We need to get serious about the renewable energy revolution—by including nuclear power
Nuclear fusion is suddenly all the rage. There’s the technical triumph.
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Palos Verdes Amazing Young Authors By Derek Gable
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Have you noticed all the wonderful colors springing up around the Peninsula lately? The brilliant greens of new growth on the trees to pinks of the blossoms on the trees and the vibrant splashes of color as nature paints our world. Have you noticed all the wonderful colors springing up around the Peninsula lately? The brilliant greens of new growth on the trees to pinks of the blossoms on the trees and the vibrant splashes of color as nature paints our world.
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Valentine’s Day is here! And while the day is traditionally associated with flowers, chocolate, and perhaps a romantic evening, many sailors who were separated from their loved ones had to be a bit more creative. Here are just a few examples from the collection of the Los Angeles Maritime Museum. To view more of the historic photograph collection, be sure to visit www.lamaritimemuseum.org select “research” and then “Online Digital Collections”. The museum welcomes donations of photograph and artifacts that document the history of the Port of Los Angeles. Please contact the museum at info@lamaritimemuseum.org or call 310-548-7618 if you have items to donate.
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Before the invention of television and the internet, publicity stills sold movies to filmgoing audiences during the heyday of classic movies from the 1920 through the 1950s. Film studios produced and distributed millions of free publicity images to magazines and newspapers to build awareness of upcoming movies or to promote promising or popular performers.
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PALOS VERDES PENINSULA–The Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy will present a special virtual event: Chesley Bonestell ~ A Brush with the Future. Admission to the event includes a DVD and Zoom Q&A Discussion with award winning South Bay Filmmakers Douglass M. Stewart, Jr. and Timothy Branning Sunday, January 29, 2023, 4:00 – 5:00pm
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On the Miraleste side of Rancho Palos Verdes lives a forty-four-year resident who saved a Mercury Atlas rocket launch and played a significant role in getting the Apollo 13 astronauts home safely. He worked at Disneyland the first year it opened and the Northrop facility which was located on the hill.
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At 5’8”, Barbara Ferraro, the mayor of Rancho Palos Verdes since last December, cuts an imposing figure, but her winning smile and cheerful personality soon put people around her at ease. She won the election on December 6 with 8345 votes.
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Happy 2023! After the festivities of the holiday season, we find ourselves in the first days of the new year. It’s winter, and Capricorn season has ushered in the quiet, somewhat heavy, and sobering energy of Saturn.
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No, this isn’t a post about two big birds. The Goose in this story is the largest wooden plane ever built officially known as the Hughes H-4 Hercules, but nicknamed the “Spruce Goose.” In 1943, the U. S. government commissioned Hughes Aircraft Company to build a large flying boat to move soldiers during the War. Because steel was in short supply, Hughes built the plane mostly out of birch (with some Spruce).
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We have seen that the laws of nature, the evolution of the universe, and the precise construction of the Solar System are all “tuned up” to enable life on Earth. We live in a fabulous place at a fabulous time.
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As entrepreneurs, you tend to see the world differently, and in order to be successful you need to make the most of your understanding. Everyone will agree that forming strong relationships is the key to making things work well and growing a profitable business.
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Sustainability and reducing waste is becoming a top priority for many families and individuals worldwide. Everyone is now more aware than ever before of the negative impact we as humans are having on the plane
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Our Universe
Eight billion people is a fantastic achievement, but the amazing part of that story is how we all got here.
The Earth was clumped together from gas and dust surrounding the young Sun by gravitational forces about 4.5 billion years ago. For a few billion years the Earth’s environment was totally hostile to life, much less human life. So, what happened?
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People always ask ,”How did you get started being Dr Christmas?” I always have two answers. The first is “Well I couldn’t sing” and the second actually comes from Film legend Lana Turner.
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In 1892, William, Joseph, and Hancock Banning, sons of Phineas Banning, “The Father of the Port of Los Angeles”, purchased Santa Catalina Island from George Shatto.
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The RMS Queen Mary is the last survivor of the golden age of ocean liners. She was a symbol to many of hope for the future out of the depression, and eventually became even more symbolic after World War II. She now sits docked in Long Beach as a historical landmark, hotel, museum, and events venue, still a sight to behold, celebrating the 90th anniversary of the beginning of her construction, December 1, 1930.
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Parallel Earths entered comic book lore in Wonder Woman #59, published in 1953. In the story Wonder Woman is holding her magic lasso when it’s struck by lightning, and “the strange mix of energies sends her to a strange reality where she encounters an identical double.” Over several decades parallel earths evolved into the multiverse, an infinite playground “where we get to remember that comics and superheroes can do and be anything. It’s where we get to embrace the sheer fun of asking hey, what if Batman met a version of himself who was really a vampire?”
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