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    The Zodiac Killer

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    Zodiac coined his name in a series of taunting letters he sent to the press. His letters included four cryptograms (or ciphers), three of which have yet to be solved. The Zodiac murdered five known victims in Benicia, Vallejo, Lake Berryessa, and San Francisco between December 1968 and October 1969. Four men and three women between the ages of 16 and 29 were targeted. Others have also been suspected to be Zodiac victims, but they have been ruled inconclusive. The lack of consensus about the number of

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    7 Things to Know about San Francisco Ballet At the point when San Francisco ballet performers are taking care of their business, their audience likely does not think about how they got their bodies into those positions. The viewers do not consider how troublesome it must be to stay on one's toes for so long. They become involved with the magic as the artists appear to resist gravity and the restrictions of human anatomy, just for their craft. The artful dance - the theater, the story, the energy

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    Zodiac Killer

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    The main region Zodiac Killer has terrorized is San Francisco Bay Area. Zodiac killer has not be caught yet. There are a list of suspects. According to surviving victim Mageau, the man was white, 5'8" to 5'9", late 20s to early 30s, stocky build, round face and brown hair. The Victims are murdered in Benicia, Vallejo, Lake Berryessa, and San Francisco between December 1968 and October 1969. There were seven people targeted and two of them survived. There were other possible victims

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    The Zodiac Killer is one of the greatest unsolved serial killer mysteries, after Jack the Ripper. There were 2,500 suspects, but the case was never solved. The Zodiac’s first known victim is Cheri Jo Bates. His first letter, Confession, mentioned Cheri and said, “ she is not the first and she will not be the last”. Six months after Cheri’s death, the killer sent copies of the letters to the Riverside Press, the police, and her dad. Since the killer knew her dad, the police thought that Cheri

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    San Francisco Chronicle: 2 outs, top of the 9th. The score is 2-2 in Game 7 of the World Series. Active pitching change- “The Terminator” aka Robb Nen, will step in for Joe Nathan. Caleb Warnimont steps up to the plate. This is one of the most interesting at-bats in baseball history. Many people don’t believe the story even to this very day! This is a story about number 600, and now we let the announcers take it away. “It’s a beautiful night here in San Fran, but there’s a very unsettling feeling

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    In October 1945, the St. Cloud Baseball Association was formed to field a class “C” minor league baseball team for the Northern League. After a name-the-team contest that had over 568 names submitted, the name “Rox” was picked. The St. Cloud Rox played their first season in 1946 at a hastily built ballpark located at Division Street and 27th Avenue. In this first season, team was made up of mostly military veterans and castoffs from the Minneapolis Millers; they played so well that they won the league

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    was bringing live news to the world. During game 3 of the 1989 World Series an earthquake in San Francisco shocked the sports world and the entire country. ESPN had a generator in its center field location and allowed it to stay on the air and give on the scene reports live on television (Keown). If it were not for that baseball game then nobody would have known what exactly was happening in San Francisco at the time, because the city experienced a huge blackout. The Goodyear Blimp, which ABC hired

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    Abby Burgin Mr. Jones English 12 Honors, Period 2 February 24, 2017 Tragic Hero: O.J. Simpson Throughout time there have been an abundant amount of well-respected individuals who have let their flaws lead to their downfall. O.J. Simpson is a prime example of a tragic flaw leading to a downfall. O.J. Simpson was a luminary football player and actor who let his tragic flaw of anger and jealousy get the best of him. His tragic flaw led him to a life of crime including the alleged murder of two people

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    This is the Zodiac Speaking “I like killing people, because it is fun. It is more fun than killing wild game in the forest, because man is the most dangerous animal of all.” These are the words spoken by a man who terrorized the area of San Francisco, California for two years, lurking in the shadows killing five people, but taking credit for 37 different murders. This man taunted police, seeing his murders as one giant game, sending cryptic messages to the newspapers, forcing them to publish them

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    the West Coast of the United States. Within the state of California, Oakland is on the east side of the San Francisco Bay with 19 miles of coastline to the west and flatland/hills to the east. Oakland occupies a total area of 78.0 square miles, land of 55.8 square miles and water of 22.2 square miles (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010). It is bordered by the city of Berkeley on the North, the city of San Leandro on the South and the city of Alameda on the west (Appendix A). The neighborhoods in Oakland include

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