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... that Serranus Clinton Hastings served as chief justice of both the Iowa and California Supreme Courts?
... that The Geysers, a geothermal power field located north of San Francisco, California, (power plant pictured) is the largest geothermal development in the world?
... that in 1927, Oregon congressman Maurice E. Crumpacker drowned in San Francisco Bay after claiming he had been poisoned?
... that Californian politician Lou Papan received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 1996?

May/June 2007

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