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20 unusual facts about Westwood


Alese Coco

In September 2002, she relapsed four months after completing her initial treatment and underwent an Autologous Stem cell transplantation (SCT) at UCLA in Westwood, California in December 2002.

Bill Hinnant

He was cast as Bruce Carter, a 26-year-old college student (though he had already graduated from Yale in real life) who lives temporarily in Westwood, California, with his aunt, Gladys (Cara Williams), and her husband, insurance salesman, Pete Porter (Harry Morgan).

Darryl Swann

After graduating from Shaker Heights High School in 1983, Swann acquired his Liberal Arts degree from UCLA in Westwood, California.

Dee Dee Phelps

While attending college and working at a See's Candy store in Westwood, California, Sperling re-encountered Dick St. John, an old junior high classmate.

Fernley and Lassen Railway

The railroad was constructed to connect the Red River Lumber Company's facilities in Westwood with the Southern Pacific's main line running through Fernley.

Joe Fleming

Fleming attended Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood, Massachusetts, and was a star in both football and hockey, along with being a top student.

Mathnasium

The first center opened in Westwood, California, and continues to be one of a small number of centers owned by Mathnasium, LLC.

Patricia Partin

In 1973, after Castaneda appeared on the cover of Time, he bought a compound on Pandora Avenue in Westwood, California, and dropped out of the public view.

Pedestrian scramble

In Los Angeles County, pedestrian scrambles are used in the Rodeo Drive commercial area of Beverly Hills, at the intersection of Westwood and La Conte Avenues in the Westwood section of Los Angeles immediately adjacent to the UCLA campus, and at the intersection of Jefferson Boulevard and Hoover Street near the University of Southern California, as well as in Pasadena at the intersection of Raymond and Colorado.

Percy Parke Lewis

In 1930-1931, he designed St. Alban's Episcopal Church located at 580 Hilgard in Westwood, California.

Princess Marie-Christine of Belgium

Her first marriage, to Paul Drucker (Toronto, Ontario, 1 November 1937 – 1 April 2008) in Coral Gables, Miami-Dade County, Florida, on 23 May 1981, lasted 40 days (though they weren't formally divorced till 1985); she subsequently married Jean-Paul Gourges in Westwood, Lassen County, California, on 28 September 1989.

The Paradine Case

The Paradine Case had its world premiere in Los Angeles on December 29, 1947, opening simultaneously in two theatres across the street from each other in Westwood.

Westwood, Baillie

In 1887 the company made the girders for the Lansdowne Bridge over the Indus River, then the longest rigid girder bridge in the world.

Westwood, Boyd County, Kentucky

The flat hilltop is unusual to eastern Kentucky and was created by the preglacial Teays River which existed in ancient times and flowed in the opposite direction of the Ohio River.

The flat elevation in which Westwood is located was created by the ancient Teays River.

Westwood, Cincinnati

Westwood's main thoroughfares (specifically Harrison Avenue and Boudinot Avenue) feature many uniquely large and decorative houses, while surrounding streets include a mixture of apartment homes and housing, as constructed by the large number of German immigrants who settled in the Cincinnati vicinity.

Westwood, Los Angeles

The Hammer, as it is commonly known, is particularly notable for its collection of Impressionist art and cutting-edge modern art exhibitions.

Westwood, Southfleet

A quarter of a mile to the south lies the site of the former Longfield Halt railway station.

Westwood, Wiltshire

Additionally, by the end of 1942 the Westwood tunnels had "probably housed the greatest and most valuable collection of cultural and artistic artifacts assembled in one location anywhere in the world", including exhibits from British Museum, pictures from the National Portrait Gallery, tapestries from the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Elgin Marbles, and the Wright brothers' aeroplane.

Westwood stone went to build many houses in Bath, as well as Holy Trinity church in Trowbridge (1838).


Arthur Hertzberg

Rabbi Hertzberg died on April 17, 2006 of heart failure en route to Pascack Valley Hospital in Westwood, New Jersey, at the age of 84.

Barry Westwood

Barry Westwood, (born 1927, died 13 July 2011), was a British presenter and producer at Southern Television from 1959 until 1981.

Charles E. Young Research Library

The Charles E. Young Research Library is one of the largest libraries on the campus of UCLA in Westwood, Los Angeles, California.

Demographics of Los Angeles

Since World War II (1945 onward) most whites in these neighborhoods have relocated to other parts of the city (i.e. the San Fernando Valley and Westwood, Los Angeles), nearby suburbs including Orange County and Simi Valley in Ventura County, and other parts of Southern California.

Dune II

Dune II also led to direct sequels: Westwood released a semi-remake for Windows in 1998 as Dune 2000, along with a PlayStation port in the same year.

George W. Kelham

supervising architect for the Westwood campus: University of California, Los Angeles, 1927, including the design for Powell Library, Haines Hall, Kerckoff Hall, Moore Hall and the Men's Gym;

Harry F. Byrd

They lived with her parents in Winchester until 1916, when he built a log cabin, named Westwood, in Berryville at a family-owned orchard, and they moved there.

International Business Companies Act

The Act was drafted principally by five people: Lewis Hunte, the then Attorney General of the British Virgin Islands; Neville Westwood, Michael Riegels and Richard Peters, who were partners at the law firm, Harneys; and Paul Butler, a partner from the U.S. law firm of Shearman & Sterling.

Jim Westwood

Sir Clive Sinclair and Westwood shared a connection even before they met when Westwood had previously worked at an electronics store in London which was owned by Bernard Babani, Sinclair's publisher.

Jorge Sedano

He interned at CBS Sportsline and Westwood One Radio, where he worked under Scott Kaplan and Sid Rosenberg.

Kevin Kugler

In 2008, Kugler replaced Kevin Harlan as Westwood One's lead play-by-play voice for the Final Four and has called the games ever since alongside John Thompson and Bill Raftery.

Live at the Beverly Theater

Two songs that were recorded and broadcast by Westwood One were not included on Live at the Beverly Theater, "Standing on the Verge of Getting It On" and "Loopzilla".

Majestic Crest Theatre

Originally founded as the Westwood Theatre in 1940, was built for live performances but switched to a newsreel cinema during World War II.

Mount Pleasant Community School District

The Mount Pleasant Community School District is the public school system serving the city of Mount Pleasant, Iowa and the surrounding area, primarily Salem, Westwood, Rome, Swedesburg, and rural students.

Ohio Valley Association of the Christian Baptist Churches of God

Four churches—Firebrick Chapel of Firebrick, Kentucky; Westwood Mission of Ashland, Kentucky; Mabert Road Church and North Moreland Church, both of Portsmouth, Ohio—were the original constituents of the organization.

Robert Ortlieb

In 1957 a nine-foot walnut statue by Ortlieb of the Crucifixion of Jesus entitled "For They Know Not What They Do" was placed in Westwood Community Methodist Church.

Scott Garnham

He graduated from the Westwood Campus of Yorkshire Coast College in Scarborough, with a National Diploma in Drama before studying at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, later known as the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, graduating with a masters degree.

Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel

Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel, also called The Sephardic Temple, is a large, urban Sephardi Jewish synagogue located in Westwood, Los Angeles, California at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Warner Avenue.

Sepulveda Pass

The Sepulveda pass on Interstate 405 begins just south of Ventura Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley, climbing to just south of Mulholland Drive, then descending to just north of Sunset Boulevard, where I-405 and Sepulveda Boulevard enter the Brentwood and Westwood areas of West Los Angeles.

Siobhán O'Brien

O'Brien is the niece of Brendan Bowyer of The Royal Showband and the great-greatgrandaughter of Albert Bowyer of the Bowyer/Westwood Opera Company of Blackpool, England.

Spencer Ross

Nationally, he has worked for the NFL on NBC, Major League Baseball on CBS Radio, the NCAA Basketball Tournament on Westwood One Radio and as the lead play by play announcer for the 1992 USA Olympic Dream Team with Dick Vitale.

Sports USA Radio Network

For instance, the 2010 Pro Bowl (whose rights are held by Westwood One) was called by Kahn and Fouts, with Westwood One loaning Boomer Esiason to the broadcast team.

TCP Westwood plus

The first implementation of TCP Westwood in ns2 was done at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1999.

Thanet

Westwood at the centre of Thanet has seen much major development in recent years with the building of Westwood Cross shopping centre which is the home of national retailers and several restaurant chains including a Travelodge hotel.

Westwood Cross

In 2007, J Sainsbury PLC announced a partnership with Land Securities which included their site next to Westwood Cross which is also owned by Land Securities.

Phase Two of Westwood Cross was completed in April 2010, following the relocation of the Wickes store, which formerly stood beside the bus station.

William Westwood, 2nd Baron Westwood

Amid allegations of back-stabbing in the boardroom, when Lord Westwood, claimed himself and the then just sacked manager Richard Dinnis were being knifed in the back, he ordered a complete ban of every Newcastle United employee, especially the players, from talking to the press.

William Westwood, 2nd Baron Westwood (25 December 1907 – 8 November 1991) was a British peer, director of Hornby Railways and former chairman of Newcastle United.

After a string of defeats, Newcastle went down 2–1 to Arsenal at St James' Park and hundreds of demonstrators called for the chairman's resignation with angry shouts of Westwood out.