tours Highlight the Los Angeles Region's Diverse and Robust Economy LOS ANGELES, July 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Move over Detroit. Los Angeles, the car capital of the world... |
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Los Angeles Fact and Fiction; New Web Site and Media Tours Highlight the Los...
Business Editors LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 18, 2000 Move over, Detroit. Los Angeles, the car capital of the world, is...have moved their design houses to the Los Angeles area. This is just one of the facts... |
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Los Angeles comes of age: the city is experiencing rapid growth and big...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] LOS ANGELES CONJURES UP A MYRIAD OF IMAGES...night talk shows, these images of Los Angeles no longer tell anything like the...Within the past decade greater Los Angeles has undergone economic, social... |
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Los Angeles Auto Show Announces Strategic Date Change; Show Will Move to...
LOS ANGELES, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- For decades the Los Angeles Auto Show has helped automakers ring in...however, will end in the near future as the Los Angeles Auto Show permanently moves its dates... |
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LOS ANGELES AUTO SHOW ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC DATE CHANGE.
...statement, contact details below) LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 23 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ -- For decades the Los Angeles Auto Show has helped automakers...will end in the near future as the Los Angeles Auto Show permanently moves ... |
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Los Angeles Fast-Food Restaurant Ban Unlikely to Have Impact on Obesity, RAND...
...food chain restaurants in South Los Angeles are not addressing the main differences...RAND Health found that the South Los Angeles region has no more fast-food...more often by residents of South Los Angeles as compared to ... |
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Los Angeles fast-food restaurant ban unlikely to cut obesity, study finds.
...food chain restaurants in South Los Angeles are not addressing the main differences...RAND Health found that the South Los Angeles region has no more fast-food...more often by residents of South Los Angeles as compared to ... |
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LOS ANGELES TO HOST NAACP 2011 CONFERENCE
LOS ANGELES, July 22 -- City of Los Angeles' Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa issued the following press...s oldest and largest civil rights organization, selected Los Angeles as the site of its annual conference, to be held July ... |
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