Goodhue's designs for Caltech were also influenced by the traditional Spanish mission architecture of Southern California.

With worsening weather, he sailed south to Alta California, hoping to find Bodega y Quadra and fulfill his territorial mission, but the Spaniard was not there.

Carson was a courier and scout during the Mexican-American war from 1846 to 1848, celebrated for his rescue mission after the Battle of San Pasqual and his coast-to-coast journey from California to deliver news of the war to the U. S. government in Washington, D. C ..

The three-year-long Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles, California, resulted in the spread of Pentecostalism throughout the United States and the rest of the world as visitors carried the Pentecostal experience back to their home churches or felt called to the mission field.

* To All Who These Presents Shall Come, Greeting: Know Ye, that in consequence of propositions of peace, or cessation of hostilities, being submitted to me, as Commandant of the California Battalion of the United States forces, which have so far been acceded to by me as to cause me to appoint a board of commissioners to confer with a similar board appointed by the Californians, and it requiring a little time to close the negotiations ; it is agreed upon and ordered by me that an entire cessation of hostilities shall take place until to-morrow afternoon ( January 13 ), and that the said Californians be permitted to bring in their wounded to the mission of San Fernando, where, also, if they choose, they can move their camp to facilitate said negotiations.

* September 25 – Mission Santa Cruz is founded by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, becoming the 12th mission in the California mission chain.

* October 9 – Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad is founded by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, becoming the 13th mission in the California mission chain.

* December 8 – Mission La Purisima Concepcion is founded by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, becoming the 11 mission in the California mission chain.

* December 4 – Mission Santa Barbara is founded by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, becoming the 10th mission in the California mission chain.

A drag chute is deployed by Space Shuttle Endeavour | Endeavour as it completes a mission of almost 17 days in space on Runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California.

On Anza's return from his second trip to Alta California in 1776, the chief of the tribe and three of his men journeyed to Mexico City to petition the Viceroy of New Spain for the establishment of a mission.

The padres closed or consolidated several of the existing settlements, and also founded Misión San Fernando Rey de España de Velicatá ( the only Franciscan mission in all of Baja California ) and the nearby Visita de la Presentación in 1769.

Arguably " the worst epidemic of the Spanish Era in California " was known to be the measles epidemic of 1806, wherein one-quarter of the mission Indian population of the San Francisco Bay area died of the measles or related complications between March and May of that year.

Although Governor José Figueroa ( who took office in 1833 ) initially attempted to keep the mission system intact, the Mexican Congress nevertheless passed An Act for the Secularization of the Missions of California on August 17, 1833.

The Act also provided for the colonization of both Alta and Baja California, the expenses of this latter move to be borne by the proceeds gained from the sale of the mission property to private interests.

The Mission archive is the oldest library in the State of California that still remains in the hands of its founders, the Franciscans ( it is the only mission where they have maintained an uninterrupted presence ).

By way of confiscation of the missions between 1834 and 1838 the approximately 15, 000 resident neophytes lost the protection of the mission system, along with their stock and other movable property ; by the transfer of California to the United States, they were left without legal title to their land.

The independence uprising was the first of a dozen similar incidents that took place in Alta California during the Mission Period ; however, most rebellions tended to be localized and short-lived due to the Spaniards ' superior weaponry ( native resistance more often took the form of non-cooperation ( in forced labor ), return to their homelands ( desertion of forced relocation ), and raids on mission livestock ).

In recent years, much debate has arisen as to the actual treatment of the Indians during the Mission period, and many claim that the California mission system is directly responsible for the decline of the native cultures.

At the peak of its development in 1832, the mission system controlled an area equal to approximately one-sixth of Alta California.

In May 2005 the Foresight Institute changed its name to " Foresight Nanotech Institute " and narrowed its mission to " ensure beneficial implementation of nanotechnology.

The mission, headed by Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute, will arrive at Pluto on July 14, 2015, and, circumstances permitting, will continue on to study another as-yet undetermined KBO.

In 2000, Hart became a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to seek to establish new knowledge and develop more effective therapies which awaken, stimulate and heal through the extraordinary power of music – continuing his investigation into the connection between healing and rhythm, and the neural basis of rhythm.

The Institute ’ s top mission objectives are universal access to renewable energy and nutritious food, expansion of environmentally sound jobs and development, transformation of cultures from consumerism to sustainability, and an early end to population growth through healthy and intentional childbearing.

In Croatia, Innovation Institute is a NGO with a mission to develop innovative potential by promoting creativity, innovativeness, unorthodox thinking and questioning existing dogmas.

The first American think tank was the Brookings Institution, founded in 1916 as the Institute for Government Research ( IGR ), with the mission of becoming " the first private organization devoted to analyzing public policy issues at the national level.

Credit: the Yohkoh mission of Institute of Space and Astronautical Science ( ISAS, Japan ) and NASA ( US ).

The first, and so far only, planetary balloon mission was performed by the Space Research Institute of Soviet Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the French space agency CNES in 1985.

Commissioned by the U. S. Department of Energy ( DOE ), the Information Science Research Institute ( ISRI ) had the mission to foster the improvement of automated technologies for understanding machine printed documents, and it conducted the most authoritative of the Annual Test of OCR Accuracy for five consecutive years in the mid-90s.

It was later named the Tuskegee Institute and then Tuskegee University, with the mission of educating freedmen for self-sufficiency.

The Clark Center features The Ruth & Sherman Lee Institute, the mission of which is to collect, preserve and exhibit works of fine art, primarily the arts of Japan.

In the mission territories of the Third World, he emphasized the necessity of training native priests to quickly replace the European missionaries, and founded the Pontifical Oriental Institute of Studies and the Coptic College in the Vatican.

In January 2003, The Institute evolved from The GCSAA Foundation, originally established in 1955, with a new name, mission and focus.

Education, research and PhD training are the mission of four faculties: Arts and Sciences, Educational Sciences, Health Sciences and the Institute of Technology.

In 2006 the board of directors of the Extropy Institute made a decision to close the organisation, stating that its mission was " essentially completed.

* Vega mission images from the Space Research Institute ( IKI )

* RSSI. ru, Vega mission images from the Space Research Institute ( IKI )

* Vega mission images from the Space Research Institute ( IKI )

Genesis was a Discovery-class mission of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL ) at the California Institute of Technology.

In October 2006, Bozell founded the Culture and Media Institute, an MRC branch whose mission is to reduce what he claims to be a negative liberal influence on American morality, culture, and religious liberty.

A solar cycle: a montage of ten years ' worth of Yohkoh SXT images, demonstrating the variation in solar activity during a sunspot cycle, from after August 30, 1991, to September 6, 2001. Credit: the Yohkoh mission of Institute of Space and Astronautical Science | ISAS ( Japan ) and NASA ( US ).

The JPL SVLBI project, funded by NASA, supports the VSOP ( VLBI Space Observatory Program ) mission developed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science ( ISAS ) in Japan.

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