Portal:California/Did you know

...that William Penn Patrick, founder of companies Holiday Magic and Leadership Dynamics, ran against Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination for Governor of California?
..that Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona was set at Rancho Camulos in Piru, California?
...that the Alameda Works Shipyard in Alameda, California, was one of the largest and best equipped shipyards in the United States?

...that Kimberly Crest, a Victorian mansion and California historic landmark was donated to the city of Redlands as part of a botanical park?
...that the San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway was San Francisco's first electric streetcar company?
...that the origins of Castle Lake in California date to the Pleistocene Era (more than 10,000 years ago) when a glacier carved a basin in the location of the current lake?

...the UPC-Arena in Austria was renamed from "Arnold Schwarzenegger-Stadium" to its current name after controversy over Arnold Schwarzenegger's decisions in recent death penalty cases in California?
...that Corry v. Stanford was a California court case that declared Stanford University's speech code illegal under the freedom of speech protections of the state's Leonard Law?
...that the Ramona Valley in San Diego County California is the country's 162nd American Viticultural Area, and only the third such AVA designated in Southern California by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau?

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