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- ...that the San Ardo Oil Field is the 13th-largest oil field in California, and of the top twenty California oil fields in size, it is the most recent to be discovered?
- ...that Bodega Bay in California was the setting for Alfred Hitchcock's 963 film The Birds?
- ..that City Councilin 1994 after being involved in a building dispute?
- ...that companies Holiday Magic and Leadership Dynamics, ran against Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination for Governor of California?
- ..that Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona was set at Rancho Camulos in Piru, California?
- ...that the Alameda Works Shipyard in Alameda, California, was one of the largest and best equipped shipyards in the United States?
- ...that '49ers and the Pony Express, and later became California's first state highway and a branch of the Lincoln Highway?
- ...that California Mule Deer have had their population controlled by humans starting in 12,000 BCE by indigenous Native Americans?
- ...that when the Brother Jonathan (pictured) sank off the coast of California in 1856, it was the worst shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the United States at the time?
- ...that the Kakapo were all saved from extinction using modern bird conservationtechniques?
- ...that Junípero Serra and Juan María de Salvatierra have both been called "the apostle of California," for their work establishing Spanish missions in Alta and Baja California, respectively?
- ...that after the first demonstration by members of Los Angeles, California, the archbishopresigned?
- ...that San Francisco?
- ...that LA's San Fernando Valley, was a center of teenage cruising from the 1950s through the 1970s?
- ...that Barstow, California, and Strong City, Kansas, are both named in honor of William Barstow Strong, former president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway?
- ...that Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young, owner of the Yung See San Fong House in Los Gatos, California, didn't want it to be a bungalow, but a "bungahigh"?
- ...that Josiah Belden was a member of the first party to use the California Trail, and the first mayor of San Jose, California?
- ...that Byron N. Scott was a public school teacher in Long Beach, California prior to being elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1934?
- ...that the freeway, were paved in a different color to encourage drivers to stay in their lanes?
- ...that when San Francisco–based photographer William Rulofsonfell to his death, he was heard to have exclaimed, "I am killed"?
- ...that historic landmark was donated to the city of Redlandsas part of a botanical park?
- ...that the streetcarcompany?
- ...that the origins of Castle Lake in California date to the Pleistocene Era (more than 10,000 years ago) when a glacier carved a basin in the location of the current lake?
- ...that the easternmost part of National Recreation Trail?
- ...that Alameda Street was built by Los Angeles County, California as a "truck boulevard" to the port?
- ...that the Yulupa Creek watershed has been designated as critical habitat for two California endangered species?
- ...that Josiah Belden was a member of the first party to use the California Trail, and the first mayor of San Jose, California?
- ...that the liberal arts colleges?
- ... that Van Nuys, California, United States in 1911?
- ...the UPC-Arena in Austria was renamed from "Arnold Schwarzenegger-Stadium" to its current name after controversy over Arnold Schwarzenegger's decisions in recent death penalty cases in California?
- ...that Corry v. Stanford was a California court case that declared Stanford University's speech code illegal under the freedom of speech protections of the state's Leonard Law?
- ...that the Ramona Valley in San Diego County California is the country's 162nd American Viticultural Area, and only the third such AVA designated in Southern California by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau?
- ...that 8-year-old Sylvia Mendez played an instrumental role in the 1946 Mendez v. Westminster case, which successfully ended de jure segregation in California schools?
- ...that the Yana people of California hid in the Sierra Nevada mountains for over 40 years their survival and existence unknown in the United States from 1865 to 1911?
- ...that Boston long before it made wine in California?
- ...that, despite being added to California's state highway system in 1933, the portion of State Route 190 over the Sierra Nevadaremains unconstructed?
- ...that the Great Rose Bowl Hoax was a 1961 prank by students at the California Institute of Technology that was broadcast by NBC to an estimated 30 million viewers in the United States?
- ...that marine natural arches? ...
- ...that property rights?
- ... that organic farmers?
- ...that after former real estate broker?
- ...that the received college credit for the prank?
- ...that the liberal arts colleges?
- ... that the freshwater wetland in Northern California?
- ...that venom?
- ...that the training ships Golden Bearsince 1946?
- ...that exploitation film director/producer S. S. Millard was able to pass himself off as Romanian nobility when a former Romanian queen visited California?