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San Jose, officially the paren), is the largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2022 population of 971,233, it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland Combined Statistical Area—which in 2022 had a population of 7.5 million and 9.0 million respectively—the third-most populous city in California after Los Angeles and San Diego, and the 13th-most populous in the United States.[1]

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  1. 677 relations: A. P. Hamann, Abraham Lincoln High School (San Jose, California), ACCRA Cost of Living Index, Acer Inc., Acute accent, Admission to the Union, Adobe Inc., Adobe World Headquarters, African Americans, Agnews Developmental Center, Alameda County, California, Alamitos Creek, Alaska Natives, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Alcalde, Align Technology, Almaden Quicksilver County Park, Almaden Valley, San Jose, Alta California, Altamont Corridor Express, Altera, Alum Rock Park, Alum Rock, San Jose, Alviso, San Jose, American Collegiate Hockey Association, American Craftsman, American Hockey League, American Musical Theatre of San Jose, Americans, Amtrak, Anchorage, Alaska, Anderson Lake (California), Anno Domini, Antonio María de Bucareli, Antonio Suñol, Apple Inc., Area codes 408 and 669, Asian Americans, Association football, Asteroid, Atlantic Championship Series, Atmel, BAE Systems, Baja California, Baja California peninsula, Ballet San Jose, Bank of Italy Building (San Jose, California), Baptists, Bartleson–Bidwell Party, Baseball, ... Expand index (627 more) »

  2. 1777 establishments in Alta California
  3. Populated places established in 1777
  4. Silicon Valley

A. P. Hamann

Anthony P. Hamann (September 26, 1909 – March 27, 1977), better known as A. P. Hamann or Dutch, was the city manager of San Jose, California, USA, from 1950 to 1969.

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Abraham Lincoln High School (San Jose, California)

Abraham Lincoln High School is a high school located in San Jose, California, in the San Jose Unified School District.

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ACCRA Cost of Living Index

The Cost of Living Index (COLI), formerly the ACCRA Cost of Living Index is a measure of living cost differences among urban areas in the United States compiled by the Council for Community and Economic Research.

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Acer Inc.

Acer Inc. is a Taiwanese multinational company that produces computer hardware and electronics, headquartered in Xizhi District, New Taipei City, Taiwan.

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Acute accent

The acute accent,, because of rendering limitation in Android (as of v13), that its default sans font fails to render "dotted circle + diacritic", so visitors just get a meaningless (to most) mark.

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Admission to the Union

Admission to the Union is provided by the Admissions Clause of the United States Constitution in Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1, which authorizes the United States Congress to admit new states into the Union beyond the thirteen states that already existed when the Constitution came into effect.

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Adobe Inc.

Adobe Inc., formerly Adobe Systems Incorporated, is an American computer software company based in San Jose, California.

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Adobe World Headquarters

The Adobe World Headquarters is the corporate headquarters of Adobe Systems, located in San Jose, California.

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Agnews Developmental Center

Agnews Developmental Center were two psychiatric and medical care facilities, located in Santa Clara, California and San Jose, California respectively.

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Alameda County, California

Alameda County is a county located in the U.S. state of California.

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Alamitos Creek

Alamitos Creek or Los Alamitos Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Alaska Natives

Alaska Natives (also known as Alaskan Indians, Alaskan Natives, Native Alaskans, Indigenous Alaskans, Aboriginal Alaskans or First Alaskans) are the Indigenous peoples of Alaska and include Alaskan Creoles, Iñupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures.

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Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque, also known as ABQ, Burque, and the Duke City, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico.

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Alcalde

Alcalde is the traditional Spanish municipal magistrate, who had both judicial and administrative functions.

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Align Technology

Align Technology, Inc. is an American manufacturer of 3D digital scanners and Invisalign clear aligners used in orthodontics.

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Almaden Quicksilver County Park

Almaden Quicksilver County Park is a 4,163 acres (17 km2) park that includes the grounds of former mercury ("quicksilver") mines adjacent to south San Jose, California, USA.

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Almaden Valley, San Jose

Almaden Valley (Spanish: Valle de Almadén), commonly known simply as Almaden (Spanish: Almadén), is a valley and neighborhood of San Jose, California, located in South San Jose.

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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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Altamont Corridor Express

The Altamont Corridor Express (also known as ACE, formerly Altamont Commuter Express) is a commuter rail service in California, connecting Stockton and San Jose during peak hours only.

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Altera

Altera Corporation is a manufacturer of programmable logic devices (PLDs) headquartered in San Jose, California.

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Alum Rock Park

Alum Rock Park, in the Alum Rock district of San Jose, California, is California's oldest municipal park, established in 1872 but serving as public land since the pueblo was established in 1777.

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Alum Rock, San Jose

Alum Rock is a district of San Jose, California, located in East San Jose.

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Alviso, San Jose

Alviso is a district of San Jose, California, located in North San Jose on the southern shores of San Francisco Bay. San Jose, California and Alviso, San Jose are populated coastal places in California.

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American Collegiate Hockey Association

The American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) is a college ice hockey association.

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American Craftsman

American Craftsman is an American domestic architectural style, inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, which included interior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts, beginning in the last years of the 19th century.

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American Hockey League

The American Hockey League (AHL) is a professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental league for the National Hockey League (NHL).

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American Musical Theatre of San Jose

The American Musical Theatre of San Jose (AMTSJ), previously known as the San Jose Civic Light Opera (SJCLO), was a major professional nonprofit musical theatre company in San Jose, California.

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Americans

Americans are the citizens and nationals of the United States.

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Amtrak

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is the national passenger railroad company of the United States.

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Anchorage, Alaska

Anchorage, officially the Municipality of Anchorage, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Anderson Lake (California)

Anderson Lake, also known as Anderson Reservoir, is an artificial lake in Morgan Hill, located in southern Santa Clara County, California.

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Anno Domini

The terms anno Domini. (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used when designating years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

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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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Antonio Suñol

Don Antonio María Suñol was a Spanish-born Californio businessman, ranchero, and politician.

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.

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Area codes 408 and 669

Area codes 408 and 669 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) in the U.S. state of California.

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Asian Americans

Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of those immigrants).

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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

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Asteroid

An asteroid is a minor planet—an object that is neither a true planet nor an identified comet— that orbits within the inner Solar System.

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Atlantic Championship Series

The Atlantic Championship Series is an American open-wheel racing series with races throughout North America.

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Atmel

Atmel Corporation was a creator and manufacturer of semiconductors before being subsumed by Microchip Technology in 2016.

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BAE Systems

BAE Systems plc is a British multinational aerospace, defence and information security company, based in London, England.

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Baja California

Baja California ('Lower California'), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California (Free and Sovereign State of Baja California), is a state in Mexico.

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Baja California peninsula

The Baja California peninsula (lit) is a peninsula in northwestern Mexico.

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Ballet San Jose

Ballet San Jose was a ballet company based in San Jose, California, US, operating from 1985 to 2016.

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Bank of Italy Building (San Jose, California)

The Bank of Italy Building is a 14-story, Renaissance Revival high-rise built in 1925 in downtown San Jose, California.

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Baptists

Baptists form a major branch of evangelicalism distinguished by baptizing only professing Christian believers (believer's baptism) and doing so by complete immersion.

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Bartleson–Bidwell Party

In 1841, the Bartleson–Bidwell Party, led by Captain John Bartleson and John Bidwell, became the first American emigrants to attempt a wagon crossing from Missouri to California.

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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.

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Bay Area Rapid Transit

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California.

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BD (company)

Becton, Dickinson and Company, also known as BD, is an American multinational medical technology company that manufactures and sells medical devices, instrument systems, and reagents.

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Bell Centre

Bell Centre (French: Centre Bell) formerly known as Molson Centre, is a multi-purpose arena located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Benicia, California

Benicia is a city in Solano County, California, located on the north bank of the Carquinez Strait in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. San Jose, California and Benicia, California are 1850 establishments in California, cities in the San Francisco Bay Area, former state capitals in the United States, incorporated cities and towns in California and populated coastal places in California.

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Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. San Jose, California and Berkeley, California are cities in the San Francisco Bay Area, incorporated cities and towns in California and populated coastal places in California.

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Berryessa, San Jose

Berryessa is a district of San Jose, California, located in North San Jose.

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Berryessa/North San José station

Berryessa/North San José station (also known as Berryessa station and Berryessa Transit Center) is an intermodal transit center located in the Berryessa district of San Jose, California, United States.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Bird's-eye view

A bird's-eye view is an elevated view of an object or location from a very steep viewing angle, creating a perspective as if the observer were a bird in flight looking downward.

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Bloom Energy

Bloom Energy is an American public company headquartered in San Jose, California.

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Blossom Valley, San Jose

Blossom Valley is a neighborhood of San Jose, California, located in South San Jose.

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BoltBus

BoltBus was an intercity bus common carrier and a division of Greyhound Lines that operated from March 2008 until July 2021 in the northeast and western United States and British Columbia, Canada.

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Bradley Fighting Vehicle

The Bradley Fighting Vehicle (BFV) is a tracked armored fighting vehicle of the United States developed by FMC Corporation and now manufactured by BAE Systems Land & Armaments, formerly United Defense.

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Broadcom

Broadcom Inc. is an American multinational designer, developer, manufacturer, and global supplier of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products. Broadcom's product offerings serve the data center, networking, software, broadband, wireless, storage, and industrial markets.

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Brocade Communications Systems

Brocade was an American technology company specializing in storage networking products, now a subsidiary of Broadcom Inc. The company is known for its Fibre Channel storage networking products and technology.

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Budget

A budget is a calculation plan, usually but not always financial, for a defined period, often one year or a month.

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Burbank, Santa Clara County, California

Burbank is a unincorporated community in Santa Clara County, California.

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Business Insider

Business Insider (stylized in all caps, shortened to BI, known from 2021 to 2023 as Insider) is a New York City–based multinational financial and business news website founded in 2007.

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ByteDance

ByteDance Ltd. is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Haidian, Beijing and incorporated in the Cayman Islands.

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CAAMFest

CAAMFest, known prior to 2013 as the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF), is presented every March in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States as the nation's largest showcase for new Asian American and Asian films.

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Cadence Design Systems

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (stylized as cādence)Investor's Business Daily Retrieved November 12, 2020 is an American multinational technology and computational software company.

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Calaveras Fault

The Calaveras Fault is a major branch of the San Andreas Fault System that is located in northern California in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast. San Jose, California and California are 1850 establishments in California.

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California City, California

California City is a city located in northern Antelope Valley in Kern County, California, United States. San Jose, California and California City, California are incorporated cities and towns in California.

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California county routes in zone G

There are 21 routes assigned to the "G" zone of the California Route Marker Program, which designates county routes in California.

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California Courts of Appeal

The California Courts of Appeal are the state intermediate appellate courts in the U.S. state of California.

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California genocide

The California genocide was a series of systematized killings of thousands of Indigenous people of California by United States government agents and private citizens in the 19th century.

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California gold rush

The California gold rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.

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California High-Speed Rail

California High-Speed Rail (CAHSR) is a publicly funded high-speed rail system being developed in California by the California High-Speed Rail Authority.

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California League

The California League is a Minor League Baseball league that operates in California.

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California Republic

The California Republic (República de California), or Bear Flag Republic, was an unrecognized breakaway state from Mexico, that for 25 days in 1846 militarily controlled an area north of San Francisco, in and around what is now Sonoma County in California.

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California Shuttle Bus

California Shuttle Bus was a private bus company that provides daily bus services between Los Angeles and San Francisco, making one stop in San Jose.

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California State Assembly

The California State Assembly is the lower house of the California State Legislature, the upper house being the California State Senate.

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California State Legislature

The California State Legislature is a bicameral state legislature consisting of a lower house, the California State Assembly, with 80 members; and an upper house, the California State Senate, with 40 members.

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California State Parks

The California State Parks system (Spanish: Parques Estatales de California) is the public park system of California.

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California State Route 130

State Route 130 (SR 130) is a state highway in Santa Clara County, California that connects San Jose with the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton.

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California State Route 17

State Route 17 (SR 17, locally known as Highway 17) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California that runs from State Route 1 in Santa Cruz to I-280 and I-880 in San Jose.

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California State Route 237

State Route 237 (SR 237) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California that runs from El Camino Real (SR 82) in Mountain View to Interstate 680 in Milpitas.

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California State Route 82

State Route 82 (SR 82) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California that runs from Interstate 880 (I-880) in San Jose to I-280 in San Francisco following the San Francisco Peninsula.

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California State Route 85

State Route 85 (SR 85) is a state highway which connects the cities of southern San Jose and Mountain View in the U.S. State of California.

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California State Route 87

State Route 87 (SR 87), known as the Guadalupe Freeway or referred to by the locals as Highway 87, is a north–south state highway in San Jose, California, United States.

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California State Senate

The California State Senate is the upper house of the California State Legislature, the lower house being the California State Assembly.

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California State University

The California State University (Cal State or CSU) is a public university system in California, and the largest public university system in the United States.

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California State University, East Bay

California State University, East Bay (Cal State East Bay, CSU East Bay, or CSUEB) is a public university in Hayward, California.

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California Trail

The California Trail was an emigrant trail of about across the western half of the North American continent from Missouri River towns to what is now the state of California.

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California University of Management and Technology

The California University of Management and Technology (CALMAT) is a private unaccredited tertiary education provider in Sunnyvale, California.

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California's 10th senatorial district

California's 10th senatorial district is one of 40 California State Senate districts.

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California's 15th senatorial district

California's 15th senatorial district is one of 40 California State Senate districts.

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California's 17th congressional district

California's 17th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of California that is currently represented by Ro Khanna.

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California's 17th senatorial district

California's 17th senatorial district is one of 40 California State Senate districts.

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California's 18th congressional district

California's 18th congressional district is a congressional district located in the U.S. state of California. San Jose, California and California's 18th congressional district are Silicon Valley.

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California's 19th congressional district

California's 19th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of California, currently represented by.

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California's 23rd State Assembly district

California's 23rd State Assembly district is one of 80 California State Assembly districts.

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California's 24th State Assembly district

California's 24th State Assembly district is one of 80 California State Assembly districts.

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California's 25th State Assembly district

California's 25th State Assembly district is one of 80 California State Assembly districts.

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California's 26th State Assembly district

California's 26th State Assembly district is one of 80 California State Assembly districts.

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California's 28th State Assembly district

California's 28th State Assembly district is one of 80 California State Assembly districts.

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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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Caltrain

Caltrain (reporting mark JPBX) is a California commuter rail line serving the San Francisco Peninsula and Santa Clara Valley (Silicon Valley).

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Cambodian Americans

Cambodian Americans, also Khmer Americans, are Americans of Cambodian or Khmer ancestry.

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Cambrian Academy

Cambrian Academy is a private school in San Jose, California, founded in 2008 by Dave Delgado.

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Cambrian, San Jose

Cambrian is a neighborhood of San Jose, California, located in South San Jose.

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Campbell, California

Campbell is a city in Santa Clara County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. San Jose, California and Campbell, California are cities in the San Francisco Bay Area, incorporated cities and towns in California and Silicon Valley.

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Capitol Corridor

The Capitol Corridor is a passenger train route in Northern California operated by Amtrak between San Jose, in the Bay Area, and Auburn, in the Sacramento Valley.

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Carnegie library

A Carnegie library is a library built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

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Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph (San Jose)

The Cathedral Basilica of St.

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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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CEFCU Stadium

CEFCU ('sef-kyü) Stadium, formerly known as Spartan Stadium, is an outdoor athletic stadium on the west coast of the United States, located in the Spartan Keyes neighborhood of central San Jose, California.

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Central Coast (California)

The Central Coast is an area of California, roughly spanning the coastal region between Point Mugu and Monterey Bay.

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Central Valley (California)

The Central Valley is a broad, elongated, flat valley that dominates the interior of California.

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Ceva (semiconductor company)

Ceva Inc. is a publicly traded semiconductor intellectual property (IP) company, headquartered in Rockville, Maryland and specializes in digital signal processor (DSP) technology.

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Champ Car World Series

Champ Car World Series (CCWS) was the series sanctioned by Open-Wheel Racing Series Inc., a sanctioning body for American open-wheel car racing that operated from 2004 to 2008.

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Charles Herrold

Charles David "Doc" Herrold (November 16, 1875 – July 1, 1948) was an American inventor and pioneer radio broadcaster, who began experimenting with audio radio transmissions in 1909.

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Charles III of Spain

Charles III (Carlos Sebastián de Borbón y Farnesio; 20 January 1716 – 14 December 1788) was King of Spain in the years 1759 to 1788.

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Charter city

In the United States, a charter city is a city in which the governing system is defined by the city's own charter document rather than solely by general law.

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Chicano

Chicano (masculine form) or Chicana (feminine form) is an ethnic identity for Mexican Americans who have a non-Anglo self-image, embracing their Mexican Native ancestry.

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Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose

Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose (CDM) is a cultural institution serving children, families, and schools in the Silicon Valley/San Francisco Bay Area.

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Chinatown bus lines

Chinatown bus lines are discount intercity bus services in the United States, often operated by Chinese Americans, primarily Fujianese.

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Chinese Americans

Chinese Americans are Americans of Chinese ancestry.

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Chinese Cultural Garden

The Chinese Cultural Garden is a section of Overfelt Gardens, in San Jose, California, located in East San Jose.

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Chinook salmon

The Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) is the largest and most valuable species of Pacific salmon.

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Christmas in the Park (San Jose)

Christmas in the Park is a winter event that takes place each year in downtown San Jose, California, roughly from the last week of November to January 1.

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Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival

The Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival is an annual independent film festival held each March in San Jose, California and Redwood City, California.

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Circle of Palms Plaza

The Circle of Palms Plaza is located in downtown San Jose, California.

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Cisco

Cisco Systems, Inc. (using the trademark Cisco) is an American multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California.

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City manager

A city manager is an official appointed as the administrative manager of a city in the council–manager form of city government.

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Civil township

A civil township is a widely used unit of local government in the United States that is subordinate to a county, most often in the northern and midwestern parts of the country.

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CMT San Jose

CMT San Jose (Children's Musical Theater San Jose) founded in 1968 as Cabrini Community Theater, is a performing arts organization based in San Jose, California.

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CNBC

CNBC is an American business news channel owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal.

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Coast Starlight

The Coast Starlight is a long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak on the West Coast of the United States between Seattle and Los Angeles via Portland and the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Coastal California

Coastal California, also known as the California Coastline and the Golden Coast, refers to the coastal regions of the U.S. state of California.

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Cohesity

Cohesity is an American privately held information technology company headquartered in San Jose, California with offices in India and Ireland.

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College football is gridiron football that is played by teams of amateur student-athletes at universities and colleges.

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Columbus Day

Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere, and a federal holiday in the United States, which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas.

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Combined statistical area

Combined statistical area (CSA) is a United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) term for a combination of adjacent metropolitan (MSA) and micropolitan statistical areas (μSA) across the 50 U.S. states and the territory of Puerto Rico that can demonstrate economic or social linkage.

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Commemorative plaque

A commemorative plaque, or simply plaque, or in other places referred to as a historical marker, historic marker, or historic plaque, is a plate of metal, ceramic, stone, wood, or other material, typically attached to a wall, stone, or other vertical surface, and bearing text or an image in relief, or both, to commemorate one or more persons, an event, a former use of the place, or some other thing.

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Communications Hill, San Jose

Communications Hill is a neighborhood located in the San Juan Bautista Hills of San Jose, California.

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A community college is a type of undergraduate higher education institution, generally leading to an associate degree, certificate, or diploma.

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Conquest of California

The Conquest of California, also known as the Conquest of Alta California or the California Campaign, was a military campaign of the Mexican–American War carried out by the United States in Alta California (modern-day California), then a part of Mexico.

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Cost of living

The cost of living is the cost of maintaining a certain standard of living for an individual or a household.

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Council of the Indies

The Council of the Indies (Consejo de las Indias), officially the Royal and Supreme Council of the Indies (Real y Supremo Consejo de las Indias), was the most important administrative organ of the Spanish Empire for the Americas and those territories it governed, such as the Spanish East Indies.

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Council–manager government

The council–manager government is a form of local government used for municipalities, counties, or other equivalent regions, commonly used in the United States and the Republic of Ireland.

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County seat

A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish.

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Courier Journal

The Courier Journal, also known as the Louisville Courier Journal (and informally The C-J or The Courier), and called The Courier-Journal between November 8, 1868, and October 29, 2017, is a daily newspaper published in Louisville, Kentucky and owned by Gannett, which bills it as "Part of the ''USA Today'' Network".

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Coyote Creek (Santa Clara County)

Coyote Creek (Arroyo Coyote) is a river that flows through the Santa Clara Valley in Northern California.

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Coyote Creek Trail

The Coyote Creek Trail is a pedestrian and cycling trail along Coyote Creek in San Jose, California, which continues into Coyote Valley and northern Morgan Hill.

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Coyote Valley, California

Coyote Valley is an area located in a narrowing of the southern Santa Clara Valley, in Northern California.

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Crain Communications

Crain Communications Inc is an American multi-industry publishing conglomerate based in Detroit, Michigan, United States, with 13 non-US subsidiaries.

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Cupertino, California

Cupertino is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States, directly west of San Jose on the western edge of the Santa Clara Valley with portions extending into the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. San Jose, California and Cupertino, California are cities in the San Francisco Bay Area, incorporated cities and towns in California and Silicon Valley.

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Cypress Semiconductor

Cypress Semiconductor was an American semiconductor design and manufacturing company.

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Daly City, California

Daly City is the second most populous city in San Mateo County, California, United States. San Jose, California and Daly City, California are cities in the San Francisco Bay Area, incorporated cities and towns in California and populated coastal places in California.

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De Anza College

De Anza College is a public community college in Cupertino, California, United States.

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Del Monte Foods

Del Monte Foods Inc. (trading as Del Monte Foods) is an American food production and distribution company and subsidiary of NutriAsia, headquartered in Walnut Creek, California.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Diablo Range

The Diablo Range is a mountain range in the California Coast Ranges subdivision of the Pacific Coast Ranges in northern California, United States.

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Diego de Borica

Diego de Borica (1742–1800) was a Basque colonial Governor of the Californias, from 1794 to 1800.

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Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) was a prominent Mexican painter.

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Disposable income

Disposable income is total personal income minus current taxes on income.

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Diurnal air temperature variation

In meteorology, diurnal temperature variation is the variation between a high air temperature and a low temperature that occurs during the same day.

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Domestic partnership

A domestic partnership is an intimate relationship between people, usually couples, who live together and share a common domestic life but who are not married (to each other or to anyone else).

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Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge

Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge (DESFBNWR) is a United States National Wildlife Refuge located in the southern part of San Francisco Bay, California.

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Dot-com bubble

The dot-com bubble (or dot-com boom) was a stock market bubble that ballooned during the late-1990s and peaked on Friday, March 10, 2000.

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Downtown Historic District (San Jose, California)

The Downtown Historic District of San Jose, California is a designated U.S. Historic District area of the city roughly the size of one square block.

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Downtown San Jose

Downtown San Jose is the central business district of San Jose, California, United States.

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library

The Dr.

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Drifting (motorsport)

Drifting is a driving technique where the driver intentionally oversteers, with loss of traction, while maintaining control and driving the car through the entirety of a corner or a turn.

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Droughts in California

The historical and ongoing droughts in California result from various complex meteorological phenomena, some of which are not fully understood by scientists.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.

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East Foothills is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Clara County, California, United States and a neighborhood of San Jose.

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East San José Carnegie Branch Library

The East San José Carnegie Branch Library is a Carnegie library in San Jose, California.

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East San Jose

East Side San Jose (abbreviated as ESSJ), commonly called The East Side and less commonly as the East Valley, is the eastern region of the city of San Jose, California.

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East Side Union High School District

The East Side Union High School District (abbreviated as ESUHSD) is a school district in San Jose, California, serving the East Side of San Jose.

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EBay

eBay Inc. (often stylized as ebay or Ebay) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that allows users to buy or view items via retail sales through online marketplaces and websites in 190 markets worldwide.

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Echelon Corporation

Echelon Corporation was an American company which designed control networks to connect machines and other electronic devices, for the purposes of sensing, monitoring and control.

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Edenvale, San Jose

Edenvale is a neighborhood of San Jose, California, in South San Jose.

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Education Week

Education Week is a news organization that has covered K–12 education since 1981.

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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.

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Emma Prusch Farm Park

Emma Prusch Farm Park is a 43.5 acre (176,000 m2) park in East San Jose, 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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Ericsson

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, commonly known as Ericsson, is a Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company headquartered in Stockholm.

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Ethnic enclave

In sociology, an ethnic enclave is a geographic area with high ethnic concentration, characteristic cultural identity, and economic activity.

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Evergreen Valley College

Evergreen Valley College (EVC) is a public community college in San Jose, California.

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Evergreen, San Jose

Evergreen, also known as Evergreen Valley, is a large district of San Jose, California, located in East San Jose.

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Excite Ballpark

Excite Ballpark, previously known as San Jose Municipal Stadium or Muni Stadium, is a baseball park in San Jose, California.

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Extreme Networks

Extreme Networks, Inc. is an American networking company based in Morrisville, North Carolina.

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Family (US census)

A family is defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes as "a group of two people or more (one of whom is the householder) related by birth, marriage, or adoption, and residing together; all such people (including related subfamily members) are considered as members of one family." A family household is more inclusive, consisting of "a household maintained by a householder who is in a family (as defined above), and includes any unrelated people (unrelated subfamily members and/or secondary individuals) who may be residing there." In 2014, the US Census Bureau began including same-sex marriages in their counts of families and family households.

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Feces

Feces (or faeces;: faex) are the solid or semi-solid remains of food that was not digested in the small intestine, and has been broken down by bacteria in the large intestine.

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Federal government of the United States

The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, composed of 50 states, five major self-governing territories, several island possessions, and the federal district/national capital of Washington, D.C., where most of the federal government is based.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) of the United States are a set of publicly announced standards that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed for use in computer situs of non-military United States government agencies and contractors.

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Filipino Americans

Filipino Americans (Mga Pilipinong Amerikano) are Americans of Filipino ancestry.

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First Mexican Empire

The Mexican Empire (Imperio Mexicano) was a constitutional monarchy, the first independent government of Mexico and the only former viceroyalty of the Spanish Empire to establish a monarchy after independence.

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First Mexican Republic

The First Mexican Republic, known also as the First Federal Republic (Primera República Federal), existed from 1824 to 1835.

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Five Wounds Portuguese National Church

Five Wounds Portuguese National Church (Igreja Nacional Portuguesa das Cinco Chagas) is the parish church of the Latin Church of the Roman Catholic Church in San Jose, California, in the Little Portugal neighborhood of East San Jose.

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Flag of San Jose, California

The flag of San Jose is the official municipal flag of San Jose, California.

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FlixBus

FlixBus (styled FLiXBUS) is a German brand that offers low-cost intercity bus services via 400,000 routes to over 5,000 destinations in more than 40 countries in Europe, North America, South America, and Asia.

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FMC Corporation

FMC Corporation is an American chemical manufacturing company headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which originated as an insecticide producer in 1883 and later diversified into other industries.

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Foreign-trade zones of the United States

In the United States, a foreign-trade zone (FTZ) is a geographical area, in (or adjacent to) a United States Port of Entry, where commercial merchandise, both domestic and foreign, receives the same Customs treatment it would if it were outside the commerce of the United States.

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Formula D

Formula DRIFT (also known as Formula D or 'FD’) is a United States-based motorsport drifting series.

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Frank Delos Wolfe

Frank Delos Wolfe (September 29, 1862–August 19, 1926) was an American architect who played a significant role in shaping the architectural landscape of now-historic neighborhoods in the Santa Clara Valley.

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Fremont, California

Fremont is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. San Jose, California and Fremont, California are cities in the San Francisco Bay Area, incorporated cities and towns in California and populated coastal places in California.

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General aviation

General aviation (GA) is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as all civil aviation aircraft operations except for commercial air transport or aerial work, which is defined as specialized aviation services for other purposes.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica.

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Gilroy, California

Gilroy is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. San Jose, California and Gilroy, California are cities in the San Francisco Bay Area and incorporated cities and towns in California.

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GlobalLogic

GlobalLogic is an Indian digital services company providing software development services.

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Golden Gate University

Golden Gate University (GGU or Golden Gate) is a private university in San Francisco, California.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).

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Greyhound Lines

Greyhound Lines, Inc. (Greyhound) is a company that operates the largest intercity bus service in North America.

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Guadalajara

Guadalajara is a city in western Mexico and the capital of the state of Jalisco.

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Guadalupe River (California)

The Guadalupe River (Río Guadalupe; Muwekma Ohlone:Thámien Rúmmey) mainstem is an urban, northward flowing river in California whose much longer headwater creeks originate in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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Guadalupe River Trail

The Guadalupe River Trail is an pedestrian and bicycle path in the city of San Jose, California.

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Gurdwara Sahib of San Jose

The Sikh Gurdwara of San Jose is a gurdwara (a Sikh place of worship) located in the Evergreen district of San Jose, California.

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Happy Hollow Park & Zoo

Happy Hollow Park & Zoo is a small zoo and amusement park in San Jose, California, which originally opened in 1961.

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Hard disk drive

A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.

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Harker School

The Harker School is a private, non-profit school located in San Jose, California.

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Harmonic Inc.

Harmonic Inc. is an American technology company that develops and markets video routing, server, and storage products for companies that produce, process, and distribute video content for television and the Internet.

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Hayes Mansion

The Hayes Mansion is a historic mansion estate in the Edenvale neighborhood of San Jose, California.

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Henry W. Coe State Park

Henry W. Coe State Park (often known simply as Henry Coe or Coe Park) is a state park of California, United States, preserving a vast tract of the Diablo Range.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise

The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE) is an American multinational information technology company based in Spring, Texas.

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High tech

High technology (high tech or high-tech), also known as advanced technology (advanced tech) or exotechnology, is technology that is at the cutting edge: the highest form of technology available.

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Highway 17 Express

The Highway 17 Express is an Amtrak Thruway route provided by a consortium of entities that provides regional service between San Jose and Santa Cruz County in the South Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanic and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of full or partial Spanish and/or Latin American background, culture, or family origin.

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Hispanics and Latinos in California

Hispanic and Latino Californians are residents of the state of California who are of Hispanic or Latino ancestry.

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Historic Stock Car Racing Series

The Historic Stock Car Racing Series (HSCRS) is an auto racing organization based on the West Coast of the United States that was founded by San Jose, California, businessman John Davis in 1994 with a mandate to register, preserve, restore, and continue showcasing authentic NASCAR Winston Cup Series stock cars in friendly competition.

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History of California

The history of California can be divided into the Native American period (about 10,000 years ago until 1542), the European exploration period (1542–1769), the Spanish colonial period (1769–1821), the Mexican period (1821–1848), and United States statehood (September 9, 1850–present).

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History of San Jose, California

San Jose, California, is the third largest city in the state, and the largest of all cities in the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California, with a population of 1,021,795.

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History Park

History Park at Kelley Park in San Jose, California, USA is designed as an indoor/outdoor museum, arranged to appear as a small US town might have in the early 1900s (decade).

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Hitachi

() is a Japanese multinational conglomerate founded in 1910 and headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo.

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Hotel De Anza

The Hotel De Anza is a historic hotel in San Jose, California.

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IBM

International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries.

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IBM 305 RAMAC

The IBM 305 RAMAC was the first commercial computer that used a moving-head hard disk drive (magnetic disk storage) for secondary storage.

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IBM Research

IBM Research is the research and development division for IBM, an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, with operations in over 170 countries.

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Ice hockey

Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport.

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Independent politician

An independent, non-partisan politician or non-affiliated politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or bureaucratic association.

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Indian Americans

Indian Americans are people with ancestry from India who are citizens of the United States.

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Indigenous peoples of California

Indigenous peoples of California, commonly known as Indigenous Californians or Native Californians, are a diverse group of nations and peoples that are indigenous to the geographic area within the current boundaries of California before and after European colonization.

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Innovation

Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services.

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Integrated Device Technology

Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT), was an American semiconductor company headquartered in San Jose, California.

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Internment

Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges.

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Interstate 280 (California)

Interstate 280 (I-280) is a major north–south auxiliary Interstate Highway in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.

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Interstate 680 (California)

Interstate 680 (I-680) is a north–south auxiliary Interstate Highway in Northern California.

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Interstate 880 (California)

Interstate 880 (I-880) is a north–south auxiliary Interstate Highway in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.

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Interstate Highway System

The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, or the Eisenhower Interstate System, is a network of controlled-access highways that forms part of the National Highway System in the United States.

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Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies

The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies serves as a museum, research center, and host of lectures and performances devoted solely to the life and works of Ludwig van Beethoven.

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Iris Chang

Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968November 9, 2004) was an American journalist, author of historical books and political activist.

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James Alexander Forbes (1805–1881)

James Alexander Forbes (January 6, 1804 – May 6, 1881) was the British vice-consul to Mexican California as well as the first British consul to the U.S. state of California.

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Janet Gray Hayes

Janet Gray Hayes (July 12, 1926 – April 21, 2014) was the 60th mayor of San Jose, California, elected to two consecutive, four-year terms from 1975 to 1983.

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Japanese American Museum of San Jose

The Japanese American Museum of San Jose (JAMsj) is located at 535 N. Fifth Street in San Jose, in the heart of Japantown.

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Japanese Americans

are Americans of Japanese ancestry.

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Japanese Friendship Garden (San Jose)

The Japanese Friendship Garden is a walled section of Kelley Park in San Jose, California, United States.

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Japantown, San Jose

Japantown (Japanese: 日本町; Nihonmachi), commonly known as J Town, is a historic cultural district of San Jose, California, north of Downtown San Jose.

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Joe Colla Interchange

The Joe Colla Interchange is a highway interchange in San Jose, California, United States, connecting Interstate 280 (I-280), I-680, and U.S. Route 101 (US 101).

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John Joseph Montgomery

John Joseph Montgomery (February 15, 1858 – October 31, 1911) was an American inventor, physicist, engineer, and professor at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California, who is best known for his invention of controlled heavier-than-air flying machines.

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José Clemente Orozco

José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 – September 7, 1949) was a Mexican caricaturist and painter, who specialized in political murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and others.

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José de Gálvez, 1st Marquess of Sonora

José de Gálvez y Gallardo, 1st Marquess of Sonora (2 January 1720, Macharaviaya, Spain – 17 June 1787, Aranjuez, Spain) was a Spanish lawyer and Visitador general (inspector general) in New Spain (1764–1772); later appointed to the Council of the Indies (1775–1787).

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José Joaquín Moraga

José Joaquín de la Santísima Trinidad Moraga (22 August 1745 – 13 July 1785), usually simply known as José Joaquín Moraga, was a Spanish colonial expeditionary and soldier who founded San Jose, California, in 1777.

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José María Alviso

José María de Jesus Alviso (November 19, 1798 – June 18, 1853) was a Californio ranchero, soldier, and politician.

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Josiah Belden

Josiah Belden (May 4, 1815 – April 23, 1892), known in Spanish as Josías Belden, was a Californian politician and trader.

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Juan Bautista de Anza

Juan Bautista de Anza Bezerra Nieto (July 6 or 7, 1736 – December 19, 1788) was an expeditionary leader, military officer, and politician primarily in California and New Mexico under the Spanish Empire.

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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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Julia Morgan

Julia Morgan (January 20, 1872 – February 2, 1957) was an American architect and engineer.

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Kaiser Permanente

Kaiser Permanente (KP) is an American integrated managed care consortium, based in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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KCBS (AM)

KCBS (740 kHz) is an all-news AM radio station located in San Francisco, California.

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Kelley Park

Kelley Park is a city park in San Jose, California, United States.

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KLA Corporation

KLA Corporation is an American capital equipment company based in Milpitas, California.

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KNTV

KNTV (channel 11), branded NBC Bay Area, is a television station licensed to San Jose, California, United States, serving as the NBC outlet for the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Korean Americans

Korean Americans are Americans who are of full or partial Korean ethnic descent.

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Lake Cunningham

Lake Cunningham is an artificial lake in Lake Cunningham Park, in East San Jose, California, near the Eastridge Mall and Eastridge Transit Center.

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Landing Vehicle Tracked

The Amphibious Vehicle, Tracked (LVT) is an amphibious warfare vehicle and amphibious landing craft, introduced by the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps.

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Laotian Americans

Laotian Americans (translit) are Americans who trace their ancestry to Laos.

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Las Vegas

Las Vegas, often known as Sin City or simply Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the seat of Clark County.

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Lee's Sandwiches

Lee's Sandwiches International, Inc., is a Vietnamese-American fast food restaurant chain headquartered in San Jose, California, with locations in several states and in Taiwan.

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Library Journal

Library Journal is an American trade publication for librarians.

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Lick Observatory

The Lick Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the University of California.

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Light pollution

Light pollution is the presence of any unwanted, inappropriate, or excessive artificial lighting.

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Light rail

Light rail (or light rail transit, abbreviated to LRT) is a form of passenger urban rail transit using rolling stock derived from tram technology National Conference of the Transportation Research Board while also having some features from heavy rapid transit.

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Lincoln Law School of San Jose

Lincoln Law School of San Jose is a private, non-profit, unaccredited, law school located in San Jose, California.

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List of counties in California

The U.S. state of California is divided into 58 counties.

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List of defense contractors

A defense contractor is a business organization or individual that provides products or services to a military or intelligence department of a government.

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List of Interstate Highways

There are 70 primary Interstate Highways in the Interstate Highway System, a network of freeways in the United States.

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List of largest cities in California by population

This is a list of the 100 largest cities in the U.S. state of California ranked by population, based on estimates for July 1, 2023, by the United States Census Bureau.

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List of municipalities in California

California is a state located in the Western United States. San Jose, California and List of municipalities in California are incorporated cities and towns in California.

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List of North American cities by population

For the majority of cities in North America (including the Caribbean), the most recent official population census results, estimates or short-term projections date to 2020, with some dating 2022 at the latest.

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List of people from San Jose, California

This is a list of notable people from San Jose, California.

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List of private schools in San Jose, California

The following is a list of notable private schools in San Jose, California, USA (excluding those whose students finish before the fifth grade).

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List of regions of California

This is a list of regions of California, organized by location.

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List of states of Mexico

The states are the first-level administrative divisions of Mexico, which is officially named the United Mexican States.

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List of streets in San Jose, California

This is a list of streets in San Jose, California, with descriptions, historic significance, and name origins.

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List of tallest buildings in San Jose, California

The city of San Jose, California, known for its height-limited downtown skyline due to its proximity to San Jose International Airport, has over 46 high-rises, mostly in downtown.

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List of United States cities by population

This is a list of the most populous incorporated places of the United States.

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List of United States urban areas

This is a list of urban areas in the United States as defined by the United States Census Bureau, ordered according to their 2020 census populations.

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List of viceroys of New Spain

This article lists the viceroys who ruled the Viceroyalty of New Spain from 1535 to 1821 in the name of the monarch of Spain.

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Little Portugal, San Jose

Little Portugal is a historic neighborhood of San Jose, California, and historically the center of the local Portuguese-American community.

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Little Saigon, San Jose

Little Saigon is a neighborhood of San Jose, California, located in East San Jose.

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Local Agency Formation Commission

Local Agency Formation Commissions or LAFCOs are regional service planning agencies of the State of California.

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Lockheed Martin

The Lockheed Martin Corporation is an American aerospace and defense manufacturer with worldwide interests.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California. San Jose, California and Los Angeles are 1850 establishments in California, county seats in California, incorporated cities and towns in California and populated coastal places in California.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Los Gatos Creek Trail

The main segment of the Los Gatos Creek Trail is a 9.7-mile (15.6 km) pedestrian and bicycle trail that runs through western Santa Clara County in California.

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Los Gatos, California

Los Gatos is an incorporated town in Santa Clara County, California, United States. San Jose, California and Los Gatos, California are cities in the San Francisco Bay Area, incorporated cities and towns in California and Silicon Valley.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.

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Lumileds

Lumileds is a lighting company that develops, manufactures, and distributes LEDs, light bulbs, and related products for automotive lighting, general lighting, and specialty lighting.

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M1 Abrams

The M1 Abrams is a third-generation American main battle tank designed by Chrysler Defense (now General Dynamics Land Systems) and named for General Creighton Abrams.

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M113 armored personnel carrier

The M113 is a fully tracked armored personnel carrier (APC) that was developed and produced by the FMC Corporation.

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Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.

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Major League Soccer

Major League Soccer (MLS) is a men's professional soccer league sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation, which represents the sport's highest level in the United States.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.

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Manchester Arena

Manchester Arena (currently known as AO Arena for sponsorship reasons) is an indoor arena in Manchester, England, immediately north of the city centre and partly above Manchester Victoria station in air rights space.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.

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Martial Cottle Park

Martial Cottle Park is a park developed as a collaboration between the California Department of Parks and Recreation and Santa Clara County Parks.

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Mass shooting

A mass shooting is a violent crime in which one or more attackers kill or injure multiple individuals simultaneously using a firearm.

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Master of Business Administration

A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration.

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Matt Mahan

Matthew William Mahan (born 1982) is an American politician and tech entrepreneur, now serving his first term as the Mayor of San Jose. He previously served as the District 10 Councilmember representing the Almaden Valley, Blossom Valley, and Vista Park neighborhoods.

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Maxim Integrated

Maxim Integrated, a subsidiary of Analog Devices, designs, manufactures, and sells analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits for the automotive, industrial, communications, consumer, and computing markets.

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Mayfair, San Jose

Mayfair is a neighborhood of San Jose, California, located in the Alum Rock district of East San Jose.

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Mayor of San Jose

The Mayor of San Jose, officially the Mayor of the City of San José, is executive of the Government of the City of San Jose, California in the United States. San Jose, California and Mayor of San Jose are 1850 establishments in California.

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Mediterranean climate

A Mediterranean climate, also called a dry summer climate, described by Köppen as Cs, is a temperate climate type that occurs in the lower mid-latitudes (normally 30 to 44 north and south latitude).

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Mediterranean Revival architecture

Mediterranean Revival is an architectural style introduced in the United States, Canada, and certain other countries in the 19th century.

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Megabus (North America)

Megabus is an intercity bus service of Coach USA/Coach Canada operating in the eastern, southern, midwestern, western, and Pacific United States and in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

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Mercury(II) fulminate

Mercury(II) fulminate, or Hg(CNO)2, is a primary explosive.

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Metro Silicon Valley

Metro is a free weekly newspaper published by the San Jose, California, based Metro Newspapers.

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Metropolitan statistical area

In the United States, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is a geographical region with a relatively high population density at its core and close economic ties throughout the region.

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Mexican Americans

Mexican Americans (mexicano-estadounidenses, mexico-americanos, or estadounidenses de origen mexicano) are Americans of Mexican heritage.

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Mexican Cession

The Mexican Cession (Cesión mexicana) is the region in the modern-day western United States that Mexico previously controlled, then ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 after the Mexican–American War.

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Mexican Heritage Plaza

The Mexican Heritage Plaza - Centro Cultural de San José is a Chicano/Mexican-American cultural center in San Jose, California, located in the Mayfair neighborhood of East San Jose.

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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.

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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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Mexican–American War

The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War, and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, was an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army from 1846 to 1848.

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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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Mexico City

Mexico City (Ciudad de México,; abbr.: CDMX; Central Nahuatl:,; Otomi) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America.

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Microchip Technology

Microchip Technology Incorporated is a publicly listed American corporation that manufactures microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog, and Flash-IP integrated circuits.

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Microclimate

A microclimate (or micro-climate) is a local set of atmospheric conditions that differ from those in the surrounding areas, often slightly but sometimes substantially.

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Midtown San Jose

Midtown San Jose is a mixed commercial and residential district of San Jose, California, to the southwest of Downtown San Jose and east of West San Carlos.

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Milpitas Unified School District

Milpitas Unified School District is a public school district in Milpitas, California.

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Milpitas, California

Milpitas (Spanish for) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, in Silicon Valley. San Jose, California and Milpitas, California are cities in the San Francisco Bay Area, incorporated cities and towns in California and Silicon Valley.

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Mission College (California)

Mission College (Mission or MC) is a public community college in Santa Clara, 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.

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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.

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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.

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Mission San José (California)

Mission San José is a Spanish mission located in the present-day city of Fremont, California, United States.

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Mission Santa Clara de Asís

Mission Santa Clara de Asís (Misión Santa Clara de Asís) is a Spanish mission in the city of Santa Clara, California. San Jose, California and mission Santa Clara de Asís are 1777 establishments in Alta California.

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Monarchy of Spain

The monarchy of Spain or Spanish monarchy (Monarquía Española) is the constitutional form of government of Spain.

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Monterey County, California

Monterey County, officially the County of Monterey, is a county located on the Pacific coast in the U.S. state of California. San Jose, California and Monterey County, California are 1850 establishments in California.

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Monterey Road

Monterey Road is a major Silicon Valley thoroughfare that runs from Gilroy north to San Jose, California, in Santa Clara County.

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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. San Jose, California and Monterey, California are former state capitals in the United States, incorporated cities and towns in California and populated coastal places in California.

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Montreal

Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.

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Morgan Hill Unified School District

The Morgan Hill Unified School District (MHUSD) is a public school district operating eight elementary schools, two middle schools, and three high schools in southern Santa Clara County, California.

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Morgan Hill, California

Morgan Hill is a city in Santa Clara County in the U.S. state of California. San Jose, California and Morgan Hill, California are cities in the San Francisco Bay Area, incorporated cities and towns in California and Silicon Valley.

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Morgan Quitno Press

Morgan Quitno Press is a research and publishing company founded in 1989 and based in Lawrence, Kansas.

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Mount Hamilton (California)

Mount Hamilton is a mountain in the Diablo Range in Santa Clara County, California.

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Mount Sizer

Mount Sizer is a prominent peak located on Blue Ridge in Henry W. Coe State Park, just east of Morgan Hill, California.

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Mountain View, California

Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States, part of the San Francisco Bay Area. San Jose, California and Mountain View, California are cities in the San Francisco Bay Area, incorporated cities and towns in California, populated coastal places in California and Silicon Valley.

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Mountain West Conference

The Mountain West Conference (MW) is a collegiate athletic conference located in the United States, participating in NCAA Division I. Its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS).

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Move (company)

Move, Inc. is a real estate listing company based in Santa Clara, California.

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MSN

MSN (meaning Microsoft Network) is an American web portal and related collection of Internet services and apps for Windows and mobile devices, provided by Microsoft and launched on August 24, 1995, alongside the release of Windows 95.

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Multiracial Americans

Multiracial Americans or mixed-race Americans are Americans who have mixed ancestry of two or more races. The term may also include Americans of mixed-race ancestry who self-identify with just one group culturally and socially (cf. the one-drop rule). In the 2020 United States census, 33.8 million individuals or 10.2% of the population, self-identified as multiracial.

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Municipal annexation

Municipal annexation is the legal process by which a city or other municipality acquires land as its jurisdictional territory (as opposed to simply owning the land the way individuals do).

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Municipal corporation

Municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs.

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Municipal council

A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area.

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Naglee Park, San Jose

Naglee Park is a historic residential neighborhood in San Jose, California, to the east of Downtown San Jose and San Jose State University.

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Napa Valley Register

The Napa Valley Register is a daily newspaper located in Napa, California.

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National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, and one in Canada.

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National Hispanic University

The National Hispanic University (NHU) was a small, private university located in San Jose, California, founded by Stanford-educated Dr.

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National Hockey League

The National Hockey League (NHL; Ligue nationale de hockey, LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.

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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 Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".

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National University (California)

National University is a private university headquartered in San Diego, California, United States.

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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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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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NCAA Division I

NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, which accepts players globally.

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The NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly known as Division I-A, is the highest level of college football in the United States.

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Nederlander Organization

The Nederlander Organization, founded in 1912 by David T. Nederlander in Detroit, and currently based in New York City, is one of the largest operators of live theaters and music venues in the United States.

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Neoclassical architecture

Neoclassical architecture, sometimes referred to as Classical Revival architecture, is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy, France and Germany.

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Netcom (United States)

NETCOM On-Line Communication Services, Inc. was an Internet service provider headquartered in San Jose, California.

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Netgear

Netgear, Inc. (stylized as NETGEAR in all caps), is an American computer networking company based in San Jose, California, with offices in about 22 other countries.

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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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Nippon Sheet Glass

is a Japanese glass manufacturing company.

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Non-Hispanic whites

Non-Hispanic Whites or Non-Latino Whites are White Americans classified by the United States census as "white" and not Hispanic.

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Nondenominational Christianity

Nondenominational Christianity (or non-denominational Christianity) consists of churches, and individual Christians, which typically distance themselves from the confessionalism or creedalism of other Christian communities by not formally aligning with a specific Christian denomination.

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Norman Mineta

Norman Yoshio Mineta (峯田 良雄, November 12, 1931 – May 3, 2022) was an American politician from California.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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North American Numbering Plan

The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a telephone numbering plan for twenty-five regions in twenty countries, primarily in North America and the Caribbean.

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North American Vexillological Association

The North American Vexillological Association (NAVA) is a membership organization devoted to vexillology, the study of flags.

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North San Jose

North San Jose (abbreviated as NSJ) is the northern region of the city of San Jose, California.

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Northern California

Northern California (commonly shortened to NorCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the northern portion of the U.S. state of California, spanning the northernmost 48 of the state's 58 counties.

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Northern California megaregion

The Northern California megaregion (also Northern California Megalopolis), distinct from Northern California, is an urbanized region of California consisting of many large cities including San Jose, San Francisco, Sacramento, and Oakland.

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Notre Dame High School (San Jose, California)

Notre Dame High School is a Catholic college preparatory high school for girls in San Jose, California.

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Novellus Systems

Novellus Systems Inc. was a company founded by Brad Mattson that developed, manufactured, sold, and serviced semiconductor equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits.

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Nutanix

Nutanix, Inc. is an American cloud computing company that sells software for datacenters and hybrid multi-cloud deployments.

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Oak Hill Memorial Park

Oak Hill Memorial Park is a cemetery in San Jose, California, United States.

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Oakland Athletics

The Oakland Athletics (often referred to as the Oakland A's) are an American professional baseball team based in Oakland, California.

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Oakland, California

Oakland is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. San Jose, California and Oakland, California are cities in the San Francisco Bay Area, county seats in California, incorporated cities and towns in California and populated coastal places in California.

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Oclaro

Oclaro was a US-based business manufacturing and selling optical components.

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OCZ

OCZ was a brand of Toshiba that was used for some of its solid-state drives (SSDs) before they were rebranded with Toshiba.

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Ohlone

The Ohlone, formerly known as Costanoans (from Spanish costeño meaning 'coast dweller'), are a Native American people of the Northern California coast.

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Ohlone languages

The Ohlone languages, also known as Costanoan, form a small Indigenous language family historically spoken in Northern California, both in the southern San Francisco Bay Area and northern Monterey Bay area, by the Ohlone people.

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Okayama

is the capital city of Okayama Prefecture in the Chūgoku region of Japan.

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Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County.

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Opera San José

Opera San José is an American opera company founded in 1984 by Irene Dalis (1925-2014) based in San Jose, California.

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Oslo

Oslo (or; Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.

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Our Lady of Guadalupe

Our Lady of Guadalupe (Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe), also known as the Virgin of Guadalupe (Virgen de Guadalupe), is a Catholic title of Mary, mother of Jesus associated with a series of five Marian apparitions to a Mexican peasant named Juan Diego and his uncle, Juan Bernardino, which are believed to have occurred in December 1531, when the Mexican territories were under the Spanish Empire.

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Overfelt Gardens

Overfelt Gardens are a park in San Jose, California, located in the Alum Rock district of East San Jose.

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Overseas Vietnamese

Overseas Vietnamese (người Việt hải ngoại, Việt kiều or kiều bào) are Vietnamese people who live outside Vietnam.

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Owned-and-operated station

In the broadcasting industry, an owned-and-operated station (frequently abbreviated as an O&O) usually refers to a television or radio station owned by the network with which it is associated.

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Pacific Coast League

The Pacific Coast League (PCL) is a Minor League Baseball league that operates in the Western United States.

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Pacific Islander Americans

Pacific Islander Americans (also colloquially referred to as Islander Americans) are Americans who are of Pacific Islander ancestry (or are descendants of the indigenous peoples of Oceania or of Austronesian descent).

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Pacific Time Zone

The Pacific Time Zone (PT) is a time zone encompassing parts of western Canada, the western United States, and western Mexico.

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Pakistani Americans

Pakistani Americans (پاکستانی امریکی) are citizens of the United States who have full or partial ancestry from Pakistan, or more simply, Pakistanis in America.

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Palm Haven, San Jose

Palm Haven is a historic residence park and neighborhood in the Willow Glen district of San Jose, California.

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Palmer College of Chiropractic

Palmer College of Chiropractic is a private chiropractic college with its main campus in Davenport, Iowa.

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Paratransit

Paratransit (the term used in North America) or Intermediate Public Transport (also known by other names such as community transport (UK)), is a type of transportation services that supplement fixed-route mass transit by providing individualized rides without fixed routes or timetables.

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PayPal

PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational financial technology company operating an online payments system in the majority of countries that support online money transfers; it serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders.

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PayPal Park

PayPal Park (formerly Earthquakes Stadium and Avaya Stadium) is a soccer-specific stadium in San Jose, California.

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Penitencia Creek

Upper Penitencia Creek is actually one of two creeks by the name Penitencia Creek in the northeastern Santa Clara Valley of Santa Clara County, California.

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Peralta Adobe

The Peralta Adobe (Adobe Peralta), also known as the Luis María Peralta Adobe or the Gonzales-Peralta Adobe, is the oldest building in San Jose, California.

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Plaza de César Chávez

The Plaza de César Chávez is an urban plaza and park in Downtown San Jose, California.

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Pleasanton, California

Pleasanton is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. San Jose, California and Pleasanton, California are cities in the San Francisco Bay Area and incorporated cities and towns in California.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region.

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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.

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Portuguese Historical Museum

The Portuguese Historical Museum in San Jose, California, USA opened in 1997 and is a replica of the first permanent império (religious and cultural buildings primarily in the Azores) originally built in San Jose's Little Portugal district, c. 1915.

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POSSLQ

POSSLQ (plural POSSLQs) is an abbreviation (or acronym) for "Person of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters", a term coined in the late 1970s by the United States Census Bureau as part of an effort to more accurately gauge the prevalence of cohabitation in American households.

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Prairie School

Prairie School is a late 19th and early 20th-century architectural style, most common in the Midwestern United States.

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Presidio of Monterey, California

The Presidio of Monterey (POM), located in Monterey, California, is an active US Army installation with historic ties to the Spanish colonial era.

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Presidio of San Francisco

The Presidio of San Francisco (originally, El Presidio Real de San Francisco or The Royal Fortress of Saint Francis) is a park and former U.S. Army post on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in San Francisco, California, and is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

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Primary education

Primary education or elementary education is typically the first stage of formal education, coming after preschool/kindergarten and before secondary school.

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Pritzker Architecture Prize

The Pritzker Architecture Prize is an international architecture award presented annually "to honor a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.” Founded in 1979 by Jay A.

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ProQuest

ProQuest LLC is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based global information-content and technology company, founded in 1938 as University Microfilms by Eugene Power.

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Provident Credit Union Event Center

The Provident Credit Union Event Center, formerly and more commonly known as the Event Center Arena, is a complex consisting of an indoor arena and a fitness club on the main campus of San José State University in downtown San Jose, California.

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Province of Las Californias

The Province of Las Californias (Provincia de las Californias) was a Spanish Empire province in the northwestern region of New Spain.

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Provincias Internas

The Provincias Internas, also known as the Comandancia y Capitanía General de las Provincias Internas (Commandancy and General Captaincy of the Internal Provinces), was an administrative district of the Spanish Empire created in 1776 to provide more autonomy for the frontier provinces of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, present-day northern Mexico and the Southwestern United States.

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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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Puerto Ricans

Puerto Ricans (Puertorriqueños), most commonly known as '''Boricuas''', but also occasionally referred to as Borinqueños, Borincanos, or Puertorros, are an ethnic group native to the Caribbean archipelago and island of Puerto Rico, and a nation identified with the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico through ancestry, culture, or history.

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Punched card

A punched card (also punch card or punched-card) is a piece of card stock that stores digital data using punched holes.

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Pune

Pune, previously spelled in English as Poona (the official name until 1978), is a city in Maharashtra state in the Deccan plateau in Western India.

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Qualcomm

Qualcomm Incorporated is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, and incorporated in Delaware.

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Quantum Corporation

Quantum Corporation is a data storage, management, and protection company that provides technology to store, manage, archive, and protect video and unstructured data throughout the data life cycle.

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Quartz

Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide).

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Queen Anne style architecture in the United States

Queen Anne style architecture was one of a number of popular Victorian architectural styles that emerged in the United States during the period from roughly 1880 to 1910.

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Quetzalcōātl

Quetzalcoatl (Nahuatl: "Feathered Serpent") is a deity in Aztec culture and literature. Among the Aztecs, he was related to wind, Venus, Sun, merchants, arts, crafts, knowledge, and learning. He was also the patron god of the Aztec priesthood. He was one of several important gods in the Aztec pantheon, along with the gods Tlaloc, Tezcatlipoca and Huitzilopochtli.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States census

In the United States census, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) define a set of self-identified categories of race and ethnicity chosen by residents, with which they most closely identify.

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Raging Waters

Raging Waters is a chain of two water theme parks in San Dimas, California, and Sydney, Australia.

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Rail yard

A rail yard, railway yard, railroad yard (US) or simply yard, is a series of tracks in a rail network for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading rail vehicles and locomotives.

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Rain shadow

A rain shadow is an area of significantly reduced rainfall behind a mountainous region, on the side facing away from prevailing winds, known as its leeward side.

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Rainbow trout

The rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is a species of trout native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in North America and Asia.

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Rancho Los Coches

Rancho Los Coches was a Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Clara County, California given in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Roberto Balemino, an Indian.

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Rancho Milpitas

Rancho Milpitas was a Mexican land grant in Santa Clara County, California.

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Rancho Potrero de Santa Clara

Rancho Potrero de Santa Clara was a Mexican land grant in present day Santa Clara County, California given in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to James Alexander Forbes.

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Ranchos of California

The Spanish and Mexican governments made many concessions and land grants in Alta California (now known as California) and Baja California from 1775 to 1846.

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Recall election

A recall election (also called a recall referendum, recall petition or representative recall) is a procedure by which, in certain polities, voters can remove an elected official from office through a referendum before that official's term of office has ended.

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Reclaimed water

Water reclamation is the process of converting municipal wastewater or sewage and industrial wastewater into water that can be reused for a variety of purposes.

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Reid–Hillview Airport

Reid–Hillview Airport of Santa Clara County is in the eastern part of San Jose, in Santa Clara County, California, United States.

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Rental vacancy rate

The rental vacancy rate is an economic indicator which measures the percentage of rental homes or commercial spaces that are vacant.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Reynold B. Johnson

Reynold B. Johnson (July 16, 1906September 15, 1998) was an American inventor and computer pioneer.

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Richard Meier

Richard Meier (born October 12, 1934) is an American abstract artist and architect, whose geometric designs make prominent use of the color white.

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Rincon de los Esteros, San Jose

Rincon de los Esteros, also known as Innovation Triangle, the Golden Triangle, the Innovation District, or simply as Rincon, is a vast district of San Jose, California, making up a significant portion of North San Jose.

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Robert Graham (sculptor)

Robert Graham (August 19, 1938 – December 27, 2008) was a Mexican-born American sculptor based in the state of California in the United States.

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Roku, Inc.

Roku, Inc. is an American technology company founded by Anthony Wood in 2002.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of San José in California

The Diocese of San José in California (Diœcesis Sancti Josephi in California) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in Santa Clara County in California in the United States.

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Rose Garden, San Jose

Rose Garden, also rendered as Rosegarden, is a historic district of Central San Jose, California, near Downtown San Jose and The Alameda.

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Rosendin Electric

Rosendin, headquartered in San Jose, is employee-owned and one of the largest electrical contractors in the United States, employing over 7,500 people with an average annual revenue of $2.9 billion.

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Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum

The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum (REM) is devoted to ancient Egypt, located at Rosicrucian Park in the Rose Garden neighborhood of San Jose, California, United States.

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Rosicrucian Park

Rosicrucian Park is the headquarters of the English Grand Lodge for the Americas of the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, located in San Jose, California.

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Rugby sevens

Rugby sevens (commonly known as simply sevens and originally known as seven-a-side rugby) is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players playing seven-minute halves, instead of the usual 15 players playing 40-minute halves.

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Russian colonization of North America

From 1732 to 1867, the Russian Empire laid claim to northern Pacific Coast territories in the Americas.

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Sacramento, California

() is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County. San Jose, California and Sacramento, California are 1850 establishments in California, county seats in California and incorporated cities and towns in California.

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Saint Joseph

Joseph (translit) was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who, according to the canonical Gospels, was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus.

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Salvadoran Americans

Salvadoran Americans (salvadoreño-estadounidenses or estadounidenses de origen salvadoreño) are Americans of full or partial Salvadoran descent.

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Samsung

Samsung Group (stylised as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Digital City, Suwon, South Korea.

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San Andreas Fault

The San Andreas Fault is a continental right-lateral strike-slip transform fault that extends roughly through the U.S. state of California.

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San Benito County, California

San Benito County (San Benito, Spanish for "St. Benedict"), officially the County of San Benito, is a county located in the Coast Range Mountains of the U.S. state of California.

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San Carlos Street

San Carlos Street is a major east-west city street in San Jose, California.

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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. San Jose, California and San Diego are 1850 establishments in California, county seats in California, incorporated cities and towns in California and populated coastal places in California.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California. San Jose, California and San Francisco are 1850 establishments in California, cities in the San Francisco Bay Area, county seats in California, incorporated cities and towns in California and populated coastal places in California.

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San Francisco Bay

San Francisco Bay is a large tidal estuary in the U.S. state of California, and gives its name to the San Francisco Bay Area.

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San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a region of California surrounding and including the San Francisco Bay.

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San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport

San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport is an international airport in Oakland, California.

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San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.

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San Francisco Giants

The San Francisco Giants are an American professional baseball team based in San Francisco.

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San Francisco International Airport

San Francisco International Airport is the primary international airport serving the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California.

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San Francisco Peninsula

The San Francisco Peninsula is a peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area that separates San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean.

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San Francisco State University

San Francisco State University (San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university in San Francisco.

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San José High School

San José High School is a selective public magnet school in San Jose, California.

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San José Unified School District

San José Unified School District (abbreviated SJUSD) is a TK-12 unified school district in Santa Clara County, California, that covers a large portion of the city of San Jose.

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San José, Costa Rica

San José (meaning "Saint Joseph") is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica, and the capital of the province of the same name.

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San José–Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility

The San José–Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility (abbreviated RWF; officially the San Jose/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant) is a wastewater treatment plant located in the Alviso neighborhood of San Jose, California.

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San Jose Barracuda

The San Jose Barracuda are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League (AHL) that began play in the 2015–16 season.

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San Jose Bike Party

San Jose Bike Party is a monthly social bicycle ride event in and around San Jose, California held on the third Friday of every month.

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San Jose Center for the Performing Arts

The San Jose Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts venue located in Downtown San Jose, California.

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San Jose Chamber of Commerce

The San Jose Chamber of Commerce, is a chamber of commerce representing business interests in the Greater San Jose, California Area.

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San Jose City College

San José City College (SJCC) is a public community college in San Jose, California.

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San Jose City Council

The San Jose City Council, officially San José City Council, is the legislature of the government of the City of San Jose, California.

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San Jose City Hall

San José City Hall is the seat of the municipal government of San Jose, California.

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San Jose Civic

The San Jose Civic (formerly known as the San Jose Civic Auditorium and City National Civic) is a former arena, currently operating as a theatre and concert venue, located in downtown San Jose, California.

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San Jose Diridon station

San Jose Diridon station is the central passenger rail depot for San Jose, California.

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San Jose Earthquakes

The San Jose Earthquakes are an American professional soccer club based in San Jose, California.

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San Jose electric light tower

The San Jose electric light tower, also known as Owen's Electric Tower after its creator and chief booster, was constructed in 1881 at an intersection in downtown San Jose, California, as a "high light" or moonlight tower to light the city using arc lights.

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San Jose Fire Department

The San José Fire Department (SJFD) provides firefighting, rescue and emergency medical services to the city of San Jose, California, United States.

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San Jose Flea Market

The San Jose Flea Market, located in Berryessa district of San Jose, California, was founded by George Bumb Sr.

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San Jose Giants

The San Jose Giants are a Minor League Baseball team of the California League and the Single-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.

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San Jose Grand Prix

The San Jose Grand Prix was an annual street circuit race in the Champ Car World Series in San Jose, California.

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San Jose Improv

The San Jose Improv is a comedy club located in San Jose, California.

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San Jose International Airport

San José Mineta International Airport, officially Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport, is a city-owned public airport in San Jose, California.

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San Jose Jazz Festival

The San José Jazz Summer Fest (originally known as the San Jose Jazz Festival) is an annual music festival organized by non-profit San Jose Jazz and held in downtown San Jose, California.

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San Jose Municipal Rose Garden

The San Jose Municipal Rose Garden is a historic rose garden in San Jose, California, in the Rose Garden District.

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San Jose Museum of Art

The San José Museum of Art (SJMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum in downtown San Jose, California, United States.

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San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles

The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles is an art museum in Downtown San Jose, California, USA.

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San Jose Police Department

The San Jose Police Department (SJPD) is the police agency for San Jose, California.

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San Jose Public Library

The San José Public Library (Biblioteca Pública de San José) is the public library system of San Jose, California, made up of 23 branch libraries spread across the city.

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San Jose Repertory Theatre

The San Jose Repertory Theatre (San Jose Rep) was the first resident professional theatre company in San Jose, California.

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San Jose Sharks

The San Jose Sharks are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California.

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San Jose State Spartans

The San Jose State Spartans are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent San José State University.

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San Jose State University

San José State University (San Jose State or SJSU) is a public university in San Jose, California.

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San Jose Steam Railroad Museum

The San Jose Steam Railroad Museum is a planned railroad museum within Santa Clara County that has been under development by California Trolley and Railroad Corporation since 1992.

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San Jose Youth Symphony

The San Jose Youth Symphony (SJYS) is a non-profit youth orchestra located in San Jose, California.

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San Mateo County, California

San Mateo County, officially the County of San Mateo, is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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San Pedro Square

San Pedro Square is a historic neighborhood of San Jose, California, located in northern Downtown San Jose.

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Sanmina Corporation

Sanmina Corporation is an American electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider headquartered in San Jose, California that serves original equipment manufacturers in communications and computer hardware fields.

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Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department

Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department, sometimes referred to as Santa Clara County Parks Department or Santa Clara County Parks, is a government department in Santa Clara County, California.

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Santa Clara County, California

Santa Clara County, officially the County of Santa Clara, is the sixth-most populous county in the U.S. state of California, with a population of 1,936,259 as of the 2020 census. San Jose, California and Santa Clara County, California are 1850 establishments in California and Silicon Valley.

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Santa Clara Unified School District

The Santa Clara Unified School District (SCUSD) is a public school district in Santa Clara County, California, United States that serves roughly 14,000 students from the cities of Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, and San Jose.

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Santa Clara University

Santa Clara University is a private Jesuit university in Santa Clara, California, United States.

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Santa Clara Valley

The Santa Clara Valley (Spanish: Valle de Santa Clara) is a geologic trough in Northern California that extends south–southeast from San Francisco to Hollister. San Jose, California and Santa Clara Valley are Silicon Valley.

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The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, more commonly known simply as the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), is a special district responsible for public transit services, congestion management, specific highway improvement projects, and countywide transportation planning for Santa Clara County, California.

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Santa Clara Valley Water District

The Santa Clara Valley Water District (also known as Valley Water) provides stream stewardship, wholesale water supply and flood protection for Santa Clara County, California, in the southern San Francisco Bay Area.

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Santa Clara, California

Santa Clara (Spanish for "Saint Clare") is a city in the county of the same name in the state of California. San Jose, California and Santa Clara, California are cities in the San Francisco Bay Area, incorporated cities and towns in California and populated places established in 1777.

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Santa Cruz County, California

Santa Cruz County, officially the County of Santa Cruz, is a county on the Pacific coast of the U.S. state of California. San Jose, California and Santa Cruz County, California are 1850 establishments in California.

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Santa Cruz Mountains

The Santa Cruz Mountains (Mutsun Ohlone: Mak-sah-re-jah, "Sharp Ridged Mountain of the Eagle" or "People of the Eagle Mountain") are a mountain range in central and Northern California, United States, constituting a part of the Pacific Coast Ranges.

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Santa Cruz, California

Santa Cruz (Spanish for "Holy Cross") is the largest city and the county seat of Santa Cruz County, in Northern California. San Jose, California and Santa Cruz, California are county seats in California, incorporated cities and towns in California and populated coastal places in California.

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Santa Teresa, San Jose

Santa Teresa is a neighborhood of San Jose, California, United States, located in South San Jose.

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Santana Row

Santana Row (abbreviated as SR or The Row) is an upscale residential and commercial district of West San Jose in San Jose, California.

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SAP Center

The SAP Center at San Jose (originally known as San Jose Arena and the HP Pavilion at San Jose) is an indoor arena located in San Jose, California.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.

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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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Semi-arid climate

A semi-arid climate, semi-desert climate, or steppe climate is a dry climate sub-type.

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Serrano v. Priest

Serrano v. Priest refers to three cases regarding the financing of public schools in California that were decided by the California Supreme Court: Serrano v. Priest, (1971) (Serrano I); Serrano v. Priest, (1976) (Serrano II); and Serrano v. Priest, (1977) (Serrano III).

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Seven Trees, San Jose

Seven Trees is a Neighborhood of San Jose, California.

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Sewage treatment

Sewage treatment (or domestic wastewater treatment, municipal wastewater treatment) is a type of wastewater treatment which aims to remove contaminants from sewage to produce an effluent that is suitable to discharge to the surrounding environment or an intended reuse application, thereby preventing water pollution from raw sewage discharges.

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Shark

Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head.

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Sharks Sports and Entertainment

Sharks Sports & Entertainment (SSE) is the privately held parent company of the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League.  Based in San Jose, California, SSE not only oversees all areas of operation for the Sharks but also for several sports-related properties throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Shasta Hanchett Park, San Jose

Shasta Hanchett Park is a historic residence park and neighborhood in the greater Rose Garden district of central San Jose, California, near Downtown San Jose and The Alameda.

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Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that is a global center for high technology and innovation.

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Silver Creek Valley

Silver Creek Valley is a valley and neighborhood of the Evergreen district of San Jose, California.

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Sister Cities International

Sister Cities International (SCI) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) with the goal of facilitating partnerships between communities within the United States and other countries by establishing sister cities. Sister cities are agreements of mutual support formally recognized by the civic leaders of those cities.

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Sister city

A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.

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SjDANCEco

Based in San Jose, California, sjDANCEco is a contemporary dance company founded in 2003 by artistic directors Gary Masters and Maria Basile, and Melanie Doerner.

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SJW Group

SJW Group ("SJW") is a water utility processing, distribution, wholesale and retail company based in San Jose, California.

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Smart growth

Smart growth is an urban planning and transportation theory that concentrates growth in compact walkable urban centers to avoid sprawl.

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SmartAsset

SmartAsset is a financial technology company, founded in July 2012 by Michael Carvin and Phillip Camilleri and headquartered in New York, New York.

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Sodium-vapor lamp

A sodium-vapor lamp is a gas-discharge lamp that uses sodium in an excited state to produce light at a characteristic wavelength near 589 nm.

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SoFA District

SoFA (South First Area) is an arts, cultural, and entertainment district of Downtown San Jose, California.

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South San Jose

South San Jose is the southern region of San Jose, California.

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Southern Pacific Transportation Company

The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials) was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1996 and operated largely in the Western United States.

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Spanish Colonial architecture

Spanish colonial architecture represents Spanish colonial influence on the cities and towns of its former colonies, and is still seen in the architecture as well as in the city planning aspects of conserved present-day cities.

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Spanish colonization of the Americas

The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) after the initial 1492 voyage of Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus under license from Queen Isabella I of Castile.

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Spanish Empire

The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976.

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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.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Stanford, California

Stanford is a census-designated place (CDP) in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States.

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Statistical area (United States)

The United States federal government defines and delineates the nation's metropolitan areas for statistical purposes, using a set of standard statistical area definitions.

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Stevens Creek Boulevard

Stevens Creek Boulevard is a major thoroughfare in Santa Clara County, California, spanning from San Carlos Street, in San Jose's West San Carlos district in the East to Permanente, in the Santa Cruz Mountains west of Cupertino.

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Stockton, California

Stockton is a city in and the county seat of San Joaquin County in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. San Jose, California and Stockton, California are county seats in California and incorporated cities and towns in California.

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SunPower

SunPower Corporation is an American provider of photovoltaic solar energy generation systems and battery energy storage products, primarily for residential customers.

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Supermicro

Super Micro Computer, Inc., dba Supermicro, is an American information technology company based in San Jose, California.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.

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Symphony Silicon Valley

Symphony Silicon Valley is the professional symphony orchestra of San Jose and the South Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Tainan

Tainan, officially Tainan City, is a special municipality in southern Taiwan facing the Taiwan Strait on its western coast.

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Tamien language

The Tamyen language (also spelled as Tamien, Thamien) is one of eight Ohlone languages, once spoken by Tamyen people in Northern California.

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Tamien people

The Tamien people (also spelled as Tamyen, Thamien) are one of eight linguistic divisions of the Ohlone (Costanoan) people groups of Native Americans who live in Northern California.

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Target Corporation

Target Corporation is an American retail corporation that operates a chain of discount department stores and hypermarkets, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Tết

Tết, short for italic, is the most important celebration in Vietnamese culture.

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Team San Jose

Team San Jose (TSJ), also known as Visit San Jose, is a non-profit destination marketing organization and visitors bureau, created to promote tourism in San Jose, California.

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Tech CU Arena

Tech CU Arena is a multi-purpose arena in San Jose, California.

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Thai Americans

Thai Americans (ชาวอเมริกันเชื้อสายไทย; formerly referred to as Siamese Americans) are Americans of Thai ancestry.

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The Alameda, San Jose

The Alameda is a historic district of Central San Jose, California, west of Downtown San Jose.

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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 Mercury News

The Mercury News (formerly San Jose Mercury News, often locally known as The Merc) is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Rape of Nanking (book)

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II is a bestselling 1997 non-fiction book written by Iris Chang about the 1937–1938 Nanjing Massacre — the mass murder and mass rape of Chinese civilians committed by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Battle of Nanjing during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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The Tech Interactive

The Tech Interactive (formerly The Tech Museum of Innovation, commonly known as The Tech) is a science and technology center that offers hands-on activities, labs, design challenges and other STEAM education resources.

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The Westin San Jose

The Westin San Jose, housed in the historic Sainte Claire Hotel, is a six-story landmark hotel in Downtown San Jose, California, United States.

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Theodore Lenzen

Theodore Lenzen (1833–1912) was a Prussian-born American architect.

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Thomas Fallon

Thomas Fallon (1825–1885) an Irish-born Californian politician, best known for serving as 10th Mayor of San Jose.

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TiVo Inc.

TiVo Inc. was an American corporation with its primary product being its eponymous digital video recorder.

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Tom McEnery

Thomas Andrew McEnery (born September 23, 1945) is an American author, businessman, and teacher from San Jose, California, who served as the 61st mayor of that city from 1983 to 1991.

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Town square

A square (or plaza, public square, or urban square) is an open public space used for various activities.

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Tram

A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in the United States and Canada) is a type of urban rail transit consisting of either individual railcars or self-propelled multiple unit trains that run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way.

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Trans-Am Series

The Trans-Am Series presented by Pirelli is a sports car racing series held in North America.

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo officially ended the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).

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Treaty of Paris (1763)

The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, following Great Britain and Prussia's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years' War.

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Trust for Public Land

The Trust for Public Land is a U.S. nonprofit organization with a mission to "create parks and protect land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come".

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TUFESA

TUFESA is an inter-city bus line owned by operating in Northwestern Mexico and the Southwestern U.S. The company has a fleet of several hundred buses consisting of Volvo 9800's and Irizar i8 buses.

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Tule elk

The tule elk (Cervus canadensis nannodes) is a subspecies of elk found only in California, ranging from the grasslands and marshlands of the Central Valley to the grassy hills on the coast.

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U.S. Figure Skating Championships

The U.S. Figure Skating Championships is a figure skating competition held annually to crown the national champions of the United States.

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U.S. Route 101 in California

U.S. Route 101 (US 101) is a major north–south United States Numbered Highway, stretching from Los Angeles, California, to Tumwater, Washington.

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U.S. state

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.

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Ultratech

Ultratech, Inc. is an international technology company based in San Jose, California, that supplies equipment to global semiconductor fabrication plants, and also makes tools for nanotechnology applications by optical networking, data storage and automotive and display industries.

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Unified school district

A unified school district (in the states of Arizona, California, Kansas and Oregon) or unit school district (in Illinois), in the United States of America, is a school district that generally includes and operates both primary schools (kindergarten through middle school or junior high) and high schools (grades 9–12) under the same district control.

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Unincorporated area

An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation.

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United Defense

United Defense Industries (UDI) was an American defense contractor which became part of BAE Systems Land & Armaments after being acquired by BAE Systems in 2005.

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United Press International

United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.

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United States Board on Geographic Names

The United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) is a federal body operating under the United States Secretary of the Interior.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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United States Department of War

The United States Department of War, also called the War Department (and occasionally War Office in the early years), was the United States Cabinet department originally responsible for the operation and maintenance of the United States Army, also bearing responsibility for naval affairs until the establishment of the Navy Department in 1798, and for most land-based air forces until the creation of the Department of the Air Force on September 18, 1947.

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United States District Court for the Northern District of California

The United States District Court for the Northern District of California (in case citations, N.D. Cal.) is the federal United States district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties of California: Alameda, Contra Costa, Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Sonoma. San Jose, California and United States District Court for the Northern District of California are 1850 establishments in California.

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United States Numbered Highway System

The United States Numbered Highway System (often called U.S. Routes or U.S. Highways) is an integrated network of roads and highways numbered within a nationwide grid in the contiguous United States.

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United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee

The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) is the National Olympic Committee (NOC) and the National Paralympic Committee for the United States.

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United States Patent and Trademark Office

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that serves as the national patent office and trademark registration authority for the United States.

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United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, its insular areas, and its associated states.

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University

A university is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines.

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University of California

The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California.

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University of California College of the Law, San Francisco

The University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (abbreviated as UC Law SF or UC Law) is a public law school in San Francisco, California, United States.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of California, San Francisco

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California.

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University of California, Santa Cruz

The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California.

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University of San Francisco

The University of San Francisco (USF) is a private Jesuit university in San Francisco, California.

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University of Silicon Valley

The University of Silicon Valley (USV) is a private for-profit university in San Jose, California, in Silicon Valley.

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University of Silicon Valley Law School

The University of Silicon Valley Law School (USVLS) (also named The University of Silicon Valley School of Law on its logo) is registered with the California Committee of Bar Examiners as a private law school with offices located in Fremont, California.

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Urban growth boundary

An urban growth boundary, or UGB, is a regional boundary, set in an attempt to control urban sprawl by, in its simplest form, mandating that the area inside the boundary be used for urban development and the area outside be preserved in its natural state or used for agriculture.

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Urban sprawl

Urban sprawl (also known as suburban sprawl or urban encroachment) is defined as "the spreading of urban developments (such as houses, dense multi family apartments, office buildings and shopping centers) on undeveloped land near a more or less densely populated city".

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USA Gymnastics

United States of America Gymnastics (USA Gymnastics or USAG) is the national governing body for gymnastics in the United States.

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Vallejo Times Herald

The Vallejo Times-Herald is a nearly-daily newspaper in the city of Vallejo, California.

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Veracruz (city)

Veracruz, also known as Heroica Veracruz, is a major port city and municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico and the most populous city in the Mexican state of Veracruz.

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Verifone

Verifone, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Coral Springs, Florida.

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Viavi Solutions

Viavi Solutions Inc. (stylized VIAVI Solutions), formerly part of JDS Uniphase Corporation (JDSU), is an American network test, measurement and assurance technology company based in Chandler, Arizona.

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Viet Museum

The Viet Museum (Viện Bảo Tàng Việt Nam) or the Museum of the Boat People & the Republic of Vietnam is a museum focusing on the experience of Vietnamese Americans and their journey from Vietnam to the United States.

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Vietnamese Americans

Vietnamese Americans (Người Mỹ gốc Việt) are Americans of Vietnamese ancestry.

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VTA light rail

The VTA light rail system serves San Jose and nearby cities in Santa Clara County, California.

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Walk Score

Walk Score, a subsidiary of Redfin, provides walkability analysis and apartment search tools.

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Washington-Guadalupe, San Jose

Washington-Guadalupe is a neighborhood of central San Jose, California, located just south of Downtown San Jose.

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Water park

A water park (also waterpark, water world, or aquapark) is an amusement park that features water play areas such as swimming pools, water slides, splash pads, water playgrounds, and lazy rivers, as well as areas for floating, bathing, swimming, and other barefoot environments.

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Water scarcity

Water scarcity (closely related to water stress or water crisis) is the lack of fresh water resources to meet the standard water demand.

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Water security

The aim of water security is to make the most of water's benefits for humans and ecosystems.

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Water slide

A water slide (also referred to as a flume, water chute, or hydroslide) is a type of slide designed for warm-weather or indoor recreational use at swimming pools or water parks.

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Wealth

Wealth is the abundance of valuable financial assets or physical possessions which can be converted into a form that can be used for transactions.

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West San Jose

West San Jose is the western region of San Jose, California which borders the cities of Santa Clara, Cupertino, Saratoga, and Campbell.

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West Valley College

West Valley College is a public community college in Saratoga, California.

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Western Digital

Western Digital Corporation (WDC, commonly known as Western Digital or WD) is an American computer drive manufacturer and data storage company, headquartered in San Jose, California.

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Western Seminary

Western Seminary is an interdenominational Evangelical Christian seminary with campuses in Portland, Oregon and San Jose, California.

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White Americans

White Americans (also referred to as European Americans) are Americans who identify as white people.

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Willow Glen, San Jose

Willow Glen is a district of San Jose, California, in Santa Clara County.

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Winchester Mystery House

The Winchester Mystery House is a mansion in San Jose, California, that was once the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of firearms magnate William Wirt Winchester.

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Winchester, San Jose

Winchester is a neighborhood of San Jose, California, located in West San Jose.

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Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod

The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), also referred to simply as the Wisconsin Synod, is an American Confessional Lutheran denomination of Christianity.

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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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Xilinx

Xilinx, Inc. was an American technology and semiconductor company that primarily supplied programmable logic devices.

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Xperi

Xperi Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in San Jose, California, that develops software for consumer electronics and connected cars, as well as media platforms for video service over broadband.

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Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The city is located on the Iset River between the Volga-Ural region and Siberia, with a population of roughly 1.5 million residents, up to 2.2 million residents in the urban agglomeration.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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ZIP Code

A ZIP Code (an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan) is a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS).

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Zoom Video Communications

Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (commonly shortened to Zoom, and stylized as zoom) is a communications technology company primarily known for the videoconferencing application Zoom.

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Zoot Suit Riots

The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots that took place June 3–8, 1943, in Los Angeles, California, United States, involving American servicemen stationed in Southern California and young Latino and Mexican American city residents.

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Zscaler

Zscaler, Inc. is an American cloud security company, with headquarters in San Jose, California.

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Zurich

Zurich (Zürich) is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich.

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1868 Hayward earthquake

The 1868 Hayward earthquake occurred in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States on October 21.

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1906 San Francisco earthquake

At 05:12 Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, the coast of Northern California was struck by a major earthquake with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme).

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1978 California Proposition 13

Proposition 13 (officially named the People's Initiative to Limit Property Taxation) is an amendment of the Constitution of California enacted during 1978, by means of the initiative process, to cap property taxes and limit property reassessments to when the property changes ownership, as well as require a 2/3 majority for tax increases in the state legislature.

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1989 Loma Prieta earthquake

The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake occurred on California's Central Coast on October 17 at local time.

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1990 United States census

The 1990 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 248,709,873, an increase of 9.8 percent over the 226,545,805 persons enumerated during the 1980 census.

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2000 United States census

The 2000 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2 percent over the 248,709,873 people enumerated during the 1990 census.

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2008 Summer Olympics

The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad and officially branded as Beijing 2008, were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China.

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2010 United States census

The 2010 United States census was the 23rd United States census.

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2013 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament

The 2013 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 68 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament that determined the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's basketball national champion for the 2012-13 season.

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2020 United States census

The 2020 United States census was the 24th decennial United States census.

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4-H

4-H is a U.S.-based network of youth organizations whose mission is "engaging youth to reach their fullest potential while advancing the field of youth development".

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6216 San Jose

6216 San Jose, provisional designation, is a background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.

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See also

1777 establishments in Alta California

Populated places established in 1777

Silicon Valley

References

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