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  2. La Brea Tar Pits - Wikipedia

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    La Brea Tar Pits is an active paleontological research site in urban Los Angeles. Hancock Park was formed around a group of tar pits where natural asphalt (also called asphaltum, bitumen, or pitch; brea in Spanish) has seeped up from the ground for tens of thousands of years.

  3. Mark Peel (chef) - Wikipedia

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    To provide the breads they needed, Peel and Silverton also co-founded La Brea Bakery, which opened five months before Campanile restaurant launched. La Brea Bakery was sold in 2001 and is now a worldwide company. [7] Peel's Tar Pit, a cocktail lounge, and Point, a deli, also closed in 2012. [5]

  4. The La Brea Tar Pits are full of mysteries. Here are three of ...

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    For those who don't know, the La Brea Tar Pits are an internationally recognized geological heritage site, located in the middle of Los Angeles. The site is known for its many fossil quarries ...

  5. La Brea Avenue - Wikipedia

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    La Brea is the Spanish phrase meaning "the tar." The La Brea Tar Pits, which the 1828 Mexican land grant Rancho La Brea was named for, are to the west of its intersection with Wilshire Boulevard in the Mid-Wilshire area.

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  7. Hancock Park - Wikipedia

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    Hancock Park is a city park in the Miracle Mile section of the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood in Los Angeles, California.. The park's destinations include the La Brea Tar Pits; the adjacent George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries, which displays the fossils of Ice Age prehistoric mammals from the tar pits; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) complex. [2]

  8. Creeping ooze irritates Tar Pits neighbors; city calls it a ...

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    The Times reported in 2000 on neighbors dealing with tar seeping into a condominium complex, where a maintenance worker would scoop the tar into 55-gallon drums. The La Brea Tar Pits, a geological ...

  9. List of tar pits - Wikipedia

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    The park is known for producing myriad mammal fossils dating from the Pleistocene epoch, including the La Brea Woman. The George C. Page Museum is dedicated to researching the tar pits and displaying specimens from the animals that died there. See List of fossil species in the La Brea Tar Pits. Fort Sill Tar Pits - Located near Fort Sill in SW ...