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Eruptions in the Lassen volcanic area in the last 70,000 years. Circle shows base of Mount Tehama. See timeline image.

The Lassen volcanic area presents a
Cascade Mountain Range in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Pacific Oceanic tectonic plates have plunged below the North American Plate in this part of North America for hundreds of millions of years. Heat and molten rock from these subducting plates has fed scores of volcanoes in California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia
over at least the past 30 million years, including these in the Lassen volcanic areas.
Between 3 and 4 million years ago, volcanic-derived mud flows called lahars streamed down several major mountains that included nearby but now extinct Mount Yana and Mount Maidu to become the Tuscan Formation. Basaltic and later andesitic to dacitic flows of lava covered increasingly larger areas of this formation to eventually form the lava plateau upon which the park is situated. About 600,000 years ago, Mount Tehama started to rise as a stratovolcano in the southwestern corner of the park, eventually reaching an estimated 11,000 ft (3,400 m) in height. (Full article...)

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Image 1Advertisement for sailing to California, c. 1850. (from History of California)

Image 2Manuel Domínguez built Domínguez Adobe on Rancho San Pedro in 1826. (from History of California)

Image 3Presidio of San Francisco, founded by José Joaquín Moraga in 1776. (from History of California)

Image 4The 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 5General
Military Governor of California (1847–1849), overseeing California's transition into statehood. (from History of California
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Image 6Mission 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 7Presidio of Santa Barbara. (from Culture of California)

Image 8SS California (1848), the first paddle steamer to steam between Panama City and San Francisco, as part of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. (from History of California)

Image 9Pacheco Adobe, built 1835 by Salvio Pacheco on Rancho Monte del Diablo. (from History of California)

Image 10Mission Santa Barbara, founded in 1786, was the first mission to be established by Fermín de Lasuén. (from History of California)

Image 11Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, founded in 1771 by padres Pedro Benito Cambón and Ángel de la Somera. (from History of California)

Image 12Poppies, Antelope Valley, a
Benjamin Chambers Brown (from Culture of California
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Image 13Map of the route taken by the
Anza Expedition of 1775–76, from the Presidio of Tubac to San Francisco Bay. (from History of California
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Image 14Between 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
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Image 15Depiction of the revolt of the Mission Indians against padre Luis Jayme at Mission San Diego de Alcalá in 1775. (from History of California)

Image 16Forces raising the U.S. flag over the
Monterey Customhouse following their victory at the Battle of Monterey (from History of California
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Image 17Junípero Serra conducting the first mass in Monterey Bay in 1770. (from History of California)

Image 18California 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 19Stanford University Oval (from Culture of California)

Image 20San Francisco harbor, c. 1850–51. (from History of California)

Image 21Mission San Francisco Solano, founded in 1823 by order of Governor Luis Antonio Argüello, was the last Californian mission established. (from History of California)

Image 22General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo reviewing his troops in Sonoma in 1846. (from History of California)

Image 23Goldfields in the Sierra Nevada and Shasta Cascade. (from History of California)

Image 24"Independent Gold Hunter on His Way to California", c. 1850 (from History of California)

Image 25The Petaluma Adobe, built by General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo in 1836 on Rancho Petaluma. (from History of California)

Image 26The 1835 Manifiesto a la República Mejicana, by José Figueroa, was the first book published in California (from Culture of California)

Image 27The 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 28Founded 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 29Depiction of the Donner Party heading west on the California Trail. (from History of California)

Image 30Depiction of the California hide trade. (from History of California)

Image 31Gaspar de Portolá served as the first Governor of the Californias and led the famed Portolá expedition of 1769-70. (from History of California)

Image 32A Southern Pacific Train at Arcade Depot, Los Angeles, 1891 (from History of California)

Image 33California's first State Capitol building in San Jose, which served as the capital of California 1850–51. (from History of California)

Image 34The colonial coat of arms of the Californias, granted by Antonio de Mendoza, the first Viceroy of New Spain. (from History of California)

Image 35Portrait of an "assimilated" Maidu man in Sacramento, 1867. (from History of California)

Image 36The American capture of San Diego by the USS Cyane in 1846 (from History of California)

Image 37The 1846
Bear Flag Revolt declared the California Republic and prefaced the American conquest of California. (from History of California
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Image 38Flag of
U.S. Civil War. (from History of California
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Image 39Map of the Butterfield Overland Mail routes through California, c. 1858. (from History of California)

Image 40The Battle of San Pasqual in 1846. (from History of California)

Image 41
Concord Coach no. 251 in Wells Fargo livery in Old Town San Diego. (from History of California
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Image 42The University of California, Berkeley is the flagship school of the University of California system. (from Culture of California)

Image 43
Theodor De Bry, 1590. (from History of California
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Image 44Balthazar, Inhabitant of Northern California, an 1818 portrait of a Miwok man by artist Mikhail Tikhanov. (from History of California)

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California Gold Rush. He served as inspiration for Zorro, the famed Californian bandit-hero character. (from History of California
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Image 46The Getty Villa (from Culture of California)

Image 47The Battle of Río San Gabriel, in 1847, was a decisive victory for the American campaign in Alta California. (from History of California)

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Anza Expeditions. (from History of California
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coast of California into the Pacific Northwest. (from History of California
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Image 50While slavery was abolished in California by Mexican authorities in 1829, the first California State Legislature under U.S. statehood passed the 1850 Indian Indenture Act, which allowed for the forced labor of indigenous Californians by Americans. (from History of California)

Image 51Map of Spain's
coast of California. (from History of California
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Image 52The Spanish founded Mission San Juan Capistrano in 1776, the third to be established of the Californian missions. (from History of California)

Image 53The Vallecitos stop of the Butterfield Overland Mail, in Julian, California. (from History of California)

Image 54Dividing the Light (2007), a skyspace by James Turrell at Pomona College (from Culture of California)

Image 55In-N-Out burgers (from Culture of California)

Image 56The railway station in
Sacramento in 1874. (from History of California
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Image 57Portrait 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
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Image 58Angustias 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)

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Jackson in 1988

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Known as the "King of Pop", he is widely regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. During his four-decade career, his contributions to music, dance, and fashion, along with his publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture. Jackson influenced artists across many music genres. Through stage and video performances, he popularized complicated street dance moves such as the moonwalk, which he named, as well as the robot.

The eighth child of the Jackson family, Jackson 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). Jackson began his solo career in 1971 while at Motown Records. He became a solo star with his 1979 album Off the Wall. His music videos, including those for "Beat It", "Billie Jean", and "Thriller" from his 1982 album Thriller, are credited with breaking racial barriers and transforming the medium into an art form and promotional tool. He helped propel the success of MTV and continued to innovate with the videos for his subsequent albums: Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991), HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I (1995), and Invincible (2001). Thriller became the best-selling album of all time, while Bad was the first album to produce five US Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles. (Full article...)

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1972 Republican primaries on an anti-Vietnam War platform and was the first member of Congress to publicly call for President Nixon's resignation after the Saturday Night Massacre. (Full article...
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Claremont Graduate School. In 1928, he founded the Voorhis School for Boys and became its headmaster. He retained the post into his congressional career. (Full article...
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Sierra Nevada and Montana's Glacier National Park. He also set a speed climbing record on California's Mount Shasta in 1923.
The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley has 1467 articles written by Clyde in its archives. (Full article...
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mythology from these accounts.

After Ernest died in 1971, Ruth succeeded him as their group's leader and primary channeler. She subsequently began publishing accounts of her experiences and revelations. In early 1974, she predicted that a space fleet of benevolent extraterrestrials, the Space Brothers, would land on Earth later that year, which led the Unarius Academy to purchase a property to serve as the landing site. After the extraterrestrials failed to appear, Norman said that trauma she had suffered in a past life had caused her to make an inaccurate prediction. Undaunted, she rented a building for Unarius' meetings and sought publicity for the movement, claiming to have united the Earth with an interplanetary confederation. She revised the Space Brothers' expected landing date several times, before finally settling on 2001. Her health declined in the late 1980s, prompting her students to try to heal her with rituals of past-life regression. Despite predicting that she would live to see the extraterrestrials land, Norman died in 1993. Unarius has continued to operate after her death, and formed a board of directors. Since the 2000s, leaders have concentrated on individual transformation leading to spiritual change in humankind. (Full article...
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Twentieth Century Fox's production of Alexander's Ragtime Band, Stafford met the future members of the Pied Pipers and became the group's lead singer. Bandleader Tommy Dorsey hired them in 1939 to perform vocals with his orchestra. From 1940 to 1942, the group often performed with Dorsey's new male singer, Frank Sinatra. (Full article...
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52nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first woman elected as U.S. House Speaker and the first woman to lead a major political party in either chamber of Congress, leading the House Democrats from 2003 to 2023. A member of the House since 1987, Pelosi currently represents California's 11th congressional district, which includes most of San Francisco. She is the dean of California's congressional delegation.

Pelosi was born and raised in Baltimore, and is the daughter of mayor and congressman Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. She graduated from Trinity College, Washington in 1962 and married businessman Paul Pelosi the next year; the two had met while both were students. They moved to New York City before settling down in San Francisco with their children. Focused on raising her family, Pelosi stepped into politics as a volunteer for the Democratic Party in the 1960s. After years of party work, she was first elected to Congress in a 1987 special election and is now in her 19th term; she is the dean of California's congressional delegation. Pelosi steadily rose through the ranks of the House Democratic Caucus to be elected House minority whip in 2001 and elevated to House minority leader a year later, becoming the first woman to hold each of those positions in either chamber of Congress. (Full article...
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MTV Video Music Award nominations, winning five, as well as receiving the Grammy Award for Best Music Video for "Opposites Attract" in 1991. She received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography twice for her work on The Tracey Ullman Show, and her own performance at the American Music Awards in 1990. Abdul was honored with her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and is the first entertainer to be honored with the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards' Hall of Fame Award. (Full article...
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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...
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Meyer in 1996 (photo by Roger Ebert)

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!. Meyer often named Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) as his definitive work. (Full article...)

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Foster Grandparents Program. (Full article...
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sports broadcaster in Iowa. In 1937, he moved to California, and became a well-known film actor there. From 1947 to 1952, Reagan served as the president of the Screen Actors Guild. During the 1950s, he worked in television and spoke for General Electric. From 1959 to 1960, he again served as the Screen Actors Guild's president. In 1964, his "A Time for Choosing" speech gave Reagan attention as a new conservative figure. He was elected governor of California in 1966. During his governorship, he raised taxes, turned the state budget deficit into a surplus, and cracked down harshly on university protests. After challenging and losing to incumbent president Gerald Ford in the 1976 Republican presidential primaries, Reagan won the Republican nomination and then a landslide victory over incumbent Democratic president Jimmy Carter in the 1980 presidential election. (Full article...
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Primetime Emmy Award for his SNL work in 1989. He also starred as Bill McNeal in the sitcom NewsRadio, voiced Lionel Hutz and Troy McClure on The Simpsons, and appeared in supporting roles in the films Houseguest, Sgt. Bilko, Jingle All the Way, and Small Soldiers. (Full article...
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Malice 'n Wonderland (2009) and Doggumentary (2011), both of which saw mild critical and commercial response. (Full article...
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Maddow in 2018

Rachel Anne Maddow (/ˈmædoʊ/ ^ⓘ, MAD-oh; born April 1, 1973) is an American television news program host and liberal political commentator. Maddow hosts The Rachel Maddow Show, a weekly television show on MSNBC, and serves as the cable network's special event co-anchor. Her syndicated talk radio program of the same name aired on Air America Radio from 2005 to 2010.

Maddow has received multiple Emmy Awards for her broadcasting work and in 2021 received a Grammy Award for the audiobook version of Blowout (2019). (Full article...)

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... that Bull Island was farmed by the Money family for over 100 years before being turned into a wildlife preserve?

... 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 when the U.S. government wanted to remove Chain Island, a group of "California capitalists" offered to do it for free, recouping expenses by mining it for gold?

... that Baillieu Myer and his siblings were born in California because their father's prior divorce was not recognised under Australian law?

... that a California sea lion, later named Freeway, was thought to have traveled up Chollas Creek before getting onto California State Highway 94?

... that baseball player Eric Filia worked as a butler at the Playboy Mansion while he was suspended by the University of California, Los Angeles?

... that Ishihara Park and Gandara Park in Santa Monica, California, are both named after local World War II veterans whose military contributions were overlooked during their lifetimes?

... that Eastern Michigan's only bowl-game victory before defeating San Jose State in the 2022 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl was against San Jose State in the 1987 California Bowl?

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The inside of the Senate Chambers at the Benicia Capitol State Historic Park

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Benicia Capitol State Historic Park is a state park in Benicia, California. The park is dedicated to California’s third capitol building, where the California State Legislature and bureaucracy convened from February 3, 1853 to February 24, 1854. It is the only pre-Sacramento capitol that survives.

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Nicknames: The Golden State

Capital: Sacramento

Total area: 163,696 mi²
Land: 156,002 mi²

Water: 7,694 mi²

Highest elevation: 14,505 ft (Mount Whitney)

Population 39,250,017 (2016 est)

Admission to the Union: September 9, 1850 (31^st)

State symbols:

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California Dogface Butterfly

Bird: California Valley Quail

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Dance: West Coast Swing

Colors: Blue & Gold

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Gem: Benitoite

Rock: Serpentine

Fish: California Golden Trout

Songs: I Love You, California

Tree:
California Redwood

Mineral: Gold

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