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A naval boarding school was established on the island of S. Elena in Venice in 1937, and it was named Italian Lictor Youth Naval College ("Collegio Navale della Gioventù Italiana del Littorio"). [1] It aimed to encourage young men to engage in activities related to the sea and to prepare them to enroll in the Regia Marina.
This project was to include access by large boats from Marina Del Rey into the Venice Canals. However, a lawsuit by Summa Corporation, the Howard Hughes Company, and a man named Mr. Green stopped the project. This was due to the canal water flowing from Marina Del Rey to the Venice Canals in a section called Ballona Lagoon.
Venice is a neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles within the Westside region of Los Angeles County, California, United States.. Venice was founded by Abbot Kinney in 1905 as a seaside resort town.
Marina Peninsula is a neighborhood in western Los Angeles, California.It is often considered a subsection of the adjacent neighborhood of Venice.Because of its name it is sometimes erroneously thought to be part of the adjacent community of Marina del Rey, California, [1] but it was annexed to Los Angeles along with the rest of Venice in 1925.
Parts of Venice Beach and Dockweiler State Beach are closed after 15,000 gallons of sewage leaked into the ocean near Marina del Rey over the weekend, the Los Angeles County Public Health ...
The Lagoon in its present configuration is a narrow elongated area covered by very shallow water and is separated from the ocean by a strand or bar of beach sand. Its entire length lies within 1,000 yards (910 m) of the ocean. It connects to the Venice Canals to the northwest and to the ocean channel entrance to Marina Del Rey on the southeast.
Several neighborhoods, including Venice, Marina del Rey, Mar Vista, and Del Rey, feed into Venice High School. The unique educational pathways offered by the six small schools draw students from across Los Angeles. Three University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) student housing facilities for families are zoned to Venice High School. [23]
After the end of hostilities, the Regia Marina – which at the beginning of the war was the fourth largest navy in the world, with a mix of modernised and new battleships – started a long and complex rebuilding process. The important combat contributions of the Italian naval forces after the signing of the armistice with the Allies on 8 ...