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The early part of this era was dominated by country rock acts such as The Eagles and Poco, and singer-songwriters such as Jackson Browne and Joni Mitchell. There were also funk acts that were prominent such as War from the South Central (now South) district of Los Angeles, and Sly and the Family Stone and Tower of Power from Oakland. Santana blended rock, jazz, funk and Latin music. This period also saw a number of difficult to classify acts arising who did not sell many records, but proved to be very influential on things to come, such as K ...

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Pre-European California was one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse culture areas in Native North America. Large, settled populations lived on the West Coast and hunted sea mammals, fished for salmon, and gathered shellfish, while more mobile hunters and gathering groups in the California interior hunted terrestrial game and gathered nuts, acorns, and berries. California groups also were diverse in their political organization with bands, tribes, tribelets, and on the resource-rich coasts large chiefdoms, such as the Chuma ...

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UC Berkeley Stanford UCLA USC San Jose State UC San Diego Caltech CSU Long Beach UC Santa Barbara Pomona College UC Irvine San Diego State California's public educational system is supported by a unique constitutional amendment that requires 40% of state revenues to be spent on education. The preeminent state university is the University of California, which employs more Nobel Prize winners than any other institution in the world and is consider ...

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California's large population has helped to make it home to many professional sports teams, including fifteen major professional sports league franchises, far more than any other state. However, since the re-location of the Los Angeles Raiders and Los Angeles Rams in the 1990s, it could be argued that no one city is able to lay claim to a "Grand Slam" (i.e. having a team in each of the four leagues) unless Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose are counted as being in a single metropolitan area. California - Maj ...

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As for air travel, Los Angeles International Airport and San Francisco International Airport are major hubs for trans-Pacific and transcontinental traffic. There are about a dozen important commercial airports and many more general aviation airports throughout the state's 58 counties. California also has several important seaports. The giant seaport complex formed by the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach in Southern California is the largest in the country and responsible for handling about a fourth of all container cargo traffic in the United States. The Port of Oakland handles most of the ocean co ...

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Hip hop is a cultural movement encompassing four forms of expression: graffiti art, breakdancing, DJing and rapping. The latter two compose hip hop music, a popular style that was developed in the 1970s in New York City, among primarily African American and Puerto Rican audiences. For many years, hip hop remained known only in a few neighborhoods in New York, but it began to spread to nearby urban areas like Philadelphia and New Jersey. By the end of the decade, hip hop was kn ...

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Sacramento Los Angeles San Diego San Francisco San Jose Long Beach Oakland Anaheim The state of California has 478 cities, the majority of which are within one of the large metropolitan areas. 68% of California's population lives in its two largest metropolitan areas, Greater Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. Note: table was compiled using California State estimates from 2005 for po ...

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California is governed as a republic, with three branches of government, the executive branch consisting of the Governor of California and the other independently elected constitutional officers, the legislative branch consisting of the Assembly and Senate, and the judicial branch consisting of the Supreme Court of California and lower courts. The state also allows direct participation of the electorate by referendum, recall, and ratification. The Governor of California and the other state constitutional officers serve four-year terms ...

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California borders the Pacific Ocean, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, and the Mexican state of Baja California. The state has strikingly beautiful natural features, including an expansive central valley, tall mountains, hot deserts, and hundreds of miles of scenic coastline. With an area of 411,000 km² it is the third largest state in the U.S and larger than Germany in size. Most major cities are at or near the Pacific coastline, notably Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Long Beach, Oak ...

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Ecologically, California is one of the richest and most diverse parts of the world, and includes some of the most endangered ecological communities. California's diverse geography, geology, soils and climate have generated a tremendous diversity of plant and animal life. The State of California is part of the Nearctic ecozone, and spans a number of terrestrial ecoregions, and is perhaps the most ecologically diverse state in the United States. California has a rather high percentage of endemic species. California endemics include reli ...

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California - Population. As of 2005, California has an estimated population of 36,132,147, which is an increase of 290,109, or 0.8%, from the prior year and an increase of 2,260,494, or 6.7%, since the year 2000, making California the 13th fastest-growing state (after Nevada, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Utah, Idaho, Texas, Colorado, North Carolina, Delaware, Virginia, and Washington State). This includes a natural increase since the last census of 1,557,112 people (that is 2,781,539 births minus 1,224,427 deaths) ...

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As of 2005, California has the fifth largest economy in the world. It is responsible for 13% of the United States' gross domestic product (GDP). The gross state product (GSP) is about $1.4 trillion ($1,400,000,000,000, as of 2005), making it greater than that of every other U.S. state, and most countries in the world (by Purchasing Power Parity). The predominant industry, more than twice as large as the next, is agriculture, (including fruit, vegetables, dairy, and wine). This is followed by aerospace; entertainment, primarily televis ...

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List of California-related topics - Ecology of California. American black bear Bigcone Douglas-fir Bighorn sheep California black oak California golden bear California Juniper California poppy California sea lion Chaparral Chinook salmon Coast Douglas-fir Coast redwood Coyote Creosote bush Dungeness crab Eucalyptus Forest fire Garibaldi (fish) Gray ...

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American hip hop - Baltimore. Main article: Music of Maryland With a somewhat disappointing hip-hop scene, Baltimore's biggest claim to fame in rap is its status as the boyhood home of the legendary Tupac Shakur. American hip hop - Boston. Main article: Music of Massachusetts Boston is the hometown of Guru of the East Coast trailblazers, Gang Starr. Other Boston hip-hop acts include Bell Biv Devoe, Benzino, and New Jack Swing legend Bobby Brown. American hip hop - New Jersey. ...

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List of California-related topics - Film industry. Frank Capra Walt Disney Samuel Goldwyn George Lucas, Lucasfilm Louis B. Mayer Eadweard Muybridge Steven Spielberg Jack Warner Industrial Light and Magic List of California-related topics - Television. California's Gold List of television stations in California List of California-related topics ...

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List of California-related topics - Parks. National parks Cabrillo National Monument Carrizo Plain National Monument California National Historic Trail Channel Islands National Park Death Valley National Park Devils Postpile National Monument Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site Golden Gate National Recreation Area Alcatraz Island Fort Point National Historic Site Muir Woods National Monument Presidi ...

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List of California-related topics - Native Americans. Chumash Maidu Miwok Modoc Mohave Ohlone Okwanuchu Pomo Tongva Yokut Wintu Yuki Yuma Indians Native American Conflicts California Water Wars Modoc War Mariposa War Mendocino War List of California-related topics - Spanish/Mexican era. Fort ...

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American hip hop - Chicago. Main article: Music of Illinois The first Chicago hip hop record was the "Groovy Ghost Show" by Casper, released in 1980 and a distinctively Chicago sound began by 1982, with Caution and Plee Fresh. Chicago also saw the development of house music (a form of electronic dance music) in the early 1980s and this soon mixed with hip hop and began featuring rappers; this is called hip house, and gained some national popularity in the late 1980s and early 90s. The Chicago underground scene produc ...

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American hip hop - Atlanta. Main article: Music of Georgia In the late 1990s, a wave of Atlanta-based performers like Goodie Mob and Outkast gained some national renown. By the early 2000s, Outkast had become critical darlings and the Southern rap-inspired Dirty South style was a major component of popular hip hop. Atlanta is currently the most productive hip-hop city with the biggest names being Ludacris, Lil Jon, and Young Jeezy. American hip hop - Houston. ...

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American hip hop - Denver. Main article: Music of Colorado American hip hop - Hawaii. Main article: Music of Hawaii American hip hop - Los Angeles. Main articles: West Coast hip hop, Music of California In the early 1980s, recorded hip hop from Los Angeles began. There were two styles. One was hardcore hip hop vocalists, like Ice-T, King Tee and Toddy Tee, while the others performed a kind of electronic dance music called electro hop; these included the ...

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