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Location:
California is a state
located on the West Coast of the United States.
Nicknamed
state by land area, after Alaska
and Texas.
California's diverse geography
ranges from the Pacific Coast to the west,
to
the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the east, to the
Mojave Desert areas in
the southeast and to
the Redwood–Douglas-fir forests of the northwest.
Its five largest cities are Los Angeles, San
Diego, San Jose, San Francisco,
and Fresno.
History
The name California once
referred to a large area of North America
claimed by Spain .Beginning in the late 18th
century, the area
was colonized by the Spanish
Empire as part of New Spain. In 1821, Alta
California became a part of Mexico following
its successful war for
independence. American
victory in the war led to the Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo, in which Mexico ceded(Mexico ceded to
the United
States Upper California and New
Mexico) Alta California to the
United States.
Western areas of Alta California became the state
of
California, which was admitted as the 31st
state on September 9, 1850.
language
Settled by successive waves of arrivals during
the last 10,000 years,
California
was one of the most culturally and linguistically
diverse areas
in pre-Columbian North America;
Industry
Meanwhile, attracted to
the mild Mediterranean climate, cheap land, and
the state's wide variety of geography,
filmmakers established the studio
system in
Hollywood in the 1920s. A couple of decades later,
Stanford
University and its Dean of
Engineering Frederick Terman began
encouraging
faculty and graduates to stay in California
instead of leaving
the state, and develop a
high-tech region in the area now known as
Silicon Valley. As a result of these efforts,
California is currently regarded
as a world
center of the entertainment and music industries,
of technology
and engineering businesses, and
as the U.S. center of agricultural
production.
The Los Angeles Lakers are a
National Basketball Association (NBA)
team
based in Los Angeles, California. Kobe Team
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I’m sure all of you out
there are big fans of Hollywood. Who wouldn’t be?
It has been the king of
entertainment over many decades now and
Hollywood has showcased some of the best
actors our world has ever
seen.
Tiger
Woods
is an American professional golfer whose
achievements to date rank him
among the most
successful golfers of all time.
Lawrence Page[2] (born March 26, 1973) is an
American computer scientist and industrialist
who, with Sergey Brin, is
best known as the
co-founder of Google.