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... La începutul lunii iunie 1995, am fost cu familia la Oceanul Pacific, în California. Am plecat din Tucson cu ma şina. Fug iar de c ăldura din Arizo... ...te animalele, dar şi pe mama, tata şi Mihai!... Benzina e mai scump ă în California (ca de altfel, toate produsele): 1,319 $/gallon, fa ţă de 1,1... ...lmaz şi Nepotu’, prietenii mei din lag ăr, precum şi Sebadin s-au dus din California în New York. Lucreazî ca tinichigii auto. Între Prut şi Nist... ...buit relativ u şor. Am avut cinci interviuri la cinci universit ăţi: 1. California State University (Hayard); 2. Temple University, PA; 3. Tarlet... ...gru, expresiv. Via ţă am ărât ă de fermieri care se mut ă din Oklahoma în California. Cu toate catrafusele îngr ăm ădite pe o ma şin ă. Când pelicul... ...ă trei biserici române şti baptiste în golf, o biseric ă penticostal ă în Sacramento şi una ortodox ă în Hayward – cu slujbe în limba român ă. Doamn...

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.... Chile and the Balancing of Power in South America, 1830-1905, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1965, p. 91. 9 N. T. Auza, op. cit., p. 1... ...o el arbitraje. Desde la primera mitad del siglo XVIII, cuando la Colonia del Sacramento era fuente de constantes litigios entre España y Portugal, ... ... sederías, etcétera. Se ha abierto el tráfico al ferrocarril interoceánico en California que pone en comunicación directa la Europa y Estados Unidos... ...á en demanda, y los cereales producidos en el Pacífico al Sur, con la potente California al Norte, son un pobre elemento de comercio sobre el Perú y... ...é M. Balmaceda: A Chilean President´s Background, M. A. Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1941, p. 77, Fuentes citadas en G. S. Smith, op. ... ... Notas 1 Nicholas Shumway, The invention of Argentina, University of California Press, Berkeley y Oxford, 1991; ver A. Cisneros, C. Escudé ...

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...ity issues for four years, and I was at a rally protesting the passage of California's Proposition 8. Before Rev. Mike ever spoke, I was keenly aware... ...e of color and women into something righteous. Yet, with Proposition 8 in California, SB 1070 in Arizona and Oklahoma's new law requiring vaginal ul... ... refusing to be tolerant of intolerance. In recent comment sections on the Sacramento Bee (our state capitol's daily paper), I have been accused of f...

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...been peer reviewed and recommended for publication by: Joel Hass, University of California, Davis Marcus Marsh, California State University, Sacrame... ...ass, University of California, Davis Marcus Marsh, California State University, Sacramento Catherine D’Ortona, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania ... ...y and topology of manifolds. He has a PhD in mathematics from the University of California, Davis, where he wrote a thesis on minimal surfaces under... ... the supervision of Joel Hass. He also has an MA and BA in mathematics from the California State University, Sacramento. A Smarandache geome... .... He also has an MA and BA in mathematics from the California State University, Sacramento. A Smarandache geometry (1969) is a geometric spa...

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...r Force base 9 Camp Smith (Pacifc Command for all U.S. armed f orces from California to Africa’s east coast, f rom Arctic to Antarctica) 10 Marine... ...ingham, Wash., Denver, Houston, Las Vegas, Oakland, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Diego and San Jose. China State of Hawai‘... ...iences signed on as an international observer, joining the University of California, California Institute of Technology, Association of Canadian U...

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...eally aspire to be—ever since I was a wee laddie born and raised in Irvine, California—is a writer. I remember telling Mommy that I wanted to become... ...ing and her research. I don't even know why she uses the UCI (University of California, Irvine) library, since she goes to Stanford University, for ... ...I know they sold out. Speaking of minorities, the majority of people here in California are actually comprised of minorities, not Caucasian. And as e... ...ly when the big earthquake comes; it can happen at anytime since all of — — California is on a godd@mn fault line. Then their opulent homes, expensiv... ...me for not being able to speak my native language, since I was born here in California. I keep telling him that the reason I can't speak my native l... ...lifornia, or NorCal for short. Plus, his wife is a former beauty queen from Sacramento. Yes, I'm jealous who wouldn't be? — The only noticeable weakn...

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... he had earned enough to follow two brothers who had answered the lure of California gold. Stranded on the Isthmus on his way west, Darius had to det... ...hmus on his way west, Darius had to detour around South America to get to California. There, he was so successful selling supplies to gold miners an... ...old miners and trading in gold dust that he opened the D.O. Mills Bank in Sacramento in 1850 and later helped organize the Bank of San Francisco. Th...

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... he had earned enough to follow two brothers who had answered the lure of California gold. Stranded on the Isthmus on his way west, Darius had to det... ...hmus on his way west, Darius had to detour around South America to get to California. There, he was so successful selling supplies to gold miners an... ...old miners and trading in gold dust that he opened the D.O. Mills Bank in Sacramento in 1850 and later helped organize the Bank of San Francisco. Th...

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...he weight of your body on a mattress. I had trouble sleeping on my bed in California, but these air flotation mattresses at the hotel are like being... ...redness. L‘Oreal cosmetics has the slogan ‗I‘m worth it.‘ I‘ve heard more California women spout it whenever they want to do something out of the or... ...presentatives of the citizens?‖ —―Right Ray. Look at what happened in California to their democratic vote. In 1994 Proposition 187 was passed by... ...legal immigration. It was the federal government‘s responsibility. ―California‘s Attorney General appealed, but didn‘t pursue the appeal as fas... ...e majority of the citizens. So much for democracy! ―Then again in California in 2008 the California Supreme Court, by a 4 to 3 decision, ove... ...ten, Nov. 20, 2006) 117.Guardian Oct 9, 2003) 118. Catholic Charities of Sacramento Inc. v. California, Case No. 03-1618)‖ 119. Miller v. Californi...

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...urn of 16%. You can invest with an eye toward getting the properties, such as in California or upstate New York where the counties auction the deed ... ...harp, St. Francis, Stone, Union, Van Buren, Washington, White, Woodruff, Yell California: Tax Deed State 58 Counties Alameda, Alpine, Amador, Bu... ... Merced, Modoc, Mono, Monterey, Napa, Nevada, Orange, Placer, Plumas, Riverside, Sacramento, San Benito, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, S...

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Excerpt: The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris.

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...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic C... ...is an equal opportunity university. 3 Frank Norris The Octopus A Story of California by Frank Norris Book 1 CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I C... ...tood by the com- pany. You know that. And you know, and they know, that at Sacramento that time, I ran my train according to sched- ule, with a gun in... ... are, Presley. That’s 16 The Octopus the P . & S. W . Railroad Company of California. I am on my last run now.” “Shameful,” declared Presley, his sym... ...vous prostration; his stomach “got out of whack,” and he all but died in a Sacramento boarding-house, obstinately refusing to have anything to do with... ...ad an affair—a timid, little creature in a glove-cleaning establishment in Sacramento, whom he had picked up, Heaven knew how. After his return to his... ...ss and music room. She had followed his fortunes unquestioningly. First at Sacramento, during the turmoil of his political career, later on at Placerv... ... he had gone, Magnus had taken his family with him. Lyman had been born at Sacramento during the tur- moil and excitement of Derrick’s campaign for go...

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...il- grimage for the summary globe-trotter; but to one who lives upon its sides, Mount Saint Helena soon becomes a centre of interest. It is the Mont B... ...o Bay, with Tamalpais on the one hand and Monte Diablo on the other; to the west and thirty miles away, the open ocean; eastward, across the corn-land... ...l unflecked with vapour, the sea fogs were pouring in from seaward, over the hill- tops of Marin county, in one great, shapeless, silver cloud. South ... ...avels armed, and the stage is not only a link between country and city, and the vehicle of news, but has a faint warfaring aroma, like a man who shoul... ... in spite of this heat from above and below, doing one on both sides, Calistoga was a pleasant place to dwell in; beautifully green, for it was then t... ...pares a far more delightful curiosity, in the form of Mr. Evans, whom may all prosperity attend throughout a long and green old age. CHAPTER III – NAP... ...ith me, “for add lang syne,” as he said; and took himself solemnly away, radiating dirt and humbug as he went. A month or two after this encounter of ... ...way, there never was any one more Scotch in this wide world. He could sing and dance, and drink, I pre- sume; and he played the pipes with vigour and ... ...ab, between drinks, while he blew himself scarlet at the pipes. This is a very sad story. After he had borrowed money from every one, he and his pipes...

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.... On the other hand, the lad who rode with us in this capacity from Ogden to Sacramento made himself the friend of all, and helped us with information... ...not written to you before now, you will be surprised to heare that we are in California, and that poor Thomas” (another brother, of fifteen) “is dead.... .... We went along very well till we got within six or seven hun- dred miles of California, when the Indians attacked us. We found places where they had ... ... traveld with them till we arrived at the settlements; and know I am safe in California, and got to good home, and going to school. “Jerry is working ... ...was “the good country” we had been going to so long. By afternoon we were at Sacramento, the city of gardens in a plain of corn; and the next day befo... ...erey itself is cosily ensconced beside the barb. Thus the ancient capital of California faces across the bay, while the Pacific Ocean, though hidden b... ...e fires prevent the rains of the next winter and dry up perennial fountains. California has been a land of promise in its time, like Palestine; but if...

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...ng them English, many Americans, a large number of coolies on their way to California, and several East Indian officers, who were spending their vacat... ...teamboats, with several decks rising one above the other, which ply on the Sacramento and its tributaries. There were also heaped up the products of a... ... was at six o’clock p.m.; he had, therefore, an entire day to spend in the Californian capital. T aking a carriage at a charge of three dollars, he an... ...Desert, Cedar and Humboldt Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, and descends, via Sacramento, to the Pacific—its grade, even on the Rocky Mountains, never ex... ... and sleep which everybody did—while the train sped on across the State of California. The country between San Francisco and Sacramento is not very hi... ...d on across the State of California. The country between San Francisco and Sacramento is not very hilly. The Central Pacific, taking Sacramento for it... ...tends eastward to meet the road from Omaha. The line from San Francisco to Sacramento runs in a north- easterly direction, along the American River, w... ..., and to- wards midnight, while fast asleep, the travellers passed through Sacramento; so that they saw nothing of that im- portant place, the seat of... ...n, directly on the route of the emigrants who crossed Utah on their way to California, the new colony, thanks to the polygamy practised by the Mormons...

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...her had been a veterinary surgeon who had kept a livery stable near by, on California Street, and Marcus’s knowledge of the dis- eases of domestic ani... ...p. They walked for upwards of five hours that afternoon, out the length of California Street, and across the Presidio Reservation to the Golden Gate. ... ... merit to him who der bes’ pehaves. It is an order. Vorwarts!” “That was a Sacramento train,” said Marcus to Selina 50 McTeague as they started off; ... ... 50 McTeague as they started off; “it was, for a fact.” “I know a girl in Sacramento,” Trina told McTeague. “She’s forewoman in a glove store, and sh... ...“She’s forewoman in a glove store, and she’s got consump- tion.” “I was in Sacramento once,” observed McT eague, “nearly eight years ago.” “Is it a ni... ...icks—kind of a play place to keep them off the street.” “There’s one up on Sacramento Street, not far from Polk Street. I saw the sign.” “I know where... ...tly got him- self engaged as deputy-sheriff, and spent a memorable week in Sacramento, where he involved himself in more than one terrible melee with ... ... the City Hall and was stamped in one corner with the seal of the State of California, very official; the form and file numbers superscribed. McT eagu... ...ate, small, and homelike, like a good-natured housewife. In Placer County, California, she is a vast, unconquered brute of the Pliocene epoch, savage,...

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...spair, that he turned his back on his native city, and set out on foot for California, with a more immediate eye to Glasgow. 19 Stevenson CHAPTER IV—... ... de- sired, and, by human standards, more than he deserved; how he reached California, how he was rooked, and robbed, and beaten, and starved; how he ... ...he knew not where, and was at last hove-to, all standing, in a hospital at Sacramento. There, under the impenetrable alias of the number of his bed, t... ...ere after him. Two months had come and gone before the convalescent in the Sacramento hospital was identified with Kirkman, the absconding San Francis... ...son. ‘Where have you been all this long time?’ ‘In the States,’ said John—‘California. I’ve made my pile though; and it suddenly struck me it would be... ...skin curdled on his bones. He had a vision of a high-lying cattle-drive in California, and the bed of a dried stream with one muddy pool, by which the... ...ked John. ‘I don’t even know what it is.’ ‘About your robbing your bank in California, of course,’ replied Alexander. It was plain, from Flora’s face,...

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...e out of mind had rented a half-pew in the church of their denomination on California Street, not far from Chinatown. By noon the family reassembled. ... ...miliar and inti- mate friends, to Conny. Asked as to his birthplace—for no Californian assumes that his neighbor is born in the State—Condy was wont t... ...the market, and get some crackers to go with it.” They hurried back to the California market, a few blocks distant, and bought some crackers and a wed... ...had been ship- wrecked in the Gilberts, fought with the Seris on the lower California Islands, sold champagne—made from rock candy, effervescent salts... ...trel troupe, in a hired drum-major’s uniform, marching down the streets of Sacramento at the head of the brass band in burnt cork and regimentals. “Th... ...o you know,” he added, in a low, confidential tone, “that all the mines in California send their clean-ups and gold bricks down to the Selby smeltin’ ...

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...entitled “An act to create additional collection districts in the State of California, and to change the existing districts therein, and to modify the... ...maha City, Nebraska, and a preliminary location of the Pacific Railroad of California has been made from Sacramento eastward to the great bend of the ... ...liminary location of the Pacific Railroad of California has been made from Sacramento eastward to the great bend of the Truckee River in Nevada. Numer... ...t- ing upon the recommendation, did provide for reorganizing the system in California, and it is believed that under the present organization the mana... ...e States regularly holding elections, both now and four years ago, to wit, California, Connecticut, Dela- ware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mai... ... Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, Indiana, Illinois, and California, who by the laws of those States could not vote away from their ...

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... And so I became a journalist—another link. By and by Circumstance and the Sacramento Union sent me to the Sandwich Islands for five or six months, t... ...s: “In that region the weather —” “At that time it was a custom —” “But in California one never heard —” Eleven of them. They initialed the brief divi... ...d not take them in until we saw three boys spring into the rigging of the California; then they were all furled at once, but with orders to our boys ... ...ed hardly capable of supporting the great fab rics raised upon them. The California was to windward of us, and had every advantage; yet, while the b...

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...Twain. This compilation is the work of Project Gutenberg and contains articles from TERRITORIAL ENTERPRISE, THE SAN FRANCISCO DAILY MORNING CALL, THE SACRAMENTO DAILY UNION, DAILY HAWAIIAN HERALD, ALTA CALIFORNIA, THE CHICAGO REPUBLICAN, and THE GALAXY. (Introduction by John Greenman)...

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...APTER VI ? LOSS OF A MAN?SUPERSTITION, 18 -- CHAPTER VII ? JUAN FERNANDEZ?THE PACIFIC, 21 -- CHAPTER VIII ? ??TARRING DOWN???DAILY LIFE???GOING AFT???CALIFORNIA -- ., 25 -- CHAPTER IX ? CALIFORNIA?A SOUTH-EASTER, 28 -- CHAPTER X ? A SOUTH-EASTER?PASSAGE UP THE COAST, 32 -- CHAPTER XI ? PASSAGE UP THE COAST?MONTEREY, 35 -- CHAPTER XII ? LIFE AT MONTEREY, 38 -- CHAPTER XIII ...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 NIA . . . . . . . . 28 CHAPTER IX — CALIFORNIA—A SOUTH EASTER . . . . . . 32 CHAPTER X — A SOUTH EASTER—PASS... ...EISURE—NEWS FROM HOME—’’BURNING THE WATER’’ . . . . . . . 87 CHAPTER XXI — CALIFORNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS . . . . . . . . . 90 CHAPTER XXII — LIFE ... ...22 GRANDEE—’’SAIL HO!’’—A FANDANGO CHAPTER XXVIII — AN OLD FRIEND—A VICTIM—CALIFORNIA . . . . . . . . . 128 RANGERS—NEWS FROM HOME—LAST LOOKS CHAPT... ...ssage home, and offer him a handsome sum to bring a few deer with him from California, for he said that there were none upon the island, and he was ... ...ichard Henry Dana CHAPTER VIII — ‘‘TARRING DOWN’’—DAILY LIFE—’’GOING AFT’’—CALIFORNIA As we saw neither land nor sail from the time of leaving J... ...and the United States Naval Station, and then up the great tributaries—the Sacramento, San Joaquin, and Feather Rivers—to the far inland cities of ... ...of Sunday, December 11th, 1859. My first visit after my return was to Sacramento, a city of about forty thousand inhabitants, more than a hun... ... inhabitants, more than a hundred miles inland from San Francisco, on the Sacramento, where was the capital of the State, and where were fleets of ...

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...es of the Organ.........................................121 Facing West from California’s Shores ....................................................1... ...the Conquer’d Fame..137 We Two Boys Together Clinging.......138 A Promise to California.....................138 Here the Frailest Leaves of Me........... ...savannas, Or a soldier camp’d or carrying my knapsack and gun, or a miner in California, Or rude in my home in Dakota’s woods, my diet meat, my drink ... ...he hills of Vermont or in the woods of Maine, or the Texan ranch, Comrade of Californians, comrade of free North Westerners, (loving their big proport... ...out doors? is he Kanadian? Is he from the Mississippi country? Iowa, Oregon, California? The mountains? prairie life, bush life? or sailor from the se... ..., the deck hand on the great lakes, or on the Mississippi or St. Lawrence or Sacramento, or Hudson or Paumanok sound, claims him. The gentleman of per...

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...istration’s Approach 203 7. THE ATTACK LOOMS 215 7.1 First Arrivals in California 215 7.2 The 9/11 Pilots in the United States 223 7.3 Assembl... ...or Afghanistan’s warring factions in a project by the Union Oil Company of California (UNOCAL) to build a pipeline across the country. While there was... ...e United States, therefore became the primary target. For similar reasons, California also became a target for KSM. 32 KSM claims that the earlier bom... ...and FBI headquarters, nuclear power plants, and the tallest build- ings in California and the state of Washington. KSM himself was to land the tenth p... ...rs and informed Washington. 4 One of the 16, Raed Hijazi, had been born in California to Palestinian parents; after spending his childhood in the Mid... ...l sciences, with a minor in chemistry, from Califor- nia State University, Sacramento. Sufaat did not start on the al Qaeda biological weapons program...

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...nts were spreading it. Soon after his graduation, Slaughter was ordered to California and took passage by a sailing vessel going around Cape Horn. The... ...e lying at an- chor after reaching his place of destination. On landing in California he found orders which had come by the Isthmus, notifying him of ... ... sick all the way. But when he arrived at the East he was again ordered to California, this time defi- nitely, and at this date was making his third t... ...as deemed safe to start. The disease did not break out again on the way to California, and we reached San Francisco early in September. CHAPTER XV SAN... ...e reached San Francisco early in September. CHAPTER XV SAN FRANCISCO—EARLY CALIFORNIA EXPERIENCES—LIFE ON THE PACIFIC COAST —PROMOTED CAPTAIN—FLUSH TI... ...s height. Steamers plied daily between San Francisco and both Stockton and Sacramento. Passengers and gold from the southern mines came by the Stockto... ...m the southern mines came by the Stockton boat; from the northern mines by Sacramento. In the evening when these boats arrived, Long Wharf—there was b...