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Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) (previously known at various times as Site Y, Los Alamos Laboratory, and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) is a United States Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory, managed and operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS), located in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The laboratory is one of the largest multidisciplinary institutions in the world.
Los Alamos National Security Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS LLC) is a private limited liability company (LLC) formed by the University of California, Bechtel, BWX Technologies, and Washington Group International. It currently operates Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration.
Los Alamos Primer The Los Alamos Primer was a printed version of the first five lectures on the principles of nuclear weapons given to new arrivals at the top-secret Los Alamos laboratory during the Manhattan Project. They were originally given by the physicist Robert Serber after being delivered in person on April 5-14, 1943, based on conclusions reached at a conference held in July and September 1942 at the University of California, Berkeley by Robert Oppenheimer.
Los Alamos Ranch School Los Alamos Ranch School was a private school for boys near Otowi, New Mexico, in what would eventually become Los Alamos, New Mexico. It was private, exclusive, residential boys school that featured the outdoors, sports, and horses.
Los Alcornocales Natural Park The Parque Natural Los Alcornocales is a natural park located in the south of Spain, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, is shared between the provinces of Cádiz and Málaga. The natural park occupy a territory of 17 municipalities differents to a total population of 380,000.
Los Alerces National Park The Los Alerces National Park is a national park in Chubut Province, Argentina, some 30 miles from Esquel. It is a park of 2,630 square kilometres along the border with Chile, best known for the alerce (lahuan) trees (Fitzroya cupressoides) from which the park takes its name.
Los Altos High School (Hacienda Heights, California) Los Altos High School is a secondary school located at 15325 East Los Robles Avenue, Hacienda Heights, California, Zip Code 91745. It is one of four secondary schools in the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District.
Los Altos High School (Los Altos, California) Los Altos High School, located in Los Altos, California, is one of the two MVLA School District public high schools, the other school being Mountain View High School. As of 2005, the school principal is Wynne Satterwhite.
Los Altos, Central America Los Altos ("The Highlands" in the Spanish language) was an area of Central America, which was added as a sixth state to the Federal Republic of Central America in the 1830s. Its capital was Quetzaltenango and it occupied the west of present-day Guatemala and parts of the Mexican state of Chiapas.
Los Amigos High School Los Amigos High School, located in Fountain Valley, Orange County, California, is one of seven high-schools of the Garden Grove Unified School District - recipient of the 2004 Broad Prize for Excellence in Urban Education. Los Amigos High School is located at the southeast corner of Newhope St.
Los Andes, Chile Los Andes is a Chilean town and municipality ("comuna") located in the province of the same name, in ValparaĂ­so Region ("Fifth Region" of Chile). It is the main waypoint between Santiago and Chile's primary border crossing with Argentina at the cordillera's crest.
Los Angeles (brilliant green album) Los Angeles is the third album by Japanese rock band the brilliant green, released in 2001. This album represented a shift in the band's sound, from the 60's-influenced jangle pop to a darker, heavier early 90's grunge sound.
Los Angeles 2016 Olympic bid The Los Angeles 2016 Olympic bid is a reference to an attempt by the city of Los Angeles with help from the Greater Los Angeles area, to be chosen by the United States Olympic Committee as the official United States bid for the International Olympic Committee 2016 Summer Olympics host city competition. On July 26, 2006, the USOC had narrowed its list of candidates to Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad The Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad is a now-defunct rail company that was a subsidiary of the Union Pacific Railroad for its operations connecting the two cities in its name. Originally, it was known as the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad.
Los Angeles Air Force Base Los Angeles Air Force Base is a United States Air Force Base located in El Segundo, California. Los Angeles Air Force Base houses and supports the headquarters of the Air Force Space Command's Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC).
Los Angeles Alligator Farm The Los Angeles Alligator Farm, located next door to the Los Angeles Ostrich Farm in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States, was a major city tourist attraction from 1907 until 1953. Originally situated across from Lincoln Park, at 3627 Mission Road, it moved to Buena Park, California in 1953, where it was renamed the California Alligator Farm.
Los Angeles Anacondas The Los Angeles Anacondas are an International Fight League team based in Los Angeles, California. Coached by three time King of Pancrase and former UFC Heavyweight Champion Bas Rutten, the Anacondas were one of four teams competing in the IFL's inaugural season.
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are a Major League Baseball franchise based in Anaheim, California, and aligned in the Western Division of the American League. Because of the unusual length of the team's official name, most news organizations (notably the Associated Press) refer to the club as the Los Angeles Angels.
Los Angeles Art Association The Los Angeles Art Association (LAAA) is a non-profit organization that has been around for over eighty years. The organization accepts artists as members and provides the artists support in growing their artistic careers.
Los Angeles Basin The Los Angeles Basin is the coastal sediment-filled plain located between the peninsular and transverse ranges in southern California in the United States containing the central part of the city of Los Angeles as well as its southern and southeastern suburbs (both in Los Angeles and Orange counties). It is approximately 35 mi (56 km) long and 15 mi (24 km) wide, bounded by the Santa Monica Mountains, the Puente Hills, and the Santa Ana Mountains.
Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners is a five-member body of appointed officials which oversees the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). The board functions like a corporate board of directors and is responsible for setting policies for the department and overseeing its operations.
Los Angeles Buccaneers Los Angeles Buccaneers were a road-only team in the National Football League during their one season 1926. That means they never actually played a home game in Los Angeles, but rather were operated out of Chicago and stocked with players from Californian colleges.
Los Angeles California Temple The Los Angeles California Temple, the tenth operating and the second-largest temple operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is on Santa Monica Boulevard in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, California. When it was dedicated in 1956, it was the largest temple of the church, later surpassed by the Salt Lake Temple with its additions and annexations.
Los Angeles City Attorney The Los Angeles City Attorney is an elected official whose job is to prosecute all of the misdemeanor criminal offenses in Los Angeles, California, United States. The General Counsel Division of the Office of the City Attorney provides legal counsel for the city.
Los Angeles City College Los Angeles City College, known as LACC or simply as "City", is a public community college in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California. A part of the Los Angeles Community College District, it is located on Vermont Avenue south of Santa Monica Boulevard.
Los Angeles City Council The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. They hold regular meetings in City Hall on Tuesday, Wednesday and Fridays at 10:00am (except on holidays or if decided by special resolution not to meet).
Los Angeles City Hall Los Angeles City Hall is the center of government in the city of Los Angeles, California. It is located in the Civic Center district of Downtown Los Angeles in the city block bordered by Main, Temple, 1st, and Spring Streets.
Los Angeles Community College District The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) is the community college district serving Los Angeles, California and some of its neighboring cities. In addition to typical college aged students, the LACCD also serves adults of all ages.
Los Angeles Conservancy The Los Angeles Conservancy is the preeminent historic preservation organization in Los Angeles, California. It works to document, rescue and revitalize historic buildings, places and neighborhoods in the city.
Los Angeles Convention Center The Los Angeles Convention Center (abbreviated LACC) is a convention center in downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show, and was best known to video games fans as host to the E3 Expo until its cessation in 2006.
Los Angeles Country Club In the fall of 1897, a group of Los Angelenos organized a voluntary association to further the cause of one of Southern California's newest sports. The Los Angeles Golf Club, as they called themselves, leased a sixteen acre vacant lot at the corner of Pico and Alvarado and laid out a nine hole golf course.
Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden The Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden 127 acres (51.4 ha) is an arboretum, botanical garden, and historical site nestled into hills near the San Gabriel Mountains, at 301 North Baldwin Avenue, Arcadia, California, USA.
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five member governing board of Los Angeles County, California. Members of the board of supervisors are elected by district, the current members as of April 2006 are:
Los Angeles County Coroner The Los Angeles County Department of Coroner was created in its present form on December 7, 1990 by an ordinance approved by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, though it has existed in some form since the late 19th century.
Los Angeles County Department of Health Services The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) in Los Angeles County's department providing public and personal health services to the over 10 million residents in the County. Mental health services are provided by a separate department, the County Department of Mental Health.
Los Angeles County Department of Public Works The Los Angeles County Department of Public Works (LACDPW) is responsible for the construction and operation of Los Angeles County's roads, building safety, sewerage, and flood control. DPW also operates traffic signals and intelligent transportation systems, drinking water systems in certain communities, operates five airports, paratransit and fixed route public transport, administers various environment programs, issues various permits for activities in the public roadway, and has a Department Emergency Operations Center that works in conjunction with the County Emergency Operations Center operated by the Sheriff's Department.
Los Angeles County District Attorney The Los Angeles County District Attorney prosecutes felony crimes in the County of Los Angeles, and misdemeanor crimes in selected cities that do not have an elected city attorney. In those cities, the city attorney is usually a private lawyer and handles only governmental matters (analogous to the position of County Counsel for the County of Los Angeles).
Los Angeles County Fire Department The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD), serves unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, as well as 58 cities and towns that choose to have the county provide fire and EMS services, including the City of La Habra, in Orange County. It should not be confused with the Los Angeles Fire Department, which serves the city of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles County High School for the Arts Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA) is a public high school that operates on the campus of California State University, Los Angeles. Though it shares facilities with the university, the two schools' activities tend to be separate.
Los Angeles County Lifeguards A division of the County of Los Angeles Fire Department, the Lifeguard operations safeguard 31 miles of beach and 70 miles of coastline, from San Pedro in the south, to Malibu in the north; Protecting about 55 million beach patrons annually. The Los Angeles County Lifeguard Service served as the model for the hit television show “Baywatch.
Los Angeles County Metro Rail The Los Angeles County Metro Rail is the current mass transit rail system operating in Los Angeles. It is run by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and is the descendant of the Pacific Electric Red Car system and Los Angeles Railway Yellow Car lines which operated in the area from the early to middle twentieth century.
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (also known as Metro, MTA or LACMTA) is the state chartered regional transportation planning and public transportation operating agency for the county of Los Angeles. The agency develops and oversees transportation plans, policies, funding programs, and both short-term and long-range solutions that address the County's increasing mobility, accessibility and environmental needs.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, also known as LACMA, is the official and world-renowned art museum of the County of Los Angeles, California. Located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles, LACMA is the premier visual arts museum in the Western United States and is the largest encyclopedic museum west of Chicago.
Los Angeles County Office of Public Safety The Los Angeles County Office of Public Safety (LACOPS) was formed in 1998 as a consolidation of the Department of Parks and Recreation’s Park Police and the Department of Health Services’s and Internal Services Department’s Safety Police as the Los Angeles County Police. They have an $83 million budget from the County of Los Angeles, and employ 491 sworn peace officers and 142 civilian personnel, and contract 750 private security guards.
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement that serves the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, California. It is the equivalent of the county police for unincorporated areas of the county as well as incorporated cities within the county who have contracted with the agency for law-enforcement services (known as "contract cities" in local jargon).
Los Angeles County Treasurer and Tax Collector Los Angeles County Treasurer and Tax Collector bills, collects, invests, borrows, safeguards and disburses monies and properties in Los Angeles County. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors appoints the treasurer to this position.
Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center (also known as County USC) is an 800-bed teaching hospital located in East Los Angeles in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It is one of the largest public hospitals and medical training center in the United States, and the largest single provider of healthcare in the Los Angeles County.
Los Angeles de Charly Los Angeles de Charly are a Mexican musical group led by their namesake vocalist Carlos "Charly" BecĂ­es. The group formed in 1999 after Charly BecĂ­es and fellow vocalist Guillermo "Memo" Palafox left the popular group Los Angeles Azules.
Los Angeles Daily News The Daily News of Los Angeles is the second largest circulating daily newspaper of Los Angeles, California. It is published by the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, which owns eight other Southern California newspapers including The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin and The Long Beach Press-Telegram.
Los Angeles Department of Transportation The Los Angeles Department of Transportation, commonly referred to as LADOT, is an agency that provides public transportation to the City of Los Angeles. It currently operates the second largest fleet in Los Angeles County next to LACMTA.
Los Angeles Dons The Los Angeles Dons were an American football team in the now defunct All-America Football Conference from 1946 - 1949 that played in the Los Angeles Coliseum. They were never in a championship game and also had the worst attendance of all the AAFC teams with only 12,000 people per game.
Los Angeles Downtown News The Los Angeles Downtown News is a free weekly newspaper in Los Angeles, California, serving the Downtown Los Angeles area. While breezy and somewhat boosterish in tone, it provides invaluable coverage of the ongoing changes Downtown is experiencing, and often has insightful interviews with newsmakers.
Los Angeles Express The Los Angeles Express was a team in the United States Football League, an attempt to form a second major professional football league in the United States to compete with the established National Football League. The Express competed in all three of the USFL seasons played, 1983-1985.
Los Angeles Film School The Los Angeles Film School was founded by Hollywood professionals with the goal of balancing the practical with the academic. The LAFS is located on Sunset Boulevard, near Vine Street, in Hollywood, California.
Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Flood of 1938 The Los Angeles Flood of 1938 began on February 27, 1938, when an abnormally large amount of rain fell in the Los Angeles area due to a storm from the Pacific Ocean. Heavy rainfall lasting three days caused the Los Angeles River to spill over its banks, killing approximately 115 people and destroying 5601 homes.
Los Angeles Free Music Society The Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) has been, since the early 1970s, the banner heading of a loose collective of experimental musicians in Los Angeles, California who were joined by an aesthetic based around radicalism and playfulness. Key players have included Joe Potts, Tom Recchion, Joseph Hammer, John Duncan and Rick Potts.
Los Angeles Free Press The Los Angeles Free Press (often called “the Freep”) was among the most widely distributed underground newspapers of the 1960s, and is often cited as the first such paper. Edited and published (weekly, for most of its existence) by Art Kunkin, the paper initially appeared as a broadsheet at the annual Renaissance Faire entitled “Faire Free Press” in 1964, then became the LA Free Press newspaper in 1965.
Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center provides a broad array of services for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Its clinic and on-site pharmacy offers free and low-cost health, mental health, HIV/AIDS medical care and HIV/STD testing and prevention.
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (LAGQ) consists of John Dearman, William Kanengiser, Scott Tennant and Matthew Greif (who replaced Andrew York towards the end of 2006). These four musicians, playing nothing more than standard nylon-string classical guitars have given the world a fresh look at what the guitar is capable of.
Los Angeles Harbor College Los Angeles Harbor College (LAHC) is one of two community colleges serving the South Bay region of Los Angeles. LAHC serves mainly students from Harbor City, Carson, San Pedro, Gardena, Lomita, Wilmington and the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
Los Angeles High School Los Angeles High School, founded in 1873, is the oldest public high school in the Southern California Region and in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Its colors are blue and white and the teams are called the Romans.
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) is a 40-member American chamber orchestra based in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1968 as an artistic outlet for the local film and record studios' most gifted musicians.
Los Angeles Children's Chorus The Los Angeles Children's Chorus (LACC) is a community children's choir for girls and boys with unchanged voices from the Los Angeles area ranging from ages 8 to 17. Founded in 1986 by Rebecca Thompson, the 5 levels of choirs have given more than 300 performances, including concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Opera, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale, and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.
Los Angeles Christmas Festival The Los Angeles Christmas Festival was a post-season college football bowl game played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California on December 25, 1924. The University of Southern California defeated the University of Missouri by a score of 20 to 7.
Los Angeles Junction Railway The Los Angeles Junction Railway is a switching railroad operating in the Los Angeles area. It provides switching services on 64 miles (103 km) of track, primarily in the industrial areas in and around Vernon, CA.
Los Angeles Lakers The Los Angeles Lakers are a professional basketball team, based in Los Angeles, California, who play in the National Basketball Association. They play their games at the Staples Center, which they share with cross-town rivals, the Clippers, their sister team the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA and the NBA Development League's Los Angeles D-Fenders.
Los Angeles Live Steamers Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum (LALS) is a non-profit public benefit corporation that was founded in 1956 by train enthusiasts for the purpose of educating people in railroad history and lore and to further the avocation of Live steam, gas-mechanical and electronic scale model railroad technology.
Los Angeles mayoral election, 2001 In 2001, Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan was prevented from running for a third term because of term limits. In the election to replace him, Riordan endorsed his Senior Advisor and Parks Commissioner, the Republican businessman Steve Soboroff.
Los Angeles mayoral election, 2005 The 2005 Los Angeles mayoral election took place on March 8, 2005, with a runoff election on May 17. Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa defeated the sitting mayor, James Hahn, becoming the city’s first Hispanic mayor since the 19th century.
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is a large outdoor sports stadium in Downtown Los Angeles, California at Exposition Park that has hosted two Olympics and is home to the University of Southern California Trojans football team. It is located next to the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena adjacent to the campus of the University of Southern California (USC).
Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena is a multipurpose sports arena in Downtown Los Angeles, California at Exposition Park. It is located next to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum adjacent to the campus of the University of Southern California.
Los Angeles Mission College Los Angeles Mission College is a two-year community college located in Sylmar, California neighborhood of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley, United States. It is part of the Los Angeles Community College District.
Los Angeles Music Center The Los Angeles Music Center (officially named the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County) is a complex of four entertainment venues located on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, California, United States.
Los Angeles National Bank Los Angeles National Bank (世界華商銀行) is a overseas Chinese bank in the United States. Headquartered in Buena Park, California, with branch offices in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California, Monterey Park, California, and Flushing, Queens, this privately-held community bank was first established on December 18, 1973.
Los Angeles Pacific College Los Angeles Pacific College was a four-year liberal-arts college founded in 1903 by a group of ministers and laymen of the Free Methodist Church. The college ceased to exist as an independent entity in 1965 and was merged with another college to eventually form Azusa Pacific University.
Los Angeles Pierce College Los Angeles Pierce College, also known as Pierce College or Pierce, is a two-year community college that serves over 18,500 students in Woodland Hills, a community within the San Fernando Valley district of the City of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Police Department The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is the police department of the City of Los Angeles, California. With over 9,000 officers and 3,000 civilian staff, covering an area of 473 square miles with a population of more than 3 million people, it is the third largest law enforcement agency in the United States (trailing behind the New York Police Department and Chicago Police Department).
Los Angeles Railway The Los Angeles Railway (LARy) was a system of streetcars that operated in Los Angeles from 1901 to 1963 on 3-foot, 6-inch (narrow gauge) tracks. The system was informally known as the "Yellow Cars," similar to the Pacific Electric Railway's "Red Cars," which currently are much better known.
Los Angeles River The Los Angeles River flows through Los Angeles County, California, USA, from Canoga Park in the west end of the San Fernando Valley, 51 miles south to its mouth in Long Beach. Its official starting point on the map is placed at the union of Bell Creek and Calabasas Wash in the southwestern San Fernando Valley ().
Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society or LASFS is a private club in North Hollywood, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, California. It is the oldest continuously operating science fiction club in the world, helped considerably in that record by being one of the few to own a clubhouse.
Los Angeles Scottish Pipe Band The Los Angeles Scottish Pipe Band, or, more commonly, the LA Scots, is a pipe band located in Orange County, California. The LA Scots are one of three pipe bands in the United States who have reached the stature of grade one and have competed at this level since 1998.
Los Angeles Sentinel The Los Angeles Sentinel is a weekly African American-owned newspaper published in Los Angeles, California. The paper boasts of reaching 125,000 readers as of 2004, making it the oldest, largest and most influential African-American newspaper in the Western United States.
Los Angeles Sharks The Los Angeles Sharks were an ice hockey team that played in the World Hockey Association from 1972 to 1974 They alternated home arenas between the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena and the Long Beach Sports Arena. After the 1973-74 season, the franchise moved to Detroit to become the Michigan Stags and again mid-season to Baltimore to become the Baltimore Blades.
Los Angeles School Police Department The Los Angeles School Police Department (LASPD) was established in August of 1948 to provide police services to the Los Angeles Unified School District LASPD is the largest school police] department in the [[United States with 5 police divisions throughout Los Angeles, deploying 327 police officers and 154 school safety officers.
Los Angeles Sparks The Los Angeles Sparks are a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1997, they are one of the original WNBA teams and were one of the teams that participated in the league's inaugural game.
Los Angeles Storm Los Angeles Storm are an American soccer team, founded in 2006, after they took over the Springfield Storm franchise that used to play in PDL out of Springfield, Missouri. The team is a member of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, and plays in the Southwest Division of the Western Conference against teams from Bakersfield, Fresno, La Mirada, Lancaster, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Ana and Ventura.
Los Angeles Terminal Railway The Los Angeles Terminal Railway, aka The Altadena Railway, aka The Pasadena Railway, aka The San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railway, was a small steam engine line that operated between Altadena and Pasadena, California in the late 1880's. It was a byproduct of a land boom period and a victim of the land bust that occurred soon thereafter.
Los Angeles Thunderbirds The Los Angeles Thunderbirds (or T-Birds for short) were a highly-popular roller derby team that skated in the Roller Games league during the 1970's and early 1980's and in the 1989 RollerGames revival. They, and the league, were owned by Bill Griffiths, Sr.
Los Angeles Times The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. With a circulation of 843,432 readers per day as of September 2005, it is the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States (after The New York Times).
Los Angeles Times 500 The Los Angeles Times 500 was an annual NASCAR Winston Cup race held at Ontario Motor Speedway in November from 1974 to 1980. It replaced the Miller High Life 500, a separate race which had been held at the track in late March or early April, from 1971-1972.
Los Angeles Times Grand Prix The Los Angeles Times Grand Prix (held at the Riverside International Raceway) was sponsored by the Times to produce money for its charities. The Special Events director was Glenn Davis, the winner of the 1946 Heisman Trophy.
Los Angeles Tofu Festival Los Angeles Tofu Festival, usually known as Tofu Festival or Tofu Fest, is a weekend matsuri held every August in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. Tofu Festival's 2006 celebrations will be held on August 12th and 13th along with Nisei Week.
Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District ( the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population.
Los Angeles Wolves The Los Angeles Wolves was a team in the North American Soccer League. In 1967 the Wolves, comprised of a team of English club Wolverhampton Wanderers players, competed in the United Soccer Association (USA), and were the champions in its only season, defeating the Washington Whips 6-5 in the final.
Los Angeles Xtreme The Los Angeles Xtreme was a short-lived professional American football team based in Los Angeles, California. The team was a member of the failed XFL begun by Vince McMahon of the World Wrestling Federation and by NBC, a major television network in the United States.
Los Auténticos Decadentes Los Auténticos Decadentes (Spanish for "The true Decadents") is an Argentine band that mix ska with Latin American rhythms. The band was formed around the year 1986 by Cucho and Nito, who invited Gastón to join them.
Los Beatnicks Los Beatnicks were an early Argentine rock garage group. Active in the middle years of the 1960s, they went down in trivia history as recording the first original rock single in Argentina titled "Rebelde".
Los Bravos A Spanish rock quintet from the 1960s who are most famous for their single "Black is Black" which reached #2 in the UK Charts and #4 in the US in 1966. Los Bravos are one of the only Rock groups from a non-English speaking country to have an international hit.
Los Cañoneros The group Los Cañoneros was created on November 20, 1982, is a popular venezuelan cañonero group, as soon as several of their members participated in the play “La Verdadera Historia de Alma Llanera”, acclimated in 1926 withthis sort of venezuelan merengue, and cañonero music.

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