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  Twentynine Palms California
The palm oasis was originally called the Oasis of Mara and enjoyed a shared a seasonal inhabitations by both Serrano and Cahuilla Indians.
Twentynine Palms is now home to the Joshua Tree National Park and Park Headquarters, and Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center.
Twentynine Palms is also known as the City of Murals as beautifully painted murals depicting local personages and events adorn many of the buildings.
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  Twentynine Palms, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Twentynine Palms is a city located in San Bernardino County, California.
Twentynine Palms was named for the palm trees located in the Oasis of Mara, at Joshua Tree National Park headquarters.
Located at an elevation of approximately 1950 feet (595 m) in the Mojave desert of Southern California, Twentynine Palms is recognized for its extreme temperatures.
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 Twentynine Palms, California
Twentynine Palms is the gateway to the Joshua Tree National Park, 568,000 acres of some of the world's greatest cultural and natural resources.
The area encompassing Twentynine Palms is the Morongo Basin and is classified as having an arid, upland desert climate.
It is said Twentynine Palms was named for the number of large, fine palm trees once found in the middle of the Oasis of Mara.
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 Frenchculture.org | Cinema | Bruno Dumont: Twentynine Palms / Wellspring dvd Sept. 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Twentynine Palms is a small, remote American town deep in the desert of central California.
Using a motel in Twentynine Palms as their base, they spend their days scouting the Joshua Tree Desert and losing their way on the roads and trails behind the wheel of their 4x4.
Twentynine Palms is the third film from Bruno Dumont, director of The Life of Jesus and Humanité, which won of the Grand Jury Prize, Best Actor, and Best Actress awards at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.
www.frenchculture.org /cinema/releases/dumont/29palms.html   (550 words)

  
 City of Twentynine Palms:  Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Twentynine Palms 24-hour Electronic City Hall is ready to serve you with faq's, forms, downloads, and links to help save you a trip across town.
Meet the Mayor and City Council members, learn about the City's Commissions or become a volunteer.
Where to find everything you need to know to do business in Twentynine Palms, including getting a business license, permit information, registering to become a vendor doing business with the City.
www.ci.twentynine-palms.ca.us   (126 words)

  
 Dogville & Twentynine Palms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Twentynine Palms, which is unlikely to bow in Ithaca for the better part of a year, was an even rarer opportunity, nicely showcased on the big screen of the great Cinema Village theater on East 12th Street.
Everyone in Humanité and Twentynine Palms is choked, inexpressive of a single cogent thought or action, evidently resigned to the ceaseless cycle of antagonism that encompasses both the world and their own response to it.
Twentynine Palms is the more internally consistent, though its ideology is so condensed along one sour note that "consistency" might be a diplomatic gloss for single-mindedness.
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 Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms
Twentynine Palms Base, officially the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC), is a census-designated place and United States Marine Corps base located in Twentynine Palms in San Bernardino County, California.
Twentynine Palms Base is located at 34°14'48" North, 116°5'28" West (34.246588, -116.091026)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Twentynine_Palms_Base,_California   (509 words)

  
 Joshua Tree NP
In addition, the palms are habitat for a wide variety of desert creatures from colorful orioles to the palm-boring beetle.
Following World War I, the town of Twentynine Palms saw an influx of veterans suffering from the effects of gas inhalation, drawn to the area by its warm, arid climate.
The Twentynine Palms Corporation donated the Oasis of Mara to the National Park Service in 1950 to use as its headquarters and primary visitor center.
www.nps.gov /jotr/culture/mara/mara.html   (541 words)

  
 About Twentynine Palms
Twentynine Palms, home of Joshua Tree National Park, is a city with something for everyone, with pristine air, beautiful natural surroundings, and a small town family lifestyle.
The City of Twentynine Palms is dedicated to securing the quality of life through development and preservation.
Although separated from the Southern California megalopolis by mountains, Twentynine Palms is close in proximity to the urban population, which enables it to take advantage of a large market without being located within it and escaping many of the economic and environmental burdens that can be attached to an urban population.
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 Twentynine Palms News
Three Marines based in Twentynine Palms pleaded not guilty to felony insurance fraud charges for allegedly filing a false claim that a vehicle was stolen and vandalized.
Helicopters transiting the Morongo Basin to and from the Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Base, and California Highway Patrol choppers are a common sight in the sky here.
Twentynine Palms area of the California desert for a photo shoot.
www.topix.net /city/twentynine-palms-ca   (1091 words)

  
 OFFOFFOFF film review TWENTYNINE PALMS French movie by Bruno Dumont with Yekaterina Golubeva, David Wissak written by ...
The self-consciously empty "Twentynine Palms," by the French director of "The Life of Jesus" and "Humanité," is almost two hours of anti-American tedium punctuated by twenty minutes of random badness.
Completely dysfunctional is a very good description of "Twentynine Palms." It's hard to know what Dumont — whose previous efforts ("The Life of Jesus," "Humanité") ranged from good to fair — intended with this movie.
The "Twentynine Palms" America is a land of bad people, bad food, bad decor, bad TV, bad cars, bad sex and bad French.
www.offoffoff.com /film/2004/twentyninepalms.php   (1064 words)

  
 Twentynine Palms, California - DesertUSA
Twentynine Palms is located in southern California's San Bernardino County on the northern edge of Joshua Tree National Park.
Twentynine Palms derives its name from the life-giving waters of the lush oasis where 29 native California Fan Palms grew along the Pinto Mountain fault.
The city of Twentynine Palms was incorporated March 23, 1987.
www.desertusa.com /Cities/ca/29palms.html   (696 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Twentynine Palms: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The beauty of the film "Twentynine Palms" is that you can place any theory you want on it, and the theory will work.
"Twentynine Palms" (not to be confused with "29 Palms") is mainly in French with English subtitles--displacedhuman
Twentynine Palms is modeled on the horror film, but, like many of its American cousins, the horror it achieves failed to haunt me. The film as a whole left me with an unsettled feeling, as if a cynic had just talked my ear off.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Military -- Two Marines from Twentynine Palms in custody in deaths of fellow Marines
TWENTYNINE PALMS – Two Marines stationed at Twentynine Palms have been arrested in the shooting deaths of two other Marines whose bodies were found in a burning car, authorities said Friday.
The victims were identified by the county coroner's office as Julio Chavarria-Vargas, 22, and Angel Wathen, 22, of Kenosha, Wisc., both Marines at Twentynine Palms.
The victims were shot to death in Rancho Cucamonga and driven to Twentynine Palms, where the car was set on fire, said sheriff's Sgt. Gerrit C. Tesselaar.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/military/20031107-2103-ca-marinesarrested.html   (234 words)

  
 29 Palms Historical Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Twentynine Palms Historical Society was founded by nine individuals on April 26, 1982 and incorporated on August 23, 1982 as a non-profit public benefit corporation.
Biographies, family histories, photographs, newspaper clippings, Twentynine Palms High School Annuals, numerous organizational records and publications provide a wealth of material for those seeking community history.
The mission of the Twentynine Palms Historical Society Museum, housed in the original School House, is to collect, preserve and display information, artifacts and memorabilia pertaining to the culture and history of Twentynine Palms and the greater Morongo Basin.
www.msnusers.com /29palmshistoricalsociety   (253 words)

  
 Twentynine Palms Sources at Sunnyvalesuites.com
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 Twentynine Palms --- Sunnyvale Garden Suites Hotel
Sunnyvale offers the only fully furnished hotel/condo type accommodations in 29 Palms, including all services and amenities one would expect at any fine hotel.
Our junior, one and two bedroom suites are over sized and roomy, and are beautifully decorated with an eclectic style of new and early 20th century furnishings.
Sunnyvale Garden Suites Hotel is the only “extended stay” lodging in 29 Palms, however we welcome many overnight guests as well.
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 29 Palms Historical Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The entire 29 Palms community participated in the fund raising efforts which made the move and the restoration of the 1927 building possible.
Meetings of the Twentynine Palms Historical Society are held here on the 1st Wednesday of the month, while an annual meeting is held on the 2nd Monday in November for the purpose of electing new Board members and to give a yearly report to the membership.
Information on membership or other inquiries can be addressed to the to: The Twentynine Palms Historical Society, Box 1926, Twentynine Palms, CA 92277 or by telephone to the current president, Margot Spangenberg at (760) 367-7936.
www.virtual29.com /societys/histsoc.html   (408 words)

  
 Twentynine Palms Airport Twentynine Palms, California (Airports)
Twentynine Palms Airport serves Twentynine Palms and San Bernardino County and is owned by the County Of San Bernardino.
The facility is at an elevation of 1905 feet at a distance of about 6 miles from Twentynine Palms.
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 Scoop: Chief Censor and Anal Rape film “Twentynine Palms”
The classification decision for the film “Twentynine Palms” was entered into the Register by the Office of Film and Literature Classification on 28 April 2004 (see Appendix below for full copy of decision).
The video recording Twentynine Palms is classified as objectionable except if the availability of the publication is restricted to persons who have attained the age of 18 years.
This classification is based on the manner in which matters of sex, horror, crime, cruelty and violence are presented.
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 Sex and the Gritty (washingtonpost.com)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Publicity material describes "Twentynine Palms," in which a young Los Angeleno (David Wissak) takes a film-location-scouting trip to the California desert with his girlfriend (Katia Golubeva) as "bouts of frantic sex, impassioned fights and hasty reconciliations." That's about right.
By my accounting, the story goes something like this: fight, sex, fight, fight, attempted sex, attempted sex, fight, sex, fight, fight, sex, big fight, smaller fight, followed by horrific, explosive conclusion involving both sex and a fight.
TWENTYNINE PALMS (Unrated, 91 minutes) --Contains fairly graphic sex, sex talk, nudity, vulgarity and violence.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A60931-2004May27.html   (252 words)

  
 Synoptique - TWENTYNINE PALMS
Unnervingly, the latest trend in au-courant French cinema seems to demand that filmmakers on the cutting-edge primarily concern themselves with finding ways to out-shock each other.
Bruno Dumont on the set of Twentynine Palms.
In keeping with the requirements of the genre, Dumont’s film is superb in alienating the audience by boring it to death with the dull dialogue between a truly loathsome couple.
www.synoptique.ca /core/en/articles/29palms_2   (692 words)

  
 Twentynine Palms hotel deals - Unbiased Reviews - TripAdvisor
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 New from overseas: shock and philosophy | csmonitor.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
"Twentynine Palms" was written and directed by France's Bruno Dumont, a former philosophy professor who sparked controversy when his 1999 murder mystery "Humanité" won multiple prizes - after lots of impatience and derision from viewers - at the Cannes film festival.
Filmed in the American southwest, "Twentynine Palms" is a two-character drama about a young photographer and his girlfriend, who travel into the desert looking for isolated camera subjects.
Based in a low-rent motel, they make long day trips in their all-terrain car, pausing for frequent sex, intermittent quarrels, and occasional run-ins with locals who resent their intrusion.
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 Twentynine Palms California Hotels, Motels and Area Attractions
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 Twentynine Palms, California (Cities)
The desert is a wonderful place to enjoy the outdoors and spend time participating in recreational activities.
Twentynine Palms is located in San Bernardino Count east of San Bernadino between Barstow and Blythe along Highway 62 near the Joshua Tree National Forest.
Twentynine Palms is part of the Riverside-San Bernardino, California metro area.
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 Twentynine Palms Base News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Local news for Twentynine Palms Base, CA continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.
A one-time maintenence worker at Pomo Indian Reservation in Hopland was shot and killed by Mendocino County Sheriff's deputies Sunday night, after they attempted to serve him with a warrant on the reservation.
My father would close his furniture store and pack us four kids, my mother and a bunch of sandwiches into the car for an hour's drive...
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 Distribution and Relative Abundance of Desert Tortoises on MCAGCC, Twentynine Palms, California
In 1997 and 1999, surveys for the desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) were conducted on the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC), Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino County, California.
The survey encompassed approximately 595,860 acres and was conducted in the summer and fall of 1997 and the summer and winter of 1999.
John Westermeir, Jones and Stokes, was the Project Manager and Richard Rust was the GIS specialist.
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