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  Los Angeles
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 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.
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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 AllRefer.com - Victoria de los Angeles (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Victoria de los Angeles[dA lOs An´hAlAs] Pronunciation Key, 1923–, Spanish soprano, b.
After a concert debut in Madrid in 1944, de los Angeles toured Scandinavia, France, England, and South America.
Her debut in the United States was made at Carnegie Hall in 1950, and she joined the Metropolitan Opera Company the same year, performing there until 1961.
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 Los Angeles Apartments for Rent - Search Los Angeles, California Apartment Rentals
A port of entry on the Pacific coast, with a fine harbor at San Pedro Bay, it is the second largest U.S. city in population and one of the largest in area.
Los Angeles has one of the busiest ports in the United States, with roughly half of its commerce coming from other nations, and its international airport is one of the world's busiest.
In Los Angeles are the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art; and historical, movie, industrial, and science museums.
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 May 1902: Los Angeles Fiesta Day   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The noise of all nations combined to form the din that kept Los Angeles awake last night.
The Indian war cry clashed with the wild Scotch pipe; there was the sound of brass, of reed and of string; the clap and clatter of bells; martial notes of the bugle, and the piercing shriek of tin horns.
It is pleasing to see a reporter writing so positively about the variety of ethnic groups that, even at the turn of the last century, comprised the population of Los Angeles, which had about 100,000 residents.
www.ulwaf.com /LA-1900s/02.05.html   (1543 words)

  
 Nocturne Books - Los Angeles Guide Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
"In Los Angeles life is a 24-hour affair...." With a tagline like that and a publish date of 1978, we snatched this book off the shelf.
Los Angeles A to Z : An Encyclopedia of the City and County
In this book, Perry has provided the sincere admirer of the cinema and its stars, a respectful and efficient compilation of the highlights of careers, and final resting places of some of their screen favorites.
www.nocturne.com /books/booksguides.html   (1025 words)

  
 Rhapsodomancy: A Reading Series in Los Angeles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Her current projects include a novel, Dead Chickens, and Rio de Sangre, a libretto for an opera by Don Davis, which was conducted by Grant Gershon and presented on November 6, 2005 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Ashaki is an MFA candidate in poetry at Antioch University, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. candidate in Social Psychology at Claremont Graduate University.
He currently has work on display at Cirrus Gallery in Los Angeles, and a book of subversive photographs titled Landscape will be available in the fall of 2006.
rhapsodomancy.typepad.com   (1932 words)

  
 Obituaries - Los Angeles Times
Dick Bass, a three-time NFL Pro Bowl running back who played with the Los Angeles Rams in the 1960s and later was a radio broadcaster for the team, has died.
Betty Berzon, an author and pioneering psychotherapist, who was a beacon of the Los Angeles gay and lesbian community for three decades, died Tuesday at her Studio City home after a 20-year battle with cancer, according to her partner, Terry DeCrescenzo.
David Shaw, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times writer who set new standards for media criticism with his hard-hitting examinations of the American press — including his own newspaper — died Monday evening.
www.latimes.com /news/obituaries   (2025 words)

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