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1 day ago · San Francisco, city and port, northern California, U.S., located on a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay. It is a cultural and financial center of the western United States and one of the country’s most cosmopolitan cities.
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Jewish immigrants from Europe arrived in the city even...
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San Francisco - Urban, Hills, Bay: Hilly and roughly square,...
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San Francisco - Cultural, Museums, Parks: Several cultural...
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. San Francisco is located...
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Located midway up the California coast, San Francisco is a...
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Frank Nelson Doubleday (born Jan. 8, 1862, Brooklyn, N.Y.,...
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5 days ago · Designed for both classroom and homeschool settings, these resources make learning about North America’s geography, culture, and languages both educational and fun. Activities range from map labeling and detailed fact sheets to flag matching and lessons on greeting in 10 different languages.
5 days ago · The modest village was at first almost deserted as its population scrambled inland to the Mother Lode, and then it exploded into one of the most extraordinary cities ever constructed. Some 40,000 gold hunters arrived by sea, another 30,000 plodded across the Great Basin, and still another 9,000 moved north from Mexico.
1 day ago · California, constituent state of the United States of America. It was admitted as the 31st state of the union on September 9, 1850, and by the early 1960s it was the most populous U.S. state.
1 day ago · A map of the water features in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the bay and adjacent marshes, ponds, and tributaries. The Bay Area is home to a complex network of watersheds, marshes, rivers, creeks, reservoirs, and bays that predominantly drain into the San Francisco Bay and Pacific Ocean.
3 days ago · A look at San Francisco's City Beautiful Movement, a model of early city planning and architectural cohesion in a response to failing urban life, trying to improve cities through...
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4 days ago · The Metropolitan Statistical Area population of the Inland Empire (Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area) itself is more than 4.2 million people and is the 13th largest metropolitan area in the United States. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, it is the fastest growing area in the state.
