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  2. Mission San Fernando Rey de España - Wikipedia

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    Mission San Fernando Rey de España. / 34.2731; -118.4612. Mission San Fernando Rey de España is a Spanish mission in the Mission Hills community of Los Angeles, California. The mission was founded on 8 September 1797 at the site of Achooykomenga, and was the seventeenth of the twenty-one Spanish missions established in Alta California.

  3. Philippine Air Force - Wikipedia

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    The Philippine Air Force (PAF) (Filipino: Hukbong Himpapawid ng Pilipinas) is the aerial warfare service branch of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.Initially formed as part of the Philippine Army as the Philippine Army Air Corps (PAAC) in 1935, the PAAC eventually saw combat during World War 2 and was formally separated from the Army in 1947 as a separate service branch of the AFP under ...

  4. Convento Building (Mission San Fernando) - Wikipedia

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    The Convento is a large two-story building, measuring approximately 243 feet (74 m) long and 50 feet (15 m) wide. It has four-foot-thick adobe walls and was built in stages between approximately 1808 and 1822. [2] The long portico, sometimes referred to as the colonnade, in front of the building has 20 arches and is the most recognized image of ...

  5. Tarzana, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    91356, 91357, 91335. Area code (s) 747 and 818. Website. Tarzana Neighborhood Council. Tarzana ( / tɑːrˈzænə /) is a suburban neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California. Tarzana is on the site of a former ranch owned by author Edgar Rice Burroughs. It is named after Burroughs' fictional jungle hero, Tarzan.

  6. Marymount High School - Wikipedia

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    Marymount High School is an independent, Catholic, all-girls, college-preparatory high school located in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It sits on Sunset Boulevard across from the University of California, Los Angeles campus at 10643 Sunset Boulevard. The school's main administration building, chapel and auditorium are ...

  7. Spanish missions in California - Wikipedia

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    Mission San Fernando Rey de España: 1,367 children baptized 1,080 people in 1819. 965 children died "It was not strange that the fearful death rate both of children and adults at the missions sometimes frightened the neophytes into running away." 6 Mission San Buenaventura: 3,805 baptisms total (1,909 children) 1,330 people in 1816

  8. San Fernando Mission Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    The San Fernando Mission Cemetery has been owned and operated by the Los Angeles Archdiocese since the founding of the Mission and first burials in 1797. The privately operated Mission Hills Catholic Mortuary is also located on the grounds of the cemetery. San Fernando Mission Cemetery is an active cemetery providing burials, entombments and ...

  9. Joint warfare in South Vietnam, 1963–1969 - Wikipedia

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    Joint warfare in South Vietnam, 1963–1969. Joint warfare in South Vietnam 1963–1969. Part of the Vietnam War, Indochina Wars and Cold War. South Vietnam, Military Regions, 1967. Date. 1 November 1963 – 28 January 1969. (5 years, 2 months, 3 weeks and 6 days) Location. North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia.