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New DYK's

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should be proposed on the Portal talk:San Francisco Bay Area page, not here.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:25, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Newly discovered dyk's

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This one was also chosen by me (for april: great minds think alike):

I have added them. the twomey cellars blurb replaced the one i used, as it was peer reviewed. i placed it on the April dyk, where it originally appeared at the sfba portal, instead of its original march dyk on front page.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 03:14, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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  • ...that Chinatown, San Francisco's waiter Edsel Ford Fong is fondly remembered for calling patrons "retarded" and "fat", slamming food on tables, groping female patrons, telling patrons to "sit down and shut up" and clearing tables before diners were finished?

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july Bummer and Lazarus

  • ...that the stray dogs Bummer and Lazarus (pictured) were so popular with the people of San Francisco in the 1860s that they were given special exemption from the leash laws?

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april all added San Francisco Armory

Sonoma Mountain Vineyard

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Round Barn of Piner Creek

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Bat ray

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Waterfall at Sugarloaf Mountain, headwaters of Sonoma Creek


oct hood mtn

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Santa Rosa Creek near site of the 1827 baptism

Mammoth Rocks at Sonoma Coast State Beach, California

Annadel State Park

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apr A red fireboat at rest on calm water sends five jets of water into the air.


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may Fusakichi Omori, pioneering Japanese seismologist

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  • ... that, in 1980, U.S. presidential candidate John Anderson wrote in the San Francisco Sentinel that, if elected, he would end federal government discrimination based on sexual orientation?

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Sara Bard Field

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  • ... that when Charles O'Rear took a photograph of a green, lush hillside near Napa Valley, he did not expect it to be "the most viewed image of the world"?
  • ... that Berkeley law dean Frank C. Newman, whose work on international human rights law was prompted by a sabbatical year in Geneva, Switzerland, was appointed to the Supreme Court of California in 1977?

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John W. Dwinelle

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the statue Ashurbanipal in April 2011

Liberty Head double eagle

  • ... that the twenty-dollar Liberty Head double eagle (pictured) was minted after the California gold rush as the "most efficient way to coin a given quantity of gold bullion"?

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  • ... that San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim plays bass guitar, and her favorite song is by the Wu-Tang Clan?


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Newspaper illustration of SS City of Chester run over by RMS Oceanic

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September|2012|entry=... that poet Ishmael Reed learned to play jazz piano at the Jazzschool beginning when he was 60?

December|2007|entry=...that The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco, a 1959 album by jazz band The Cannonball Adderley Quintet, reached the bestseller charts with 50,000 copies sold by May 1960?