In addition to managing JPL, Caltech also operates the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, the Owens Valley Radio Observatory in Bishop, California, the Submillimeter Observatory and W. M. Keck Observatory at the Mauna Kea Observatory, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory at Livingston, Louisiana and Richland, Washington, and Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory in Corona del Mar, California.

Five million years ago, the Sierra Nevada was an eroded set of rolling hills and Mono Basin and Owens Valley did not yet exist.

* Roadside Geology and Mining History of the Owens Valley and Mono Basin

In the geologic past, water gathered in the Long Valley caldera and overtopped its rim, forming the Owens River Gorge.

One lobe of this material moved south into Owens Valley, past where Big Pine, California now lies.

Located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada in California's Owens Valley between the towns of Lone Pine to the south and Independence to the north, it is approximately northeast of Los Angeles.

The site also interprets the town of Manzanar, the ranch days, the settlement by the Owens Valley Paiute, and the role that water played in shaping the history of the Owens Valley.

Owens Valley Paiute woman weaving a basket

Approximately 1, 500 years ago, the area was settled by the Owens Valley Paiute, who ranged across the Owens Valley from Long Valley on the north to Owens Lake on the south, and from the crest of the Sierra Nevada on the west to the Inyo Mountains on the east.

The Owens Valley Paiute hunted and fished, collected pine nuts, and raised crops utilizing irrigation in the Manzanar area.

When gold and silver were discovered in the Sierra Nevada and the Inyo Mountains, the resulting sudden influx of miners, farmers, cattlemen and their hungry herds brought conflict with the Owens Valley Paiute, whose crops were being destroyed.

The Owens Valley Indian War of 1861 – 1863 ensued ; at the end, the Owens Valley Paiute, along with other native peoples in the region, were forced at gunpoint by the United States Army to walk almost to Fort Tejon, in one of the many forced relocations or " Trails of Tears " inflicted upon Native Americans in the United States.

Wagoner and Parton were both frustrated by her lack of solo success, because he had a significant financial stake in her future: as of 1969, he was her co-producer and owned nearly half of Owepar, the publishing company Parton had founded with Bill Owens.

Marrow was also interviewed in the Brent Owens documentary Pimps Up, Ho's Down, in which he claims to have had an extensive pimping background before getting into rap.

A Scot, and something of a playboy, Robertson had some early experience with double agents ; just prior to the war he had been case officer to Arthur Owens ( code name Snow ).

Rudolph had a special, personal reason to hope for victory — to pay tribute to Jesse Owens, the celebrated American athlete who had been her inspiration, also the star of the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in Berlin, Germany.

In the Manzanar area, the Owens Valley Paiute had established villages along Bairs, Georges, Shepherds, and Symmes creeks.

Although the incarcerees had been brought to the Owens Valley by the United States Government, they had to leave the camp and travel to their next destinations on their own.

In 2001, Eric Owens, a former employee, alleged that Mark Weber and Greg Raven from the IHR's staff had been planning to sell their mailing lists to either the Anti-Defamation League or the Church of Scientology.

He returned to college in 1946 and resumed athletics, to which he had been inspired by Jesse Owens, who was also from Cleveland and had attended East Technical High School as well.

In 1927, as well, Fox retained the services of Freeman Owens, who had particular expertise in constructing cameras for synch-sound film.

It was a widely unpopular decision, as the Miami community had grown to love Grant, Long and Seikaly when they were with the Heat, and the owners ' sudden decision to trade them away left a bitter taste in the mouths of the fans, especially since Willis and Owens were busts.

The Owens Valley whites misunderstood the local Paiute and thought that Inyo was the name of the mountains, when actually it was the name of the chief, or headman, of the tribe that had those mountains as part of their homeland.

The arms were granted in October 1871 to Owens College while the Victoria University had arms of its own which fell into abeyance from 1904 upon the merger of the College with the University.

The first county sheriff was legendary gunman Commodore Perry Owens, who had previously served as the sheriff of Apache County.

The producer mollified him, but had announcer Gary Owens read Johnson's credit as a separate sentence: " Starring Dan Rowan and Dick Martin!

In 1975, Buck Owens and Susan Raye had a Top 20 country hit with the song.

Earlier he had covered the Berlin Olympic Games, conversing afterward to gold medalist Jesse Owens.

In an episode that had General Burkhalter ( Leon Askin ) making reference to the Jesse Owens victories during the 1936 Olympics and Adolf Hitler not being happy that a Black American won events over German athletes, Kinchloe knocks out the heavyweight champ of Stalag 13 ( Battling Bruno ) while Burkhalter was in the camp.

Both of these projects had been shortlisted for the 2009 Thiess International Riverprize competing against four other projects: the Yellow River in China, Lake Simcoe in Canada, the Polochic Basin in Guatemala and the Lower Owens River in the USA.

By the end of the year they had changed their name to The Shirelles, a combination of the first syllable of Owens ' given name and-el, reminiscent of then-popular group The Chantels, after briefly using the name The Honeytunes.

It presented country music entertainers including Roger Miller, George Jones, Charlie Rich, Buck Owens and some, like Joe Maphis, who seldom received network exposure.

She received the 1952 Theatre World Award for her performance as Anna Reeves in The Chase, and starred in such Broadway hits as Picnic ( 1953 ), playing Millie Owens ( which she never felt received the credit it deserved ) and Bus Stop ( 1955 ), playing Cherie.

Although this price was lower than Los Angeles ' willingness to pay, the farmers of Owens Valley received a premium for their land compared to land values in neighboring counties.

Also, the farmers who were steadfast the longest during the Owens Valley Transfers were able to sell their land for even higher prices than the average farmer received due to Los Angeles ' willingness to settle.

Farmers in the Owens Valley may not have received fair value for their water rights.

The Ravens got their second-round pick back from San Francisco, and the 49ers in turn received a conditional fifth-round pick and defensive end Brandon Whiting from the Eagles in exchange for the rights to Owens.

Owens College Library received Richard Copley Christie's library of over 8, 000 volumes including many rare books from the Renaissance period in 1901.

Owens entered the county building and forced them to pay him at gun point, and he received no resistance. In the case of Marshal Jim Courtright, for example, he did " clean up the town " while serving as town marshal for Fort Worth, Texas.

Owens Corning received a 100 % rating on the Corporate Equality Index released by the Human Rights Campaign starting in 2004, the third year of the report.

He also received Kansas ' Ted Owens Defensive Player Award.

Owens received an " A " on the Drum Major Institute's 2005 Congressional Scorecard on middle-class issues.

Owens received a reply inviting him to go to the Low Countries, then neutral, and he was let out of jail to do so.

Owens was then awarded the Best Import of the Conference while Gerard Francisco received the Finals Most Valuable Player award.

When she received a demand from Governor Bill Owens to fire Ward Churchill, she refused on grounds of academic freedom.

Owens Community College received a $ 1. 64 million federal grant to create a first-year experience program that will include mentoring and tutoring for freshman students.