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Californication is a portmanteau of California and fornication, appearing in Time on May 6, 1966 [1] and written about on August 21, 1972, additionally seen on bumper stickers in the U.S. states of Idaho, [2] Washington, [3] Colorado, Oregon, Oklahoma, [4] [5] and Texas. [6]
Early modern period – The chronological limits of this period are open to debate. It emerges from the Late Middle Ages (c. 1500), demarcated by historians as beginning with the fall of Constantinople in 1453, in forms such as the Italian Renaissance in the West, the Ming dynasty in the East, and the rise of the Aztecs in the New World.
c. 11,200 – 9000 BCE, California Post Pattern: c. 11,000 – 7000 BCE, NW California Folsom tradition: c. 10800 – 10200 BCE Dalton tradition: c. 8500 – 7900 BCE Archaic period, (Archaic stage) (8000 – 1000 BCE) by Time Period Early Archaic 8000 – 6000 BCE Plano cultures: 9,000 – 5,000 BCE Paleo-Arctic tradition: 8000 – 5000 BCE ...
The events in this timeline occurred primarily in the portion of the modern continental United States west of the Mississippi River, and mostly in the period between the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the admission of the last western territories as states in 1912 where most of the frontier was already settled and became urbanized; a few ...
Charles W. Dempster, California Assemblyman (1931–1935) [12], candidate for Los Angeles City Council (1935), served in three separate state legislatures (Montana, Idaho, and California) Will H. Kindig , Los Angeles City Council member (1935–1937), [ 12 ] candidate for California State Controller (1934) [ 8 ]
Women and the Conquest of California, 1542–1840: Codes of Silence. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-2446-4; Casas, María Raquél (2007). Married to a Daughter of the Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and Interethnic Marriage in California, 1820–1880. Reno: University of Nevada Press. ISBN 978-0-87417-697-1
The proposition permits the California State Legislature to change the times and dates of daylight saving time period by a two-thirds vote, all while in compliance with federal law. For the state to have such powers, Proposition 12 (1949), which established daylight saving time in California, needed to be repealed, which can only be done by the ...
The decadent movement was a response to the perceived decadence within the earlier Romantic, naturalist and realist movements in France at this time. [52] The decadent movement takes decadence in literature to an extreme, with characters who debase themselves for pleasure, [ 53 ] [ 54 ] and the use of metaphor, symbolism and language as tools ...