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“The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I, at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as “Spanish Flu” or “La Grippe,” the influenza of...

The following is a University of Sydney news article written by media adviser Jocelyn Prasad and posted August 12, 2015, with the title: “Big Data Maps World’s Ocean Floor”: Scientists from the University of Sydney’s School of Geosciences have led the creation of the world’s first digital map of the seafloor’s geology. It is the first time the composition of the seafloor, covering 70 percent of the...

On Tuesday, August 4, 2015, in the lobby of the Santa Barbara Public Library, Chair Dan Montello accepted from Mr. Charles L. King a copy of Mr. King’s self-published book, “Santa Barbara County Planning Commission Plans for Orderly Development 1927 to 1965,” a history of planning in Santa Barbara County during the mid-20th century. Mr. King was a planner for the County of Santa Barbara from 1956 to 1988. We...