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California (/ˌkælɪˈfɔːrniə/) is astate in theWestern United States that lies on thePacific Coast. It bordersOregon to the north,Nevada andArizona to the east, and sharesan international border with theMexican state ofBaja California to the south. With almost 40 million residents across an area of 163,696 square miles (423,970 km²), it is thelargest state by population,third-largest state by area and thelargest state economy in the U.S., with a GDP of approximately $4.3 trillion.

Prior toEuropean colonization, California was one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse areas inpre-Columbian North America. European exploration in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the colonization by theSpanish Empire. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821, as a result ofits successful war for independence. Following theU.S. conquest of California, part of theMexican-American War, California wasceded to the United States in 1848. TheCalifornia gold rush started in 1848 and led to social and demographic changes, including theCalifornia genocide. It organized itself and wasadmitted as the 31st state in 1850 as afree state, following theCompromise of 1850.

Theeconomy of California is the largest of any U.S. state, with an estimated 2025gross state product of $4.296 trillion as of Q3 2025. It is the world'slargest sub-national economy and, if it were an independent country, would be the fourth-largest economy in the world (behind Germany and ahead of Japan, as of 2025) whenranked by nominal GDP.The state's agricultural industry leads the nation in output, fueled by its production ofdairy,almonds, andgrapes. 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 topopular culture, ranging fromentertainment,sports,music, andfashion, have their origins in California. Despite an exodus of filmmaking from California,Hollywood continues to be an important center of theU.S. film industry, one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world; profoundly influencing global entertainment since the 1920s. The San Francisco Bay'sSilicon Valley is the center of the global technology industry. (Full article...)

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William Seymour, the leader of the Azusa Street Revival

TheAzusa Street Revival was aPentecostal revival meeting that took place inLos Angeles,California, and was led byWilliam J. Seymour, anAfrican American preacher. It began with a meeting on April 14, 1906, at theAfrican Methodist Episcopal Church and continued until roughly 1915. The revival was characterized byspeaking in tongues, dramatic worship services, and inter-racial mingling. The participants received criticism from secular media andChristian theologians for behaviors considered to be outrageous and unorthodox, especially at the time. Today, the revival is considered by historians to be the primary catalyst for the spread ofPentecostalism in the 20th century.

In 1904, theWelsh Revival took place, during which approximately 100,000 people inWales converted toChristianity. Internationally,Evangelical Christians took this event to be a sign that a fulfillment of theprophecy in theBible's book ofJoel, chapter 2:23–29 was about to take place. Joseph Smale, pastor of the First Baptist Church inLos Angeles, went to Wales personally in order to witness therevival.(Full article...)

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Image 1Presidio of Santa Barbara. (fromCulture of California)
Image 2Dividing the Light (2007), askyspace byJames Turrell atPomona College (fromCulture of California)
Image 3TheUniversity of California, Berkeley is the flagship school of the University of California system. (fromCulture of California)
Image 4The 1835Manifiesto a la República Mejicana, byJosé Figueroa, was the first book published in California (fromCulture of California)
Image 5Bilingual English-Spanish sign in theColorado Desert ofSouthern California. (fromCulture of California)
Image 6TheGetty Villa (fromCulture of California)
Image 7Poppies, Antelope Valley, aCalifornia Impressionist painting byBenjamin Chambers Brown (fromCulture of California)
Image 8Stanford University Oval (fromCulture of California)
Image 9In-N-Out burgers (fromCulture of California)

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We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.

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Manson's 1968 mugshot

Charles Milles Manson (né Maddox; November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an Americanserial killer,cult leader, and musician who led theManson Family, a cult based in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Some cult members committed aseries of at least nine murders at four locations in July and August 1969. In 1971, Manson was convicted offirst-degree murder andconspiracy to commit murder for thedeaths of seven people, including the film actressSharon Tate. The prosecution contended that, while Manson never directly ordered the murders, his ideology constituted an overtact of conspiracy.

Before the murders, Manson had spent more than half of his life incorrectional 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 withDennis Wilson ofthe Beach Boys, who introduced Manson to record producerTerry Melcher. In 1968, the Beach Boys recorded Manson's song "Cease to Exist", renamed "Never Learn Not to Love" as a singleB-side, but Manson was uncredited. Afterward, he attempted to secure a record contract through Melcher, but was unsuccessful. (Full article...)
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Bergen in 2025

Candice Patricia Bergen (born May 9, 1946) is an American actress. She won fivePrimetime Emmy Awards and twoGolden Globe Awards as the title character onMurphy Brown (1988–1998, 2018). She is also known for her role asShirley Schmidt on theABC dramaBoston Legal (2005–2008). In films, Bergen was nominated for theAcademy Award for Best Supporting Actress forStarting Over (1979) and for theBAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role forGandhi (1982).

Bergen began her career as a fashion model and appeared on the cover ofVogue before she made her screen debut in the filmThe Group (1966). She starred inThe Sand Pebbles (1966),Soldier Blue (1970),Carnal Knowledge (1971), andThe Wind and the Lion (1975). She made herBroadway debut in the 1984 playHurlyburly and starred in the revivals ofThe Best Man (2012) andLove Letters (2014). From 2002 to 2004, she appeared in three episodes of theHBO seriesSex and the City. Her other film roles includeMiss Congeniality (2000),Sweet Home Alabama (2002),The Women (2008),Bride Wars (2009),Book Club (2018) andLet Them All Talk (2020). (Full article...)
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Walter Francis O'Malley (October 9, 1903 – August 9, 1979) was an American sports executive who owned theBrooklyn /Los Angeles Dodgers team inMajor League Baseball from 1950 to 1979. In 1958, as owner of the Dodgers, he brought major league baseball to theWest Coast, moving the Dodgers fromBrooklyn to Los Angeles despite the Dodgers being the second most profitable team in baseball from 1946 to 1956, and coordinating the move of theNew York Giants to San Francisco at a time when there were no teams west ofKansas City, Missouri. In 2008, O'Malley was elected to theNational Baseball Hall of Fame for his contributions to and influence on the game of baseball.

O'Malley's father,Edwin Joseph O'Malley, was politically connected. Walter, aUniversity of Pennsylvania salutatorian, went on to obtain aBachelor of Laws (LL.B.), and he used the combination of his family connections, his personal contacts, and both his educational and vocational skills to rise to prominence. First, he became an entrepreneur involved inpublic works contracting, and then he became an executive with the Dodgers. He progressed from being a team lawyer to being both the Dodgers' owner and president, and he eventually made the business decision to relocate the Dodgers franchise. Although he moved the franchise, O'Malley is known as a businessman whose major philosophy was stability through loyalty to and from his employees. (Full article...)
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Norton,c. 1871–72

Joshua Abraham Norton (February 4, 1818 – January 8, 1880) was a resident of San Francisco, California, who in 1859declared himself "Emperor of these United States" in a proclamation that he signed "Norton I., Emperor of the United States". Commonly known asEmperor Norton, he took the secondary title "Protector of Mexico" in 1866.

Born in England and raised inSouth Africa, Norton leftCape Town in late 1845, sailing fromLiverpool toBoston in early 1846 and eventually arriving in San Francisco in late 1849. After a brief period of prosperity, Norton made a business gambit in late 1852 that played out poorly, ultimately forcing him to declare bankruptcy in 1856. (Full article...)
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Official portrait, 2021

Kamala Devi Harris (/ˈkɑːmələˈdeɪvi/ ^ⓘKAH-mə-ləDAY-vee; born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 49thvice president of the United States from 2021 to 2025 under PresidentJoe Biden. She is the first female, firstAfrican American, and firstAsian American vice president, and the highest-ranking female and Asian American official in U.S. history. Harris representedCalifornia in theU.S. Senate from 2017 to 2021 and was theattorney general of California from 2011 to 2017. A member of theDemocratic Party, she was the party's nominee in the2024 presidential election.

Born inOakland, California, Harris graduated fromHoward University and theUniversity of California, Hastings College of the Law. She began her law career in the office of thedistrict attorney ofAlameda County. Harris was recruited to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and later to the office of thecity attorney of San Francisco. She waselected district attorney of San Francisco in 2003 andattorney general of California in 2010, andreelected as attorney general in 2014. (Full article...)
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Adamsc. 1950

Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an Americanlandscape photographer and environmentalist known for hisblack-and-white images of theAmerican West. He helped foundGroup f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favoredsharp focus and the use of the fulltonal range of a photograph. He andFred Archer developed a system of image-making called theZone 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 inexposure,negative development, andprinting.

Adams was a life-long advocate forenvironmental conservation, and his photographic practice was deeply entwined with this advocacy. At age 14, he was given his first camera during his first visit toYosemite National Park. He developed his early photographic work as a member of theSierra Club. He was later contracted with theUnited 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 thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1980. (Full article...)
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DiCaprio in 2025

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (/diˈkæprioʊ/ ^ⓘ;Italian:[diˈkaːprjo]; born November 11, 1974) is an American actor and film producer. Known forhis work inbiographical andperiod films, he is the recipient ofnumerous accolades, including anAcademy Award, aBritish Academy Film Award, anActor Award, aSilver Bear and threeGolden Globe Awards. His films as a leading actor have grossed $7 billion worldwide, and he has been placed eight times in annual rankings ofthe world's highest-paid actors.

Born in Los Angeles, DiCaprio began his career in the late 1980s by appearing in television commercials. He had a recurring role in the sitcomParenthood (1990–1991), and had his first major film part as authorTobias Wolff inThis Boy's Life (1993). He received critical acclaim and his firstAcademy Award nomination for playing a developmentally disabled boy inWhat's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993). DiCaprio achieved international stardom with thestar-crossed romancesRomeo + Juliet (1996) andTitanic (1997). After the latter became thehighest-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 dramasCatch Me If You Can andGangs of New York; the latter marked the first of hismany successful collaborations with directorMartin Scorsese. (Full article...)
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Milk in 1978

Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of theSan Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Milk was born and raised in New York. He acknowledged his homosexuality in adolescence, but secretly pursued sexual relationships well into adulthood. Thecounterculture of the 1960s caused him to shed many of his conservative views about individual freedom and sexual expression. Milk moved to San Francisco in 1972 and opened a camera store. After holding an assortment of jobs and frequently changing addresses, he settled inthe Castro, a neighborhood that was experiencing a mass immigration of gay men and lesbians. He ran for city supervisor in 1973, but the existing gay political establishment resisted him. Milk's campaign was compared to theater due to his personality, earning media attention and votes, although not enough to be elected. He campaigned again in the next two supervisor elections, dubbing himself the "Mayor of Castro Street". The voter response caused him to also run for theCalifornia State Assembly. Due to his growing popularity, he led thegay rights movement in battles against anti-gay initiatives. Milk was elected city supervisor in 1977 after San Francisco began to choose neighborhood representatives rather than city-wide ones. During Milk's almost eleven months in office, he sponsored a bill banning discrimination based on sexual orientation in public accommodations, housing, and employment. The supervisors passed the bill by a vote of 11–1, and MayorGeorge Moscone signed it into law. On November 27, 1978,Milk and Moscone were assassinated byDan White, a disgruntled former city supervisor who cast the sole vote against Milk's bill. (Full article...)
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Pauling in the 1940s

Linus Carl PaulingFRS (/ˈpɔːlɪŋ/PAW-ling; February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) was an Americanchemist andpeace activist. 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 theNobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954. For his peace activism, he was awarded theNobel Peace Prize in 1962. He is one of five people to havewon more than one Nobel Prize. 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 beingMarie Skłodowska-Curie.

Pauling was one of the founders of the fields ofquantum chemistry andmolecular biology. His contributions to the theory of the chemical bond include the concept oforbital hybridisation and the first accurate scale ofelectronegativities of the elements. Pauling also worked on the structures of biological molecules, and showed the importance of thealpha helix andbeta sheet inprotein secondary structure. Pauling's approach combined methods and results fromX-ray crystallography,molecular model building, and quantum chemistry. His discoveries inspired the work ofJames Watson,Francis Crick,Rosalind Franklin, andMaurice Wilkins on the structure ofDNA, which in turn made it possible for geneticists to crack the DNA code of all organisms. (Full article...)
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Chastain in 2025

Jessica Michelle Chastain (born March 24, 1977) is an American actress and producer. Known for primarily starring in projects withfeminist themes, she has receivedvarious accolades, including anAcademy Award and aGolden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for aPrimetime Emmy Award, twoTony Awards and twoBritish Academy Film Awards.Time magazine named her one of the100 most influential people in the world in 2012.

Chastain developed an interest in acting from an early age and made her professional stage debut in 1998 asShakespeare'sJuliet. After studying acting at theJuilliard School, she worked on television and stage. After making her film debut at age 31 in the dramaJolene (2008), Chastain had her breakthrough in 2011 with six film releases, including the dramasTake Shelter (2011) andThe Tree of Life (2011). She received Academy Award nominations for playing an aspiring socialite in the period dramaThe Help (2011) and a CIA analyst in the thrillerZero Dark Thirty (2012). (Full article...)
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Picture of Stafford from theNew York Sunday News, September 21, 1947

Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917 – July 16, 2008) was an Americantraditional pop singer, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Admired for the purity of her voice, she originally underwent classical training to become anopera singer before following a career in popular music and by 1955 had achieved more worldwide record sales than any other female artist. Her 1952 song "You Belong to Me" topped the charts in the United States and United Kingdom, becoming the second single to top theUK Singles Chart and the first by a female artist to do so.

Born in remote oil-richCoalinga, California, near Fresno in theSan Joaquin Valley, Stafford made her first musical appearance at age 12. While still at high school, she joined her two older sisters to form a vocal trio named the Stafford Sisters, who found moderate success on radio and in film. In 1938, while the sisters were part of the cast ofTwentieth Century Fox's production ofAlexander's Ragtime Band, Stafford met the future members ofthe Pied Pipers and became the group's lead singer. BandleaderTommy 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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Jackson in 1983

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is widely regarded asone of the most culturally significant figures of the 20th century. Over a four-decade career,his musical achievements brokeAmerican racial barriers and made him a dominant figureworldwide. Throughhis songs,concerts, and fashion, he proliferated visual performance for artists inpopular music, popularizingstreet dance moves such as themoonwalk, therobot, and theanti-gravity lean. Jackson is often deemed the greatest entertainer of all time.

The eighth child of theJackson family, Michael made his public debut at age six as the lead singer ofthe Jackson 5, one ofMotown's most successful acts. He rose to solo stardom with the albumOff the Wall (1979) and achieved unprecedented global success withThriller (1982), thebest-selling album in history. Itsshort film-stylemusic videos for "Thriller", "Beat It", and "Billie Jean" redefined the medium as an art form. Jackson followed it withBad (1987), the first album to produce five USBillboard 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". His next two albumsDangerous (1991) andHIStory (1995) explored socially conscious themes whileInvincible (2001) delved into more personal topics. (Full article...)
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Blanc in 1959

Melvin Jerome Blanc (néBlank/blæŋk/; May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was an Americanvoice actor andradio personality whose career spanned over sixty years. Referred to as "The Man of a Thousand Voices", he is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential voice actors of all time. Blanc is best known for providing voices forLooney Tunes cartoons byWarner Bros. during thegolden age of American animation.

Blanc began his career during theGolden Age of Radio when he provided character voices and vocal sound effects for comedy radio programs, including those ofJack Benny,Abbott and Costello,Burns and Allen,The Great Gildersleeve,Judy Canova and his ownshort-lived sitcom. He later expanded to animation, providing the voices ofBugs Bunny,Daffy Duck,Tweety,Sylvester the Cat,Yosemite Sam,Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner,Speedy Gonzales,Marvin the Martian,Foghorn Leghorn, theTasmanian Devil,Pepé Le Pew and numerous other characters from theLooney Tunes andMerrie Melodiestheatrical cartoons. Blanc also voiced theLooney Tunes charactersPorky Pig andElmer Fudd after replacing their original performers,Joe Dougherty andArthur Q. Bryan, respectively, although he occasionally voiced Elmer during Bryan's lifetime as well. (Full article...)
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Skaggs with the Angels in 2019

Tyler Wayne Skaggs (July 13, 1991 – July 1, 2019) was an American professionalbaseball player. Astarting pitcher, he played seven seasons inMajor League Baseball (MLB) for theArizona Diamondbacks andLos Angeles Angels between 2012 and 2019.

A native ofWoodland Hills, California, and a graduate ofSanta Monica High School, Skaggs was a supplemental first-round selection for the Angels in the2009 Major League Baseball draft. He was traded to the Diamondbacks the following year as part of an exchange for pitcherDan Haren and rose through Arizona'sfarm system. After two consecutive appearances at theAll-Star Futures Game in 2011 and 2012, Skaggs made his major league debut on August 22, 2012, against theMiami Marlins. He remained with the Diamondbacks through the end of the season, but wasoptioned to theminor leagues in 2013. (Full article...)
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Maddow in 2025

Rachel Anne Maddow (/ˈmædoʊ/ ^ⓘMAD-oh; born April 1, 1973) is an American television news program host andliberal political commentator. She hostsThe Rachel Maddow Show, a weekly television show onMS NOW (formerly MSNBC), and serves as the cable network's special event co-anchor. Her syndicatedtalk radio programof the same name aired onAir America Radio from 2005 to 2010.

Maddow has received multipleEmmy Awards for her broadcasting work; in 2021, she also received aGrammy Award for the audiobook version ofBlowout (2019). (Full article...)

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... thata California radio station came to exist because a high-school faculty advisor was on leave in Europe?
... that in 2016 two thieves stole $350,000 worth of rare books in Oakland, California, and tried to sell some of them toMoe's Books nearby?
... thatLogan Barrio is one of the oldest Mexican barrios in Santa Ana, California?
... thatPeanut is inhospitable topeanuts?
... thatThe Chinese in America documents how people in California, during thegold rush era, mailed their laundry to Hong Kong for cleaning?
... that the general manager ofa California TV station canceled the interview show he hosted because of its lack of quality?
... that the Federal Aviation Administration uses the brightly litOakland California Temple as a navigation beacon, despite complaints about light pollution?
... that the founder ofa California TV station opted not to name it for himself because thecall sign would have sounded like "cough"?

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Oceanside, California

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Oceanside is the third largest city inSan Diego County, California. The city has a population of 173,303. Together withVista andCarlsbad, it makes up the Tri-City area. The city is just south ofU.S. Marine Corps BaseCamp Pendleton, the busiest military base in the United States.

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TheCity and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city inCalifornia and the 14th most populouscity in theUnited States, with a 2007 estimated population of 764,976. One of the mostdensely populated major American cities, San Francisco is part of the much largerSan Francisco Bay Area, which is home to approximately 7.2 million people.

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Total area: 163,696 mi²
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Highest elevation: 14,505 ft (Mount Whitney)
Population 39,250,017 (2016 est)
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