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Capetown (formerly, Gas Jet and False Cape [1]) is a locality [1] in Humboldt County, California. It is located on the Bear River 3 miles (5 km) northeast of Cape Mendocino, [1] at an elevation of 49 feet (15 m). [2] The Gas Jet post office operated from 1868 to 1876. [1] The name referred to escaping gas from an oil well. [1]
There’s a reason the burger company went In-N-Out of California According to the Hoover Institution, over 350 businesses moved their headquarters out of California from 2018 to 2021. Eleven of ...
Updated housing plans across the state include zoning changes to allow for roughly 750,000 new homes, and the state estimates that the pending developments of more than 6,500 units have been ...
Regional Seismicity 1985–2003. The Cape Mendocino region of California's north coast is one of the most seismically active regions in the contiguous United States.Three earthquakes with epicenters nearby at the town of Petrolia and offshore west of Cape Mendocino, 25–26 April 1992, were outstanding, one reaching 7.2 M w; [8] shaking the town so badly, fires broke out and burned down ...
The area known today as Cape Town has no written history before it was first mentioned by Portuguese explorer Bartholomeu Dias in 1488. The German anthropologist Theophilus Hahn recorded that the original name of the area was 'ǁHui ǃGais' – a toponym in the indigenous Khoe language meaning "where clouds gather."
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One of the most common reasons for a country changing its name is newly acquired independence. When borders are changed, sometimes due to a country splitting or two countries joining, the names of the relevant areas can change. This, however, is more the creation of a different entity than an act of geographical renaming. [citation needed]
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