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Franciscans of the California missions donned gray habits, in contrast to the brown that is typically worn today. [15] In addition to the presidio (royal fort) and pueblo (town), the misión was one of the three major agencies employed by the Spanish sovereign to extend its borders and consolidate its colonial territories.
Name City County Enrollment Founded Athletics University of California, Berkeley: Berkeley: Alameda: 45,057 1869 NCAA Div. I (Pac-12 (until 2024), ACC (starting 2024), MPSF, America East)
This is a list of state prisons in California operated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). [1] CDCR operates 34 adult prisons in California, with a design capacity of 85,083 incarcerated people.
Many millions of California trees died from the drought – approximately 102 million, including 62 million in 2016 alone. [32] By the end of 2016, 30% of California had emerged from the drought, mainly in the northern half of the state, while 40% of the state remained in the extreme or exceptional drought levels. [33]
The People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson was a criminal trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court, in which former NFL player and actor O. J. Simpson was tried and acquitted for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, who were stabbed to death outside Brown's condominium in Los Angeles on June 12, 1994.
Buena Park (Buena, Spanish for "Good") is a city in northern Orange County, California, United States.As of the 2020 census its population was 84,034. It is the location of several tourist attractions, including Knott's Berry Farm.
The California excise tax on gasoline as of mid-2011 is 35.7 cents per gallon for motor fuel plus a 2.25% sales and use tax, 13 cents per gallon for diesel plus a 9.12% sales and use tax. [37] The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration provides an online list of sales taxes in the local communities of the state. [9]
Norco is a city in Riverside County, California, United States.Located roughly 40 miles (64 km) inland from the Pacific Ocean, Norco is known as “Horsetown, USA” and prides itself on being a "horse community”.