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  2. Metropolitan Water District of Southern California - Wikipedia

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    The construction and application of a membrane bioreactors in the demonstration facility cost nearly $17 million dollars and the total cost of building the full-scale program will be $3.4 billion, resulting in an annual operation cost of $129 million, and water cost of $1,830 per acre-foot. [18]

  3. State Bar of California - Wikipedia

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    The State Bar's predecessor was a voluntary state bar association known as the California Bar Association. [8]: xiii The leader of the effort to establish an integrated (official) bar was Judge Jeremiah F. Sullivan, who first proposed the concept at the California Bar Association's Santa Barbara convention in September 1917, and provided the California Bar Association with a copy of a Quebec ...

  4. Poll taxes in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Receipt for payment of poll tax, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, 1917 (equivalent to $24 in 2023) History of poll taxes as a condition to voting in the former Confederate States of America Poll taxes in the United States is the history of the use of poll tax ( tax of a fixed sum on every liable individual, without reference to income or resources ...

  5. Southern Baptist Convention - Wikipedia

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    The official name is the Southern Baptist Convention.The word Southern in "Southern Baptist Convention" stems from its having been organized in 1845 in Augusta, Georgia, by white Baptists in the Southern United States who supported continuing the institution of slavery and split from the northern Baptists (known today as the American Baptist Churches USA), who did not support funding slave ...

  6. Incentives for Olympic medalists by country - Wikipedia

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    Male medal winners become exempt from military conscription. For Gold Medalists, a monthly payment of 1000000 Won ($727 USD) for the rest of life. [32] Spain: $111,562 $56,968 $35,605 [1] Sweden: $0 $0 $0 [4] Switzerland: $44,171 $33,129 $22,086 [1] Chinese Taipei* $720,000 $251,000 $178,000

  7. Augusta National Golf Club - Wikipedia

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    Augusta National Golf Club has about 300 members at any given time. Membership is strictly by invitation: there is no application process. In 2004, USA Today published a list of all the current members. [37] Membership is believed to cost between $100,000 and $300,000 and annual dues were estimated in 2020 to be less than $30,000 per year. [38]

  8. Sierra Club - Wikipedia

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    These outings form a major part of Sierra Club culture, and in some chapters, constitute the majority of member activity. [30] Other chapters, however, may sponsor very few outdoor or recreational activities, being focused solely on political advocacy. Generally, chapters in California are much more active with regard to outdoor activities.

  9. California - Wikipedia

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    California is traditionally separated into Northern California and Southern California, divided by a straight border which runs across the state, separating the northern 48 counties from the southern 10 counties. Despite the persistence of the northern-southern divide, California is more precisely divided into many regions, multiple of which ...