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La Ribera kept its original name until the 1960s when new management renamed it the Cypress West hotel. In the mid-1980s, businessman Denny LeVett and actress Doris Day restored the hotel and reopened it as the Cypress Inn. [6] It was an early pet–friendly hotel [7] and was featured on March 15, 1999, in the Architectural Digest. [8] [9]
The CBU-55 FAE fuel-air cluster bomb was mostly developed by the US Naval Weapons Center at China Lake, California. [32] Current American FAE munitions include the following: BLU-73 FAE I; BLU-95 500 lb (230 kg) (FAE-II) BLU-96 2,000 lb (910 kg) (FAE-II) CBU-72 FAE I; AGM-114 Hellfire missile; XM1060 grenade; SMAW-NE round for rocket launcher
This is an Iranian round produced by Shahed Weaponry with a time fuze and over 2,000 premade fragments. [7] The PG-29V anti-tank/bunker round has a tandem-charge high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) warhead to defeat explosive reactive armor (ERA). This warhead is standardized with that of the PG-7VR round fired by the RPG-7V rocket launcher. [8]
The hotel is one of the nine luxury hotels operated by the Dorchester Collection, [1] which is owned by the Brunei Investment Agency (BIA). [2] The hotel has a total of 103 rooms, 45 of which are suites. [3] The Bel-Air hotel has an overall old Hollywood style and is surrounded by 12 acres (4.9 ha) of gardens in the Bel-Air Estates neighborhood ...
The Carlton Hotel is a luxury hotel located in Atascadero, California, along the state's Central Coast in San Luis Obispo County. Construction began in 1928, with the hotel officially opening its doors in 1929. After several decades of local popularity and notoriety, by the early 1980s the property had fallen into deep disrepair.
Some defense analysts question both the yield of the bomb and whether it could be deployed by a Tupolev Tu-160 bomber. A report by Wired [7] says photos and the video of the event suggest that it is designed to be deployed from the rear of a slow moving cargo plane, and they note that the bomb-test video released by the Russians never shows both the bomb and the bomber in the same camera shot.
The California Hotel is a historic Oakland, California, hotel which opened in the early days of the Great Depression and became an important cultural center for the African-American community of San Francisco's East Bay during the 1940s, 50s and 60s. [3] [4] On June 30, 1988, the hotel was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Madonna Inn is a motel in San Luis Obispo, California. Opened for business in 1958, it quickly became a landmark on the Central Coast of California. It is noted for its unique decor, pink dining room, and themed rooms. [1] It was created by Alex Madonna, a successful construction magnate and entrepreneur (d. April 2004), and his wife ...