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With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho El Rincon was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1853, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and the grant was patented to Bernardo Yorba ...
Prado Regional Park: San Bernardino, Riverside: San Pedro: 1839 Juan Alvarado: Francisco Sanchez: 8,926 acres (3,612 ha) 82 ND Pacifica: San Mateo: San Gregorio: 1839 Juan Alvarado: Antonio Buelna 17,783 acres (7,197 ha) 88 ND, 89 ND San Gregorio: San Mateo: Los Alamos: 1839 Juan Alvarado: Jose Antonio de la Guerra: 48,803 acres (19,750 ha) 83 ...
Prado Regional Park is a 2,000-acre (8.1 km 2) park in Chino, California within the jurisdiction of San Bernardino County. It offers fishing, archery, camping, a golf course, horseback riding, and a shooting range, which was the site of the 1984 Olympic shooting events. The park traces its origins to the Santa Ana River floods of 1937 and 1938 ...
Although busy completing A Dance with Dragons and other projects, George R. R. Martin was heavily involved in the production of the television series adaptation of his books. Martin's involvement included the selection of a production team and participation in scriptwriting; the opening credits list him as a co-executive producer of the series.
The B&O got an early taste of the Civil War during abolitionist John Brown's raid on the Federal armory in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia (in those days still part of Virginia). Garrett learned that raiders had stopped a train at Harper's Ferry, and sent a telegram to the U.S. Secretary of War. [2]
Fevre Dream is a 1982 vampire novel written by American author George R. R. Martin.It is set on the antebellum Mississippi River, beginning in 1857, and has been described by critics and Martin himself as "Bram Stoker meets Mark Twain". [1]
George R. R. Martin denied the insinuation made by his portrayal in the episode that he is obsessed with penises, saying, "I have to deny this as a scurrilous rumor. I have nothing against weenies, weenies are fine, but I am not obsessed with weenies. I am definitely on the boobies side of the equation. They picked the wrong equation for me.
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