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		<title>We Sailed on the Sloop John B</title>
		<description><![CDATA[   Fred Siemer came to San Francisco from Germany and established his own shipyard behind his home at Hunter&#8217;s Point. He built two scow schooners for his son-in-law, James Peterson, the Adelia and the Alma. Siemer built the Alma in 1891 and named it after his granddaughter.   Scow schooners carried the freight of the Bay and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hang Down Your Head Tom Mooney, Hang Down Your Head and Cry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Mooney in Prison The United States had been watching the events in Europe in 1916, and although the isolationists remained strong, more and more people had come to the conclusion that American intervention in World War II was on the horizon. The City of San Francisco had organized a Preparedness Day Parade to support [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://titlemn.com/?p=573</link>
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		<title>On the Waterfront in San Francisco-Prelude to Bloody Thursday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[San Francisco is a seaside city, and for much of its history a major port. The wind driven clipper ships were the first to sail into the West Coast port. Since the clipper ships depended on the vagaries of the wind, they often arrived in San Francisco with little or no notice and gangs of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://titlemn.com/?p=544</link>
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		<title>Area 51 and the Extraterrestrial Highway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[;City Guides is an organization in San Francisco that provides free tours to tourists and local residents of sites of historical interest in San Francisco. City Guides organizes the tours by subject, the waterfront, the theater, the gold rush. I signed up and was accepted for the City Guides training program, but I am also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://titlemn.com/?p=533</link>
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		<title>Der Kaiser Von Kalifornien ( The Emperor of California)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in Sacramento, California and went to Sutterville Elementary School. &#8220;Sutterville&#8221; is a reference to John Augustus Sutter, pictured at the left, born Johan Suter in February 1803 in the Kingdom of Saxony,whose father came from Neuchatel, Switzerland. Young Suter moved to and went to school in Switzerland. He joined the Swiss Army and became [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://titlemn.com/?p=524</link>
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		<title>Topology: Turning a Donought Hole into a Coffee Cup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The June 2010 edition of Discover Magazinehas an article on Harvard mathematician, Shing-Tung Yau. The article describes Dr. Yau as the man who has devised the math to describe string theory. String theory postulates that at the deepest reality the universe is composed of 10 dimensional vibrating strings. His particular branch of mathematics is topology. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://titlemn.com/?p=518</link>
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		<title>Birds Of A Feather Flock Together And Maybe Airplanes Too</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An article in the April 8, 2010 edition of Nature explores the way in which flocks of birds move together while flying in formation. Scientists mounted 16 gram GPS loggers on the back of homing pigeons in order to track the flight of each bird in a flock of up to ten birds. The experimenters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Chemistry of Breaking Bad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished watching the first season of the AMC television series Breaking Bad. The series chronicles the life of a high school chemistry teacher Walter White who learns that he has terminal lung cancer and who then turns to the production and sale of methamphetamine to hopefully create an inheritance for his teenage son [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://titlemn.com/?p=501</link>
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		<title>California Dreaming Climate Style-Daydreams of Disaster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AB 32 is the four year old California legislation that requires deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions in the state. The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and Valero Energy of Texas are sponsoring an initiative to place a measure on the November ballot which would suspend the plan until California unemployment falls to 5.5 % a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://titlemn.com/?p=492</link>
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		<title>War and Remembrance: If I Should Die In A Combat Zone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The piece of doggrel in the title ends &#8220;box me up and send me home, &#8221; and was a popular ditty among American soldiers in Vietnam. On March 14 HBO begins showing the ten part miniseries, Pacific, which is a retelling of World War II in the Pacific Theater. It follows by a couple of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://titlemn.com/?p=479</link>
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