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2002 Baseball World Series Game 4

Wednesday, Oct. 23, at San Francisco Batting Summary Anaheim San Francisco   AB R H RBI   AB R H RBI Eckstein, ss 3 0 0 1 Lofton, cf 4 1…

Important Places in the Gay-Rights Movement

From Greenwich Village to San Francisco, sites that have helped shape the gay-rights movement The Stonewall Inn, Greenwich Village, New York. Source: WikiCommons Related Links American Gay…

Spanish Place Names

Hispanic heritage from coast to coast by Holly Hartman Alcatraz Island, now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, draws over a million visitors each year In 1846,…

Mexico: Presidents

Presidents Guadalupe Victoria (1824–1829) Vicente Ramón Guerrero (1829) Pedro Velez, Lucas Alamán Luis de Quintana, acting presidents (!829–1830) Anastasio Bustamante (1830–1832, 1837–1841)…

2002 Baseball World Series Game 5

Thursday, Oct. 24, at San Francisco Batting Summary Anaheim San Francisco   AB R H RBI   AB R H RBI Eckstein, ss 4 1 2 1 Lofton, cf 6 3 3…

Quito

(Encyclopedia) QuitoQuitokēˈtō [key], city (1990 pop. 1,100,847), N central Ecuador, capital of Ecuador and of Pichincha prov. After Guayaquil it is Ecuador's largest city. The setting of Quito is…

Satanism

(Encyclopedia) Satanism. The cult of Satan, or Satan worship, is in part a survival of the ancient worship of demons and in part a revolt against Christianity or the church. It rose about the 12th…

San Joaquin

(Encyclopedia) San JoaquinSan Joaquinsăn wäkēnˈ [key], river, c.320 mi (510 km) long, rising in the Sierra Nevada, E Calif., and flowing W then N through the S Central Valley to form a large delta…

beat generation

(Encyclopedia) beat generation, term applied to certain American artists and writers who were popular during the 1950s. Essentially anarchic, members of the beat generation rejected traditional…