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Skidoo (formerly, Hoveck) [3] was an unincorporated community in Inyo County, California. [1] The geographical location of the old town site lies at an elevation of 5,689 feet (1734 m). [1] Skidoo is a ghost town located in Death Valley National Park. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. [4]
Museum of Death. / 34.1018; -118.3212. Museum of Death is a museum with locations on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, and New Orleans. [1] It was established in June 1995 by J. D. Healy and Catherine Shultz with the museum's stated goal being "to make people happy to be alive." [2] The museum was originally established in 1995 in ...
California. County. Inyo County. Elevation. [1] 6,302 ft (1,921 m) Panamint City is a ghost town in the Panamint Range, near Death Valley, in Inyo County, California, US. It is also known by the official Board of Geographic Names as Panamint. [2] Panamint was a boom town founded after silver and copper were found there in 1872. [3]
The Celebrities Rights Act or Celebrity Rights Act was passed in California in 1985, which enabled a celebrity 's personality rights to survive his or her death. [1] Previously, the 1979 Lugosi v. Universal Pictures decision by the California Supreme Court held that Bela Lugosi 's personality rights could not pass to his heirs, as a copyright ...
The history of slavery in California began with the enslavement of Indigenous Californians under Spanish colonial rule. The arrival of the Spanish colonists introduced chattel slavery and involuntary servitude to the area. Over 90,000 Indigenous peoples were forced to stay at the Spanish missions in California between 1770 and 1834, being kept ...
Erave Rural LLG. / -6.606044; 143.897696 ( Erave Station) Erave Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. [1] [2] The Erave language is spoken in the LLG.
Central California Women's Facility ( CCWF) is a female-only California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison located in Chowchilla, California. [2] It is across the road from Valley State Prison. CCWF is the second largest female correctional facility in the United States, [3] and houses the only State of California death ...
Jahi McMath was a thirteen-year-old girl who was declared brain dead in California following surgery in 2013. This led to a bioethical debate engendered by her family's rejection of the medicolegal findings of death in the case, and their efforts to maintain her body using mechanical ventilation and other measures.