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41)71st Republic Day 2020 highlights| Beating retreat ceremony in Attari-Wagah border on Republic Day

India Republic Day -- India celebrates it is 71st Republic Day today. On this day in 1950the Constitution of Of india came into force. The Republic Day paradewhich is considered the main attraction of the days celebrationwas held along Rajpath. It was a 90-minute celebration. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was the chief guest on the parade. Before the parade beganPrime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute at the Countrywide War Memorial and Leader Ram Nath Kovind unfurled the national flag in conjunction with General Manoj Mukund NaravaneChief of the Army Staff membersAdmiral Karambir SinghMain of the Naval StaffMarshal Rakesh Kumar Singh BhadauriaChief of the Air Staff members. 5 41 PM IST PM Narendra Modi finds Rashtrapati Bhawan for At home reception hosted by simply President Ram Nath Kovind. 5 12 pm IST Beating retreat ceremony at Attari-Wagah border on Republic Day. 4 36 pm IST Air India Distributes 30000 National Flags To Passengers On Republic Day The national prov
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Hollywood Heights, Los Angeles

Hollywood Heights is a neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, bounded by the Hollywood Bowl on the north, Highland Avenue on the east, Outpost Estates on the west, and Franklin Avenue on the south. It includes a number of notable historic homes and buildings and has been home to numerous people in the film and music industries, dating back to the silent film era.
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History

Hollywood Heights is situated in what was the northern part of the Rancho La Brea Mexican land grant. H.J. Whitley developed the neighborhood as early as 1902 as part of his Hollywood-Ocean View Tract.
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Notable places

The Samuel Freeman House (1962 Glencoe Way) was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, supervised by Lloyd Wright, and furnished and expanded by Rudolph Schindler. Built in 1923, it is one of four textile block houses built by Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles between 1922 and 1924, and it has the world's first glass-to-glass corner windows. It was known as an avant-garde salon, and the list of individuals who spent significant periods of time there or lived in the house's two Schindler-designed apartments includes John Bovingdon, Beniamino Bufano, Xavier Cugat, Rudi Gernreich, Martha Graham, Philip Johnson, Peter Krasnow, Bella Lewitzky, Jean Negulesco, Richard Neutra, Claude Rains, Herman Sachs, Galka Scheyer, Edward Weston, Olga Zacsek, and Fritz Zwicky. It also served as an intellectual sanctuary for individuals blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. The High Tower (2178 High Tower Drive) is a five-story, o
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Notoriety

From February to April 1964, a ten-week standoff known as the "Siege of Fort Anthony" occurred between Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies and a former Marine named Steven Anthony, who was armed with a shotgun and challenging an eminent domain-based eviction from his home on Alta Loma Terrace. After Anthony's arrest, his home was razed to make room for the Hollywood Museum, which was never built, and parking for the Hollywood Bowl. Bette Davis had lived in the same house when she first moved to Hollywood. On July 1, 1969, Charles Manson shot a drug dealer named Bernard Crowe in the home of Charles "Tex" Watson's ex-girlfriend, Rosina Kroner, in the Franklin Garden Apartments. Crowe had threatened the Manson Family after being scammed out of $2500 by Watson. Crowe survived the shooting but did not report it to police. Ten years earlier, Manson had lived directly across the street at 6871 Franklin Avenue, in apartment 306 of what was then called the
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Schools

Residents are zoned to Selma Avenue Elementary School, Bancroft Middle School (which contains performing arts and STE+aM magnets), and Hollywood High School in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Hollywood Heights is also home to The Oaks School, a private elementary school (grades K-6) on the grounds of the Hollywood United Methodist Church.
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Adjacent neighborhoods

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Relation of Hollywood Heights to nearby areas: Outpost Estates Hollywood Bowl Hollywood Bowl     Outpost Estates    Hollywood Heights     Whitley Heights Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood
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