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San Francisco
aka: Frisco A small coastal suburb of San Jose. Locals (“Friscoans”) refer to it as “The City” in ironic reference to their smug provincial isolation. The Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite was said to be...
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Founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles sobre El Rio Porciuncula — The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels on the River Porciuncula “(porcinicula meaning “little portion”)...
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aka: The Crown City Mausoleum of Capitalist Aristocracy In March 1886, Pasadena became the second incorporated municipality, after the city of Los Angeles, in Los Angeles County. In Ojibwe,...
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