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  2. In Skid Row, a 19-story residential tower for homeless ... - AOL

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    The Weingart Center Assn. will soon begin placing homeless people in a 278-unit tower, part of a project it hopes will change the skyline and ambience of Skid Row.

  3. Thousands are housed as L.A. County makes progress on Skid Row

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    Last week, on the ninth floor of Weingart Tower, Juma lighted a cigarette. “It’s like adjusting to a new car smell,” he said of his new digs, his voice raspy. It's "different."

  4. Weingart Center for the Homeless - Wikipedia

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    The Weingart Center is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit. [ 1] The Weingart Center for the Homeless has five facilities in one block, plus a walk-in access center, totaling 170,000 sq. ft. the Weingart Center serves 6000 homeless people and provides 253,000 meals annually. The Weingart Center is located at 566 South San Pedro Street in the building that ...

  5. Post falsely claims L.A. high-rise is 'illegal immigrant housing'

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    City officials opened the taxpayer-funded $165 million Weingart Tower 1 on June 19 as the largest permanent support housing project for a city where homelessness is a critical issue.The 278-unit ...

  6. On the Shape, Location, and Size of Dante's Inferno - Wikipedia

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    On the Shape, Location, and Size of Dante's Inferno is the title of two lectures by Galileo Galilei presented in 1588 upon invitation by the Florentine Academy. The lectures secured him a job as a lecturer of mathematics at the University of Pisa. [ 1] Galileo attempted to mathematically map Dante's description of hell, trying to bridge the ...

  7. Wells Fargo Center (Los Angeles) - Wikipedia

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    Wells Fargo Center is a twin tower skyscraper complex in Downtown Los Angeles on Bunker Hill, in Los Angeles, California. It comprises South and North towers, which are joined by a three-story glass atrium. The project received the 1986–1987 and 2003–2004 Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) Office Building of the Year Award, and ...

  8. Inferno (Dante) - Wikipedia

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    Inferno (Italian: [iɱˈfɛrno]; Italian for ' Hell ') is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri 's 14th-century narrative poem The Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. The Inferno describes the journey of a fictionalised version of Dante himself through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil.

  9. Darvaza gas crater - Wikipedia

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    The Darvaza gas crater (Turkmen: Garagum ýalkymy), [1] also known as the Door to Hell or Gates of Hell, or, officially, the Shining of Karakum, is a burning natural gas field collapsed into a cavern near Darvaza, Turkmenistan. [2] Hundreds of natural gas fires illuminate the floor and rim of the crater. The crater has been burning since the 1980s.