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2. William Anthony Richardson - Wikipedia

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   Richardson arrived as second mate [2] aboard the British whaling ship Orion in San Francisco Bay in 1822, shortly after Mexico had won its independence from Spain. An English mariner who had picked up a fluency in Spanish during his travels, he jumped ship after meeting and dancing with a local woman, Maria Antonia Martinez, at an all-night fiesta. [3]

3. Maritime history of California - Wikipedia

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   Many whaling vessels preferred stopping in the San Francisco Bay Area before stopping to pay the high custom duties (also called tariffs and ad valorem taxes) at Monterey, California, wanted by the Californio government—avoiding taxes has a long history. By 1846 several hundred whaling ships per year were using Hawaii (then called the ...

4. Alum Rock, San Jose - Wikipedia

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   Alum Rock (/ ˈ æ l əm /) is a district of San Jose, California, located in East San Jose. Formerly an independent town, it has been a neighborhood of San Jose since the 1950s, [3] though some portions are still unincorporated as a census-designated place. [4] Alum Rock is one of San Jose's most notable and historic Chicano/Mexican-American ...

5. José Sarria - Wikipedia

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   José Julio Sarria (December 13, 1922 – August 19, 2013), [1] [2] also known as The Grand Mere, Absolute Empress I de San Francisco, and the Widow Norton, was an American political activist from San Francisco, California, who, in 1961, became the first openly gay candidate for public office in the United States.

6. Delta King - Wikipedia

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   Delta King is a 285-foot-long sternwheel steamboat (87 m) and the sister ship of Delta Queen, built in Glasgow, Scotland and Stockton, California for the California Transportation Company's service between Sacramento and San Francisco, California. She entered service in 1927 and continued until 1940.

7. Inside Israel’s daring raid that destroyed Iran-funded ...

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   Israel blew up an Iran sponsored Syrian missile factory after its elite commandos raided it last September. The missiles posed an existential threat to Israel amid its war against Tehran's proxies.