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Death Valley is a desert valley in Eastern California, in the northern Mojave Desert, bordering the Great Basin Desert. It is thought to be the hottest place on Earth during summer. [ 3] Death Valley's Badwater Basin is the point of lowest elevation in North America, at 282 feet (86 m) below sea level. [ 1]
The Bear Flag is the official flag of the U.S. state of California. [ 1] The precursor of the flag was first flown during the 1846 Bear Flag Revolt and was also known as the Bear Flag. A predecessor, called the Lone Star Flag, was used in an 1836 independence movement; [ 2] the red star element from that flag appears in the Bear Flag of today.
Badwater Basin is an endorheic basin in Death Valley National Park, Death Valley, Inyo County, California, noted as the lowest point in North America and the United States, with a depth of 282 ft (86 m) below sea level. [ 1][ 2] Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States, is only 84.6 miles (136 km) to the northwest. [ 3]
The California Republic ( Spanish: 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. [ 1]
Death Valley National Park is an American national park that straddles the California – Nevada border, east of the Sierra Nevada. The park boundaries include Death Valley, the northern section of Panamint Valley, the southern section of Eureka Valley and most of Saline Valley . The park occupies an interface zone between the arid Great Basin ...
July 8, 2024 at 5:54 PM. A recent death in Death Valley, where a motorcyclist succumbed to extreme heat amid record-breaking temperatures, highlights the perilous nature of one of the four major ...
The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...
Gannett. Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman. June 13, 2024 at 7:03 AM. Flag Day 2024 is Friday, June 14. The date commemorates the adoption of the American flag's design, as well as the ...