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Venice of America may refer to the following places: Original name of Venice, Los Angeles and the Venice Canal Historic District, in California; Nickname of Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Nickname of Cape Coral, Florida; Nickname of Holyoke, Massachusetts, particularly its downtown, which contains the Holyoke Canal System; Nickname of Lowell ...
Venice, originally called "Venice of America", was founded by wealthy developer Abbot Kinney in 1905 as a beach resort town, 14 miles (23 km) west of Los Angeles. He and his partner Francis Ryan had bought 2 miles (3 km) of ocean-front property south of Santa Monica in 1891.
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.
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Klein-Venedig (German for 'Little Venice') or Welserland (German pronunciation: [ˈvɛlzɐlant]) was the most significant territory of the German colonization of the Americas, from 1528 to 1546, in which the Welser banking and patrician family of the Free Imperial Cities of Augsburg and Nuremberg obtained colonial rights in the Province of Venezuela in return for debts owed by the Holy Roman ...
Venice has always been a delicate city due to its position over tectonic plates. With weak foundations, the islands are gradually sinking. Venice regularly experiences floods from October to January.
History (stylized in all caps), formerly and commonly known as the History Channel, is an American pay television network and flagship channel owned by A&E Networks, a joint venture between Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company's General Entertainment Content Division.
Venice of America House is a Late Victorian house built in 1906 in present-day Venice in Los Angeles, California. The Venice of America House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.