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Great Dane

19th Annual Taste of Solvang / Solvang Centennial Celebration Solvang, California When Solvang, California was incorporated in the Santa Ynes Valley by three Danish educator expatriates in 1911 it could have passed for any other fledgling west coast town at … Continue reading

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Watts Up, Doc

Livermore, California Longest Burning Lightbulb (The Centennial Bulb) In 1901, U.S. President William McKinley was assassinated, succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt; Guglielmo Marconi made the first transatlantic radio broadcast; the first Nobel Prize was awarded; and, oil was discovered at Spindletop … Continue reading

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