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California state in the Western Region of the United States that lies on the Pacific Coast . It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California to the south. With over 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 .
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 tribes.
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 has the nation's largest economy with a gross state product of $4.132 trillion as of Q3 2024. It is the world's largest sub-national economy , and would by most estimations rank 5th globally by nominal GDP . The state also leads the nation in agricultural output , led by its production of 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. Notable contributions to popular culture , ranging from entertainment , sports , music , and fashion , have their origins in California. California is the home of Hollywood , the oldest and one of the largest film industries in the world, profoundly influencing global entertainment. The San Francisco Bay and the Greater Los Angeles areas are seen as the centers of the global technology and U.S. film industries, respectively. (Full article...
The Yosemite Valley Yosemite National Park yoh-SEM -ih-tee national park of the United States in California . It is bordered on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest . The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers 759,620 acres (1,187 sq mi; 3,074 km2 ) in four counties – centered in Tuolumne and Mariposa , extending north and east to Mono and south to Madera . Designated a World Heritage Site in 1984, Yosemite is internationally recognized for its granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, groves of giant sequoia , lakes, mountains, meadows, glaciers, and biological diversity . Almost 95 percent of the park is designated wilderness . Yosemite is one of the largest and least fragmented habitat blocks in the Sierra Nevada . (Full article...
The following are images from various California-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1 The American capture of
San Diego by the
USS Cyane in 1846 (from
History of California )
Image 4 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 6 California's first State Capitol building in
San Jose , which served as the capital of California 1850–51. (from
History of California )
Image 7 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 8 San Francisco harbor,
c. 1850 –51. (from
History of California )
Image 12 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 13 Advertisement for sailing to California, c. 1850. (from
History of California )
Image 14 "Independent Gold Hunter on His Way to California", c. 1850 (from
History of California )
Image 16 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 18 The
University of California, Berkeley is the flagship school of the University of California system. (from
Culture of California )
Image 19 The railway station in
Sacramento in 1874. (from
History of California )
Image 21 A Southern Pacific Train at
Arcade Depot , Los Angeles, 1891 (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 24 Forces raising the U.S. flag over the
Monterey Customhouse following their victory at the
Battle of Monterey (from
History of California )
Image 25 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 27 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 28 The 1835
Manifiesto a la República Mejicana , by
José Figueroa , was the first book published in California (from
Culture of California )
Image 30 In-N-Out burgers (from
Culture of California )
Image 34 The Spanish founded
Mission San Juan Capistrano in 1776, the third to be established of the
Californian missions . (from
History of California )
Image 35 Junípero Serra conducting the first
mass in
Monterey Bay in 1770. (from
History of California )
Image 37 Mission San Gabriel Arcángel , founded in 1771 by padres Pedro Benito Cambón and Ángel de la Somera. (from
History of California )
Image 38 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 40 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 41 Map of the
Butterfield Overland Mail routes through California, c. 1858. (from
History of California )
Image 43 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 46 Francis Drake 's 1579 landing in "
New Albion " (modern-day
Point Reyes ); engraving by
Theodor De Bry , 1590. (from
History of California )
Image 47 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 49 Portrait of an "
assimilated "
Maidu man in
Sacramento , 1867. (from
History of California )
Image 50 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 52 Depiction of the
Donner Party heading west on the
California Trail . (from
History of California )
Image 55 General
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo reviewing his troops in
Sonoma in 1846. (from
History of California )
Image 56 Mission Santa Barbara , founded in 1786, was the first mission to be established by
Fermín de Lasuén . (from
History of California )
Image 57 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 59 Bilingual English-Spanish sign in the
Colorado Desert of
Southern California . (from
Culture of California )
In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.
Image 1 Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor and film director. After achieving success in the
Western TV series
Rawhide , Eastwood rose to international fame with his role as the "
Man with No Name " in
Sergio Leone 's
Dollars Trilogy of
spaghetti Westerns during the mid-1960s and as
antihero cop
Harry Callahan in the five
Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring
cultural icon of
masculinity . Elected in 1986, Eastwood served for two years as the mayor of
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California .
Eastwood's greatest commercial successes are the adventure comedy
Every Which Way but Loose (1978) and its action comedy sequel
Any Which Way You Can (1980). Other popular Eastwood films include the Westerns
Hang 'Em High (1968),
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) and
Pale Rider (1985), the action-war film
Where Eagles Dare (1968), the prison film
Escape from Alcatraz (1979), the war film
Heartbreak Ridge (1986), the action film
In the Line of Fire (1993), and the romantic drama
The Bridges of Madison County (1995). More recent works include
Gran Torino (2008),
The Mule (2018), and
Cry Macho (2021). Since 1967, Eastwood's company
Malpaso Productions has produced all but four of his American films. (
Full article... )
Image 2 Publicity photo of Anna May Wong from Stars of the Photoplay , 1930
Wong Liu Tsong (January 3, 1905 - February 3, 1961), known professionally as
Anna May Wong , was an American actress, considered the first
Chinese American film star in
Hollywood , as well as the first Chinese American actress to gain international recognition. Her varied career spanned
silent film , sound film, television, stage, and radio.
Born in Los Angeles to second-generation
Taishanese Chinese American parents, Wong became engrossed in films and decided at the age of 11 that she would become an actress. Her first role was as an extra in the movie
The Red Lantern (1919). During the silent film era, she acted in
The Toll of the Sea (1922), one of the first films made in color, and in
Douglas Fairbanks '
The Thief of Bagdad (1924). Wong became a fashion icon and had achieved international stardom in 1924. Wong had been one of the first to embrace the
flapper look. In 1934, the Mayfair Mannequin Society of New York voted her the "world's best dressed woman." In the 1920s and 1930s, Wong was acclaimed as one of the top fashion icons. (
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Image 3 Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (;
Italian: [diˈkaːprjo] ; born November 11, 1974) is an American actor and film producer. Known for
his work in biographical and period films, he is the recipient of
numerous accolades , including an
Academy Award , a
British Academy Film Award , and three
Golden Globe Awards . As of 2019,
[update] his films have grossed over $7.2 billion worldwide, and he has been placed eight times in annual rankings of
the world's highest-paid actors .
DiCaprio was born in
Los Angeles and began his career in the late 1980s by appearing in television commercials. He had a recurring role in the sitcom
Parenthood (1990–1991), and had his first major film part as author
Tobias Wolff in
This Boy's Life (1993). He received critical acclaim and his first
Academy Award nomination for playing a developmentally disabled boy in
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993). DiCaprio achieved international stardom with the
star-crossed romances
Romeo + Juliet (1996) and
Titanic (1997). After the latter became the
highest-grossing film in the world at the time, he reduced his workload for a few years. In an attempt to shed his image of a romantic hero, DiCaprio sought roles in other genres, including the 2002 crime dramas
Catch Me If You Can and
Gangs of New York ; the latter marked the first of his
many successful collaborations with director
Martin Scorsese . (
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Image 4 J. Robert Oppenheimer (born
Julius Robert Oppenheimer ;
OP -ən-hy-mər; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American
theoretical physicist who served as the director of the
Manhattan Project 's
Los Alamos Laboratory during
World War II . He is often called the "father of the
atomic bomb " for his role in overseeing the development of the first nuclear weapons.
Born in New York City, Oppenheimer obtained a degree in chemistry from
Harvard University in 1925 and a
doctorate in physics from the
University of Göttingen in Germany in 1927, studying under
Max Born . After research at other institutions, he joined the physics faculty at the
University of California, Berkeley , where he was made a full professor in 1936. Oppenheimer made significant contributions to physics in the fields of
quantum mechanics and
nuclear physics , including the
Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular
wave functions ; work on the theory of
positrons ,
quantum electrodynamics , and
quantum field theory ; and the
Oppenheimer–Phillips process in
nuclear fusion . With his students, he also made major contributions to
astrophysics , including the theory of
cosmic ray showers, and the theory of
neutron stars and
black holes . (
Full article... )
Image 5 Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers (born October 1, 1989), known professionally as
Brie Larson , is an American actress. She played supporting roles in comedies as a teenager, and has since expanded to leading roles in
independent films and
blockbusters .
Her accolades include an
Academy Award , a
Golden Globe Award , and a
Primetime Emmy Award .
Time magazine named her one of the
100 most influential people in the world in 2019.
At age six, Larson was the youngest student admitted to a training program at the
American Conservatory Theater , and she began her acting career in 1998 with a
comedy sketch on
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno . She appeared as a regular in the 2001 sitcom
Raising Dad and briefly dabbled with a music career, releasing the album
Finally Out of P.E. in 2005. She subsequently had supporting roles in the comedy films
Hoot (2006),
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), and
21 Jump Street (2012), and appeared as a sardonic teenager in the television series
United States of Tara (2009–2011). (
Full article... )
Image 6 Russell Albion Meyer (March 21, 1922 – September 18, 2004) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter,
cinematographer , and editor. He is known primarily for writing and directing a series of successful
sexploitation films that featured
campy humor, sly satire and large-breasted women, such as
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970), the latter of which he considered his definitive work. (
Full article... )
Image 7 Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known professionally as
Katy Perry , is an American singer, songwriter, and television personality. Perry is one of the
best-selling music artists in history , having sold over 143 million units worldwide. She is known for her influence on
pop music and her
camp style, being dubbed the "
Queen of Camp " by
Vogue and
Rolling Stone .
At 16, Perry released a
gospel record titled
Katy Hudson (2001) under
Red Hill Records , which was commercially unsuccessful. She moved to Los Angeles at 17 to venture into
secular music, and later adopted the stage name "Katy Perry" from her mother's maiden name. She recorded an album while signed to
Columbia Records , but was dropped before signing to
Capitol Records . Perry rose to fame with
One of the Boys (2008), a
pop rock record containing her debut single "
I Kissed a Girl " and follow-up single "
Hot n Cold ", which reached number one and three on the U.S.
Billboard Hot 100 respectively. (
Full article... )
Image 8 Major Frederick Russell Burnham DSO (May 11, 1861 – September 1, 1947) was an American scout and world-traveling adventurer. He is known for his service to the
British South Africa Company and to the
British Army in
colonial Africa , and for teaching
woodcraft to
Robert Baden-Powell in
Rhodesia . Burnham helped inspire the founding of the international
Scouting Movement .
Burnham was born on a
Dakota Sioux Indian reservation in Minnesota, in the small village of Tivoli near the city of Mankato; there he learned the ways of
American Indians as a boy. By the age of 14, he was supporting himself in California, while also learning scouting from some of the last of the cowboys and frontiersmen of the
American Southwest . Burnham had little formal education, never finishing high school. After moving to the
Arizona Territory in the early 1880s, he was drawn into the
Pleasant Valley War , a feud between families of ranchers and sheepherders. He escaped and later worked as a civilian tracker for the
United States Army in the
Apache Wars . Feeling the need for new adventures, Burnham took his family to southern Africa in 1893, seeing
Cecil Rhodes 's
Cape to Cairo Railway project as the next undeveloped frontier. (
Full article... )
Image 9 Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "
King of Pop ", he is regarded as
one of the most significant figures of the 20th century . Over a four-decade career,
his world record music achievements broke
racial barriers in America and his publicized personal life made him a global figure. Through songs, stages, and fashion, he proliferated visual performance for singers in pop music; popularizing street dance moves including the
moonwalk (which he named), the
robot , and the
anti-gravity lean .
Guinness World Records named him the most successful entertainer of all time.
As part of the
Jackson family , Michael at age six made his public debut in 1964 with his older brothers
Jackie ,
Tito ,
Jermaine and
Marlon , as a member of
the Jackson 5 (later known as the Jacksons). The Jackson 5 signed with
Motown in 1968 and achieved worldwide success with Michael as lead singer. Jackson achieved solo stardom with the release of his fifth album
Off the Wall (1979). He followed it up with
Thriller (1982), which became the
bestselling album of all time , which aided the popularization of
MTV with the
music videos for
its title track along with "
Beat It " and "
Billie Jean ". These are also credited with transforming the medium into an art form and promotional tool. Jackson furthered his position as a global superstar with
Bad (1987), the first album to produce five US
Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles: "
I Just Can't Stop Loving You ", "
Bad ", "
The Way You Make Me Feel ", "
Man in the Mirror ", and "
Dirty Diana ".
Dangerous (1991) saw him venture into an array of artistic sounds, and became one of the most successful albums of the 1990s.
HIStory (1995) produced "
You Are Not Alone ", the first song to debut at number one on the US
Billboard Hot 100, as well as the
protest songs "
Earth Song " and "
They Don't Care About Us ". (
Full article... )
Image 10 Gwen Renée Stefani Shelton (
stə-FAH -nee ; born October 3, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter and fashion designer. She is a member and lead vocalist of the band
No Doubt , whose singles include "
Just a Girl ", "
Spiderwebs ", and "
Don't Speak ", from their 1995 breakthrough studio album
Tragic Kingdom , as well as "
Hey Baby " and "
It's My Life " from later albums.
During the band's hiatus, Stefani embarked on a solo
pop career in 2004 by releasing her debut studio album
Love. Angel. Music. Baby. Inspired by pop music from the 1980s, the album was a critical and commercial success. It spawned six singles, including "
What You Waiting For? ", "
Rich Girl ", "
Hollaback Girl ", and "
Cool ". "Hollaback Girl" reached number one on the
Billboard Hot 100 chart while also becoming the first US download to sell one million copies. In 2006, Stefani released her second studio album,
The Sweet Escape . Among the singles were "
Wind It Up " and "
The Sweet Escape ", the latter of which was number three on the
Billboard Hot 100 year-end chart of 2007. Her third solo album,
This Is What the Truth Feels Like (2016), was her first solo album to reach number one on the
Billboard 200 chart. Her fourth solo album and first full-length
Christmas album,
You Make It Feel Like Christmas , was released in 2017 and charted 19 tracks on
Billboard ' s
Holiday Digital Song Sales component chart in the United States. Stefani has released several singles with husband
Blake Shelton , including "
Nobody but You " (2020), which reached number 18 in the US. In 2024, she released her fifth studio album
Bouquet . (
Full article... )
Image 12 Martin with the Yankees in 1954
Alfred Manuel "
Billy "
Martin Jr. (May 16, 1928 – December 25, 1989) was an American
Major League Baseball second baseman and
manager who, in addition to leading other teams, was five times the manager of the
New York Yankees . First known as a scrappy infielder who made considerable contributions to the championship Yankee teams of the 1950s, he then built a reputation as a manager who would initially make bad teams good, before ultimately being fired amid dysfunction. In each of his stints with the Yankees he managed them to winning records before being fired by team owner
George Steinbrenner or resigning under fire, usually amid a well-publicized scandal such as Martin's involvement in an alcohol-fueled fight.
Martin was born in a working-class section of
Berkeley, California . His skill as a baseball player gave him a route out of his home town. Signed by the
Pacific Coast League Oakland Oaks , Martin learned much from
Casey Stengel , the man who would manage him both in Oakland and in New York, and enjoyed a close relationship with Stengel. Martin's spectacular catch of a wind-blown
Jackie Robinson popup late in Game Seven of the
1952 World Series saved that series for the Yankees, and he was the hitting star of the
1953 World Series , earning the Most Valuable Player award in the Yankee victory. He missed most of two seasons, 1954 and 1955, after being
drafted into the Army , and his abilities never fully returned; the Yankees traded him after a brawl at the
Copacabana club in New York during the 1957 season. Martin bitterly resented being traded, and did not speak to Stengel for years, a time during which Martin completed his playing career with various teams. (
Full article... )
Image 13 Marion Hugh "
Suge "
Knight Jr. (
SHUUG ; born April 19, 1965) is an American record executive, former
NFL player, and convicted felon, who is the co-founder and former CEO of
Death Row Records . Knight was a central figure in
gangsta rap 's commercial success in the 1990s. This feat is attributed to the record label's first two album releases:
Dr. Dre 's
The Chronic in 1992 and
Snoop Dogg 's
Doggystyle in 1993. Knight is currently serving a 28-year sentence in prison for a fatal hit-and-run in 2015.
Before founding Death Row Records, Knight played college football at
UNLV as a defensive end. He briefly played in the
NFL for the
Los Angeles Rams as a replacement player during the
1987 NFL players strike . In 1995,
Tupac Shakur began serving a prison sentence of up to
4+ 1 ⁄2 years for a sexual abuse conviction. Knight struck a deal with Shakur that October, posting his $1.4 million bail and freeing him from prison pending an appeal of his conviction, while signing him to Death Row Records. In 1996, the label released Shakur's greatest commercial success,
All Eyez on Me . That September, after departing a
Mike Tyson boxing match in
Las Vegas , a group that included Knight and Shakur assaulted
Orlando Anderson , a Southside Compton
Crips gang member. Three hours later, someone shot into the car Knight was driving, injuring Knight and
fatally wounding Shakur . (
Full article... )
Image 15 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... )
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