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California state in the Western United States . It is bordered by Oregon to the north, the Mexican state of Baja California to the south, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. With a population of over 39 million across an area of 163,696 square miles (423,970 km2 ), it is the most populous U.S. state and the third largest by land area .
Before European colonization , California was one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse areas in pre-Columbian North America . European exploration in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the colonization by the Spanish Empire . The area became a part of Mexico in 1821, as a result of its successful war for independence . Following the U.S. conquest of California , part of the Mexican-American War , California was ceded to the United States in 1848. The California gold rush started in 1848 and led to social and demographic changes, including the California genocide . It organized itself and was admitted as the 31st state in 1850 as a free state , following the Compromise of 1850 .
The economy of California is the largest of any U.S. state, with an estimated 2025 gross state product of $4.296 trillion as of Q3 2025. It is also the world's largest sub-national economy and, if it were an independent country , would be the fourth-largest economy in the world (behind Germany and ahead of Japan) by nominal GDP as of 2025. The state's agricultural industry leads the nation in output, fueled by its production of dairy , almonds , and grapes . Despite heavy reliance on seaborne foreign crude oil , California also refines some of its own oil, primarily drilled from Kern County . With the busiest port in the country (Los Angeles ), California plays a pivotal role in the global supply chain, hauling in about 40% of goods imported to the US. Notable contributions to popular culture , ranging from entertainment , sports , music , and fashion , have their origins in California. The state also has made substantial contributions in the fields of communication, information, innovation, education, environmentalism, entertainment, economics , politics , technology , and religion . (Full article...
Odwalla Inc. health food company based in Dinuba, California . Founded in Santa Cruz, California , in 1980 and formerly headquartered in Half Moon Bay, California , from 1995 to 2013, the company's product lines included fruit juices , smoothies , soy milk , bottled water , organic beverages, and several types of energy bars known as "food bars".
The company experienced strong growth after its incorporation in 1985, expanding its distribution network from California to most of North America, and went public in 1993.
In 2001, Odwalla was acquired by the Coca-Cola Company for US$181 million and became a wholly owned subsidiary . In July 2020, Coca-Cola announced it would discontinue the Odwalla brand by August 2020. (Full article...
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If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.
Image 1 Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th
president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the
Republican Party , he became an important figure in the
American conservative movement . The period encompassing
his presidency is known as the
Reagan era .
Born in
Tampico, Illinois , Reagan graduated from
Eureka College in 1932 and was hired the next year as a sports broadcaster in Iowa. In 1937, he moved to California where he became a well-known film actor. During his acting career, Reagan was president of the
Screen Actors Guild twice from 1947 to 1952 and from 1959 to 1960. In the 1950s, he hosted
General Electric Theater and worked as a motivational speaker for
General Electric . During the
1964 presidential election , Reagan's "
A Time for Choosing " speech launched his rise as a leading conservative figure. After being
elected governor of California in 1966 , he raised state taxes, turned the state budget deficit into a surplus, and implemented crackdowns on university protests. Following his loss to
Gerald Ford in the
1976 Republican Party presidential primaries , Reagan won the Republican Party's nomination and then obtained a landslide victory over President
Jimmy Carter in the
1980 presidential election . (
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Image 2 Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (;
Italian: [diˈkaːprjo] ; born November 11, 1974) is an American actor and film producer. Regarded as one of Hollywood’s defining leading men,
his work spans character-driven cinema and major
blockbusters across genres, exploring themes of ambition, corruption, and moral decline. He is the recipient of
numerous accolades , including an
Academy Award , an
Actor Award , a
BAFTA Award , an
Emmy Award , a
Silver Bear and three
Golden Globes . With his starring films grossing $7 billion worldwide, he has placed eight times in annual rankings of
the world's highest-paid actors .
Born in Los Angeles, DiCaprio began his career in the late 1980s by appearing in television commercials. He had a starring role in the last season of the sitcom
Growing Pains (1991–1992), and had his first major film part as author
Tobias Wolff in
This Boy's Life (1993). He received critical acclaim and his first
Academy Award nomination for playing a developmentally disabled boy in
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993). DiCaprio achieved international stardom with the
star-crossed romances
Romeo + Juliet (1996) and
Titanic (1997). After the latter became the
highest-grossing film in the world at the time, he attempted to shed his image as a romantic hero, seeking roles in other genres, including the 2002 crime dramas
Catch Me If You Can and
Gangs of New York ; the latter marked the first of his
many successful collaborations with director
Martin Scorsese . (
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Image 3 Andre Romell Young (born February 18, 1965), known professionally as
Dr. Dre (or simply
Dre ; ), is an American rapper, record producer, record executive, and actor. He is the founder and
CEO of
Aftermath Entertainment and
Beats Electronics , and co-founder of
Death Row Records . Dre began his career as a member of the
World Class Wreckin' Cru in 1984, and later found fame with the
gangsta rap group
N.W.A , which he formed in 1987 with
Eazy-E ,
Ice Cube and
Arabian Prince . The group popularized explicit lyrics in
hip-hop to detail the violence of street life. N.W.A's debut album
Straight Outta Compton (1989) was one of the most successful albums in the
West Coast hip-hop scene, and is often credited for the rise in popularity of gangsta rap. During the early 1990s, Dre was credited as a key figure in the crafting and popularization of West Coast
G-funk , a subgenre of hip-hop characterized by a
synthesizer foundation and slow, heavy production.
Shortly after the release of their second album
Niggaz4life (1991), N.W.A disbanded and Dr. Dre began his career as a solo artist. Released as Death Row's first major project, Dr. Dre's debut solo album,
The Chronic (1992), made him one of the best-selling American music artists of 1993. Its lead single, "
Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang " (featuring
Snoop Dogg ), peaked at number two on the
Billboard Hot 100, while its third,
Let Me Ride " won
Best Rap Solo Performance at the
36th Annual Grammy Awards . That same year, he produced Death Row labelmate
Snoop Dogg 's debut album
Doggystyle , and mentored producers such as his stepbrother
Warren G (leading to the multi-platinum debut
Regulate... G Funk Era in 1994) and Snoop Dogg's cousin
Daz Dillinger (leading to the double-platinum debut
Dogg Food by
Tha Dogg Pound in 1995). In 1996, Dre left Death Row Records to establish his own label, Aftermath Entertainment; his compilation album,
Dr. Dre Presents: The Aftermath (1996) and second studio album,
2001 (1999) followed thereafter. After years of teasing an album tentatively titled
Detox , Dre released his third studio album,
Compton , in 2015. (
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Image 4 Skaggs with the Angels in 2019
Tyler Wayne Skaggs (July 13, 1991 – July 1, 2019) was an American professional
baseball player. A
starting pitcher , he played seven seasons in
Major League Baseball (MLB) for the
Arizona Diamondbacks and
Los Angeles Angels between 2012 and 2019.
A native of
Woodland Hills, California , and a graduate of
Santa Monica High School , Skaggs was a supplemental first-round selection for the Angels in the
2009 Major League Baseball draft . He was traded to the Diamondbacks the following year as part of an exchange for pitcher
Dan Haren and rose through Arizona's
farm system . After two consecutive appearances at the
All-Star Futures Game in 2011 and 2012, Skaggs made his major league debut on August
22, 2012, against the
Miami Marlins . He remained with the Diamondbacks through the end of the season, but was
optioned to the
minor leagues in 2013. (
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Image 5 Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th
president of the United States , serving from 1969 until
his resignation in 1974. A member of the
Republican Party , he represented
California in both houses of the
United States Congress before serving as the 36th
vice president under President
Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961.
His presidency saw the reduction of U.S. involvement in the
Vietnam War ,
détente with the
Soviet Union and
China , the
Apollo 11 Moon landing, and the establishment of the
Environmental Protection Agency and
Occupational Safety and Health Administration . Nixon's second term ended early when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office, as a part of the
Watergate scandal .
Nixon was born into a poor family of
Quakers in
Yorba Linda , Southern California. He graduated from
Whittier College with a
Bachelor of Arts in 1934 and from
Duke University School of Law with a
Bachelor of Laws degree in 1937, practiced law in
California , and then moved with his wife
Pat to
Washington, D.C. in 1942, to work for the
federal government . After serving in the
Naval Reserve during
World War II , he was elected to the
House of Representatives in
1946 . His work on the
Alger Hiss case established his reputation as a leading
anti-communist . In 1950, he
was elected to the
Senate . Nixon was the running mate of Eisenhower, the Republican Party's presidential nominee in the
1952 and
1956 elections . Nixon served for eight years as vice president, and his two terms saw an increase in the notability of the office. He narrowly lost the
1960 presidential election to
John F. Kennedy . After his loss in the
1962 race for governor of California, Nixon announced his retirement from politics. However, he ran again for the presidency in
1968 and defeated the Democratic candidate, Vice President
Hubert Humphrey . (
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Image 7 Gwen Renée Stefani Shelton (
stə-FAH -nee ; née
Stefani , formerly
Rossdale ; born October 3, 1969) is an American singer, songwriter and fashion designer. She rose to fame as the lead vocalist of the band
No Doubt , whose hit singles include "
Just a Girl ", "
Spiderwebs ", and "
Don't Speak " from their third album
Tragic Kingdom (1995), as well as "
Hey Baby ", "
Hella Good ", and "
It's My Life " from later albums.
During No Doubt's hiatus, Stefani debuted her clothing line
L.A.M.B. and expanded her collection with the Harajuku Lovers line inspired by
Japanese culture and fashion in the early 2000s. She embarked on a solo
pop career in 2004 by releasing her debut studio album
Love. Angel. Music. Baby. Inspired by pop music from the 1980s, the album was a critical and commercial success. It spawned six singles, including "
What You Waiting For? ", "
Rich Girl ", "
Hollaback Girl ", and "
Cool ". "Hollaback Girl" reached number one on the
Billboard Hot 100 chart while also becoming the first US download to sell one million copies. (
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Image 8 Edmund Gerald "
Jerry "
Brown Jr., (born April 7, 1938) is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as the 34th and 39th
governor of California from 1975 to 1983 and 2011 to 2019. A member of the
Democratic Party , he was elected
secretary of state of California in 1970; Brown later served as the
mayor of Oakland from 1999 to 2007 and the
attorney general of California from 2007 to 2011. He was both the oldest and sixth-youngest governor of California due to the 28-year gap between his second and third terms. Upon completing his fourth term in office, Brown became the
fourth-longest-serving governor in U.S. history (tied with
Bill Janklow ), serving 16 years and 5 days in office.
Born in
San Francisco , he is the son of
Bernice Layne Brown and
Pat Brown , who was the 32nd governor of California (1959–1967). After graduating from the
University of California, Berkeley and
Yale Law School , he practiced law and began his political career as a member of the
Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees (1969–1971). He was elected to serve as the 23rd secretary of state of California from 1971 to 1975. At 36, Brown was elected to his first term as governor in
1974 , making him the youngest California governor in 111 years. In
1978 , he won his second term. During his governorship, Brown ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in
1976 and
1980 . He declined to pursue a third term as governor in
1982 , instead making an unsuccessful run for the
United States Senate that
same year , losing to San Diego mayor and future governor
Pete Wilson . (
Full article... )
Image 9 Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is a retired American actor and filmmaker. After achieving success in the
Western TV series
Rawhide , Eastwood rose to international fame with his role as the "
Man with No Name " in
Sergio Leone 's
Dollars Trilogy of
spaghetti Westerns during the mid-1960s and as
antihero cop
Harry Callahan in the five
Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring
cultural icon of
masculinity . Elected in 1986, Eastwood served for two years as the mayor of
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California .
Eastwood's greatest commercial successes are the adventure comedy
Every Which Way but Loose (1978) and its action comedy sequel
Any Which Way You Can (1980). Other popular Eastwood films include the Westerns
Hang 'Em High (1968),
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) and
Pale Rider (1985), the action-war film
Where Eagles Dare (1968), the prison film
Escape from Alcatraz (1979), the war film
Heartbreak Ridge (1986), the action film
In the Line of Fire (1993), and the romantic drama
The Bridges of Madison County (1995). More recent works include
Gran Torino (2008),
The Mule (2018), and
Cry Macho (2021). Since 1967, Eastwood's company
Malpaso Productions has produced all but four of his American films. (
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Image 10 Warren as chief justice,
c. 1953–1969
Earl Warren (March 19, 1891 – July 9, 1974) was an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served as the 14th
chief justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969 and as the 30th
governor of California from 1943 to 1953. The
Warren Court presided over a major shift in American
constitutional jurisprudence , which has been recognized by many as a "
constitutional revolution " in the
liberal direction, with Warren writing the majority opinions in landmark cases such as
Brown v. Board of Education (1954),
Reynolds v. Sims (1964),
Miranda v. Arizona (1966), and
Loving v. Virginia (1967). Warren also led the
Warren Commission , a
presidential commission that investigated the 1963
assassination of President John F. Kennedy . Warren is the most recent chief justice to have served in a statewide elected office before nomination to the
Supreme Court and is generally considered to be one of the most influential Supreme Court justices and political leaders in the
history of the United States .
Warren was born in 1891 in
Los Angeles and was raised in
Bakersfield, California . After graduating from the
University of California, Berkeley School of Law , he began a legal career in
Oakland . He was hired as a deputy district attorney for
Alameda County in 1920 and was appointed
district attorney in 1925. He emerged as a leader of the state
Republican Party and was elected as the
attorney general of California in
1938 . In that position he supported and was a firm proponent of the
forced removal and internment of over 100,000
Japanese Americans during
World War II . In the
1942 California gubernatorial election , Warren defeated incumbent
Democratic governor
Culbert Olson . As governor, Warren presided over a period of major growth for the state as well as the nation. Serving from 1943 to 1953, Warren is the only governor of California to be elected for three consecutive terms. (
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Image 11 Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers (born October 1, 1989), known professionally as
Brie Larson , is an American actress, singer and filmmaker. She played supporting roles in comedies as a teenager, and has since expanded to leading roles in
independent films and
blockbusters .
Her accolades include an
Academy Award , a
Golden Globe Award , and a
Primetime Emmy Award .
Time magazine named her one of the
100 most influential people in the world in 2019.
At age six, Larson was the youngest student admitted to a training program at the
American Conservatory Theater , and she began her acting career in 1998 with a
comedy sketch on
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno . She appeared as a regular in the sitcom
Raising Dad (2001–2002) and experimented with a music career, releasing the album
Finally Out of P.E. (2005). She subsequently had supporting roles in the comedy films
Hoot (2006),
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), and
21 Jump Street (2012), and appeared as a sardonic teenager in the television series
United States of Tara (2009–2011). (
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Image 12 Caroline Agnes Brady (also known as
Caroline Agnes Von Egmont Brady ; October 3, 1905 – November 5, 1980) was an American
philologist who specialised in
Old English and
Old Norse works. Her works included the 1943 book
The Legends of Ermanaric , based on her doctoral dissertation, and three influential papers on the
Anglo-Saxon poem
Beowulf . She taught at the
University of California, Berkeley , the
University of Pennsylvania ,
Johns Hopkins University , and
Harvard University , among other places.
Brady was born an American citizen in
Tientsin , China, and traveled frequently as a child, spending time in
Los Angeles , California,
British Columbia , and
Austin, Texas . She studied in the
University of California system, receiving her bachelor's and master's degrees, and her
Ph.D. in 1935. She next became an English instructor at that university's College of Agriculture, and worked as an
assistant professor of languages and literature at Berkeley from 1941 to 1946. The following three years were spent at the University of Pennsylvania, until, at the end of 1949, Brady moved to teach at
Central Oregon Community College ; her resignation due to "ill health" was announced a few months later. After being named the 1952–53
Marion Talbot Fellow of the
American Association of University Women and writing two articles, Brady's scholarship ceased for a quarter of a century. In 1979, and posthumously in 1983, her final two articles were published. (
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Image 13 Walter Francis O'Malley (October 9, 1903 – August 9, 1979) was an American sports executive who owned the
Brooklyn /
Los Angeles Dodgers team in
Major League Baseball from 1950 to 1979. In 1958, as owner of the Dodgers, he brought major league baseball to the
West Coast , moving the Dodgers from
Brooklyn to Los Angeles despite the Dodgers being the second most profitable team in baseball from 1946 to 1956, and coordinating the move of the
New York Giants to San Francisco at a time when there were no teams west of
Kansas City, Missouri . In 2008, O'Malley was elected to the
National Baseball Hall of Fame for his contributions to and influence on the game of baseball.
O'Malley's father,
Edwin Joseph O'Malley , was politically connected. Walter, a
University of Pennsylvania salutatorian , went on to obtain a
Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), and he used the combination of his family connections, his personal contacts, and both his educational and vocational skills to rise to prominence. First, he became an entrepreneur involved in
public works contracting, and then he became an executive with the Dodgers. He progressed from being a team lawyer to being both the Dodgers' owner and president, and he eventually made the business decision to relocate the Dodgers franchise. Although he moved the franchise, O'Malley is known as a businessman whose major philosophy was stability through loyalty to and from his employees. (
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Image 14 Russell Albion Meyer (March 21, 1922 – September 18, 2004) was an American
filmmaker and photographer. He was primarily known for writing and directing a successful series of
sexploitation films featuring
campy humor, sly satire and large-breasted women, which have attracted a considerable
cult following .
His best-known works include
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965),
Vixen! (1968),
Supervixens (1975),
Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979), and the film he considered to be his definitive work,
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970). (
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Image 15 Glenn Theodore Seaborg (
SEE -borg; April 19, 1912 – February 25, 1999) was an American
chemist whose involvement in the
synthesis , discovery and investigation of ten
transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951
Nobel Prize in Chemistry . His work in this area also led to his development of the
actinide concept and the arrangement of the
actinide series in the
periodic table of the elements .
Seaborg spent most of his career as an educator and research scientist at the
University of California, Berkeley , serving as a professor, and, between 1958 and 1961, as the university's second chancellor. He advised ten US presidents—from
Harry S. Truman to
Bill Clinton —on nuclear policy and was Chairman of the
United States Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971, where he pushed for commercial
nuclear energy and the peaceful applications of nuclear science. Throughout his career, Seaborg worked for arms control. He was a signatory to the
Franck Report and contributed to the
Limited Test Ban Treaty , the
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty . He was a well-known advocate of science education and federal funding for pure research. Toward the end of the
Eisenhower administration , he was the principal author of the Seaborg Report on academic science, and, as a member of President
Ronald Reagan 's
National Commission on Excellence in Education , he was a key contributor to its 1983 report "
A Nation at Risk ". (
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Balboa Stadium
The inside of the Senate Chambers at the Benicia Capitol State Historic Park
Benicia Capitol State Historic Park state park in Benicia, California . The park is dedicated to California ’s third capitol building, where the California State Legislature and bureaucracy convened from February 3, 1853 to February 24, 1854. It is the only pre-Sacramento capitol that survives.
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Land: 156,002 mi2 Water: 7,694 mi2 Highest elevation: 14,505 ft (Mount Whitney )Population 39,250,017 (2016 est)Admission to the Union: September 9, 1850 (31st )State symbols:
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