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Mission San Juan Capistrano, the Glossary

Mission San Juan Capistrano (Misión San Juan Capistrano) is a Spanish mission in San Juan Capistrano, Orange County, California.^[1]

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Aarle-Rixtel

Aarle-Rixtel is a village in the Dutch municipality of Laarbeek in North Brabant.

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Año Cristiano

The Año Cristiano is a series of books published annually during the 19th century.

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.

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Abruzzo

Abruzzo (Abbrùzze, Abbrìzze or Abbrèzze; Abbrùzzu), historically known as Abruzzi, is a region of Southern Italy with an area of 10,763 square km (4,156 sq mi) and a population of 1.3 million.

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Acjacheme

Acjacheme ("a heap of animated things") was an Acjachemen village that was closely situated to the mother village of Putuidem in what is now San Juan Capistrano, California.

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Acjachemen

The Acjachemen are an Indigenous people of California.

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Acropolis

An acropolis was the settlement of an upper part of an ancient Greek city, especially a citadel, and frequently a hill with precipitous sides, mainly chosen for purposes of defense.

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Adobe

Adobe is a building material made from earth and organic materials.

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Agriculture

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.

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Alfred Kroeber

Alfred Louis Kroeber (June 11, 1876 – October 5, 1960) was an American cultural anthropologist.

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Alfred Robinson (businessman)

Alfred Robinson (1806–1895), later known in Spanish as Don Alfredo Robinson, was a Californian author and businessman.

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Alhambra

The Alhambra (translit) is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain.

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Alta California

Alta California ('Upper California'), also known as Nueva California ('New California') among other names, was a province of New Spain formally established in 1804.

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Angelica wine

Angelica wine is a historic sweet fortified wine usually from California made typically from the Mission grape. Mission San Juan Capistrano and Angelica wine are Spanish missions in California.

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Antonio María de Bucareli

Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa (24 January 1717 – 9 April 1779) was a Spanish military officer, governor of Cuba, and Viceroy of New Spain from 1771 until his death in 1779.

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Apricot

An apricot is a fruit, or the tree that bears the fruit, of several species in the genus Prunus.

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In architecture, an apse (apses; from Latin absis, 'arch, vault'; from Ancient Greek ἀψίς,, 'arch'; sometimes written apsis;: apsides) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an exedra.

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Aqueduct (bridge)

Aqueducts are bridges constructed to convey watercourses across gaps such as valleys or ravines.

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Archbishop

In Christian denominations, an archbishop is a bishop of higher rank or office.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.

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Arroyo Trabuco

Arroyo Trabuco (known also as Trabuco Creek) is a -long stream in coastal southern California in the United States.

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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the largest Class 1 railroads in the United States between 1859 and 1996.

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Bakery

A bakery is an establishment that produces and sells flour-based baked goods made in an oven such as bread, cookies, cakes, doughnuts, bagels, pastries, and pies.

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Bancroft Library

The Bancroft Library is the primary special-collections library of the University of California, Berkeley.

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Baptism

Baptism (from immersion, dipping in water) is a Christian sacrament of initiation almost invariably with the use of water.

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Barley

Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally.

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Baroque

The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.

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Barrel

A barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container with a bulging center, longer than it is wide.

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Basilica

In Ancient Roman architecture, a basilica was a large public building with multiple functions that was typically built alongside the town's forum.

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Bean

A bean is the seed of several plants in the family Fabaceae, which are used as vegetables for human or animal food.

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Bird migration

Bird migration is a seasonal movement of birds between breeding and wintering grounds that occurs twice a year.

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Blacksmith

A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects primarily from wrought iron or steel, but sometimes from other metals, by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut (cf. tinsmith).

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Brandy

Brandy is a liquor produced by distilling wine.

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Brothel

A brothel, bordello, bawdy house, ranch, house of ill repute, house of ill fame, or whorehouse is a place where people engage in sexual activity with prostitutes.

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Buttress

A buttress is an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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California Historical Landmark

A California Historical Landmark (CHL) is a building, structure, site, or place in the U.S. state of California that has been determined to have statewide historical landmark significance. Mission San Juan Capistrano and California Historical Landmark are California Historical Landmarks.

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California Land Act of 1851

The California Land Act of 1851, enacted following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the admission of California as a state in 1850, established a three-member Public Land Commission to determine the validity of prior Spanish and Mexican land grants.

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California State University, Fullerton

California State University, Fullerton (CSUF or Cal State Fullerton) is a public research university in Fullerton, California.

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Californios

Californios (singular Californio) are Hispanic Californians, especially those descended from Spanish and Mexican settlers of the 17th through 19th centuries before California was annexed by the United States.

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Camp Las Pulgas

Camp Las Pulgas also called 43 Area Camp Pendleton is subcamp of Camp Pendleton, California.

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Candle

A candle is an ignitable wick embedded in wax, or another flammable solid substance such as tallow, that provides light, and in some cases, a fragrance.

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Cannon

A cannon is a large-caliber gun classified as a type of artillery, which usually launches a projectile using explosive chemical propellant.

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Capestrano

Capestrano (Abruzzese: Capëstrànë) is a comune and small town with 885 inhabitants (2017), in the Province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy.

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Carpentry

Carpentry is a skilled trade and a craft in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc.

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Catalan forge

The Catalan forge is a set of technological processes designed to obtain iron by directly reducing the ore—without going through the intermediary of smelting as in a blast furnace—and then shingling the resulting.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Celtic cross

A Celtic cross symbol The Celtic cross is a form of Christian cross featuring a nimbus or ring that emerged in Ireland, France and Great Britain in the Early Middle Ages.

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Cenotaph

A cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere.

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Cent (currency)

The cent is a monetary unit of many national currencies that equals of the basic monetary unit.

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Chapman University

Chapman University is a private research university in Orange, California.

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Charles Fletcher Lummis

Charles Fletcher Lummis (March 1, 1859, in Lynn, Massachusetts – November 25, 1928, in Los Angeles, California) was a United States journalist, and an activist for Native American rights and historic preservation.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.

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Chinigchinix

Chingichngish (also spelled Chengiichngech, Chinigchinix, Chinigchinich, Changitchnish, etc.), also known as Quaoar (also Qua-o-ar, Kwawar, etc.) and by other names including Ouiamot, Tobet and Saor, is an important mythological figure of the Mission Indians of coastal Southern California, a group of Takic-speaking peoples, today divided into the Payómkawichum (Luiseño), Tongva (Gabrieliño and Fernandeño), and Acjachemem (Juaneño) peoples.

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Christian cross

The Christian cross, seen as a representation of the crucifixion of Jesus on a large wooden cross, is a symbol of Christianity.

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Cistern

A cistern is a space excavated in bedrock or soil designed for catching and storing water.

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Cliff swallow

The cliff swallow or American cliff swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) is a member of the passerine bird family Hirundinidae, the swallows and martins.

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Condor

Condor is the common name for two species of New World vultures, each in a monotypic genus.

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Congress of the Union

The Congress of the Union (Congreso de la Unión), formally known as the General Congress of the United Mexican States (Congreso General de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos), is the legislature of the federal government of Mexico.

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Cowboy

A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks.

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Culiacán

Culiacán, officially Culiacán Rosales, is a city in northwestern Mexico, the capital and largest city of both Culiacán Municipality and the state of Sinaloa.

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Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans.

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Cupola

In architecture, a cupola is a relatively small, most often dome-like, tall structure on top of a building.

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D. W. Griffith

David Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American film director.

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Diego Sepúlveda Adobe

The Diego Sepúlveda Adobe, sometimes called the Costa Mesa Estancia or the Santa Ana Estancia, is an adobe structure in Costa Mesa, Orange County, California. Mission San Juan Capistrano and Diego Sepúlveda Adobe are California Historical Landmarks and Spanish missions in California.

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Dome

A dome is an architectural element similar to the hollow upper half of a sphere.

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Dover Publications

Dover Publications, also known as Dover Books, is an American book publisher founded in 1941 by Hayward and Blanche Cirker.

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Eagle

Eagle is the common name for the golden eagle, bald eagle, and other birds of prey in the family Accipitridae.

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Edward Vischer

Edward Vischer (1809–1878) was a German-born painter and photographer who migrated from Germany to Mexico at the age of nineteen. Mission San Juan Capistrano and Edward Vischer are Spanish missions in California.

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El Camino Real (California)

El Camino Real (Spanish; literally The Royal Road, often translated as The King's Highway) is a 600-mile (965-kilometer) commemorative route connecting the 21 Spanish missions in California (formerly the region Alta California in the Spanish Empire), along with a number of sub-missions, four presidios, and three pueblos. Mission San Juan Capistrano and El Camino Real (California) are California Historical Landmarks and Spanish missions in California.

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English people

The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture.

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Eucharist in the Catholic Church

Eucharist (thanksgiving) is the name that Catholic Christians give to the sacrament by which, according to their belief, the body and blood of Christ are present in the bread and wine consecrated during the Catholic eucharistic liturgy, generally known as the Mass.

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Fermín de Lasuén

Fermín de Francisco Lasuén de Arasqueta (7 June 1736 – Mission de San Carlos (California), 26 June 1803) was a Basque Franciscan missionary to Alta California president of the Franciscan missions there, and founder of nine of the twenty-one Spanish missions in California.

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Fermentation in food processing

In food processing, fermentation is the conversion of carbohydrates to alcohol or organic acids using microorganisms—yeasts or bacteria—under anaerobic (oxygen-free) conditions.

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Fernando Rivera y Moncada

Fernando Javier Rivera y Moncada (c. 1725 – July 18, 1781) was a soldier of the Spanish Empire who served in The Californias (Las Californias), the far north-western frontier of New Spain.

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Ferrous metallurgy is the metallurgy of iron and its alloys.

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Festival

A festival is an event celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures.

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First lady

First lady or first gentleman is an unofficial title usually used for the spouse, and occasionally used for the offspring or other relative, of a non-monarchical head of state or chief executive.

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Flock (birds)

A flock is a gathering of individual birds to forage or travel collectively.

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Foothills or piedmont are geographically defined as gradual increases in elevation at the base of a mountain range, higher hill range or an upland area.

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Fortified wine

Fortified wine is a wine to which a distilled spirit, usually brandy, has been added.

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Foundation (engineering)

In engineering, a foundation is the element of a structure which connects it to the ground or more rarely, water (as with floating structures), transferring loads from the structure to the ground.

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Foundry

A foundry is a factory that produces metal castings.

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Franciscans

The Franciscans are a group of related mendicant religious orders of the Catholic Church.

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Francisco Palóu

Francisco Palóu (Francesc Palou in catalan), OFM (1723–1789) was a Spanish Franciscan missionary, administrator and historian on the Baja California Peninsula and in Alta California. Mission San Juan Capistrano and Francisco Palóu are Junípero Serra.

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Fray Juan de Torquemada

Juan de Torquemada (c. 1562 – 1624) was a Franciscan friar, active as missionary in colonial Mexico and considered the "leading Franciscan chronicler of his generation." Administrator, engineer, architect and ethnographer, he is most famous for his monumental work commonly known as Monarquía indiana ("Indian Monarchy"), a survey of the history and culture of the indigenous peoples of New Spain together with an account of their conversion to Christianity, first published in Spain in 1615 and republished in 1723.

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Fred Waring

Fredrick Malcolm Waring Sr. (June 9, 1900 – July 29, 1984) was an American musician, bandleader, choral director, and radio and television personality, sometimes referred to as "America's Singing Master" and "The Man Who Taught America How to Sing".

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Frederick Behre

Frederick John Behre (December 21, 1863 – March 10, 1942) was an American artist born in San Francisco, California. Mission San Juan Capistrano and Frederick Behre are Spanish missions in California.

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George Fitzmaurice

George Fitzmaurice (13 February 1885 – 13 June 1940) was a French-born film director and producer.

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Gerónimo Boscana

Gerónimo Boscana (Jerónimo Boscana) was an early 19th-century Franciscan missionary in Spanish Las Californias and Mexican Alta California.

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Gilbert Roland

Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso (December 11, 1905 – May 15, 1994), known professionally as Gilbert Roland, was a Mexican-born American film and television actor whose career spanned seven decades from the 1920s until the 1980s.

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Glenn Miller

Alton Glen "Glenn" Miller (March 1, 1904; disappeared December 15, 1944; declared dead December 16, 1945) was an American big band conductor, arranger, composer, trombone player, and recording artist before and during World War II, when he was an officer in the US Army Air Forces.

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Gold leaf

A gold nugget of 5 mm (0.2 in) in diameter (bottom) can be expanded through hammering into a gold foil of about 0.5 m2 (5.4 sq ft). Toi gold mine museum, Japan. Gold leaf is gold that has been hammered into thin sheets (usually around 0.1 μm thick) by a process known as goldbeating, for use in gilding.

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Gouache

Gouache, body color, or opaque watercolor is a water-medium paint consisting of natural pigment, water, a binding agent (usually gum arabic or dextrin), and sometimes additional inert material.

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Goya, Argentina

Goya is a city in the south-west of the province of Corrientes in the Argentine Mesopotamia.

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Grease (lubricant)

Grease is a solid or semisolid lubricant formed as a dispersion of thickening agents in a liquid lubricant.

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Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.

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Gregório Amúrrio

Father Gregório Amúrrio, O.F.M. was a Catholic priest of the Franciscan Order, and a Spanish missionary in California during the 18th century.

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Gutzon Borglum

John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (March 25, 1867 – March 6, 1941) was an American sculptor best known for his work on Mount Rushmore.

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Guy Lombardo

Gaetano Alberto "Guy" Lombardo (June 19, 1902 – November 5, 1977) was a Canadian and American bandleader, violinist, and hydroplane racer whose unique "sweet jazz" style remained popular with audiences for nearly five decades.

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Herd

A herd is a social group of certain animals of the same species, either wild or domestic.

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Heritage Documentation Programs

Heritage Documentation Programs (HDP) is a division of the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) responsible for administering the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), and Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS).

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Hippolyte Bouchard

Hippolyte or Hipólito Bouchard (15 January 1780 – 4 January 1837) was a French-born Argentine sailor and corsair who fought for Argentina, Chile, and Peru. Mission San Juan Capistrano and Hippolyte Bouchard are Piracy in the Pacific Ocean.

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Historic Sites Act

The Historic Sites Act of 1935 was enacted by the United States Congress largely to organize the myriad federally own parks, monuments, and historic sites under the National Park Service and the United States Secretary of the Interior.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, and reference works.

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Howitzer

The howitzer is an artillery weapon that falls between a cannon (or field gun) and a mortar.

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Iron Age

The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.

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Islamic architecture

Islamic architecture comprises the architectural styles of buildings associated with Islam.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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J. Smeaton Chase

Joseph Smeaton Chase (8 April 1864 – 29 March 1923) was an English-born American author, traveler, and photographer.

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

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John Joseph Cantwell

John Joseph Cantwell (December 1, 1874 – October 30, 1947) was an Irish-born American prelate of the Catholic Church.

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John of Capistrano

John of Capistrano, OFM (San Giovanni da Capestrano, Kapisztrán János, Jan Kapistran, Ivan Kapistran; 24 June 1386 – 23 October 1456) was a Franciscan friar and Catholic priest from the Italian town of Capestrano, Abruzzo.

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John S. McGroarty

John Steven McGroarty (August 20, 1862 – August 7, 1944) was a poet, Los Angeles Times columnist, and author who also served two terms as a Democratic Congressman from California from 1935 to 1939.

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Johnston McCulley

John William Johnston McCulley (February 2, 1883 – November 23, 1958) was an American writer of hundreds of stories, fifty novels and numerous screenplays for film and television, and the creator of the character Zorro.

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José Antonio Yorba

José Antonio Yorba (July 20, 1743 – January 16, 1825), also known as Don José Antonio Yorba I, was a Spanish soldier and early settler of Spanish California.

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José Barona

Father José Barona, O.F.M. was a Catholic priest of the Franciscan Order, and a Spanish missionary in California during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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José de la Guerra y Noriega

José Antonio de la Guerra y Noriega (March 6, 1779 – February 18, 1858) was a Californio military officer, ranchero, and founder of the prominent Guerra family of California.

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José Figueroa

José María Figueroa (1792 – 29 September 1835) was a General and the Mexican Governor of Alta California from 1833 to 1835.

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José María de Echeandía

José María de Echeandía (?–1871) was the Mexican governor of Alta California from 1825 to 1831 and again from 1832 to 1833.

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José María de Zalvidea

José María de Zalvidea (2 March 1780 – 1846) was a Spanish Franciscan missionary.

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Joseph Kleitsch

Joseph Kleitsch (June 6, 1882 – November 16, 1931) was a Hungarian-American portrait and plein air painter who holds a high place in the early California School of Impressionism.

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Joseph Sadoc Alemany

Joseph Sadoc Alemany y Conill, O.P. (Spanish: José Sadoc Alemany y Conill; July 3, 1814 – April 14, 1888) was a Spanish Catholic clergyman, who served most of his career in California.

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Juan Bautista Alvarado

Juan Bautista Valentín Alvarado y Vallejo (February 14, 1809 – July 13, 1882) usually known as Juan Bautista Alvarado, was a Californio politician that served as Governor of Alta California from 1837 to 1842.

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Juan Crespí

Juan Crespí (Catalan: Joan Crespí; 1 March 1721 – 1 January 1782) was a Franciscan missionary and explorer of Las Californias.

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Juan Forster

Don Juan Forster (born John; 1814 – February 20, 1882) was an English-born Californio ranchero and merchant.

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Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo

Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo; c. 1497 – January 3, 1543) was a Portuguese maritime explorer best known for investigations of the West Coast of North America, undertaken on behalf of the Spanish Empire. He was the first European to explore present-day California, navigating along the coast of California in 1542–1543 on his voyage from New Spain (modern Mexico).

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Junípero Serra

Saint Junípero Serra Ferrer (November 24, 1713August 28, 1784), popularly known simply as Junipero Serra, was a Spanish Catholic priest and missionary of the Franciscan Order.

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Kiln

A kiln is a thermally insulated chamber, a type of oven, that produces temperatures sufficient to complete some process, such as hardening, drying, or chemical changes.

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Kumeyaay

The Kumeyaay, also known as 'Iipai-Tiipai or by the historical Spanish name Diegueño, is a tribe of Indigenous peoples of the Americas who live at the northern border of Baja California in Mexico and the southern border of California in the United States.

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La Purísima Mission

Mission La Purísima Concepción, or La Purísima Mission (originally La Misión de la Purísima Concepción de la Santísima Virgen María, or The Mission of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary) is a Spanish mission in Lompoc, California. Mission San Juan Capistrano and la Purísima Mission are California Historical Landmarks, history museums in California and Spanish missions in California.

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Las Flores Estancia

The Las Flores Estancia (also known as Las Flores Asistencia) was established in 1823 as an estancia ("station"). Mission San Juan Capistrano and Las Flores Estancia are California Historical Landmarks, Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in California and Spanish missions in California.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Leon René

Leon René (February 6, 1902 – May 30, 1982) was an American music composer of pop, R&B and rock and roll songs and a record producer in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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List of Spanish missions in California

Franciscan priests established 21 missions between 1769 and 1833 in Alta California, accompanied by military outposts.

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List of the oldest buildings in the United States

This article lists the oldest buildings in the United States and its territories.

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List of the oldest churches in the United States

The designation of the oldest church in the United States requires careful use of definitions, and must be divided into two parts, the oldest in the sense of oldest surviving building, and the oldest in the sense of oldest Christian church congregation.

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Lithography

Lithography is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water.

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Loom

A loom is a device used to weave cloth and tapestry.

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Luis Jayme

Luis Jayme or Lluís Jaume O.F.M. (October 18, 1740 – November 5, 1775), born Melcior Jaume Vallespir, was a Spanish-born Roman Catholic priest of the Franciscan Order.

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Luiseño

The Luiseño or Payómkawichum are an Indigenous people of California who, at the time of the first contacts with the Spanish in the 16th century, inhabited the coastal area of southern California, ranging from the present-day southern part of Los Angeles County to the northern part of San Diego County, and inland.

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Luiseño language

The Luiseño language is a Uto-Aztecan language of California spoken by the Luiseño, a Native American people who at the time of first contact with the Spanish in the 16th century inhabited the coastal area of southern California, ranging from the southern part of Los Angeles County, California, to the northern part of San Diego County, California, and inland.

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Majordomo

A majordomo is a person who speaks, makes arrangements, or takes charge for another.

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Mary Astor

Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke, better known professionally as Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987), was an American actress.

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Mary Magdalene

Mary Magdalene (sometimes called Mary of Magdala, or simply the Magdalene or the Madeleine) was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to his crucifixion and resurrection.

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Mary Pickford

Gladys Louise Smith (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian actress resident in the U.S., and also producer, screenwriter, and film studio founder.

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Masonry

Masonry is the craft of building a structure with brick, stone, or similar material, including mortar plastering which are often laid in, bound, and pasted together by mortar.

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Mass in the Catholic Church

The Mass is the central liturgical service of the Eucharist in the Catholic Church, in which bread and wine are consecrated and become the body and blood of Christ.

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Medicine man

A medicine man (from Ojibwe mashkikiiwinini) or medicine woman (from Ojibwe mashkikiiwininiikwe) is a traditional healer and spiritual leader who serves a community of Indigenous people of the Americas.

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Melrose Abbey

St Mary's Abbey, Melrose is a partly ruined monastery of the Cistercian order in Melrose, Roxburghshire, in the Scottish Borders.

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Mexican secularization act of 1833

The Mexican Secularization Act of 1833, officially called the Decree for the Secularization of the Missions of California, was an act passed by the Congress of the Union of the First Mexican Republic which secularized the Californian missions. Mission San Juan Capistrano and Mexican secularization act of 1833 are Spanish missions in California.

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Mexican War of Independence

The Mexican War of Independence (Guerra de Independencia de México, 16 September 1810 – 27 September 1821) was an armed conflict and political process resulting in Mexico's independence from the Spanish Empire.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth.

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Mission (grape)

Mission grapes are a variety of Vitis vinifera introduced from Spain to the western coasts of North and South America by Catholic New World missionaries for use in making sacramental, table, and fortified wines.

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Mission Basilica San Juan Capistrano

Mission Basilica San Juan Capistrano is a Catholic parish in the Diocese of Orange. Mission San Juan Capistrano and Mission Basilica San Juan Capistrano are Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange and Spanish missions in California.

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Mission Indians

Mission Indians are the indigenous peoples of California who lived in Southern California and were forcibly relocated from their traditional dwellings, villages, and homelands to live and work at 15 Franciscan missions in Southern California and the Asistencias and Estancias established between 1796 and 1823 in the Las Californias Province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. Mission San Juan Capistrano and mission Indians are Spanish missions in California.

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Mission Revival architecture

The Mission Revival style was part of an architectural movement, beginning in the late 19th century, for the revival and reinterpretation of American colonial styles. Mission San Juan Capistrano and Mission Revival architecture are Spanish missions in California.

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Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo

Mission San Carlos Borromeo del Río Carmelo, or Misión de San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, first built in 1797, is one of the most authentically restored Catholic mission churches in California. Mission San Juan Capistrano and mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo are 18th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States, California Historical Landmarks, history museums in California, Junípero Serra, religious museums in California and Spanish missions in California.

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Mission San Diego de Alcalá

Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcalá (Misión San Diego de Alcalá) was the second Franciscan founded mission in The Californias (after San Fernando de Velicata), a province of New Spain. Mission San Juan Capistrano and mission San Diego de Alcalá are California Historical Landmarks, Junípero Serra, religious museums in California and Spanish missions in California.

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Mission San Francisco de Asís

The Mission San Francisco de Asís (Misión San Francisco de Asís), also known as Mission Dolores, is a historic Catholic church complex in San Francisco, California. Mission San Juan Capistrano and Mission San Francisco de Asís are 1776 establishments in Alta California, 1776 in Alta California, 18th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States, California Historical Landmarks, Junípero Serra, religious museums in California and Spanish missions in California.

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Mission San Gabriel Arcángel

Mission San Gabriel Arcángel (Misión de San Gabriel Arcángel) is a Californian mission and historic landmark in San Gabriel, California. Mission San Juan Capistrano and mission San Gabriel Arcángel are 18th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States, California Historical Landmarks, history museums in California, Junípero Serra, religious museums in California and Spanish missions in California.

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Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa

Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa (Misión San Luis Obispo de Tolosa) is a Spanish mission founded September 1, 1772 by Father Junípero Serra in San Luis Obispo, California. Mission San Juan Capistrano and mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa are 18th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States, California Historical Landmarks, Junípero Serra, religious museums in California and Spanish missions in California.

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Mission San Luis Rey de Francia

Mission San Luis Rey de Francia (Misión San Luis Rey de Francia) is a former Spanish mission in San Luis Rey, a neighborhood of Oceanside, California. Mission San Juan Capistrano and mission San Luis Rey de Francia are California Historical Landmarks, religious museums in California and Spanish missions in California.

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Moment magnitude scale

The moment magnitude scale (MMS; denoted explicitly with M or or Mwg, and generally implied with use of a single M for magnitude) is a measure of an earthquake's magnitude ("size" or strength) based on its seismic moment.

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Monsignor

Monsignor (monsignore) is a form of address or title for certain members of the clergy in the Catholic Church.

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Monterey, California

Monterey (Monterrey) is a city in Monterey County on the southern edge of Monterey Bay on the U.S. state of California's Central Coast.

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Mortar (masonry)

Mortar is a workable paste which hardens to bind building blocks such as stones, bricks, and concrete masonry units, to fill and seal the irregular gaps between them, spread the weight of them evenly, and sometimes to add decorative colours or patterns to masonry walls.

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Mule

The mule is a domestic equine hybrid between a donkey and a horse.

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Mustard plant

The mustard plant is any one of several plant species in the genera Brassica, Rhamphospermum and Sinapis in the family Brassicaceae (the mustard family).

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Nail (fastener)

In woodworking and construction, a nail is a small object made of metal (or wood, called a tree nail or "trunnel") which is used as a fastener, as a peg to hang something, or sometimes as a decoration.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government, within the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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National Register of Champion Trees

The National Register of Champion Trees is a list of the largest tree specimens found in the United States as reported to American Forests by the public.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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Nave

The nave is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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New Spain

New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Virreinato de Nueva España; Nahuatl: Yankwik Kaxtillan Birreiyotl), originally the Kingdom of New Spain, was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain.

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Niche (architecture)

In architecture, a niche (CanE, or) is a recess or cavity constructed in the thickness of a wall for the reception of decorative objects such as statues, busts, urns, and vases.

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Oil painting

Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder.

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Olive

The olive, botanical name Olea europaea, meaning 'European olive', is a species of small tree or shrub in the family Oleaceae, found traditionally in the Mediterranean Basin.

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Orange County, California

Orange County (officially the County of Orange; often known by its initials O.C.) is a county located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in Southern California, United States.

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Ore

Ore is natural rock or sediment that contains one or more valuable minerals concentrated above background levels, typically containing metals, that can be mined, treated and sold at a profit.

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Overland Monthly

The Overland Monthly was a monthly literary and cultural magazine, based in California, United States.

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Owen Moore

Owen Moore (12 December 1886 – 9 June 1939) was an Irish-born American actor, appearing in more than 279 movies spanning from 1908 to 1937.

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Ox

An ox (oxen), also known as a bullock (in British, Australian, and Indian English), is a bovine, trained and used as a draft animal.

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Pablo de Mugártegui

Pablo de Mugártegui, O.F.M., was a Basque Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order, and a missionary in California during the 18th century.

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Palomar Mountain

Palomar Mountain (Monte Palomar) is a mountain ridge in the Peninsular Ranges in northern San Diego County.

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Parish

A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese.

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Pat Boone

Patrick Charles Eugene Boone (born June 1, 1934) is an American singer, actor, television personality, and composer.

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Pat Nixon

Thelma Catherine "Pat" Nixon (March 16, 1912 – June 22, 1993) was the First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974 as the wife of President Richard Nixon.

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Pío Pico

Don Pío de Jesús Pico IV (May 5, 1801 – September 11, 1894) was a Californio politician, ranchero, and entrepreneur, famous for serving as the last governor of Alta California under Mexican rule from 1845 to 1846.

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Peach

The peach (Prunus persica) is a deciduous tree first domesticated and cultivated in Zhejiang province of Eastern China.

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Pergola

A pergola is most commonly an outdoor garden feature forming a shaded walkway, passageway, or sitting area of vertical posts or pillars that usually support cross-beams and a sturdy open lattice, often upon which woody vines are trained.

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Peter Corney

Peter Corney (18th century – 31 August 1835) was an English sailor and explorer.

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Petit & Fritsen

Royal Bellfounders Petit & Fritsen, located in Aarle-Rixtel, the Netherlands, is a former foundry, one of the oldest family-owned businesses in the Netherlands, with the foundry dating back to 1660.

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Piracy

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods.

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Plat

In the United States, a plat (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land.

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Platanus racemosa

Platanus racemosa is a species of plane tree known by several common names, including California sycamore, western sycamore, California plane tree, and in North American Spanish aliso.

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Pomegranate

The pomegranate (Punica granatum) is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub in the family Lythraceae, subfamily Punicoideae, that grows between tall.

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Portolá expedition

Point of San Francisco Bay Discovery The Portolá expedition was a Spanish voyage of exploration in 1769–1770 that was the first recorded European exploration of the interior of the present-day California. Mission San Juan Capistrano and Portolá expedition are Spanish missions in California.

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Pound (mass)

The pound or pound-mass is a unit of mass used in both the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement.

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Presidio of San Diego

El Presidio Real de San Diego (Royal Presidio of San Diego) is a historic fort in San Diego, California.

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Presidio of Santa Barbara

El Presidio Real de Santa Bárbara, also known as the Royal Presidio of Santa Barbara, is a former military installation in Santa Barbara, California, United States. Mission San Juan Capistrano and Presidio of Santa Barbara are California Historical Landmarks and history museums in California.

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Privateer

A privateer is a private person or vessel which engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war.

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Pueblo

Pueblo refers to the settlements and to the Native American tribes of the Pueblo peoples in the Southwestern United States, currently in New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas.

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Putuidem

Putuidem (Acjachemen: "belly" or "the navel"), alternative spelling Putiidhem or Putuidhem, was a large native village of the Acjachemen people, also known as Juaneño since their relocation to Mission San Juan Capistrano.

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Rancho Mission Viejo, California

Rancho Mission Viejo (Spanish: Rancho Misión Vieja, meaning "Old Mission Ranch") is an active ranch and farm, habitat reserve, residential community, and census-designated place in South Orange County, California.

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Rancho San Mateo

Rancho San Mateo was a Mexican land grant on the San Francisco Peninsula, in present day San Mateo County, California.

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Reductions

Reductions (reducciones, also called congregaciones;, pl. reduções) were settlements established by Spanish rulers and Roman Catholic missionaries in Spanish America and the Spanish East Indies (the Philippines).

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Rendering (animal products)

Rendering is a process that converts waste animal tissue into stable, usable materials.

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Replenishment oiler

A replenishment oiler or replenishment tanker is a naval auxiliary ship with fuel tanks and dry cargo holds which can supply both fuel and dry stores during underway replenishment (UNREP) at sea.

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Retablo

A retablo is a devotional painting, especially a small popular or folk art one using iconography derived from traditional Catholic church art.

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Richard Henry Dana Jr.

Richard Henry Dana Jr. (August 1, 1815 – January 6, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of a colonial family, who gained renown as the author of the classic American memoir Two Years Before the Mast and as an attorney who successfully represented the U.S.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.

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Rock (geology)

In geology, rock (or stone) is any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange

The Diocese of Orange (Latin: Dioecesis Arausicanae in California; Spanish: Diócesis de Orange; Vietnamese: Giáo phận Quận Cam) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church that covers all of Orange County, California, in the United States.

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Sacrament

A sacrament is a Christian rite that is recognized as being particularly important and significant.

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Sacristy

A sacristy, also known as a vestry or preparation room, is a room in Christian churches for the keeping of vestments (such as the alb and chasuble) and other church furnishings, sacred vessels, and parish records.

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Saint

In Christian belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God.

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Saint Joseph's Day

Saint Joseph's Day, also called the Feast of Saint Joseph or the Solemnity of Saint Joseph, is in Western Christianity the principal feast day of Saint Joseph, husband of the Virgin Mary and legal father of Jesus Christ, celebrated on 19 March.

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San Diego

San Diego is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast in Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border.

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San Diego County, California

San Diego County, officially the County of San Diego (Condado de San Diego), is a county in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of California.

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San Dieguito complex

The San Dieguito complex is an archaeological pattern left by early Holocene inhabitants of Southern California and surrounding portions of the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.

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San Gabriel, California

San Gabriel (Spanish for "St. Gabriel") is a city located in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County, California.

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San Joaquin Hills

The San Joaquin Hills are a low mountain range of the Peninsular Ranges System, located in coastal Orange County, California.

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San Juan Capistrano, California

San Juan Capistrano (also known colloquially as San Juan or SJC) is a city in southern Orange County, California, United States.

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San Juan Creek

San Juan Creek, also called the San Juan River, is a long stream in Orange and Riverside Counties, draining a watershed of.

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San Juan Hot Springs

San Juan Hot Springs, also San Juan Capistrano Hot Springs, is a geothermal area in what is now Ronald W. Caspers Wilderness Park, near Cleveland National Forest, in Orange County, California in the United States.

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San Mateo Creek (Southern California)

San Mateo Creek is a stream in Southern California in the United States, whose watershed mostly straddles the border of Orange and San Diego Counties.

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San Onofre State Beach

San Onofre State Beach (San Onofre, Spanish for "St. Onuphrius") is a state park in San Diego County, California.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Santa Ana Mountains

The Santa Ana Mountains are a short peninsular mountain range along the coast of Southern California in the United States.

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Santa Ana River

The Santa Ana River is the largest river entirely within Southern California in the United States.

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Santa Barbara, California

Santa Barbara (Santa Bárbara, meaning) is a coastal city in Santa Barbara County, California, of which it is also the county seat.

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Santiago Argüello

Santiago Argüello (1791–1862) was a Californio, a soldier in the Spanish army of the Viceroyalty of New Spain in Las Californias, a major Mexican land grant ranchos owner, and part of an influential family in Mexican Alta California and post-statehood California.

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Schinus molle

Schinus molle (Peruvian pepper, also known as American pepper, Peruvian peppertree, escobilla, false pepper, rosé pepper, molle del Peru, pepper tree, (Archived by) peppercorn tree, California pepper tree, pirul, Peruvian mastic, Anacahuita or Aguaribay and Pepperina) is an evergreen tree that grows to 15 meters (50 feet).

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Secularization

In sociology, secularization (secularisation) is a multilayered concept that generally denotes "a transition from a religious to a more worldly level." There are many types of secularization and most do not lead to atheism, irreligion, nor are they automatically antithetical to religion.

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Seismology

Seismology (from Ancient Greek σεισμός (seismós) meaning "earthquake" and -λογία (-logía) meaning "study of") is the scientific study of earthquakes (or generally, quakes) and the generation and propagation of elastic waves through the Earth or other planetary bodies.

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Shoshoni language

Shoshoni, also written as Shoshoni-Gosiute and Shoshone (Shoshoni: soni' ta̲i̲kwappe, newe ta̲i̲kwappe or neme ta̲i̲kwappeh), is a Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan family, spoken in the Western United States by the Shoshone people.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue).

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Smallpox

Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus), which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus.

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Smelting

Smelting is a process of applying heat and a chemical reducing agent to an ore to extract a desired base metal product.

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Smith, Elder & Co.

Smith, Elder & Co., alternatively Smith, Elder, and Co. or Smith, Elder and Co. was a British publishing company which was most noted for the works it published in the 19th century.

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Southern California Earthquake Center

The Statewide California Earthquake Center (SCEC) is a collaboration of more than 1,000 scientists across 100 research institutions with a mission to: conduct research on earthquakes in Southern California and elsewhere by gathering data, conducting theoretical studies, and performing computer simulations; integrate information into a comprehensive, physics-based understanding of earthquake phenomena; and communicate that understanding to end-users and society at large as useful knowledge for reducing earthquake risk and improving community resilience.

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Southwestern United States

The Southwestern United States, also known as the American Southwest or simply the Southwest, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States that includes Arizona and New Mexico, along with adjacent portions of California, Colorado, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah.

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Spanish Baroque architecture

Spanish Baroque is a strand of Baroque architecture that evolved in Spain, its provinces, and former colonies.

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Spanish missions in California

The Spanish missions in California (Misiones españolas en California) formed a series of 21 religious outposts or missions established between 1769 and 1833 in what is now the U.S. state of California. Mission San Juan Capistrano and Spanish missions in California are Junípero Serra.

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Springfield (The Simpsons)

Springfield is the primary fictional setting of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons and related media.

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St. John O'Sullivan

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Tallow

Tallow is a rendered form of beef or mutton suet, primarily made up of triglycerides.

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Tanning (leather)

Tanning, or hide tanning, is the process of treating skins and hides of animals to produce leather.

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Temecula, California

Temecula (Temécula,; Luiseño: Temeekunga) is a city in southwestern Riverside County, California, United States.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Californias

The Californias (Las Californias), occasionally known as the Three Californias or the Two Californias, are a region of North America spanning the United States and Mexico, consisting of the U.S. state of California and the Mexican states of Baja California and Baja California Sur.

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The Curse of Capistrano

The Curse of Capistrano is a 1919 novel by Johnston McCulley and the first work to feature the Californio character Diego Vega, the masked hero also called Zorro (zorro is the Spanish word for fox).

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The Five Satins

The Five Satins are an American doo-wop group, best known for their 1956 million-selling song "In the Still of the Night." They were formed in 1954 and continued performing until 1994.

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The Ink Spots

The Ink Spots were an American vocal pop group who gained international fame in the 1930s and 1940s.

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The Orange County Register

The Orange County Register is a paid daily newspaper published in California.

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The Two Brothers (film)

The Two Brothers is a 1910 American short silent Western film directed by D. W. Griffith.

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Theology

Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity.

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Thuja plicata

Thuja plicata is a large evergreen coniferous tree in the family Cupressaceae, native to the Pacific Northwest of North America.

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Tile

Tiles are usually thin, square or rectangular coverings manufactured from hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, baked clay, or even glass.

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Topical medication

A topical medication is a medication that is applied to a particular place on or in the body.

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Trabuco Canyon, California

Trabuco Canyon (Trabuco, Spanish for "Blunderbuss") is a small unincorporated community located in the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains in eastern Orange County, California, and lies partly within the Cleveland National Forest.

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Transept

A transept (with two semitransepts) is a transverse part of any building, which lies across the main body of the building.

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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria.

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Two Years Before the Mast

Two Years Before the Mast is a memoir by the American author Richard Henry Dana Jr., published in 1840, having been written after a two-year sea voyage from Boston to California on a merchant ship starting in 1834.

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United States Coast and Geodetic Survey

The United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS; known as the Survey of the Coast from 1807 to 1836, and as the United States Coast Survey from 1836 until 1878) was the first scientific agency of the United States Government.

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United States General Land Office

The General Land Office (GLO) was an independent agency of the United States government responsible for public domain lands in the United States.

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University of California Press

The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.

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USNS Mission Buenaventura

SS Mission Buenaventura was a Type T2-SE-A2 tanker built for the United States Maritime Commission during World War II.

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USNS Mission Capistrano

SS Mission Capistrano was a Type T2-SE-A2 tanker built for the United States Maritime Commission during World War II.

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Uto-Aztecan languages

Uto-Aztecan languages are a family of indigenous languages of the Americas, consisting of over thirty languages.

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Vault (architecture)

In architecture, a vault (French voûte, from Italian volta) is a self-supporting arched form, usually of stone or brick, serving to cover a space with a ceiling or roof.

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Vegetable oil

Vegetable oils, or vegetable fats, are oils extracted from seeds or from other parts of edible plants.

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Vicente Fustér

Father Vicente Fustér, O.F.M. was Catholic a priest of the Franciscan Order, and a Spanish missionary in California during the 18th century.

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Vicente Pascual Oliva

Father Vicente Pascual Oliva, O.F.M. (born 18th century, died January 2, 1848) was a Catholic priest of the Franciscan Order, and a Spanish missionary in California during the 19th century.

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Viceroy

A viceroy is an official who reigns over a polity in the name of and as the representative of the monarch of the territory.

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Viticulture

Viticulture (vitis cultura, "vine-growing"), viniculture (vinis cultura, "wine-growing"), or winegrowing is the cultivation and harvesting of grapes.

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Watercolor painting

Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also aquarelle (from Italian diminutive of Latin aqua 'water'), is a painting method"Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to the Stone Age when early ancestors combined earth and charcoal with water to create the first wet-on-dry picture on a cave wall." in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution.

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Weaving

Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth.

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Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.

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Western Washington University

Western Washington University (WWU or Western) is a public university in Bellingham, Washington.

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When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano

"When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano" is a song written by Leon René and first recorded by The Ink Spots featuring Bill Kenny in May 1940.

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Wood shingle

Wood shingles are thin, tapered pieces of wood primarily used to cover roofs and walls of buildings to protect them from the weather.

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Wool

Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and other mammals, especially goats, rabbits, and camelids.

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World Monuments Fund

World Monuments Fund (WMF) is a private, international, non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of historic architecture and cultural heritage sites around the world through fieldwork, advocacy, grantmaking, education, and training.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Your Hit Parade

Your Hit Parade was an American radio and television music program that was broadcast from 1935 to 1953 on radio, and seen from 1950 to 1959 on television.

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Zephyrin Engelhardt

Zephyrin Engelhardt, O.F.M., (born Charles Anthony Engelhardt; 1851–1934) was a German-born Roman Catholic priest and clerical historian of the Franciscan Order. Mission San Juan Capistrano and Zephyrin Engelhardt are Spanish missions in California.

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Zorro

Zorro (or, Spanish for "fox") is a fictional character created in 1919 by American pulp writer Johnston McCulley, appearing in works set in the Pueblo of Los Angeles in Alta California.

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1812 San Juan Capistrano earthquake

The 1812 San Juan Capistrano earthquake, also known simply as the Capistrano earthquake or the Wrightwood earthquake, occurred on December 8 at in Alta California. Mission San Juan Capistrano and 1812 San Juan Capistrano earthquake are Spanish missions in California.

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1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake

The 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake occurred in the southern San Gabriel Valley and surrounding communities of Southern California, United States, at on October 1.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Juan_Capistrano

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