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California (/ ˌ k æ l ɪ ˈ f ɔːr n j ə /) is a state in the Western Region of the United States that lies on the Pacific Coast.It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California to the south.
Excise taxes dedicated to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund raised $9.0 billion in fiscal year 2020, down from $16.0 billion in fiscal year 2019. [2] 90% of the excise tax revenue comes from taxing passenger air fares, and the remaining 10% comes from air cargo and aviation fuel taxes.
Urban planners work with the cognate fields of civil engineering, landscape architecture, architecture, and public administration to achieve strategic, policy and sustainability goals. Early urban planners were often members of these cognate fields though today, urban planning is a separate, independent professional discipline.
On December 31, 1948, the city of Houston had annexed the land around the city of Bellaire, stopping the city of Bellaire's land growth. Bellaire remained independent of Houston, and adopted a home rule charter with a council-manager government in April 1949. [5] By 1950, the city's residents had numbered 10,173, with 3,186 houses.
Amarillo (/ ˌ æ m ə ˈ r ɪ l oʊ / [6] AM-ə-RIL-oh; Spanish for "yellow") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Potter County.It is the 16th-most populous city in Texas and the most populous city in the Texas panhandle. [7]
Each state supports at least one state university and many support several. At one extreme, California has three public higher education systems: the 10-campus University of California, the 23-campus California State University, and the 112-campus California Community Colleges System. In contrast, Wyoming supports a single state university ...
The tourism industry's ongoing expansion and its pressure on local systems of ecology, cultural tradition and infrastructure is creating a conflict between economic and environmental health. [80] In 2020, the Center for Biological Diversity reported on the plastic pollution of Hawaii's Kamilo beach, citing "massive piles of plastic waste". [ 81 ]
The use of stitched clothes became widespread after Muslim rule was established at first by the Delhi sultanate (c. 1300 CE) and then continued by the Mughal Empire (c. 1525 CE). [462] Among the garments introduced during this time and still commonly worn are: the shalwars and pyjamas , both styles of trousers, and the tunics kurta and kameez ...