How many serious earthquakes has California had?
Depends on your defintion of “serious,” but if you mean “big enough to do serious damage to an entire city” then I would say two. One in the 1880s and one in the 1910s. Q: What makes history, history? For example, who decides that Christopher Columbus reached North America first and who decides on publishing American history for everyone to read, whether they are right or wrong? A: Great question, and a hard one to answer. To begin with, professional historians and book publishers and book buyers have a fair amount of influence over the “creation” of history. And what we believe to be true about the past changes quite often, more often than you may think. For example, as recently as 70 years ago, professional historians thought slavery had been a good thing for African Americans. With that said, certain information gets stuck in peoples’ heads–for reasons we often don’t understand–and even all of the historians in the world put together can’t change these “facts.” For example, most p
