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On January 31, 1957, a Douglas DC-7B operated by Douglas Aircraft Company was involved in a mid-air collision with a United States Air Force Northrop F-89 Scorpion and crashed into the schoolyard of Pacoima Junior High School located in Pacoima, a suburban area in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California. [1] [2] [3]
Jimmy Ritchey is an American country music songwriter and record producer from Centralia, Washington. [ 1 ] Ritchey got his start as a record producer after producing demos for Tommy Shane Steiner .
"The Big Bopper" Richardson and Ritchie Valens were also killed in this accident (see The Day the Music Died). James Horner: United States 2015 Film score composer Short Tucano: Los Padres National Forest, California Under investigation [59] István Horthy: Hungary 1942 Deputy Regent of Hungary: MÁVAG Héja: Ilovskoye, Soviet Union aircraft ...
The Funeral Mountains is a short, arid mountain range in the United States along the California-Nevada border approximately 100 mi (160 km) west of Las Vegas. The mountains are considered a subrange of the Amargosa Range that form the eastern wall of Death Valley. The crest of the range is within Death Valley National Park.
Boron is 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Red Rock Mountain at an elevation of 2,467 feet (752 m). [4] The population was 2,086 at the 2020 census, up from 2,025 at the 2000 census. Boron is named after the element boron and is the site of the world's largest source of the boron compound boric acid.
The eastern portion begins at US 395 southeast of Olancha, heads east through Death Valley National Park, and ends at State Route 127 at Death Valley Junction. The 43.0-mile [ 2 ] (69.2 km) portion over the Sierra Nevada remains unconstructed, and the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has no plans to build it through the ...
The Owlshead Mountains are to the south across the Amargosa River and its steep descent into Death Valley. Features. The range reaches an elevation of 6,384 feet (1,946 m) above sea level at Funeral Peak. Dante's View and Coffin Peak lie at the northern end of the range. Death Valley Railroad from the Black Mountains to Amargosa Desert
Perry’s Funeral Chapel, known for many years as Rumph Mortuary, is a historic commercial building at 312 West Oak Street in El Dorado, Arkansas.Built in 1927, it is a two-story red brick building, with a three-bay facade topped by a crenellated Gothic parapet.