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Citrus College is a public community college in Glendora, California. The Citrus Community College District, which supports the institution, includes the communities of Azusa, Claremont, Duarte, Glendora and Monrovia. Citrus Union High School was founded in 1891 to serve students from Azusa and Glendora. In 1915, educator Floyd S. Hayden expanded its offerings to include a junior college and ...
The California Constitution of 1849 laid the framework for the judicial system. [3] In Solano County, prior to the establishment of the superior court, there was a County Court and Court of Sessions. [4] In 1854, the Court of Sessions ordered that Solano County be divided into the townships of Montezuma, Suisun, Green Valley, Vacaville, Vallejo, Benicia and Tremont. By the following year, the ...
Cal Maritime is the United States' only maritime academy on the West Coast, and requires all undergraduate students to participate in the Corps of Cadets. The only similar program in the Western United States is at the junior college New Mexico Military Institute. Since maritime academies comply with Title 46 Part 310 of the Code of Federal Regulations, students are referred to as "cadets ...
Julian Paul Assange (/ əˈsɑːnʒ / ⓘ ə-SAHNZH; [4] né Hawkins; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian editor, programmer, and publisher who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. He came to international attention in 2010 after WikiLeaks published a series of leaks from Chelsea Manning, a United States Army intelligence analyst: [5] footage of a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad showing war crimes committed by ...
The Chicago Outfit, also known as the Outfit, the Chicago Mafia, the Chicago Mob, the Chicago crime family, the South Side Gang or the Organization, is an Italian American Mafia crime family based in Chicago, Illinois, and throughout the Greater Chicago area, originating in the city's South Side in the early 1910s. The Outfit rose to power in the 1920s under the control of Johnny Torrio and Al ...
Sutter Solano Medical Center (SSMC) is a 106-bed general acute care hospital located in Vallejo, California, the largest city in Solano County and second largest city in the North Bay (San Francisco Bay Area). It is part of Sutter Health. In 1907, James Hogan established the Hogan Hospital at Virginia Street and Sonoma Boulevard in Vallejo. A few years later, the hospital was sold to Tobe ...
Janet Flanner was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Frank and Mary Ellen Flanner (née Hockett), who were Quakers. [9] She had two sisters, Marie and Hildegarde Flanner. Her father co-owned a mortuary and ran the first crematorium in the state of Indiana. After a period spent traveling abroad with her family and studies at Tudor Hall School for Girls [10] (now Park Tudor School), she enrolled ...
The Paraguayan War, [6] also known as the War of the Triple Alliance, [7] was a South American war that lasted from 1864 to 1870. It was fought between Paraguay and the Triple Alliance of Argentina, the Empire of Brazil, and Uruguay. It was the deadliest inter-state war in Latin American history. [8] Paraguay sustained immense casualties, but even the approximate numbers are disputed. Paraguay ...