SunnyVale CA
About: Sunnyvale is the seventh most populous city in the San Francisco Bay Area and one of the major cities that make up Silicon Valley. It is bordered by portions of San Jose to the north, Moffett Federal Airfield to the northwest, Mountain View to the west, Los Altos to the southwest, Cupertino to the south, and Santa Clara to the east. It lies along the historic El Camino Real and Highway 101. As part of California's high-tech area known as home to several aerospace/defense companies: Lockheed Martin has a major facility in Sunnyvale, and Honeywell, Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems - Marine Systems, Finisar, and Spirent also have offices there. Sunnyvale was also the home to Onizuka Air Force Station, often referred to as "the Blue Cube" due to the color and shape of its windowless main building. The facility, previously known as Sunnyvale Air Force Station, was named for the deceased Space Shuttle Challenger astronaut Ellison Onizuka. It served as an artificial satellite control facility of the United States armed forces until August 2010 and has since been decommissioned and demolished. Sunnyvale is one of the few U.S.
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Some of the nation’s most successful business and industrial leaders are located in Sunnyvale, including AMD, Network Appliance and Yahoo!. High quality parks, a full-service library, promotion of cultural arts activities and strong support for maintenance and repair of public facilities reflect this commitment. In the greater Sunnyvale area, theaters, concert halls, museums, libraries and art galleries fill the most demanding cultural needs. The city offers shopping convenience and variety with more than 49 neighborhood and regional centers, including downtown shopping and dining at Murphy Avenue, a unique and historic business
Have you learned about missions? One about the missions was that Junipero Serra founded only 9 of the 21 missions founded in California. One of the missions founded by Junipero Serra was Mission Santa Clara De Asis(Wikipedia “Junipero Serra) which is the mission I’m going to inform you about. One of the resources that I used for this paper was “The Missions: California’s Heritage,Mission Santa Clara De Asis” by Mary Null Boulé, published by Merryant Publishers, 1988. Next, I will inform you about the history of this mission and also it’s designs.
Upon returning from his annual two-week vacation in early July of 2002, the treasurer of the Spring Valley Forest Products Corporation, a Mr. Fred Firr, found the firm's audited balance sheet as of June 30 on his desk. Close scrutiny of the company's financial condition as reported in this document suggested to Mr. Firr that the cash flow picture for the enterprise was deteriorating. In times gone by, the firm had been able to maintain sizeable cash balances in its bank of account, Tippecanoe Trust Company, during the major portion of the fiscal year, and had found only modest seasonal borrowings necessary. Recently, however, a lengthening of credit terms to customers necessitated by intense
Keysville, Virginia, which is located in Charlotte County (Southern Virginia), was home to many citizens in the 1860s, around the time of the Civil War. Keysville was known for growing tobacco at the time, which was the number one cash crop in the town and also the state of Virginia. However, the tobacco industry and other cultural issues were drastically changed once the Civil War was over. You may be wondering, what does the period after the Civil War, also known as the Reconstruction Era, have to do with a little town like Keysville? Many people are unfamiliar with the repercussions that came after the Civil War and impacted the smaller towns in the South. Keysville, Virginia was affected in many ways, big and small, by the Reconstruction
The decade following the Second World War brought about a new sensation of the perfect housewife' and her duties at home. Men being drafted and shipped oversees during World War II had taken a lot of women out of the kitchen and put them into the workplace. This was the biggest movement thus yet of women changing roles in society and moving away from domestication. This movement was thwarted by returning soldiers, their moving back to the workplace, and the repositioning of women in the home. The baby boom followed the Second World War, furthering the encouragement of women to stay home and be the ideal mother and wife. Television greatly reflected this attitude. Sitcoms about the ideal family emerged left and right. Shows like
Even though your series Chesapeake Shores has come to an end as far as a book series goes, will you ever consider writing any more books in that series?
The city of Oakland, California lies at the center of the Pacific Coast between Canada and Mexico. Oakland is on the east side of San Francisco Bay, 19 miles of coastline to the west and flatland/hills to the east. The community surrounding Oakland occupies a total area of 78.0 square miles, land of 55.8 square miles and water of 22.2 square miles (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010). According to the city data, cities adjacent to Oakland include Berkeley (north); San Leandro (south); Alameda across the estuary; Piedmont, a small city completely surrounded by Oakland; and Emeryville, a city that lies on the bay between Oakland and Berkeley. Oakland is the only city in the United States with a natural saltwater lake, 115-acre Lake Merritt that is contained
It's hard to imagine that global warming would have much effect on the world’s already hottest deserts. Global warming increases the area of deserts. Global warming increases the incidence of drought, which dries up water holes. The temperatures may produce an increasing number of wildfires that alter desert landscapes by slow growing trees and Mojave Desert shrubs and replace them with grass. Grazing animals can destroy many desert plants and animals.
Morgan City is a town that carries a unique trait about it that few other cities do. Although it isn’t the biggest place, the sense of community and watching the city grow is some of the most incredible things. The businesses around town, especially the local ones, instinctively have the duty of aiding our community, instead of every man for himself mindset that the rest of the world seems to have. The result of this unity pays off, especially in the recent years. What before was a small passerby town is now bustling with activity and continues to gain new homes and enterprises annually. Although it continues to grow every day, it remains a rural location where a resident can have a healthy amount of resources without having to leave the
“Every good composition is above all a work abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects although without his work suffering impoverishment” (Diego Rivera’s Famous Quotes). Diego Rivera, a popular artist in San Francisco, explains why there is a value to his painting; all good works are ambiguous but, one who paints cannot display a message without having experience. Diego Rivera’s latest mural in San Francisco called Pan-American Unity, a valuable treasure to the city reflects with Diego Rivera 's’ quote because he laid out many symbols and figures that highlight his adventure and experiences. Pan-American Unity has five panels in total, and was created for Golden Gate International
San Antonio was famous for its River walk and for the Alamo. It is now the home of the Museo Alameda which is the nations largest museum of Latino arts, history, and culture.Ruth Medellin manages the Museo Alameda.The creators of the museum aim to show how Latino culture has blended with other immigrant groups in the U.S. People call it " the Latino experiance in art, and history." The museum help people understand how Latino cultures have changed the U.S.
WALNUT CREEK TWP. — Two women are dead and a teenager is critical condition Saturday following a Friday evening two-vehicle crash.
Within Wagga Wagga’s city centre are a large number of Californian Bungalows, dating back to the Arts and Craft period of the 1920’s. Currently sort after residences and places of business to the people of Wagga Wagga.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder mainly takes place in Lima, Peru. Lima is also known as the capital of Peru and is located at the coastline. In the story, the city is home to many different kinds of people, from very mentally unstable people to the religious individuals. Santa Maria de Cluxambuqua is also another place that the story visits, and Marquesa de Montemayor takes a pilgrimage to the shrine because she found out earlier that her daughter became pregnant. The mood of the story is gloomy from the beginning, as the story starts with the Bridge of San Luis Rey collapsing and five people dying from the disaster.
Forest Hills has diverse architectural styles and a large family-oriented population making it one of the best neighborhoods to settle in. It is a convenient (under half an hour) commute from Manhattan on the E, F, M or R subway line.
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