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Berkeley is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. The 2020 census recorded a population of 124,321. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Population
124,321 1
Area (sq km)
45.73 1
Founding Year
1878 1
Population Estimate Year
2020 1
Elevation (m)
52 1
Latitude
37.87167 degrees north 1
Longitude
122.27278 degrees west 1
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University of California, Berkeley

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The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States.

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Huston Smith

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In 1983, he retired from Syracuse and moved to Berkeley, California, where he was a visiting professor of religious studies at the University of California, Berkeley, until his death.
Isaac Bonewits

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He enrolled at UC Berkeley in 1966 and graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts in magic, perhaps becoming the first and only person known to have ever received any kind of academic degree in magic from an accredited university.
Marion Zimmer Bradley

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Afterward, she moved to Berkeley, California, to pursue graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, between 1965 and 1967.
Michael Harner

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In 1966, having taught at UC-Berkeley and served as associate director of the Lowie Museum of Anthropology, Harner became a visiting professor at Yale and Columbia University and in 1970 joined the graduate faculty of The New School for Social Research in New York City.
University of California, Berkeley

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The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States.
University of California, Berkeley

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1. Berkeley, California (Wikipedia)
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  • Lead section
    Berkeley ( BURK-lee) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay (part of the San Fransisco Bay Area) in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley.
  • Infobox, Population figure
    124,321
  • Lead section
    The 2020 census recorded a population of 124,321.
  • Infobox: area_total_km2
    45.73
  • Infobox, Elevation
    52 m
  • Infobox, coordinates (latitude)
    37.87167
  • Infobox, coordinates (longitude)
    -122.27278
  • Article text
    On April 1, 1878, the people of Ocean View and the area around the university campus, together with local farmers, were granted incorporation by the State of California as the Town of Berkeley.
  • Associated With: United States, Infobox, Country
    United States
  • Associated With: California, Infobox, State
    California
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Wikidata: Berkeley
Wikidata Q484678, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source
Berkeley (Wikipedia)
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