Bud Selig also did not attend the San Francisco Giants ' baseball game on August 7 when Barry Bonds hit his record-breaking 756th home run ; after the event, Selig released a statement congratulating Bonds.

( Local and state governments also aided the financing, although the City and County of San Francisco did not do so willingly.

Gilson sold his production laboratory to a Japanese firm in the 1980s, but production has ceased since ; so did Chatham's, after the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.

Although his parents did not officially divorce until 1999, their marriage was in serious trouble throughout Walker's adolescence ; his father would often leave their Marin residence for extended periods to live in San Francisco with a male lover.

The Brewers did rebound and play well in September including a four-game sweep of San Francisco, but it was too little too late.

In 1982, Stanley B. Prusiner of the University of California, San Francisco announced that his team had purified the hypothetical infectious prion, and that the infectious agent consisted mainly of a specific protein – though they did not manage to isolate the protein until two years after Prusiner's announcement.

Paul Desmond ( born Paul Emil Breitenfeld ; November 25, 1924 – May 30, 1977 ) was a jazz alto saxophonist and composer born in San Francisco, best known for the work he did in the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for penning that group's greatest hit, " Take Five ".

Colombian vice-president Francisco Santos Calderón did not rule out allowing them to serve their sentences in Ireland.

The Marina District of San Francisco, hard hit by the 1989 earthquake, was built on fill that had been placed there for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition ( 1915 ), although liquefaction did not occur on a large scale.

The copper-nickel clad series of Washington Quarters started in 1965, and as part of the switch Denver and San Francisco did not stamp their mint marks from 1965 to 1967 in any denomination.

The negativity surrounding the 1906 San Francisco earthquake did little to improve the economic climate.

Makoto Hagiwara of Golden Gate Park's Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco is reported to have been the first person in the USA to have served the modern version of the cookie when he did so at the tea garden in the 1890s or early 1900s.

It did so in 1800, when " Joey " Grimaldi made his debut. Francisco de Goya: Itinerant Actors ( 1793 ).

Only upon returning to his native land did he find his true style, which is based on the national Spanish tradition embodied in the work of Diego Velázquez, Francisco de Zurbarán, El Greco, and Francisco Goya.

* 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake: About were ruptured ( although the rupture did not reach the surface ) near Santa Cruz, California, causing 63 deaths and moderate damage in certain vulnerable locations in the San Francisco Bay Area.

( Other prominent Mediterranean tenors of the late 19th century to early 20th century who, like Caruso, did not " bleat " were Angelo Masini, Francesco Tamagno, Francesco Marconi, Francisco Viñas, Emilio De Marchi, Giuseppe Borgatti and Giovanni Zenatello, while the phenomenon was rare among French, German, Russian and Anglo-Saxon tenors of the same period — see Scott.

The PRC views the Taiwan Relations Act as " an unwarranted intrusion by the United States into the internal affairs of China ," despite the fact that the post WWII Treaty of San Francisco did not award the territorial sovereignty of Taiwan to China.

As a result, the Warriors did not play their championship series playoff games in Oakland ; rather, they played at the Cow Palace in San Francisco.

He subsequently broke with Laemmle and sent Jack to establish a film exchange in San Francisco, while Sam did the same in Los Angeles.

Friedkin had asked his casting director to get a Spanish actor he had seen in Luis Buñuel's French film, Belle de Jour, who was actually Francisco Rabal, but Friedkin did not know his name, and Rey, who had played in several other films directed by Buñuel, was instead contacted.

Marcy hosted a news / talk show on KSRO, Santa Rosa, California ; then moved to KGO, the market leader in San Francisco, for 18 months ; and then did a syndicated show " The Food Guy and Marcy " with Guy Fieri from 2006 to 2009 ( available, in 2011, online ).

* PBS Twain Interactive Scrapbook and San Francisco Chronicle article documenting that Clemens did not say " The coldest winter I ever spent was summer in San Francisco.

He generally avoided, as he did throughout his career, atonal or serial works, but his choice of modern works nevertheless drew occasional complaints from conservative-minded members of the San Francisco audience.

* 415: 959-1122 San Francisco, CA < Current PB for all switches >

There are other 4NT conventions, such as Norman four notrump, San Francisco and Byzantine Blackwood, but almost all bridge partnerships employ some member of the Blackwood family as part of their slam-investigation methods.

But they were followed by a reactionary governor, Francisco Lersundi, who suppressed all liberties granted by the previous governors and maintained a pro-slavery regime.

Clippers sailed all over the world, primarily on the trade routes between the United Kingdom and its colonies in the east, in trans-Atlantic trade, and the New York-to-San Francisco route round Cape Horn during the California Gold Rush.

Violet Blue, an author, described this website as becoming " the new ' tubgirl ' and goatse all in one disgusting moment of choco-poo-love " in a San Francisco Chronicle article.

The glorification of Father Herman was performed on August 9, 1970, at Holy Resurrection Cathedral in Kodiak, Alaska by the OCA with parallel services at the Synodal Cathedral of Our Lady, Joy of all who Sorrow in San Francisco by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia ( ROCOR ).

On July 14, 2006, San Francisco businessman and real estate investor Clint Reilly filed a lawsuit against Hearst Corp. ( owner of the San Francisco Chronicle ) and MediaNews Group ( owner of the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Marin Independent Journal, Oakland Tribune and all other paid-circulation dailies in the Bay Area ), alleging that the two companies have been conspiring to control advertising rates, a violation of antitrust laws.

When the Treaty of San Francisco came into force all ethnic Koreans lost their Japanese citizenship and with it the right to welfare grants, to hold a government job of any kind or to attend Japanese schools.

In 2009 a federal court of appeals in San Francisco found that Ashcroft could be sued and held personally responsible for the wrongful detention of material witness Abdullah al-Kidd – an American citizen arrested in March 2003 and held for 13 months in maximum security to be used as a witness in the trial of Sami Omar Al-Hussayen ( who himself was acquitted of all charges of supporting terrorism ).

For example, the flags of Venezuela, of Colombia, and of Ecuador all use variants of the flag of Great Colombia, the country they composed upon their independence from Spain, created by the Venezuelan independence hero Francisco de Miranda ; and the flags of Egypt, of Iraq, of Syria, and of Yemen are all highly similar variants of the flag of the Arab revolt of 1916 – 1918.

San Francisco is all tired.

A 2007 study in San Francisco showed that groups of homeowners of all races tended to self-segregate in order to be with people of the same education level and race.

San Francisco Bay is spanned by eight bridges, all of them dedicated to vehicle traffic: the Golden Gate Bridge on Highway 101 ( which was the largest single span suspension bridge ever built at the time of its construction ) which connects San Francisco and Marin counties and is the only bridge in the area not owned by the State of California.

The county is home to several endangered species including the San Francisco garter snake, the Mission blue butterfly and the San Bruno elfin butterfly, all of which are endemic to San Mateo County.

* UCSF has its own fully functional police department, which carries out policing duties for its two major campuses as well as all satellite sites within the city and in South San Francisco.

San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2002 .</ ref > At the highest level, all the biological communities in the world form the biosphere, where its human participants form societies, and the complex interactions of meta-social systems such as the stock market.

It is also the second-longest continuously running Chinese community outside of Asia, only because the 1906 San Francisco earthquake all but destroyed the chinatown in San Francisco in California.

Mesoamericanist scholars such as Veitia, Manuel Orozco y Berra, Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, Francisco Clavigero all read the Aztec chronicles and believed them to be realistic historic descriptions of pan-Mesoamerican empire based at Tula, Hidalgo.

As San Francisco Chronicle music columnist Ralph J. Gleason put it, " They danced all night long, orgiastic, spontaneous and completely free form.

The lyrics, " If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair ", inspired thousands of young people from all over the world to travel to San Francisco, sometimes wearing flowers in their hair and distributing flowers to passersby, earning them the name, " Flower Children ".