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California is a state in the Western United States , lying on the American Pacific Coast . It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and a international border with the Mexican state of Baja California to the south. With 39 million residents across an area of 163,696 square miles (423,970 km 2 ), it is the most populous U.S. state, the third-largest by area, and most populated subnational entity in North America . The Greater Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas are the nation's second- and fifth-most populous urban regions , with 19 million and 10 million residents respectively. Los Angeles is the state's most populous city and the nation's second-most , after New York . California's capital , Sacramento , is located in the Central Valley .
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 peoples in the California genocide . 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's economy is the largest of any US state, with a $3.6 trillion gross state product . It is the largest sub-national economy in the world. California's agricultural industry has the highest output of any U.S. state, and is led by its dairy , almonds , and grapes . With the busiest port in the country (Los Angeles ), California plays a pivotal role in the global supply chain, hauling in about 40% of goods imported to the US. 84% of residents 25 or older hold a high school degree , the lowest high school education rate of all 50 states . Despite a continuing exodus of businesses from Downtown San Francisco and Downtown Los Angeles , California retains one of the largest number of Fortune 500 companies. (Full article... )
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Dodger Stadium in 2015
Dodger Stadium is a baseball stadium in the Elysian Park neighborhood of Los Angeles , California. It is the ballpark for Major League Baseball 's Los Angeles Dodgers . Opened in 1962, it was constructed in less than three years at a cost of US$ 23 million (US$232 million in 2023). It is the oldest ballpark in MLB west of the Mississippi River , and third-oldest overall, after Fenway Park in Boston (1912) and Wrigley Field in Chicago (1914), and is the largest baseball stadium in the world by seat capacity. Often referred to as a "pitcher's ballpark", the stadium has seen 13 no-hitters , 2 of which were perfect games .
The stadium hosted the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in 1980 and 2022 , as well as the World Series ten times (1963 , 1965 , 1966 , 1974 , 1977 , 1978 , 1981 , 1988 , 2017 and 2018 ). It also hosted the semifinals and finals of the 2009 and 2017 World Baseball Classics , as well as exhibition baseball during the 1984 Summer Olympics . The stadium hosted a soccer tournament on August 3, 2013, featuring four clubs: the hometown team Los Angeles Galaxy , and Europe's Real Madrid , Everton , and Juventus . The Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks played a regular season game in 2014 as part of the NHL Stadium Series . (Full article... )
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The following are images from various California-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1 The railway station in
Sacramento in 1874. (from
History of California )
Image 3 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 4 Francis Drake 's 1579 landing in "
New Albion " (modern-day
Point Reyes ); engraving by
Theodor De Bry , 1590. (from
History of California )
Image 5 The 1835
Manifiesto a la República Mejicana , by
José Figueroa , was the first book published in California (from
Culture of California )
Image 7 Mission Santa Barbara , founded in 1786, was the first mission to be established by
Fermín de Lasuén . (from
History of California )
Image 9 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 11 The American capture of
San Diego by the
USS Cyane in 1846 (from
History of California )
Image 12 The
University of California, Berkeley is the flagship school of the University of California system. (from
Culture of California )
Image 13 California's first State Capitol building in
San Jose , which served as the capital of California 1850–51. (from
History of California )
Image 14 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 17 Depiction of the
Donner Party heading west on the
California Trail . (from
History of California )
Image 18 In-N-Out burgers (from
Culture of California )
Image 19 General
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo reviewing his troops in
Sonoma in 1846. (from
History of California )
Image 20 Map of the
Butterfield Overland Mail routes through California, c. 1858. (from
History of California )
Image 22 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 24 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 28 Forces raising the U.S. flag over the
Monterey Customhouse following their victory at the
Battle of Monterey (from
History of California )
Image 29 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 30 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 32 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 42 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 44 Mission San Gabriel Arcángel , founded in 1771 by padres Pedro Benito Cambón and Ángel de la Somera. (from
History of California )
Image 45 San Francisco harbor,
c. 1850 –51. (from
History of California )
Image 46 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 47 "Independent Gold Hunter on His Way to California", c. 1850 (from
History of California )
Image 51 The Spanish founded
Mission San Juan Capistrano in 1776, the third to be established of the
Californian missions . (from
History of California )
Image 52 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 53 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 54 A Southern Pacific Train at
Arcade Depot , Los Angeles, 1891 (from
History of California )
Image 55 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 57 Advertisement for sailing to California, c. 1850. (from
History of California )
Image 58 Bilingual English-Spanish sign in the
Colorado Desert of Southern California . (from
Culture of California )
Image 59 Portrait of an "
assimilated "
Maidu man in
Sacramento , 1867. (from
History of California )
I move between San Francisco and Paris [...] I have a wonderful beach house in California.
— Danielle Steel
Paul Norton "Pete " McCloskey Jr. (September 29, 1927 – May 8, 2024) was an American politician who represented San Mateo County, California , as a Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1967 to 1983. Born in Loma Linda, California , McCloskey pursued a legal career in Palo Alto, California , after graduating from Stanford Law School . He served in the Korean War as a member of the United States Marine Corps . For his service, he was awarded the Navy Cross and the Silver Star . He won election to the House of Representatives in 1967, defeating Shirley Temple in the Republican primary. He co-authored the 1973 Endangered Species Act . He unsuccessfully challenged President Richard Nixon in the 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... )
Charles Milles Manson (né Maddox ; November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an American criminal, cult leader and musician who led the Manson Family , a cult based in California , in the late 1960s. Some of the members committed a series of at least nine murders at four locations in July and August 1969. In 1971, Manson was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder for the deaths of seven people , including the film actress Sharon Tate . The prosecution contended that, while Manson never directly ordered the murders, his ideology constituted an overt act of conspiracy. Before the murders, Manson had spent more than half of his life in correctional 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 with Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys , who introduced Manson to record producer Terry Melcher . In 1968, the Beach Boys recorded Manson's song "Cease to Exist", renamed "Never Learn Not to Love " as a single B-side, but without a credit to Manson. Afterward, Manson attempted to secure a record contract through Melcher, but was unsuccessful. (Full article... )
Paula Julie Abdul (born June 19, 1962) is an American singer, dancer, choreographer, actress, and television personality. She began her career as a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers at the age of 18 and later became the head choreographer for the Laker Girls , where she was discovered by the Jacksons . After choreographing music videos for Janet Jackson , Abdul became a choreographer at the height of the music video era and soon thereafter she was signed to Virgin Records . Her debut studio album Forever Your Girl (1988) became one of the most successful debut albums at that time, selling seven million copies in the United States and setting a record for the most number-one singles from a debut album on the Billboard Hot 100 chart: "Straight Up ", "Forever Your Girl ", "Cold Hearted ", and "Opposites Attract ". Her second album Spellbound (1991) scored her two more chart-toppers – "Rush Rush " and "The Promise of a New Day ". With six number-one singles on Hot 100, Abdul tied Diana Ross for the third-most chart-toppers among female solo artists at the time. Abdul was one of the original judges on the television series American Idol from 2002 to 2009, and has since appeared as a judge on The X Factor , Live to Dance , So You Think You Can Dance , and The Masked Dancer . She received choreography credits in numerous films, including Can't Buy Me Love (1987), The Running Man (1987), Coming to America (1988), Action Jackson (1988), The Doors (1991), Jerry Maguire (1996), and American Beauty (1999). She received 17 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... )
Melvin Jerome Blanc (born Blank ; May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over 60 years. During the Golden Age of Radio , he provided character voices and vocal sound effects for comedy radio programs, including those of Jack Benny , Abbott and Costello , Burns and Allen , The Great Gildersleeve , Judy Canova , and his own short-lived sitcom . However, he became known worldwide for his work in the Golden Age of American Animation as the voices of Bugs Bunny , Daffy Duck , Tweety , Sylvester the Cat , Yosemite Sam , Foghorn Leghorn , the Tasmanian Devil , and numerous other characters from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoons . Blanc also voiced the Looney Tunes characters Porky Pig and Elmer Fudd after replacing their original performers Joe Dougherty and Arthur Q. Bryan , respectively, although he occasionally voiced Elmer during Bryan's lifetime as well. He later voiced characters for Hanna-Barbera 's television cartoons, including Barney Rubble and Dino on The Flintstones , Mr. Spacely on The Jetsons , Secret Squirrel on The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show , the title character of Speed Buggy , and Captain Caveman on Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels and The Flintstone Kids . (Full article... )
Candice Patricia Bergen (born May 9, 1946) is an American actress. She won five Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for her portrayal of the title character on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown (1988–1998, 2018). She is also known for her role as Shirley Schmidt on the ABC drama Boston Legal (2005–2008). In films, Bergen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Starting Over (1979) and for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Gandhi (1982). Bergen began her career as a fashion model and appeared on the cover of Vogue before she made her screen debut in the film The Group (1966). She starred in The Sand Pebbles (1966), Soldier Blue (1970), Carnal Knowledge (1971), and The Wind and the Lion (1975). She made her Broadway debut in the 1984 play Hurlyburly and starred in the revivals of The Best Man (2012) and Love Letters (2014). From 2002 to 2004, she appeared in three episodes of the HBO series Sex and the City . Her other film roles include Miss Congeniality (2000), Sweet Home Alabama (2002), The Women (2008), Bride Wars (2009), Book Club (2018) and Let Them All Talk (2020). (Full article... )
Jessica Michelle Chastain (born March 24, 1977) is an American actress and producer. Known for primarily starring in projects with feminist themes, she has received various accolades , including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe , in addition to nominations for two Tony Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award . Time magazine named her one of the 100 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 as Shakespeare 's Juliet . After studying acting at the Juilliard School , she was signed to a talent holding deal with the television producer John Wells . She was a recurring guest star in several television series, and took on roles in several stage productions. After making her film debut at age 31 in the drama Jolene (2008), Chastain had her breakthrough in 2011 with six film releases, including the dramas Take Shelter (2011) and The Tree of Life (2011). She received Academy Award nominations for playing an aspiring socialite in the period drama The Help (2011) and a CIA analyst in the thriller Zero Dark Thirty (2012). (Full article... )
Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers (born October 1, 1989), known professionally as Brie Larson , is an American actress. Known for her supporting roles in comedies as a teenager, she has since expanded to leading roles in independent films and blockbusters . She has received various accolades , including 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... )
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Skaggs with the Angels in 2019
Tyler Wayne Skaggs (July 13, 1991 – July 1, 2019) was an American left-handed professional baseball starting pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Angels from 2012 until his death in 2019. A native of Woodland Hills, California , and a graduate of Santa Monica High School , Skaggs was a supplemental first-round selection for the Angels in the 2009 Major League Baseball draft . He was traded to the Diamondbacks the following year as part of an exchange for pitcher Dan Haren and rose through Arizona's farm system . After two consecutive appearances at the All-Star Futures Game in 2011 and 2012, Skaggs made his major league debut on August 22, 2012, against the Miami Marlins . He remained with the Diamondbacks through the end of the season, but was optioned to the minor leagues in 2013. (Full article... )
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Jack Leonard Warner (born Jacob Warner ; August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978) was a Canadian-American film executive, who was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank , California . Warner's career spanned over 55 years, surpassing that of any other of the seminal Hollywood studio moguls. As co-head of production at Warner Bros. Studios, Warner worked with his brother, Sam Warner , to procure the technology for the film industry's first talking picture, The Jazz Singer (1927). After Sam's death, Jack clashed with his surviving older brothers, Harry and Albert Warner . He assumed exclusive control of the company in the 1950s when he secretly purchased his brothers's shares in the business after convincing them to participate in a joint sale of stocks. (Full article... )
Joseph Roland Barbera ( BAR -bər-ə ; Italian: [barˈbɛːra] ; March 24, 1911 – December 18, 2006) was an American animator and cartoonist, best known as the co-founder of the animation studio Hanna-Barbera . Born to Italian immigrants in New York City, Barbera joined Van Beuren Studios in 1927 and subsequently Terrytoons in 1929. In 1937, he moved to California, and while working at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Barbera met William Hanna . The two men began a collaboration that was at first best known for producing Tom and Jerry . (Full article... )
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... )
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Ruth E. Norman (born Ruth Nields ; August 18, 1900 – July 12, 1993), also known as Uriel , was an American religious leader who co-founded the Unarius Academy of Science , based in Southern California . Raised in California, Norman received little education and worked from an early age in a variety of jobs. In the 1940s, she developed an interest in psychic phenomena and past-life regression . These pursuits led to her introduction to Ernest Norman , a self-described psychic, in 1954. He engaged in channeling , past-life regression, and attempts at communication with extraterrestrials . She married Ernest, her fourth husband, in the mid-1950s. Together they published several books about his revelations and formed Unarius, an organization which later became known as the Unarius Academy of Science, to popularize his teachings. The couple discussed numerous details about their alleged past lives and spiritual visits to other planets, forming a 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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Hartman in character as Chick Hazard, Private Eye, circa 1978.
Philip Edward Hartman (né Hartmann ; September 24, 1948 – May 28, 1998) was a Canadian-born American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and graphic designer. Hartman was born in Brantford, Ontario , Canada, and his family moved to the United States when he was ten years old. After graduating from California State University, Northridge , with a degree in graphic arts, he designed album covers for bands including Poco and America . In 1975, Hartman joined the comedy group the Groundlings , where he helped Paul Reubens develop his character Pee-wee Herman . Hartman co-wrote the film Pee-wee's Big Adventure and made recurring appearances as Captain Carl on Reubens' show Pee-wee's Playhouse . In 1986, Hartman joined the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL ) as a cast member , and stayed for eight seasons until 1994. Nicknamed "Glue" for his ability to hold the show together and help other cast members, he won a 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... )
Dianne Emiel Feinstein (née Goldman ; June 22, 1933 – September 29, 2023) was an American politician who served as a United States senator from California from 1992 until her death in 2023. A member of the Democratic Party , she served as mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988. A San Francisco native, Feinstein graduated from Stanford University in 1955. She was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1969 and immediately became the board's first female president upon her appointment in 1970. In 1978, during a third stint as the board's president, the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk drew national attention. Feinstein succeeded Moscone as mayor and became the first woman to serve in that position. During her tenure , she led the renovation of the city's cable car system and oversaw the 1984 Democratic National Convention . Despite a recall attempt in 1983 , Feinstein was a popular mayor and was named the most effective mayor in the country by City & State in 1987. (Full article... )
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Norman Clyde in the Sierra Nevada in 1931
Norman Clyde (April 8, 1885 – December 23, 1972) was a mountaineer , mountain guide , freelance writer , nature photographer , and self-trained naturalist . He is well known for achieving over 130 first ascents , many in California's 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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Los Angeles, California is the second-largest city in the United States , with an estimated population of 3.85 million people. Los Angeles is one of the cultural , economic , scientific and entertainment centers of the country.
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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 )
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