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  2. History of California - Wikipedia

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    The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...

  3. People search site - Wikipedia

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    A people search site or people finder site is a specialized search engine that searches information from public records, data brokers and other sources to compile reports about individual people, usually for a fee. [1] [2] Early examples of people search sites included Classmates.com [3] and Whitepages.com. [4]

  4. Territorial evolution of California - Wikipedia

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    Before 1768: An enlargeable territorial map of California tribal groups and languages prior to European contact within the modern day borders. Before 1768: An enlargeable map of the world showing the dividing lines for; Pope Alexander VI's Inter caetera papal bull (1493), the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), and the Treaty of Saragossa (1529).

  5. History of California before 1900 - Wikipedia

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    The most commonly accepted model of migration to the New World is that people from Asia crossed the Bering land bridge to the Americas some 16,500 years ago. The remains of Arlington Springs Man on Santa Rosa Island are among the traces of a very early habitation, dated to the Wisconsin glaciation (the most recent ice age) about 13,000 years ago.

  6. List of Californios people - Wikipedia

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    Mayor of Santa Barbara and California State Senator [23] Pablo de la Guerra: 1819–1874 Santa Barbara, Alta California, Viceroyalty of New Spain (now California, U.S.) politician Lieutenant Governor of California, a California State Senator, and signer of the Californian Constitution: José de la Guerra y Noriega: 1779–1858 Novales ...

  7. California - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. History of California (1900–present) - Wikipedia

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    Devastating fires broke out in the city that lasted for several days, destroying about 28,000 buildings. As a result of the quake and fires, over 3,000 people died [6] and over 80% of San Francisco was destroyed. The death toll from the earthquake and resulting fire is the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history.

  9. California Statehood Act - Wikipedia

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    California Admission Day (September 9) is an annual legal holiday in the state, celebrated as a day of observance to commemorate its admission into the Union as the thirty-first state on that date in 1850. [25]

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