Approved in a controversial ballot measure in 1926 and built in the 1930s, it served to consolidate rail services from the
Union Pacific,
Santa Fe, and
Southern Pacific Railroads into one terminal station. Conceived on a grand scale, Union Station became known as the "Last of the Great Railway Stations" built in the United States. The structure combines
Art Deco,
Mission Revival, and
Streamline Moderne style. It was placed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Today, the station is a major transportation hub for
Southern California, serving almost 110,000 passengers a day. It is by far the busiest train station in the Western United States; it is Amtrak's fifth-busiest station, and is the
thirteenth-busiest train station in North America. (Full article...)
Newsom graduated from
Santa Clara University in 1989. Afterward, he founded the boutique winery
PlumpJack Group with billionaire heir and family friend
Gordon Getty as an investor. The company grew to manage 23 businesses, including wineries, restaurants, and hotels. Newsom began his political career in 1996, when San Francisco mayor
Willie Brown appointed him to the city's Parking and Traffic Commission. Brown then appointed Newsom to fill a vacancy on
the Board of Supervisors the next year and Newsom was first elected to the board in 1998. (Full article...)
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London in 1903
John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.
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manuals, textbooks, other reference and instructional materials, and documentation which often accompanies GNU software. However, it can be used for any text-based work, regardless of subject matter. For example, the free online encyclopedia
Wikipedia uses the GFDL (coupled with the
Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License) for much of its text, excluding text that was imported from other sources after the 2009 licensing update that is only available under the Creative Commons license. (Full article...)
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Monroe spent most of her childhood in a total of 12 foster homes and an orphanage before marrying
James Dougherty at age sixteen. She was working in a factory during
World War II when she met a photographer from the
First Motion Picture Unit and began a successful
pin-up modeling career, which led to short-lived film contracts with
20th Century Fox and
Columbia Pictures. After a series of minor film roles, she signed a new contract with Fox in late 1950. Over the next two years, she became a popular actress with roles in several comedies, including As Young as You Feel and Monkey Business, and in the dramas Clash by Night and Don't Bother to Knock. Monroe faced a scandal when it was revealed that she had posed for nude photographs prior to becoming a star, but the story did not damage her career and instead resulted in increased interest in her films. (Full article...)
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...)
Burnham was born on a
Dakota SiouxIndian reservation in Minnesota, in the small village of Tivoli near the city of Mankato; there he learned the ways of
American Indians as a boy. By the age of 14, he was supporting himself in California, while also learning scouting from some of the last of the cowboys and frontiersmen of the
American Southwest. Burnham had little formal education, never finishing high school. After moving to the
Arizona Territory in the early 1880s, he was drawn into the
Pleasant Valley War, a feud between families of ranchers and sheepherders. He escaped and later worked as a civilian tracker for the
United States Army in the
Apache Wars. Feeling the need for new adventures, Burnham took his family to southern Africa in 1893, seeing
Cecil Rhodes's
Cape to Cairo Railway project as the next undeveloped frontier. (Full article...)
Picture of Stafford from the New York Sunday News, September 21, 1947
Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917 – July 16, 2008) was an American
traditional pop singer, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Admired for the purity of her voice, she originally underwent classical training to become an
opera singer before following a career in popular music, and by 1955 had achieved more worldwide record sales than any other female artist. Her 1952 song "
You Belong to Me" topped the charts in the United States and United Kingdom, becoming the second single to top the
UK Singles Chart, and the first by a female artist to do so.
Born in remote oil-rich
Coalinga, California, near Fresno in the
San Joaquin Valley, Stafford made her first musical appearance at age 12. While still at high school, she joined her two older sisters to form a vocal trio named the Stafford Sisters, who found moderate success on radio and in film. In 1938, while the sisters were part of the cast of
Twentieth Century Fox's production of Alexander's Ragtime Band, Stafford met the future members of
the Pied Pipers and became the group's lead singer. Bandleader
Tommy Dorsey hired them in 1939 to perform vocals with his orchestra. From 1940 to 1942, the group often performed with Dorsey's new male singer, Frank Sinatra. (Full article...)
Paula Julie Abdul (born June 19, 1962) is an American singer, dancer, choreographer, actress, and television personality. She began her career as a
cheerleader for the
Los Angeles Lakers at the age of 18 and later became the head choreographer for the
Laker Girls, where she was discovered by
the Jacksons. After choreographing music videos for
Janet Jackson, Abdul became a choreographer at the height of the music video era and soon thereafter she was signed to
Virgin Records. Her debut studio album Forever Your Girl (1988) became one of the most successful debut albums at that time, selling seven million copies in the United States and setting a record for the most number-one singles from a debut album on the
Billboard Hot 100 chart: "
Straight Up", "
Forever Your Girl", "
Cold Hearted", and "
Opposites Attract". Her second album
Spellbound (1991) scored her two more chart-toppers – "
Rush Rush" and "
The Promise of a New Day". With six number-one singles on Hot 100, Abdul tied
Diana Ross for the third-most chart-toppers among female solo artists at the time.
Before becoming an astronaut, Young received his Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the
Georgia Institute of Technology and joined the U.S. Navy. After serving at sea during the
Korean War he became a naval aviator and graduated from the
U.S. Naval Test Pilot School. As a test pilot, he set several world time-to-climb records. Young retired from the Navy in 1976 with the rank of
captain. (Full article...)
Le Guin was born in
Berkeley, California, to author
Theodora Kroeber and anthropologist
Alfred Louis Kroeber. Having earned a master's degree in French, Le Guin began doctoral studies but abandoned these after her marriage in 1953 to historian Charles Le Guin. She began writing full-time in the late 1950s and achieved major critical and commercial success with A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) and The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), which have been described by
Harold Bloom as her masterpieces. For the latter volume, Le Guin won both the
Hugo and
Nebula awards for best novel, becoming the first woman to do so. Several more works set in Earthsea or the Hainish universe followed; others included books set in the fictional country of
Orsinia, several works for children, and many anthologies. (Full article...)
... that Sigismund Danielewicz's career in the California
labor movement ended after he delivered an 1885 speech advocating against the persecution of Chinese people?
... that due to business closures across California during the
COVID-19 pandemic, some of the exotic dancers at Jumbo's Clown Room created the Cyber Clown Girls show so they could continue working?
The Western Gull (Larus occidentalis) is a large white-headed
gull that lives on the western coast of
North America. It is a large gull, around 60 cm long with a white head and body, and gray wings. It has a yellow bill with a red subterminal spot (this is the small spot near the end of the bill that chicks peck in order to stimulate feeding).
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