The Californian Kingsnake is generally diurnal, but they become more nocturnal if the weather is too hot.

Mexican and Californian tend to use various specialized sauces for different dishes, while Tex-Mex leans toward the use of salsa picante and chile con carne ( and even Cajun-style Louisiana hot sauce ).

Miller is a lifelong Californian, an avid runner and a weekend farmer.

The games of Pai Gow Poker and Super Pan-9 became immediate crowd favorites, quickly spreading to the entire Californian gaming market, and then, worldwide.

During the Californian Gold Rush the area became a staging point for westward fortune seekers.

With her election, Pelosi became the first woman, the first Californian, and the first Italian-American to hold the Speakership.

The Daily Californian became independent from UC Berkeley in 1971 after the campus administration fired three senior editors over an editorial that encouraged readers to " take back " People's Park.

Being an intelligent and educated person, he learned Spanish from the Californian Mexicans and became an interpreter for his ship.

For the Grand Californian, the theme was taken from a garden idea and scaled up so that the garden became a forest.

With the completion of this major expansion, Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa became the third largest hotel in Orange County, up from its previous fourth place standing.

Louis " Two Gun " Alterie ( August 2, 1886 – July 18, 1935 ), born Leland A. Varain, and aka " Diamond Jack Alterie ", was a Californian who became a notorious hitman for the Chicago North Side Gang during the early years of Prohibition.

| Mary Shearing, a 53-year-old Californian woman, former amateur body builder, became pregnant with the help of medical technology in New York, New York, after married 7 years earlier Don Shearing, a 21 years younger man, gave birth on November 10, 1992 to about 12 weeks premature twin girls, at Martin Luther Hospital.

A continuum of education had existed in what is now the City of Milpitas since the Spanish colonial era, only to be interrupted by brief periods from 1848-1858 upon the secularization of the Californian missions, and 1954 – 1959, in which James Lick High School in the nearby city of San Jose became the high school for Milpitas residents.

As an outgrowth of that event, and during his tenure, the University and the Daily Californian severed the University's official sponsorship, and the newspaper became an independent off-campus newspaper.

As a result of the Democratic victory, Nancy Pelosi became the first woman, first Italian-American, and the first Californian elected Speaker of the House.

Alejandro, the Mexican-born Californian who became Zorro at the end of The Mask of Zorro, is a fictional brother to Joaquin Murrieta, for whom the character's son Joaquin is named.

Tate became the first Californian to make such a statement after the law was passed, when she spoke at the parole hearing of one of her daughter's killers.

In the Depression years, the Californian became the coach / chair car and tourist car ( second class, older sleeping cars ) train.

* The British passenger ship SS Californian, famous for her relationship to the RMS Titanic disaster of 1912

The first Baja Bug in racing is credited to Dave Deal, the famous Californian cartoonist, in the Mexican 1000 of 1968.

When Cyril Evans, wireless operator of the SS Californian, sent an iceberg warning to Titanic, only a few miles away, Phillips was annoyed with the loud signal ( due to the proximity ) and responded “ Shut up, Shut up, I ’ m working Cape Race .” This would become a famous incident, as the bored Evans soon went to sleep, and Titanic hit an iceberg only fifteen minutes later.

During the 1934 Californian gubernatorial campaign, this tax was levied by the studio heads, automatically taking a day's pay from their biggest-earning stars and helping raise half a million dollars for Frank Merriam.

After the death of Ray Wallace in 2002, following a request by Loren Coleman to Seattle Times reporter Bob Young to investigate, the family of Wallace went public with claims that he had started the Bigfoot phenomenon with fake footprints ( made from a wooden foot-shaped cutout ) left in Californian sites in 1958.

Typically using slow-to-mid tempo and featuring low-tuned guitars in a bass-heavy sound, with melodic vocals, and ' retro ' production, it was pioneered by the Californian bands Kyuss and Sleep.

The game was engineered by Californian company Bear Naked Productions.

You have had these plans of your university made by a great architect, native to our own American soil, who himself had the sense to adapt — not to copy in servile fashion — but to adapt the old Californian architecture to the new university uses, and so we have here a great institution of learning absolutely unique, even in its outward aspect, situated in this beautiful valley with the hills in the background, under this sky, with these buildings, and if this university does not turn out the right kind of citizenship and the right kind of scholarship, I shall be more than disappointed.

A study carried out in 2006 by Californian specialists showed that the most common definitions of safe sex are condom use ( 68 % of the interviewed subjects ), abstinence ( 31. 1 % of the interviewed subjects ), monogamy ( 28. 4 % of the interviewed subjects ) and safe partner ( 18. 7 % of the interviewed subjects ).

IV .-- That any Californian or other citizen of Mexico desiring, is permitted by this capitulation to leave the country without let or hindrance.

The slacker and Valley Girl cultures were prevalent, and the decade was heavily influenced by Californian culture.

During the Great Depression in the 1930s, the first plans for statewide water engineering projects emerged backed by first the Californian, then the United States government.

His success would encourage other Californian winemakers to follow suit and culminated in Chateau Montelena's victory over Burgundy Chardonnay in the 1976 blind tasting event conducted by French judges known as the Judgment of Paris.

In the 1980s, the popularity of Californian Chardonnay would explode so much that the number of vines planted in the state eclipsed that of France by 1988.

The Californian wine regions that seem to favor producing premium quality Chardonnay are the ones that are most influenced, climatically, by coastal fogs that can slow the ripening of the grape and give it more time to develop its flavors.

The success of California and new world Chardonnays, partly encouraged by the Californian showing at the Judgment of Paris wine tasting, brought varietal wine labeling to more prominence and the easy to pronounce Chardonnay grape was one of the largest beneficiaries.

According to Cook, the indigenous Californian population at first contact, in 1769, was about 310, 000 and had dropped to 25, 000 by 1910.

The California Missions Foundation, a volunteer, tax-exempt organization, was founded in 1999 by Richard Ameil, an eighth generation Californian.

His first literary efforts, including poetry and prose, appeared in The Californian, an early literary journal edited by Charles Henry Webb.

A Californian manufacturer of bicycles also uses the name Rivendell, inspired by the book.

Driven by sadness, Martin ’ s character, an American doctor, leaves his Californian life and embarks on the 800-km pilgrimage from the French Pyrenees to Spain ’ s Santiago de Compostela himself, with his son ’ s ashes.

For the second series this was replaced with the song ' Go Daddy-O ' by Californian swing revival band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.

One of them was an old and respected Californian, Don Jose R. Berreyesa, whose son was the Alcalde of Sonoma who had been recently imprisoned by Frémont.

On December 20, 2007 the world press published stories about Paul Karason, a Californian man whose entire skin gradually turned blue after consuming colloidal silver made by himself with distilled water, salt and silver, and using a silver salve on his face in an attempt to treat problems with his sinus, dermatitis, acid reflux, and other issues.

His 1977 doctoral dissertation from the University of California, Berkeley, was on the grammar of Mutsun, a dialect of Ohlone ( a. k. a. Southern Costanoan ), which is an extinct Utian language formerly spoken in the north central Californian coastal areas from Northern Costanoan down to 30 miles south of Salinas ( his dissertation was supervised by pioneering linguist Mary Haas ).

According to the publication California's Geographic Names, Mettler was founded in 1941, but an obituary of Clifford Alvin Mettler in the Bakersfield Californian reported that the settlement was founded by him, his father,

Partly aided by the foreign influence, the overall quality of Californian sparklers increased with the introduction of the more traditional sparkling wine grapes of Chardonnay, Pinot noir, Pinot Meunier and Pinot blanc into the production.

It was widely emulated, particularly by the emerging Californian scene.