Ever wondered how California got the name ? According to an email fwd:
California is named after the island of California, home of Queen Calafia, her beautiful black amazons and their man-eating griffins, as all detailed in Garcia Ordonez de Montalvo’s Las Sergas de Esplandian, which was the Sword of Shanarra of its day, a highly unauthorized but popular sequel to the much more highly respected Amadis de Gaul, more The Lord of the Rings of its day.
California is now the most populated state in US and houses are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose and San Francisco.
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