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25 unusual facts about Irvine


Australia at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships

53 swimmers have been selected to represent Australia at the 2010 Pan Pacs to be held in Irvine, California.

Beatriz da Costa

In 2003 she took a joint appointment as assistant professor in the Departments of Studio Art, and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine.

Bernard Gilmore

Bernard Howard Gilmore (November 19, 1937 – April 17, 2013) was an American composer, conductor, French horn player, and Professor Emeritus of music at the University of California, Irvine.

California State Route 133

Laguna Canyon Road splits to the northwest where the canyon ends in Irvine.

California State Route 261

The freeway continues next to The Market Place, a mall in Irvine, before going through a toll plaza after the Irvine Boulevard interchange.

California State Route 73

State Route 73 (SR 73) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California, running from the junction with Interstate 405 in Irvine through the San Joaquin Hills to its junction with Interstate 5 in San Juan Capistrano, its northern and southern terminii, respectively.

After leaving the state park, SR 73 straddles the border between Irvine and Newport Beach and provides easy access to University of California, Irvine through the Bison Avenue exit.

California's 74th State Assembly district

Anchored by Irvine, the district is primarily suburban and affluent.

Computer Economics

It was founded in 1979 by Bruno Bassi and is currently headquartered in Irvine, California, USA.

Davis Filfred

During his enlistment, Filfred served with Marine Corps unit MAG-46 at the former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro near Irvine, California and with the Marine Corps unit MWSS-374 at the former Marine Corps Air Station Tustin located in Tustin, California.

El Toro Y

Located in south Orange County where the cities of Lake Forest, Laguna Hills, and Irvine converge, the interchange was named after the city (El Toro - now Lake Forest) and the now closed Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, located northeast of the interchange.

Gold Soundz

In the song's promotional video, directed by Scott Blen, the band members are dressed in Santa Claus suits as they cavort through various locations in and around Irvine, California.

Irvine Unified School District

Irvine Unified School District is a school district in Orange County, California that serves the city of Irvine.

Irvine, Alberta

It later was renamed Irvine in honour of Colonel A. Irvine, a commissioner of the North-West Mounted Police who served with General F.D. Middleton during the North-West Rebellion of 1885.

Joey Allen

Allen was born as Joseph Alan Cagle on June 23, 1964 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but grew up in Irvine, California.

Meshael Alayban

Meshael Alayban is a Saudi woman accused of human trafficking in Irvine, California.

Netlist Inc.

is a multinational company headquartered in Irvine, California that designs and manufactures a wide variety of high-performance, logic-based memory subsystems for global datacenter and high-performance computing and communications markets.

Pao Fa Temple

It mainly attracts Chinese American and Vietnamese American Buddhists, including many who are students at the University of California, Irvine.

Rogue Artists Ensemble

Rogue Artists Ensemble was founded in 2001 by students at the University of California, Irvine.

San Joaquin Hills

Other neighborhoods set in and named after hills in this range include University Hills and Turtle Rock in Irvine.

T. Jefferson Parker

He was educated in public schools and received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Irvine in English.

The Bolts

The Bolts are an independent modern rock band from Irvine, California.

Turtle Rock Preschool

Turtle Rock Preschool (TRP) is a private preschool, kindergarten and after school academy located in the city of Irvine, California.

UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball

The UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team is the basketball team that represents University of California, Irvine in Irvine, California, United States.

Working cow horse

The King of Spain granted large tracts of land to loyal subjects, which were the basis for the "Californio" ranches and lifestyle common until the mid-19th century (and whose eventual owners were the source of the names of many California communities, including Irvine and Pacheco).


2000 United States Grand Prix

With ear plugs distributed by the team, a huge Manhattan crowd saw Irvine in an F1 test chassis and Herbert in a Yellow Checker Taxi cab "race" down Broadway.

47th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry

The 47th Kentucky Mounted Infantry was organized at Camp Nelson and Irvine, Kentucky mustered in for one year in January 1864 under the command of Colonel Andrew H. Clark.

Allison Liddi-Brown

Liddi-Brown received her B.A. in Drama and her M.F.A. in Directing from the University of California, Irvine, where she studied under Professor Keith Fowler.

American–Iranian Council

Ali Shakeri, founding member of the University of California-Irvine Center for Peacebuilding in Los Angeles, called the AIC on Tuesday, October 2, 2007 to thank the AIC and its members for diplomatic actions taken to gain his release from prison in Iran.

Center for Detectors

Some presenters include Dr. Donald Hall of the University of Hawaii, Dr. Chris Packham of the University of Florida, Dr. Joss Bland-Hawthorn of the University of Sydney, Bruce Tromberg, of the University of California, Irvine, and Dr. Shouleh Nikzad, Dr. Michael Hoenk, and Bedabrata Pain of the California Institute of Technology’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Crawford Hall

The facility's outdoor breezeway is also informally recognized within the UC Irvine community as the rehearsal space for hip hop dance team Kaba Modern.

Dave Salo

While head coach of the Irvine Novaquatics, Salo led his team to a number of age group championships (BC and Junior Olympic) as well as several Junior National Team Championships and the United States Swimming National Championships (Men, Women, Combined, Combined Under 18).

Dominic Dromgoole

During this time, he premiered 65 new plays including early works by Billy Roche, Philip Ridley, Catherine Johnson, Sebastian Barry, Jonathan Harvey, Helen Edmundson, Simon Bent, Naomi Wallace, Irvine Welsh, David Harrower, Samuel Adamson and Conor McPherson.

Edith Irvine

Wilma ("Billy") Plunkett, Photoarchivist at the Lee Library in 1988, indicates in her master’s project on Irvine, that the “family fortunes increased due to acquisitions of mines and other real estate,” and that the Irvine family became part of the “upper social strata of the area.”

Irvine was born in Sheep Ranch, Calaveras County, California to Thomas Hanna Irvine and Mary Irene (Hills) Irvine.

Eran Raven

Raven has been linked to Heather Sweet (AKA Dita Von Teese) when they went to University High School together and Glamor Model Carmen Electra whom they met after his Nail Gun demonstration.

Fisker

Fisker Automotive, a car company, based in Irvine, California and founded by Henrik Fisker, that produces the Fisker Karma

Girl with Curious Hair

A rich young Republican living an alternate life steeped in punk rock and sadism spends an evening at a Keith Jarrett concert in Irvine, where his LSD-influenced girlfriend is distracted by a girl with curious hair.

Grannie stone

The episode in 1297 relates to a punitive expedition under Sir Henry Percy sent to Irvine to quash an armed uprising against the dethronement of John Balliol.

Henry Segerstrom

It was built the same year as The Irvine Company's Fashion Island in neighboring Newport Beach.

Heritage Park Aquatic Center

Heritage Park Aquatic Center is an aquatics venue located in Irvine, California, United States.

High Hills of Santee

Wyndham Meredith Manning, (1890–1967), South Carolina politician and son of Richard Irvine Manning III, born in Wedgefield.

Imagined speech

In 2008, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) provided a $4 million grant to the University of California (Irvine), with the intent of providing a foundation for synthetic telepathy.

Jacob Preus

J. A. O. Preus III, (1954- ), theologian, President of Concordia University, Irvine, California

Jason Lezak

He graduated from Irvine High School in 1994, and then from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1999.

Jeffrey Wernick

He worked for Donovan, Leisure and Irvine law firm until he joined DIC Animation City.

Jimenez Arms

It produced firearms variously branded as Jennings Firearms at its Irvine, California facility, as well as under the brand name of Bryco Arms at its former Carson City, Nevada facility, and at its Costa Mesa, California facility.

John Irvine

Jack Irvine (John Alfred Irvine, 1912–1996), Canadian politician

John J. Garstka

In addition, he has lectured at Harvard University, Georgetown University, the University of California at Irvine, University of Maryland, the Army War College, the Air War College, the Naval War College, and the Naval Postgraduate School.

John Schneiderman

Schneiderman is currently the director of guitar and lute studies at the University of California, Irvine, and nearby Irvine Valley College, and he has been on the faculties of Orange Coast College, California State University, Long Beach, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Jonathan Bornstein

Bornstein attended Los Alamitos High School, where he played soccer for all four years, and played club soccer for Irvine Strikers coached by Don Ebert.

Loudoun

Notably, claims that Greenholm, Priestland and the town of Galston itself lie within Loudoun are erroneous, as all three lie south of the River Irvine, in the parish of Galston.

Lucy Irvine

In 1984, Irvine bought the isolated cottage Rumachroy, on the remote Scottish island of Tanera Mòr, where, most of the time as a single mother, she raised her children.

Mat Irvine

In 1981, Irvine served as Visual Effects Designer for the Doctor Who spin-off, K-9 and Company.

Mili Mili World Music

Mili Mili has performed live at events in and around Southern California, including the Long Beach Carnival, Hollywood Palladium Brazilian Nights, World Beat Center Earth Day Celebration in San Diego, the MGM Grand Las Vegas, the Temple Bar, BB King's, Beverly Hills Film Festival, Hard Rock Cafe, the Irvine Global Village Festival, and the Levitt Pavilion in Los Angeles.

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

In 1980, Saint Paul resident Sally Ordway Irvine (3M heiress and arts patron) dreamed of a European-style concert hall offering “everything from opera to the Russian circus.”

Oyama, British Columbia

Oyama is named after Japanese field martial Ōyama Iwao in 1906 by the first post master Dr. W. H. Irvine.

Peter López

López was born in Irvine, California, in the United States, but aged five his family returned to live in Surquillo (Lima, Peru) for a few years.

San Diego Creek bicycle path

It is the major bicycle backbone of Irvine and connects major points such as Newport Beach, University of California, Irvine, Boomers, Colonel Bill Barber Park, Irvine Civic Center, The Crossroads Shopping Center, Woodbridge High School, Woodbridge Community Park, Atria Senior Residential Area, Windrow Community Park, Irvine Medical Complex, and ultimately, Irvine Spectrum Center.

Savitree Suttichanond

While attending the University of California, Irvine, Savitree was a member of the Delta Delta Delta Sorority, was a SPOP staffer, and actively participated in the university's Thai Club.

Sweeney's Men

Irvine was replaced by Henry McCullough, who had been repatriated to Ireland while on an Eire Apparent tour, due to visa problems.

UC Irvine Medical Center

Ms. Irvine, who had liver and kidney disease, had 95 organs offered for transplant by the United Network for Organ Sharing during her stay at UCI.

Umkhonto we Sizwe

University of California Irvine (UCI) professor Frank B. Wilderson III wrote about his experience working with MK in the 1990s in his 2008 memoir Incognegro.

Yampi Sound

The Sound contains many islands of the Buccaneer Archipelago the largest being Koolan Island; others include: Cockatoo Island, Irvine Island, Bathurst Island, Finch Islands, Hidden Island, Baylis Islands and Iron Islands.