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 making The Gold Rush, Chaplin married for the second time.

While presenting the Carnegie Institute's Gold Medal to Beaux in 1899, William Merritt Chase stated " Miss Beaux is not only the greatest living woman painter, but the best that has ever lived.

While the team did not see the postseason for the remainder of the decade, Smith continued to rack up All-Star appearances and Gold Gloves.

While it is not required to attend the week-long festivities and seminars, it is thought by some that those in the running for the Gold Award may advance their cause by displaying professionalism and hard work at that time ; judges for the contest, however, refute this, as the judging is done blindly in advance of the week-long pre-awards event and most judges don't arrive on site until the last day of the workshop.

While most of the newly arrived were Americans, the Gold Rush attracted tens of thousands from Latin America, Europe, Australia, and China.

While playing with Seattle, Griffey was a 10-time American League Gold Glove winner, the 1992 All-Star Game MVP, 1997 AL MVP, 1998 ESPY co-winner for Male Athlete of the Year, 1999 Players Choice Awards Player of the Decade ( by the players ), and was named to the All-Century team in 1999.

While gold supplies began to dwindle, soon eclipsed by the California Gold Rush, the settlement by White farmers continued and played prominently in the expulsion of Cherokee, Creek and Choctaw nations from the area.

While placer mining had played out in much of the Gold Country by the early 1860s, it was still active here as late as 1870.

While it also peaked at Number 3 in the UK, it was less successful than her debut, earning just a Gold disc.

While there, Gold attracted some controversy by suggesting that the interaction between charged particles from the Sun with the Earth's magnetic field in creating magnetic storms in the upper atmosphere was an example of a collisionless shock wave.

While marketed as a ' Gold Medal Ale ', Speight's is actually a New Zealand draught style beer, brewed using lager yeast and lagering techniques, so is therefore a lager and not an ale.

While Zarniwoop attempts to impress upon the Ruler of the Universe the reality and the weight of his position, Trillian and Zaphod sneak out and fly the Heart of Gold away.

While touring with the latter album, during 2007 and 2008, Moya recorded several collaborations and guest vocals on albums by Iona, Joanne Hogg and with Grand Canal on Ireland's Official Olympic Anthem, " Green to Gold.

While the other characters relax in the ship's sauna, however, Arthur has to jump through a number of hoops to collect a bizarre array of tools and four types of fluff before the Heart of Gold gets anywhere near the planet.

While on the Gold Coast views of the ocean, proximity to the beach and a large tourist population made apartments a popular choice.

While signing modeling posters for Jonathan Gold, a talent agent and professional wrestling promoter, Psaltis jokingly told Gold that she would be interested in pursuing a career in wrestling.

While the current colors are Navy Blue and Gold the alma mater retained the former colors .</ br >

While studying in Connecticut, Boudinot met Harriet Ruggles Gold, the daughter of a prominent local family who supported the Foreign Mission School.

While Hernandez became more comfortable with his bat, he was always recognized as a fielder first, snatching his first Gold Glove Award away from perennial winner Steve Garvey in ( the first of eleven consecutive seasons he would win the award, a record for first basemen ).

While Pokémon Gold and Silver retain the basic mechanics of capturing, battling, and evolving introduced in Pokémon Red and Blue, new features were added.

While at Harmony Gold, Macek also produced the little-known, rarely seen Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years ( which combines the almost-unrelated stories of Space Pirate Captain Harlock and Queen Millennia ).

While Isolation did not achieve the acclaim or sales of Toto IV, it did achieve Gold status, largely on the strength of the single " Stranger in Town ".