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Lone Pine is a series of children's books written by English author Malcolm Saville. Although they were written over a 35-year timespan, between 1943 and 1978, the characters only age by a few years in the course of the series. [ 1 ]
Leonard Malcolm Saville (21 February 1901–30 June 1982) [1] was an English writer best known for the Lone Pine series of children's books, many of which are set in Shropshire. His work emphasises location; the books include many vivid descriptions of English countryside, villages and sometimes towns.
Lone Pine, California, former name of McFarland, California; Lone Pine Barracks, an Australian Army base in New South Wales; Lone Pine Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery; Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane; Lone Pine (Evergreen, Louisiana), listed on the NRHP in Louisiana; Lone Pine (Tarboro, North Carolina), listed on the NRHP in ...
The 1872 Owens Valley earthquake – also known as the Lone Pine earthquake – struck on March 26 at 02:30 local time in the Owens Valley (California, along the east side of the Sierra Nevada), with the epicenter near the town of Lone Pine. Its magnitude has been estimated at M w 7.4 to 7.9, with a maximum Mercalli Intensity of X (Extreme).
The railroad was built by the American Trona Company in 1914, to bring the mining company's potash to an interchange with the Southern Pacific Railroad. [1] The company and its Trona Railway has had various subsequent owners, including American Potash & Chemical Corporation, Kerr-McGee Corporation, IMC Global, Sun Capital, LLC, before the current ownership of Searles Valley Minerals, Inc.
The county operates its two airports at a loss of about $500,000 a year from the general fund. Last year, the Board of Supervisors funded a $50,000 “economic development plan” for the ...
In the 1920s, a trip from Los Angeles to a town such as Lone Pine might take two or three days necessitating a stay at locations like Little Lake before continuing onwards. [3] In the 1940s, “sportsman traffic heading northward along US 395 considered Little Lake an important stop to spray cooling water on boiling radiators, feed hungry ...
Norman Lear, winner of the Carol Burnett Award, speaks during the 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards broadcast on Feb. 28, 2021. Two weeks after Norman Lear died at age 101, new details have shed new ...