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Greater Los Angeles is the most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. state of California, encompassing five counties in Southern California extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino County and Riverside County in the east, with Los Angeles County in the center, and Orange County to the southeast.
San Francisco, [24] officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California.With a population of 808,988 residents as of 2023, [16] San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of California behind Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose.
Katherine Elizabeth Upton [2] (born June 10, 1992) [3] is an American model and actress. She first appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2011, and was the cover model for the 2012, 2013 and 2017 issues.
Hollywood, sometimes informally called Tinseltown, is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles County, California, mostly within the city of Los Angeles.Its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the U.S. film industry and the people associated with it.
The culture of Los Angeles is rich with arts and ethnically diverse. The greater Los Angeles metro area has several notable art museums including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the J. Paul Getty Museum on the Santa Monica Mountains overlooking the Pacific, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), and the Hammer Museum.
The chapel was commissioned by the Sisters of Loretto for their girls' school, Loretto Academy, in 1873. Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy had brought in two French architects, Antoine Mouly and his son Projectus, to work on the St. Francis Cathedral project, and suggested that the Sisters could make use of their services on the side to build a much-needed chapel for the academy. [4]
The Los Angeles Dodgers farm system consists of seven Minor League Baseball affiliates across the United States and in the Dominican Republic.Four teams are independently owned, while three—the Arizona Complex League Dodgers and two Dominican Summer League Dodgers squads—are owned by the major league club.
The Los Angeles crime family, also known as the Dragna crime family, the Southern California crime family [7] or the L.A. Mafia, and dubbed "the Mickey Mouse Mafia" by former Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates, [8] is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Los Angeles, California as part of the larger Italian-American Mafia.