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Joshua Tree, CA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in California
Population (2000): 4207
Housing Units (2000): 2112
Land area (2000): 6.119417 sq. miles (15.849217 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.119417 sq. miles (15.849217 sq. km)
FIPS code: 37554
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 34.126979 N, 116.318580 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 92252
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Joshua Tree (1993 film)

Joshua Tree, also released as and Army of One among other names, is a 1993 action film directed by Vic Armstrong, written by Steven Pressfield and starring Dolph Lundgren, Kristian Alfonso, and George Segal. Much of the film was filmed in Los Angeles, Lone Pine, Agua Dulce, and the desert of the Joshua Tree National Park of southeast California. The climax was shot in the Cottonwood Canyon region of the Sierra Nevada mountain range.

Joshua Tree (disambiguation)

Joshua tree is a common name of Yucca brevifolia, a species of arborescent monocot native to North America.

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Joshua Tree (horse)

Joshua Tree (Foaled March 8, 2007) is an Irish thoroughbred stallion, bred by Castlemartin Stud And Skymarc Farm. He is sired by Montjeu. He is a four time Group 1 winner, having earned £2.4m ($3.8m) in his racing career. Joshua Tree is the only horse to have ever won the Gr.1 Pattison Canadian International Stakes three times: in 2010, 2012 and 2013. With only four other horses having won it twice. Joshua also won the Gr. 2 Royal Lodge in Ascot at the age of two, the Gr. 2 Prix Kergorlay in Deauville, the Gr. 1 International Invitational cup in Qatar, and the Irish Stallion Farms maiden stakes in Ireland. He came second in the Gr. 1 Canadian International in 2011, Second in the Gr. 2 Princess of Wales's stakes in Newmarket, second in the Gr. 2 Prix Kergorlay in Deauville and second in the gr. 3 Dubai Gold Cup. Joshua Tree is owned by K Nabooda and K Albahou. He stands at Stud in France.

Usage examples of "joshua tree".

Just three rocks, one atop the other, slick with desert varnish and almost pushed over by the Joshua tree growing up beside it.

Taking position behind a Joshua tree, he studied the situation below him.

He threw his head back and let out a bellow like a wounded hind, a deep throbbing sound that sent tremors through the Joshua Tree spires.

On the spot where Paula's child was conceived, on the sandy bluff in [[Joshua tree]] National Monument, I lie in the shade of a tall Joshua tree and stare up at the sky.

A Joshua tree's twisted arms stood black against the burnished sky.

In the more populous parks like Glen Canyon and Yosemite, or those close to urban areas as were Joshua Tree or Smokey Mountains, crime was more prevalent.

Hot and exhausted, they rested in the narrow shade of a Joshua tree, skin tones after weeks in the sun blending imperceptibly into earth tones, touch one, touch the other, hand, mouth, tongue.

He feels like a stone that has been skipped all the way across a lake, and as for poor Wendell - To the right of where they descend the far side of the draw, a horse has been tethered in the shade of what Jack thinks is a Joshua tree.