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A snow-covered peak, 2,860 metres (9,380 ft) high, standing close southeast of Hunt Spur and surmounting a projecting buttress at the northwest face of Watson Escarpment. Named by US-ACAN for Lt. George W. Warden, United States Navy, pilot on aircraft flights over the Queen Maud Mountains in United States Navy Operation Highjump, 1946-47. [19]
The counties of California are local arms of the State of California, described by the Supreme Court of California as agents ("the county is merely a political subdivision of state government, exercising only the powers of the state, granted by the state…'") and the property they hold is held on behalf of all the people of the state.
Rank Building Name Height Floors Year Built 1: Pasadena City Hall: 206 ft (63 m) 6: 1927 2: Parsons Corporate Headquarters: 200 ft (61 m) 12: 1971 3: AT&T Building: 197 ft (60 m)
California State Prison, Los Angeles County: LAC Los Angeles: 1993 Yes 2,300 3,158 137.3% California State Prison, Sacramento: SAC Sacramento: 1986 1,828 2,363 129.3% California State Prison, Solano: SOL Solano: 1984 2,610 3,752 143.8% California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison, Corcoran: SATF Kings: 1997 Yes 3,424 4,844 141.5%
This is a complete List of National Historic Landmarks in California.The United States National Historic Landmark (NHL) program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service, and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources nationwide according to a list of criteria of national significance. [1]
The signpost at the spot shows a photograph of a trusted inmate doing chores at the house for the warden and that the house had a terraced garden and greenhouse. [93] The mansion had tall windows, providing fine views of San Francisco Bay. [94] Today, the house is a ruin, burned down by Native Americans during the Occupation of Alcatraz on June ...
The Iron Mountain Pump Plant sits adjacent to the east side of the range and the Colorado River Aqueduct traverses the range through the Iron Mountain Tunnel. [2] During World War II, from 1942 to 1944, near the Iron Mountains the US Army built Camp Iron Mountain to train troops and prepare them to do battle in North Africa to fight the Nazis.
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 ...