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    Steiner Street, San Francisco And Its Victorian Houses Steiner Street in San Francisco is a famous tourist destination known for its colorful buildings designed in the Victorian style. Although the wonderful and colorful Victorian houses are located in several areas of San Francisco (in the Western and Southern parts of the city), the most famous place, where they settled in a row, is the Steiner St. It is from this location, the restoration process of these houses with a fancy name "Painted ladies"

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    stadium is the new home to the San Francisco 49ers professional football team. It is a new construction project, and throughout this paper I will discuss the details of the project and what the proper techniques are in successfully managing a construction project. I. Background Candlestick Park (former home of the San Francisco 49ers) stood strong for a memorable 43 years. Its rich history will remain with the NFL, the 49ers organization, and the community of San Francisco forever. 43 years is a significant

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    The Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants have been two of the oldest teams to play at a pro level, both established in 1883 in New York. The Giants were originally known as the New York Gothams and then became the New York Giants in 1886, and the Dodgers were originally the Brooklyn Atlantics and changed to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1932. In 1958 they would both move to California and the Giants would go to San Francisco and the Dodgers, Los Angeles. As the rivalry has grown, it is regarded

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    The San Francisco Earthquake The San Francisco Earthquake written by Jack London is journal of his events throughout the devastating acts of God that hit San Francisco in 1906. (461-466) The Earthquake shook buildings and walls to the ground. But, what came after the quake was much more devastating. Fires broke out in every direction and this thriving city became mostly ashes. People became curious and gracious in this time of turmoil and that has never before been seen in San Francisco. When all

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    San Francisco Mission de Asís In the early 18th century, the San Francisco Mission de Asís was built by the Ohlone Indians (also known as the Costanoans), who were natives of the San Francisco Bay Area. With the Spanish entering their land, they had no choice but to please them. The Spanish explorers wanted land specifically in Alta California, the only way for them to achieve this was through increasing their population, allowing for greater representation. They desired to reach California before

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    The great San Francisco Earthquake was a very deadly earthquake that occurred on April 18, 1906 at 5:12 a.m. The quake was so big that it could be felt from South Oregon to LA, as well as central Nevada. It broke the San Andreas fault, both north and south, 296 miles total. Fires occurred right after the quake, and because the earthquake had broken most of the water pipes, the fires burned for three days, causing around 28,000 buildings to burn down and more than 3,000 deaths. This caused $500,000

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    Forty-five minutes south east from the city of San Francisco is an area I’ve been meaning to write about since I started this blog. Mostly because as an outdoor enthusiast I feel thrilled and somewhat obligated to provide highlights for the conservational efforts that help preserve and protect the natural world that I love. The Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge is one such area. Founded in 1974, by the congressman who is its namesake, this preserve spans 30,000 acres of salt

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    The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 devastated citizens from San Francisco. After the disaster, new technology advanced when detecting earthquakes. Different theories grew from the elastic rebound theory to the theory that the soil determines the severity of the earthquake. Building developed new plans to keep buildings from being destroyed by fires. Harry Fielding Reid, a geologist, discovered a time difference between the preliminary tremors and the regular waves. Reid concluded that the first

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    Characters: Leo is a person that never gives up on getting something that he believes should be his, How “ He looked around for his gold nugget” And he never gave up on looking for it. Also leo never likes to leave anyone behind how he saved his friends/not so good friends from the the fire in the building, They would of died almost if it wasn’t for Leo. He saves good or mean, Which i thought was pretty cool and nice, And as a gift guys gave leo the sack quickly and let him have his gold nugget while

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    The extremely devastating ravage of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake was terribly damaging to the city and its population. The earthquake was cause by the San Andreas fault which is located almost directly under San Francisco. The San Andreas Fault is a strike-slip fault, driven by horizontal compression (a.k.a. shearing), and is just like reverse faults. The only difference is the direction of their release of energy; a strike-slip fault releases its energy by rock displacement, horizontal in direction

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