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Pasadena

(Encyclopedia) PasadenaPasadenapăsˌədēˈnə [key]. 1 City (1990 pop. 131,591), Los Angeles co., S Calif., at the base of the San Gabriel Mts.; inc. 1866. The city is a research and technological center…

South Pasadena

(Encyclopedia) South PasadenaSouth Pasadenapăsˌədēˈnə [key], city (1990 pop. 23,936), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1888. Medical supplies, clothing, and…

Purple in Pasadena

It started in September and never really diminished. One upset. Then another. Then another. And another. The national championship in college football may have belonged once again to…

Altadena

(Encyclopedia) Altadena Altadena ăltədēˈnə [key], uninc. residential city (2020 pop. 44,850), Los Angeles co., S Calif., just N of Pasadena, on the slopes of the San…

Wilson, Mount

(Encyclopedia) Wilson, Mount, peak, 5,710 ft (1,740 m) high, S Calif., in the San Gabriel Mts., NE of Pasadena. It is the site of Mt. Wilson Observatory (est. 1904), one of the Hale Observatories. A…

Pasadena (TV Show)

FoxFriday 9:00–10:00 p.m.Cast:Dana Delany, Martin Donovan, Philip Baker Hall, Mark Valley, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Balthazar Getty, Alison Lohman Before this show is dismissed as another…

Greene and Greene

(Encyclopedia) Greene and Greene, architectural firm working in the American arts and crafts style, formed by the brothers Charles Sumner Greene, 1868–1957, and Henry Mather Greene, 1870–1954, both b…

Jawlensky, Aleksey von

(Encyclopedia) Jawlensky, Aleksey vonJawlensky, Aleksey vonəlyĭksyāˈ vôn youlĕnˈskē [key], 1864–1941, Russian painter. He went to Munich in 1896 and met Kandinsky, with whom he was associated in…

California Institute of Technology

(Encyclopedia) California Institute of Technology, at Pasadena, Calif.; originally for men, became coeducational in 1970; founded 1891 as Throop Polytechnic Institute; called Throop College of…

Cobb, Lee J.

(Encyclopedia) Cobb, Lee J., 1911–76, American actor, b. New York City. He first performed with the Pasadena (Calif.) Playhouse in 1929 and made his Broadway debut in Crime and Punishment (1935).…