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California RepublicThe California state flag commemorates an event that occurred in the little town of Sonoma on Sunday morning, June 14, 1846.A band of some thirty rough-hewn American settlers seized Colonel Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and informed him that he was a prisoner of war. The Americans proudly proclaimed that theirs was a war for the independence of California. In front of Vallejo's casa grande, the rebels hoisted a flag emblazoned with a crude drawing of a bear, a lone star, and the words "CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC."The original bear flag was made by William Todd, nephew of an up-and-coming Illinois attorney named Abraham Lincoln. Todd used a three-by-five piece of white cotton cloth. Along the bottom he sewed several strips of red flannel taken from either a man's shirt of a woman's petticoat. He then painted a five-pointed red star in the upper left-hand corner and drew a picture of a California grizzly bear. But William Todd clearly was no artist. His grizzly looked more like a pig than a bear. The Bear Flag was adopted by the 1911 State Legislature as the State Flag.
Famous For: Everything, but especially the Spanish Missions, The Gold Rush (49ers), Golden Gate Bridge, Wine Country (Napa/Sanoma), Citrus, Giant Sequoia Redwoods, Hollywood, Disneyland, California Adventure, Knotts Berry Farm, LegoLand, Sea World San Diego, Universal Studios Hollywood, Six Flags Magic Mountain, Lake Tahoe, Sierra Nevada, Yosemite National Park, Big Sur, Earthquakes, Death Valley, The Hottest Women on Earth, The Silicon Valley, All of our billionaires, Skateboarding, Artistic Graffiti, Humboldt County *cough, cough*, The Term "It's 420, do you know where your buds are?", Livin it up in the Hotel California, Venice Beach aka Muscle Beach, Surf City (HB), Major Airports: BUR, FYI, SNA, LAX, OAK, ONT, SAN, SJC, SFO, The Beach Boys, More people then any other state, more cars, and more freeways then any other state, and ofcourse the "Governator".
California is also known as The Land of Milk and Honey, The El Dorado State, The Golden State, and The Grape State.
Statehood: September 9, 1850 (31st state)
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