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	San Francisco
		San Francisco is renowned for its months-long episodes of fog, steep rolling hills, an eclectic mix of Victorian and modern architecture, its peninsular location (surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay), and its liberal cultural and political identity.
		San Francisco is located on the west coast of the U.S. at the tip of the San Francisco Peninsula and includes significant stretches of the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay within its boundaries.
		The estimated 2006 population of San Francisco is 798,680, surpassing the dot-com boom peak of 776,733 in 2000.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/san_francisco.html (8053 words)

	Top20SanFrancisco.com - Your Top20Guide to San Francisco, CA.
		Insular San Francisco includes several islands in the San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Strait, notably Alcatraz, Treasure Island, and the Farallon Islands 27 miles offshore in the Pacific Ocean.
		San Francisco's charisteristic foggy weather and geography led early European explorers, including Juan Cabrillo and Sir Francis Drake (who would instead land a few miles north in Point Reyes), to pass by the Golden Gate and miss the San Francisco Bay.
		The above-ground Columbarium of San Francisco was allowed to remain, as well as the historic cemetery at the Mission Dolores Church and The San Francisco National Cemetery in the Presidio of San Francisco.
	www.top20sanfrancisco.com (6574 words)

	San Francisco, California - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		San Francisco's history of innovative ordinances was seen again with the 2004 decision to ban outdoor smoking in all city-owned parks, plazas and public sports venues, amongst other outdoor areas.
		San Francisco is both a city and a county, and is the only one of California's 58 counties to possess that distinction.
		San Francisco International Airport dubbed SFO, is located 12.9 km (8 miles) south of the city in San Mateo County on a landfill extension into the San Francisco Bay.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/San_Francisco,_California (7087 words)

	San Francisco, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth-largest city in California and the fourteenth-largest in the United States, with a 2005 population of 739,426.
		San Francisco is also the center of gay media with newspapers and magazines such as the Bay Area Reporter and the Bay Times, among the many gay and lesbian-themed media in the city.
		San Francisco also boasts of many newspapers catering to its many ethnic minorities with the largest being the Chinese Sing Tao Daily which was founded in San Francisco in 1975 and moved to Hong Kong.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Francisco (8160 words)

	List of famous San Franciscans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of famous San Franciscans; people associated with San Francisco, California, USA:
		Tony Lazzeri was born in San Francisco on Dec 6, 1903
		Harvey Milk, former city supervisor of San Francisco
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_famous_San_Franciscans (213 words)

	San Francisco, California
		The City and County of San Francisco (population 776,773), the fourth-largest city in the state of California, United States, is a consolidated city-county situated at the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula that forms San Francisco Bay.
		San Francisco is both a city and a county, and is the only one of California's 58 counties to possess that unique status.
		San Francisco is one of the most densely populated cities in the United States.
	www.askfactmaster.com /San_Francisco (3421 words)

	San Francisco Beaches Information and Pictures
		San Francisco's Lands End Beach is a short hike from Point Lobos or from the Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park.
		San Francisco Baker Beach is located in the Presidio just south of the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge.
		San Francisco East Beach is located along the north edge of Crissy Field in the Presidio.
	www.zurdogo.com /attractions/beaches.html (1229 words)

	Department of Geological Sciences
		San Antonio is the 8th largest city in the USA - and more than 1 million residents rely on the karstified Edwards Aquifer for their water resources.
		San Antonio Missions National Historical Park and the Missions Trail - The Franciscans and Spanish built missions in the area in the 18th century (with The Alamo being established in 1718).
		The missions San Jose, San Juan, Concepcion, Espada are operating Catholic churches and are all open to the public.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/jmartin/website/Karst_San_Antonio.html (684 words)

	San Francisco History - A Timeline
		European discovery and exploration of the San Francisco Bay Area and its islands began in 1542 and culminated with the mapping of the bay in 1775.
		The entrance to San Francisco Bay, La Boca del Puerto (The mouth of the Port) is discovered on November 1 by Sergeant Jose Ortega.
		What a strange town was that, the San Francisco of 1856, its 30,000 people in speedy transition from a city of tents and shacks to one of brick and stone buildings.
	www.zpub.com /sf/history/sfh2.html (1977 words)

	Journal of San Diego History
		She was born in Oakland, California, received a B. degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1881, and in 1883 came to San Diego as assistant principal and instructor at San Diego High School.
		San Diego State College was the first of the California State Colleges to do this when, on June 7, 1963, it conferred an honorary doctorate degree upon the late President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
		San Diego State College building plans call for a memorial fountain to be erected on the campus in honor of the memory of the late president and of the occasion of his historic visit to the campus.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/68july/landmarks.htm (10820 words)

	chiropractor san francisco - chiropractor san francisco
		San Francisco's frontier spirit and wild and ribald character caused it to become known as a gay mecca beginning in the nineteenth century.
		San Francisco International Airport, for example, would be located within San Mateo County but for the fact it is owned and operated by the City and County of San Francisco.
		San Francisco is the home of the San Francisco 49ers National Football League team, who play at Monster Park and the San Francisco Giants Major League Baseball team, who play at SBC Park.
	www.medicalgeo.com /Med-Topics-in-the-News-C---Con/chiropractor-san-francisco.html (8579 words)

	San Francisco magazine
		Once home to the famous Fillmore and a thriving fl middle class, San Francisco has suffered the steepest drop in African American population of any major U.S. city-and no longer has enough fl residents to fill the seats in Monster Park.
		As their progeny disperses, the matriarchs and patriarchs of prominent families fight on in a traumatized Bayview, the last fl community in what's supposed to be one of the greatest cities on earth.
		San Francisco has also become a city where manufacturing jobs have steadily been replaced by professional jobs requiring high levels of education, which low-income African Americans are less likely to have.
	www.sanfran.com /home/view_story/1394 (1582 words)

	San Francisco travel guide
		San Francisco is high up on the list of many people's top travel destinations, and with good cause — the city offers an amazing number of cultural, recreational and historical attractions all set against a backdrop of famous landmarks and natural beauty.
		Situated on a 120-sq-kilometre peninsula — bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, the north by the Golden Gate Strait and north-east by the Bay — San Francisco was once simply Yerba Buena (Good Herb), another obscure Spanish colonial fishing village, with a population of 400.
		With all the fawning over their city, San Franciscans are inevitably a bit smug.
	www.san-francisco-travel.us (431 words)

	Rexroth's San Francisco (1975) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		San Francisco is musically dormant but showing the first signs of a renaissance of modern jazz, possibly stemming from the teaching and example and hard work of John Handy, the City’s leading musician.
		The San Francisco Ballet, however, was defeated in its long struggle to become a civic institution, while on the other hand, Ann Halprin’s most far-out group became, without her being aware of it, institutionalized.
		A large number of successful novelists, and what are known in literary circles as “money writers,” migrated to San Francisco or Marin County, but this they had always done throughout the 20th century, and their presence made little difference in the cultural life of the City.
	www.bopsecrets.org /rexroth/sf/1975.htm (4511 words)

	SurferMag Message Boards: It's Official: ALL San Franciscans are KOOKS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The prod that woke this bedroom community at the base of the San Bernardino Mountains, whose 2005 population city officials estimate at 50,860, was a decision by San Francisco voters to pass an advisory measure banning military recruiters from schools.
		Calling San Franciscans a bunch of "kooks and nuts" and castigating supervisors for their "tomfoolery," the City Council unanimously approved a resolution "prohibiting the expenditure of city funds for attending conferences, training seminars and/or workshops to be held in the City of San Francisco."
		San Francisco's government "is full of a bunch of whacked-out liberals," shrieks one e-mail from a resident of Napa.
	forum.surfermag.com /forum/showflat.php?Number=927462 (2110 words)

	Local Party Internet Quarters
		San Francisco is a city with a diversity unparalleled by any society in the entire world with American economic liberties delivering fair opportunities to anyone.
		The San Francisco Local Party wants to create the change from the current political monoculture into a democracy that better reflects the diverse people that we are, while listening to who we represent better.
		As long as they are all San Franciscans, focusing on San Francisco issues (not on abortion and same-sex marriage, but on good schools for all, dog poop on the streets, muni, and city planning) then nobody needs to fear diversity on the board.
	www.localparty.org /sanfrancisco/sflp.html (2153 words)

	San Francisco
		Fisherman’s Wharf, which has been the home of San Francisco’s colorful fishing fleet for nearly a century and a quarter, is world famous for its wide variety of ocean fish.
		Designed by Joseph Strauss (whose statue is next to the bridge in the park on the San Francisco side), the bridge opened in 1937 at a cost of $35 million dollars.
		The boundaries of Russian Hill are generally considered to be Van Ness Avenue on the west, Washington Street on the south, Columbus Avenue on the east (northeast), and San Francisco Bay on the North.
	home1.gte.net /~vze2rdt7/SanFrancisco/sanfrancisco2.html (5196 words)

	San Francisco, CA Homes for Sale
		San Francisco was first discovered and settled by Spanish explorers who landed in Drake's Bay in 1575, claimed the land for Spain and named it "Puerto de San Francisco" after St. Francis.
		However, the spirit of San Franciscans could not be beaten by a mere force of nature and like the Phoenix, San Francisco rose from the ashes to regain its claim as one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
		San Francisco Unified School District is one of the oldest school districts in California.
	www.movoto.com /real-estate/homes-for-sale/san-francisco.html (3103 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: San Franciscans: Resort would be a treat
		San Francisco real estate investor Luke Brugnara is developing plans for a resort replicating his hometown at the site of the Silver City Casino.
		Those who believe San Franciscans -- perceived to be snobbish by some -- might be disgusted by a replication will be surprised to learn San Francisco natives are hardly bothered by the proposals.
		Alioto, whose family emigrated to San Francisco from Sicily, spends three months a year in Rome, but said her heart truly belongs to The City.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/2000/jan/12/509703916.html (914 words)

	History Societies & Museums-San Diego
		This is a list of the State Historical Landmarks for San Diego County.
		Primary focus is on lesbian and gay history and culture in the San Diego County and Tijuana region.
		Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is the 18th in the chain of 21 California Missions established by the Spanish Franciscans.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /links/societies.htm (2287 words)

	RGJ.com - San Franciscans gird themselves to battle ‘monster’ homes
		SAN FRANCISCO — The sign posted on this hilly picture-book street was a simple public notice of a proposed home building project.
		Because this was no regular residential add-on, but what they and other San Franciscans have come to know as a monster home — a 6,000-square-foot behemoth that would tower five stories high, casting neighbors in its shadow and stretching clear to its lot lines.
		But nowhere perhaps is the battle more pitched than in San Francisco, a city famous for its Victorian architecture and track record of vociferous historical preservation.
	www.rgj.com /news/stories/lifestyle/965092335.php (797 words)

	TravelApe.com - San Francisco Tours - Complete List of Tours in San Francisco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		San Francisco is bursting with an irresistible sense of fun and there are just so many fascinating sites to explore...
		San Francisco is a city of wonder and magic.
		San Francisco wins visitors' hearts, straightaway and effortlessly, and there's no better way to enjoy this city th...
	deals.travelape.com /san-francisco/deals-in-city/2640.html (1094 words)

	San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Committee - 1872
		There were plans to construct a railroad bridge from San Francisco to Oakland, and a “Bay Bridge Committee” was hard at work during early 1872 attempting to resolve political problems with the Central Pacific Railroad, as well as San Francisco and Oakland interests, to build such a bridge.
		The Bay Bridge Committee lately submitted its report to the Board of Supervisors, in which compromise with the Central Pacific was recommended; also the bridging of the bay at Ravenswood and the granting of railroad facilities at Mission Bay and on the water front.
		He does not now howl with the crowd, however, therefore suspicion must be cast upon his unselfish recommendations, and the most sordid and cringing motives attributed to him.
	www.sfmuseum.org /hist2/bbridge.html (306 words)

	The Top Ten Conservative Idiots, No. 135 - Democratic Underground
		For those of you who are unfamiliar with George Wallace, he was a staunch segregationist who became famous in 1963 when he attempted to prevent federal authorities from enrolling two fl students at the University of Alabama.
		Well, last week he was having a bit of a "joke" with the good people of San Francisco, suggesting that they may be an endangered species.
		the people of San Francisco are an endangered species," unless it's got something to do with the fact that one thing San Francisco is famous for is its large population of homosexuals, and therefore it would be good if they were all wiped out.
	www.democraticunderground.com /top10/03/135.html (2173 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Index for C
		Capuchinesses - A branch of the Poor Clares of the Primitive Observance, instituted at Naples, in 1538, by the Venerable Maria Longo
		Castellammare di Stabia - The seat of the diocese is an industrial city, situated on the Bay of Naples, on a slope of Monte Gauro, and famous for its health-giving mineral springs
		Chimalpain, Domingo (San Anton y Muñon) - A Mexican Indian of the second half of the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth centuries, who received a liberal education in the colleges for Indians of Mexico City under the direction of the clergy
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/c.htm (15605 words)

	growabrain: San Francisco Archives
		San Francisco is the central character in Paul Madonna’s contemplative new comic All Over Coffee.
		Vintage San Francisco Postcards, from America as it was.
		Since their first appearance in San Francisco on Easter weekend, 1979, the Sisters have been accused of "Ruining it for Everyone" with their habitual injection of gaiety into serious affairs including human rights, political activism and religious intolerance.
	growabrain.typepad.com /growabrain/san_francisco (1676 words)

	Amazon.com: Frommer's Irreverent Guide to San Francisco, 3rd Edition (Irreverent): Books: Liz Barrett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		San Francisco's famous palace hotels-which are as extravagantly grand as grande dames get-are finally getting a run for their money.
		We went to San Francisco in late July/early August, and you would be surprised at how you need to dress for San Francisco weather during these "summer" months.
		For example, there are many restaurants, shops, cafes, and entire neighborhoods which are the delight of San Francisco locals, and we were really pleased to be able to soak up some of that local mood.
	www.amazon.com /Frommers-Irreverent-Guide-San-Francisco/dp/0028637887 (1332 words)

	San Francisco History by Year
		From the archives of the Museum of the City of San Francisco
		Overview of San Francisco History 1776-1906 from Cal. Historical Soc.
		Vanished Waters of Southeastern San Francisco, by William C. Sharpsteen
	www.sfmuseum.org /hist1/index.html (145 words)

	Tales From Colma - Famous San Franciscans NOT Buried in Colma
		Many famous people have passed in and out of San Francisco, to be claimed by the residents as one of their own.
		Here's a list of those who were not buried in Colma and their place of rest.
		San Francisco City Supervisor who shot Milk and Moscone
	www.notfrisco.com /colmatales/notcolma.html (133 words)

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