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California is a state in the Western United States , lying on the American Pacific Coast . It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and the Mexican state of Baja California to the south. With 39 million residents across an area of 163,696 square miles (423,970 km2 ), it is the most populous U.S. state, the third-largest by area, and most populated subnational entity in North America . The Greater Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas are the nation's second- and fifth-most populous urban regions , with 19 million and 10 million residents respectively. Los Angeles is the state's most populous city and the nation's second-most , after New York . California's capital , Sacramento , is located in the Central Valley .
Prior to European colonization , California was one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse areas in pre-Columbian North America . European exploration in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the colonization by the Spanish Empire . The area became a part of Mexico in 1821, following its successful war for independence , but was ceded to the United States in 1848 after the Mexican–American War . The California Gold Rush started in 1848 and led to social and demographic changes, including depopulation of indigenous peoples in the California genocide . The western portion of Alta California was then organized and admitted as the 31st state in 1850 , as a free state , following the Compromise of 1850 .
California's economy is the largest of any US state, with a $3.6 trillion gross state product . It is the largest sub-national economy in the world. California's agricultural industry has the highest output of any U.S. state, and is led by its dairy , almonds , and grapes . With the busiest port in the country (Los Angeles ), California plays a pivotal role in the global supply chain, hauling in about 40% of goods imported to the US. 84% of residents 25 or older hold a high school degree , the lowest high school education rate of all 50 states . Despite a continuing exodus of businesses from Downtown San Francisco and Downtown Los Angeles , California retains one of the largest number of Fortune 500 companies. (Full article... )
The Dakin Building, as viewed from the San Francisco Bay Shoreline Trail
The
Dakin Building is an architectural award winning
class A office building on the
San Francisco Bay in
Brisbane, California . Serving as a corporate headquarters building for several companies of national prominence, it was built from the profits of the
Garfield character whose licensed products of the R. Dakin Company soared in sales in the late 1980s. Located on
Sierra Point , it became a landmark in the
San Francisco Bay Area for its distinctive design and was nicknamed the
Luke Skywalker building for its dramatic posture overlooking the bay, in contrast to its ominous looking neighbor office building that was nicknamed the
Darth Vader building.
The Dakin building has won a number of architectural awards including an American Institute of Architects Design Excellence Award in the year 1992. According to the San Francisco Examiner the jury awarded this distinction to the Dakin building because "Its chief strength is the atrium , with its views of the San Francisco Bay and asymmetrical skylight ". The same newspaper article noted that the building "houses executive offices, research and development facilities and product showrooms ." (Full article... )
The following are images from various California-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1 Depiction of the
Donner Party heading west on the
California Trail . (from
History of California )
Image 2 The railway station in
Sacramento in 1874. (from
History of California )
Image 4 The American capture of
San Diego by the
USS Cyane in 1846 (from
History of California )
Image 5 Bilingual English-Spanish sign in the
Colorado Desert of
Southern California . (from
Culture of California )
Image 9 The Spanish founded
Mission San Juan Capistrano in 1776, the third to be established of the
Californian missions . (from
History of California )
Image 11 Angustias de la Guerra played a crucial role in defending
women's property rights during the drafting of the Constitution of California. (from
History of California )
Image 14 Joaquín Murrieta , called the "
Robin Hood of California", was a notorious
outlaw during the
California Gold Rush . He served as inspiration for
Zorro , the famed Californian bandit-hero. (from
History of California )
Image 16 Mission San Gabriel Arcángel , founded in 1771 by padres Pedro Benito Cambón and Ángel de la Somera. (from
History of California )
Image 18 Map of Spain's
Manila galleon trade routes, showing routes between the
Spanish East Indies and
Acapulco passing along the
coast of California . (from
History of California )
Image 19 California's first State Capitol building in
San Jose , which served as the capital of California 1850–51. (from
History of California )
Image 20 Founded by
Vicente Francisco de Sarría in 1817,
Mission San Rafael Arcángel , was the last mission founded during the Spanish period. (from
History of California )
Image 21 Portrait of an "
assimilated "
Maidu man in
Sacramento , 1867. (from
History of California )
Image 22 Portrait of a
Californio in traditional
vaquero clothing. Californios benefitted immensely by the establishment of the
ranchos of California , following the
Mexican secularization act of 1833 . (from
History of California )
Image 23 A Southern Pacific Train at
Arcade Depot , Los Angeles, 1891 (from
History of California )
Image 25 The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer
Diego Gutiérrez , which applied
the name California for the first time. (from
History of California )
Image 26 California was often depicted as an island , due to the
Baja California peninsula , from the 16th to the 18th centuries, such as in this 1650 map by cartographer
Johannes Vingboons . (from
History of California )
Image 27 Depiction of the revolt of the
Mission Indians against padre
Luis Jayme at
Mission San Diego de Alcalá in 1775. (from
History of California )
Image 32 Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo , established in 1770, was the headquarters of the
Californian mission system from 1797 until 1833. (from
History of California )
Image 34 Advertisement for sailing to California, c. 1850. (from
History of California )
Image 35 Forces raising the U.S. flag over the
Monterey Customhouse following their victory at the
Battle of Monterey (from
History of California )
Image 38 In-N-Out burgers (from
Culture of California )
Image 40 General
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo reviewing his troops in
Sonoma in 1846. (from
History of California )
Image 41 Map of the
Butterfield Overland Mail routes through California, c. 1858. (from
History of California )
Image 42 Map of the route taken by the
Anza Expedition of 1775–76, from the
Presidio of Tubac to
San Francisco Bay . (from
History of California )
Image 44 Junípero Serra conducting the first
mass in
Monterey Bay in 1770. (from
History of California )
Image 45 Francis Drake 's 1579 landing in "
New Albion " (modern-day
Point Reyes ); engraving by
Theodor De Bry , 1590. (from
History of California )
Image 46 San Francisco harbor,
c. 1850 –51. (from
History of California )
Image 47 Mission Santa Barbara , founded in 1786, was the first mission to be established by
Fermín de Lasuén . (from
History of California )
Image 50 Between 1846 and 1873, U.S. government agents waged an extermination campaign against
Indigenous Californians , known as the
California genocide , resulting in as many as 100,000 deaths. (from
History of California )
Image 52 The 1835
Manifiesto a la República Mejicana , by
José Figueroa , was the first book published in California (from
Culture of California )
Image 53 The
University of California, Berkeley is the flagship school of the University of California system. (from
Culture of California )
Image 56 Mission San Francisco Solano , founded in 1823 by order of Governor
Luis Antonio Argüello , was the last Californian mission established. (from
History of California )
Image 58 The
Treaty of Cahuenga , signed at the
Campo de Cahuenga in 1847 by Californio general
Andrés Pico and American general
John C. Frémont , proclaimed a ceasefire under an American victory. The
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo , signed a year later in 1848, officially ended the
Mexican–American War and formally ceded
Alta California to the United States. (from
History of California )
Image 59 "Independent Gold Hunter on His Way to California", c. 1850 (from
History of California )
They say California's the big burrito; Texas is a big taco right now. We want to follow that through. Florida is a big tamale.
Image 2 Sharon Marie Tate Polanski (January 24, 1943 – August 9, 1969) was an American actress and model. During the 1960s, she appeared in advertisements and small television roles before appearing in films as well as working as a model. After receiving positive reviews for her comedic and dramatic acting performances, Tate was hailed as one of Hollywood's most promising newcomers, being compared favorably with the late
Marilyn Monroe .
She made her film debut in 1961 as an extra in
Barabbas with
Anthony Quinn . She next appeared in the British mystery horror film
Eye of the Devil (1966). Her first major role was as Jennifer North in the 1967 American drama film
Valley of the Dolls , which earned her a
Golden Globe Award nomination. The role would help her to become a rising
sex symbol of Hollywood, appearing in a
Playboy photoshoot where she would be shot by filmmaker
Roman Polanski , Tate's future husband. That year, she also performed in the comedy horror film
The Fearless Vampire Killers , directed by Roman Polanski. Tate's last completed film,
12+1 , was released posthumously in 1969. (
Full article... )
Image 3 Caroline Agnes Brady (also known as
Caroline Agnes Von Egmont Brady ; October 3, 1905 – November 5, 1980) was an American
philologist who specialised in
Old English and
Old Norse works. Her works included the 1943 book
The Legends of Ermanaric , based on her doctoral dissertation, and three influential papers on the
Anglo-Saxon poem
Beowulf . She taught at the
University of California, Berkeley , the
University of Pennsylvania ,
Johns Hopkins University , and
Harvard University , among other places.
Brady was born an American citizen in
Tientsin , China, and traveled frequently as a child, spending time in
Los Angeles , California,
British Columbia , and
Austin ,
Texas . She studied in the
University of California system, receiving her bachelor's and master's degrees, and her
Ph.D. in 1935. She next became an English instructor at that university's College of Agriculture, and worked as an
assistant professor of languages and literature at Berkeley from 1941 to 1946. The following three years were spent at the University of Pennsylvania, until, at the end of 1949, Brady moved to teach at
Central Oregon Community College ; her resignation due to "ill health" was announced a few months later. After being named the 1952–53
Marion Talbot Fellow of the
American Association of University Women and writing two articles, Brady's scholarship ceased for a quarter of a century. In 1979, and posthumously in 1983, her final two articles were published. (
Full article... )
Image 4 Linus Carl Pauling FRS (
PAW -ling; February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) was an American
chemist ,
biochemist ,
chemical engineer ,
peace activist , author, and educator. He published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific topics.
New Scientist called him one of the 20 greatest scientists of all time. For his scientific work, Pauling was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954. For his peace activism, he was awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. He is one of five people to have
won more than one Nobel Prize (the others being
Marie Curie ,
John Bardeen ,
Frederick Sanger , and
Karl Barry Sharpless ). Of these, he is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes, and one of two people to be awarded Nobel Prizes in different fields, the other being
Marie Curie .
Pauling was one of the founders of the fields of
quantum chemistry and
molecular biology . His contributions to the theory of the chemical bond include the concept of
orbital hybridisation and the first accurate scale of
electronegativities of the elements. Pauling also worked on the structures of biological molecules, and showed the importance of the
alpha helix and
beta sheet in
protein secondary structure . Pauling's approach combined methods and results from
X-ray crystallography ,
molecular model building, and quantum chemistry. His discoveries inspired the work of
Rosalind Franklin ,
James Watson ,
Francis Crick , and
Maurice Wilkins on the structure of DNA, which in turn made it possible for geneticists to crack the DNA code of all organisms. (
Full article... )
Image 5 Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th
president of the United States , serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the
Republican Party , he previously served as a
representative and
senator from
California and as the 36th
vice president from 1953 to 1961 under President
Dwight D. Eisenhower .
His presidency saw the reduction of U.S. involvement in the
Vietnam War ,
détente with the
Soviet Union and
China , the
Apollo 11 Moon landing, and the establishment of the
Environmental Protection Agency and
Occupational Safety and Health Administration . Nixon's second term ended early when he became the only U.S. president to
resign from office, as a result of the
Watergate scandal .
Nixon was born into a poor family of
Quakers in a small town in
Southern California . He graduated from
Duke Law School in 1937, practiced law in California, and then moved with his wife
Pat to
Washington, D.C. , in 1942 to work for the
federal government . After serving active duty in the
Naval Reserve during
World War II , he was elected to the
House of Representatives in
1946 . His work on the
Alger Hiss case established his reputation as a leading
anti-communist , which elevated him to national prominence. In
1950 , he was elected to the
Senate . Nixon was the running mate of Eisenhower, the Republican Party's presidential nominee in the
1952 election , and served for eight years as vice president. He narrowly lost the
1960 presidential election to the
Democratic Party nominee
John F. Kennedy ; after his loss in the
1962 race for governor of California, he announced his retirement from political life. However, in
1968 , he made another run for the presidency and defeated the Democratic incumbent vice president
Hubert Humphrey . (
Full article... )
Image 7 Andre Romell Young (born February 18, 1965), known professionally as
Dr. Dre , is an American rapper, record producer, record executive, and actor. He is the founder and
CEO of
Aftermath Entertainment and
Beats Electronics , and co-founded and was the president of
Death Row Records . Dre began his career as a member of the
World Class Wreckin' Cru in 1985, and later found fame with the
gangsta rap group
N.W.A . The group popularized explicit lyrics in
hip hop to detail the violence of street life. During the early 1990s, Dre was credited as a key figure in the crafting and popularization of
West Coast G-funk , a subgenre of hip hop characterized by a
synthesizer foundation and slow, heavy production.
Released as Death Row's first major project, Dr. Dre's solo debut studio album,
The Chronic (1992) made him one of the best-selling American music artists of 1993. It earned him a
Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance with the single "
Let Me Ride ", as well as several accolades for the single "
Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang " (featuring Snoop Dogg). That year, he produced Death Row labelmate
Snoop Doggy Dogg 's debut album
Doggystyle , and mentored producers such as his stepbrother
Warren G (leading to the multi-platinum debut
Regulate... G Funk Era in 1994) and Snoop Dogg's cousin
Daz Dillinger (leading to the double-platinum debut
Dogg Food by
Tha Dogg Pound in 1995), as he would mentor other producers including
Mel-Man and
Scott Storch . In 1996, Dre left Death Row Records to establish his own label, Aftermath Entertainment; his compilation album,
Dr. Dre Presents: The Aftermath (1996) and second studio album,
2001 (1999) followed thereafter. (
Full article... )
Image 9 Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. (born April 7, 1938) is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as the 34th and 39th
governor of California from 1975 to 1983 and 2011 to 2019. A member of the
Democratic Party , he was elected
Secretary of State of California in 1970; Brown later served as Mayor of
Oakland from 1999 to 2007 and
Attorney General of California from 2007 to 2011. He was both the oldest and sixth-youngest governor of California due to the 28-year gap between his second and third terms. Upon completing his fourth term in office, Brown became the fourth
longest-serving governor in U.S. history , serving 16 years and 5 days in office.
Born in
San Francisco , he is the son of
Bernice Layne Brown and
Pat Brown , who was the 32nd Governor of California (1959–1967). After graduating from the
University of California, Berkeley , and
Yale Law School , he practiced law and began his political career as a member of the
Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees (1969–1971). He was elected to serve as the 23rd Secretary of State of California from 1971 to 1975. At 36, Brown was elected to his first term as governor in
1974 , making him the youngest California Governor in 111 years. In
1978 , he won his second term. During his governorship, Brown ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in
1976 and
1980 . He declined to pursue a third term as governor in
1982 , instead making an unsuccessful run for the
United States Senate that
same year , losing to San Diego Mayor and future Governor
Pete Wilson . (
Full article... )
Image 10 Glenn Theodore Seaborg (
SEE -borg; April 19, 1912 – February 25, 1999) was an American chemist whose involvement in the
synthesis , discovery and investigation of ten
transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951
Nobel Prize in Chemistry . His work in this area also led to his development of the
actinide concept and the arrangement of the
actinide series in the
periodic table of the elements .
Seaborg spent most of his career as an educator and research scientist at the
University of California, Berkeley , serving as a professor, and, between 1958 and 1961, as the university's second chancellor. He advised ten US presidents—from
Harry S. Truman to
Bill Clinton —on nuclear policy and was Chairman of the
United States Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971, where he pushed for commercial
nuclear energy and the peaceful applications of nuclear science. Throughout his career, Seaborg worked for arms control. He was a signatory to the
Franck Report and contributed to the
Limited Test Ban Treaty , the
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty . He was a well-known advocate of science education and federal funding for pure research. Toward the end of the
Eisenhower administration , he was the principal author of the Seaborg Report on academic science, and, as a member of President
Ronald Reagan 's
National Commission on Excellence in Education , he was a key contributor to its 1983 report "
A Nation at Risk ". (
Full article... )
Image 11 Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American
landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his
black-and-white images of the
American West . He helped found
Group f/64 , an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored
sharp focus and the use of the full
tonal range of a photograph . He and
Fred Archer developed a system of image-making called the
Zone System , a method of achieving a desired final print through a technical understanding of how the tonal range of an image is the result of choices made in
exposure ,
negative development, and
printing .
Adams was a life-long advocate for
environmental conservation , and his photographic practice was deeply entwined with this advocacy. At age 14, he was given his first camera during his first visit to
Yosemite National Park . He developed his early photographic work as a member of the
Sierra Club . He was later contracted with the
United States Department of the Interior to make photographs of national parks. For his work and his persistent advocacy, which helped expand the National Park system, he was awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980. (
Full article... )
Image 12 Jack Leonard Warner (born
Jacob Warner ; August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978) was a Canadian-American film executive, who was the president and driving force behind the
Warner Bros. Studios in
Burbank ,
California . Warner's career spanned over 55 years, surpassing that of any other of the seminal
Hollywood studio moguls.
As co-head of production at Warner Bros. Studios, Warner worked with his brother,
Sam Warner , to procure the technology for the film industry's first talking picture,
The Jazz Singer (1927). After Sam's death, Jack clashed with his surviving older brothers,
Harry and
Albert Warner . He assumed exclusive control of the company in the 1950s when he secretly purchased his brothers's shares in the business after convincing them to participate in a joint sale of stocks. (
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Image 13 Charles Milles Manson (
né Maddox ; November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an American criminal, cult leader and musician who led the
Manson Family , a
cult based in
California , in the late 1960s. Some of the members committed
a series of at least nine murders at four locations in July and August 1969. In 1971, Manson was convicted of
first-degree murder and
conspiracy to commit murder for the
deaths of seven people , including the film actress
Sharon Tate . The prosecution contended that, while Manson never directly ordered the murders, his ideology constituted an overt act of conspiracy.
Before the murders, Manson had spent more than half of his life in correctional institutions. While gathering his cult following, he was a
singer-songwriter on the fringe of the
Los Angeles music industry, chiefly through a chance association with
Dennis Wilson of
the Beach Boys , who introduced Manson to record producer
Terry Melcher . In 1968, the Beach Boys recorded Manson's song "Cease to Exist", renamed "
Never Learn Not to Love " as a single B-side, but without a credit to Manson. Afterward, Manson attempted to secure a record contract through Melcher, but was unsuccessful. (
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Image 14 Murray M Chotiner (October 4, 1909 – January 30, 1974) was an American
political strategist ,
attorney ,
government official , and close associate and friend of President
Richard Nixon during much of the 37th President's political career. He served as
campaign manager for the future president's successful runs for the
United States Senate in 1950 and for the
vice presidency in 1952, and managed the campaigns of other
California Republicans . He was active in each of Nixon's two successful runs for the
White House in low-profile positions.
Chotiner was born in
Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania; his father moved the family to California and then abandoned his wife and children. Murray Chotiner attended
UCLA , and graduated from the
Southwestern School of Law . He practiced law in Los Angeles, and branched out into public relations. Involving himself in Republican politics, he played an active part in several political campaigns and made an unsuccessful run for the
California State Assembly in 1938. (
Full article... )
Image 15 Joshua Abraham Norton (February 4, 1818 – January 8, 1880) was a resident of San Francisco, California, who in 1859
proclaimed himself "Norton I., Emperor of the United States" , commonly known as
Emperor Norton . In 1863, after
Napoleon III invaded Mexico , he took the secondary title of "Protector of Mexico".
For the first few years after arriving in San Francisco in 1849, Norton made a successful living as a commodities trader and
real estate speculator . However, he was
financially ruined following a failed bid to corner the rice market during a shortage prompted by a famine in
China . He bought a shipload of
Peruvian rice at 12 cents per pound (26 ¢/kg), but more Peruvian ships arrived in port, causing the price to drop sharply to three cents per pound (6.6 ¢/kg). He then lost a protracted lawsuit in which he tried to void his rice contract, and his local prominence faded. (
Full article... )
... that American football linebacker Segun Olubi grew up in New Jersey, Minnesota, Arizona, England, and California, and attended four different colleges in Idaho, California, and Arkansas?
... that before Foster City was built on Brewer Island , unsuccessful proposals included a hog farm, two military air bases, two civilian airports, and an entertainment complex larger than Disneyland ?
... that the Federal Aviation Administration uses the brightly lit Oakland California Temple as a navigation beacon, despite complaints about light pollution?
... that the studios of a California TV station were converted back into a movie theater after it went out of business?
... that it was Caltech experimental physicist Rana X. Adhikari 's idea to build a gravitational-wave observatory in India ?
... that a man cosplaying as a character from the New California Republic was arrested due to reports that he was carrying a bomb?
... that the Phoenixonian Institute was the first African-American high school in California?
... that in 1908, Island No. 2 in California was simultaneously deeded to two different people?
An aerial view of Redwood City Port
A view of Industrial, California
Industry (or City of Industry ) is a city in the San Gabriel Valley section of Los Angeles County , California , United States . It was incorporated June 18, 1957. The population was 777 at the 2000 census. The city was incorporated to prevent surrounding cities from annexing industrial land for tax revenue.
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