Franciscans later founded several missions that extended as far N as Sonoma, N of San Francisco. The missionaries sought to Christianize the Native Americans but also forced them to work as manual laborers, helping to build the missions into vital agricultural communities (see Mission Indians). ...
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park is dotted with 18th-century buildings and features, making for an enriching excursion. Read more New Orleans New Orleans is full of life—but with a laid-back energy that sets it apart from other cities. You’ll wanna soak it all in: impromptu ...
Mission Santa Barbara: Known as the “Queen of the Missions,” Mission Santa Barbara is a beautiful historic site with lush gardens and a fascinating museum. The rose garden across the street is a perfect spot for a picnic. State Street: This vibrant street is the heart of downtown Santa ...
We exchanged our Oldsmobile Alero for a Pontiac Grand Am at the Burbank Airport (the Alero went thump-thump-thump at freeway speeds) and then headed north, stopping for breakfast in Castaic (near the site of the St. Francis dam disaster of 1928, although you couldn’t tell it now). Be...
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Earlier in 2024, SpaceX and the U.S. Space Force planned for additional launches from Vandenberg SFB – as many as 50 launches per year. However, in order to do that, state permissions were needed, even if the federal government had already signed off. As it is near the coast, the ...
the request came from the US Air Force and Space Force. The military wants to clear the flights because SpaceX has become a major provider of US government space missions. This includes developingStarshield, a satellite internet system for national security purposes that taps Starlink...
Ate an Indian lunch that made me feel sick even as I was eating it, yet it was so delicious I ate it anyway. Visited the Daci’en Temple, home of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, where I found fabulous views of Xi’an. Ate fried shrimp at a Pizza Hut near the Bell Tower, which sat...
whose possession of the Indian body gave him the workforce to erect the first crude dams and canals that took rivers to places they’d never been: his 21 missions, from San Diego to Sonoma. At the Mission San Gabriel, the catch of water grew a profusion of grains, vegetables, exotic fru...