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Topic: List of notable residents of San Jose, California


  
  San Jose, California
San José (IPA: /[sæn hoʊˈzeɪ]/) is the third-most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and is the county seat of Santa Clara County.
San Jose was the first town in the Spanish colony of Nueva California (later Alta California), founded in 1777 as a farming community to provide food for nearby military installations.
San Jose is a charter city under California law, giving it the power to enact local ordinances that may conflict with state law, within the limits provided by the charter.
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 San Jose, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
San Jose (IPA: /[sæn hoʊˈzeɪ]/) is the third-most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and is the county seat of Santa Clara County.
San Jose is the biggest city in California, north of L.A. The Census Bureau update for 2004 indicates San Jose has overtaken Detroit as the United States' tenth most populous city.
San Jose was the first town in the Spanish colony of Nueva California (later Alta California), founded in 1777 just one year after the founding of the United States of America.
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 Top20SanJose.com - Your Top20Guide to San Jose, CA.
San Jose (IPA pronunciation: [sæn hoʊˈzeɪ]) is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of California and is the county seat of Santa Clara County.
Mission San José de Guadalupe was not founded until 1797, about 20 miles (30 km) north of San Jose in what is now Fremont.) The town was founded by the colonists led to California by de Anza, as a farming community to provide food for the presidios of San Francisco and Monterey.
The cost of living in San Jose and the surrounding areas is among the highest in California and the nation; in the U.S. only New York City and San Francisco are more expensive.
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 Towns and Barangays of Pampanga
Included in the long list of favorite sons and daughters of Angeles City are Dr. Emmanuel Angeles, president of Angeles University and Clark Development Corp., former Secretary of Trade and Industry Rizalino Navarro; Kapampangan World Congress co-founders and Kapampangan language and culture advocates retired US Navy Lt. Cmdr.
San Luis known also at one time as Cabagsac has an expanding population of 35,589 in its seventeen barangays was founded in 1735 but set on fire by Captain Mariano Carlos on orders of General Luna in May, 1899.
San Simon, with a total land area of 5,736 hectares, was established as a pueblo in 1771 during the governorship of Simon de Anda y Salazar.
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 California and the Arkansas Encyclopedia Encyclopedia of Arkansas Arkansas History State of Arkansas
California and the Arkansas Encyclopedia Encyclopedia of Arkansas Arkansas History State of Arkansas
In California's early history, the capital was located in San Jose (1849-1851), 1852-1853), Benicia (1853-1854), and San Francisco (1862).
kilometer it is the third largest state in the U.S. Most major cities cling to the cool, pleasant seacoast along the Pacific, notably San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego.
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 California
California Historical Societies and Museums, presented by The California Historical Quarterly, formerly known as the Dogtown Territorial Quarterly.
The California Newspaper Project (CNP) The project is "managed by the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research, University of California, Riverside, under the direction of Dr. Henry L. Snyder, constitutes a major effort to identify and preserve the state's history and heritage as reflected in its newspapers.
San Francisco Biographies, presented in the California CAGenWeb Project Archives, courtesy of: Nancy Pratt Melton, CAGenWeb Sacramento County Coordinator, Pamela Storm Wolfskill and Ron Filion, CAGenWeb San Francisco County Coordinators.
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 Grade the News
The San Jose Newspaper Guild circulated a memo today warning that were Knight Ridder to sell off some of its newspapers, the purchaser could cancel union contracts, fire the staff and unilaterally set new wages and working conditions.
Craig Newmark, whose Craigslist.org deprives newspapers such as the San Francisco Chronicle and San Jose Mercury News of millions of dollars a year in classified advertising, has lost faith in traditional journalism's ability to safeguard the republic.
A project of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at San Jose State University, Grade the News is affiliated with the Graduate Program in Journalism at Stanford University and KTEH, public television in Silicon Valley.
www.gradethenews.org   (3148 words)

  
 San Diego
San Diego Barracks continued to operate as a subpost of Fort Rosecrans until abandoned December 15, 1921.
San Diego State College was the first of the California State Colleges to do so when, on June 7, 1963 it conferred an honorary doctorate upon the late President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
San Diego County acquired it in 1973 for the Guajome Regional Park.
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 CERES: State Historical Landmarks for San_Diego County
Properties of historical importance in California are currently designated as significant resources in three state registration programs: State Historical Landmarks, Points of Historical Interest, and the California Register of Historic Places.
Below is a list of the State Historical Landmarks for San Diego County.
This data is provided by the Office of Historic Preservation - California Department of Parks and Recreation and is also available in the California Historical Landmarks Book.
ceres.ca.gov /geo_area/counties/San_Diego/landmarks.html   (5037 words)

  
 SFGov: Office of the City Attorney: Proposed Order Shortening Time
Any reply papers must be filed with the Court and served on all parties who have filed and served an opposition to the Government Committee Motion by facsimile or overnight mail by November ___, 2001.
A copy of this Order shall be served on all persons or entities listed on the Special Notice List by mail by November __, 2001.
Copyright © 1999-2006 City and County of San Francisco.
www.ci.sf.ca.us /site/cityattorney_page.asp?id=663   (184 words)

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