Palomar may refer to:
Places
* Any of several locations in San Diego County, California:
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Palomar Mountain
Palomar Mountain ( ; es, Monte Palomar ) is a mountain ridge in the Peninsular Ranges in northern San Diego County. It is famous as the location of the Palomar Observatory and Hale Telescope, and known for the Palomar Mountain State Park.
Hist ...
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Palomar Observatory
Palomar Observatory is an astronomical research observatory in San Diego County, California, United States, in the Palomar Mountain Range. It is owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Research time at the observat ...
, located on Palomar Mountain
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Palomar College
Palomar College is a public community college in San Diego County, California. The main campus is in San Marcos and three centers and four education sites are located elsewhere throughout north San Diego County. The largest of these by student p ...
in San Marcos, California
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Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, California
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Palomar Airport
Palomar may refer to:
Places
* Any of several locations in San Diego County, California:
** Palomar Mountain
** Palomar Observatory, located on Palomar Mountain
** Palomar College in San Marcos, California
** Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, ...
, officially McClellan-Palomar Airport, in Carlsbad, California
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El Palomar, Buenos Aires
El Palomar is a town in the urban agglomeration of Greater Buenos Aires in Argentina. It is located north-west of the Buenos Aires.
The city has the peculiarity of being divided between two partidos of Buenos Aires Province: Morón, where it is ...
, a city in Argentina
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El Palomar (airbase)
Palomar may refer to:
Places
* Any of several locations in San Diego County, California:
** Palomar Mountain
** Palomar Observatory, located on Palomar Mountain
** Palomar College in San Marcos, California
** Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, ...
, Argentina
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El Palomar, Valencia
El Palomar is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Vall d'Albaida in the Valencian Community
The Valencian Community ( ca-valencia, Comunitat Valenciana, es, Comunidad Valenciana) is an autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most ...
, a municipality in Spain
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Palomar de Arroyos, a town in Aragón, Spain
Music
*
Palomar (band)
Palomar is an indie rock band out of Brooklyn, New York.
Profile
The band originally formed in 1998. Rachel Warren is the only original member still in the band, though Rachel and Christina (almost original member) had been in the band Trixie Be ...
, a band from Brooklyn, New York
* Palomar, a band formed by three members of
Paw
A paw is the soft foot-like part of a mammal, generally a quadruped, that has claws.
Common characteristics
The paw is characterised by thin, pigmented, keratinised, hairless epidermis covering subcutaneous collagenous and adipose tissue, ...
* "Palomar", a 1992 song by the Rheostatics from ''
Whale Music ''Whale music'' is a term for whale sound. It may also refer to:
*'' Whale Music'', a 1989 novel by Paul Quarrington
* ''Whale Music'' (film), a 1994 Canadian film based on the Quarrington novel
**'' Music from the Motion Picture Whale Music'', the ...
''
Other uses
*
''Palomar'' (comics), a 2003 graphic novel by Gilbert Hernandez
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Palomar Ballroom
The Palomar Ballroom, built in 1925, was a famous ballroom in Los Angeles, California, in the United States. It was destroyed by a fire on October 2, 1939.
Originally named the El Patio Ballroom and located on the east side of Vermont Avenue betw ...
, in Los Angeles, California
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Palomar Handicap
The Yellow Ribbon Handicap (formerly known as the Palomar Handicap) is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. The Grade II race is run on turf at a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles (8 ...
, a horse race
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Palomar knot
The Palomar knot ( ) is a knot that is used for securing a fishing line to a fishing lure, snap or swivel.
To tie the knot first double 8–12 inches of line into a loop and pass it through the eye of the hook, lure or swivel. Tie a very loose ov ...
*
Palomar Pictures
Walt Disney Television, formerly American Broadcasting Companies, Capital Cities/ABC and Disney-ABC Television Group has formed a number of production companies over the years. ABC Film Syndication, or ABC Films, was ABC's syndication distributio ...
, a subsidiary of ABC Pictures
People with the surname
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Arnau de Palomar
Arnau de Palomar was the first lord of Riudoms, in Southern Catalonia near the current city of Reus. The lordship of Riudoms was granted to Arnau de Palomar 24 January 1150 by the lord of the City and Land of Tarragona, Robert Bordet (known as Ro ...
(fl. c. 1150), Catalan nobleman
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Enrique de la Mora
Enrique de la Mora y Palomar (16 June 1907 – 9 May 1978) was a Mexican architect who designed prominent university buildings and Roman Catholic churches in which he experimented with hyperbolic-paraboloid roofs. He is generally regarded, along ...
y Palomar (1907–1978), Mexican architect
* Jared Palomar, member of
Augustana
See also
*
Hotel Palomar (Washington, D.C.)
* ''
Mr. Palomar
''Mr. Palomar'' is a 1983 novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino. Its original Italian title is ''Palomar''. In an interview with Gregory Lucente, Calvino stated that he began writing ''Mr. Palomar'' in 1975, making it a predecessor to earlier ...
'', a 1983 novel by Italo Calvino
*
Palomares (disambiguation) Palomares (Spanish for ''dovecotes'') may refer to:
Places
* Palomares, Almería, Spain
** 1966 Palomares B-52 crash
* Palomares del Río
Palomares del Río is a city located in the province of Seville, Spain. According to the 2021 census
A ce ...
*
Palomar Sky Survey
Palomar may refer to:
Places
* Any of several locations in San Diego County, California:
** Palomar Mountain
** Palomar Observatory, located on Palomar Mountain
** Palomar College in San Marcos, California
** Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, ...
*
Palomar Transient Factory
The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF, obs. code: I41), was an astronomical survey using a wide-field survey camera designed to search for optical transient and variable sources such as variable stars, supernovae, asteroids and comets. The projec ...
, an astronomical wide-field survey
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Palomar Testbed Interferometer
The Palomar Testbed Interferometer (PTI) was a near infrared, long-baseline stellar interferometer located at Palomar Observatory in north San Diego County, California, United States. It was built by Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and w ...
at Palomar Observatory
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Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey
The Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey (PCAS) was an astronomical survey, initiated by American astronomers Eleanor Helin and Eugene Shoemaker at the U.S Palomar Observatory, California, in 1973. The program is responsible for the discovery ...
, initiated in 1973
* Señor Palomar, a character in
Lego Adventurers
Lego Adventurers was a Lego theme based on an early 20th century 'explorer' concept. It centred around the main character named Johnny Thunder and a team of explorers who go on adventures. Unlike other Lego themes, which take place in a fictional ...
theme
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