Artichokes have a storied history among vegetables - Sacramento Bee
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Artichokes have a storied history among vegetables Sacramento Bee Credit Italian immigrants for artichoke's rise in California, which now produces 99.9 percent of the nation's commercial crop. The first California artichokes were farmed in Half Moon Bay in the 1890s. By 1900, farmers were shipping them east to New ... |
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 07:06:34 PM
In History's Spotlight: Peter J. Shields - Sacramento Bee (blog)
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 Sacramento Bee (blog) | In History's Spotlight: Peter J. Shields Sacramento Bee (blog) A law partner of Hiram Johnson, Shields chose the bench while the fiery Johnson opted for politics, eventually becoming California's governor. Shields was elected to a Sacramento Superior Court judgeship in 1900 and held it until he retired in 1949 at ... |
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Celebrating The Music Of Scott Joplin - Western Queens Gazette
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Celebrating The Music Of Scott Joplin Western Queens Gazette The six-piece ensemble, led by clarinetist and saxophonist Dan Levinson, specializes in jazz style music from 1900 through the 1930s. (L. to r.); Singer Molly Ryan accompanied by the Canary Cottage Dance Orchestra performed popular ragtime selections ... |
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Valley Tourism - A Billion Dollar Business? - CBS 47
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Valley Tourism - A Billion Dollar Business? CBS 47 Visitors from around the world come to Central California to visit our gorgeous national parks and coastline. How do our local metro areas tap into those tourism dollars, especially at a time when the economy is suffering? CBS47's Alexandra Limon gives ... |
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 07:06:34 PM
The Many and Contradictory Meanings of Southern California's Iconic Eucalyptus ... - KCET (blog)
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 KCET (blog) | The Many and Contradictory Meanings of Southern California's Iconic Eucalyptus ... KCET (blog) by DJ Waldie Nathan Masters' illustrated history of the eucalyptus gets -- literally -- to the root of an iconic presence in the California landscape. By 1900 (and hardly more than 30 years after its introduction from New South Wales), the Australian ... |
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history 'undertaker' loses treasures - CNN International
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history 'undertaker' loses treasures CNN International He also has pieces he considers historical yet repugnant, such as sheet music to the 1900 song "Coon, Coon, Coon" and a 1935 advertisement for "The World's Only Flying Negro Singers." Also secured in the Las Vegas vault is a fundraising letter Booker ... |
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 07:06:34 PM
JR Ewing Takes Another Shot - D Magazine
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JR Ewing Takes Another Shot D Magazine The show is iconic, the characters are iconic, and the place of Dallas in TV history as the first prime-time serial soap opera—well, it's all very, very iconic. It's an odd idea for television, though, because icons are objects of veneration, ... |
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 07:06:34 PM
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