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.

Powerful capitalists dominated in Californian politics through their control of mines, shipping, and finance controlled the state through the new Republican party.

* 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 park's Californian theme was criticized as being redundant, seeing as the park itself was located in the same state it represented.

Californian is an adjective describing something related to the American state of California.

Filipinos are also the largest Asian American group in the state and one of the largest ethnic groups, making up 6 % of the entire Californian population.

This action has been met with criticism from gamers that the Californian state senator is wasting resources on a law already judged unconstitutional at a time when the state is already facing economic problems

The bear on the current flag of California was modeled on the last wild Californian grizzly bear in captivity.

The 1953 legislation defined the exact shades of the Californian flag with a total of five colors ( including the white field ) relative to the 9th edition of the Standard Color Card of America ( now called the Standard Color Reference of America ).

However, the Californian, North African ( Atlas bear ), and Mexican subspecies were hunted to extinction in the 1870s, 1922, and more recently, respectively, and the not officially recognized Marsican brown bear in central Italy is believed to have a population of just 30 to 40 bears.

Mötley Crüe is a Californian heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1981.

In the two-card hand it always plays as an ace, except in several southern Californian casinos where the joker is completely wild.

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

Vulture is the name given to two groups of convergently evolved scavenging birds, the New World Vultures including the well-known Californian and Andean Condors, and the Old World Vultures including the birds which are seen scavenging on carcasses of dead animals on African plains.

Another criticism of California Chardonnays, and one that has been levied against other Californian wines, is the very high alcohol levels which can make a wine seem out of balance.

However, this is not the case with introduced populations of E. californica in Chile: the Chilean populations were actually more resistant to Californian caterpillars than the native populations ( Leger and Forister, 2005 ).

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.

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 ).

It is the northeastern-most town in the Californian Mother Lode.

The twinning is a result of Cornish migration during the Californian gold rush in which Cornish mining expertise was exported to the area.

Despite this, the expression " out in the tules ( toolies )", referring to the tule rush plant that lined the lakeshore, is still common in the dialect of old Californian families and means " beyond far away.

The single species in the Californian genus Darlingtonia is popularly known as the cobra plant, due to its possession of an inflated " lid " with elegant false-exits, and a forked " tongue ", which serves to ferry ants and other prey to the entrance of the pitcher.

Another distinct difference, particularly in Californian sparkling wines, is the favorable Californian climate which allows a vintage wine to be produced nearly every year.

Pelosi is the first woman, the first Californian and first Italian-American to lead a major party in Congress.

The Californian Gray Pine ( Pinus sabineana ) is named after him, as is Sabine's Gull ( Larus sabini ).

Giles is often portrayed as something of a " straight man " and his " stuffy " Oxford sensibility serves as counterpoint to the stereotypical Southern Californian characters and setting.

The Daily Californian ( or Daily Cal ) is an independent, student-run newspaper that serves the University of California, Berkeley campus and its surrounding community.

Established in 1871, The Daily Californian is one of the oldest newspapers on the West Coast, and one of the oldest college newspapers in the United States.

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.

The Daily Californian is an affiliate of UWIRE, which distributes and promotes its content to their network.

Membership is open to all former staff members of The Daily Californian or student publications office staff ( pre 1971 ).

Californian Gordo is also kindly and amiable.

Folklorist Sabina Magliocco supported this idea, noting that a great many of those Californian Pagans whom she interviewed claimed that they had been greatly interested in mythology and folklore as children, imagining a world of " enchanted nature and magical transformations, filled with lords and ladies, witches and wizards, and humble but often wise peasants.

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.

Casablanca is one of Chile's cooler wine regions and is often compared to the Californian wine region of Carneros and grows similar grape varietals like Chardonnay and Pinot noir.

Typically Condrieu wines are the Viogniers most often meant to be drunk young while Californian and Australian wines can handle age a little bit better.

Most of the housing in the area dates from 1900 to 1930, often large houses built solidly of wood, many in the Californian Bungalow or " Stockbroker Tudor " styles.

Wykehamical vowel-alteration is often accompanied by a High Rising Terminal intonation pattern, which is often encountered in Australian English and the stereotyped Californian Valspeak, but which is relatively rare in the context of standard Southern British English and may wrongly be interpreted as " questioning ".

Swingin ' Utters ( often typeset as $ wingin ' Utter $, and originally called Johnny Peebucks and the Swingin ' Utters ) is a Californian punk rock band that formed in the late 1980s.

It is often referred to as ' OA ', and is the Californian High School version of persuasive speeches.

In 1957 Californian Harry Chamberlin constructed a tape loop based drum machine called the Chamberlin Rhythmate.

After its first publicly known proposal for a second theme park in Anaheim was scrapped, construction began in 1998 on a theme park called " Disney's California Adventure Park ", later renamed Disney California Adventure ; a hotel called Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa ; a renovation, renaming, and re-theming of the Disneyland Pacific Hotel as the Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel ; and an admission-free shopping and dining area called Downtown Disney.

The Lanston Monotype Company released a version of this typeface as Californian for wider distribution in 1956, while ITC created a digital version, called ITC Berkeley, in 1983.

A new building called Eshleman Hall was subsequently erected, which houses various student groups including the campus newspaper, The Daily Californian.

On December 2, 1882, the first Californian representative rugby team to play an outside opponent, took on a group of rugby-playing ex-Britons, who called themselves the Phoenix Rugby Club of San Francisco.

" The connection of Wiyot and Yurok in northern California ( which together were formerly called Ritwan, after Dixon and Kroeber's grouping of the two as one of their more remote Californian stocks ) with Algonquian was first proposed by Sapir ( 1913 ) and was quite controversial at that time ( see Michelson 1914, 1915 ; Sapir 1915a, 1915b ; see also Chapter 2 ), but the relationship has subsequently been demonstrated to the satisfaction of all ( see Haas 1958 ; Teeter 1964a ; Goddard 1975, 1979, 1990 ).

In 1996, Pressler oversaw a major expansion, including the opening of the new Disney California Adventure Park theme park ; a new hotel, Disney's Grand Californian ; the remodeling of an existing hotel, Paradise Pier ; a new retail, dining and entertainment complex called Downtown Disney ; and a new multi-story parking area.

KMJ-TV was originally owned by the McClatchy family whose assets included KMJ radio and three Californian newspapers called The Bee, in Fresno, Sacramento and Modesto.

Eve shaves her head and calls herself " Fred " in solidarity with a Californian support group called Fred, for men who have low self-esteem.

California bungalows, known as Californian bungalows in Australia and are commonly called simply bungalows in America, are a form of residential structure that were widely popular across America and, to some extent, the world around the years 1910 to 1939.

It deals with Teddy Ottinger, a bisexual Southern Californian aviatrix and author, who after publishing a book called Beyond Motherhood, comes to the attention of Kalki, the leader of a Kathmandu-based religious cult.