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Edenvale Gardens Regional Park
Edenvale Gardens Regional Park (originally Edenvale Garden Park) is a city park in San Jose, California, occupying in the Edenvale, San Jose, Edenvale neighborhood. The site originally was developed by Rudolph Ulrich as the formal park adjoining Hayes Mansion starting from approximately 1887. In 1954, the mansion and property was sold; the site next was used for the Frontier Village amusement park between 1961 and 1980, and when that park closed, approximately half the land was redeveloped into housing, with the rest preserved as the present-day city park after San Jose purchased the remaining land in 1987. Site Edenvale Garden Park is bounded by Saddlebrook Drive (to the north), Edenvale Avenue (to the east), the Hayes Mansion complex (to the south), and residential development (to the west). The developed area encompasses , making it one of the largest parks in the San Jose park system. History Mary Hayes Chynoweth (born Mary Folsom, 1825), famed for being a Spiritualism (move ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, more commonly known simply as the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), is a Special district (United States), special district responsible for public transit services, Congestion management agency, congestion management, specific highway improvement projects, and countywide transportation planning for Santa Clara County, California, Santa Clara County, California. It serves San Jose, California, and the surrounding Silicon Valley. It is one of the governing parties for the Caltrain commuter rail line that serves the county. In , the VTA's public transportation services had a combined ridership of , or about per weekday as of . History Santa Clara County Transit District In 1969, Santa Clara County had three private bus companies, all of which were in serious financial trouble: Peninsula Transit, San Jose National City Lines, City Lines, and Peerless Stages. The California Legislature enacted the Santa Clara County Transit Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Garden Park is a multi-use stadium in Kitwe, Zambia. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the home for Kitwe United Football Club Kitwe United Football Club is a Zambian football club based in Kitwe. They play in the first division of Zambian football. Their home stadium is Garden Park. Returned to premier League in 2018, winning Coach Ghanaian born Ernest Kofi, Captain Mo .... The stadium holds 10,000 people. References Kitwe Football venues in Zambia Buildings and structures in Copperbelt Province {{Zambia-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Grygutis
Barbara may refer to: People * Barbara (given name) * Barbara (painter) (1915–2002), pseudonym of Olga Biglieri, Italian futurist painter * Barbara (singer) (1930–1997), French singer * Barbara Popović (born 2000), also known mononymously as Barbara, Macedonian singer * Bárbara (footballer) (born 1988), Brazilian footballer Film and television * ''Barbara'' (1961 film), a West German film * ''Bárbara'' (film), a 1980 Argentine film * ''Barbara'' (1997 film), a Danish film directed by Nils Malmros, based on Jacobsen's novel * ''Barbara'' (2012 film), a German film * ''Barbara'' (2017 film), a French film * ''Barbara'' (TV series), a British sitcom Places * Barbara (Paris Métro), a metro station in Montrouge and Bagneux, France * Barbaria (region), or al-Barbara, an ancient region in Northeast Africa * Barbara, Arkansas, U.S. * Barbara, Gaza, a former Palestinian village near Gaza * Barbara, Marche, a town in Italy * Berbara (other), or al-Barbara, Lebanon * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mortar And Pestle
A mortar and pestle is a set of two simple tools used to prepare ingredients or substances by compression (physics), crushing and shear force, grinding them into a fine Paste (rheology), paste or powder in the kitchen, laboratory, and pharmacy. The ''mortar'' () is characteristically a bowl, typically made of hardwood, metal, ceramic, or hard stone such as granite. The ''pestle'' (, also ) is a blunt, club-shaped object. The substance to be ground, which may be wet or dry, is placed in the mortar where the pestle is pounded, pressed, or rotated into the substance until the desired texture is achieved. Mortars and pestles have been used in cooking since the Stone Age; today they are typically associated with the pharmacy profession due to their historical use in preparing medicines. They are used in chemistry settings for pulverizing small amounts of chemicals; in arts and cosmetics for pulverizing pigments, binders, and other substances; in ceramics for making Grog (clay), grog; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Valentina Murch
Anna Valentina Murch (7 December 1948 – 26 March 2014) was a British artist who was based in San Francisco. She was known for her award-winning public art installations. Early life and education Anna Valentina Murch was born in Dumbarton, Scotland, as the only child of Norman Robbins Murch and Valentina Gordikova Murch. Her father, a naval commander, established a charity for women and children following his retirement. Murch's mother, originally from St. Petersburg, met her husband in Shanghai during World War II. Subsequently, Murch's mother became an actress in London and played the role of Annushka in a film adaptation of ''Anna Karenina'' (1948), which was released in the same year as Murch's birth. Murch was raised in London. She attended Croydon College of Art and earned degrees from the University of Leicester and the Royal College of Art in London (1973). She also did graduate work at the Architectural Association in London (1974-1974). Career In 1976, Murch m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Edenvale or Eden Vale may refer to: Places * Edenvale, Gauteng, South Africa * Edenvale, County Antrim, a townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland; see List of townlands of County Antrim * Edenvale (San Jose), a neighborhood of San Jose, California * Edenvale, Ontario, a village in Ontario, Canada * Edenvale, Queensland, a neighbourhood in Kingaroy, Australia * Eden Vale, a hamlet Castle Eden parish, County Durham, England * Vale of Eden, a Cumbrian valley, UK. Other uses * Eden Vale (brand), a former brand of dairy products in the UK See also * Eden Valley (other) Eden Valley may refer to several places: In the United States * Eden Valley (Nevada), a valley in Humboldt County * Eden Valley, Minnesota, a city * Eden Valley, New York, a hamlet Elsewhere * Eden Valley 216, an Indian reserve in Alberta, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Register Of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Historic districts in the United States, districts, and objects deemed worthy of Historic preservation, preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value". The enactment of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 1966 established the National Register and the process for adding properties to it. Of the more than one and a half million properties on the National Register, 95,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing property, contributing resources within historic district (United States), historic districts. For the most of its history, the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service (NPS), an agency within the United States Department of the Interior. Its goals are to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Edenvale or Eden Vale may refer to: Places * Edenvale, Gauteng, South Africa * Edenvale, County Antrim, a townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland; see List of townlands of County Antrim * Edenvale (San Jose), a neighborhood of San Jose, California * Edenvale, Ontario, a village in Ontario, Canada * Edenvale, Queensland, a neighbourhood in Kingaroy, Australia * Eden Vale, a hamlet Castle Eden parish, County Durham, England * Vale of Eden, a Cumbrian valley, UK. Other uses * Eden Vale (brand), a former brand of dairy products in the UK See also * Eden Valley (other) Eden Valley may refer to several places: In the United States * Eden Valley (Nevada), a valley in Humboldt County * Eden Valley, Minnesota, a city * Eden Valley, New York, a hamlet Elsewhere * Eden Valley 216, an Indian reserve in Alberta, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis The Menace (U
Dennis the Menace may refer to either of two comic strip characters that both appeared in March 1951, one in the UK and one in the US. United Kingdom character * ''Dennis the Menace'' (UK comics), now ''Dennis the Menace and Gnasher'', a British comic strip which first appeared in ''The Beano'' on 12 March 1951 **Various television adaptations of the comic strip: *** ''Dennis the Menace and Gnasher'' (1996 TV series) is an animated television series based on the Beano comic strip, known internationally as ''Dennis And Gnasher''. *** ''Dennis the Menace and Gnasher'' (2009 TV series) was released on September 7, 2009. *** ''Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed!'' (2017 TV series) is the latest animated CGI series, first broadcast in November 2017. United States character * ''Dennis the Menace'' (U.S. comics), a daily American syndicated newspaper comic strip since March 12, 1951 **Various television and film adaptations of the comic strip: *** ''Dennis the Menace'' (1959 TV series), a CBS n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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A frontier is a political and geographical term referring to areas near or beyond a boundary. Australia The term "frontier" was frequently used in colonial Australia in the meaning of country that borders the unknown or uncivilised, the boundary, border country, the borders of civilisation, or as the land that forms the furthest extent of what was frequently termed "the inside" or "settled" districts. The "outside" was another term frequently used in colonial Australia, this term seemingly covered not only the frontier but the districts beyond. Settlers at the frontier thus frequently referred to themselves as "the outsiders" or "outside residents" and to the area in which they lived as "the outside districts". At times one might hear the "frontier" described as "the outside borders". However the term "frontier districts" was seemingly used predominantly in the early Australian colonial newspapers whenever dealing with skirmishes between black and white in northern New Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of California
The University of California (UC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university, research university system in the U.S. state of California. Headquartered in Oakland, California, Oakland, the system is composed of its ten campuses at University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, University of California, Davis, Davis, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, University of California, Merced, Merced, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, and University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, along with numerous research centers and academic centers abroad. The system is the state's land-grant university. In 1900, UC was one of the founders of the Association of American Universities and since the 1970s seven of its campuse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
