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99 unusual facts about California


2012 May Day protests

Oakland, California – Protests were dispersed by police with the use of tear gas.

Acentrophryne

Fossils of the type species, A. longidens, have been found in Late Miocene strata of Rosedale.

AIDS Project Los Angeles

The Walk is now the largest HIV/AIDS fundraiser in Southern California.

Alistair Paterson

By 2004, Paterson had opened a Poetry NZ office in Palm Springs, California.

American Duos

When the latest incarnation of American Idol shows sets up shop in Santa Barbara, the requisite cruel British judge Nigel St. Nigel (Tim Curry) finds himself in a panic after a series of near-miss attempts on his life and hires Santa Barbara's most reliable psychic detective to protect him.

Amy Elizabeth du Pont

She died on February 16, 1962 at age 81, following a stroke at her home in Montecito, California.

Aptos High School

Aptos High School is a comprehensive secondary school in Aptos, California, USA in the Pajaro Valley Unified School District.

Arky Vaughan

After leaving the Seals, Vaughan bought a ranch in Eagleville, California where he retired to fish, hunt and tend cattle.

Artemis Pebdani

She received her BFA in theatre from Southern Methodist University and is also an alum of the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre in Blue Lake, California.

Atlantic and Pacific Railroad

The SP began building a branch from Mojave, California that same year, east to Needles, where the two met on August 9, 1883.

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

On April 30, 1966, two days after the publication of his book, Fariña attended a book-signing ceremony at a Carmel Valley Village bookstore, the Thunderbird (to be followed the next day by another at the Discovery Bookshop in San Francisco).

Benson Mates

Benson Mates (May 19, 1919, Portland, Oregon – May 14, 2009, Berkeley, California) was an American philosopher, noted for his work in logic, the history of philosophy, and skepticism.

Bobby Quarry

Bobby Quarry was born in Lynwood, California on November 11, 1962, and is the last surviving brother of the four Quarry brothers, three of whom were noted boxers.

Brian C. Griffin

In January 2004, Griffin was appointed the President and member of the Board for Clean Energy Systems, a private Rancho Cordova, California based energy technology innovations firm.

California Conquest

Arturo Bordega and Julia Lawrence eventually travel to Fort Ross, where they are able to capture Fredo Brios (as well as a fictional Russian princess, Helena de Gagarine, and a high-ranking Russian army officer), and otherwise manage to thwart the treasonous conspiracy.

California State Route 261

The freeway continues next to The Market Place, a mall in Irvine, before going through a toll plaza after the Irvine Boulevard interchange.

California State Route 49

Near the town of Mount Bullion, SR 49 passes by Mariposa-Yosemite Airport before turning northwest and going through Bear Valley and the intersection with CR J16.

Camilo Daza International Airport

In March 2008, was the epicenter for the arrival of direct international flights from Madrid, Miami, San Jose, Quito and Caracas on the grounds of the Peace Without Borders concert held in Cúcuta.

Caroline, No

The sounds that were lifted for the end of the Pet Sounds album were that of Train #58, "The Owl", speeding through at 70 mph through Edison, California.

Cathode bias

In 1985, The Department of Engineering and Technology at Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo, California was presented with a "C" battery date stamped 1927.

Clementine Deymann

In 1885 and in 1891 Father Clementine was elected definitor of the Franciscan province of the Sacred Heart; in 1886 he was made superior of the boys' orphanage at Watsonville, California.

Clymer Wright

Her daughter from a previous marriage is Lisa Kay Baker of Paso Robles, California.

Cupressus macrocarpa

The native range of the species was confined to two small relict populations, at Cypress Point in Pebble Beach and at Point Lobos near Carmel, California.

Dave Carpender

Dave Carpender (born 23 January 1950, Berkeley, California, died 26 September 2007) was the guitarist with The Greg Kihn Band from 1976 to 1983.

David Karp

His parents are Barbara Ackerman, a teacher from San Anselmo, California, and Michael D. Karp, a film and television composer.

Ducey's Bass Lake Lodge

In 1941, Buddy Freeman constructed Freeman's Bass Lake Lodge on the north shore of Bass Lake, California about one mile west of the Pines Village.

En Ami

A majority of the lake scenes were filmed at Lake Sherwood in California.

Evangelica

The "dissident bimonthly" Evangelica based in Napa, California was founded in reaction.

Freeway service patrol

In some states, the program name is the generic term, as with California's Freeway Service Patrol; in others, the program has an individualized name, as with Indiana's Hoosier Helper program.

George S. Stuart

When Stuart moved to Ojai, California in 1959, he opened The Gallery of Historical Figures and began teaching workshops on figural construction, costuming and sculpting faces.

Gerald Heffernan

Gerald "Gerry" Joseph Heffernan (July 24, 1916 in Montreal, Quebec – January 16, 2007 in Moraga, California) was a professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League.

Gérard Guillaumaud

Guillaumaud was born in France and was a graduate of the National Test Pilot School (NTPS) in Mojave, California.

Gilroy Unified School District

The other school districts included San Ysidro and Rucker.

Gladys Waddingham

Gladys Waddingham (1900–1997), a Spanish teacher at Inglewood High School in Inglewood, California, for 45 years, was the author of many books about her adopted city.

Golden Gate National Recreation Area

The latest acquisition by the National Park Service is Mori Point, a small parcel of land on the Pacifica coast.

Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media

The organization has three full-time staff members who operate from offices in Baltimore, MD and Oakland, CA.

Granville Knight

He later moved to California to practice in the fields of allergies and nutrition.

Gregory Minor

A native of Fresno, California, Minor received an electrical engineering degree from the University of California in 1960.

Harry W. Musselwhite

He died in San Lorenzo, California and is interred on the other side of the state in Cypress Lawn Cemetery of Coloma.

Henry F. May

Born in Denver, Colorado, he was reared in Berkeley, California and spent a formative year in Europe with his family as the youngest of three children.

Horace Bristol

Bristol was born and raised in Whittier, California, and attended the Art Center of Los Angeles, originally majoring in architecture.

Hugh Baiocchi

Married to wife Joan and with two children (Lauren and Justin), he lives in Palm Springs, California.

IBM 1500

Seeded by a research grant in 1964 from the U.S. Department of Education to the Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences at Stanford University, the IBM 1500 CAI system was initially prototyped at the Brentwood Elementary School (Ravenswood City School District) in East Palo Alto, California by Dr. Patrick Suppes of Stanford University.

Islam in Peru

The Latin American Muslim Unity (LAMU) organization, based in Fresno, California, United States, has drawn up a proposal for the first Islamic orphanage in Peru, although it has not yet materialized.

J. Jon Bruno

From 1983 to 1986, he was associate at St. Paul's Church in Pomona, California.

James Tarjan

Tarjan's last competitive tournament was the 1984 U.S. Championship at Berkeley, where he went out in style with a fine tied third, scoring 10.5/17.

Jane Vandenburgh

She is married to Jack Shoemaker, a Berkeley, California, book publisher (North Point Press, Counterpoint) who publishes Gary Snyder and Wendell Berry.

Jennifer 8

At the invitation of an old friend and colleague, Freddy Ross, Berlin heads to rural northern California, for a job with the Eureka police force.

Jon Pritikin

Jon and his wife, Rhonda and daughter, Jaden currently reside in Lodi, California.

Josh Taves

Josh Heinrich Taves (aka Josh Heinrich; born May 13, 1972, in Watsonville, California) is a former professional American football player.

Kinderhook Industries

In June, 2012, the firm took control of M. Davis Company, Incorporated (doing business as USA Recovery, and Skip Masters), a firm based in El Dorado Hills, California that reprocesses property when owners default on loans.

La Mesa Police Department

The La Mesa Police Department is the police agency for the City of La Mesa, California.

Las Lomitas Elementary School District

The Las Lomitas Elementary School District is a public school district in the San Francisco Bay Area, primarily serving parts of the communities of Menlo Park, Atherton and Ladera, with its headquarters in Menlo Park.

Leah Rosenfeld

She spent the rest of her life in Mariposa, California, where she was interviewed by railroad historian Shirley Burman and photographed by railroad photographer Richard Steinheimer in 1987.

Leisure Suit Larry 4: The Missing Floppies

The other reason was that the ending of Larry 3 was very definitive and somehow metafictional, since it showed Larry and Patti coming to the Sierra studios to make games based on their adventures, as well as living happily in a mountain cabin in Coarsegold.

Liv Jagge-Christiansen

She participated at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley and at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, competing in downhill, slalom and giant slalom.

Lone Star Elementary School

Lone Star Elementary School is (located at 2617 S. Fowler Avenue, Fresno, California 93725 between Jensen Ave. and North Ave) is a school, that is part of the Sanger Unified School District, with Grades K-6 (formally K-8).

Lori Williams

The first, A Swingin' Summer, made the same year, is a beach musical filmed primarily at Southern California's Lake Arrowhead.

María Ruiz de Burton

Soon after the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo was signed in 1848, Ruiz de Burton, her mother, and her brother moved the Monterey and became American citizens.

Melvin Anthony

Melvin Anthony grew up in the lower-middle-class neighborhoods of Sacramento and San Bernardino, California.

Meshael Alayban

Meshael Alayban is a Saudi woman accused of human trafficking in Irvine, California.

Metasonix

Metasonix is an American audio equipment manufacturer, founded by Eric Barbour in 1998 and located in Lakeport, California.

Millspaugh

Millspaugh, California, unincorporated community in Inyo County, California

Northrop XFT

After the 3A and its test pilot, Lieutenant Frank Scare, disappeared without trace on a flight over the Pacific Ocean off California on 30 July 1935, Northrop abandoned the 3A project and sold its blueprints to Chance Vought Aviation.

Novella Carpenter

In March 2011, the City of Oakland told Carpenter she would have to close her Ghost Town Farm because she was selling excess produce without a permit.

Odostomia pratoma

The type specimen was found in the Pacific Ocean off Santa Rosa Island, California

Paffard Keatinge-Clay

Here, he built a pavilion in the desert – an elemental study of components that would later become the template for his own home on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais in Corte Madera in Marin County.

Petrit Çeku

On June 2, 2012, he won the Gold Medal in the Parkening International Guitar Competition in Malibu, California.

Prikeba Phipps

Prikeba ("Keba") Reed Phipps (born June 30, 1969 in Lakewood, California) is a retired volleyball player from the United States, who represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

Red Bull Road Rage

In 2006 the event was set to return to Tuna Canyon, Malibu, California, scheduled for 11 November.

Rich Manning

He played collegiately at both Syracuse University and the University of Washington, after having attended Center High School in Antelope, California.

Ritchie Coliseum

Terrapins pugilists Ben Alperstein and Tom Birmingham went on to compete in the national intercollegiate championship in Sacramento, California.

Robert Charles Wilson

Apart from another short period in the early 1970s spent in Whittier, California, he has lived most of his life in Canada, and in 2007 he became a Canadian citizen.

Robert F. Fisher

Robert F. Fisher, (February 18, 1879 Plymouth, England - July 20, 1969 Carlotta, California) served in the California legislature and during the Spanish-American War he served in the United States Army.

Robert R. Odén

In 1959 the U.S. Olympic Committee asked him to be the official team doctor for the United States Ski Team during the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California.

Rory Calhoun

At age thirteen, he stole a revolver, for which he was sent to the California Youth Authority's Preston School of Industry reformatory at Ione, California.

Santa Ana Civic Center

The County of Orange was formed in 1889 by William Spurgeon and James McFadden and Santa Ana was chosen as the county seat of government because of its larger growth as a town over surrounding towns namely Orange.

Santa Ana Unified School District

Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) is a school district in Orange County, California that serves the city of Santa Ana.

Santa Barbara Polo Club

After a Japanese attack on Goleta, California (Attacks on North America during World War II), soldiers were stationed at the polo club to protect the members for the remaining years of the war.

Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour

After the death of her close childhood friend, 17-year-old Sarah Landon (Rissa Walters) goes to visit her friend's grandmother, Thelma Shaw (Jane Harris), in the small town of Pine Valley, California.

Savanna School District

Savanna School District is an elementary school district in Anaheim, California that also serves a small portion of Buena Park, Cypress and Stanton.

Shirley Horton

Spring Valley.

Siosa'ia Ma'ulupekotofa Tuita

He currently lives with his wife, HRH Princess Salote Mafile'o Pilolevu Tuita, and their family, dividing their time between residences in Tau'akipulu and Hillsborough, California.

Spring Valley, California

Valley Springs, California, in Calaveras County, formerly called Spring Valley

St. Helena Hospital Clearlake

The hospital owns and operates three outpatient family health centers in Clearlake, Middletown and Kelseyville.

Swift Aire Lines

Swift Aire Lines was a U.S. commuter air carrier that was based in San Luis Obispo, California.

T. Thorn Coyle

Thorn Coyle was born September 24, 1965 and was reared in the Catholic faith in Whittier, California.

The National Crittenton Foundation

The foundation is affiliated with 22 member agencies operating across the country in urban and rural areas, including Baltimore; Boston; Charleston, South Carolina; Denver, Colorado; Kansas City, Missouri; Knoxville, Tennessee; Orange County, California and Los Angeles, California; Peoria, Illinois; Philadelphia; Phoenix, Arizona, San Francisco, California; Sioux City, Iowa; Washington, D.C. and Wheeling, West Virginia.

The Paradine Case

The Paradine Case had its world premiere in Los Angeles on December 29, 1947, opening simultaneously in two theatres across the street from each other in Westwood.

Tomales Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

Tomales Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church at 11 Church Street in Tomales, California.

Touro University

Touro University California, a medical, pharmacy and physician assistant's school in Vallejo, California, USA.

Trabuco Canyon, California

Trabuco Canyon is north of the town of Rancho Santa Margarita.

Triage tag

The example Triage Tag shown in this article is the All Risk(R) Triage Tag manufactured by Disaster Management Systems (DMS) located in Pomona, California.

Turbonilla halistrepta

The type species was found in the Pacific Ocean off Newport, California.

U.S. Route 95 in California

Upon entering San Bernardino County, US 95 turns away from the Colorado River, heading northwest towards Vidal Junction, the junction with SR 62 in the Vidal Valley.

V3 Gaming PC

V3 Gaming PC is a manufacturer of custom-built personal computers headquartered in Lomita, California.

Vaca Valley and Clear Lake Railroad

The Vaca Valley Railroad was incorporated on April 12, 1869 to run a branch from the mainline of the California Pacific Railroad (later Southern Pacific Railroad's mainline between Sacramento and Oakland, CA) at Elmira to Rumsey.

William Pedley

Pedley went to America where he was manager of the San Jacinto Land Company, who developed part of the Sobrante de San Jacinto land grant at Riverside, California.

Wipe the Windows, Check the Oil, Dollar Gas

Track 3 of side three and 1 and 2 of side four recorded at the Bakersfield Civic Auditorium, Bakersfield, California, October 22, 1975.


Alvin Youngblood Hart

Born in Oakland, California, Hart had family connections with Carroll County, Mississippi, and spent time there in his childhood, hearing his relatives' stories of Charley Patton, "being around these people who were there when this music was going on".

Amanda Aday

She attended the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center, a summer theatre/dance camp in the Catskill Mountains in New York, from 1990 through 1996, and then graduated from the prestigious Idyllwild Arts Academy in California.

Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve

Father Bernard R. Hubbard was a Jesuit priest and professor of geology at Santa Clara University in California, who had been exploring Alaska's volcanoes and glaciers every summer season since 1927 and writing about them in best-selling books and in publications such as National Geographic and the Saturday Evening Post.

Aurora Village–Wells College Historic District

Its significant business entrepreneurs included men such as Henry Wells, founder of American Express and Wells Fargo, whose operations created new express mail and banking services that spanned New York state and reached to the developing state of California.

Baseball's Last Hero: 21 Clemente Stories

It is the first feature dramatic film on Clemente's life and was written and directed by California filmmaker and Pittsburgh native Richard Rossi and stars two-time Olympian high-jumper Jamie Nieto in the title role of Roberto Clemente and Marilinda Rivera as his wife Vera Clemente.

Being and Time

Theodore Kisiel, The Genesis of Heidegger's Being and Time (Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993).

Border Incident

"Here is the All-American Canal. It runs through the desert for miles along the California-Mexico border... Farming in Imperial Valley... requires a vast army of farm workers... and this army of farm workers comes from our neighbor to the south, from Mexico. ... It is this problem of human suffering and injustice about which you should know. The following composite case is based upon factual information supplied by the Immigration and Naturalization Service..."

California Gull

Seriously threatened birds that share the same South Bay habitat include the Snowy Plover and California Least Tern, while less-threatened birds including Black-necked Stilts, American Avocets, Forster's Terns, and Caspian Terns are also preyed upon by the abnormally large flocks of California Gulls.

California State Route 20

Its west end is at SR 1 in Fort Bragg, from where it heads east past Clear Lake, Colusa, Yuba City, Marysville, and Nevada City to I-80 near Emigrant Gap, where eastbound traffic can continue on other routes to Lake Tahoe or Nevada.

Carl E. Walz

The Expedition 4 crew returned to Earth aboard STS-111, with Endeavour landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on June 19, 2002.

Clunker

A Cruiser bicycle built during the mid Seventies, in Marin county, California.

Colorado River Indian Reservation

In 2005, the reservation began proposing a new hotel and casino near Blythe, citing the location along the river and Interstate 10, with the help of the governments of that city and the state of California.

Doug Lefler

Doug Lefler (born California) is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer and storyboard artist, best known as director of the Dragonheart fantasy adventure film sequel, Dragonheart: A New Beginning, and recently The Last Legion.

Eldad

Eldad Tarmu (1960, Los Angeles, California), a vibraphonist and composer

Extriplex

It is known from the Central Valley and the valleys of the inner coast ranges, and from slightly north of San Francisco to Cedros Island, Baja California, where is grows on sandy coasts, in shrubland and salt marshes.

Fender California Series

Manufactured from 1997 to 1998 by Fender, the California Series Stratocaster, Telecaster and bass models were a joint effort between the company's factories in Corona and Ensenada.

Frankie Jaxon

In 1941 he retired from show business and worked at The Pentagon in Washington, D.C. He was transferred to Los Angeles, California.

Frederick Lucian Hosmer

Frederick Lucian Hosmer (1840-1929) was an American Unitarian minister who served congregations in Massachusetts, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, and California and who wrote many significant hymns.

Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company

He partnered with fellow insurance salesman Norman O. Houston and businessman George A. Beavers, Jr. to secure 500 pre-paid life insurance applications as well as the $15,000 deposit required by California.

Heather Aldama

Heather Marie Aldama (born 1 December 1978, in Redlands, California) is a retired American soccer midfielder who was a member of the United States women's national soccer team.

Hubbs' beaked whale

Carl Leavitt Hubbs, a noted American ichthyologist, published a description of a whale found alive in the surf near his office at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, in 1945.

Huntington Park

Mount Rubidoux, a city park in Riverside, California, formerly known as Huntington Park

John Barlow Hudson

Hudson has three degrees, finished in the California Institute Fine Arts, Valencia, CA in 1972 and 1972, and there is nother one institute, he learned at Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH.

John Muir College

Muir's connection to California's Yosemite Valley continues with the Half Dome Lounge and the dining hall Pines (formerly Sierra Summit).

Jonas H. Ingram

In August 1952, he suffered a heart attack while serving as the superintendent of summer schools at Culver Academies, then was stricken again with another attack on September 9, while at the U.S. Naval Hospital in San Diego, California.

KDOC

KDOC-TV, independent television station licensed to Anaheim, California

KEFC

KEFC-LP, a low-power radio station (100.5 FM) licensed to Turlock, California, United States

KFXM

KTMQ, a radio station (103.3 FM) licensed to Temecula, California, United States, which held the call sign KFXM from October 2000 to August 2001

KPOP

KTNQ, a radio station (1020 AM) licensed to Los Angeles, California, United States, which formerly used the call sign KPOP

Loch Lomond Vernal Pool Ecological Reserve

An annual wildflower of the Phlox family (Polemoniaceae) that has only been found in the California counties of Lake, Sonoma and Napa.

Lorenz Larkin

On February 9, 2013, the UFC announced that Larkin would make his debut against Francis Carmont at UFC on Fox: Henderson vs. Melendez in San Jose, California.

Mayacamas

Mayacamas Mountains or Mayacmas Mountains, in Napa Valley, California

Michael Jung

Michael E. Jung (born 1947), Professor of Chemistry at the University of California

Mount Sungay

The mountain was leveled to about half of its former prominence to accommodate the Palace in the Sky of the former First Lady, a mansion originally intended as a guesthouse for former California Gov. Ronald Reagan - who never arrived.

Nichols Canyon, Los Angeles

Nichols Canyon was named after John G. Nichols who served as mayor of Los Angeles, California between 1852 and 1853 and again from 1856 to 1859.

NWEAMO

New West Electronic Arts & Music Organization (NWEAMO), founded by composer Joseph Waters in Portland, Oregon, U.S. in 1998, is a nonprofit organization based in San Diego, California that produces the annual international festival of electro-acoustic music.

Pais

Ampelographers believe that along with the Criolla Grande grape of Argentina and Mission grape of California, that the Pais grape is descended by the Spanish "common black grape" brought to Mexico in 1520 by the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés.

R. N. Baskin

In route for California, Baskin visited the Little Cottonwood mining district with Thomas Hearst and saw possibilities in the minerals of Utah Territory and decided to stay.

Randy California

Randy California drowned in the ocean while rescuing his 12-year-old son from a rip current near the home of his mother, Bernice Pearl, at Molokai, Hawaii.

Ricardo Lacsamana

His painted Pumpkin won best entry at the 1998 Annual Pumpkin Contest at the Westin Hotel & Resorts in San Francisco, California.

Richard Urquhart Goode

In 1889, he was appointed a geographer with the Survey and was placed in charge of surveys of the Pacific Coast States - California, Oregon, and Washington.

San Diego Polo Club

San Diego Polo Club is a polo club in situated Rancho Santa Fe in San Diego, California.

Savitree Suttichanond

While attending the University of California, Irvine, Savitree was a member of the Delta Delta Delta Sorority, was a SPOP staffer, and actively participated in the university's Thai Club.

Sedco Hills, California

The name Sedco Hills has become the informal name of that section of the Temescal Mountains east of Sedco Hills, west of Cottonwood Canyon Creek and south of the San Jacinto River.

Steal This Record

Mixed by Chris Lord-Alge at Image Recording, Inc. in Hollywood, California

Tunisian Community Center

In their support for the Tunisian Revolution's aims toward freedom and democracy, the TCC has written to the US Senator of California Barbara Boxer, requesting to freeze the overthrown President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's assets.

Walther Linis

They started in France and sailed through the Suez Canal to Arabia where they unloaded oil and continued over the Pacific shoreline to San Diego in California and on into the Panama Canal to the Gulf island of Aruba, waterless island but they could get oil board and then took 12 trips between many U.S. cities in the east shore, the boat went several times to the port of Tampico in Mexico from 1957-58.

Watsonville Riots

In September 4, 2011, California apologized to Filipinos and Filipino Americans in an Assembly resolution authored by Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Salinas.

William G. Sebold

William G. Sebold (Wilhelm Georg Debrowski; 10 March 1899 in Mülheim, Germany – February 1970 in Walnut Creek, California) was a German spy in the United States during World War II, who became a double agent for the FBI.