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Brea (brā`ə), city (1990 pop. 32,873), Orange co., S Calif.; inc. 1917. It is an industrial, commercial, and residential community in an oil and citrus-fruit area some 30 mi (48 km) east of downtown Los Angeles. Most industries are related to the production and processing of oil. Other manufactures include rubber products, tools, automobile parts, and chemicals. In recent years Brea has attracted insurance, banking, and other white-collar companies. The city developed after oil was discovered (1898), causing an oil boom in the early 1900s, and was an oil center and bedroom community for oil-industry employees into the 1960s. In the late 1990s, Brea undertook the development a new downtown section with apartments, retail stores, and entertainment sites. Of note is the campsite of the Spanish explorer Don Gaspar de Portolá Portolá, Gaspar de , fl. 1734–84, Spanish explorer in the Far West. After serving in Italy and Portugal, he was sent (1767) to America as governor of the Californias to expel the Jesuits and to save Franciscan missions.
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By the third quarter of 2011, Alutrint Ltd will begin rolling off aluminium products from its Union Estate, La Brea plant, on which construction is expected to begin early next year, reports The Trinidad Express (Nov.

Aluminium products by Caribbean Update

Today there will be no parking on Franklin Avenue between La Brea Avenue and Vine Street, Yucca Street between Gower Street and Highland Avenue, Hollywood Boulevard between Formosa Avenue and Western Avenue, and Hawthorne Avenue between Highland Avenue and La Brea Avenue.

250,000 EXPECTED TO SEE NEW HOLLYWOOD PARADE SANTA: THE JOLLY OLD ELF ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

An analysis of fossils from southern California's La Brea tar pits hints that the dire wolf, a species that died out at the end of the last ice age, had a social structure similar to that of its modern-day relatives.

Meet the old wolves, same as the new wolves by Science News

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