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Los Lobos
Los Lobos Folk/rock group Small Time Band Taking Off Doing What It Takes Selected discography Sources When the roots-rock revival of the early 1980s appeared, Los Lobos would probably have been picked as the least likely to succeed. While bands like the Stray Cats and the Fabulous... Read more |
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Peter Victor Ueberroth
Peter Victor Ueberroth 1937-, American business and sports executive, b. Evanston, Ill. As president of the organizing committee for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Ueberroth created a financially successful competition that reversed a trend of heavy deficit spending by host cities and resulted in a... Read more |
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Thomas Bradley
Thomas Bradley 1917–1998 Mayor of Los Angeles Joined Los Angeles Police Force Entered Los Angeles Politics Elected Mayor of Los Angeles Sought California Governorship Sources In the two decades after his election as the first black mayor of Los Angeles, Thomas Bradley’s name was... Read more |
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Volos
Vólos , city (1991 pop. 77,192), capital of Magnisia prefecture, E Greece, in Thessaly, on the Gulf of Vólos, an inlet of the Aegean Sea. The principal port of Thessaly, Vólos is a transportation, commercial, and industrial center. Its leading exports are tobacco, wheat, wine,... Read more |
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Pedro Almodovar
ALMODÓVAR, Pedro Nationality:Spanish. Born:Calzada de Clatrava, La Mancha, Spain, 1951 (some sources say 1947). Career:Moved to Madrid and worked for National Telephone Company, 1967; wrote comic strips and articles for underground magazines; joined... 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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Holly Near
Holly Near Singer, songwriter Holly Near has built a distinctive career by using music to champion deeply felt political causes, often before anyone else had dared to do so. Although her musical career took flight in the early 1970s, her commitment to the topical song recalled the political folk... Read more |
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Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton 1908?-2002, African-American vibraphonist and bandleader, b. Louisville, Ky. When his family moved to Chicago c.1916, the young Hampton began playing drums in a newsboys' band. He moved to Los Angeles as a teenager and became a drummer in saxophonist Les Hite's band. Encouraged by... Read more |
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University of New Mexico
University of New Mexico main campus at Albuquerque; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1889, opened 1892. It maintains graduate centers at Los Alamos and Santa Fe and conducts joint research with Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories and the Holloman Air Force Base missile development... Read more |
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