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Mt. Baldy is named for a saint, but there is no "Saint Baldy." Mt. Lee, not Mt. Hollywood, is home to the Hollywood sign. Go figure. These are the stories of Southland mountain names.

The birth (and death) of the Balloon Corps would be the base of what soon would become the Air Force that we know.

The Union Army Balloon Corps, formed during the Civil War, predated airplanes and could be considered the first US air force.

The Civil War marked a pivotal time in U.S. history, and the many well-preserved battlefields throughout the middle atlantic region can be attractive, educational destinations for pilots.

— Biden’s infrastructure plan aims to reduce exclusionary zoning rules that keep people of color out of many neighborhoods. But are there enough sticks to go with all those carrots — and will the suburbs buy in? — Senate Republicans are signaling that they will try to block — or at least slow down — a Democratic effort to create a 9/11-style commission on the deadly — The New York attorney general’s office said that it is conducting a criminal investigation into former Preside...

Lights and sirens! Bells and whistles! Today, Los Angeles fills your ears and eyes with noise and light, the rush and whoosh of cars and buses and trains, the pinging and ringing of millions of phones, the music that’s not to your liking leaking from other people’s earbuds, and the perpetual glimmer and glare from headlamps and streetlamps and storefronts. And oh, are you ever wistful for the years of yore, for a Los Angeles that surely cherished civilized silences and decent darkness. Boy,...

Print Echo Mountain, amid the 700,000 acres of national forest that is L.A.’s backyard, was once a playground for the well-to-do. More than a century ago, the barren mountaintop above Altadena was transformed into a resort where the wealthy came to party in a civilized manner, breathe fresh air and immerse themselves in nature — all without setting foot on a trail. Some ruins remain, giving modern-day hikers a glimpse of what passed for luxury back in the day. An incline car approaches Ech...

February 7, 2021 We asked a former RC-135 pilot to choose the Top 10 ‘Spy-Planes’ (though don’t call them that!) When we asked former Blackbird, B-57 and U-2 pilot BC Thomas for his thoughts on the Top 10 spy planes he wasn’t comfortable with the term , noting “The SR-71 was a Strategic Reconnaissance Aircraft, not a ‘spy plane.’  The practice of calling the SR-71 a ‘spy plane’ is so prevalent that I have stopped trying to correct the error, and it is no longer important sin...

january of 1862 and met with the president and the cabinet, laid out his plan for the capture of the confederate capital here in richmond and the defeat of the confederate forces defending richmond. he told them that his plan would involve defeating the enemys capacity to make war and he would do so through the use of maneuver as opposed to costly headlong assaults against confederate bastions. the seizure of what was known as strategic points by the napoleonic scholars of the day woul...