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References to "circles of fire" or "fiery discs" allegedly contained in the translation have been interpreted in UFO and Fortean literature as evidence of ancient flying saucers, although ufologists Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck have described it as a "hoax". According to Vallee and Aubeck, since Tulli had supposedly copied it during a single ...
Another scholar of ancient Egypt, Erik Iversen, concluded: It is, therefore, Kircher's incontestable merit that he was the first to have discovered the phonetic value of an Egyptian hieroglyph. From a humanistic as well as an intellectual point of view Egyptology may very well be proud of having Kircher as its founder. [19]
In 1878, a third fire company was formed by the residents in the neighborhood of Sixth Street and Park. It was given the name of "Park Hose Co. No. 1". East Los Angeles formed a hose company named "East Los Angeles Hose Co. No. 2" five years later. The final volunteer company was formed in the fall of 1883 in the Morris Vineyard area.
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The 'Mapping Los Angeles Landscape History' project seeks to illustrate major Los Angeles-area Indigenous settlements. Tribal leaders and researchers have mapped the ancient 'lost suburbs' of Los ...
In 1989, he became full professor of Egyptology at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), where he headed the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from 1991 to 2000. During this time, he was also a visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris and at ...
Engine Company No. 28, NRHP-listed fire station in Downtown Los Angeles built in 1912; Fire Station No. 30, Engine Company No. 30, NRHP-listed, historic all-black segregated fire station and engine company in South Los Angeles 'Ralph J. Scott, 100-foot fireboat built in 1925 and attached to the Los Angeles Fire Department, designated as a ...
While the Bel-Air fire in 1961, which destroyed 484 homes, and the Mandeville Canyon fire in 1978, which destroyed 230 homes, are often cited for the scale of their destruction, the 1991 Tunnel ...