In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, several ideologies and movements, such as the cyberdelic counterculture, the Californian Ideology, transhumanism, and singularitarianism, have emerged promoting a form of techno-utopia as a reachable goal.

At the time of his interview with Charles Platt, van Vogt was still president of the Californian Association of Dianetic Auditors.

Bixby, a fourth-generation Californian of English descent, was born in San Francisco, California.

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.

In Australia, some vineyards labeled as " Merlot " were discovered to actually be Cabernet Franc ( a similar discovery was made in best vineyards of Californian Merlot producer Duckhorn Vineyards ).

" In critic Robert Christgau's description, " It was also a subculture that scornfully rejected the political idealism and Californian flower-power silliness of hippie myth.

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.

Phoebe also realized the importance of such a museum in preserving Native Californian culture, which was rapidly disappearing at the hands of white settlers.

The game was engineered by Californian company Bear Naked Productions.

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

Wente Vineyards developed a Chardonnay clone that was used to introduce the grape variety in several Californian vineyards throughout the 1940s.

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.

During World War II, Judge Louis E. Goodman dismissed the case against native Californian Masaaki Kuwabara and 25 other draft resisters from Tule Lake Segregation Center on due process grounds. His decision for the defense was unique among the Japanese-American draft resistance cases, and foreshadowed the cases on the Japanese evacuation and California's anti-Japanese Alien Land Law yet to be tried before the Supreme Court:

Count Nikolay Rumyantsev funded Russia's first naval circumnavigation under the joint command of Adam Johann von Krusenstern and Nikolai Rezanov in 1803 – 1806, and was instrumental in the outfitting of the voyage of the Riurik's circumnavigation of 1814 – 1816, which provided substantial scientific information on Alaska's and California's flora and fauna, and important ethnographic information on Alaskan and Californian ( among others ) natives.

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.

When serving as assistant editor for the Northern Californian, Harte editorialized about the slayings while his boss, Stephen G. Whipple, was temporarily absent, leaving Harte in charge of the paper.

Stanley Lord ( 13 September 1877 – 24 January 1962 ) was captain of the SS Californian, a ship that was in the vicinity of the RMS Titanic the night it sank on 15 April 1912.

His agenda was to oversee and bless Buddhist and Caodaiist religious ceremonies, in the Californian and Texan Vietnamese-American communities.

After 20 years on the rodeo circuit, his distinctive Oklahoma-Texas drawl ( even though he was a lifelong Californian ), his wide eyes and moon face and strong physical presence gained him a role in the western Rocky Mountain ( 1950 ) starring Errol Flynn.

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

Among the nation's first bands that played Christian rock was The Crusaders, a Southern Californian garage rock band, whose November 1966 Tower Records album Make a Joyful Noise with Drums and Guitars is considered one of the first gospel rock releases, or even " the first record of Christian rock ", and Mind Garage, " arguably the first band of its kind ", whose 1967 Electric Liturgy was recorded in 1969 at RCA's " Nashville Sound " studio.

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.

Shortly after returning, Beebe set out on a longer expedition to the waters around Baja California, financed by the Californian businessman Templeton Crocker on board his yacht the Zaca.

This book's Californian future is set in El Modena, California in 2065.

The Blair Witch is a local epoynomous legend, set in the Californian hills.

Their debut album 21 & Over released in 1993 was a lean 10-track set that spawned the singles " Make Room ", " Only When I'm Drunk " and " Likwit ", as well as establishing them as one of the most distinctive artists on the West Coast at a time when the vast majority of Californian artists were subscribing to the G-funk gangsta rap sound popularized by Dr. Dre.

The story of his Utopian novel A boldog város ( The Happy City ) came out in 1931 ; it was set in an American city that lay in the depths of a chasm created by the great Californian earthquake.

* Sold in 1986 to Californian collector, home builder, and Air Force Reserve Major General William Lyon, he offered the car during the 1996 Barrett-Jackson Auction by Private treaty sale, where he refused an offer of $ 11 million ; the reserve was set at $ 15 million.

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.

The Byrds, emerging from the Californian folk scene, and the Yardbirds from the British blues scene, have been seen as particularly influential on the development of the genre.

With support from Phoebe Hearst, anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber and his students, including Robert F. Heizer, documented Native Californian culture in the form of photographs, audio recordings, texts, and artifacts.

* The Origins of Rolling Stone Article from The Daily Californian August 20, 2007

A large portion of the Californian sparkling wine industry uses Chardonnay grapes from Carneros, Alexander and Russian River valleys with these areas attracting the attention of Champagne producers like Bollinger, Louis Roederer, Moët et Chandon and the Taittinger family who have opened up wineries in last few decades.

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.

Extensive trading from tribe to tribe transferred exotic materials such as obsidian ( useful for the making of arrowheads ) throughout the region from far distant Californian tribes.

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 ).

* 18 June 2010: It was announced that Californian state pension fund CalPERS had spent approximately US $ 155 million (£ 104. 8 million ) on acquiring a 12. 7 % stake in Gatwick Airport from GIP, marking the US $ 200 billion fund's first direct infrastructure investment.

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.

Both sides came to an agreement, and The Daily Californian gained financial and editorial independence from the university and is now published by an independent corporation called the Independent Berkeley Students Publishing Company, Inc.

In the early 1980s, The Daily Californian was forced to take on loans, including one from UC Berkeley's student government, the Associated Students of the University of California ( ASUC ).

Since then, The Daily Californian has added eight new blogs on topics ranging from Travel to an Editors ' Blog.

This broke from the programme's tradition by using a subplot with more developed characters – instead of being the sole centre of attention, Bean here interacted with a suburban Californian family he stayed with while overseeing the transfer of Whistler's Mother to a Los Angeles art gallery.

Birds breeding in western Alaska winter along the Pacific coast from southern Alaska to California ; they often move inland – particularly to the rich feeding grounds in the Californian Central Valley – and some cross the Rocky Mountains again and winter as far east as Utah and south to Texas and northern Mexico.

This music was distinctively Californian, different from both Mexican and Spanish music of the time ( though many elements are found throughout these traditions ).

A sentence from the Axeman's letter to The Times-Picayune is spoken at the beginning of Fila Brazillia's song " Tunstall and Californian Haddock.

Dana's ship was on a voyage to trade goods from the United States for the Mexican colonial Californian California missions ' and ranchos ' cow hides.

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

According to an interview Copeland conducted with the Californian music store Amoeba Music, the book chronicles much of Copeland's life, from his childhood through the course of his work with The Police and to the present.