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Thomas Gillespie is an American geographer and professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). [1]Gillespie's main area of research is in determining the patterns of species richness within a given geography, specifically native Hawaiian flora and tropical dry forests in biodiversity hotspot such as Hawaii, Sundaland, Indo-Burma, New Caledonia and the Caribbean ...
Anthony J. Pellicano (born March 22, 1944) is a high-profile Los Angeles private investigator and convicted criminal known as a Hollywood fixer. [1] He served a term of thirty months in a federal prison for illegal possession of explosives, firearms, and a grenade.
Category: Geography of Los Angeles. ... Los Angeles County, California, regions (19 C, 21 P) Los Angeles River (1 C, 37 P) N. Neighborhoods in Los Angeles (96 C, 228 ...
This list of museums in Los Angeles is a list of museums located within the City of Los Angeles, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Former names: Griffith: General information; Architectural style: Greco-Roman and Art Deco: Location: Los Feliz, Los Angeles, California, United States: Coordinates: 1]: Elevation: 1,135 ft (346 m): Construction started: June 20, 1933 (): Inaugurated: May 14, 1935 (): Client: Griffith Trust: Design and construction; Architect(s): John C. Austin Frederick M. Ashley: Website; GriffithObservatory ...
Mapping L.A. is a project of the Los Angeles Times, beginning in 2009, to draw boundary lines for 158 cities and unincorporated places within Los Angeles County, California. It identified 114 neighborhoods within the City of Los Angeles and 42 unincorporated areas where the statistics were merged with those of adjacent cities. [1]
Greater Los Angeles is the most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. state of California, encompassing five counties in Southern California extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino County and Riverside County in the east, with the city of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County at its center, and Orange County to the southeast.
Edward Gustav Pleva (1912–2008), a geography educator who taught for 39 years at Western University and was editor of The Canadian Oxford School Atlas. JPL: MPC · 21367: 21368 Shiodayama: 1997 LE 10: Shiodayama is a 406-m mountain located in the north of the discoverer's home town, Shirataka, Yamagata prefecture, Japan: JPL · 21368: 21369 ...