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  2. Forbidden City (nightclub) - Wikipedia

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    Forbidden City was a Chinese nightclub and cabaret in San Francisco, which was in business from 1938 to 1970, [1] and operated on the second floor of 363 Sutter Street, [a] between Chinatown and Union Square.

  3. Film base - Wikipedia

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    Kodak began working with acetate "safety film" as early as 1909, and started selling it in 1910 for 22 mm film. Acetate has always been used with 8 mm and 16 mm formats, as they were originally created for amateur home movie usage, and generally was used for most sub-35 mm formats to minimize risk to the general public. Several formats, such as ...

  4. Acetate - Wikipedia

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    An acetate is a salt formed by the combination of acetic acid with a base (e.g. alkaline, earthy, metallic, nonmetallic or radical base). "Acetate" also describes the conjugate base or ion (specifically, the negatively charged ion called an anion) typically found in aqueous solution and written with the chemical formula C 2 H 3 O − 2.

  5. Emergency contraception pill could be an alternative to ...

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    In the study, 133 women who were up to nine weeks' pregnant took a 60 milligram dose of ulipristal acetate, the active ingredient in the prescription contraceptive Ella, followed by misoprostol 24 hours later. For 97% of them, that drug combo was effective at inducing an abortion, an effectiveness equal to the mifepristone-misoprostol combination.

  6. Cellulose acetate film - Wikipedia

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    Cellulose diacetate film was first created by the German chemists Arthur Eichengrün and Theodore Becker, who patented it under the name Cellit, from a process they devised in 1901 for the direct acetylation of cellulose at a low temperature to prevent its degradation, which permitted the degree of acetylation to be controlled, thereby avoiding total conversion to its triacetate.

  7. List of companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area

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    This is a list of current and former companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area, broken down by type of business.. Fortune 500 rankings are indicated in parentheses. As of 2020, 38 Fortune 500 companies had headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area.

  8. Esta Noche (gay bar) - Wikipedia

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    Esta Noche (English: Tonight) was the first Latino gay bar in San Francisco and notably contributed to queer Latin culture. It operated from 1979 to 2014, and was located at 3079 16th Street between Valencia Street and Mission Street in San Francisco, California ( 37°51′27″N 122°24′29″W  /  37.85746941419939°N 122. ...

  9. The Cowsills - Wikipedia

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    Bill had an acetate of the song cut at DCT Recorders which ended up being played for a DJ at WLS (AM) in Chicago where it generated significant attention. The TV special was taped on January 5, 1969, in San Francisco. As the air date of March 18 approached, MGM changed their minds and released the single.