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Culture of California
- McDonald'sRichard and Maurice McDonald opened their first restaurant at 1398 North E Street in San Bernardino, California on the 15th of May 1940.
- MetallicaIn late 1981, a Danish drummer named Lars Ulrich placed an advertisement in The Recycler newspaper. The ad read "Drummer looking for other metal musicians to…
- HippieThe word hippie emerged from the jazz slang of 1940s Harlem, where musicians used terms like hip and hep to describe someone who was sophisticated or…
- Nu metalIn 1987, the thrash metal band Anthrax released an EP titled I'm the Man that combined hip hop and metal. This record laid groundwork for a genre that would…
- DisneylandWalt Disney stood in Griffith Park on a sunny afternoon with his daughters Diane and Sharon. He watched them ride the merry-go-round and realized adults…
- University of CaliforniaOn the 23rd of March 1868, Governor Henry H. Haight signed the Organic Act into law, creating a new institution called the University of California in…
- Cinema of the United StatesThe first commercial motion-picture exhibition in the United States took place in New York City during 1894. Thomas Edison used his kinetoscope and…