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99 unusual facts about California


A. J. Jefferson

Jefferson was born and raised in Bakersfield, California and graduated from West High School of Bakersfield in 2006.

Alistair Paterson

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

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.

APW/Vendetta Pro Unified Tag Team Championship

On January 5, 2013, The Suburban Commandos (T-Rent and D-Unit) defeated SU/KA and the defending Champiosn The Ballard Brothers in a Triangle Tag Team Match in Hayward, California to become the first team to win the Unified Tag Team Titles on an All Pro Wrestling Event.

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.

Atlas Asbestos Mine Superfund Site

Atlas Asbestos Mine Superfund Site is located within the Clear Creek Management Area near Fresno County eighteen miles northwest of Coalinga, California.

Bagby Stationhouse, Water Tanks and Turntable

The structures now located at El Portal were originally built in Bagby, and were moved from that location in 1966 when the townsite was to be inundated by the filling of Lake McClure behind New Exchequer Dam.

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.

Big Log

The video for the song was filmed on location in various areas around California and Nevada, including the Amargosa Opera House and Hotel in Death Valley Junction, California, the Calico Ghost Town in California, the Glass Pool Inn in Las Vegas, which was demolished in 2004, and in Crystal, Nye County, Nevada.

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.

California's 36th congressional district special election, 2011

A 2011 special election in California's 36th congressional district filled the vacancy in California's 36th congressional district after the resignation of incumbent Jane Harman on February 28, 2011, who vacated her seat in the U.S. House of Representatives to become head of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Carl B. Koford

Carl Buckingham Koford (September 3, 1915 in Oakland, California – December 3, 1979 in Berkeley, California) was an American biologist who is known for his research work on the behavior of the California Condor.

Carolyn L. Mazloomi

She graduated from Northrop University in Inglewood, California, and worked in Los Angeles as an aerospace engineer.

Ceanothus roderickii

This endangered plant was first collected in 1956 near Shingle Springs.

Clymer Wright

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

Coleman University

1986 – the San Marcos campus was opened to serve growing populations in the northern part of San Diego County.

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.

Dedrick D. Gobert

On November 19, 1994, Gobert was fatally shot during a fight with several gang members in Mira Loma, California.

Deep Dark Canyon

The film was originally called Lawless and was shot on location in the rural town of Guerneville, California.

Dick Wellstood

Richard MacQueen "Dick" Wellstood (born November 25, 1927, Greenwich, Connecticut — died July 24, 1987, Palo Alto, California) was an American jazz pianist.

Doug Chandler

John Douglas Chandler (born September 27, 1965 in Salinas, California) is a professional motorcycle racer.

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.

El Capitan High School

El Capitan High School (commonly known as El Cap) is a public high school in Lakeside, California, United States, a census-designated place in San Diego, and serves students in grades nine through twelve.

Freddie Rodriguez

Prior to being elected to the state assembly, he was a Pomona city councilmember.

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.

Garden Grove Unified School District

GGUSD's enrollment boundaries allow the district to serve students in many central and northern Orange County communities, including: Anaheim, Cypress, Fountain Valley, Garden Grove, Santa Ana, Stanton, and Westminster

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.

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.

Glen Alvelais

Glen Alvelais (born February 22, 1968 in Hayward, California) is a heavy metal lead guitarist from the San Francisco Bay Area.

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.

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.

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.

James Colley

Raised in Bakersfield, California, Colley found his musical inspiration in the works of Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, The Rolling Stones and Lou Reed.

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.

Joan Buchanan

She ran in California's 15th district against Republican San Ramon Mayor H. Abram Wilson.

John C. Waugh

John Clinton Waugh (born October 12, 1929) in Biggs, California is an American journalist.

John L. Notter

He also served as chairman of American-Hawaiian Steamship Company, the developer of a major master-planned residential and commercial development north of Los Angeles in Westlake Village, California, which continues to serve as an example of master-planned communities throughout the country.

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.

Junction, California

Junction, Contra Costa County, California, a former settlement on the East Bay of San Francisco, located adjacent to Antioch

Kempster Blanchard Miller

His brother was businessman, rancher and citrus farmer Azariel Blanchard Miller (1878–1941), founder of the city of Fontana, California.

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.

Kristin Hedstrom

She currently resides in Oakland, California where she is affiliated with the California Rowing Club.

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.

Lee Norwood

Lee Charles Norwood (born February 2, 1960 in Oakland, California) is a retired American ice hockey player.

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.

Loan Chau

In 1995, four years after arriving in California, Loan Châu won top honors at a karaoke contest at Ritz night club in Orange County.

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.

Mason Aguirre

He turned pro at fifteen and his parents moved their family to Mammoth Lakes, California to pursue his snowboarding career.

Melvin Anthony

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

Merrill B. Twining

He had retired from active duty with the Marine Corps on October 31, 1959 and died May 11, 1996 in Fallbrook, California.

Millspaugh

Millspaugh, California, unincorporated community in Inyo County, California

Morris Scott Dollens

A major collection of these slides is housed at University of California at Riverside in California, United States.

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

Olson 30

Olson and partner Lyn Neale started Pacific Boats in an industrial area of Live Oak, CA, an unincorporated area between Santa Cruz and Capitola.

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.

Paul Rebillot

In 1972, Rebillot worked on the psychiatric wards of community hospitals in Turlock and Martinez, California.

Petrit Çeku

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

Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District

The Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District (PYLUSD) is a public school district that serves Placentia, Yorba Linda and parts of Anaheim, Brea, and Fullerton located in Orange County, 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.

Ramakrishna's influence

It premiered on September 16, 2006 at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, California, performed by Orange County’s Pacific Symphony Orchestra conducted by Carl St. Clair with the Pacific Chorale directed by John Alexander.

Ramaytush people

– 1823 Pomponio, of Half Moon Bay led raids against Mission Dolores, taking livestock and horses.

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.

River Valley Charter School

River Valley Charter School, a charter junior/senior high school started in 1996, is located in Lakeside, California, a suburb of San Diego.

Road Hogs

Most of the civilized mutants and humans are located in what was previously known as Sacramento, California.

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.

San Mateo Union High School District

The district consists of seven public high schools, one alternative high school (a "college high school"), and one adult School in San Bruno, Millbrae, Burlingame, and San Mateo.

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.

Saurolophus

In 1939–40, two partial skeletons were found in the Moreno Formation of California.

Shirley Horton

Spring Valley.

St. Helena Hospital Clearlake

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

St. Jude Medical Center

The Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet began operating their first hospital in Eureka, California in 1919 as a response to the Spanish Flu epidemic.

Temescal Valley

Temescal Valley, California a populated place in the Temescal Valley of California.

The Touch of Satan

The film was shot in 1970 in the Santa Ynez, California area and featured early work by movie makeup artist Joe Blasco.

Thomas Anthony Thacher

His sons Sherman Day Thacher and William Larned Thacher were the founder of the Thacher School in Ojai, California; and his daughter Elizabeth Sherman Thacher married William Kent (U.S. Congressman).

Tomales Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

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

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.

Walter B. LaBerge

He also held several academic appointments, including Senior Researcher at the Institute of Advanced Technology at the University of Texas at Austin; visiting professor at the Defense Systems Management College at the Defense Acquisition University in Fort Belvoir, Virginia; and Visiting Professor of Physics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

Westchester, Los Angeles

The main part of Westchester is flanked by Del Rey and Culver City on the north, Inglewood and Lennox on the east, Del Aire and El Segundo on the south and Playa del Rey on the west.

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.

ZChocolat.com

zChocolat.com is headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, France, and has a dedicated logistics center in Forcalquier Alpes de Haute Provence and U.S. office in Ojai, California.


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.

Butler Ives

He was contracted with locating and surveying of the boundary line between the Nevada Territory and the State of California -- running south and southeasterly from Oregon.

California Cycleway

The inventor and promotor of the cycleway was Pasadena resident Horace Dobbins, who attracted ex-California governor Henry Harrison Markham to join him in the venture.

California State Lottery

Make Me a Millionaire, the California Lottery's second TV game show, debuted on January 17, 2009 for an initial four-year run with host Mark L. Walberg and co-presenter Liz Hernandez.

Carl Braden

The Bradens had three children: James, born in 1951, a 1972 Rhodes Scholar, and a 1980 graduate of Harvard Law School (where he preceded Barack Obama as editor of the Harvard Law Review), has lived and practiced law for over 25 years in San Francisco, California.

Cephalanthus occidentalis

Southwestern North America, from western Texas west to California (Sierra Nevada foothills, San Joaquin Valley, Sacramento Valley, and the Inner North Coast Ranges) and south to Mexico and Central America.

Clark Natwick

Clark Natwick competed in several road racing events; he won Mt. Hamilton Road Race racing with Greg LeMond

Cleo Baldon

Baldon is married to novelist, screenwriter and film director Ib Melchior, with whom she co-authored of the non-fiction books, Reflections on the Pool: California Designs for Swimming and Steps & Stairways.

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.

Daniel J. Crowley

Crowley and a research expedition team from the University of California travelled to Oruro, Bolivia to study the major carnival there.

Daniel Siebert

In 2002, Siebert wrote a letter to the United States Congress in which he objected to bill H.R. 5607 introduced by Rep. Joe Baca (D-California) which sought to place Salvia divinorum in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act.

Days May Come and Days May Go

Days May Come and Days May Go: The 1975 California Rehearsals is a compilation album by Deep Purple, released in 2000 (see 2000 in music).

Douce

Douce noir, French wine grape that is also known as Charbono in California and Bonarda in Argentina

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

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.

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.

Henry Flynt

Kristine Stiles & Peter Selz, Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings (Second Edition, Revised and Expanded by Kristine Stiles) University of California Press 2012, reprinting of Henry Flynt, Concept Art (1961) pp.

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 B. Owens

John Byron Owens (born 1971) is a California attorney in private practice and is a nominee for United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

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.

KBQR

KQSL, a television station (channel 8) in Fort Bragg, California, United States known as KBQR from October 2010 through May 2011

KEFC

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

KLRS

KCAI, a radio station (89.7 FM) licensed to serve Lodi, California, United States, which held the call sign KLRS from 2007 to 2012

KPOP

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

MacLafferty

James H. MacLafferty (1871-1937), a U.S. Representative from California

Mark Kersey

Mark Kersey (born c. 1976) is a member of the San Diego City Council representing District 5 in San Diego, California.

Mayacamas

Mayacamas Mountains or Mayacmas Mountains, in Napa Valley, California

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.

Novim

The group was formed at the University of California campus in Santa Barbara to create a collaborative problem-solving approach to address wide-spread and complicated problems, modeled after approaches at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP).

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.

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.

Rougheye rockfish

Rougheye rockfish are deepwater fish, and exist between 31° and 66° latitude, in the North Pacific, and specifically along the coast of Japan to the Navarin Canyon in the Bering Sea, to the Aleutian Islands, all the way south to San Diego, California.

San Diego Polo Club

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

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.

Sidney Wicks

At 9 a.m. on May 5, 1989, in Mira Mesa, San Diego, California, Wicks was seriously injured in a car accident.

Squid Labs

In 2004, Colin Bulthaup, Dan Goldwater, Saul Griffith, and Eric Wilhelm moved from the East Coast to California to found the company known as Squid Labs.

True Self

All tracks were recorded at Bombshelter Studios in Los Angeles, California, unless otherwise noted.

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.

Warren H. Carroll

During 1967-1972 he served on the staff of California State Senator, later U.S. Congressman, John G. Schmitz.

Zulema de la Cruz

Zulema de la Cruz was born in Madrid and studied at the Madrid Conservatory for piano and composition and Stanford University in California for composition and computer music, with professors including Carmelo Bernaola and Ramón Barce.