Palo Alto, California | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:19 1 History
00:12:16 2 Geography
00:14:26 2.1 Water
00:15:11 2.2 Environmental features
00:15:41 2.3 Climate
00:18:11 3 Local government
00:19:14 4 Politics
00:20:06 5 Demographics
00:20:14 5.1 2010
00:24:08 5.2 2000
00:26:56 6 Housing
00:28:44 7 Economy
00:30:03 7.1 Top employers
00:30:18 8 Utilities
00:34:45 9 Fire and police departments
00:36:15 10 Education
00:36:23 10.1 Post-secondary schooling
00:36:39 10.2 Public schools
00:37:54 10.3 Private schools
00:39:51 10.4 Weekend schools
00:40:21 11 Libraries
00:41:18 12 Media
00:42:47 13 Transportation
00:42:56 13.1 Roads
00:43:38 13.2 Air
00:44:20 13.3 Rail
00:45:06 13.4 Bus
00:46:04 13.5 Cycling
00:47:51 13.6 Walking
00:48:34 14 Sister cities
00:50:11 15 Notable buildings and other points of interest
00:50:22 15.1 Historical buildings and architecture
00:51:20 15.2 Nature and hiking
00:51:47 15.3 Museums, art, and entertainment
00:52:23 15.4 Schools
00:52:40 16 Notable people
00:52:49 17 Litigation
00:52:58 17.1 Class-action lawsuit against battery makers
00:53:55 18 See also
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Palo Alto () is a charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Palo Alto means tall stick in Spanish; the city is named after a coastal redwood tree called El Palo Alto.
The city was established by Leland Stanford Sr. when he founded Stanford University, following the death of his son, Leland Stanford Jr. Palo Alto includes portions of Stanford University and shares its borders with East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park. As of the 2010 census, the city's total resident population is 64,403. Palo Alto is one of the five most expensive cities in the United States to live in and its residents are among the highest educated in the country.Palo Alto is headquarters to a number of high-technology companies, including Hewlett-Packard (HP), Space Systems/Loral, VMware, Tesla, Ford Research and Innovation Center, PARC, IDEO, Skype, Palantir Technologies, Houzz, and Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center. Palo Alto has also served as an incubator and as headquarters to several other prominent high-technology companies such as Apple, Google, Facebook, Logitech, Intuit, Pinterest, and PayPal.
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Alfred Hitchcock's first thriller was his third silent film The Lodger (1926), a suspenseful Jack the Ripper story. His next thriller was Blackmail (1929), his and Britain's first sound film. Of Hitchcock's fifteen major features made between 1925 and 1935, only six were suspense films, the two mentioned above plus Murder!, Number Seventeen, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and The 39 Steps. From 1935 on, however, most of his output was thrillers.
One of the earliest spy films was Fritz Lang's Spies (1928), the director's first independent production, with an anarchist international conspirator and criminal spy character named Haghi (Rudolf Klein-Rogge), who was pursued by good-guy Agent No. 326 (Willy Fritsch) (aka Det. Donald Tremaine, English version) -- this film anticipated the James Bond films of the future. Another was Greta Garbo's portrayal of the real-life, notorious, seductive German double agent code-named Mata Hari (Gertrud Zelle) in World War I in Mata Hari (1932), who performed a pearl-draped dance to entice French officers to divulge their secrets.
The chilling German film M (1931) directed by Fritz Lang, starred Peter Lorre (in his first film role) as a criminal deviant who preys on children. The film's story was based on the life of serial killer Peter Kurten (known as the 'Vampire of Düsseldorf'). Edward Sutherland's crime thriller Murders in the Zoo (1933) from Paramount starred Lionel Atwill as a murderous and jealous zoologist.
Other British directors, such as Walter Forde, Victor Saville, George A. Cooper, and even the young Michael Powell made more thrillers in the same period; Forde made nine, Vorhaus seven between 1932 and 1935, Cooper six in the same period, and Powell the same. Hitchcock was following a strong British trend in his choice of genre.
Notable examples of Hitchcock's early British suspense-thriller films include The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), his first spy-chase/romantic thriller, The 39 Steps (1935) with Robert Donat handcuffed to Madeleine Carroll and The Lady Vanishes (1938).