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  2. California's Great America - Wikipedia

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    California's Great America, or Six Flags Great America, is an 112-acre (45 ha) amusement park [1] located in Santa Clara, California, United States. Owned and operated by Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, it originally opened in 1976 as one of two parks built by the Marriott Corporation. Great America features over 40 rides and attractions ...

  3. Flight Deck (California's Great America) - Wikipedia

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    Flight Deck (formerly Top Gun and briefly as Soaring Chiefs) is a steel inverted roller coaster located at California's Great America in Santa Clara, California. Built by Bolliger & Mabillard and designed by Werner Stengel, the roller coaster made its debut on March 20, 1993, as Top Gun. The roller coaster was built as Paramount, who had ...

  4. History of California - Wikipedia

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    The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...

  5. Conquest of California - Wikipedia

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    Conquest of California. The Conquest of California, also known as the Conquest of Alta California or the California Campaign, was a military campaign of the Mexican–American War carried out by the United States in Alta California (modern-day California), then a part of Mexico.

  6. Gold Striker - Wikipedia

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    Gold Striker at RCDB. Gold Striker is a wooden roller coaster located at California's Great America amusement park. Built by Great Coasters International and designed by Jeff Pike, Gold Striker was the park's eighth roller coaster which opened to the public on May 31, 2013. Its 174-foot-long (53 m) tunnel is the longest in the world to be ...

  7. Patriot (California's Great America) - Wikipedia

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    Patriot at RCDB. Patriot is a floorless roller coaster located in Hometown Square at the California's Great America amusement park in Santa Clara, California, United States. The roller coaster originally opened as Vortex on March 9, 1991. It was a stand-up roller coaster designed by Werner Stengel and manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard.

  8. California Statehood Act - Wikipedia

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    The California Admissions Act was the second act of the Compromise of 1850 to be passed by Congress. The text of the act contained three sections and enacted five main provisions: [15] Admitted California as a full and equal state in the union (Section One).

  9. Category:California's Great America - Wikipedia

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    The following 2 files are in this category, out of 2 total. Flight Deck (California's Great America) logo.png 363 × 274; 110 KB. RailBlazer logo.png 410 × 108; 24 KB. Categories: Amusement parks in California. Cedar Fair amusement parks. Amusement rides by amusement park. San Francisco Bay Area amusement parks. Santa Clara, California.