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5 unusual facts about Ventura


Cicindela trifasciata sigmoidea

Its parents were captured at the Mugu Naval Base marsh in Ventura, California in 2003 (for a UCLA Masters thesis).

Martin Knowlton

Knowlton died at age 88 on March 12, 2009 at a nursing home in Ventura, California due to natural causes.

Ron Hargrave

He moved to Ventura County, California where he resides near his daughter and continues to play music for small clubs and small audiences.

Southern California Institute of Law

Southern California Institute of Law (SCIL) is a private law school with campuses in Santa Barbara and Ventura, California.

The Barna Group

The Barna Group is an evangelical Christian polling firm based in Ventura, California.


A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex

Jericho would spend the next year graduating from high school and attending Red River Community College, obtaining a degree in Journalism, following the advice given to him by Jesse "The Body" Ventura", to have something to fall back on, after meeting Ventura at a celebrity hockey game that Jericho's father was playing in.

A Year in the Province

The book tells the story of Jesus Sanchez Ventura, who persuades his wife Begona and his three daughters to leave Andalusia for Belfast.

Ace Ventura

Ace is a Miami-based private detective specializing in the retrieval of missing animals, the son of Rex Ventura and descendant of such as "Ernest Ventura Shackleton" and "Jacques Ventura Costeau".

Ace Ventura, Jr.: Pet Detective

Ace Ventura Jr: Pet Detective (also known as Ace Ventura Jr. and Ace Ventura 3) is a 2009 telefilm, and the third installment in the Ace Ventura film series.

American Conspiracies

Ventura reveals that a White House computer consultant named Michael Connell was responsible for computerized vote theft in Florida in 2000 and for “disappearing” millions of White House emails that had been subpoenaed by Congress.

Army of Freshmen

Following his graduation from Lower Cape May Regional High School in Cape May, New Jersey, Chris Jay moved by himself to Ventura, California with the goal of starting a band.

Bardsdale, California

He laid out the town with such street names as San Cayetano, Hueneme, Sespe, Santa Paula, Ventura, Owen, Ojai and Simi Streets, running from north to south, including Chambersburg Street, which was named for Thomas Bard's hometown of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

California State Route 126

The 1984 Olympics Organizing Committee was allowed to close the freeway portion between Ventura and Santa Paula for cycling practice for the 100 Kilometer Team Trials on two consecutive Thursdays.

Casitas

Lake Casitas, lake in Ventura County, California, formed by Casitas Dam

Chumash

Chumash Wilderness, wilderness area in the mountains of northern Ventura County and southwestern Kern County in California

Corcovado Volcano

180 Degrees South: Conquerors of the Useless - a 2010 documentary directed by Chris Malloy that covers the journey of Jeff Johnson as he travels from Ventura, California to Patagonia, Chile to attempt to summit Corcovado.

Darling, Western Cape

From here the Ventura aircraft patrolled the western sea approaches to Cape Town at the height of the submarine menace.

Elk Forest, West Virginia

Originally built in the late 1950s-early 1960s, it is a part of Mink Shoals, originally willed for development by Amanda Pitzer at her death, now buried at a small cemetery across the road from Elk Forest along Ventura Acres Rd.It is directly opposite Dutch Road which is a part of the Old German Settlement at Mink Shoals.

George and Junior

The characters were brought back to life by Pat Ventura in two 1995 cartoons on the Hanna-Barbera animation anthology franchise What-A-Cartoon! on Cartoon Network' George and Junior: Look Out Below and George and Junior's Christmas Spectacular (both cartoons were produced respectively by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Cartoon Network Studios).

Grand Slam Single

Sports books in Las Vegas were put into an unusual situation with the "single" as a final score of 7–3 (the score that would have been had Ventura completed his trip around the bases) meant the game would have gone "over" the over/under line, which was 7½ .

Greater Los Angeles

The Greater Los Angeles Area, a large metropolitan region in southern California, United States, consisting of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura Counties

Grudge Match

The Grudge Match, a short lived, 1991 television series hosted by Jesse Ventura

Hamilton Ventura

Hamilton Ventura da Conceicao (born 1983 in Cruz das Almas) is a Brazilian amateur boxer best known to win a silver medal at the 2006 South American Games in the men's light heavyweight division.

History of the Middle Eastern people in Metro Detroit

By 2007 Metro Detroit, if defined as Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, and Washtenaw counties had the United States's largest Arab American population, larger than that of Greater Los Angeles if that region was defined as Los Angeles, Orange, and Ventura counties.

Ilocos Sur

Some illustrious Filipino and Ilocanos among whom were Pedro Bukaneg, the Father of Ilocano literature; Diego Silang, the first Filipino emancipator; Josefa Gabriela Silang, the Filipino Joan of Arc; Dr. José Burgos, the Father of Filipino nationalism; Leona Florentino, the Ilocano poetess; Ventura de los Reyes, the first Filipino delegate to the Spanish Cortez; Mena Crisólogo, the Ilocano Shakespeare; Isabelo de los Reyes, the Father of Filipino socialism and unionism; Msgr.

Jesse Ventura's America

Ventura later claimed that the show was cancelled because of his opposition to the Iraq War.

KBBY-FM

KBBY serves as the Ventura County radio home for Nights with Adam Bomb weeknights, and for Backtrax USA 1980s and 1990s editions with Kid Kelly on the weekends.

LA84 Foundation

The Foundation makes grants in the eight southernmost counties of California (Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Ventura).

Linda Parks

Parks worked as a transportation planner for private, public and non-profit companies including, Transportation Management Services, Commuter Transportation Service, and the City of Ventura with her transportation planning work included in the 1984 Summer Olympics and the Getty Museum.

Louis Vola

As well as the Hot Club de France, Vola (the second syllable is stressed) played bass for Ray Ventura, Duke Ellington and singer Charles Trenet.

Manvers Main Colliery

Manvers, and the adjoining areas that were formerly the Wath Main Colliery and the Wath marshalling yard were bulldozed, landscaped and are now an area of light industry and commerce, with a beautiful nature reserve managed by the RSPB Old Moor Wetland Centre RSPB reserve, including the call centres of companies such as Ventura (bought out by CAPITA in 2011; CAPITA fully took over on 1 January 2012), TSC, T-Mobile and many others occupying purpose-built units.

Michael Ventura

Michael Ventura commenced his career as a journalist at the Austin Sun, a counter-culture bi-weekly newspaper that published in the 1970s.

Mid-Hudson Civic Center

Television commentators for the show at the Civic Center were WWF owner Vince McMahon and Bruno Sammartino with Jesse "The Body" Ventura occasionally joining the duo or filling in for Sammartino (Ventura also wrestled on the show occasionally as Randy Savage's tag-team partner, usually taunting Sammartino and challenging him to get in the ring).

MV Dunedin Star

A Ventura bomber of the South African Air Force, therefore, was sent from Cape Town to drop supplies on the beach for the survivors.

MV Ventura

British actress Dame Helen Mirren officially christened Ventura and became the ship's Godmother, prior to her maiden cruise to the Mediterranean Sea.

Radioplane BTT

Radioplane was bought out by Northrop in 1952 to become the Northrop Ventura Division, though it appears that the "Radioplane" name lingered on for a while.

Ray Ventura

Raymond Ventura (16 April 1908, Paris - 30 March 1979, Palma de Mallorca, Spain) was a French jazz bandleader.

Rincon Sea Level Road

The Rincon Sea Level Road connected Ventura and Santa Barbara California as an alternative route to traveling up the Ventura River Valley towards Nordoff to the road over Casitas Pass for motorists driving from San Francisco to Los Angeles, California.

Santiago Ventura Morales

Santiago Ventura Morales was born in 1968 and grew up in San Miguel Cuevas in the Mexican state of Oaxaca where he completed school through the sixth grade.

SCAN Health Plan

The organization serves more than 110,000 people with Medicare in Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino San Diego and Ventura counties, California, and Maricopa county Arizona.

Serra d'Or

Among the board members there are several important people in the Catalan culture: Antoni Maria Badia i Margarit, Oriol Bohigas, Ramon Bastardes, Sebastià Benet, Josep M. Bricall, Max Cahner, Jordi Carbonell, Josep M. Castellet, Alexandre Cirici, Joan Colomines, Xavier Fàbregas (that replaced Joan Triadú), Joaquim Molas, Miquel Porter i Moix, Antoni de Rosselló, Josep Termes, Francesc Vallverdú and Jordi Ventura i Subirats.

Shitsville Express

Francis Ventura, 22, is from Melbourne and has been volunteering for the Labor Party since he was nine years old and stood for the seat of Flinders in the 2010 Federal election.

The Black Bat

In 2011 Anthony Quinn is stated as dead in the Clockwork Comics series Education Of A Superhero by Adam Dechanel and a new Black Bat under the alias Steve Ventura took on the daunting legacy.

Thomas R. Bard

Thomas R. Bard and his brother, Dr. Cephas Little Bard, established the Elizabeth Bard Memorial Hospital in Ventura as a memorial to their mother.

Timeline of San Bernardino, California history

1987 – Professional (Single-A) baseball arrives when a team from Ventura California moves to Fiscalini Field in Perris Hill Park and are named the San Bernardino Spirit.

Valdelaguna

In Valdelaguna born on V.P. Miguel de la Fuente, 16th century mystic writer, painter of the 19th century Ventura Miera and in 1911 the filmmaker Antonio del Amo, chief among other popular films of Joselito.

Ventura County Sheriff's Department

In the 1974 film Chinatown, Roy Jenson plays Claude Mulvihill, a hired tough guy and former Ventura County Sheriff who had been on the take from rum runners during Prohibition.

Ventura Salimbeni

The papal legate, cardinal Bonifazio Bevilacqua (1571–1627), who had commissioned these paintings, was so pleased that he invested Ventura Salimbeni with the Order of the Golden Spur, a very selective papal order.

Wagon Wheel, Oxnard, California

On March 2, 2009 the San Buenaventura Conservancy, a local non-profit preservation advocacy group – with attorney Susan Brandt-Hawley – filed suit in Ventura County Superior Court against the City of Oxnard, claiming that the City’s approval of the Oxnard Village Specific Plan project violated the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).


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