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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…

Albuquerque, Afonso de

(Encyclopedia) Albuquerque, Afonso deAlbuquerque, Afonso deəfôNˈzō dĭ əlb&oomacr;kĕrˈkə, –də älˌbəkĕrˈkə [key], 1453–1515, Portuguese admiral, the effective founder of the Portuguese Empire in…

Mayne, Thom

(Encyclopedia) Mayne, Thom, 1944–, American architect, b. Waterbury, Conn., grad. Univ. of Southern California (B.A., 1968), Harvard (M.A., 1978). In 1972 Mayne cofounded the firm Morphosis in Santa…

Lieberson, Peter

(Encyclopedia) Lieberson, Peter. 1946–2011, American composer, b. New York City. Lieberson studied composition at Columbia, where his teachers included modernists Milton Babbitt and Charles Wuorinen…

Cuzco

(Encyclopedia) Cuzco or Cusco Cuzco both: k&oomacr;ˈskō [key], city, alt. 11,207 ft (3,416 m), capital of Cuzco…