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The museum maintains more than thirty permanent exhibits, including: The Delani/Sonnabend Halls: Recalling the intertwining story of an ill-fated opera singer, Madalena Delani, with a theoretician of memory, Geoffrey Sonnabend, whose three-part work Obliscence: Theories of Forgetting and the Problem of Matter suggests that memory is an elaborate construction that humankind has created "to ...
The Chemosphere is a modernist house in Los Angeles, California, designed by John Lautner in 1960. The building, which the Encyclopædia Britannica once called "the most modern home built in the world", [1] is admired both for the ingenuity of its solution to the problem of the site and for its unique octagonal design.
Coit shows his innovative and easily accessible valve control without eccentrics John J. Coit as machinist and his employee "Shorty" Chase as conductor with a bowler hat John J. Coit (1875 – 21 September 1910) was an American experienced railroad engineer , who built and operated four miniature railways in California.
By the numbers. Since we’ve known him, Elon Musk has racked up some big hits—and some wild misses. —Fortune staff 1,000. Number of solar roofs Musk aspired to install per week. Since the ...
Entertainment industry labor unions use the studio zone to determine per diem rates, work rules, and workers' compensation for union workers. For example, entertainment works produced within the area are considered "local" and workers are responsible for paying for their own meals and transportation to work sites; those outside the zone are considered "on location" and the studios are ...
In 1955, Magic Mountain was selected by Project Nike to be an Integrated Fire Control site for Nike Ajax missiles as part of the Los Angeles Defense Area. Construction included the improvement of the access road to the peak from Bear Divide, [5] installation of water infrastructure, and construction of a transmission line.
Buy new — or used? Winner of the 2024 World Car of the Year award, the Kia EV9, at the New York International Auto Show at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City last March.
The Inglewood Oil Field in Los Angeles County, California, is the 18th-largest oil field in the state and the second-most productive in the Los Angeles Basin.Discovered in 1924 and in continuous production ever since, in 2012 it produced approximately 2.8 million barrels of oil from some five hundred wells.