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Did you know
... that
The Californian
(pictured)
, California's first newspaper, appeared first in August 1846 on large sheets of
cigarette paper
, with
English
on one side and
Spanish
on the other?
... that "
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
" was one of the stories
Mark Twain
published in the
San Francisco
weekly literary newspaper
The Californian
?
... that Anton Roman's literary magazine
The Californian
, published in 1880, was a continuation of his earlier
Overland Monthly
?
August 2009
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