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Erin Brockovich (born Pattee; June 22, 1960) is an American legal clerk, consumer advocate, and environmental activist who, despite her lack of education in the law, was instrumental in building a case against Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) involving groundwater contamination in a town in California with the help of attorney Ed Masry in 1993.

Established. 1942. Slogan. “The last free place”. Website. slab-city.com (archived) Slab City, also called The Slabs, is an unincorporated, off-the-grid alternative lifestyle community [1] consisting largely of snowbirds [2] in the Salton Trough area of the Sonoran Desert, in Imperial County, California.

Robbery. Anti-police sentiment. The North Hollywood shootout was a confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, and members of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in the North Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California, United States on February 28, 1997.

Lillian Marie Disney ( née Bounds; February 15, 1899 – December 16, 1997) was an American ink artist at the Disney Studios and the wife of Walt Disney from 1925 until his death in 1966. Born in Spalding, Idaho, Disney graduated high school in Lapwai before moving to Lewiston to attend college. She left Idaho in 1923 to move to southern ...