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A national park is a park in use for conservation purposes . Often it is a reserve of natural , semi - natural , or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns . Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently , there is a common idea : the conservation of ' wild nature ' for posterity and as a symbol of national pride . An international organization , the International ___MASK16___ for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ), and its World Commission on Protected Areas , has defined " National Park " as its " Category II " type of protected areas . Ernest Born ( 1898 - 1992 ) was an architect and artist who lived and worked in the ___MASK27___ Bay Area . Born studied architecture at the University of California , Berkeley , graduating from the school of Architecture in 1922 and earning a master ' s degree in 1923 . Born designed signage for the Bay Area Rapid Transit system , and collaborated with Corlett & Spackman to design the Glen Park and Balboa Park stations . Born was an accomplished artist and illustrator as well . He spent a decade collaborating with author Walter Horn to produce the 1979 Plan of St . Gall , which Born illustrated . He was married to Esther Baum Born , an architectural photographer . ___MASK74___ is the ___MASK33___ populous state in the United States and the third ___MASK33___ extensive by area . Located on the western ( Pacific Ocean ) coast of the U . S ., ___MASK74___ is bordered by the other U . S . states of Oregon , Nevada , and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of ___MASK93___ ___MASK74___ . The state capital is Sacramento . Los Angeles is ___MASK74___ ' s ___MASK33___ populous city , and the country ' s second largest after ___MASK70___ City . The state also has the nation ' s ___MASK33___ populous county , Los Angeles County , and its largest county by area , San Bernardino County . aRts ( which stands for analog real time synthesizer ) is an audio framework that is no longer under development . It was ___MASK78___ known for previously being used in K Desktop Environment 2 and 3 to simulate an analog synthesizer . Speech is the vocalized form of communication based upon the syntactic combination of lexicals and names that are drawn from very large ( usually about 1 , 000 different words ) vocabularies . Each spoken word is created out of the phonetic combination of a limited set of vowel and consonant speech sound units ( phonemes ). These vocabularies , the syntax which structures them , and their sets of speech sound units differ , creating many thousands of different , and mutually unintelligible , human languages . ___MASK33___ human speakers are able to communicate in two or more of them , hence being polyglots . The vocal abilities that enable humans to produce speech also enable them to sing . ___MASK21___ ( O ' odham : " Al onak " [ ai onak ]) is a state in the southwestern region of the United States . It is also part of the Western United States and the Mountain West states . It is the sixth largest and the 14th ___MASK33___ populous of the 50 states . Its capital and largest city is Phoenix . ___MASK21___ is one of the Four Corners states . It has borders with New ___MASK77___ , Utah , Nevada , California , and ___MASK77___ , and one point in common with the southwestern corner of ___MASK65___ . ___MASK21___ ' s border with ___MASK77___ is 389 miles ( 626 km ) long , on the northern border of the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California . The City of ___MASK70___ , often called ___MASK70___ City or simply ___MASK70___ , is the most populous city in the United States . With an estimated 2015 population of 8 , 550 , 405 distributed over a land area of just , ___MASK70___ City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States . Located at the southern tip of the state of ___MASK70___ , the city is the center of the ___MASK70___ metropolitan area , one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world . A global power city , ___MASK70___ City exerts a significant impact upon commerce , finance , media , art , fashion , research , technology , education , and entertainment , its fast pace defining the term " ___MASK70___ minute ". Home to the headquarters of the United Nations , ___MASK70___ is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world . The ___MASK27___ Bay Area ( referred to locally as the Bay Area ) is a populous region surrounding the ___MASK27___ and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California . The region encompasses the major cities and metropolitan areas of ___MASK30___ , ___MASK27___ , and Oakland , along with smaller urban and rural areas . The Bay Area ' s nine counties are Alameda , Contra Costa , Marin , Napa , ___MASK27___ , ___MASK19___ , ___MASK85___ , Solano , and Sonoma . ___MASK82___ to approximately 7 . 65 million people , the nine - county Bay Area contains many cities , towns , airports , and associated regional , state , and national parks , connected by a network of roads , highways , railroads , bridges , tunnels and commuter rail . The combined statistical area of the region is the second - largest in California ( after the Greater ___MASK52___ area ), the fifth - largest in the United States , and the 43rd - largest urban area in the world . ___MASK52___ ( Spanish for " The Angels "), officially the City of ___MASK52___ and often known by its initials L . A ., is the second - ___MASK33___ populous city in the United States ( after ___MASK70___ City ), the ___MASK33___ populous city in California and the county seat of ___MASK52___ County . Situated in Southern California , ___MASK52___ is known for its mediterranean climate , ethnic diversity , sprawling metropolis , and as a major center of the American entertainment industry . ___MASK52___ lies in a large coastal basin surrounded on three sides by mountains reaching up to and over . ___MASK38___ ( Spanish for " snowy "; see pronunciations ) is a state in the Western , Mountain West , and Southwestern regions of the ___MASK86___ . ___MASK38___ is the 7th ___MASK33___ extensive , the 34th ___MASK33___ populous , and the 9th least densely populated of the 50 United States . Nearly three - quarters of ___MASK38___ ' s people live in Clark County , which contains the Las Vegas  ___MASK99___ metropolitan area where three of the state ' s four largest incorporated cities are located . ___MASK38___ ' s capital is Carson City . ___MASK38___ is officially known as the " Silver State " because of the importance of silver to its history and economy . It is also known as the " ___MASK71___ Born State ", because it achieved statehood during the Civil War ( the words " ___MASK71___ Born " also appear on the state flag ); as the " Sage - brush State ", for the native plant of the same name ; and as the " Sage - hen State ". ___MASK38___ borders Oregon to the northwest , Idaho to the northeast , California to the west , Arizona to the southeast and Utah to the east . Northern ___MASK74___ , often abbreviated NorCal , is the northern portion of the U . S . state of ___MASK74___ . Spanning the state ' s northernmost 48 counties , in contrast to the 10 counties of ___MASK67___ , its main population centers include the San Francisco Bay Area ( anchored by the cities of San Francisco , ___MASK30___ , and Oakland ), the Greater Sacramento area ( anchored by the state capital Sacramento ), and the Metropolitan Fresno area ( anchored by the city of Fresno ). Northern ___MASK74___ also contains redwood forests , along with the Sierra Nevada including Yosemite Valley and part of Lake Tahoe , Mount Shasta ( the second - highest peak in the Cascade Range after Mount Rainier in Washington ), and the northern portion of the Central Valley , one of the world ' s most productive agricultural regions . ___MASK27___ ( SF ) ( Spanish for Saint Francis ) officially the City and County of ___MASK27___ , is the cultural , commercial , and financial center of Northern California . It is the birthplace of the United Nations . Located at the north end of the ___MASK27___ Peninsula , ___MASK27___ is about in area , making it the smallest county  and the only consolidated city - county  within the state of California . With a density of about 18 , 451 people per square mile ( 7 , 124 people per km ), ___MASK27___ is the most densely settled large city ( population greater than 200 , 000 ) in California and the second - most densely populated major city in the United States after ___MASK70___ City . ___MASK27___ is the fourth - most populous city in California , after Los Angeles , ___MASK45___ , and San Jose , and the 13th - most populous city in the United States  with a census - estimated 2015 population of 864 , 816 . The city and its surrounding areas are known as the ___MASK27___ Bay Area , and are a part of the larger OMB - designated San Jose - ___MASK27___ - Oakland combined statistical area , the fifth most populous in the nation with an estimated population of 8 . 7 million . ___MASK93___ California , officially the Free and Sovereign State of ___MASK93___ California , is a state in Mexico . It is the northernmost and westernmost of the 31 states which , with Mexico City , comprises the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico . Before becoming a state in 1953 , the area was known as the North Territory of ___MASK93___ California (" El Territorio Norte de ___MASK93___ California "). It has an area of , or 3 . 57 % of the land mass of Mexico and comprises the northern half of the ___MASK93___ California Peninsula , north of the 28th parallel , plus oceanic Guadalupe Island . The mainland portion of the state is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean , on the east by ___MASK80___ , the U . S . State of Arizona , and the Gulf of California ( also known as the " ___MASK79___ of Cortez "), and on the south by ___MASK93___ California Sur . Its northern limit is the U . S . state of California . The ___MASK76___ is the largest of the Earth ' s oceanic divisions . It extends from the ___MASK44___ in the north to the Southern Ocean ( or , depending on definition , to Antarctica ) in the south and is bounded by ___MASK48___ and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east . An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art , practicing the arts or demonstrating an art . The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only . The term is often used in the entertainment business , especially in a business context , for musicians and other performers ( less often for actors ). " Artiste " ( the French for artist ) is a variant used in English only in this context . Use of the term to describe writers , for example , is valid , but less common , and mostly restricted to contexts like criticism .