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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.

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 thelargest of any U.S. state, with an estimated 2024gross state product of $4.172 trillion as of Q4 2024. It is the world'slargest sub-national economy and, if it were an independent country, would be the fourth-largest economy in the world (putting it, as of 2025, behind Germany and ahead of Japan) 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.Hollywood in Los Angeles is the center of theU.S. film industry and 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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A hot windstorm brings dust from the surrounding desert, July 3, 1942

Manzanar is the site ofone of ten Americanconcentration camps, where more than 120,000Japanese Americans wereincarcerated during World War II, from March 1942 to November 1945. Although it had over 10,000 inmates at its peak, Manzanar was one of the smaller internment camps. It is located in California'sOwens Valley, on the eastern side of theSierra Nevada mountains, between the towns ofLone Pine to the south andIndependence to the north, approximately 230 miles (370 km) north of Los Angeles. Manzanar means "apple orchard" in Spanish. TheManzanar National Historic Site, which preserves and interprets the legacy of Japanese American incarceration in the United States, was identified by the United StatesNational Park Service as the best-preserved of the ten former camp sites.

The first Japanese Americans arrived at Manzanar in March 1942, just one month afterPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt signedExecutive Order 9066, to build the camp their families would be staying in. Manzanar was in operation as an internment camp from 1942 until 1945. Since the last of those incarcerated left in 1945, former detainees and others have worked to protect Manzanar and to establish it as aNational Historic Site to ensure that the history of the site, along with the stories of those who were incarcerated there, is recorded for current and future generations. The primary focus is theJapanese American incarceration era, as specified in the legislation that created the Manzanar National Historic Site. The site also interprets the former town of Manzanar, the ranch days, the settlement by theOwens Valley Paiute, and the role that water played in shaping the history of the Owens Valley. (Full article...)

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

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California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.

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Meyer in 1996 (photo byRoger Ebert)

Russell Albion Meyer (March 21, 1922 – September 18, 2004) was an Americanfilmmaker. He was primarily known for writing and directing a successful series ofsexploitation films featuringcampy humor, sly satire and large-breasted women, which have attracted a considerablecult following. His best-known works includeFaster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965),Vixen! (1968),Supervixens (1975),Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979), and the film he considered to be his definitive work,Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970). (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,stages, 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. His breakthrough as a solo artist came with the albumOff the Wall (1979). Jackson achieved unprecedented global success withThriller (1982), thebest-selling album in history. Itsshort film-stylemusic videos for "Thriller", "Beat It", and "Billie Jean" popularizedMTV and 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". He then released the socially conscious recordsDangerous (1991) andHIStory (1995). His final album,Invincible (2001), became a21st-century bestseller. (Full article...)
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Stefani in 2016

Gwen Renée Stefani Shelton (/stəˈfɑːni/stə-FAH-nee; born October 3, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter and fashion designer. Stefani rose to fame as a member and lead vocalist of the bandNo Doubt, whose hit singles include "Just a Girl", "Spiderwebs", and "Don't Speak" from their studio albumTragic Kingdom (1995), as well as "Hey Baby" and "It's My Life" from later albums. During the band's hiatus, Stefani embarked on a solopop career in 2004 by releasing her debut studio albumLove. 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 theBillboard Hot 100 chart while also becoming the first US download to sell one million copies.

Stefani's second studio album,The Sweet Escape (2006), yielded the singles "Wind It Up" and thetitle track, the latter of which was number three on theBillboard 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 theBillboard 200 chart. Her fourth solo album and first full-lengthChristmas album,You Make It Feel Like Christmas, was released in 2017 and charted 19 tracks onBillboard'sHoliday Digital Song Sales component chart in the United States. Stefani has released several singles with husbandBlake Shelton, including "Nobody but You" (2020), which reached number 18 in the US. In 2024, she released her fifth studio albumBouquet. (Full article...)
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Larson in 2018

Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers (born October 1, 1989), known professionally asBrie Larson, is an American-Canadian actress. She played supporting roles in comedies as a teenager, and has since expanded to leading roles inindependent films andblockbusters.Her accolades include anAcademy Award, aGolden Globe Award, and aPrimetime Emmy Award.Time magazine named her one of the100 most influential people in the world in 2019.

At age six, Larson was the youngest student admitted to a training program at theAmerican Conservatory Theater, and she began her acting career in 1998 with acomedy sketch onThe Tonight Show with Jay Leno. She appeared as a regular in the 2001 sitcomRaising Dad and briefly dabbled with a music career, releasing the albumFinally Out of P.E. in 2005. She subsequently had supporting roles in the comedy filmsHoot (2006),Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), and21 Jump Street (2012), and appeared as a sardonic teenager in the television seriesUnited States of Tara (2009–2011). (Full article...)
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Downey in 2014

Robert John Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor. Known for portraying charismatic and intelligent characters over a versatile range of films, he was named one of the greatest actors of the 21st century byThe Independent. He was thehighest-paid actor inHollywood annually from 2013 to 2015, and is one of thehighest-grossing actors of all time;his films as a leading actor have grossed over $14.3 billion worldwide.

At the age of five, Downey made his acting debut in his fatherRobert Downey Sr.'s filmPound (1970). He rose to prominence by working with theBrat Pack for theteen filmsWeird Science (1985) andLess than Zero (1987). His portrayal ofCharlie Chaplin in the biopicChaplin (1992) earned him theBAFTA Award for Best Actor and anAcademy Award nomination. After serving time at theCorcoran Substance Abuse Treatment Facility on drug charges, Downey joined the television seriesAlly McBeal in 2000, earning aGolden Globe for his performance. In 2001, he was dismissed from the show following further drug-related arrests. He entered a court-ordered rehabilitation program and has remainedsober since 2003. (Full article...)
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Wong in 1935

Wong Liu Tsong (January 3, 1905 – February 3, 1961), known professionally asAnna May Wong, was an American actress, considered the firstChinese American film star inHollywood, as well as the first Chinese American actress to gain international recognition. Her varied career spannedvaudeville,silent film,sound film,television,stage, andradio.

Born in Los Angeles to second-generationTaishanese 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 movieThe Red Lantern (1919). During the silent film era, she acted inThe Toll of the Sea (1922), one of the first films made in color, and inDouglas 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 theflapper 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. (Full article...)
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Eastwood in 2019

Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor and film director. After achieving success in theWestern TV seriesRawhide, Eastwood rose to international fame with his role as the "Man with No Name" inSergio Leone'sDollars Trilogy ofspaghetti Westerns during the mid-1960s and asantihero copHarry Callahan in the fiveDirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduringcultural icon ofmasculinity. Elected in 1986, Eastwood served for two years as the mayor ofCarmel-by-the-Sea, California.

Eastwood's greatest commercial successes are the adventure comedyEvery Which Way but Loose (1978) and its action comedy sequelAny Which Way You Can (1980). Other popular Eastwood films include the WesternsHang 'Em High (1968),The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) andPale Rider (1985), the action-war filmWhere Eagles Dare (1968), the prison filmEscape from Alcatraz (1979), the war filmHeartbreak Ridge (1986), the action filmIn the Line of Fire (1993), and the romantic dramaThe Bridges of Madison County (1995). More recent works includeGran Torino (2008),The Mule (2018), andCry Macho (2021). Since 1967, Eastwood's companyMalpaso Productions has produced all but four of his American films. (Full article...)
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Martin with the Yankees in 1954

Alfred Manuel "Billy"Martin Jr. (May 16, 1928 – December 25, 1989) was an AmericanMajor League Baseball (MLB)second baseman and manager, who, in addition to leading other teams, was five times the manager of theNew 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 ownerGeorge Steinbrenner or resigning under fire.

Martin was born in a working-class section ofBerkeley, California. His skill as a baseball player gave him a route out of his home town. Signed by thePacific Coast League Oakland Oaks, Martin learned much fromCasey Stengel, the man who would manage him both in Oakland and in New York, with whom he enjoyed a close relationship. Martin's spectacular catch of a wind-blownJackie Robinson popup late in Game Seven of the1952 World Series saved that series for the Yankees, and he was the hitting star of the1953 World Series, earning the Most Valuable Player award in the Yankee victory. He missed most of two seasons, 1954 and 1955, after beingdrafted into the Army, and his abilities never fully returned; the Yankees traded him after a brawl at theCopacabana club in New York during the 1957 season. (Full article...)
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Oppenheimer in 1944

J. Robert Oppenheimer (bornJulius Robert Oppenheimer/ˈɒpənhaɪmər/ ^ⓘOP-ən-hy-mər; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an Americantheoretical physicist who served as the director of theManhattan Project'sLos Alamos Laboratory duringWorld War II. He is often called the "father of theatomic bomb" for his role in overseeing the development of the first nuclear weapons.

Born inNew York City, Oppenheimer obtained a degree inchemistry fromHarvard University in 1925 and adoctorate in physics from theUniversity of Göttingen inGermany in 1927, studying underMax Born. After research at other institutions, he joined the physics faculty at theUniversity of California, Berkeley, where he was made a full professor in 1936. (Full article...)
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Wally Bill Hedrick (1928 – December 17, 2003) was a seminal Americanartist in the 1950s California counterculture, gallerist, and educator who came to prominence in the early 1960s. Hedrick's contributions to art include pioneering artworks in psychedelic light art, mechanical kinetic sculpture, junk/assemblage sculpture, Pop Art, and (California) Funk Art. Later in his life, he was a recognized forerunner in Happenings, Conceptual Art,Bad Painting, Neo-Expressionism, and image appropriation. Hedrick was also a key figure in the first important public manifestation of theBeat Generation when he helped to organize theSix Gallery Reading, and created the first artistic denunciation of American foreign policy in Vietnam. Wally Hedrick was known as an "idea artist" long before the labelconceptual art entered the art world, and experimented with innovative use of language in art, at times resorting topuns. (Full article...)
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Official portrait, 1983

Nancy Davis Reagan (bornAnne Frances Robbins; July 6, 1921 – March 6, 2016) was an American actress who was thefirst lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989, as the second wife ofRonald Reagan, the 40thpresident of the United States.

Reagan was born in New York City. After her parents separated, she lived inMaryland with an aunt and uncle for six years. When her mother remarried in 1929, she moved to Chicago and was adopted by her mother's second husband. AsNancy Davis, she was a Hollywood actress in the 1940s and 1950s, starring in films such asThe Next Voice You Hear...,Night into Morning, andDonovan's Brain. In 1952, she married Ronald Reagan, who was then president of theScreen Actors Guild. He had two children from his previous marriage toJane Wyman, and he and Nancy had two children together. Nancy Reagan was the first lady of California when her husband wasgovernor from 1967 to 1975, and she began to work with theFoster Grandparents Program. (Full article...)
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Official portrait, 1981

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40thpresident of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of theRepublican Party, he became an important figure in theAmerican conservative movement. The period encompassinghis presidency is known as theReagan era.

Born inTampico, Illinois, Reagan graduated fromEureka College in 1932 and was hired the next year as a sports broadcaster in Iowa. In 1937, he moved to California where he became a well-known film actor. During his acting career, Reagan was president of theScreen Actors Guild twice from 1947 to 1952 and from 1959 to 1960. In the 1950s, he hostedGeneral Electric Theater and worked as a motivational speaker forGeneral Electric. During the1964 presidential election, Reagan's "A Time for Choosing" speech launched his rise as a leading conservative figure. After beingelected governor of California in 1966, he raised state taxes, turned the state budget deficit into a surplus and implemented harsh crackdowns on university protests. Following his loss toGerald Ford in the1976 Republican Party presidential primaries, Reagan won the Republican Party's nomination and then obtained a landslide victory over PresidentJimmy Carter in the1980 presidential election. (Full article...)
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Milk in June 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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Schwarzenegger in 2019

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian and American actor, businessman, former politician, and formerprofessional bodybuilder, known for his roles in high-profileaction films.He served as the 38thgovernor of California from 2003 to 2011.

Schwarzenegger beganlifting weights at age 15 and won theMr. Universe title aged 20, and subsequently theMr. Olympia title seven times. He is tied withPhil Heath for the joint-second number of all-time Mr. Olympia wins, behindRonnie Coleman andLee Haney, who are joint-first with eight wins each. Nicknamed the "Austrian Oak" in his bodybuilding days, he is regarded as one of the greatestbodybuilders of all time. He has written books and articles about bodybuilding, including the autobiographicalArnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder (1977) andThe New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding (1998). TheArnold Sports Festival, the second-most prestigious bodybuilding event after the Mr. Olympia competition, is named after him. He appeared in the bodybuilding documentaryPumping Iron (1977), which set him on his way to a career in films. (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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... 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?
... thatProject Carryall proposed the detonation of 23 nuclear devices in California to build a road?
... thatLos Angeles Rising was put together by two musicians who had been forced to evacuate their homes due to theJanuary 2025 wildfires in Los Angeles?
... that theElectriquette was an electric wicker vehicle that could be rented at the 1915Panama–California Exposition?
... that astrophysicistAlan C. Cummings has led more than 1,700 weekly birdwatching walks atCaltech since 1986?
... that on July 11, 2022,millions of dollars worth of jewelry was stolen from the back of a truck while one driver was getting food at a California truck stop and the other one was asleep in the cab?
... thatPeanut is inhospitable topeanuts?
... thatKevin A. Gilroy served as the mayor ofGilroy?

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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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Air pollution over the City of Los Angeles

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Los Angeles, California is thesecond-largest city in theUnited States, with an estimated population of 3.85 million people. Los Angeles is one of thecultural,economic,scientific andentertainment centers of the country.

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