Sentences with phrase «california earlier this century»

This condition, known as Pierce's disease, wiped out thousands of hectares of grapes in southern California earlier this century and prevents wine growers from moving into the southeast of the US.

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After a downturn in violence in the early years after the turn of the century, deaths related to Mexican drug wars totaled 121,669 between 2006 and 2012, according to a recent report from the Justice in Mexico project at the University of California - San Diego's Department of Politic Science and International Relations.

Consider some aspects of the American history of racial and ethnic relations: Systematic racial segregation emerged in the South after the failure of Reconstruction, while in the 1880s a growing California banned Chinese immigration and in the early twentieth century ethnic politics, often bitter and sometimes violent, dominated major American cities.

Interesting enough, olive oil crops up often in some of the early recipes, including those from turn - of - the - century California.

Other studies have linked these oceanic cycles with earlier snowmelts and warmer winters in California since the 1940s, and with a decline in California's coastal fog since the early 20th century.

Built in California in 1917, Filoli's historic mansion and gardens stand as a beautiful reminder of the promise of the early 20th century.

Earlier this month, director Mike Mills paid a visit to New York in support of his third narrative feature, 20th Century Women, a deeply personal coming - of - age tale about a teenage boy growing up in Carter - era Southern California with his single moth...

Set in the early part of the 21st century, «Lady Bird» tracks an artistic 17 - year - old (Ronan) who hates her life in, of all places, Sacramento, California.

Their heroes, such as they are, end up locked in an ideological opposition that somehow echoes a deeper, more pervasive tension in American life: the parasitic rivalry between Daniel Day - Lewis's monomaniacal capitalist and Paul Dano's maliciously self - denying man of the cloth in the 19th - century California landscape of There Will Be Blood (07); the uneasy mentorship that Philip Seymour Hoffman's charismatic cult leader develops with Joaquin Phoenix's broken - down vet as they move through the strange, suspended vision of Fifties America in The Master (12); and now, in Anderson's newest film Inherent Vice, the antagonistic buddy romance that emerges between a pothead PI and a shell - shocked, crew - cut detective as each navigates the splintered world of Los Angeles in the early, paranoid Seventies.

In addition to the shifts in demographics, the economic context of education within California changed in the early 21st century.

What research did you do to establish your fictional characters in California, Spain, and the Caribbean in the late - eighteenth and early - nineteenth centuries?

As we reported earlier Sony has come through and announced its first ever Sony Store that recently opened its doors in Los Angeles, California (Century City).

The American Sable rabbit was first noted in early 20th century, when it was developed by Otto Brock in California.

A section of the beach was referred to as «Ink Well» and «Negro Beach» in the early 20th century when it was one of the few areas in California where African Americans were allowed to enjoy beach access in a largely segregated society.

During the February «From Shore to Sea» lecture historian Linda Bentz discussed her research of Chinese fishermen who harvested the seas around the Channel Islands in the 19th century and were among the earliest commercial fisherman in California.

The California, or southern, sea otter survived a close brush with extinction early in this century, but today, under the protection of the Endangered Species Act, it is expanding its range and increasing its numbers.

Lilian Jeannette Rice (June 12, 1889 — December 22, 1938) was an eco-conscious, early 20th - century American architect working primarily in the California Spanish Colonial Revival style.

He is noted particularly for his work around Santa Barbara, California, and for popularizing the Spanish Colonial Revival style in early 20th Century America.

Following the main road southbound, you reach La Paz, the peaceful, modern capital of Baja California Sur, with beautiful beaches and some charming colonial buildings and flower - filled patios dating back to its foundation in the early 19th century.

Dress up to dine on farm - to - table cuisine at A.R. Valentien restaurant, named after the early - 20th - century California artist whose Impressionist artwork fills the walls.

Napa Valley is widely considered one of the top American Viticultural Areas in California, and all of the United States, with a history dating back to the early nineteenth century.

This iconic early 20th - century property is situated atop a commanding hillside, offering ninety - two quintessential, California - styled...

Saint Helena, California; St. Louis, Missouri Winemaking (Bryant Family Vineyard) and insurance American Masters of the 20th Century; German and Austrian Masters of the early 20th Century; Old Masters Top 200 appearance: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

The California African America Museum unveils two new shows about race films of the early 20th century

From the late 60s through the early 70s, the veritable heyday of 20th - century printmaking, Southern California's relaxed milieu and master printmakers exerted a compelling draw on a multitude of contemporary artists.

We'll also discuss the campaign to Save The Smell and with it the last remnants of the early 20th century Main Street entertainment zone, a lost episode of Huell Howser's «California's Gold» reminds us that Lummis House needs a lot of help, a troubling proposal to gut the Cecil Hotel and a new campaign to ensure Pershing Square's historic monuments don't fall by the wayside if the park is redesigned.

Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present, Curated by Dan Nadel, Matthew Marks, New York, NY 1995 Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in Early California Art 1934 - 1957, Oakland Museum, UCLA Hammer Museum of Art and Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, UT 1993 Selections from the Permanent Collection - California: Art from the 1930s to the Present, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1989 Forty Years of California Assemblage San Jose Museum of Art, Fresno Art Museum and Joslyn Art Museum 1986 California Sculpture: 1959 - 1980, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1985 Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945 - 1980, Oakland Museum 1984 Contemporary American Wood Sculpture, Crocker Art Museum, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Huntsville Museum of Art and Chrysler Museum The Dilexi Years 1958 - 1970, Oakland Museum 1982 100 Years of California Sculpture, Oakland Museum Northern California Art of the Sixties, De Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara 1976 California Painting and Sculpture: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and National Collection of fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution 1975 Masterworks in Wood: The Twentieth Century, Portland Art Museum First Artists» Soap Box Derby, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1971 Continuing Surrealism, La Jolla Museum of Art 1969 An American Report on the Sixties, Denver Art Museum American Sculpture of the Sixties, Grand Rapids Art Museum 1968 On Looking Back: Bay Area 1945 - 62, San Francisco Museum of Art The West Coast Now: Current Work from the Western Seaboard, Portland Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum and De Young Museum 1967 FUNK, University Art Museum, Berkeley, and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Philadelphia Museum of Art 1966 Twenty Drawings: New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York Two - Dimensional Sculpture, Three - Dimensional Painting, Richmond Art Center, CA 1964 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art 1962 Fifty California Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, Walker Art Center, Albright Knox Art Gallery and Des Moines Art Center Public Collections

Miwako Nishizawa is a California - based Japanese artist specializing in the traditional shin - hanga Japanese woodblock technique that revitalized the ukiyo - e tradition in early 20th century Japan.

California culture was dominated by film, as it had been since movie moguls moved west in the early 20th century and established themselves in and around Hollywood.

Miwako Nishizawa is a California - based Japanese American artist specializing in the traditional shin - hanga Japanese woodblock technique that revitalized the ukiyo - e tradition in early 20th century Japan.

Other studies have linked these oceanic cycles with earlier snowmelts and warmer winters in California since the 1940s, and with a decline in California's coastal fog since the early 20th century.

The 2013 - 2014 California drought is clearly an extreme meteorological event in the context of observed climate of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

However, as far back as the early part of the twentieth century, the first model of parent coordination was designed in California (Boylan and Termini, 2005).