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Old 09-11-2013, 05:29 PM
 
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19 things you might not know about California - Yahoo Travel

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Old 09-11-2013, 07:14 PM
 
Location: Yucaipa, California
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Its too bad the bear population was wiped out by trashy people in the late 1800s.
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Old 09-11-2013, 08:15 PM
 
Location: The High Seas
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10. The first step to getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: Work in entertainment. The second: Pay a $30,000 nomination fee. Living celebrities are required to appear at their star's unveiling. (Barbra Streisand is the only person who got away with missing the event.) All of the Munchkins from The Wizard of Oz—122 adults and 12 children—share one star.
Why couldn't they just have given them 134 really little stars?
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Old 09-11-2013, 09:42 PM
 
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#20. The California forum was swallowed whole by a black hole in April of 2013 ... leaving only the haunting sound of snoring in its place ... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Old 09-12-2013, 11:06 AM
 
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Its too bad the bear population was wiped out by trashy people in the late 1800s.
Looked at the ursine population lately? Granted Griz is not here but the Black Bears are taking over.
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Old 09-12-2013, 12:11 PM
 
Location: LBC
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Looked at the ursine population lately? Granted Griz is not here but the Black Bears are taking over.

I wonder what percentage of Californians are under the misapprehension there are no wild bears left in the state.
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Old 09-12-2013, 12:38 PM
 
Location: The High Seas
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Some days all I see is bears....and twinks.
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Old 09-12-2013, 12:46 PM
 
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We should start reintroducing grizzly bears(or Kodiak bears, the closest relative to the California Grizzly) to their parts of their former native habitats in California.

Considering that grizzlies used to roam everywhere from the Coast Range and Sierra foothills to place like Santa Clara Valley and San Fernando Valley and the Los Angeles Basin--it could really make things a lot more interesting in the state...
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Old 09-12-2013, 12:48 PM
 
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I wonder what percentage of Californians are under the misapprehension there are no wild bears left in the state.
I don't think it would be a high percentage. You always see news footage of black bears in waste bins or someone's backyard.
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Old 09-13-2013, 12:45 AM
 
Location: Silicon Valley
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There's so much more to Ca history, these seem boring. But they're part of the whole for sure.

I took a CA history course as an adult (who knows what they taught me in my younger days) and I was fascinated by the early inhabitants - Indians - many tribes, most of which could not communicate with each other because they had different languages. Also, how the land was different with so many different flora and fauna that the natives lived on.

I had an anthropology teacher whose specialty it was to know how different types of cloth came from different areas of the country. So, she was able to see how digs of Indian burial sites showed that different tribes in CA had contact with tribes from across the country - by the way they wove their clothing. Fascinating.
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