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Thor Industries, Inc. was founded on August 29, 1980, [4] when Wade Thompson and Peter Busch Orthwein acquired Airstream from Beatrice Foods. The name "Thor" combined the first two letters of each entrepreneur's name. [5] Airstream had not fared well during the economic downturn of the late 1970s, losing $12 million the year before it was ...
Yosemite National Park (/ j oʊ ˈ s ɛ m ɪ t i / yoh-SEM-ih-tee [5]) is a national park in California. [6] [7] It is bordered on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest.
[163] [164] Canada's oldest provincial park, Algonquin Provincial Park, established in 1893, covers an area of 7,653.45 square kilometres (2,955.01 sq mi). [165] Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area is the world's largest freshwater protected area, spanning roughly 10,000 square kilometres (3,900 sq mi). [ 166 ]
Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (1975) Ken Khachigian, White House Chief Speechwriter (1981) George Deukmejian, Governor of California (1983–1991) Edward Djerejian, United States Ambassador to Israel (1993–1994) Édouard Balladur, Prime Minister of France (1993–1995)
On October 18, 1983, the missing truck was found by two forestry workers on an abandoned logging road on Trophy Mountain not far from Wells Gray Provincial Park and, like the Johnsons' car, it had been burned. The police were criticized for embarking on a costly wild-goose chase across the country when, for that whole year, the truck was just a ...
Only building in California whose roof height exceeds 1,000 ft. Tallest structure in a major active seismic region from 1989 to 2010; Taipei 101 now holds this title. Tallest building constructed in Los Angeles in the 1980s. Formerly known as Library Tower. [3] [4] [5] N/A Sutro Tower: 977 (298) 1973 San Francisco N/A
Bob Crane's life and murder were the subject of the 2002 feature film Auto Focus directed by Paul Schrader and starring Greg Kinnear as Crane. The film is based on the book by The Murder of Bob Crane author Robert Graysmith and was described as "brilliant" by critic Roger Ebert. It portrays Crane as a happily married, church-going family man ...
The 2000 census found that 21% of families were headed by single parents. There were 1,942 military veterans in 2000, or 4.9% of the population. [25] According to the 2020 United States census, the ethnic composition of Highland Park in 2020 was 58.7% Latino, 21.8% Non-Hispanic White, 13.4% Asian, 1.8% Black, and 4.3% others. Overall, the ...