Native plant the first avocado trees. You can learn more about Santa Barbara all weekend here on American History tv. [church bell tolling] tina foss Santa Barbara mission is the 10th of a chain of 21 missions built by the fransiscans in cooperation with the spanish, who were conquering california, essentially, trying to keep the russians out. Ofy, along the coast california, established four forts, and between them spanish werere schools, which missions. The idea was to get coastal indians to be pro spanish and keep out the russians and possibly the english and whoever else might be encroaching on the Northern Edge of mexico. It is the only mission in california that has continuously operated as a church from its founding to present day. In the Santa Barbara area, the Linguistic Group of the chumash justns came from malibu, north of los angeles, to San Luis Obispo to south of monterey county. In of the largest groups california if they inhabited the area from malibu to San Luis Obispo
Is the fact that the green natural hue has been carved in a cameo design. So it highlights the mountain peak, shown at the top, the pine and tree blossoms, the highly reliefed, carved pine tree issuing from the rock work at the base. So what theyve done is incorporate the natural features of the stone, or slate, to show a cameo effect. Its been mounted with iron painting hooks. However, it was never meant to be hung on a wall. It would have been on a reticulated bracket base, and stood 24 inches tall or so. The reason this is quite an unusual example is the fact that its a large piece of carved slate. Most duan examples are small inkstones. The carvings very, very highly worked, so its a good quarterinch off the base of the stone. Ten years ago, this would have been worth between 800 and 1,000 at auction. All right. However, chinas just become the second largest economy after america. The chinese are investing huge sums of money in decorative art, chinese works of art. Its difficult to
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male announcer this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. The truth isnt what i said. Venom back on a lifetime of lies. Armstorng ive said it for 7 years, ive said if for longer than 7 years, i have never doped. Pam in a single word he confesses that all his cycling triumphs are the result of cheating. Oprah did you ever take banned substances to enhance your performance . Armstorng yes. Pam Lance Armstrong makes his first public admission of using performance enhancing drugs. During a lengthy interview with oprah winfrey. After a decade of defiance and deinal. The disgraced cyclnig champion changes course. And acknowledges that he couldnt have won a record 7tourdefrance titles. Without doping. Grant lodes joins us now with more from tonights tellall interview. From testosterone, to human growth hormones. He said that the use them for all seven victories he did not think it was human the possibly seven consecutive times without using this has doping. I see this as one b