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    The Alamitos oil well #1 or Alamitos #1 is the site of a famous oil well in Signal Hill, California, the start of the Long Beach oilfield. The spot is...
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    Beach Oil Field, brought in by the gusher at the Alamitos oil well #1, made Long Beach a major oil producer; in the 1920s the field was the most productive...
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    9 million barrels (1,400,000 m3) of oil, less than half of which was recovered. A short-lived gusher at Alamitos #1 in Signal Hill, California, US in...
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    plagued them recently at the Ventura field. Yet the discovery well, Alamitos oil well No. 1 (now a historical landmark at the corner of East Hill Street...
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    margin (25,022 to 12,324). Oil was discovered in the Los Angeles metropolitan area when drilling at the Alamitos oil well reached a depth of 3,114 feet...
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    Shell's Alamitos #1 well erupted. The gas pressure was so great the gusher rose 114 ft (35 m) in the air. Soon Signal Hill was covered with over 100 oil derricks...
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    the world's first electric-powered full-size helicopter flight at Los Alamitos Army Airfield. The helicopter, a modified Robinson R44 weighed 2,500 pounds...
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    (ARNG) Camp San Luis Obispo (ARNG) Fort Hunter Liggett Fort Irwin Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base Military Ocean Terminal Concord Parks Reserve...
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    April 30, 2012. AP US History. "The Politics of the Gilded Age" (PDF). Los Alamitos, California: Unified School District. Archived from the original (PDF)...
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  • Cargo Shifts in Storm". maritime-executive.com. Retrieved 17 January 2024. "Oil tanker on fire after Houthi missile attack, firm says". BBC News. 26 January...
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    The hundreds of oil wells from Wilmington Oil Field provided oil revenues to the City and Port of Long Beach. The first offshore oil well in the harbor...
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    California Edison. This system will be housed within AES's power center in Los Alamitos, California. During January 2018, the subsidiary AES India, working in...
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    Gulfstream Park, Hastings, Hawthorne, Kentucky Downs, Laurel Park, Los Alamitos, Meadowlands, Monmouth Park, Oaklawn Park, Pimlico, Remington, Santa Anita...
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    Travis Air Force Base Camp Cooke now Vandenberg Air Force Base, Lompoc Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base Lemoore Army Air Field Long Beach Army Air Field...
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    bodies of water that are part of the Southern California Bight include: Alamitos Bay All Saints Bay Capistrano Bight Gulf of Santa Catalina La Jolla Cove...
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    first supersonic transcontinental flight in a F8U-1P, flying from NAS Los Alamitos, California, to Floyd Bennett Field, New York, in three hours, 23 minutes...
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  • Workshop on Physics and Computation PhysComp'92 (IEEE Comp. Sci.Press, Los Alamitos, 1993) pp. 1–4. Landauer, R. (1961). "Irreversibility and Heat Generation...
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    The Greater Los Angeles area also has three well-known horse racing facilities: Santa Anita Park, Los Alamitos Race Course and the former Hollywood Park...
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    Montpellier, France, 11-13 July 2012 (PDF). IEEE Computer Society. Los Alamitos, Calif.: IEEE Computer Society. 2012. ISBN 9781467322607. OCLC 823906734...
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    Base - Los Alamitos (Los Alamitos Army Airfield), and under the Pacific Coast Highway. It empties into the Pacific Ocean between Alamitos Bay and Anaheim...
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  • nephew, Clark J. Bonner, a Los Angeles insurance executive. When the Los Alamitos sugar mill closed in 1926, due to declining beet production, Bonner envisioned...
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    Computers Went to Sea: The Digitization of the United States Navy. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society. ISBN 0-471-47220-4. Friedman, Norman (2011). Naval...
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  • place, coordination would be from the Joint Forces Training Base - Los Alamitos; earthquake engineer George W. Housner of Caltech; structural engineer...
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    Henderson, both of East Texas communities near Winnsboro. Allen's father was an oil field laborer and shoe cobbler, and his mother was a waitress at a small...
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    Isaias W. Hellman (category Wells Fargo employees)
    members of the Bixby family purchased the 26,000-acre (110 km2) Rancho Los Alamitos (now home to Long Beach and Seal Beach). The Hellman neighborhood of Long...
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  • Francisco Olympic Club) George Yardley (San Francisco Stewart Chevrolets, Los Alamitos Naval Air Station) The AAU also sent teams to the Olympic Trial Games organized...
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    (1998). A history of computing technology (2nd ed., 2nd print. ed.). Los Alamitos, Calif.: IEEE Computer Soc. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-8186-7739-7. Nyrop, Richard...
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  • In 1961, upon finishing the Rossmoor housing development bordering Los Alamitos, California, Ross Cortese said the housing needs of seniors “have not been...
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    Computers Went to Sea: The Digitization of the United States Navy. Los Alamitos, NM: IEEE Computer Society. ISBN 0-471-47220-4. Bridgeman, Leonard (1946)...
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    were granted land in 1834. The Nieto ranches were known as Rancho Los Alamitos, Rancho Las Bolsas, and Rancho Los Coyotes. Yorba heirs Bernardo Yorba...
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