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	Fontana, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Originally a sleepy, dusty town of citrus orchards and cattle ranches astride Route 66 and numerous rail lines, Fontana was radically transformed during World War II by the construction of a steel mill belonging to the Henry J. Kaiser Company and the routing of the San Bernardino Freeway through a section of the town.
		Fontana's principal cultural/entertainment attraction is the California Speedway, a racetrack that plays host to two NASCAR events a year.
		Fontana is a city located in San Bernardino County, California.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fontana,_California (697 words)

	Fontana on Encyclopedia.com
		Fontana suffered a significant economic blow in 1983 when Kaiser closed its plant; in the early 1990s, parts of the factory complex were dismantled and shipped to China.
		Incendie à Fontana Près d'une semaine après leur déclenchement, des incendies ayant fait au moins treize morts continuaien.
		Incendie à Fontana Près d'une semaine après leur déclenchement, de violents incendies ayant fait au moins treize morts con.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/F/Fontana.asp (660 words)

	History of Fontana
		Portions of Fontana's Foothill Boulevard remain as a legacy in providing this city with a firm link to the westerly migration of segments of the American population that sought relief from the Midwest dust bowl during the great depression.
		The grapes on the right of the seal are a tribute to the fact that Fontana had one of the largest vineyards in the world, however, it has now been replaced by housing, commercial, and industrial development.
		B. Miller founded the town-site of Fontana in 1913 and built it into a diversified agricultural area with citrus, grain, grapes, poultry, and swine being the leading commodities.
	www.fontana.org /main/history.htm (2166 words)

	Hotel Fontána – Lipno
		FONTANA is a hotel complex situated in the beautiful virgin country-side of the Lipno lake region.
		The FONTANA hotel is one of the most famous recreation facilities in Southern Bohemia.
	www.hotel-fontana.cz (257 words)

	TVA: Fontana Reservoir
		Fontana was built during World War II to provide electric power for the war effort.
		Fontana provides 238 miles of shoreline and 10,230 acres of water surface for recreation activities.
		Fontana Dam is 480 feet high and stretches 2,365 feet across the Little Tennessee River.
	www.tva.com /sites/fontana.htm (327 words)

	Felice Fontana (www.whonamedit.com)
		Fontana reorganized the surviving instruments of the Medici collection — including the relics of Galileo and of the Accademia del Cimento now in the museum of the History of Sciences in Florence - and notably increased the collection through the acquisition of scientific instruments and natural objects.
		In 1765 Fontana was appointed to the chair of logic and, in 1766, to the chair of physics at the University of Pisa.
		Fontana also took advantage of microscopic investigations to complete the characterizations of the parts of the animal body which Haller had based upon irritability and sensitivity.
	www.whonamedit.com /doctor.cfm/2468.html (1162 words)

	fontana high school preview
		In 1995, he was the varsity head coach at Damien, but then he got the call from Mike Southworth at Fontana, and for the last 4 years, he's been in what he considers the ideal job.
		Head coach John McNally is in his 10 year of coaching at the high school level, his 4th as a varsity coach, and his 3rd as the head coach at Fontana High, which has the distinction of being the largest single enrollment school in Division I-AA (the largest division) of Southern Section CIF.
		The city of Fontana itself was formerly the Inland Empire's steel manufacturing capital, and the town still retains some of the toughness and edge that goes along with a town with steel plants, smelting operations and metal fabricating facilities.
	www.socalhoops.tierranet.com /archive/prepnotes/1098/font1006.htm (1347 words)

	Carl Fontana
		Fontana co-led a group with the drummer Jake Hanna that recorded and appeared at festivals in 1975 and later toured Japan.
		The Fontanas lived in Monroe, Louisiana during the Depression (Carl was born there in 1928) and Collie supported his family by working as a plumber and by playing violin and saxophone in a band he inherited from another leader.
		Fontana was always an athletic man and his first loves as a boy had been football, basketball and baseball.
	www.jazzmasters.nl /fontana.htm (1837 words)

	Graham County North Carolina -- Fontana Dam Two
		Built in just over three years, during a time of historic shortages of steel and manpower, the Fontana project is a fascinating account of dam construction in the remote reaches of deep forest and tall mountains.
		This is Fontana -- a dam and its lake, a community and its recreation, a story of courage and human endeavor.
		Fontana was not designed as an overflow dam so it has a somewhat distinct appearance.
	www.main.nc.us /graham/fontanad.html (999 words)

	New York Daily News - City News - Foundling Hospital's Dr. Fontana dies at 81
		"Vincent Fontana dedicated his life to helping and protecting children," said John Mattingly, commissioner of the city Administration for Children's Services.
		Last year, the Vincent J. Fontana Center for Child Protection in Greenwich Village was named in his honor.
		Fontana was assigned to the U.S. Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md., when he was selected as personal physician to Eisenhower and Nixon while they visited Camp David.
	www.nydailynews.com /news/local/story/325780p-278435c.html (318 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Jazz trombonist Carl Fontana dies in Las Vegas
		Fontana graduated from Neville High School and was pursuing a master's degree from Louisiana State University when jazz master Woody Herman invited him to join the Third Herd.
		Fontana was born in Monroe and got his start with a dance band headed by his father, Charles "Collie" Fontana.
		Fontana was survived by his two brothers, two sons, one daughter and eight grandchildren.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/nevada/2003/oct/10/101010042.html (340 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Carlo Fontana
		Fontana made a calculation of the whole expense of St. Peter's from the beginning to 1694, which amounted to 46,800,052 crowns, without including models.
		Fontana seems to have been considered an able artist and a good designer and more successful as an architect than as a writer.
		In this work Fontana advised the demolition of that nest of houses which formed a sort of island from Ponte Sant' Angelo to the piazza of St. Peter's.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06126b.htm (286 words)

	New homes in Fontana California - NewHomesWeb.net
		The City of Fontana is located in southern California at the intersection of two major freeways, the I-10 and the I-15.
		Fontana is close to the mountains, beaches, several lakes and desert areas.
		Fontana has an aggressive business recruitment policy and the Department of Housing and Business Development is staffed with professionals ready to supply both information and assistance to businesses of any size.
	fontana.newhomesweb.net (776 words)

	State Representative Stephen Fontana
		Fontana, who works as a title examiner, holds a B.A. degree in Creative Writing from Oberlin College, an M.B.A. degree in Marketing from the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University, and a J.D. degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law.
		State Representative Steve Fontana (D-North Haven) was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives in November 1996 to represent the 87th General Assembly District, which encompasses the entire town of North Haven, and was re-elected in 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2004.
		On a local level, Fontana also has served the town of North Haven as a member of its Board of Finance from 1995-2003, and, from 1993-95, as a member of its Conservation Commission.
	www.cga.ct.gov /hdo/HDO087.asp (191 words)

	Not a typical smokey mountain cabin rental
		Secluded, affordable, and decidedly low-key, Lakeview at Fontana is the perfect refuge for those who prefer their mountain breezes scented with the rich aroma of a cafe mocha.
		Perched on a hillside overlooking Fontana Lake, six miles from Bryson City, NC, Lakeview is minutes away from the area's best attractions — mountain biking on top-rated Tsali Trails, hiking on the Appalachian Trail, kayaking, horseback riding, whitewater rafting and the nearby Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
		A long-time favorite of outdoor enthusiasts, Lakeview at Fontana is known for its relaxed, cozy ambience.
	www.lakeviewnc.com (231 words)

	Television writer Tom Fontana - Fox's drama series The Jury
		We’re sitting in Fontana’s office in the West Village, an airy atrium at the back of a converted three-story Dutch revival, a former public library that during the sixties was a setting for psychedelic “happenings.” Now the main floor houses the Levinson/Fontana Company.
		Williamstown was a bohemian wonderland (“Everybody fucked everybody”), and Fontana became drinking buddies with a cabal of playwrights, as well as a few bigwigs, including the producer Bruce Paltrow and his wife, Blythe Danner, who had moved to the theater community to wait out the 1981 Writers Guild strike.
		Fontana started out as a theater snob himself—a wannabe playwright from Buffalo, one of five kids in a large Italian and Polish family.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/tv/9190/index1.html (1376 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Domenico Fontana
		Fontana also designed the transverse arms separating the courts of the Vatican.
		It was characteristic of him to remain satisfied with a single solution of an architectural problem, as shown in the fact that he reapplied the motif of the Lateran Palace in the later part of the Vatican containing the present papal residence, and in the additions to the Quirinal Palace.
		Among profane buildings his strong restrained style, with its suggestion of the School of Vignola, is best exemplified in the Lateran Palace (begun 1586), in which the vigorous application of sound structural principles and a power of co-ordination are undeniable, but also the utter lack of imagination and barren monotony of style.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06126c.htm (614 words)

	Farmacopia: Fontana Farms
		Fontana's Peach Preserves are made with their own tree-ripened peaches in small batches to keep that wonderful flavor of homemade.
		Fontana Farms' preserves, toppings and sauces are still made the way Grandma used to do, in small batches, using fresh, ripe fruit.
		Fontana Farms is a family-run operation, dedicated to making wholesome and delicious preserves, toppings and sauces.
	www.farmacopia.com /fontanafarms.html (702 words)

	Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Fontana - Biography
		The year 1949 marked a turning point in Fontana’s career; he concurrently created the Buchi, his first series of paintings in which he punctured the canvas, and his first spatial environment, a combination of shapeless sculptures, fluorescent paintings, and black lights to be viewed in a dark room.
		In the last year of his career, Fontana became increasingly interested in the staging of his work in the many exhibitions that honored him worldwide, as well as in the idea of purity achieved in his last white canvases.
		Lucio Fontana was born February 19, 1899, in Rosario de Santa Fé, Argentina.
	www.guggenheimcollection.org /site/artist_bio_47.html (438 words)

	Fontana Real Estate and Homes for Sale in San Bernardino County, California
		Fontana's topography is enhanced by a number of regional parks.
		Fontana offers a wide variety of quality and affordable real estate options, including single-family detached homes and a few condominiums and townhouses.
		Fontana’s proximity to local mountains, beaches, lakes and desert regions makes it a popular place for young families.
	www.fontana-real-estate-and-homes.com (739 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Lucio Fontana
		Throughout his lifetime, Fontana was driven by the spirit of exploration, constantly questioning and extending the boundaries of his own practice, confounding expectations, and provoking and amazing an ever-growing audience.
		From his earliest monumental sculptures and collaborations with architects in the 1930s to his spatial environments and slashed canvases of the 1950s and 1960s, Fontana's raw, vigorous, and richly expressive works overturned the conventions of art and challenged existing ideas about the role of the artist in the age of rapid technological development.
		Produced to accompany a retrospective exhibition marking the artist's centenary at the Hayward Gallery, this book spans Fontana's prolific career and brings together over 100 of his sculptures and canvases as well as a reconstruction of one of his most physically impressive and distilled spatial environments.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1853321982 (345 words)

	Fontana's Italian Restaurant - Great Italian Food
		Fontana's restaurant specializes in freshly made pasta and seafood dishes.
		Fontana's Italian Restaurant, italian food, fresh seafood dishes, fresh pasta dishes, desserts, Large Parties and Banquet Celebrations, Cupertino, California.
		Founded in 1984, Fontana's Italian continues to provide special Italian cuisine with a California/Mediterranean influence from the sea.
	www.fontanasitalian.com (87 words)

	Gabriele Fontana - Soprano
		Fontana and her husband Peter Weber, baritone, appeared in New York City and Washington, D.C. in a joint Lieder recital, September, 1999, which received a rave review in The Washington Post.
		Fontana made her debut as Marzelline in the Deutsche Staatsoper (Unter den Linden) and Eva in Hannover, later reprised at the Deutsche Opera, Berlin in 1997, and as Violetta and the Marschallin at the Hannover State Opera in 1998, when she became a regular artist with the company.
		Fontana appeared with the Cleveland Orchestra in Cleveland as Woglinde in Das Rheingold, with Maestro Christoph von Dohnanyi, and the subsequent recording on Decca/London.
	www.operaphile.com /gfontana.html (421 words)

	Fontana, Domenico -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		Fontana went to Rome in 1563, where he was employed by Cardinal Montalto (later Pope Sixtus V) to design a chapel in the church of Sta.
		When Cardinal Montalto was elected pope, he appointed Fontana as architect to the papacy.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9034781?tocId=9034781 (656 words)

	Baca Joins City of Fontana in Grand Celebration
		Congressman Baca joined by friends and family was honored by the City of Fontana Mayor Mark Nauimi and the Fontana City Council for his steadfast commitment to the community and for proving instrumental in obtaining funds for the expansion of the community park.
		"Fontana is a great city and a great community, I'm just glad I was able to help."
		The first was a framed permit that the City of Fontana received allowing the City to proceed in the development of the Empire Center.
	www.house.gov /baca/latestnews/release051704.htm (544 words)

	Woman arrested in connection with missing Fontana police dog
		Fontana police Sgt. Gary Aulis said authorities were still determining a possible motive for the animal's disappearance.
		Rickey is one of four Fontana police dogs, said Fontana police Sgt. William Megenney.
		Police said the dog, a black and tan German shepherd known as Rickey, was being kept at the Regency Pet Hotel in Fontana while his handler was on vacation.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/08/29/state0717EDT0008.DTL (232 words)

	TomFontana.com
		… Fontana is known for his deft handling of gritty subject matter and intimate look at the various participants in the criminal justice system: the investigators, the prisoners, and most recently, the jurors.
		Fontana will be honored for his Emmy-winning work on TV as well as his theatre output.
		Every hour of a Fontana serial is an argument against formula and complacency in a medium too often predicated on such.
	tomfontana.com (1525 words)

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		Fontana, as unlikely as it may be, accomplished an exceptional skatepark.
		Personally, I think Chino is better, and since I gave Chino an 8, Fontana should really be an 8-minus.
		The best in the Southland (up to date) that is a city owned community based park.
	www.concretedisciples.com /cd_skate/socal/fontana/fontana.php (463 words)

	Fontana: Historical Quilt
		Fontana would accept between 500 and 600 tons of garbage each day from the city of Los Angeles.
		It was once the home of some of the workers of Fontana Farms and their families.
		A. Miller’s impact was felt far and wide in the development of Fontana.
	score.rims.k12.ca.us /activity/quilt/pigs.htm (208 words)

	Fontana Lake, NC
		Fontana Lake is roughly 30 miles long and is at an elevation of around 1700'.
		The North Shore of Fontana Lake is the largest tract of wilderness in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.
		From the end of Forney Creek on Fontana Lake, you can hike to Clingman's Dome and back to the lake in one day using the Forney Creek Trail but it's about a 25 mile round trip and a vertical climb of nearly 5000'.
	www.mtsu.edu /~yelverto/fontana.html (567 words)

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