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The West Coast of the United States, also known as the Pacific Coast and the Western Seaboard, is the coastline along which the Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean. The term typically refers to the contiguous U.S. states of California , Oregon , and Washington , but it occasionally includes Alaska and Hawaii in bureaucratic usage.
West coast of North America. The human history of the west coast of North America [1] is believed to stretch back to the arrival of the earliest people over the Bering Strait, or alternately along the ice free coastal islands of British Columbia (See, through the development of significant pre-Columbian cultures and population densities, to the arrival of the European explorers and colonizers.
West Coast hip-hop is a regional genre of hip-hop music that encompasses any artists or music that originated in the West Coast of the United States.West Coast hip-hop began to dominate from a radio play and sales standpoint during the early to-mid 1990s with the birth of G-funk and the emergence of record labels such as Suge Knight and Dr. Dre's Death Row Records, Ice Cube's Lench Mob Records ...
In March, Long Beach police tracked down a vehicle that they said was involved in a street takeover event that included an estimated 50 cars. The Nissan 350Z was impounded in Simi Valley, a city ...
After taking in our list of 101 best West Coast experiences, Times readers make the case for destinations we left out, from a country road in Malibu to a remote beach town on a Canadian island.
Juan Antonio Orozco, 22, and his friend Javier Carachure Menchaca, 19, were shot to death around 1 a.m. Nov. 14 while sitting in a car watching a street takeover in Compton.
Beginning in 1743, small associations of fur-traders began to sail from the shores of the Russian Pacific coast to the Aleutian islands. [9] The Bering Strait, where Russia's east coast lies closest to Alaska's west coast. Early Russian colonization occurred well south of the strait, in the Aleutian Islands.
The slice of Utah Territory west of 38° west from Washington was transferred to Nevada Territory. [241] [258] December 30, 1862 The Swan Islands were claimed under the Guano Islands Act. [4] Caribbean Sea: February 24, 1863 Arizona Territory was organized from the half of New Mexico Territory west of 32° west from Washington. [259] [260 ...