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Navy Broadway Complex. Coordinates: 32°42′48″N 117°10′15″W. The Navy Broadway Complex is a bayside military facility located in downtown San Diego, California. It houses the primary offices of the Navy Region Southwest, and is closely tied to regional United States Coast Guard operations. The Global Advanced Traceability and Control ...
His idea for a mobile salon and barber shop won first place at the 2011 UCSD Entrepreneur challenge for a consumer product. After raising $185,000 of funding, Kapila retrofitted an Airstream trailer as a classic barber shop. Sterlings Mobile launched in 2012 in the greater San Diego area.
Died. June 22, 2022. (2022-06-22) (aged 82) San Diego, California, U.S. Occupation (s) Businessman and inventor. Willie Lee Morrow (October 9, 1939 – June 22, 2022) was an American barber, businessman and inventor, who worked in the African American haircare industry. He was noted for inventing the Afro pick and developing the forerunner to ...
The Panama–California Exposition was a world exposition held in San Diego, California, between January 1, 1915, and January 1, 1917.The exposition celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal, and was meant to tout San Diego as the first United States port of call for ships traveling north after passing westward through the canal.
Diego Garcia is an island of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), a disputed overseas territory of the United Kingdom also claimed by Mauritius. It is a militarised atoll just south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean, and the largest of the 60 small islands of the Chagos Archipelago. Portuguese sailors under Pedro Mascarenhas were ...
Fork Union Military Academy (abbreviated as FUMA) is a private, all-male, college preparatory Christian military boarding school located in Fork Union, Virginia. Founded in 1898, Fork Union is considered one of the premier military boarding academies in the United States.
The Great Seal, or the Great Seal of the State of California as it is officially called, is the impression made on "all commissions, pardons and other public instruments to which the signature of the Governor is required" with the attestation of the Secretary of State; the impression, with or without "wafer," is made by a master die and counter die of an officially adopted design fixed in a ...
Located about halfway—7.5 miles (12.1 km)—between the two downtowns of San Diego and Tijuana in the South Bay, the city is at the center of one of the richest culturally diverse zones in the United States. Chula Vista is so named because of its scenic location between San Diego Bay and coastal mountain foothills.