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The Puente Hills is a chain of hills, one of the lower Transverse Ranges, in an unincorporated area in eastern Los Angeles County, California, USA. [1]

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Back to the Future

Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale.

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Brea, California

Brea (meaning "oil" or "tar" in Spanish) is a city in Orange County, California.

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Brea-Olinda Oil Field

The Brea-Olinda Oil Field is a large oil field in northern Orange County and Los Angeles County, California, along the southern edge of the Puente Hills, about four miles (6 km) northeast of Fullerton, and adjacent to the city of Brea.

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Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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California chaparral and woodlands

The California chaparral and woodlands is a terrestrial ecoregion of lower northern, central, and southern California (United States) and northwestern Baja California (Mexico), located on the west coast of North America.

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California Floristic Province

The California Floristic Province (CFP) is a floristic province with a Mediterranean-type climate located on the Pacific Coast of North America with a distinctive flora similar to other regions with a winter rainfall and summer drought climate like the Mediterranean Basin.

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California oak woodland

California oak woodland is a plant community found throughout the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion of California in the United States and northwestern Baja California in Mexico.

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California State Route 60

State Route 60 (SR 60) is an east-west state highway in the U.S. state of California.

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Chaparral

Chaparral is a shrubland or heathland plant community found primarily in the US state of California and in the northern portion of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico.

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Chino Hills

The Chino Hills are a mountain range on the border of Orange, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino counties, California, with a small portion in Riverside County.

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Chino Hills, California

Chino Hills is a city located in the southwestern corner of San Bernardino County, California, United States.

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City of Industry, California

City of Industry, or simply referred to as Industry, is an industrial suburb of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County, California.

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Coastal sage scrub

Coastal sage scrub, also known as coastal scrub, CSS, or soft chaparral, is a low scrubland plant community of the California coastal sage and chaparral subecoregion, found in coastal California and northwestern coastal Baja California.

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Diamond Bar, California

Diamond Bar is a city located in eastern Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Ecoregion

An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than an ecozone.

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H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells.

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Habitat

In ecology, a habitat is the type of natural environment in which a particular species of organism lives.

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Hacienda Heights, California

Hacienda Heights is an unincorporated suburban community and census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Hill

A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain.

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Hsi Lai Temple

Fo Guang Shan Hsi Lai Temple is a mountain monastery in the northern Puente Hills, Hacienda Heights, Los Angeles County, California.

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Interstate 605

Interstate 605 (abbreviated I-605, officially known as the San Gabriel River Freeway) is a major north–south Interstate Highway in the Greater Los Angeles Area of Southern California.

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La Habra Heights, California

La Habra Heights is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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List of California native plants

California native plants are plants that existed in California prior to the arrival of European explorers and colonists in the late 18th century.

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Los Angeles Basin

The Los Angeles Basin is a sedimentary basin located in southern California, in a region known as the Peninsular Ranges.

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Los Angeles County, California

Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles, is the most populous county in the United States, with more than 10 million inhabitants as of 2017.

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Novel

A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, which is typically published as a book.

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Plant community

A plant community (sometimes "phytocoenosis" or "phytocenosis") is a collection or association of plant species within a designated geographical unit, which forms a relatively uniform patch, distinguishable from neighboring patches of different vegetation types.

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Puente Hills Fault

The Puente Hills Fault (also known as the Puente Hills thrust system) is an active geological fault that is located in the Los Angeles Basin in California.

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Puente Hills Landfill

Puente Hills Landfill is the largest landfill in the United States, rising high and covering.

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Puente Hills Mall

Puente Hills Mall, located in the City of Industry, California, United States, is a major regional shopping center in the San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County.

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Rio Hondo College

Rio Hondo College is a community college located in the unincorporated community of Rose Hills, California, also known as North Whittier.

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Rose Hills Memorial Park

Rose Hills Memorial Park is located in Whittier, California.

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Rowland Heights, California

Rowland Heights is a relatively affluent unincorporated area and census designated place of, located in and below the Puente Hills in the San Gabriel Valley, in Los Angeles County, California.

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San Gabriel Mountains

The San Gabriel Mountains are a mountain range located in northern Los Angeles County and western San Bernardino County, California, United States.

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San Gabriel Valley

The San Gabriel Valley is one of the principal valleys of Southern California, lying generally to the east of the city of Los Angeles.

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San Rafael Hills

The San Rafael Hills are a mountain range in Los Angeles County, California.

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Santa Ana Mountains

The Santa Ana Mountains are a short peninsular mountain range along the coast of Southern California in the United States.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Simon J. Murphy Sr.

Simon Jones Murphy Sr. (April 2, 1815 in Windsor, Maine – February 5, 1905) was an American businessman.

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Spacecraft

A spacecraft is a vehicle or machine designed to fly in outer space.

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The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells first serialised in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US.

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The War of the Worlds (1953 film)

The War of the Worlds (also known in promotional material as H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds) is a 1953 American Technicolor science fiction drama film from Paramount Pictures, produced by George Pal, directed by Byron Haskin and starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson.

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Transverse Ranges

The Transverse Ranges are a group of mountain ranges of southern California, in the Pacific Coast Ranges physiographic region in North America.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.

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Verdugo Mountains

The Verdugo Mountains are a small, rugged mountain range of the Transverse Ranges system, located just south of the western San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles County, Southern California.

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Western Hemisphere

The Western Hemisphere is a geographical term for the half of Earth which lies west of the prime meridian (which crosses Greenwich, London, United Kingdom) and east of the antimeridian.

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Whittier Boulevard

Whittier Boulevard is an arterial street that runs from the Los Angeles River (where it continues into Downtown Los Angeles as 6th Street) to Brea, California.

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Whittier, California

Whittier is a city in Southern California located within Los Angeles County, California.

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Workman-Temple family

The Workman-Temple family relates to the pioneer interconnected Workman and Temple families that were prominent in: the history of colonial Pueblo de Los Angeles and American Los Angeles; the Los Angeles Basin and San Gabriel Valley regions; and Southern California — from 1830 to 1930 in Mexican Alta California and the subsequent state of California, United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puente_Hills

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