Peek in the Stacks

There are eight historic avocado trees on Avocado Street in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. These eight trees were designated Los Angeles Historical-Cultural Monument #343 (HCM-343) in 1988 with the help of the Los Feliz Improvement Association....

n 1970, the notion of alternative or open schools under the public school system was proposed at the White House Conference on Children, and in 1972 Congress appropriated millions of dollars for cooperative education research. This concept of alternative schools was picked up by the education- and innovation-minded in California under the Los Angeles Unified School District’s wing and arose as a resolution to many educational problems in the state. This proposal coincided with....

A wide array of materials—papyrus, clay, and bronze, among others—have been used to preserve information. The codex, a Eurasian method of storing data dating back to at least the first century CE, was made of animal skins or plant matter; the sheets were bound along one edge, much like a modern book. Indigenous cultures of Mexico also had methods....

The United States Weather Bureau was established within the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1890. Prior to that it operated within the War Department. In 1970 the Weather Bureau became the National Weather Service (as it is known today) within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce....