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  Fontana, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fontana is a city located in San Bernardino County, California.
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.
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 Fontana on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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.
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www.encyclopedia.com /html/F/Fontana.asp   (660 words)

  
 FONTANA DAM NORTH CAROLINA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Fontana Dam, North Carolina is geographically located in the Unicoi Mountains, part of the Great Smoky Mountains, and form the western boundary between Graham County and Tennessee.
Fontana Village, a community for the workers and their families, was erected in the wilderness almost overnight.
Fontana Dam is the highest concrete dam in the TVA system east of the Rocky Mountains, and it ranks among the most beautiful in the world, with the Appalachian Trail crossing the top of the Dam.
home.att.net /~schilgl1533/LMisc/FontanaDam/FONTANADAM.htm   (440 words)

  
 TVA: Fontana Reservoir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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)
In 1765 Fontana was appointed to the chair of logic and, in 1766, to the chair of physics at the University of Pisa.
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.
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)

  
 History of Fontana
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.
The packing house (now housing the Fontana Unified School District Transportation Department) located on Mango Avenue, was alive with activity of workers busily packing the luscious citrus fruit which was available to the residents for about 50 cents to $1 a crate.
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.
www.fontana.org /main/history.htm   (2166 words)

  
 Carl Fontana
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.
Fontana was awarded a degree in musical education at Louisiana State University in 1950 where he also played in concert and symphony orchestras.
www.jazzmasters.nl /fontana.htm   (1837 words)

  
 Las Vegas SUN: Jazz trombonist Carl Fontana dies in Las Vegas
Fontana was born in Monroe and got his start with a dance band headed by his father, Charles "Collie" Fontana.
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 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)

  
 New York Daily News - City News - Foundling Hospital's Dr. Fontana dies at 81   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Fontana liquidated his retirement fund and donated $1 million to the center.
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.
Fontana served in various capacities in the administrations of every New York mayor from Abe Beame to Rudy Giuliani.
www.nydailynews.com /news/local/story/325780p-278435c.html   (318 words)

  
 Rancho Cucamonga, Fontana, Moreno Valley homes for sale, CA
Fontana-- The information provided here is meant to help you become acquainted with the City of Fontana.
Fontana is close to the mountains, beaches, several lakes and desert areas.
Fontana is home to the Fontana Days Half Marathon and 5 k run.
www.mykelmartin.com /48233.html   (294 words)

  
 fontana high school preview
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.
With an enrollment of 4,500 students, Fontana has a huge pool of talent to draw from and for each of the last three years that McNally has been at the helm things have continued to improve.
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.
www.socalhoops.tierranet.com /archive/prepnotes/1098/font1006.htm   (1347 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Carlo Fontana
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.
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.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06126b.htm   (286 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.
Fontana started out as a theater snob himself—a wannabe playwright from Buffalo, one of five kids in a large Italian and Polish family.
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.
www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/tv/9190/index1.html   (1376 words)

  
 Graham County North Carolina -- Fontana Dam Two
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.
The Visitors Center at Fontana Dam is designed to offer an entertaining and educational introduction to hydroelectric power, and the history associated with the building of Fontana.
www.main.nc.us /graham/fontanad.html   (999 words)

  
 New homes in Fontana California - NewHomesWeb.net
The City of Fontana, California, is the center of activity for one of the nation's fastest-growing economies.
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.
The Fontana Skate Park was created in an effort to promote recreational activities in a safe environment for the youth and teens in the area.
fontana.newhomesweb.net   (776 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Domenico Fontana
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.
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.
Fontana also designed the transverse arms separating the courts of the Vatican.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06126c.htm   (614 words)

  
 Fontana Real Estate and Homes for Sale in San Bernardino County, California
Fontana’s proximity to local mountains, beaches, lakes and desert regions makes it a popular place for young families.
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.
www.fontana-real-estate-and-homes.com   (739 words)

  
 Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Fontana - Biography
Lucio Fontana was born February 19, 1899, in Rosario de Santa Fé, Argentina.
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 fl 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.
www.guggenheimcollection.org /site/artist_bio_47.html   (438 words)

  
 Farmacopia: Fontana Farms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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.
Fontana's Peach Preserves are made with their own tree-ripened peaches in small batches to keep that wonderful flavor of homemade.
www.farmacopia.com /fontanafarms.html   (702 words)

  
 Fontana's Italian Restaurant - Great Italian Food
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.
Fontana's restaurant specializes in freshly made pasta and seafood dishes.
www.fontanasitalian.com   (87 words)

  
 Not a typical smokey mountain cabin rental
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.
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.
www.lakeviewnc.com   (231 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Lucio Fontana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
L'oeuvre de Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) se nourrit, à ses débuts, de tous les courants, de tous les styles, une manière de se soustraire à l'autorité de l'histoire.
Fontana explore ensuite tous les aspects de la matière pour aboutir à un art épuré, avant de rallier dans les années trente le groupe des Abstraits italiens, puis de rejoindre Abstraction-Création.
Fontana impose son geste irréversible et radical, qui griffe, perfore, troue et même lacère l'espace de la toile ; geste auquel nous reconnaissons encore aujourd'hui son oeuvre.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/8881582058   (306 words)

  
 State Representative Stephen Fontana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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.
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.
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)

  
 Gabriele Fontana - Soprano   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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.
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.
www.operaphile.com /gfontana.html   (421 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Lucio Fontana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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.
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.
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)

  
 AskMen.com - Isabeli Fontana
Isabeli Fontana is one of many successful models -- including Gisele Bundchen, Ana Claudia Michels and Adriana Lima -- to come out of Brazil in recent years.
She began with a notorious debut in the Victoria's Secret catalog at age 16, and within three short years, has become a fixture in the Paris and Milan shows, a model for celebrated designers from Versace to Valentino, and cover girl for more than her share of high-profile magazines.
Isabeli Bergossi Fontana (who occasionally simply goes by "Isabeli") was born on July 4, 1983, in Curitiba, in the Paraná region of Brazil.
www.askmen.com /women/models_150/181_isabeli_fontana.html   (387 words)

  
 TomFontana.com
Every hour of a Fontana serial is an argument against formula and complacency in a medium too often predicated on such.
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.
tomfontana.com   (1525 words)

  
 Woman arrested in connection with missing Fontana police dog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
She was also booked for investigation of embezzlement, burglary and drug possession, and held on $25,000 bail at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga.
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.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/08/29/state0717EDT0008.DTL   (232 words)

  
 Prospero Fontana (1512 - 1597) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Giambattista Fontana, Numitor, after the Death of Amulius, is Restored to the Throne of Alba, pl.6 from the series The Story of Romulus and Remus, 1575
Giambattista Fontana, The Brothers, Divided By the Augurs, Resort to Arms and Remus is Killed, pl.8 from the series The Story of Romulus and Remus, 1575
Giambattista Fontana, Taitius is Killed, Romulus Reigns as Sole Monarch of the Romans and the Sabines, pl. 24 from the series The Story of Romulus and Remus, 16th century
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 Fontana Lake, NC
Fontana Lake is roughly 30 miles long and is at an elevation of around 1700'.
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'.
The North Shore of Fontana Lake is the largest tract of wilderness in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.
www.mtsu.edu /~yelverto/fontana.html   (567 words)

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