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    Delano (/dəˈleɪnoʊ/ də-LAY-noh) is a city in Kern County, California, United States. Delano is located about 30 miles (48 km) north-northwest of Bakersfield...
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  • Diane Delano (January 29, 1957 – December 13, 2024) was an American character actress. She was known for her numerous roles in films and television, such...
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  • Look up Delano in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Delano or DeLano may refer to: Delano, California Delano, Wichita, Kansas, a neighborhood in Wichita...
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    Noriega (born September 29, 1989), better known under the stage name Adore Delano, is an American drag queen, singer-songwriter, and television personality...
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  • In the United States, members of the Delano family include U.S. presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant and Calvin Coolidge, astronaut...
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    AFL-CIO-sponsored labor organization, against table grape growers in Delano, California to fight against the exploitation of farm workers. The strike began...
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    Cesar Chavez (category Catholics from California)
    Angeles. In 1962, he left the CSO to co-found the NFWA, based in Delano, California, through which he launched an insurance scheme, a credit union, and...
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    United Farm Workers (category Labor relations in California)
    Filipino-American and Mexican-American farmworkers of the AWOC in Delano, California, initiated a grape strike, and the NFWA went on strike in support...
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    Delano Municipal Airport (ICAO: KDLO, FAA LID: DLO) is six miles southwest of Delano, in Kern County, California, United States. Most U.S. airports use...
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    Columbus Delano (June 4, 1809 – October 23, 1896) was an American lawyer, rancher, banker, statesman, and a member of the prominent Delano family. Forced...
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    Franklin Delano Floyd (June 17, 1943 – January 23, 2023) was an American murderer, rapist, and death row inmate. He was convicted of the 1989 murder of...
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    North Kern State Prison (category 1993 establishments in California)
    State Prison (NKSP) is a medium-security prison located in Delano, Kern County, California. Opened in April 1993, this state prison has a design capacity...
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  • Cesar E. Chavez High School opened in Delano, in the U.S.state of California in 2003 and serves 1,650 students in grades nine through twelve. Located at...
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  • Leamon King (category People from Delano, California)
    schoolteacher, living in Delano, California. He had been a successful student athlete, breaking and making records, at Delano High School, making the finals...
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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until...
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    Jasmeet Bains (category People from Delano, California)
    member of the California State Assembly for the 35th district. She assumed office on December 5, 2022. Bains was born in Delano, California, to Sikh immigrants...
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    Richard Chavez (category People from Delano, California)
    United Farm Workers' union hall, which became its headquarters, in Delano, California. Paul Chavez, the president of the Cesar Chavez Foundation and son...
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    Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment (category Organizations based in California)
    challenges. Its offices are in San Francisco and Delano, California. Although much of its work focuses on California, it also supports work elsewhere. Luke Cole...
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  • Murder of Shirley Soosay (category 1980 in California)
    is a formerly unidentified decedent found in an almond orchard in Delano, California on 14 July 1980. A member of the Samson Cree Nation, Soosay grew up...
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    populous city in the United States and the 9th-most populous in California. The Bakersfield–Delano Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Kern...
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  • Larry Itliong (category People from Delano, California)
    children, and raised his family in the Delano area and in the Little Manila community of Stockton, California. As a farmworker, Itliong worked in Alaska;...
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    Dack Rambo (category People from Delano, California)
    World. Norman Jay Rambo was born on November 13, 1941, in Earlimart, California, to William Lester and Beatrice A. (née Rossi) Rambo. He was a middle...
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    Kern Valley State Prison (category 2005 establishments in California)
    Kern Valley State Prison (KVSP) is a male-only state prison in Delano, California. Kern Valley is a Level IV Maximum Security institution, opened in June...
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    The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington D.C., dedicated to the memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president...
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    Julie Chávez Rodriguez (category California Democrats)
    president, and, in 2023, as his campaign manager. Rodriguez was born in Delano, California. She was raised in Tehachapi in a family of well-known labor activists...
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    Robert F. Kennedy (category Deaths by firearm in California)
    previously marched with and provided money to Chavez, Kennedy flew out to Delano, California, to investigate the situation. Although little attention was paid...
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  • from the farmworker strikes and marches in Delano, California and New York City, the activism of the Delano grape strike that spread throughout the country...
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    Delano (July 2, 1806 - September 8, 1874), who went by the pen name "Old Block", was an American humorist, pioneer town city father, and a California...
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  • Philip Vera Cruz (category People from Delano, California)
    National Farm Labor Union, in the 1950s. His union local, based in Delano, California, had an Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC). The prime...
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    Sky King (category Television shows filmed in California)
    Cessna. The original 310B was eventually destroyed in a crash at Delano, California, in 1962, which killed its owner-pilot. A 1962 310D took its place...
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