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Sherwood Dam

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Sherwood Dam, known also as Lake Sherwood Dam, Alturas Dam, and Potrero Dam, is a concrete arch dam in the Santa Monica Mountains near Thousand Oaks, California. [1]

33 relations: Arch dam, Banning Dam, Boating, California, Civil engineer, Classical Hollywood cinema, Country club, Division of property, Douglas Fairbanks, Earthquake engineering, Lake Sherwood, California, List of dams and reservoirs in California, List of lakes in California, Los Angeles Aqueduct, Malibou Lake, California, Private community, Reservoir, Rindge Dam, Roaring Twenties, Robin Hood (1922 film), Robin Hood in popular culture, Santa Monica Mountains, Sherwood Country Club, Sherwood Forest, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Thousand Oaks, California, United States, Ventura County, California, Wall Street Crash of 1929, Warner Bros., William Mulholland, William Randolph Hearst, 100-year flood.

Arch dam

An arch dam is a concrete dam that is curved upstream in plan.

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Banning Dam

The Banning Dam (National ID # CA00737; also known as Lake Eleanor Dam) is a gravity dam built in 1889, in the Santa Monica Mountains, near present-day Westlake Village, in Ventura County, Southern California.

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Boating

Boating is the leisurely activity of travelling by boat, or the recreational use of a boat whether powerboats, sailboats, or man-powered vessels (such as rowing and paddle boats), focused on the travel itself, as well as sports activities, such as fishing or waterskiing.

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California

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

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Civil engineer

A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.

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Classical Hollywood cinema

Classical Hollywood cinema, classical Hollywood narrative, and classical continuity are terms used in film criticism which designate both a narrative and visual style of film-making which developed in and characterized American cinema between 1917 and the early 1960s, and eventually became the most powerful and pervasive style of film-making worldwide.

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Country club

A country club is a privately owned club, often with a membership quota and admittance by invitation or sponsorship, that generally offers both a variety of recreational sports and facilities for dining and entertaining.

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Division of property

Division of property, also known as equitable distribution, is a judicial division of property rights and obligations between spouses during divorce.

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Douglas Fairbanks

Douglas Fairbanks (born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman; May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer.

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Earthquake engineering

Earthquake engineering is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering that designs and analyzes structures, such as buildings and bridges, with earthquakes in mind.

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Lake Sherwood, California

Lake Sherwood is an unincorporated community in the Santa Monica Mountains, in Ventura County, California overlooking Lake Sherwood reservoir.

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List of dams and reservoirs in California

Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in California in a sortable table.

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List of lakes in California

There are more than 3,000 named lakes, reservoirs, and dry lakes in the U.S. state of California.

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Los Angeles Aqueduct

The Los Angeles Aqueduct system, comprising the Los Angeles Aqueduct (Owens Valley aqueduct) and the Second Los Angeles Aqueduct, is a water conveyance system, built and operated by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

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Malibou Lake, California

Malibou Lake is a small reservoir surrounded by a community in the Santa Monica Mountains near Agoura Hills, California.

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Private community

A private community is a residential community that can be an association or a proprietary organization.

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Reservoir

A reservoir (from French réservoir – a "tank") is a storage space for fluids.

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Rindge Dam

The Rindge Dam on Malibu Creek is located in Malibu Creek State Park in the Santa Monica Mountains, about three miles from the Malibu coastline in southern California.

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Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties was the period in Western society and Western culture that occurred during and around the 1920s.

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Robin Hood (1922 film)

Robin Hood is a 1922 adventure film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Wallace Beery.

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Robin Hood in popular culture

The folkloric hero Robin Hood has appeared many times, in many different variations, in popular modern works.

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Santa Monica Mountains

The Santa Monica Mountains is a coastal mountain range in Southern California, paralleling the Pacific Ocean.

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Sherwood Country Club

Sherwood Country Club is a private, member owned golf and country club in Lake Sherwood, California set at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains just south of city of Thousand Oaks.

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Sherwood Forest

Sherwood Forest is a royal forest in Nottinghamshire, England, famous by its historic association with the legend of Robin Hood.

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Adventures of Robin Hood is a 1938 American Technicolor swashbuckler film from Warner Bros., produced by Hal B. Wallis and Henry Blanke, directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley, that stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, and Claude Rains.

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Thousand Oaks, California

Thousand Oaks is the second-largest city in Ventura County, California, United States.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Ventura County, California

Ventura County is a county in the southern part of the U.S. state of California.

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Wall Street Crash of 1929

The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday (October 29), the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began on October 24, 1929 ("Black Thursday"), and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its after effects.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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William Mulholland

William Mulholland (September 11, 1855 – July 22, 1935) was an Irish American civil engineer who was responsible for building the infrastructure to provide a water supply that allowed Los Angeles to grow into the largest city in California.

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William Randolph Hearst

William Randolph Hearst Sr. (April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American businessman, politician, and newspaper publisher who built the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company Hearst Communications and whose flamboyant methods of yellow journalism influenced the nation's popular media by emphasizing sensationalism and human interest stories.

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100-year flood

A one-hundred-year flood is a flood event that has a 1% probability of occurring in any given year.

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References

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

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