The career of Indian classical music in the western world began roughly three years later, when George Harrison, alerted to Ravi Shankar's virtuosity by the Byrds, took a short crash course in the sitar from the Indian musician.
In 1911, the first permanent weather station was established at what is now Furnace Creek Ranch. On July 10, 1913, the weather station measured a record high of 134 F (57 C), a temperature that has not been beat anywhere in the United States since. [Related: The Harshest Environments on Earth ].
Death Valley, on the other hand, is the hottest place in the United States with a world record high temperature of 134 degrees F and an average annual rainfall of less than 2 inches. The Mojave Desert is famous for the Joshua Tree (scientific name is yucca brevifolia).