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left grief for Mother Nature. The astonishing forests was inferred as the first to go. A Golden State: “The Gold Rush brought its influx of people and a demand for housing. Redwood forests were cut down in the hills surrounding the San Francisco Bay and southward in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Around the gold camps and the new towns‚ forests soon disappeared” (“A Golden State”
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greed for gold turned even San Francisco into a ghost town. In Monterey‚ one Walter Colton even remarked‚ “The blacksmith dropped his hammer‚ the carpenter his plane‚ the mason his trowel‚ the baker his loaf‚ the tapster his bottle. All were off to the mines‚ some on horses‚ some in carts‚ some went on crutches‚ and one went in a litter.” The gold rush even influenced soldiers into abandoning their posts in pursuit of wealth. In their towns of Monterey and San Francisco‚ soldiers watched others get
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parents ever keep a secret from you? In the book Mama’s Bank Account‚ by her daughter Kathryn Forbes‚ Mama keeps a secret from her children all throughout their childhood. She raises her poor‚ struggling Norwegian immigrant family‚ residing in San Francisco in the early 1900’s. Throughout Katrin’s childhood‚ they encounter numerous challenges‚ and through it all‚ Mama’s secret Bank Account keeps them going. Mama’s Bank Account is a fiction that she creates so that her children do not have to worry about
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on food‚ clothes‚ or selling equipment for gold seekers. One of them was Mr. Brannan who bought almost every store near the working mills and sold mining tools creating a monopoly. He would eventually become the first millionaire. In 1853 in San Francisco‚ Levi Strauss introduced his new denim pants‚ which he called Levi’s‚ to the gold seekers and cowboys. These pants soon gained well-known recognition since they were tear resistant and could be washed. To provide food for hungry miners‚ agriculture
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It took three years for the left and right wing parties to settle down and proclaim the end of the Spanish Civil War. This disastrous war left behind 500‚000 people dead and a country that had been damaged and internally divided. Francisco Franco‚ a Nationalist general‚ took control of Spain and was named “Caudillo de España”. He then ruled Spain through an authoritarian dictatorship. Franco was a careful and systematic leader‚ and his main goal after the war was to reconstruct Spain and make the
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earning bad reputations for extreme exploitation of women and children‚ which Rosalia Mera avoided and even condemned). The first Zara shop opened (and is still open) in the Galician city of La Coruña on 15 May 1975‚ the year that the dictator Francisco Franco died. Most of Spain was longing for colourful‚ modern‚ well-cut clothes to accompany their new democracy. In 1973‚ Mera had returned to school. She qualified as a primary school teacher and received a diploma in health and later on studied
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Description: The Third of May 1808 is a painting originated by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya. The painting displays an execution of masses of Spanish countrymen by French soldiers. There are 8 visual soldiers‚ with their faces turned away from the viewer‚ aiming guns at a group of Spanish countrymen extremely close. There is a central figure Spanish man with his arms stretched out‚ on his knees. He is wearing a white shirt and yellow mustard pants. The central figure is surrounded by about
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BALAGTAS Gat Francisco Balagtas Monument Francisco Balagtas was born on April 2‚ 1788 in Barrio Panginay‚ Bigaa‚ Bulacan as the youngest of the four children of Juan Balagtas‚ a blacksmith‚ and Juana de la Cruz. He studied in a parochial school in Bigaa and later in Manila. During his childhood years. Francisco later worked as houseboy in Tondo‚ Manila. Balagtas learned to write poetry from José de la Cruz (Huseng Sisiw)‚ one of the most famous poets of Tondo‚ in return of chicks. It was
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the early 1930s‚ renovations made Alcatraz a better‚ yet still crude‚ establishment that housed the worst of the worst criminals and isolated them from life on the mainland. Alcatraz Island (1934-1963)‚ a harsh penitentiary off the coast of San Francisco‚ California‚ was home to some of America’s
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