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Los Banos (/ l oʊ s ˈ b æ n oʊ s / lohss BAN-ohss), alternatively Los Baños (/ l oʊ s ˈ b æ n j oʊ s / lohss BAN-yohss), is a city in Merced County, California, United States. It is located in the San Joaquin Valley in Central California , near the junction of State Route 152 and Interstate 5 .
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Signage in Los Baños showing its nickname. This partial list of city and municipality nicknames in the Philippines compiles the aliases, sobriquets, and slogans that cities and municipalities in the Philippines are known by (or have been known historically by), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders, or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 January 2025. Municipality in Laguna, Philippines For the city in Merced County, California, see Los Banos, California. Municipality in Calabarzon, Philippines Los Baños Municipality Municipality of Los Baños From top, left to right: Mount Makiling, Los Baños Municipal Hall, Tadlac lake, Paciano ...
Banos or Baños (Spanish: baths) may refer to: Jean-Paul Banos (born 1961), Canadian fencer; Banos, Landes, a commune in the Landes department of France; Baños de Agua Santa, a city in Tungurahua Province, Ecuador; Baños Canton, Ecuador, of which Baños de Agua Santa is the capital; Baños District, Peru; Baños, Azuay, a suburb of Cuenca ...
The Raid on Los Baños (Filipino: Pagsalakay sa Los Baños) in the Philippines, early Friday morning on 23 February 1945, was executed by a combined United States Army Airborne and Filipino guerrilla task force, resulting in the liberation of 2,147 Allied civilian and military internees from an agricultural school campus turned Japanese ...
The campus of the College of Forestry and Natural Resources, referred to as the "upper campus", is situated on the northeastern slope of Mount Makiling. [20] The campus contains academic buildings, dormitories, hosted institutions (such as the ASEAN Center for Biodiversity), [21] and the 4,347-hectare [22] Makiling Forest Reserve (MFR), which serves as an outdoor laboratory for forestry ...
A well-known English brothel, the Turk's Head, labelled Bagnio (1787). Bagnio was a term for a bath or bath-house.In England, it was originally used to name coffeehouses that offered Turkish baths, but by 1740 [4] it signified a boarding house where rooms could be hired with no questions asked, or a brothel.