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| Bill Bixby |
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Wilfred Bailey Bixby |
Bill Bixby (January 22, 1934 – November 21, 1993) was an American film and television actor, director and frequent game show panelist. His career spanned over three decades; he appeared on stage, in motion pictures and five TV series, such as My...
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| Golden Gate Bridge |
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The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay into the Pacific Ocean. As part of both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1, it connects the city of San Francisco on the northern...
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| Koyaanisqatsi |
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Koyaanisqatsi (IPA: [ˈkɔɪɑːnɪsˌkɑːtsiː], KOY-aa-nis-KAAT-see), also known as Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance, is a 1982 film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke.
The film consists...
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| LucasArts |
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LucasFilm Games |
LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC is an American video game developer and publisher. The company was famous for its innovative line of graphic adventure games, the critical and commercial success of which peaked in the mid 1990s. Today, it mainly...
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| San Francisco 49ers |
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Niners |
The San Francisco 49ers (often referred to as the Niners) are a professional American football team. The team plays its home games in San Francisco, California, while the club's headquarters and practice facility are located in Santa Clara. The...
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New York Giants |
The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball (MLB) team based in San Francisco, California, who currently play in the National League West Division. One of the oldest baseball teams, the Giants have won the most games of any team in the...
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| The Rock |
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The Rock is a 1996 action film that primarily takes place on Alcatraz Island, and the San Francisco Bay area. It was directed by Michael Bay, director of Bad Boys, and stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, and Ed Harris. It was produced by Don Simpson...
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| University of California, San Francisco |
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The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is one of the world's leading centers of health sciences research, patient care, and education. UCSF's medical, pharmacy, dental, nursing, and graduate schools are among the top health science...
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| William Randolph Hearst |
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William Randolph Hearst (April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper magnate and leading newspaper publisher.
Hearst was born in San Francisco, California, to millionaire mining engineer George Hearst and Phoebe Apperson Hearst....
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| Bruce Lee |
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Jun Fan Lee |
Bruce Lee (Lee Jun Fan, 李振藩, 李小龍; pinyin: Lǐ Zhènfān, Lǐ Xiăolóng; 27 November 1940 – 20 July 1973) was a Chinese American and Hong Kong actor, martial artist, philosopher, film director, screenwriter, practitioner of Wing Chun and founder of the...
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| Clint Eastwood |
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Clinton Eastwood, Jr. |
Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, film director, film producer and composer. He has received five Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award and five People's Choice Awards—including...
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| Mel Blanc |
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Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and comedian. Although he began his nearly six-decade-long career performing in radio commercials, Blanc is best remembered for his work with Warner Bros. during...
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| San Francisco |
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San Fran, Frisco, The City, City by the Bay |
San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2008 estimated population of 808,976. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land area of 46.7...
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| Cisco Systems, Inc. |
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Cisco Systems, Inc. |
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful
connections-whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible... |
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| Presidio of San Francisco |
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Presidio Military Reservation |
The Presidio of San Francisco (originally, El Presidio Real de San Francisco or Royal Presidio of San Francisco) is a park on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in San Francisco, California, within the Golden Gate National Recreation...
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| Mission San Francisco de Asís |
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Mission Dolores |
Mission San Francisco de Asís is the oldest surviving structure in San Francisco and the sixth religious settlement established as part of the California chain of missions. The Mission was founded on June 29, 1776, by Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga...
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Pyramid Building |
The Transamerica Pyramid is the tallest and most recognizable skyscraper in the San Francisco skyline.
Although the building no longer houses the headquarters of the Transamerica Corporation, it is still strongly associated with the company and is...
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| Alcatraz Island |
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Alcatraz Island is an island located in the San Francisco Bay, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) offshore from San Francisco, California. Often referred to as The Rock, the small island early-on served as a lighthouse, a military fortification, a military prison,...
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| Patty Hearst |
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Patricia Hearst Shaw |
Patricia Campbell Hearst (born February 20, 1954), now known as Patricia Hearst Shaw, is an American newspaper heiress, socialite, actress, kidnap victim, and bank robber.
The granddaughter of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst and great...
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| The Conversation |
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The Conversation is a 1974 American thriller film about audio surveillance, written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams and Frederic Forrest, and featuring Harrison Ford, Teri...
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| Alicia Silverstone |
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Alicia Silverstone (pronounced /əˈliːsiə ˈsɪlvərstoʊn/; born October 4, 1976) is an American actress, author, and former fashion model. She first came to widespread attention in music videos for Aerosmith, and is best known for her roles in...
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| Gracie Allen |
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Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen (July 26, 1895 – August 27, 1964), better known as Gracie Allen, was an American comedienne who became internationally famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns. For contributions to the...
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Eureka Valley |
The Castro District, commonly known as The Castro, is a neighborhood within Eureka Valley in San Francisco, California. It is widely considered the world's best-known gay neighborhood having transformed from a working-class neighborhood through the...
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| Vertigo |
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Vertigo is a 1958 American thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart, Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes. The film was written by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor and based on a novel by Boileau-Narcejac. In the film, a...
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| Natalie Wood |
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Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko |
Natalie Wood (born Natalia Zacharenko; July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981) was an American actress.
Following her film debut in 1943, Wood became a successful child actor in such films as Miracle on 34th Street (1947). A well received performance...
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| Robert McNamara |
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Robert S. McNamara |
Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense, serving under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968. Following that he served as President of...
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| Margaret Cho |
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Margret Cho |
Moran "Margaret" Cho (born December 5, 1968) is an American comedian, fashion designer, actress, author, gay icon, and recording artist. Cho is best known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems,...
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| North Beach |
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North Beach, San Francisco, California |
North Beach is a neighborhood in the northeast of San Francisco adjacent to Chinatown and Fisherman's Wharf. It is the Little Italy of the city. North Beach is sheltered from ocean breezes by Russian Hill to the west and often enjoys sunny days when...
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| Liev Schreiber |
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Liev Schreiber (born October 4, 1967) is an American actor, director and screenwriter. He became known during the late 1990s and early 2000s, having initially appeared in several independent films, and later mainstream Hollywood films, including the...
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| The Towering Inferno |
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The Towering Inferno is a 1974 American disaster film produced by Irwin Allen featuring an all-star cast led by Steve McQueen and Paul Newman. The film was adapted by Stirling Silliphant from the novels The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The...
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| After the Thin Man |
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After the Thin Man, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, and James Stewart, is the 1936 sequel to the film The Thin Man. The movie presents Powell and Loy as Dashiell Hammett's characters Nick and Nora Charles. The film was directed by W. S. Van Dyke...
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| Mervyn LeRoy |
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Mervyn LeRoy (October 15, 1900 - September 13, 1987) was an American film director, producer and sometime actor.
Born to Jewish parents in San Francisco, California, his family was financially ruined by the 1906 earthquake. (His paternal grandfather...
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Simon Rex Cutright |
Simon Rex Cutright (born July 20, 1974) is an American actor, television personality and rapper.
Rex was born Simon Rex Cutright in San Francisco, California, and is the only child of Paul and Zoe Cutright, a relationship coach and an environmental...
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| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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SFMOMA |
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern art museum in San Francisco, California.
It opened in 1935 under director Grace L. McCann Morley as the San Francisco Museum of Art, the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to...
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| San Francisco State University |
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San Francisco State University (informally referred to as San Francisco State, SF State, State and SFSU) is a public university located in San Francisco, California, United States. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the...
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| Time After Time |
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Time After Time is a 1979 American fantasy film written and directed by Nicholas Meyer. His screenplay is based on a novel by Karl Alexander and a story by Steve Hayes and centers on British author H. G. Wells and his use of a time machine to pursue...
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PLoS |
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit open-access scientific publishing project aimed at creating a library of open access journals and other scientific literature under an open content license. It launched its first journal, PLoS...
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| Lisa Bonet |
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Lisa Michelle Boney |
Lilakoi Moon (born Lisa Michelle Bonet; November 16, 1967), known professionally as Lisa Bonet, is an American actress. She is best known for portraying the character of Denise Huxtable on The Cosby Show and its spinoff A Different World.
After...
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| Ashlie Brillault |
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Ashlie Nicole Brillault |
Ashlie Theresa Brillault (born May 21, 1987) is an American actress. She played the role of "Kate Sanders/Saunders" on the Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire and in The Lizzie McGuire Movie.
Ashlie attended Millikan high school in Long Beach,...
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| San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge |
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| James "Sunny Jim" Rolph Bridge | ||||
| The Emperor Norton Bridge | ||||
| San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge | ||||
| O. J. Simpson |
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The Juice |
Orenthal James "O. J." Simpson (born July 9, 1947), nicknamed "The Juice", is a retired American football player, football broadcaster, actor, and spokesman. He originally attained fame in sports as a running back at the collegiate and professional...
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| So I Married an Axe Murderer |
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So I Married an Axe Murderer is a 1993 American film starring Mike Myers and Nancy Travis. Myers plays Charlie McKenzie, a man afraid of commitment until he meets Harriet (Travis), who works at a butcher shop and may be a serial killer. In addition...
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| Dianne Feinstein |
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Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein |
Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein (born June 22, 1933) is the senior U.S. Senator from California and a member of the Democratic Party. Feinstein was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992, after serving as Mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988....
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| Josh Hartnett |
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Joshua Daniel Hartnett |
Joshua Daniel "Josh" Hartnett (born July 21, 1978) is an American actor and film producer. He came to fame after his first film role, in 1998's Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, and as Matt Eversmann in the 2001 film Black Hawk Down.
Hartnett grew up...
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| Courtney Thorne-Smith |
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Courtney Thorne-Smith (born November 8, 1967) is an American actress. She is best known for her portraying of Alison Parker on Melrose Place, Georgia Thomas on Ally McBeal and Cheryl in According to Jim.
She was born in San Francisco, California,...
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| Richmond District |
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Richmond District, San Francisco, California |
The Richmond District is a neighborhood in the northwest corner of San Francisco, California. Lying directly north of Golden Gate Park, "the Richmond" is bounded roughly by Fulton Street to the south, Arguello Boulevard and Laurel Heights to the...
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| Washington Bartlett |
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Washington Montgomery Bartlett (February 29, 1824 – September 12, 1887) was Mayor of San Francisco, California from 1883–1887 and was California's first and to date only Jewish governor.
Bartlett was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1824. He was a life...
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| Dirty Harry |
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Dirty Harry is a 1971 crime thriller film produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first in the Dirty Harry series. Clint Eastwood plays the title role, in his first outing as San Francisco Police Department Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan.
Dirty...
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| The Birds |
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The Birds (1963) is a suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock based on the 1952 novella The Birds by Daphne du Maurier. It depicts a small town in the San Francisco Bay Area which is, suddenly and for unexplained reasons, the subject of a series...
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| Benjamin Bratt |
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Benjamin Bratt (born December 16, 1963) is an American actor. He is most famous for his role as Rey Curtis on the TV series Law & Order; and his appearances in the movies Blood in Blood Out, Miss Congeniality, Traffic, and Piñero. He currently stars...
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| San Francisco Chronicle |
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San Francisco Chronicle is Northern California's largest newspaper, and one of the largest in the United States, serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area, but distributed throughout Northern and Central California, from the Sacramento area and...
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| San Francisco Art Institute |
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Founded in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) is one of the U.S.’s older and more prestigious schools of higher education in contemporary art. The school's main campus is located in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California,...
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| James Rolph |
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James "Sunny Jim" Rolph |
James Rolph, Jr. (August 23, 1869 – June 2, 1934) was an American politician and a member of the Republican Party. He was elected to a single term as the 27th Governor of California from January 6, 1931 until his death on June 2, 1934 at the height...
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| Gap Inc. |
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Gap |
The Gap, Inc. (NYSE: GPS) is an American clothing and accessories retailer based in San Francisco, California, and founded in 1969 by Donald G. Fisher and Doris F. Fisher. The company has five primary brands: the namesake Gap banner, Banana Republic...
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| Bank of America |
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Bank of America Corp |
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is a financial services company, the largest bank holding company in the United States, by assets, and the second largest bank by market capitalization. Bank of America serves clients in more than 150...
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| Mrs. Doubtfire |
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Mrs. Doubtfire is a 1993 American comedy film starring Robin Williams and based on the novel Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fine. It was directed by Chris Columbus and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It won the Academy Award for Best Makeup. The film was...
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| Angel Island |
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Angel Island, California |
Angel Island is an island in San Francisco Bay that offers expansive views of the San Francisco skyline, the Marin County Headlands and Mount Tamalpais. The entire island is included within Angel Island State Park, and is administered by California...
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| Sunset District |
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Sunset District, San Francisco, California |
The Sunset District is a neighborhood in the west-central part of San Francisco, California, United States, that is primarily residential and is built along a grid pattern. It was one of the last areas of San Francisco to be developed, and most of...
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Noe Valley, San Francisco, California |
Noe Valley is a neighborhood in the central part of San Francisco, California. Its borders are generally considered to be 22nd Street to the north, Randall Street to the south, Dolores Street to the east, and Grand View Avenue to the west. These...
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| Phillip Terry |
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Phillip Terry (7 March 1909 – 23 February 1993) was an American actor.
He was born Frederick Henry Kormann in San Francisco, California, the only child of German Americans, Frederick Andrew Kormann (1883–1948) and Ida Ruth Voll (1883–1954).
He...
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