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  San Francisco City Hall: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The city beautiful movement was a progressive reform movement in north american architecture and urban planning that flourished in the 1890s and 1900s...
San Francisco's City Hall is currently the world's largest base-isolated structure—a triumph of seismic retrofit[For more info, click on this link]ting.
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 SAN FRANCISCO - Encyclopedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition 1900-11
San Francisco's permanence as one of the greatest ports of the country is assured by its magnificent position, the wealth of its " back country," and its command of trans-Pacific and trans-continental commercial routes.
Under this charter San Francisco throve despite much corruption, and it was because the provisions of the State Constitution of 1879 seemed likely to compel the adoption of another charter that the city decisively rejected that constitution.
In 1855-1856 a disastrous commercial panic crippled the city; and in 1858, when at the height of the Fraser river gold-mine excitement it seemed as though Victoria, B.C., was to supplant San Francisco as the metropolis of the Pacific, realty values in the latter city dropped for a time fully a half in value.
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 Encyclopedia of San Francisco
In 1849, Norton was lured, as hundreds of thousands would be, to San Francisco by the dream of fortunes to be made in the Gold Rush.
The City Directory showed that by 1858, he was living at 255 Kearny, a boarding house of the working class that would not have been the home of the successful businessman.
It was an odd thing to be sure; but San Francisco was not devoid of characters in the 19th Century.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: San Francisco
Portola discovered the present San Francisco Bay 1 Nov., 1769, and as one of the chain of missions projected by Father Junipero Serra, the mission of San Francisco de Asis, called also the Mission Dolores, was founded 9 Oct., 1776 by his two Franciscan brethren Fathers Francisco Palou and Benito Cambon, both natives of Spain.
To meet his difficulty Pope Pius IX detached the Mexican territory from the Diocese of San Diego or Monterey, which had been erected by Pope Gregory XVI 27 April, 1840, and by decree of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda, 1 July, 1854, divided Upper California into the two dioceses of San Francisco and Monterey.
He was chancellor of the Archdiocese of San Francisco when he was chosen for the See of Monterey, in which diocese his administration was most successful, especially in defending the rights of the Catholic Indians.
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WAFF - SAN FRANCISCO At least a dozen people suffered minor injuries when a ferry crashed into a pier in a bustling tourist area of San Francisco.
Lucianne.com - San Francisco - Three openly gay candidates for Episcopal Bishop of California trailed in early voting on Saturday, signaling that members may avoid widening a rift over homosexuality in the global Communion.
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 San Diego - San Diego City Hall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
National city councilman and otay water board member - tony inocentes is the first member of the San Diego Hall of Shame.
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