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San Francisco s Top 10op 39 Top 10 Historic Figures !Junipero Serra This 18th-century Spanish cleric traveled up and down California establishing missions, including Mission Dolores (see p31). @John C. Fremont Instrumental in the US annexation of California in the mid-1800s, it was Fremont who dubbed the Bay straits the Golden Gate. John Muir Muir was a keen promoter vacanze last second of the National Parks move ment. The Muir Woods are named in his honor (see p78). $Leland Stanford One of the Big Four who masterminded the Transcon tinental railroad also founded Stanford University (see p125). %Mark Hopkins Another of the Big Four who struck it super-rich and lived on Nob Hill. ^Charles Crocker Another Big Four accom plice. The Crocker Galleria recalls his legacy (see p50 51). &A.P. Giannini Founder in 1904 of the Bank of Italy, later the Bank of America, Giannini financed the Golden Gate Bridge. *Harvey Milk The first openly gay poli tician to become a member of the Board of Supervisors was assassinated in 1978. (Dianne Feinstein One of the movers and shakers vacanze last second of San Francisco poli tics in recent vacanze last second decades, she became a US Senator in 1992. )Jerry Brown Buddhist vacanze last second monk and mayor of Oakland, this intellectual vacanze last second free spirit ran for president. San Francisco s Top 10op 39 Top 10 Historic Figures vacanze last second !Junipero Serra This 18th-century Spanish cleric traveled vacanze last second up and down California establishing missions, including Mission Dolores (see p31). @John C. Fremont Instrumental in the US annexation of California in the mid-1800s, it was Fremont who dubbed the Bay straits the Golden Gate. John Muir Muir was a keen promoter of the National Parks move ment. The Muir Woods are named in his honor (see p78). $Leland vacanze last second Stanford One of the Big Four who masterminded the Transcon tinental railroad also founded Stanford University (see p125). %Mark Hopkins Another of the Big Four who struck it super-rich and lived on Nob Hill. ^Charles Crocker Another Big Four accom plice. The Crocker Galleria recalls his legacy (see p50 51). &A.P. Giannini Founder in 1904 of the Bank of Italy, later the Bank of America, Giannini financed the Golden Gate Bridge. *Harvey Milk The first openly gay poli tician to become a member of the Board of Supervisors was assassinated in 1978. (Dianne Feinstein One of the movers and shakers of San Francisco poli tics in recent decades, she became a US Senator in 1992. )Jerry vacanze last second Brown Buddhist monk and mayor of Oakland, this intellectual free spirit ran for president. Caf sign, Haight-Ashbury

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St. Mary s Cathedral Critics abound who are ready to dismiss this parabolic form, but the soaring curves take the attention upward, in much the same fashion that tracery and peaked vaulting do in Gothic cathedrals (see p44).

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