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4 unusual facts about Shasta


Floyd Talbert

Talbert died of complications of a heart condition on October 10, 1982 in Shasta, California.

Haripad Sree Subrahmanya Swamy temple

Beside the main deity there are many other deities which include Dakshina Moorthy, Lord Ganesh, Thiruvambadi Kannan, Nāga, Shasta, Keezhtyar Kovil Subrahmanyan.

Leander Clark

In California, he engaged in mining, packing, and trading, principally in the vicinity of Shasta and Yreka.

Shasta/Hanchett Park, San Jose, California

Alameda Gardens was first developed in the mid-19th century by Commodore Robert F. Stockton, who ordered pre-fabricated two-story houses to be made in Philadelphia and Massachusetts and shipped to San Francisco; all were identical except for one larger house at the end of Spring Street.


Ady, Oregon

In prior years, northbound freight and passengers bound for Klamath Falls and other eastern Oregon destinations left the Southern Pacific main line at Weed, California, using the McCloud Railway to transit the southern slopes of Mt. Shasta to Bartle, California.

Allen Tupper True

Also in 1934, True also was hired as Consulting Artist for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to lay out color schemes and create decorations for major power houses at the giant dams being built during the Thirties and early Forties (Hoover, Grand Coulee, Bonneville, Shasta, Friant and Minidoka).

California chaparral and woodlands

Many Bioregionalists, including poet Gary Snyder, identify the central and northern Coast Ranges, Klamath-Siskiyou, the Central Valley, and Sierra Nevada as the Shasta Bioregion or the Alta California Bioregion

Clarkia borealis

arida, the Shasta clarkia, is known only from the forests around Shingletown.

Fleeting expletive

On November 19, 2011, during a live taping of ESPN's College GameDay at the University of Houston, College football analyst Lee Corso said, "Ah, fuck it" before he put on the headwear of Shasta, the University of Houston Cougars' mascot, demonstrating his prediction that the Cougars would beat the Mustangs of Southern Methodist University.

Happy Camp, California

Ricky Ray, pro-football quarterback was born in Happy Camp and went to Shasta High and Shasta College.

Hwin

In The Horse and his Boy, (the events of which all occur during the reign of the four Pevensie children in Narnia, an era which begins and ends in the last chapter of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe), Hwin and Aravis fall into company with the talking stallion, Bree, to whom Hwin is distantly related, and the boy Shasta.

Hwin also plays a vital role in their escape through Tashbaan, but her plan of disguising themselves fails when King Edmund of Narnia mistakes Shasta for Prince Corin of Archenland and Aravis is recognised by a friend.

Joseph Duncan

Joseph E. Duncan III (born 1963), convicted sex offender and murderer in the 2005 kidnapping of Shasta and Dylan Groene and the murder of their family and Dylan

Kabyai Creek Massacre

The site of the village is on the McCloud River at the mouth of Kabyai Creek across the river from the McCloud Bridge Campground in the Shasta–Trinity National Forest, in Shasta County, California.

Kennett, California

It was the largest, most important mining town in the area outside of Redding and Shasta.

KIHP

KIHP-LP, a low-power radio station (96.5 FM) licensed to Shasta Lake, California, United States

KQMS

KQMS-FM, a radio station (99.3 FM) licensed to serve Shasta Lake City, California, United States

KSIZ

It was later purchased in 1984 by Tom Erickson of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, moved to Mount Shasta and renamed KWHO-FM.

Marketcetera

Early in 2008, the firm managed to raise $4M through investors Shasta Ventures and Jack Selby, managing director of Clarium Capital.

Neviusia

The type species, Neviusia alabamensis, occurs in several southeastern states, while second extant species, Neviusia cliftonii, is endemic to the Mt Shasta region of California, and the extinct species Neviusia dunthornei is found in shale deposits in the Okanagan Highlands of Washington and British Columbia.

Neviusia dunthornei

The overall morphology and structure of the N. dunthornei leaves compare to the living species known as the Shasta snow-wreath (N. cliftonii), being broadly ovate, with secondary veins subopposite and a similar overall vein patterning.

Quartz Valley Indian Community

The Quartz Valley Indian Community of the Quartz Valley Reservation of California is a federally recognized tribe of Klamath, Karuk, and Shasta Indians in Siskiyou County, California.

Shasta High School

Shasta's Interact Club and Students are joining together to create a fundraiser for the Genocide situations in Darfur.

Shasta–Trinity National Forest

The 500-mile Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway is an auto tour of northern California's volcanos and begins at Lassen Volcanic National Park, then to Mount Shasta and ends at Crater Lake National Park.

Shingletown, California

The forests around Shingletown are home to the Shasta clarkia a rare subspecies of Clarkia borealis, a flowering plant in the evening primrose family.

Warm Strangers

"Shasta" was inspired by the view of snow-covered volcano Mount Shasta from the Interstate 5 highway.

Your Show Live

Your Show Live was a locally produced television program that was broadcast from the Mt. Shasta Mall in Redding, California.

Zenprise

In October 2011, Zenprise raised $30 million from investors, including Bay Partners, Ignition Partners, Mayfield Fund, Rembrandt Venture Partners, Shasta Ventures, and newly added venture firm, Greylock Partners.


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