Welcome to the Portal:California. Such a lovely place. California
State of California Map of the United States with California highlighted
California U.S. state in the Western United States that lies on the Pacific Coast . It borders Oregon to the north, and Nevada and Arizona to the east; it also shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California to the south. With over 39 km2 ), it is the largest U.S. state by population and third-largest by area .
Prior to European colonization , California was one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse areas in pre-Columbian North America . European exploration in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the colonization by the Spanish Empire . The area became a part of Mexico in 1821, as a result of its successful war for independence . Following the U.S. conquest of California , part of the Mexican-American War , California was ceded to the United States in 1848. The California gold rush started in 1848 and led to social and demographic changes, including the California genocide . It organized itself and was admitted as the 31st state in 1850 as a free state , following the Compromise of 1850 .
The economy of California is the largest of any U.S. state, with an estimated 2025 gross state product of $4.296 trillion as of Q3 2025. It is also the world's largest sub-national economy and, if it were an independent country , would be the fourth-largest economy in the world (behind Germany and ahead of Japan) by nominal GDP as of 2025. The state's agricultural industry leads the nation in output, fueled by its production of dairy , almonds , and grapes . Despite heavy reliance on seaborne foreign crude oil , California also refines some of its own oil, primarily drilled from Kern County . With the busiest port in the country (Los Angeles ), California plays a pivotal role in the global supply chain, hauling in about 40% of goods imported to the US. Notable contributions to popular culture , ranging from entertainment , sports , music , and fashion , have their origins in California. The state also has made substantial contributions in the fields of communication, information, innovation, education, environmentalism, entertainment, economics , politics , technology , and religion . the American film industry , hippie counterculture, beach and car culture , the personal computer , the internet , fast food , diners , burger joints , skateboarding , and the fortune cookie , among other inventions. Despite an exodus of filmmaking from California, Hollywood continues to be an important center of the U.S. film industry, one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world; profoundly influencing global entertainment since the 1920s. The San Francisco Bay Area's Silicon Valley is the center of the global technology industry. (Full article...
Hearst Castle looking west
Hearst Castle is the palatial
estate built by newspaper magnate
William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951). It is located near
San Simeon, California , on a hill overlooking the
Pacific Ocean , halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Donated by the
Hearst Corporation to the state of
California in
1957 , it is now a State Historical Monument and a
National Historic Landmark , open for public tours. Hearst formally named the estate "La Cuesta Encantada" ("The Enchanted Hill"), but he usually just called it "the ranch".
Hearst Castle was built on a 40,000 acre (160 km²) ranch that William Randolph Hearst's father, George Hearst , originally purchased in 1865 . The younger Hearst grew fond of this site over many childhood family camping trips. He inherited the ranch, which had grown to 250,000 acres (1000 km²), from his mother, Phoebe Apperson Hearst , upon her death in 1919 . Construction began that same year and continued through 1947 , when he stopped living at the estate due to ill health. San Francisco architect Julia Morgan designed most of the buildings. Hearst was an inveterate tinkerer, and would tear down structures and rebuild them at a whim, so the estate was never completed in his lifetime. (Full article...
The following are images from various California-related articles on Wikipedia.
Saul Bellow (left)
California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.
Image 1 Skaggs with the Angels in 2019
Tyler Wayne Skaggs (July 13, 1991
– July 1, 2019) was an American professional
baseball player. A
starting pitcher , he played seven seasons in
Major League Baseball (MLB) for the
Arizona Diamondbacks and
Los Angeles Angels between 2012 and 2019.
A native of
Woodland Hills, California , and a graduate of
Santa Monica High School , Skaggs was a supplemental first-round selection for the Angels in the
2009 Major League Baseball draft . He was traded to the Diamondbacks the following year as part of an exchange for pitcher
Dan Haren and rose through Arizona's
farm system . After two consecutive appearances at the
All-Star Futures Game in 2011 and 2012, Skaggs made his major league debut on August
22, 2012, against the
Miami Marlins . He remained with the Diamondbacks through the end of the season, but was
optioned to the
minor leagues in 2013. (
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Image 2 Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913
– April 22, 1994) was the 37th
president of the United States , serving from 1969 until
his resignation in 1974. A member of the
Republican Party , he represented
California in both houses of the
United States Congress before serving as the 36th
vice president under President
Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961.
His presidency saw the reduction of U.S. involvement in the
Vietnam War ,
détente with the
Soviet Union and
China , the
Apollo 11 Moon landing, and the establishment of the
Environmental Protection Agency and
Occupational Safety and Health Administration . Nixon's second term ended early when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office, as a result of the
Watergate scandal .
Nixon was born into a poor family of
Quakers in
Yorba Linda , Southern California. He graduated from
Whittier College with a
Bachelor of Arts in 1934 and from
Duke University School of Law with a
Bachelor of Laws degree in 1937, practiced law in
California , and then moved with his wife
Pat to
Washington, D.C. , in 1942 to work for the
federal government . After serving in the
Naval Reserve during
World War II , he was elected to the
House of Representatives in
1946 . His work on the
Alger Hiss case established his reputation as a leading
anti-communist . In 1950, he
was elected to the
Senate . Nixon was the running mate of Eisenhower, the Republican Party's presidential nominee in the
1952 and
1956 elections . Nixon served for eight years as vice president, and his two terms saw an increase in the notability of the office. He narrowly lost the
1960 presidential election to
John F. Kennedy . After his loss in the
1962 race for governor of California, Nixon announced his retirement from politics. However, he ran again for the presidency in
1968 and defeated the Democratic candidate, Vice President
Hubert Humphrey . (
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Image 3 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 .
Abdul's 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 U.S.
Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles from a debut album: "
Straight Up ", "
Forever Your Girl ", "
Cold Hearted ", and "
Opposites Attract ". Her second album,
Spellbound (1991), scored the number-one singles "
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. As of 2025, Abdul places seventh along with Diana Ross and
Lady Gaga for the most number-one singles by female artists in the U.S. to date. (
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Image 4 Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal (
JIL -ən-hawl,
Swedish: [ ˈjʏ̂lːɛnˌhɑːl] ; born December 19, 1980) is an American actor whose
career on screen and stage has spanned more than three decades. Born into the
Gyllenhaal family , he is the son of film director
Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter
Naomi Foner , and the younger brother of actress
Maggie Gyllenhaal .
Gyllenhaal began acting as a child, making his debut in
City Slickers (1991), followed by roles in his father's films
A Dangerous Woman (1993) and
Homegrown (1998). His breakthrough came as
Homer Hickam in the biopic
October Sky (1999), before starring in the thriller
Donnie Darko (2001), the romantic comedy
The Good Girl (2002), and the disaster film
The Day After Tomorrow (2004). He earned praise for his performance as
Jack Twist in
Ang Lee 's romantic drama
Brokeback Mountain (2005), including the
BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor and an
Academy Award nomination. (
Full article... )
Image 5 Kamala Devi Harris (
KAH -mə-lə DAY -vee; born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 49th
vice president of the United States from 2021 to 2025 under President
Joe Biden . Of Indian and Jamaican parentage, she is the first female, first
African American , and first
Asian American vice president, and the highest-ranking female and Asian public official in U.S. history. Harris represented
California in the
United States Senate from 2017 to 2021 and was the
attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017. A member of the
Democratic Party , she was the party's nominee in the
2024 presidential election .
Born in
Oakland, California , Harris graduated from
Howard University and the
University of California, Hastings College of the Law . She began her law career in the office of the
district attorney of
Alameda County . Harris was recruited to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and later to the office of the
city attorney of San Francisco . She was
elected district attorney of San Francisco in 2003 and
attorney general of California in 2010 , and
reelected as attorney general in 2014 . Harris was the
junior U.S. senator from California from 2017 to 2021 after winning the
2016 Senate election . She was the second Black female and first
South Asian American U.S. senator. (
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Image 6 John Muir (
MURE ; April 21, 1838
– December 24, 1914), also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the
National Parks ", was a Scottish-born American
naturalist , author,
environmental philosopher ,
botanist ,
zoologist ,
glaciologist , and early advocate for the preservation of
wilderness in the United States.
His books, letters and essays describing his adventures in nature, especially in the
Sierra Nevada , have been read by millions. His activism helped to preserve the
Yosemite Valley and
Sequoia National Park , and his example has served as an inspiration for the preservation of many other
wilderness areas. The
Sierra Club , which he co-founded, is a prominent American
conservation organization . In his later life, Muir devoted most of his time to his wife and the preservation of the Western forests. As part of the campaign to make Yosemite a national park, Muir published two landmark articles on wilderness preservation in
The Century Magazine , "The Treasures of the Yosemite" and "Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park"; this helped support the push for the
US Congress to pass a bill in 1890 establishing
Yosemite National Park . The spiritual quality and enthusiasm toward nature expressed in his writings has inspired readers, including presidents and congressmen, to take action to help preserve large nature areas. (
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Image 7 John Whiteside Parsons (born
Marvel Whiteside Parsons ; October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952) was an American
rocket engineer ,
chemist , and
Thelemite occultist . Parsons was one of the principal founders of both the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and
Aerojet . He invented the first
rocket engine to use a
castable ,
composite rocket propellant , and pioneered the advancement of both
liquid-fuel and
solid-fuel rockets.
Parsons was raised in Pasadena, California. He began
amateur rocket experiments with school friend
Edward Forman in 1928. Parsons was admitted to
Stanford University but left before graduating due to financial hardship during the
Great Depression . In 1934, Parsons, Forman, and
Frank Malina formed the Caltech-affiliated
Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory (GALCIT) Rocket Research Group, with support by GALCIT chairman
Theodore von Kármán . The group worked on
Jet-Assisted Take Off (JATO) for the U.S. military, and founded Aerojet in 1942 to develop and sell JATO technology during World War II. The GALCIT Rocket Research Group became JPL in 1943. (
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Image 8 Wally Bill Hedrick (1928
– December 17, 2003) was a seminal
American artist in the 1950s
California counterculture ,
gallerist , and
educator who came to prominence in the early 1960s. Hedrick's contributions to art include pioneering
artworks in
psychedelic light art , mechanical
kinetic sculpture ,
junk/assemblage sculpture,
Pop Art , and (California)
Funk Art . Later in his life, he was a recognized forerunner in
Happenings ,
Conceptual Art ,
Bad Painting ,
Neo-Expressionism , and
image appropriation . Hedrick was also a key figure in the first important public manifestation of the
Beat Generation when he helped to organize the
Six Gallery Reading , and created the first artistic denunciation of American foreign policy in
Vietnam . Wally Hedrick was known as an "idea artist" long before the label
conceptual art entered the art world, and experimented with innovative use of language in art, at times resorting to
puns . (
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Image 9 Andre Romell Young (born February 18, 1965), known professionally as
Dr. Dre (or simply
Dre ; ), is an American rapper, record producer, record executive, and actor. He is the founder and
CEO of
Aftermath Entertainment and
Beats Electronics , and co-founder of
Death Row Records . Dre began his career as a member of the
World Class Wreckin' Cru in 1984, and later found fame with the
gangsta rap group
N.W.A , which he formed in 1987 with
Eazy-E ,
Ice Cube and
Arabian Prince . The group popularized explicit lyrics in
hip-hop to detail the violence of street life. N.W.A's debut album
Straight Outta Compton (1989) was one of the most successful albums in the
West Coast hip-hop scene, and is often credited for the rise in popularity of gangsta rap. During the early 1990s, Dre was credited as a key figure in the crafting and popularization of West Coast
G-funk , a subgenre of hip-hop characterized by a
synthesizer foundation and slow, heavy production.
Shortly after the release of their second album
Niggaz4life (1991), N.W.A disbanded and Dr. Dre began his career as a solo artist. Released as Death Row's first major project, Dr. Dre's debut solo album,
The Chronic (1992), made him one of the best-selling American music artists of 1993. Its lead single, "
Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang " (featuring Snoop Dogg), peaked at number two on the
Billboard Hot 100, while its third,
Let Me Ride " won
Best Rap Solo Performance at the
36th Annual Grammy Awards . That same year, he produced Death Row labelmate
Snoop Dogg 's debut album
Doggystyle , and mentored producers such as his stepbrother
Warren G (leading to the multi-platinum debut
Regulate... G Funk Era in 1994) and Snoop Dogg's cousin
Daz Dillinger (leading to the double-platinum debut
Dogg Food by
Tha Dogg Pound in 1995). In 1996, Dre left Death Row Records to establish his own label, Aftermath Entertainment; his compilation album,
Dr. Dre Presents: The Aftermath (1996) and second studio album,
2001 (1999) followed thereafter. After years of teasing an album tentatively titled
Detox , Dre released his third studio album,
Compton , in 2015. (
Full article... )
Image 10 Candice Patricia Bergen (born May 9, 1946) is an American actress. She won five
Primetime Emmy Awards and two
Golden Globe Awards as the title character on the
CBS sitcom
Murphy Brown (1988–1998, 2018). She is also known for her role as
Shirley Schmidt on the
ABC drama
Boston Legal (2005–2008). In films, Bergen was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for
Starting Over (1979) and for the
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for
Gandhi (1982).
Bergen began her career as a fashion model and appeared on the cover of
Vogue before she made her screen debut in the film
The Group (1966). She starred in
The Sand Pebbles (1966),
Soldier Blue (1970),
Carnal Knowledge (1971), and
The Wind and the Lion (1975). She made her
Broadway debut in the 1984 play
Hurlyburly and starred in the revivals of
The Best Man (2012) and
Love Letters (2014). From 2002 to 2004, she appeared in three episodes of the
HBO series
Sex and the City . Her other film roles include
Miss Congeniality (2000),
Sweet Home Alabama (2002),
The Women (2008),
Bride Wars (2009),
Book Club (2018) and
Let Them All Talk (2020). (
Full article... )
Image 11 Warren as chief justice,
c. 1953–1969
Earl Warren (March 19, 1891 – July 9, 1974) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 14th
chief justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969 and as the 30th
governor of California from 1943 to 1953. The
Warren Court presided over a major shift in American
constitutional jurisprudence , which has been recognized by many as a "
constitutional revolution " in the
liberal direction, with Warren writing the majority opinions in landmark cases such as
Brown v. Board of Education (1954),
Reynolds v. Sims (1964),
Miranda v. Arizona (1966), and
Loving v. Virginia (1967). Warren also led the
Warren Commission , a
presidential commission that investigated the 1963
assassination of President John F. Kennedy . Warren is the most recent chief justice to have served in a statewide elected office before nomination to the
Supreme Court and is generally considered to be one of the most influential Supreme Court justices and political leaders in the
history of the United States .
Warren was born in 1891 in
Los Angeles and was raised in
Bakersfield, California . After graduating from the
University of California, Berkeley School of Law , he began a legal career in
Oakland . He was hired as a deputy district attorney for
Alameda County in 1920 and was appointed
district attorney in 1925. He emerged as a leader of the state
Republican Party and was elected as the
attorney general of California in
1938 . In that position he supported and was a firm proponent of the
forced removal and internment of over 100,000
Japanese Americans during
World War II . In the
1942 California gubernatorial election , Warren defeated incumbent
Democratic governor
Culbert Olson . As governor, Warren presided over a period of major growth for the state as well as the nation. Serving from 1943 to 1953, Warren is the only governor of California to be elected for three consecutive terms. (
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Image 12 Russell Albion Meyer (March 21, 1922 – September 18, 2004) was an American
filmmaker and photographer. He was primarily known for writing and directing a successful series of
sexploitation films featuring
campy humor, sly satire and large-breasted women, which have attracted a considerable
cult following .
His best-known works include
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965),
Vixen! (1968),
Supervixens (1975),
Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979), and the film he considered to be his definitive work,
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970). (
Full article... )
Image 13 Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American retired actor and filmmaker. After achieving success in the
Western TV series
Rawhide , Eastwood rose to international fame with his role as the "
Man with No Name " in
Sergio Leone 's
Dollars Trilogy of
spaghetti Westerns during the mid-1960s and as
antihero cop
Harry Callahan in the five
Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring
cultural icon of
masculinity . Elected in 1986, Eastwood served for two years as the mayor of
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California .
Eastwood's greatest commercial successes are the adventure comedy
Every Which Way but Loose (1978) and its action comedy sequel
Any Which Way You Can (1980). Other popular Eastwood films include the Westerns
Hang 'Em High (1968),
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) and
Pale Rider (1985), the action-war film
Where Eagles Dare (1968), the prison film
Escape from Alcatraz (1979), the war film
Heartbreak Ridge (1986), the action film
In the Line of Fire (1993), and the romantic drama
The Bridges of Madison County (1995). More recent works include
Gran Torino (2008),
The Mule (2018), and
Cry Macho (2021). Since 1967, Eastwood's company
Malpaso Productions has produced all but four of his American films. (
Full article... )
Image 14 Hartman in character as Chick Hazard, Private Eye,
c. 1978Philip Edward Hartman (
né Hartmann ; September
24, 1948
– May
28, 1998) was a Canadian and American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and graphic designer. Hartman was born in
Brantford, Ontario , and his family moved to the United States when he was ten years old. After graduating from
California State University, Northridge , with a degree in graphic arts, he designed album covers for bands including
Poco and
America . In 1975, Hartman joined the comedy group
the Groundlings , where he helped
Paul Reubens develop his character
Pee-wee Herman . Hartman co-wrote the film
Pee-wee's Big Adventure and made recurring appearances as Captain Carl on Reubens' show
Pee-wee's Playhouse .
In 1986, Hartman joined the
NBC sketch comedy show
Saturday Night Live (
SNL ) as a
cast member and stayed for eight seasons. Nicknamed "Glue" for his ability to hold the show together and help other cast members, he won a
Primetime Emmy Award for his
SNL work in 1989. After leaving
SNL in 1994, Hartman starred as Bill McNeal in the sitcom
NewsRadio . He also voiced
Lionel Hutz and
Troy McClure on
The Simpsons , and appeared in the films
Houseguest (1995),
Sgt. Bilko (1996),
Jingle All the Way (1996), and
Small Soldiers (1998). (
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Image 15 John Griffith London (
né 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.
London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in
San Francisco and a passionate advocate of
animal welfare ,
workers' rights and
socialism . London wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his
dystopian novel The Iron Heel , his non-fiction
exposé The People of the Abyss ,
War of the Classes , and
Before Adam . (
Full article... )
Tafoni at Salt Point, Sonoma Coast, California
Crystal Mountains
The Crystal Range Desolation Wilderness in the U.S. state of California. It is a subrange of the Sierra Nevada . The highest and most southerly peak is Pyramid Peak at 9987 ft; Mount Agassiz is next north at 9967 ft, with Mount Price (9975 ft) rounding out the southern group of peaks. Tells Peak is the northernmost named peak in the range.
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Nicknames: The Golden StateCapital: Sacramento Total area: 163,696 mi2
Land: 156,002 mi2 Water: 7,694 mi2 Highest elevation: 14,505 ft (Mount Whitney )Population 39,250,017 (2016 est)Admission to the Union: September 9, 1850 (31st )State symbols:
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