New docks and ramps are being rushed at Playa Del Rey, Ventura, Dana Point, Oceanside and Mission Bay.

* January 6 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., founder of Dana Point, CA ( b. 1815 )

Baseball facilities at both Point Loma High School and Dana Middle School are named for him.

Catalina Express leaving Long Beach for Avalon, 2008The city is served by several high-speed passenger boats with daily services such as the Catalina Express to the Los Angeles district of San Pedro, and to Long Beach, and Dana Point.

The city was named after the headland of Dana Point, which was in turn named for Richard Henry Dana, Jr., author of Two Years Before the Mast, which included a description of the area.

In 1926, Woodruff, Chandler, and Sherman created the Dana Point Syndicate.

( colored lanterns were used by ships 200 years ago to advertise their fares when pulled into the Dana Point natural harbor ).

His crowning structure was to be the Dana Point Inn, a Mediterranean-like resort hotel.

Subsequently, he sold the remaining holdings of the Dana Point Syndicate.

According to Dana Point historians Baum and Burnes ,* Eldridge favored two dominant characteristics in his homes, a typically Spanish roof line and the use of large ceiling beams in the houses ' main rooms.

The Chapel soon grew, received canonical status as a parish, and moved to its current bluff-top location in Dana Point, overlooking Doheny State Beach.

Dana Point had a notable surfing history, and was home to many of the first companies that produced products for surfing.

Hobie Alter opened one of the first retail surf shops in Dana Point in 1954.

Many surf publications such as the Surfer's Journal and Surfer Magazine were formed and headquartered in Dana Point.

Bruce Brown produced the surfer film Endless Summer in Dana Point.

" Killer Dana " was a legendary surf break off Dana Point.

The Killer Dana wave was destroyed when the Dana Point Harbor was built in 1966.

The Dana Point headlands are a prominent feature in Orange County geography and after years of controversy, are currently being developed as a 118-house gated community.

link Dana Point Headlands

Dana Point enjoys a mild climate where temperatures tend to average around the 70's.

Dana was enormously influential in America-his Manual of Mineralogy is still in print in revised form-and the theory became known as Permanence theory.

John Esposito states that al-Hakim believed that " he was not only the divinely appointed religio-political leader but also the cosmic intellect linking God with creation ", while others like Nissim Dana and Mordechai Nisan state that he is perceived as the manifestation and the reincarnation of God or presumably the image of God.

Dana Tyrone Rohrabacher ( born June 21, 1947 ) is the U. S. Representative for, and previously the 45th and 42nd, serving since 1989.

The upgraded Rubicon model of the JK Wrangler is equipped with electronically activated locking differentials, Dana 44 axles front and rear with 4. 10 gears, a 4: 1 transfer case, electronic sway bar disconnect and heavy duty suspension.

The most notable difference, according to Dana F. Sutton is that New Comedy, in comparison to Old Comedy, is “ devoid of a serious political, social or intellectual content ” and “ could be performed in any number of social and political settings without risk of giving offense ”.

With his FBI partner Dana Scully, he works in the X-Files office, which is concerned with cases that were marked as unsolvable and shelved by the FBI ; most of these cases involve supernatural or mysterious circumstances.

* Dana Scully ( seasons 1 – 9, main ) – is portrayed by Gillian Anderson.

Skinner is originally the direct supervisor of special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully in the X-Files office.

She is a longtime friend of Agent John Doggett and becomes his replacement partner on the X-Files after the departure of Agent Dana Scully.

The metro area is home to three Fortune 500 companies: Dana Corporation, Owens Corning and Owens Illinois.

Only Dana Corporation is still in existence as an independent entity.

Dana Milbank, writing in the Washington Post, remarked of modern communitarians, " There is still no such thing as a card-carrying communitarian, and therefore no consensus on policies.

Carolyn Keene is the pseudonym of the authors of the Nancy Drew mystery stories and The Dana Girls mystery stories, both produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate.

Amy is taken back to her new home in Ontario by her inventor father Thomas Alden ( Jeff Daniels ), who later introduces her to his girlfriend, Susan ( Dana Delany ).

* Max Goof ( voiced by Dana Hill ), is the son and only child of Goofy.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 American science fiction film directed by Don Siegel and starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter.

New York City police detective Mark McPherson ( Dana Andrews ) is investigating the murder of beautiful, and highly successful, advertising executive, Laura Hunt ( Gene Tierney ).

Newt wins the fight but spares Marcus ' life, only to watch helplessly as Marcus is shot and killed by a racist sheriff ( Dana Elcar ).

Soon afterward he is kidnapped by the psychotic Slayer Dana, who believes he was responsible for kidnapping and torturing her as a child.

There is also a scene from the 1956 film D-Day the Sixth of June starring Robert Taylor and Richard Todd where Taylor's character is seen with Dana Wynter's character having drinks together during the Second World War in London.

Wayne's World is a 1992 American comedy film directed by Penelope Spheeris and starring Mike Myers in his film debut as Wayne Campbell and Dana Carvey as Damien " Garth " Algar, hosts of the Aurora, Illinois-based Public-access television cable TV show Wayne's World.

The most complete summary existing about these debates which often take a political ( e. g. communist ) or religious ( e. g. orthodox ) character is Dan Dana, Zalmoxis de la Herodot la Mircea Eliade.

In Irish mythology, Danu (; modern Irish Dana ) is the mother goddess of the Tuatha Dé Danann ( Old Irish: " The peoples of the goddess Danu ").