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  2. Saint Ignatius Church (San Francisco) - Wikipedia

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    The present Saint Ignatius Church is the fifth such church to be built in San Francisco. Its history runs parallel to that of USF and St. Ignatius College Prep: the very first Saint Ignatius was built in 1855 as a small wood-frame church beside a schoolhouse that became Saint Ignatius Academy, USF's predecessor.

  3. Pylorus - Wikipedia

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    The pyloric sphincter, surrounding the pyloric orifice is a strong ring of smooth muscle at the end of the pyloric canal which lets food pass from the stomach to the duodenum. It acts as a valve , controlling the outflow of gastric contents into the duodenum [ 6 ] and release of chyme .

  4. St. Ignatius College Preparatory - Wikipedia

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    St. Ignatius College Preparatory, colloquially referred to by Bay Area locals as SI, is a private, Catholic preparatory school in the Jesuit tradition, serving the San Francisco Bay Area since 1855. Located in the Archdiocese of San Francisco , in the Sunset District of San Francisco, St. Ignatius is one of the oldest secondary schools in the U ...

  5. A Confederacy of Dunces - Wikipedia

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    A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole's death. [2] Published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a foreword) and Toole's mother, Thelma, the book became first a cult classic, then a mainstream success; it earned Toole a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ...

  6. San Francisco - Wikipedia

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    San Francisco, [23] officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center within Northern California.With a population of 808,988 residents as of 2023, [14] San Francisco is the fourth-most populous city in the state of California and the 17th-most populous in the United States.

  7. Old St. Mary's Cathedral - Wikipedia

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    [7] [8] When it opened, it was the tallest building in San Francisco and all of California. [9] [10] [11] It was used from 1854 to 1891 as a cathedral and was replaced by the first Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption, as the archdiocese was in need of a larger space for the growing number of Catholics in the area. In 1891, Old Saint Mary ...

  8. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco - Wikipedia

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    In 1855, the Society of Jesus founded St. Ignatius Academy in San Francisco, the forerunner of the University of San Francisco. [9] Alemany founded Saint Mary's College in Moraga in 1863, then turned its operation over to the De La Salle Christian Brothers in 1868.

  9. Talk:Pylorus - Wikipedia

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    Pyloric canal; Pyloric antrum; This is for the following reasons: I plan to significantly expand the article on pylorus in the future and feel that it would be better to have the canal and antrum covered in this section under a 'structure' subheading. This would allow comparison between blood supplies, venous drainage, lymphatic and nervous supply.