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  2. City of Paris Dry Goods Co. - Wikipedia

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    The sign on the building's roof. The store's history is rooted in the 1849 California Gold Rush.The company was founded by Felix and Emile Verdier in May 1850 [2] when Emile arrived in the San Francisco Harbor on a chartered ship, the Ville de Paris (City of Paris), loaded with silks, laces, fine wines, champagne, and Cognac.

  3. List of United States post office murals - Wikipedia

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    San Francisco: History of San Francisco: Anton Refregier: 1946–48 San Francisco Tempera on gesso 1979 San Gabriel: San Gabriel County: Ray Strong: 1938 Los Angeles oil on canvas Located in the office of the postmaster San Mateo: Life in Early California: Tom Laman: 1935 210 S. Ellsworth Ave., San Mateo, CA 94401 San Mateo egg tempera on ...

  4. Victoria Clayton - Wikipedia

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    Victoria Clayton, née Walker, (born 1947) is a British author. She began writing at her parents' house in Cambridgeshire (after a couple of years living a bohemian lifestyle in London ). When dining one night in London she sat next to Bill McCreadle of publisher Rupert Hart-Davis who agreed to look at her manuscript, and in 1969, when she was ...

  5. Against all odds, Victoria’s Secret survived the Great ...

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    Emma Walmsley's GSK is settling its Zantac lawsuits for $2.2 billion, a space startup hits a milestone, and two authors share an excerpt of their new book, Selling Sexy: Victoria's Secret and the ...

  6. San Franciscan Nights - Wikipedia

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    The flipside of the UK version of this single was a song called "Gratefully Dead", another nod from the Animals to the San Francisco scene. Burdon's notion that San Francisco's nights are warm drew some derision from Americans more familiar with the city's climate – best exemplified by the apocryphal Mark Twain saying, "The coldest winter I ...

  7. List of national animals - Wikipedia

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    Ganges river dolphin (national aquatic animal) Platanista gangetica [33] Indian elephant (national heritage animal) Elephas maximus indicus [34] Indonesia: Komodo dragon (national animal) Varanus komodoensis [35] Javan hawk-eagle (national bird) Nisaetus bartelsi [35] Asian arowana (national fish) Scleropages formosus [35] Italy: Italian wolf ...

  8. San Francisco mayor announces the city will receive pandas ...

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    It will be San Francisco's first time hosting the beloved animals long-term — the result of a yearlong advocacy campaign, Breed said. San Diego previously announced it was receiving two pandas ...

  9. 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 U.S. state of California and the 17th most populous in the U.S.