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  2. Mariposa, California - Wikipedia

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    The community lies in the valley of Mariposa Creek, which flows south and then southwest into the San Joaquin Valley. Mariposa County includes much of Yosemite National Park, and a good deal of the local economy is related to the park and tourism. The two-story county courthouse, constructed in 1854, is the oldest in continuous use west of the ...

  3. Microsoft Bing - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Bing, commonly referred to as Bing, is a search engine owned and operated by Microsoft.The service traces its roots back to Microsoft's earlier search engines, including MSN Search, Windows Live Search, and Live Search.

  4. Paisley Caves - Wikipedia

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    The Western Stemmed Tradition occupies similar tool groupings as Clovis technology—projectile points, most notably—and shares morphology and technology with Afro-Eurasian forms. [17] It was originally thought to have developed after Clovis technology, but discovery at the Paisley Caves suggests they were at the very least contemporaneous.

  5. Clovis point - Wikipedia

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    Clovis point, 11500–9000 BC, Sevier County, Utah, chert. Clovis points are the characteristically fluted projectile points associated with the New World Clovis culture, a prehistoric Paleo-American culture. They are present in dense concentrations across much of North America and they are largely restricted to the north of South America.

  6. Hidden Hills, California - Wikipedia

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    The community was designed and developed in the 1950s by A. E. Hanson, a Southern California landscape architect and planned community developer. [8] [9] His earlier projects included Rolling Hills [10] and Palos Verdes Estates, and the 1920s Beverly Hills Harold Lloyd Estate "Greenacres". Vanity Fair described the city in 2017:

  7. Sinclair Community College - Wikipedia

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    Sinclair Community College was featured in a 2009 issue of The New York Times. The article explained how community colleges in the United States, like Sinclair, help to create jobs in an unstable economy. The article also stated that Sinclair is widely known as one of the best community colleges in the region. [4]

  8. Portuguese Bend - Wikipedia

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    The peninsula was the homeland of the Tongva-Gabrieliño Native Americans.In other areas of the Los Angeles Basin archeological sites date back 8,000 years. Their first contact with Europeans was in 1542 with João Cabrilho (Juan Cabrillo), the explorer who also was the first to write of them.

  9. Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    Los Angeles, [a] often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.With an estimated 3,820,914 residents within the city limits as of 2023, [8] It is the second-most populous city in the United States, behind only New York City; it is also the commercial, financial and cultural center of Southern California.