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  2. Nisenan - Wikipedia

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    The Nisenan live in Northern California, between the Sacramento River to the west and the Sierra Mountains to the east. The southern reach went to about Cosumnes River but north of Elk Grove and the Meadowview and Pocket regions of Sacramento, and the northern reach somewhere between the northern fork of the Yuba River and the southern fork of the Feather River.

  3. List of renamed places in Namibia - Wikipedia

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    A. B. May Street Kalk St Amsas Street Otjivero St Andimba Toivo ya Toivo Street Kruppstraße Axali Doëseb Street Louis Botha St Bernt Carlsson Road Pionier Road Bishop Patropas Tjitjo Street Genesis St [7] Bishop A. C. Kamburona Street Klaagliedere St Kronieke St Christa Davids Street Paul Kruger St Clemens Kapuuo Street Sabbat Street

  4. Sierra City, California - Wikipedia

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    Historic buildings that remain in Sierra City, all on the town's main street, which is Highway 49, include the two-story brick Busch Building, which the Wells Fargo Company occupied in the 19th century, the Masonic Lodge #164, and the Old Sierra City Hotel, built in 1886 by John G. Rose, which was known as the Capitol Hotel and housed local miners and offered meals and lodging for 25 cents each.

  5. Secret Ravine - Wikipedia

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    Secret Ravine is a perennial tributary of Miners Ravine which shortly thereafter runs into Dry Creek in Placer County, California. Its course lies within the cities of Rocklin, Loomis, and Roseville, as well as unincorporated parts of Placer County. It passes through the campus of Sierra College.

  6. Street names of Sheffield - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the etymology of street names in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Arundel Gate and Arundel Street – named after the Earl of Arundel; Cavendish Street – named after the Cavendish family; Church Street – after Sheffield Cathedral, which was the main parish church until 1914

  7. Pacoima, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    Ed Meagher of the Los Angeles Times wrote in 1955 that the 110-block area on the north side of San Fernando Road in Pacoima consisted of what he described as a "smear of sagging, leaning shacks and backhouses framed by disintegrating fences and clutter of tin cans, old lumber, stripped automobiles, bottles, rusted water heaters and other bric-a-brac of the back alleys."

  8. Northern California - Wikipedia

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    Since the events of the California Gold Rush, Northern California has been a leader on the world's economic, scientific, and cultural stages.From the development of gold mining techniques and logging practices in the 19th century that were later adopted around the world, to the development of world-famous and online business models (such as Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Google, Yahoo!, and eBay ...

  9. Fair Oaks, California - Wikipedia

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    Fair Oaks is a natural, lush foliage town with rolling streets, canopies of trees, located at (38.651254, -121.259279), [4] between Sacramento and Folsom. Fair Oaks is bounded on the south side by the American River, and Gold River, on the north side by the city of Citrus Heights, on the west side by Carmichael, and the east side by Orangevale and Folsom.