Calling California Home: A Lively Look at What It Means to Be a CalifornianCouncil Oak Books, 1999 - Počet stran: 276 California represents something curious and remarkable located out at the furthest edge of the New World - where the sun always shines and anything is possible." So says Heather Waite in this thoroughly delightful second offering in the Calling It Home series. With an eye for telling detail and a sense of humor, Waite surveys California from prehistory to the present, revealing the origins, attitudes, quirks, curiosities, and little-known facts that make residents of the Golden State unique. |
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... located on the eastern escarpment of the Sierra Nevada , grows a bristlecone pine that is thought to be more than 4,500 years old , making it the OLDEST living thing on earth . General Sherman , a redwood in Sequoia National Park ...
... located on the eastern escarpment of the Sierra Nevada , grows a bristlecone pine that is thought to be more than 4,500 years old , making it the OLDEST living thing on earth . General Sherman , a redwood in Sequoia National Park ...
Strana 4
... located seventeen miles north of Blythe , near the Colorado River . Both humans and animals are rep- resented ; the largest is a human figure 167 feet long . These ancient drawings earned the site a place on the National Register of His ...
... located seventeen miles north of Blythe , near the Colorado River . Both humans and animals are rep- resented ; the largest is a human figure 167 feet long . These ancient drawings earned the site a place on the National Register of His ...
Strana 37
... located , is an altogether differ- ent matter to a Californian than it is to the rest of the world . California , the place , to someone who does not call California home , is a state of mind . Our place on the map , like our place in ...
... located , is an altogether differ- ent matter to a Californian than it is to the rest of the world . California , the place , to someone who does not call California home , is a state of mind . Our place on the map , like our place in ...
Strana 39
... have occurred in the morning , between approximately 2:30 and 10:30 . Reports from Caltech say that from 1987 to 1994 , Southern Cali- fornia had over 121,000 minor quakes . Weather or Not Because of where we are located in 39.
... have occurred in the morning , between approximately 2:30 and 10:30 . Reports from Caltech say that from 1987 to 1994 , Southern Cali- fornia had over 121,000 minor quakes . Weather or Not Because of where we are located in 39.
Strana 40
... located in the world , we have the most diverse environment on the planet , which is really saying some- thing . This means , naturally , that California has diverse weather , as well . For example , it is not uncommon that a twenty ...
... located in the world , we have the most diverse environment on the planet , which is really saying some- thing . This means , naturally , that California has diverse weather , as well . For example , it is not uncommon that a twenty ...
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Our Work Ethic | 75 |
California Cuisine | 109 |
How We Have Fun | 153 |
Arts and Education | 189 |
The Final Words | 266 |
The Californian Bill of Rights | 269 |
Sources | 271 |
About the Author | 273 |
About the Press | 274 |
More Wildcat Canyon titles | 275 |
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Strana 8 - By California was implied insularity coupled with riches. "Know tlmt on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise; and it was peopled by black women, without any man among them, for they lived in the fashion of Amazons. They were of strong and hardy bodies, of ardent courage and great force. Their island was the strongest in all the world, with its steep cliffs and rock shores.
Strana 13 - The accounts of the abundance of gold in that territory are of such an extraordinary character as would scarcely command belief were they not corroborated by the authentic reports of officers in the public service who have visited the mineral district and derived the facts which they detail from personal observation.
Strana 12 - ... house for me caught the moving infection. Husband and wife were both packing up; the blacksmith dropped his hammer, the carpenter his plane, the mason his trowel, the farmer his sickle, the baker his loaf, and the tapster his bottle. All were off for the mines, some on horses, some on carts, and some on crutches, and one went in a litter. An American woman, who had recently established a boarding house here, pulled up stakes, and was off before her lodgers had even time to pay their bills.
Strana 12 - One morning in January— it was a clear, cold morning: I shall never forget that morning— as I was taking my usual walk along the race after shutting off the water, my eye was caught with the glimpse of something shining in the bottom of the ditch. There was about a foot of water running then. I reached my hand down and picked it up; it made my heart thump, for I was certain it was gold. The piece was about half the size and of the shape of a pea. Then I saw another piece in the water.
Strana 208 - HERE MEN FROM THE PLANET EARTH FIRST SET FOOT UPON THE MOON JULY 1969, AD WE CAME IN PEACE FOR ALL MANKIND.
Strana 8 - In this island, called California, there were many griffins, on account of the great ruggedness of the country, and its infinite host of wild beasts, such as never were seen in any other part of the world. And when these griffins were yet small, the women went out with traps to take them. They covered themselves over with very thick hides, and when they had caught the little griffins they took them to their caves, and brought them up there. And being themselves quite a match for the griffins, they...
Strana 96 - True education means more than the pursual of a certain course of study. It means more than the preparation for the life that now is. It has to do with the whole being, and with the whole period of existence possible to man. It is harmonious development of the physical, the mental and the spiritual powers.
Strana 190 - A general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence being essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people, the Legislature shall encourage by all suitable means the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral, and agricultural improvement.
Strana 46 - You put your right foot in, you put your right foot out, you put your right foot in, and you shake it all about, you do the Hokey Pokey and you turn yourself around, that's what it's all about.
Strana 207 - And it's one, two, three, What are we fighting for? Don't ask me I don't give a damn, Next stop is Vietnam.