Since the early 1990s, many American Chinese restaurants influenced by California cuisine have opened in San Francisco and the Bay Area.

In addition, many restaurants serving more native-style Chinese cuisines exist, due to the high numbers and proportion of ethnic Chinese in San Francisco and the Bay Area.

The Tampa Bay Area was also granted a franchise, the Devil Rays ( to be based in St. Petersburg ), at the same time.

It is said that Alameda has more pre-1906 earthquake era homes than any other city in the Bay Area.

Within 2 weeks of the Golden Gate Yacht Club winning the America's Cup, Alameda city council with local support sent a unanimous letter of support to hold AC 34 in San Francisco Bay Area.

* Bay Area Reporter, a newspaper

** San Francisco Bay Area, or simply the Bay Area

Born in Los Angeles, Walsh played running back in the San Francisco Bay Area for Hayward High School in Hayward.

Map of the Bay of Quinte Area

On November 15, 2007, attention was brought once again to Barry Bonds as he was indicted by a federal grand jury for perjury and obstruction of justice in connection to his testimony before the grand jury regarding the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative ( BALCO ), a San Francisco Bay area lab known to be involved in the distribution of steroids to professional athletes.

It settled on a location north of Oakland along the foot of the Contra Costa Range ( later called the Berkeley Hills ) astride Strawberry Creek, at an elevation about above the bay, commanding a fantastic view of the Bay Area and the Pacific Ocean through the Golden Gate.

The next big growth occurred with the advent of World War II, when large numbers of people moved to the Bay Area to work in the many war industries, such as the immense Kaiser Shipyards in nearby Richmond.

In 1960, a U. S. House committee ( HUAC ) came to San Francisco to investigate the influence of communists in the Bay Area.

A spin-off, " People's Park Annex ," was established at the same time by activist citizens of Berkeley on a strip of land above the Bay Area Rapid Transit subway construction along Hearst Avenue northwest of the U. C.

Some moved because of the rising cost of living throughout the Bay Area, and others because of the decline and disappearance of many industries in West Berkeley.

Satellite map of the San Francisco Bay Area from the U. S. Geological Survey.

This is particularly so in Sydney and Melbourne, where headways on many lines in the core of the network reach 3 – 5 minutes in peaks and 10 – 20 minutes off peak ( about 18 hours a day ) and enter an underground loop for passenger distribution in the city centre ; and where ridership per capita exceeds the sum of metro and commuter rail in comparable North American urban areas such as Toronto, Boston or the San Francisco Bay Area.

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After splitting the first two games at home, the Cubs headed to the Bay Area, where despite holding a lead at some point in each of the next three games, bullpen meltdowns and managerial blunders ultimately led to three straight losses.

The largest districts by population are District 4 ( San Francisco Bay Area ) and District 7 ( Los Angeles and Ventura counties ).

An 1865 San Francisco Pacific Railroad Bond approved in 1863 but delayed for two years by the opposition of the San Francisco Board of SupervisorsAlthough the Pacific Railroad eventually benefited the Bay Area, the City and County of San Francisco obstructed financing it during the early years of 1863-1865.

Captain Heard gave orders for the ship to be anchored in the Bay of Bengal until he could obtain the services of a reputable pilot to steer her through the shallow waters.

The grant, which stretched southward to Lake Traverse -- the headwaters of the Red -- was made in May, 1811, and by October of that year a small group of Scots was settling for the winter at York Factory on Hudson Bay.

Stickney is a salesman for Plee-Zing, Inc., 2544 Green Bay Rd., Evanston, a food brokerage and grocery chain firm, of which his father, William L. Jr., is president.

Then think of Delaware Bay and the ocean and you see that we have a supply of power for millions of years to come.

The territory is administered from Canberra by the Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport, which is also responsible for the administration of the territories of Christmas Island, Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands, the Coral Sea Islands, Jervis Bay and Norfolk Island.

Greenlip abalone have a minimum size of 145 mm, except for an area around Perkin's Bay in the north of the state where the minimum size is 132 mm.

The group proceeded to Little Andaman Island, where they spent ten days surfing several spots for the first time, including Jarawa Point near Hut Bay and the long right reef point at the southwest tip of the island, named Kumari Point.

The Member for Fraser and the ACT Senators also represent the constituents of the Jervis Bay Territory.

In 1988, when the ACT gained self-government, Jervis Bay became a separate territory administered by the Australian Government Minister responsible for Territories, presently the Minister for Home Affairs ( Australia ).

The early 1960s and 1970s ( up until his death in 1976 ) were marked by key works in Helsinki, in particular the huge town plan for the void in centre of Helsinki adjacent to Töölö Bay and the vast railway yards, and marked on the edges by significant buildings such as the National Museum and the main railway station, both by Eliel Saarinen.

Only two fragments of the overall plan were ever realized: the Finlandia Hall concert hall ( 1976 ) fronting Töölö Bay, and an office building in the Kamppi district for the Helsinki Electricity Company ( 1975 ).

The Falcons also wore their all-black uniform in 2007 against the New York Giants, and in 2008 against the Carolina Panthers and against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ( for the second time ).

The Atlanta Falcons wore 1966 throwback jerseys for 2 home games in 2009 – against the Carolina Panthers on September 20 and against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on November 29.

Finally, they traded Casey Fossum to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays for José Cruz, Jr.

Lord Sydney, as Secretary of State for the Home Office, was the minister in charge of this undertaking, and in September 1786 he appointed Phillip commodore of the fleet which was to transport the convicts and soldiers who were to be the new settlers to Botany Bay.

The ice reaches its maximum extent in February or March ; typical ice thickness in the northernmost areas in the Bothnian Bay, the northern basin of the Gulf of Bothnia, is about for landfast sea ice.

It refers to the Columbia District, the British name for the territory drained by the Columbia River, in southeastern British Columbia, which was the namesake of the pre-Oregon Treaty Columbia Department of the Hudson's Bay Company.

Bay ( laurel ) leaves are frequently packaged as tejpatta ( the Hindi term for Indian bay leaf ), creating confusion between the two herbs.

Bay leaves and berries have been used for their astringent, carminative, diaphoretic, digestive, diuretic, emetic and stomachic properties.

Bay oil, or oil of bays ( oleum lauri ) is used in liniments for bruises and sprains.

Bay leaf has been used as an herbal remedy for headaches.

* Official website for the Region of Bay of Quinte

Although the Orioles hovered around. 500 for much of the season, they had fallen back by September and were over 20 games behind the first place Tampa Bay Rays.