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SS City of Chester'

... that the SS City of Chester's (pictured) Chinese crew's efforts to help during its 1888 shipwreck, reduced anti-Chinese xenophobia?
... that the Oceanic Society ran its first whale watching trip to the Farallon Islands in 1975 aboard a former Coast Guard Cutter?

... that Silicon Valley's creator, Mike Judge, once worked at a Silicon Valley startup company with about 40 employees?
... that muralist Victor Mikhail Arnautoff (pictured) became a naturalized U.S. citizen, and taught at Stanford for two decades, but returned to the Soviet Union after the death of his wife?

June 2014

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