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Illinois, California Jemeker Thompson-Hairston is an American former drug dealer who rose to the top of the cocaine trade during the peak of the 1980s crack epidemic in the United States. She was based in "South Central" Los Angeles and had cocaine distributors in multiple US cities working for her.
The Painters' Club of Los Angeles was a short-lived arts organization that existed from 1906 to 1909, and allowed only men as members. When the group disbanded a number of artists who had been members reorganized themselves as the California Art Club, including Charles Percy Austin (1883–1948), Franz Bischoff (1864–1929), Carl Oscar Borg (1879–1947), Benjamin Brown (1865–1942), Hanson ...
Plaque commemorating J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron outside the old Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge Autochrome portrait by Georges Chevalier, 1923 Thomson c. 1920–1925 Thomson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) [ 24 ] [ 49 ] and appointed to the Cavendish Professorship of Experimental Physics at the Cavendish ...
The history of the house dates to the late 19th century, when Gus Thompson traveled from Kentucky to California to work at the Hotel Del Coronado. He built the house and the next-door barn on C ...
Sacks was born to a Jewish family [3] in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1952, [2] [4] the second of three children born to Lithuanian Jewish immigrants. [5] [6] His father was South African businessman Wolfe Harry Sacks. [4] [7] His sister Caron Sacks is married to Israeli politician Ze'ev Bielski, [7] and is the mother of actress Adi Bielski.
The building was the first in Los Angeles to have two elevators—one for the public and the other for members. The men's dining room, reading room, bar and lounge were on the top floor. On the floor below was the ladies' dining room. Exterior street view of the former five-story California Club clubhouse on Fifth Street and Hill Street. 1905 ...
Jean-Pierre Boccara is a French-Italian-American entrepreneur and artist known for founding several clubs [1] in Los Angeles, California.Lhasa Club, Lhasaland, Café Largo, and Luna Park were known for bookings across many genres including music, spoken word, comedy, cinema, cabaret, and pre-digital media art shows.
An 8-month-old girl died and her 9-year-old sister was injured in the violence, which began around 3:40 a.m., Los Angeles police said Tuesday. The children’s mother, Danielle Johnson, 34, got in ...