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Ellen Browning Scripps was born on October 18, 1836, on South Molton St. in St. George Parish, London. Her father, James Mogg Scripps (1803–1873), was the youngest of six children born to London publisher William Armiger Scripps (1772–1851) and Mary Dixie (1771–1838).
Stairs at the northern end of Ellen Browning Scripps Park provide access to the beach, a popular site for swimming, diving, and engaging with marine life. The Cove Beach is the starting point for the historic Rough Water Swim, now known as The La Jolla Cove Swim , which began in 1916 and has been held annually, with a few exceptions, since 1931.
It was commissioned by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps on property adjacent to her home, and designed by San Diego architect Irving Gill. [1] [2] The center was completed in 1915; Scripps donated it to the City of San Diego the same year. On September 7, 1973, it was designated as San Diego Historic Landmark #86.
Mar. 4—DEXTER — After some back-and-forth spelling against his final competitor, Micah R. Sterling, 9, took to the microphone at the 33rd Scripps Regional Spelling Bee for students in ...
May 28—DEXTER — General Brown Central's Micah R. Sterling, 9, will compete Tuesday in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Micah, a fourth-grade student at Brownville-Glen Park Elementary School ...
The average annual rainfall in Claremont is about 15 inches and the BFS is located on an alluvial fan which means the soil is fast-draining. Because of these factors, organisms are adapted to low water availability and the landscape is brown and dry much of the year. Approximately two-thirds of the Station is coastal sage scrub. This ecosystem ...
A judge told the parents of 27-year-old Ellen Greenberg, a Philadelphia teacher found dead with 20 stab wounds in 2011, that the city's declaration of suicide was "puzzling."
The Old Scripps Building overlooks the Pacific coast near the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier on the campus of Scripps Institution of Oceanography.It is set on a terrace about 15 feet (4.6 m) above the shore, and is a relatively nondescript concrete structure, two stories in height, measuring about 50 by 75 feet (15 m × 23 m), with the long axis oriented roughly east–west.