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10 L A Landmarks Made Even More Famous by Hollywood Horror Flicks

Here are the ten best horror film locations in Los Angeles including how to visit them, what you can see today and how they match up with their appearances on the spooky silver screen.

Secretary of the Interior first: Deb Haaland, member of the Pueblo of Laguna

NationofChange “I’ll be fierce for all of us, our planet, and all of our protected land.” Image Credit: Michael S.Anaya-Gorman/Albuquerque Journal Tonight, the Senate confirmed the appointment of Representative Deb Haaland (D-NM) as Secretary of the Interior Department. An impressive woman in her own right, Haaland embodies the determination of the new administration to use the government for the good of all Americans, rather than for special interests. This makes her a threat to business-as-usual on issues of both race and the economy. Her confirmation vote was 50-41; only four Republicans voted in favor of her appointment.

Happy Birthday, Beverly Hills!

Reply(1) Top left: Lily Pond 1915; Bottom left: City Hall 1925; Top right: Greystone Mansion 1928; Bottom right: Rodeo Dr. 1925 (City of Beverly Hills) BEVERLY HILLS, CA One hundred seven years ago today, the citizens of one of the nation s first planned communities incorporated their city. What began as a lima bean field and later an oil well-drilling site had been transformed into a town full of parks and wide curving streets, designed with affordability and tranquility in mind, named Beverly Hills after bucolic Beverly Farms, Massachusetts. A few years later, the arrival of the world s first film stars turned Beverly Hills into an international symbol of luxury and glamor, a reputation it maintains to this day.

Teapot Dome scandal had New Mexico roots

.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... Albert Fall, a former New Mexico state Senator who went on to become U.S. Secretary of Interior, played a central role in the Teapot Dome scandal a century ago. (Source: Library of Congress) Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal It has been 100 years since little-noticed, no-bid oil leases in Wyoming and California were engineered by then-Secretary of Interior and former New Mexico Senator Albert Bacon Fall, sending Fall to jail and rocking a presidency. The story reads like a film noir script: a cabal of wealthy oilmen hand-picking a presidential candidate, bribes, bags of cash, a murder-suicide, and a muckraking Albuquerque journalist, all amid the flow of Prohibition liquor and the whiff of Cuban cigars.

Elizebeth Friedman: Coast Guard Code Breaker

  A photograph of Elizebeth Smith Friedman (Source: National Security Administration). Friedman was a cryptanalyst for the U.S. Coast Guard and became a key witness in the prosecution of several smuggling cases during Prohibition. By the end of her life, Elizebeth Smith Friedman was renowned for her work deciphering codes from civilian criminals. She cracked the codes that sent members of what one prosecutor called “the most powerful international smuggling syndicate in existence” [1] to jail, took down a Vancouver opium ring, and caught a World War II Japanese spy. But Friedman, who spent much of her working career in Washington, had every bit as exciting and strange a journey to get there.

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