California state State animal-The California grizzly bear was designated official State Animal in 1953. State nickname-"The Golden State" has long been a popular designation for California and was made the official State Nickname in 1968. It is particularly appropriate since California's modern development can be traced back to the discovery of gold in 1848 and fields of golden poppies can be seen each spring throughout the state. State song-California's official state song is "I Love You, California", written by F.B. Silverwood, a Los Angeles merchant. Total direct travel spending in California was $96.7 billion in 2007. Travel spending increased by 3.6 percent over the preceding year. Of California's approximately 14 million international visitors, about 5.2 million were from overseas in 2007, 21.7 percent of all overseas visitors to the U.S., and up 12
holiday to celebrate the time of new birth and the reawakening of nature. 35. Remembrance Day. Remembrance Day, also known as Poppy Day, is marked on the Sunday nearest to 11 November to commemorate the people killed in the World Wars. Ceremonies and church services are held throughout Britain. The Queen, the Prime Minister and other VIPs attend the annual (televised) service at the Cenotaph in Whitehall. During this week many people wear red paper poppies – flowers for which the area on the borders of Belgium and France is known, as many soldiers died there in WW I. There is also a two-minute silence at 11am on Remembrance Day, which is the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. 36. History of Irish State. Ireland was brought under English rule in the 12th century, but it proved difficult to dominate the Irish people – especially since Ireland was largely Catholic. When
progress, part of a larger picture. In many movies and stories the W i s e O l d W o m a n or M a n is a passing influence on the hero. But the Mentor's brief appearance is critical to get the story past the blockades of d o u b t and fear. M e n t o r s may appear only two or three times in a story. Glinda the G o o d W i t c h appears only three times in The Wizard of Oz: I ) giving Dorothy the red shoes and a yellow path to follow, 2 ) intervening to blanket the sleep-inducing poppies with pure white snow, and 3 ) granting her wish to return home, with the help o f the m a g i c red shoes. In all three cases her function is to get the story unstuck by giving aid, advice, or magical equipment. Mentors spring up in amazing variety and frequency because they are so use ful to storytellers. T h e y reflect the reality that we all have to learn the lessons of life from someone or something. W h e t h e r embodied as a person, a tradition, or a code
Elizabethan life, of the not-so-Virgin Queen, of courtiers' intrigues and the secret histories of the great names of English history—all actually invalid decipherments of Shakespeare's plays tending to prove that Bacon had written them, related by the gentle, upright, but self-deluded woman who had "deciphered" them, Mrs. Elizabeth Wells Gallup. These stories stirred Friedman's dormant interest; he began to do some of the cryptology, and inevitably its puissant magic seeped like the fume of poppies into his mind and spirit and intoxi- caiea mm. "When it came to the cryptology," he recalled years later, "something in me found an outlet." An understatement. He soon found himself head of the Department of Ciphers as well as the Department of Genetics at Riverbank. The attraction he felt for cryptology was reinforced by the attraction he felt for a cryptologist: the quick-witted and sprightly Miss Smith. In May of 1917
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