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  2. Mission San Fernando Rey de España - Wikipedia

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    Official website. Mission San Fernando Rey de España is a Spanish mission in the Mission Hills community of Los Angeles, California. The mission was founded on 8 September 1797 at the site of Achooykomenga, and was the seventeenth of the twenty-one Spanish missions established in Alta California. Named for Saint Ferdinand, the mission is the ...

  3. Alice Ball - Wikipedia

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    Alice Augusta Ball (July 24, 1892 – December 31, 1916) was an American chemist who developed the "Ball Method", the most effective treatment for leprosy during the early 20th century. She was the first woman and first African American to receive a master's degree from the University of Hawaiʻi , and was also the university's first female and ...

  4. Kitanemuk - Wikipedia

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    History The Kitanemuk were first contacted by the Franciscan missionary-explorer Francisco Garcés in 1769. [1] Some Kitanemuk were recruited and relocated for the Spanish missions of Mission San Fernando Rey de España in the San Fernando Valley , Mission San Gabriel Arcángel in the San Gabriel Valley , and perhaps Mission San Buenaventura at ...

  5. Convento Building (Mission San Fernando) - Wikipedia

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    The Convento is a large two-story building, measuring approximately 243 feet (74 m) long and 50 feet (15 m) wide. It has four-foot-thick adobe walls and was built in stages between approximately 1808 and 1822. [2] The long portico, sometimes referred to as the colonnade, in front of the building has 20 arches and is the most recognized image of ...

  6. Fermín de Lasuén - Wikipedia

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    Fermín de Lasuén. Fermín de Francisco Lasuén de Arasqueta (7 June 1736 – Mission de San Carlos (California), 26 June 1803) was a Basque [1] Franciscan missionary to Alta California president of the Franciscan missions there, and founder of nine of the twenty-one Spanish missions in California .

  7. Tataviam - Wikipedia

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    The Tataviam ( Kitanemuk: people on the south slope) are a Native American group in Southern California. The ancestral land of the Tataviam people includes northwest present-day Los Angeles County and southern Ventura County, primarily in the upper basin of the Santa Clara River, the Santa Susana Mountains, and the Sierra Pelona Mountains.

  8. Misión San Fernando Rey de España de Velicatá - Wikipedia

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    Cochimí. Mission San Fernando Velicatá ( Spanish: Misión San Fernando Rey de España de Velicatá) was a Spanish mission located about 56 km (35 mi) southeast of El Rosario in Baja California, Mexico. The mission was founded in 1769 by Franciscan missionary Junípero Serra and was the only mission founded by Franciscan missionaries in what ...

  9. 11 surprising facts that almost no one knows about Lucille Ball

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    Jasmine Genge. Updated August 14, 2015 at 9:36 AM. 11 surprising facts that almost no one knows about Lucille Ball. "I'm not funny. What I am is brave." So said the eternal queen of comedy ...