While Granny frequently mentioned that she was from Tennessee, the series never specified the state from which the Clampetts moved to California.

While conducting a program of observations designed to uncover near-Earth objects, the Shoemakers and Levy discovered Comet Shoemaker – Levy 9 on the night of March 24, 1993 in a photograph taken with the Schmidt telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California.

While Compaq shareholders unanimously approved the deal, there was a public proxy battle within HP as the deal was strongly opposed by numerous large HP shareholders, including the sons of the company founders, Walter Hewlett and David W. Packard, as well as the California Public Employees ’ Retirement System ( Calpers ) and the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan.

While finishing his PhD he went to California to work with Alfred Kroeber documenting the indigenous languages there.

While he was there, California became the 31st state in September 1850 and Schliemann acquired United States citizenship.

While at the university, he was the student manager of both the baseball and football teams and was a part of the inaugural Big Game versus rival University of California ( Stanford won ).

While living in Echo Park, California, he enrolled at Los Angeles ' Manual Arts High School, from which he was expelled, after having been expelled from another high school in 1928.

While some colleges dropped football entirely, a few, such as the University of California and Stanford University, replaced it with English rugby.

While the Coens were writing the screenplay they had Kenny Rogers ' " Just Dropped In ( to See What Condition My Condition Was in )", the Gipsy Kings ' cover of " Hotel California ", and several Creedence Clearwater Revival songs in mind.

While in California the band also performed live, and one gig at the Long Branch Saloon in Berkeley was later issued as a live album.

While the majority of the missile launches came from United States Department of Defense footage of ICBM missile tests ( mainly Minuteman IIIs from Vandenberg Air Force Base adjacent to Lompoc, California ), all of the stock footage of missile launches were acquired from declassified DoD film libraries.

While the exact style of the wine will vary from producer, some of the terroir characteristics associated with California Chardonnay include " flinty " notes with the Russian River Valley and mango & guava from Monterey.

While favorite sons County Attorney Earl Warren of California, Governor Warren Green of South Dakota, and Stephen A.

While searching for just the right music to accompany a planned Peanuts television documentary, Lee Mendelson ( the producer of the special ) heard a single version of " Cast Your Fate to the Wind " by Vince Guaraldi's trio on the radio while traveling in a taxicab on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California.

While many of his colleagues saw action in the Mexican-American War, Sherman performed administrative duties in the captured territory of California.

While individual trees generally have a lifespan between 100 and 200 years, California black oak can live up to 500 years of age.

While returning to Monterey, he located the original sites for Mission Santa Clara de Asis and the town of San José de Guadalupe ( modern day San Jose, California ), but again did not establish either settlement.

While there are not many Gold Rush era ghost towns still in existence, the remains of the once-bustling town of Shasta have been preserved in a California State Historic Park in Northern California.

While no pictorial record exists to document what the original structure looked like, architectural historian Rexford Newcomb deduced the design and published a depiction in his 1916 work The Franciscan Mission Architecture of Alta California.

While Spain had economic motives for establishing a stronghold in California, the Franciscan order of the Catholic Church also had religious motives.

While attending Tamalpais High School, in Mill Valley, California, he placed third in the 1977 USA Mathematical Olympiad.

While the Oakland Coliseum underwent a complete renovation, the 1996 – 97 Golden State Warriors played their home games in the San Jose Arena in San Jose, California, struggling to a 30 – 52 finish.

While exhibiting in California in 1934, Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundberg displayed their work under the name post-surrealism.

While there is some disagreement over which three races make up the Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing, the Arabian list is more formal and consists of Daughters of the Desert Oaks in California, the Texas Yellow Rose Stakes, and the Cre Run Oaks in Delaware.

While modern systems distinguish between offences against the " State " or " Community ", and offences against the " Individual ", the so-called penal law of ancient communities did not deal with " crimes " ( Latin: crimina ), but with " wrongs " ( Latin: delicta ).

While all Catholics must therefore hold that " the infliction of capital punishment is not contrary to the teaching of the Catholic Church, and the power of the State to visit upon culprits the penalty of death derives much authority from revelation and from the writings of theologians ", the matter of " the advisability of exercising that power is, of course, an affair to be determined upon other and various considerations.

While at Oregon State, he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon social fraternity.

While in Wisconsin, he conducted multiple interviews with Ed Gein, the infamous serial killer who was a resident at Mendota State Hospital in Madison.

While the Rising and its leaders continued to be venerated by Irish republicans — including members and supporters of the Provisional IRA and the modern Sinn Féin — with murals in republican areas of Belfast and other towns celebrating the actions of Pearse and his comrades, and a number of parades held annually in remembrance of the Rising, the Irish government discontinued its annual parade in Dublin in the early 1970s, and in 1976 it took the unprecedented step of proscribing ( under the Offences against the State Act ) a 1916 commemoration ceremony at the GPO organised by Sinn Féin and the Republican commemoration Committee.

While attending Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg ( located in southeastern Kansas ) on a football scholarship, he became interested in acting.

While the Thai State offers recourse in the courts to obtain satisfaction after the fact, Thai authorities, NGOs and others generally offer little or no protection in preventing hate speech.

While the low volume of business conducted by Universal in Germany made such threats largely hollow, the State Department, under pressure from the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League and the Screen Actors Guild, stepped in and the German government backed down.

While officials in Washington, D. C. thought the project had merit, and Secretary of State Henry Clay formally presented it to the Congress of the United States in 1826, the plan was not approved.

While some Palestinian leaders say that the peace process is intended to achieve a permanent peace with the State of Israel, others maintain that their goal is to destroy Israel.

While " smuggling " refers to facilitating the illegal entry of a person into a State, " trafficking " includes an element of exploitation.

While most of the graves seem to be the result of summary executions by members of the Sandinista People's Army or the State Security, some contain the bodies of individuals executed by the Nicaraguan Resistance.

While these six counties and two parliamentary boroughs were all in the province of Ulster, three other counties of the province-Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan were assigned to the Irish Free State.

While a student of Andrey Kolmogorov at Moscow State University and still a teenager, Arnold showed in 1957 that any continuous function of several variables can be constructed with a finite number of two-variable functions, thereby partially solving Hilbert's thirteenth problem.

While in high school, Rudolph was on the basketball team when she was spotted by Tennessee State track and field coach Ed Temple.

While not required to deliver a speech, every president since Woodrow Wilson has made the State of the Union report as a speech delivered before a joint session of Congress.

While there is some public perception that military-style semi-automatic rifles often see criminal use, a 2001 Justice Department study revealed that fewer than 2 % of State and Federal inmates used, carried, or possessed a military-style semi-automatic gun or a fully automatic gun during their current offense.

While he studied Russian, he also studied computer translation of human languages at the Moscow State University in the Soviet Union in the school of Kolmogorov.

While some point to affordability for this action, in reality it was in response to Oregon State law.

In February and March 1945, P-40 fighter pilots from 133 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force operating out of RCAF Patricia Bay ( Victoria, British Columbia ), intercepted and destroyed two fire balloons, On 21 February, Pilot Officer E. E. Maxwell While shot down a balloon, which landed on Sumas Mountain, in Washington State.

While Debs did not leave a collection of papers to a university library, the pamphlet collection that he and his brother amassed now resides at Indiana State University in Terre Haute.

While he knew that Carter would not want him to be another Kissinger, Brzezinski also felt confident that the President did not want Secretary of State Vance to become another Dulles and would want his own input on key foreign policy decisions.

* While King Fuchai of Wu attends a meeting in Huangchi, in an attempt to gain hegemony over all the other duchies of Zhou Dynasty China, his capital city in the State of Wu is captured in a surprise assault by King Goujian of Yue.

While the benefits to the State budget figures were indisputable, the social and longer-term economic cost of the Kennett reforms have been questioned by many commentators, academics and those who suffered economically through the period of reform.