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Father Junipero Sierra Statue at San Juan Bautista mission
One of the main founders of missions in california
Junipero Serra Park (BIG SLIDE)
A huge slide located at the the top of the park, Great family fun but a small entry fee. Located in San Bruno on Crystal Springs Rd. This is my mom almost falling off the slide.
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The Sant Francesc church. The Plaza de Sant Francesc is the place where the Franciscans built their convent in 1281.The first stone was laid by King James II of Majorca. This church has a basilical plant and a single nave covered by a Gothic style groin vault. Inside it is the tomb of Ramon Llull, built in 1487. Its Baroque altarpiece dates from 1739. The main facade was built between 1618 and 1621, replacing the old Gothic facade, which had been damaged by lightning. Beside the church is the Cloister of Sant Francesc, surrounded by ogival arches supported on fifteen columns, creating a set of great beauty. Outside the church there is a statue of an American Indian with Fra Juniper Serra, head of the evangelizing missionaries of California, Mexico and the United States of America.
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Gaspar de Portolá y Rovira (1723-1786) was a Spanish soldier and administrator in New Spain. As commander of the Spanish colonizing expedition on land and sea that established San Diego and Monterey, Portolá expanded New Spain's Las Californias province far to the north from its beginnings on the Baja California peninsula. Portolá's expedition also was the first European to see San Francisco Bay. The expedition gave names to geographic features along the way, many of which are still in use.
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00:01:19 1 History
00:12:16 2 Geography
00:14:26 2.1 Water
00:15:11 2.2 Environmental features
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00:18:11 3 Local government
00:19:14 4 Politics
00:20:06 5 Demographics
00:20:14 5.1 2010
00:24:08 5.2 2000
00:26:56 6 Housing
00:28:44 7 Economy
00:30:03 7.1 Top employers
00:30:18 8 Utilities
00:34:45 9 Fire and police departments
00:36:15 10 Education
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00:36:39 10.2 Public schools
00:37:54 10.3 Private schools
00:39:51 10.4 Weekend schools
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Palo Alto () is a charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Palo Alto means tall stick in Spanish; the city is named after a coastal redwood tree called El Palo Alto.
The city was established by Leland Stanford Sr. when he founded Stanford University, following the death of his son, Leland Stanford Jr. Palo Alto includes portions of Stanford University and shares its borders with East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park. As of the 2010 census, the city's total resident population is 64,403. Palo Alto is one of the five most expensive cities in the United States to live in and its residents are among the highest educated in the country.Palo Alto is headquarters to a number of high-technology companies, including Hewlett-Packard (HP), Space Systems/Loral, VMware, Tesla, Ford Research and Innovation Center, PARC, IDEO, Skype, Palantir Technologies, Houzz, and Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center. Palo Alto has also served as an incubator and as headquarters to several other prominent high-technology companies such as Apple, Google, Facebook, Logitech, Intuit, Pinterest, and PayPal.
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Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University, colloquially the Farm) is a private research university in Stanford, California. Stanford is known for its academic strength, wealth, proximity to Silicon Valley, and ranking as one of the world's top universities.The university was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who had died of typhoid fever at age 15 the previous year. Stanford was a U.S. Senator and former Governor of California who made his fortune as a railroad tycoon. The school admitted its first students on October 1, 1891, as a coeducational and non-denominational institution.
Stanford University struggled financially after the death of Leland Stanford in 1893 and again after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, Provost Frederick Terman supported faculty and graduates' entrepreneurialism to build self-sufficient local industry in what would later be known as Silicon Valley. The university is also one of the top fundraising institutions in the country, becoming the first school to raise more than a billion dollars in a year.The university is organized around three traditional schools consisting of 40 academic departments at the undergraduate and graduate level and four professional schools that focus on graduate programs in Law, Medicine, Education and Business. Stanford's undergraduate program is one of the top three most selective in the United States by acceptance rate. Students compete in 36 varsity sports, and the university is one of two private institutions in the Division I FBS Pac-12 Conference. It has gained 117 NCAA team championships, the most for a university. Stanford athletes have won 512 individual championships, and Stanford has won the NACDA Directors' Cup for 23 consecutive years, beginning in 1994–1995. In addition, Stanford students and alumni have won 270 Olympic medals including 139 gold medals.As of October 2018, 83 Nobel laureates, 27 Turing Award laureates, and 8 Fields Medalists have been affiliated with Stanford as students, alumni, faculty or staff. In addition, Stanford University is particularly noted for its entrepreneurship and is one of the most successful universities in attracting funding for start-ups. Stanford alumni have founded a large number of companies, which combined produce more than $2.7 trillion in annual revenue and have created 5.4 million jobs as of 2011, roughly equivalent to the 10th largest economy in the world (as of 2011). Stanford is the alma mater of 30 living billionaires and 17 astronauts, and is also one of the leading producers of members of the United States Congress.