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The Wave Organ Audio recording of the Wave Organ in September 2011. The Wave Organ is a sculpture located in San Francisco, California.It was constructed on the shore of San Francisco Bay in May 1986 by the Exploratorium, [1] and more specifically, by installation artist and the Exploratorium artist-in-residence Peter Richards, who conceived and designed the organ, working with stonemason ...
Valves are what you have in your heart. your mouth, ass and pylorus are sphincters.--ZZ 03:16, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC) How about just "pylorus" -- anatomically correct? Barry Zuckerkorn 19:20, 24 January 2006 (UTC) Ignatius J. Reilly refers to it quite often as a valve. He is, I'm sure, far more superior in intelligence to the likes of you.
Pyloric sphincter * 10. Pyloric antrum * 11. Pyloric canal * 12. Angular incisure * 13. Gastric canal * 14. Rugal folds. The pylorus is the furthest part of the stomach that connects to the duodenum. It is divided into two parts, the antrum, which connects to the body of the stomach, and the pyloric canal, which connects to the duodenum. [2]
The San Francisco Bay Discovery Site is a marker commemorating the first recorded European sighting of San Francisco Bay. In 1769, the Portola expedition traveled north by land from San Diego, seeking to establish a base at the Port of Monterey described by Sebastian Vizcaino in 1602. When they reached Monterey, however, they were not sure it ...
San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge, looking southeast towards the City and East Bay. Alcatraz is the small islet in the upper-middle left. San Francisco Bay's profile changed dramatically in the late 19th century and again with the initiation of dredging by the US Army Corps of Engineers in the 20th century. Before about 1860, most ...
Steamboats operated in California on San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, and Sacramento River as early as November 1847, when the Sitka built by William A. Leidesdorff briefly ran on San Francisco Bay and up the Sacramento River to New Helvetia. After the first discovery of gold in California the first shipping on ...
[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 ...
In 1994, the Archdiocese of San Francisco reinstated Saint Ignatius Parish's status as a parish serving the surrounding neighborhood. [1] The Jesuit Provincial named Father Charles Gagan, S.J., long-time San Francisco native, as the third pastor in the church's history. He immediately began a campaign to replace the roof and fix the dome and ...