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The Survey was started as a pilot project by Berkeley linguistics professor Murray Emeneau and Mary Haas in 1953. It was established with an official budget on January 1, 1953. [3] Haas was a particular influence on the early working culture of the Survey.
Allexey W. Von Schmidt (1821–1906) came to California from New York City in 1849, as an American pioneer to prospect in the California Gold Rush. Von Schmidt heard about the gold at Sutter's Fort area of the Central Valley and came looking. Trained as a civil engineer and surveyor, he departed the gold prospecting camps, to return to surveying.
The initial Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS or POSS-I), sponsored by the National Geographic Institute, was completed in 1958. The first plates were exposed in November 1948 and the last in April 1958. This survey was performed using 14-inch 2 (6- degree 2) blue-sensitive (Kodak 103a-O) and red-sensitive (Kodak 103a-E) photographic plates ...
A July PPIC survey, from before Biden stepped down from seeking reelection, showed that 55% of likely California voters supported Biden, compared to 30% who supported Trump. The survey released ...
California just became the fifth state to ban legacy admissions—and only the second to ban them at private schools in particular. Those happen to be some of the most selective and sought-after ...
However, California and Nevada both recognize the 1872 Von Schmidt survey and the 1893 survey as the state line. [4] Google maps shows that the Verdi CA/NV boundary marker, located at lat/long 39.52451/-120.00186, is approximately 525 feet west of 120 degrees longitude. The 1872 marker near Verdi, Nevada is a four-sided cast iron pylon eight ...
The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is the surveying method developed and used in the United States to plat, or divide, real property for sale and settling. Also known as the Rectangular Survey System, it was created by the Land Ordinance of 1785 to survey land ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, following the end of the ...
Pacific Railroad Surveys. The Pacific Railroad Surveys (1853–1855) were a series of explorations of the American West designed to find and document possible routes for a transcontinental railroad across North America. The expeditions included surveyors, scientists, and artists and resulted in an immense body of data covering at least 400,000 ...