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67Seeing Elephant Seals Resting along the Central California Coast
A memorable experience that doesn't require an admission fee is seeing the elephant seals along the Central California coast. Best viewing times range from December through March.
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65To The Rich & Famous, Square Footage of your Home Means Little
It is hard to understand why the rich and famous do what they do with their money. They have plenty of excess money, so much so, they are clueless what to do with it, so they just spend. For instance, take the couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie,...
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83Stockholm Syndrome - Meaning, History, and Famous Cases
In this hub I talk about Stockholm Syndrome: What it is, it's roots in human evolution, where the term originated, and victims of the psychological phenomenon.
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75California: Geography Quiz
Shortly after I published So You Think You Know Canadian Geography?, my HubPages readers asked me what the subject of my next geography quiz was going to be. I decided upon California, the state in which I live. I learned a lot while doing the research for the quiz. I hope you'll learn a lot about the "Golden State," too, when you take the quiz.
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79Experiencing California: Big Sur, Hearst Castle and Solvang
A drive south along California Route 1 from Santa Cruz to Solvang hugs the Pacific coast. The natural scenery is spectacular. A stop at Hearst Castle is a man-made spectacle. The Danish-inspired town of Solvang offers a stereotypical modern American tourist town loaded with stores, restaurants, hotels and motels and wine tasting rooms.
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65Marijuana: A History of Prohibition
In a study in 2006 marijuana was said to be Americas number one cash crop... with a tax California proposed similar to alcohol if all states got on board would gross over 7.4 billion dollars per year...government that once created a law in 1619 at Jamestown Colony, Virginia “ordering” all farmers to grow Indian Hempseed, as marijuana was known until the 1940s, and passing several other “must grow” laws over the next 200 years.
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42Dead Tree
For the last one hundred years hemp could have been used instead of trees-Mr Hearst and you knew it! Dead TREE I have stood here For 100 years And I have sent my Green breath up to heaven. I have protected the ground I stood on And...
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71Ten Now Classic Movies That Bombed When They Were First Released
These great films are now classics. When they were first released audiences were indifferent.
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83Did The Invention of the Radio Affect the Profitability of Newspapers?
When the radio was invented, how threatened were newspapers? Overall, the real threat to newspapers and the radio was the television. So, just how affected were newspapers with the inception of the radio?
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71I'm Making A Change
I'm Making a Change Hmmmmmm . . . . I’m really not too sure about this. What if the gals (or even the guys, for that matter) in the secretarial pool don’t find these new glasses that flattering? Could it be that these ovoid lenses make my steely...
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