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- Lionel Rolfe Included Among Historical Figures of Santa Clarita
- Literary LA Cabaret: Honoring the Life and Work of Lionel Rolfe: Sunday, December 8, 2019, 7:30 to 9:00 pm, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, CA
- The Future of Boryanabooks
- The Last Bohemian: Lionel Rolfe
- Notes From the Underground of Lionel Menhuin Rolfe by Novelist Umberto Tosi
- THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LONGTIME LA JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR LIONEL MENUHIN ROLFE
- Death in the Desert
- My Link to the Menuhin Odyssey
- Aldous Huxley’s Strange Passage to the West
- The Grand Old Man of L.A. Letters
- The Most Natural of Events
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- Eulogy for Lionel Rolfe
- Obituary for Lionel Rolfe
- Lionel Frederick Menuhin Rolfe, October 21, 1942-November 6, 2018
- Remembering Lionel Rolfe who carried the Torch for Writers and for a Bulgarian Woman named Boryana
- From Bob Vickrey
- Photos of Lionel and the Menuhins
- Lionel’s Books
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- MY CONFUSING NEWFOUND STATUS OF WEALTH AND AFFLUENCE
- A Crusty Problem about Voluntary Homeless
- “China Girls”
- Finding Bambi
- MY FRONT YARD CARUSO VILLAGE GALA PARTY
- Pacifist/Socialist Leader David McReynolds dead at 88
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- The Girl in the Sousaphone Box
- Dunga Brook Diary: Catch Me If You Can
- Dershowitz dishes on not impeaching Trump
- THE SANDLOT GAMES OF AUGUST
- Law helps freelancers collect from deadbeats
- Better Days: Journalist Lionel Rolfe Learns Old Age Isn’t for Sissies
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- Dunga Brook Diary: Water Water Everywhere
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- Overcoming Adversity: A Conversation with Painter Ricardo Garcia
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- Dunga Brook Diary: Mother’s Day, 2011
- STEPPING BACK IN TIME AT RAE’S DINER
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- L.A. Review of Books Features Article on Lionel Rolfe
- Strand Owner Fred Bass Honored By Krugman, Talese, Lebowitz at Memorial
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- MY LIFELONG AFFAIR WITH NEWSPAPERS
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- STEPPING UPTOWN AT THE WALDORF ASTORIA
- Dunga Brook Diary: You Are Here
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Honey on the road to San Francisco with some of the Spanish explorers
NOTES FROM ABOVE GROUND
By Honey van Blossom
(Honey is a Belgian Marxist former strip-tease artiste)
Prologue to the story of the Spanish exploration and settlement of California
Seasonal migrations of animals now extinct in California probably created the roads the native people used before the Spanish land exploration of California. “The heyday of giant mammals in North America was the middle and late Pleistocene, an epoch that started 2.6 million years ago and ended 11,700 years ago, around the time the Earth was thawing out from the Ice Age. The gigantic beasts, which migrated from Asia across a now-vanished land bridge called Beringia, are known as Rancholabrean megafauna, after the famous La Brea tar pits in downtown Los Angeles — the graveyard of thousands of saber-toothed tigers, giant bison and other extinct animals.”[1]
The seasonal migrations of the large mammals may have created the substantial roads used by the indigenous people after their arrival.[2]
Paul S. Martin and Richard G. Klein argue that Paleoindian over-hunting led to the extinction of the megafauna.[3] Others argue that climate change was responsible for mammoth and mastodon extinctions. As the last major glaciation ended around 12,000 years ago, climate warmed too quickly for the megafauna to adapt.
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