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  2. Santa Barbara, California - Wikipedia

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    Santa Barbara (Spanish: Santa Bárbara, meaning ' Saint Barbara ') is a coastal city in Santa Barbara County, California, of which it is also the county seat.Situated on a south-facing section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States excepting Alaska, the city lies between the steeply rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean.

  3. Area codes 619 and 858 - Wikipedia

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    On June 30, 1998, the NANPA approved a request by the California Public Utilities Commission for a two-phase three-way split of 619 such that the first phase would introduce the new 858 area code to northwest San Diego County on June 12, 1999, after which the southern and eastern parts of the county would be split off into a new 935 area code ...

  4. Santa Ysabel, California - Wikipedia

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    The 1818 Santa Ysabel Asistencia is located here, a Spanish mission asistencia (sub-mission) of Mission San Diego de Alcalá. The town site is within the former Rancho Santa Ysabel, an 1844 Mexican land grant to José Joaquín Ortega and Eduardo Stokes.

  5. Ventura, California - Wikipedia

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    Ventura, officially named San Buenaventura (Spanish for "Saint Bonaventure"), [11] is a city in and the county seat of Ventura County, California, United States.It is a coastal city located northwest of Los Angeles.

  6. Mission Elapsed Time - Wikipedia

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    The ISS observes Greenwich Mean Time (UTC/GMT). The shuttles also had UTC clocks so that the astronauts could easily figure out what the "official" time aboard ISS was. [4] In 2019, a test flight of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft suffered a mission anomaly through an incorrectly set Mission Elapsed Time on the vehicle. [5]

  7. Carmel Valley, San Diego - Wikipedia

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    Native American Kumeyaay history within the area has been documented to 7,000 years ago, which was adjacent to a Kumeyaay village west of El Camino Real near the San Dieguito River in North City at the time of European contact with the Spanish known as Ahwel-Awa or ‘aqwilawa, [3] [4] meaning "twine house". [5]

  8. Mission Hills, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    Mission Hills is a neighborhood in the City of Los Angeles, California, located in the San Fernando Valley. It is near the northern junction of the Golden State Freeway and the San Diego Freeway . The Ronald Reagan Freeway bisects the community. Mission Hills is at the northern end of the long Sepulveda Boulevard.

  9. History of time in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The evolution of United States standard time zone boundaries from 1919 to 2024 in five-year increments. Plaque in Chicago marking the creation of the four time zones of the continental US in 1883 Colorized 1913 time zone map of the United States, showing boundaries very different from today Map of U.S. time zones during between April 2, 2006, and March 11, 2007.