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  Wikipedia: Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles is the largest city in California, and the second most populous city in the United States, with a population of 3,694,820 as of the 2000 census.
Los Angeles-Latino community was largely disenfranchised until the 1990s, when redistricting led to the election of Latino members of the City Council for the first time since the 1950s and the first Latino members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors since its inception.
For example, downtown Los Angeles is the area of Los Angeles roughly enclosed by the freeways that ring the area: The Harbor Freeway to the west, the Hollywood Freeway to the north, the Los Angeles River to the east, and the San Bernardino Freeway to the south.
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Los Angeles is the home of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers men's basketball teams, the Los Angeles Sparks women's basketball team, the Los Angeles Kings hockey team, the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team, and the Los Angeles Avengers arena football team.
Los Angeles has been derided by the rest of the United States for most of the last century: to quote one dyspeptic observer, it simply "oozed up through the unstable earth like some noxious tropical plant growing and spreading over the plain and sending forth strange fruit to contaminate the rest of the country".
Los Angeles has gained the reputation as the "murder capital of the world" due to the high crime rate and as a high-speed police pursuit capital due to the large numbers of car chases that are televised on local television.
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 Los Angeles, California Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
Los Angeles is also home to the largest populations of Japanese and Persians living in the U.S., and has one of the largest Native American populations in the country.
Residents of the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County and various cities within the county are served by the County of Los Angeles Public Library The LAPL is funded by voter-approved bond and tax levy packages.
Los Angeles is the home of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers men's basketball teams, the Los Angeles Sparks women's basketball team, the Los Angeles Kings NHL team, the Club Deportivo Chivas USA and Los Angeles Galaxy soccer teams, and the Los Angeles Avengers arena football team.
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 Los Angeles, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
It was incorporated as a city in California on April 4, 1850 and is the county seat of Los Angeles County.
Los Angeles is the home of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers men's basketball teams, the Los Angeles Sparks women's basketball team, the Los Angeles Kings hockey team, the Club Deportivo Chivas USA and Los Angeles Galaxy soccer teams, and the Los Angeles Avengers arena football team.
For example, Downtown Los Angeles is the area of Los Angeles roughly enclosed by three freeways and one river: the Harbor Freeway to the west, the Hollywood Freeway to the north, the Los Angeles River to the east, and the Santa Monica Freeway to the south.
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 Los Angeles, California   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
Los Angeles is the largest city in California, and the second most populous city in the United States (after New York City), with a population of 3,694,820 as of the 2000 census.
For example, Downtown Los Angeles is the area of Los Angeles roughly enclosed by three freeways and one river: The Harbor Freeway to the west, the United States Highway 101Hollywood Freeway to the north, the Los Angeles River to the east, and the Interstate 10Santa Monica Freeway to the south.
LOS ANGELES The Los Angeles County coroner's office is investigating the death of a newborn boy found in a box behind a popular restaurant near the University of Southern California.
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Los Angeles' large multi-ethnic population has allowed less common religions in North America to thrive.
Los Angeles has 20 Sister Cities, more than any other municipality in California.
Some areas such as Beverly Hills are independent cities from Los Angeles, but nontheless entirely surrounded by the City of Los Angeles.
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 Los Angeles, California
While the cuisines of many cultures have taken root in Los Angeles, it is the home of the Cobb Salad, invented in the Brown Derby restaurant in Hollywood, the French-Dip sandwich, originated by either Cole's or Phillippe's restaurant in downtown, the ice blended coffee drink by Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf and the Tommy's Hamburger.
The primary regional public transportation agency is the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, commonly referred to as MTA or Metro.
Los Angeles is also home to the largest populations of Japanese, Iranians, and Cambodians living in the U.S. also has one of the largest Native American populations in the country.
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 Los Angeles, California - City Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
The City of Los Angeles (from Spanish Los Ángeles, meaning The angels), also known as L.A., is the second-largest city in the United States in terms of population, as well as one of the world's most important economic, cultural, and entertainment centers.
Los Angeles is perhaps the most mountainous metropolis in the world (it's the only major city in the United States bisected by a mountain range), with four mountain ranges partly inside city boundaries.
Los Angeles is the largest manufacturing center in the United States.
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 Norris Poulson Online Research :: Information about Norris Poulson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
Norris Poulson (July 23, 1895 - September 25, 1982) served as mayor of Los Angeles, California from 1953 to 1961, after having been a California state assemblyman and then a member of the United States Congress for eight years.
He was instrumental, among other things, in bringing the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles.
Preceded by: Fletcher Bowron List of mayors of Los Angeles, California 1953 - 1961 Succeeded by: Samuel William Yorty
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 Los Angeles, California   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
The recent "rise" of South Park, the low-rise district of downtown south of Bunker Hill (roughly south of 8th Street and north of the Santa Monica Freeway), is bringing skyscrapers that are high enough in quantity and height to create an extended downtown skyline within a few years from 2005.
There are also unincorporated enclaves which are under Los Angeles County jurisdiction.
Los Angeles is the center of the huge system.
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