Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
The state of Texas confirmed its first case on February 13, 2020, and many of the state's largest cities recorded their first cases throughout March. As of late May 2021, there were 50,198 COVID-19 related deaths reported in that state. The death rate in Texas was 175 for every 100,000 people, while national COVID-19 death rate was 179 per 100,000.
At the turn of the century, oil production in California continued to rise at a booming rate. In 1900, the state of California produced 4 million barrels. [17] In 1903, California became the leading oil-producing state in the US, and traded the number one position back and forth with Oklahoma through 1930. [18]
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.
Top sources of Texas' net gain of residents. In 2022, an estimated 668,000 people moved to Texas, according to a new release from Texas Realtors.In all, the state saw a net gain of almost 175,000 ...
[3] [4] Texas is commonly seen as having little government intervention and regulation, while in California the state takes a larger role in public policies. [5] There are also exceptions, discussed as part of the perceived rivalry, in which Texas has increased state intervention against immigration and abortion whereas California has reduced ...
California no longer bans state-funded travel to more than half of the country. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed Senate Bill 447 into law, ending the seven-year-old travel ban that prohibited ...
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.