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Abutment

An abutment is the substructure at the ends of a bridge span or dam supporting its superstructure.

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Acrylic paint

Acrylic paint is a fast-drying paint made of pigment suspended in acrylic polymer emulsion and plasticizers, silicone oils, defoamers, stabilizers, or metal soaps.

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Aeroelasticity

Aeroelasticity is the branch of physics and engineering studying the interactions between the inertial, elastic, and aerodynamic forces occurring while an elastic body is exposed to a fluid flow.

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Akashi Kaikyo Bridge

The is a suspension bridge which links the city of Kobe on the Japanese island of Honshu to on Awaji Island.

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Alcatraz Island

Alcatraz Island is a small island offshore from San Francisco, California, United States. Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island are culture of San Francisco and landmarks in San Francisco.

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Amadeo Pietro Giannini, also known as Amadeo Peter Giannini or A. P. Giannini (May 6, 1870 – June 3, 1949) was an American banker who founded the Bank of Italy, which eventually became Bank of America.

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America's Favorite Architecture

"America's Favorite Architecture" is a list of buildings and other structures identified as the most popular works of architecture in the United States.

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American Institute of Architects

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a professional organization for architects in the United States.

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American Journal of Physics

The American Journal of Physics is a monthly, peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Association of Physics Teachers and the American Institute of Physics.

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American Society of Civil Engineers

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is a tax-exempt professional body founded in 1852 to represent members of the civil engineering profession worldwide.

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Americas

The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.

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Anemometer

In meteorology, an anemometer is a device that measures wind speed and direction.

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Angelo Joseph Rossi

Angelo Joseph Rossi (January 22, 1878 – April 5, 1948) was a U.S. political figure who served as the 31st Mayor of San Francisco from 1931 to 1944, a member of the Republican Party, he was Mayor of San Francisco during the Great Depression and World War 2.

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Antireligious campaigns in China

Antireligious campaigns in China are a series of policies and practices taken as part of the Chinese Communist Party's official promotion of state atheism, coupled with its persecution of people with spiritual or religious beliefs, in the People's Republic of China.

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Armenian Americans

Armenian Americans (translit) are citizens or residents of the United States who have total or partial Armenian ancestry.

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Armenian Youth Federation

The Armenian Youth Federation (AYF) (Հայ Երիտասարդական Դաշնակցութիւն) is the youth organization of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.

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Art Deco

Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.

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Automotive industry

The automotive industry comprises a wide range of companies and organizations involved in the design, development, manufacturing, marketing, selling, repairing, and modification of motor vehicles.

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Balfour Beatty

Balfour Beatty plc is an international infrastructure group based in the United Kingdom with capabilities in construction services, support services and infrastructure investments.

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Bank of America

The Bank of America Corporation (often abbreviated BofA or BoA) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered at the Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, with investment banking and auxiliary headquarters in Manhattan.

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Barrett and Hilp

Barrett and Hilp was a construction company and general contractor founded in San Francisco by Harold Hilp Sr.

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Barrier transfer machine

A barrier transfer machine, also known as zipper machine or road zipper, is a type of heavy vehicle that is used to transfer concrete lane dividers, such as Jersey barriers, in order to relieve traffic congestion during rush hours.

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Bay Area Rapid Transit

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California.

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Beauty pageant

A beauty pageant is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of the contestants.

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Bering Strait

The Bering Strait (Beringov proliv) is a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska.

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Bering Strait crossing

A Bering Strait crossing is a hypothetical bridge or tunnel that would span the relatively narrow and shallow Bering Strait between the Chukotka Peninsula in Russia and the Seward Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Bethlehem Steel

The Bethlehem Steel Corporation was an American steelmaking company headquartered in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

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Blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh

The blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh was an event in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

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Bobcat

The bobcat (Lynx rufus), also known as the red lynx, is one of the four extant species within the medium-sized wild cat genus Lynx.

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Build Back Better Plan

The Built Back Better America Initiative, Build Back Better Plan, or Build Back Better agenda, was a legislative framework proposed by U.S. president Joe Biden between 2020 & 2021.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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California Department of Transportation

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is an executive department of the U.S. state of California.

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California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo is a public university in San Luis Obispo County, adjacent to the city of San Luis Obispo.

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California State Legislature

The California State Legislature is a bicameral state legislature consisting of a lower house, the California State Assembly, with 80 members; and an upper house, the California State Senate, with 40 members.

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California State Route 1

State Route 1 (SR 1) is a major north–south state highway that runs along most of the Pacific coastline of the U.S. state of California. Golden Gate Bridge and California State Route 1 are U.S. Route 101.

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Cantilever bridge

A cantilever bridge is a bridge built using structures that project horizontally into space, supported on only one end (called cantilevers).

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Carpool

Carpooling is the sharing of car journeys so that more than one person travels in a car, and prevents the need for others to have to drive to a location themselves.

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CBS News

CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.

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Cetacea

Cetacea is an infraorder of aquatic mammals belonging to the order Artiodactyla that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises.

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Charles Alton Ellis

Charles Alton Ellis (18761949) was a professor, structural engineer and mathematician who was chiefly responsible for the structural design of the Golden Gate Bridge.

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Coit Tower

Coit Tower (also known as the Coit Memorial Tower) is a tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California, overlooking the city and San Francisco Bay. Golden Gate Bridge and Coit Tower are art Deco architecture in California, landmarks in San Francisco and san Francisco Designated Landmarks.

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Concrete

Concrete is a composite material composed of aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement that cures to a solid over time.

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Concurrency (road)

A concurrency in a road network is an instance of one physical roadway bearing two or more different route numbers.

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Congestion pricing

Congestion pricing or congestion charges is a system of surcharging users of public goods that are subject to congestion through excess demand, such as through higher peak charges for use of bus services, electricity, metros, railways, telephones, and road pricing to reduce traffic congestion; airlines and shipping companies may be charged higher fees for slots at airports and through canals at busy times.

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Corrosion

Corrosion is a natural process that converts a refined metal into a more chemically stable oxide.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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COVID-19 pandemic in the San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area, which includes the major cities of San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland, was an early center of the COVID-19 pandemic in California.

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COVID-19 vaccination mandates in the United States

Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 vaccine mandates have been enacted by numerous states and municipalities in the United States, and also by private entities.

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Daylight saving time

Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight saving(s), daylight savings time, daylight time (United States and Canada), or summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time.

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Death of Mahsa Amini

On 16 September 2022, 22-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, also known as Jina Amini, died in a hospital in Tehran, Iran, under suspicious circumstances.

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Deck (building)

In architecture, a deck is a flat surface capable of supporting weight, similar to a floor, but typically constructed outdoors, often elevated from the ground, and usually connected to a building.

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Diner

A diner is a type of restaurant found across the United States and Canada, as well as parts of Western Europe.

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Drowning

Drowning is a type of suffocation induced by the submersion of the mouth and nose in a liquid.

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Electronic toll collection

Electronic toll collection (ETC) is a wireless system to automatically collect the usage fee or toll charged to vehicles using toll roads, HOV lanes, toll bridges, and toll tunnels.

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Enerpac

Enerpac is a business division of Enerpac Tool Group (NYSE: EPAC) a $1.5 billion diversified global manufacturing company specialising in industrial tools, and is headquartered in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.

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FasTrak

FasTrak is the electronic toll collection (ETC) system used in the state of California in the United States.

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Finnila's Finnish Baths

Finnila's Finnish Baths—a.k.a. Finnila's—was a Finnish bathhouse and a health club in San Francisco, California.

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Fort Mason

Fort Mason, in San Francisco, California is a former United States Army post located in the northern Marina District, alongside San Francisco Bay.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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Frommer's

Frommer's is a travel guide book series created by Arthur Frommer in 1957.

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George Floyd protests

The George Floyd protests were a series of riots and demonstrations against police brutality that began in Minneapolis in the United States on May 26, 2020.

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Golden Gate

The Golden Gate is a strait on the west coast of North America that connects San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean.

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Golden Gate Bridge in popular culture

As a prominent American landmark, the Golden Gate Bridge has been used in a variety of media, often shown or mentioned where San Francisco, California is the setting of the story.

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Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District

The Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District is a special-purpose district that owns and operates three regional transportation assets in the San Francisco Bay Area: the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, the Golden Gate Ferry system and the Golden Gate Transit system.

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Golden Gate Ferry Company

Golden Gate Ferry Company was a private company which operated automobile ferries between San Francisco, Berkeley and Sausalito before the opening of the Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge.

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Golden Gate Transit

Golden Gate Transit (GGT) is a public transportation system serving the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in California, United States.

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Guidance Patrol

The Guidance Patrol (translit) or morality police is an Islamic religious police force and vice squad in the Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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Haitian deportation in the United States

After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the United States enabled a Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians currently residing in and those that would take refuge in the United States within a year of the earthquake.

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Half Way to Hell Club

The Half Way to Hell Club was an exclusive club organized by the men who fell from the Golden Gate Bridge during its construction in 1936 and 1937 and were saved by the safety nets.

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Hemimorphite

Hemimorphite is the chemical compound Zn4(Si2O7)(OH)2·H2O, a component of mineral calamine.

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Herbert Deakyne

Herbert Deakyne (December 29, 1867 – May 28, 1945) was a United States Army officer and engineer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Humboldt County, California

Humboldt County is a county located in the U.S. state of California.

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Hyde Street Pier

The Hyde Street Pier, at 2905 Hyde Street, is a historic ferry pier located on the northern waterfront of San Francisco in the U.S. state of California. Golden Gate Bridge and Hyde Street Pier are U.S. Route 101.

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Hypothermia

Hypothermia is defined as a body core temperature below in humans.

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Inauguration of Donald Trump

The inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States marked the commencement of Trump's term as president and Mike Pence's term as vice president.

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Injury

Injury is physiological damage to the living tissue of any organism, whether in humans, in other animals, or in plants.

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International orange

International orange is a color used in the aerospace industry to set objects apart from their surroundings, similar to safety orange, but deeper and with a more reddish tone.

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Irving Morrow

Irving Foster Morrow (September 22, 1884 – October 28, 1952) was an American architect best known for designing the Golden Gate Bridge.

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Israel–Hamas war

An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups has been taking place in the Gaza Strip and Israel since 7 October 2023.

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Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip

The Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip is a major part of the Israel–Hamas war.

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John A. Roebling

John Augustus Roebling (born Johann August Röbling; June 12, 1806 – July 22, 1869) was a German-born American civil engineer.

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Joseph Strauss (engineer)

Joseph Baermann Strauss (January 9, 1870 – May 16, 1938) was a German-American structural engineer who revolutionized the design of bascule bridges.

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KGO-TV

KGO-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving as the San Francisco Bay Area's ABC network outlet.

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Lead(II,IV) oxide

Lead(II,IV) oxide, also called red lead or minium, is the inorganic compound with the formula.

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Leading-edge slat

A slat is an aerodynamic surface on the leading edge of the wing of a fixed-wing aircraft.

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Lehigh University

Lehigh University (LU) is a private research university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania.

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Leon Moisseiff

Leon Solomon Moisseiff (November 10, 1872 – September 3, 1943) was a leading suspension bridge engineer in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s.

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List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in California

This is a list of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in the US state of California. Golden Gate Bridge and list of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in California are historic American Engineering Record in California.

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List of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks

The following is a list of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks as designated by the American Society of Civil Engineers since it began the program in 1964. Golden Gate Bridge and list of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks are historic Civil Engineering Landmarks.

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List of longest suspension bridge spans

The world's longest suspension bridges are listed according to the length of their main span (i.e., the length of suspended roadway between the bridge's towers).

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List of San Francisco Designated Landmarks

This is a list of San Francisco Designated Landmarks. Golden Gate Bridge and list of San Francisco Designated Landmarks are landmarks in San Francisco and san Francisco Designated Landmarks.

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List of suicide locations

The following is a list of current and historic sites frequently chosen to attempt suicide, usually by jumping.

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List of tallest bridges

This list of tallest bridges includes bridges with a structural height of at least.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Manhattan Bridge

The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan at Canal Street with Downtown Brooklyn at the Flatbush Avenue Extension. Golden Gate Bridge and Manhattan Bridge are historic Civil Engineering Landmarks and steel bridges in the United States.

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Marin County, California

Marin County (Condado de Marín) is a county located in the northwestern part of the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.

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Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys.

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Mezcala Bridge

The Mezcala Bridge (also known as the Mezcala-Solidaridad Bridge), is a cable-stayed bridge located in the state of Guerrero on Highway 95D in Mexico.

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Michael O'Shaughnessy

Michael Maurice O'Shaughnessy (28 May 1864 – 12 October 1934) was an Irish civil engineer who became city engineer for the city of San Francisco during the early twentieth century and developed both the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) and the Hetch Hetchy water system.

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Moveable bridge

A moveable bridge, or movable bridge, is a bridge that moves to allow passage for boats or barges.

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Municipal bond

A municipal bond, commonly known as a muni, is a bond issued by state or local governments, or entities they create such as authorities and special districts.

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Murder of George Floyd

On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old black American man, was murdered in Minneapolis by Derek Chauvin, a 44-year-old white police officer.

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Musical note

In music, notes are distinct and isolatable sounds that act as the most basic building blocks for nearly all of music.

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Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is an ethnic and territorial conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, inhabited mostly by ethnic Armenians until 2023, and seven surrounding districts, inhabited mostly by Azerbaijanis until their expulsion during the 1990s.

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National Highway System (United States)

The National Highway System (NHS) is a network of strategic highways within the United States, including the Interstate Highway System and other roads serving major airports, ports, military bases, rail or truck terminals, railway stations, pipeline terminals and other strategic transport facilities.

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North Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)

The North Bay is a subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area, in California, United States.

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North Coast (California)

The North Coast of California (also called the Redwood Empire or the Redwood Coast in reference to the dense redwood forests throughout the region) is a region in Northern California that lies on the Pacific coast between San Francisco Bay and the Oregon border.

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Open road tolling

Open road tolling (ORT), also called all-electronic tolling, cashless tolling, or free-flow tolling, is the collection of tolls on toll roads without the use of toll booths.

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Orthotropic deck

An orthotropic bridge or orthotropic deck is typically one whose fabricated deck consists of a structural steel deck plate stiffened either longitudinally with ribs or transversely, or in both directions.

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Pacific Bridge Company

Pacific Bridge Company was a large engineering and construction company.

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Pacific Gas and Electric Company

The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is an American investor-owned utility (IOU).

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Pete Wilson

Peter Barton Wilson (born August 23, 1933) is an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from California from 1983 to 1991 and as the 36th governor of California from 1991 to 1999.

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Police brutality in the United States

Police brutality is the use of excessive or unnecessary force by personnel affiliated with law enforcement duties when dealing with suspects and civilians.

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Polyvinyl chloride

Polyvinyl chloride (alternatively: poly(vinyl chloride), colloquial: vinyl or polyvinyl; abbreviated: PVC) is the world's third-most widely produced synthetic polymer of plastic (after polyethylene and polypropylene).

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Presidio of San Francisco

The Presidio of San Francisco (originally, El Presidio Real de San Francisco or The Royal Fortress of Saint Francis) is a park and former U.S. Army post on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in San Francisco, California, and is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

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Quentin L. Kopp

Quentin Lewis Kopp (born August 11, 1928) is an American attorney and politician.

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Rebar

Rebar (short for reinforcing bar), known when massed as reinforcing steel or steel reinforcement, is a steel bar used as a tension device in reinforced concrete and reinforced masonry structures to strengthen and aid the concrete under tension.

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Reversible lane

A reversible lane (or tidal flow) is a managed lane in which traffic may travel in either direction, depending on certain conditions.

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Richmond–San Rafael Bridge

The Richmond–San Rafael Bridge (officially renamed the John F. McCarthy Memorial Bridge in 1981) is the northernmost of the east–west crossings of California's San Francisco Bay, carrying Interstate 580 from Richmond on the east to San Rafael on the west. Golden Gate Bridge and Richmond–San Rafael Bridge are bridges in the San Francisco Bay Area, landmarks in the San Francisco Bay Area, Pedestrian bridges in California, road bridges in California, steel bridges in the United States and toll bridges in California.

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Rivet

A rivet is a permanent mechanical fastener.

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Round House Café

Round House Café is a café and diner in the Presidio of San Francisco, California next to the Golden Gate Bridge. Golden Gate Bridge and Round House Café are landmarks in San Francisco.

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Salt

In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl).

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San Andreas Fault

The San Andreas Fault is a continental right-lateral strike-slip transform fault that extends roughly through the U.S. state of California.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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San Francisco Bay

San Francisco Bay is a large tidal estuary in the U.S. state of California, and gives its name to the San Francisco Bay Area.

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San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a region of California surrounding and including the San Francisco Bay.

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San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.

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San Francisco Evening Bulletin

The San Francisco Evening Bulletin was a newspaper in San Francisco, founded as the Daily Evening Bulletin in 1855 by James King of William.

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San Francisco Ferry Building

| nrhp. Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco Ferry Building are san Francisco Designated Landmarks.

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San Francisco International Airport

San Francisco International Airport is the primary international airport serving the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California.

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San Francisco Municipal Railway

The San Francisco Municipal Railway (SF Muni or Muni), is the primary public transit system within San Francisco, California.

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San Francisco Peninsula

The San Francisco Peninsula is a peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area that separates San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean.

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San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge

The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, commonly referred to as the Bay Bridge, is a complex of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay in California. Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge are bridges in San Francisco, bridges in the San Francisco Bay Area, historic American Engineering Record in California, historic Civil Engineering Landmarks, landmarks in the San Francisco Bay Area, steel bridges in the United States, suspension bridges in California and toll bridges in California.

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Sausalito Ferry Terminal

Sausalito Ferry Terminal is a ferry terminal in Sausalito, California, connecting Marin County and San Francisco.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.

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Seismic retrofit

Seismic retrofitting is the modification of existing structures to make them more resistant to seismic activity, ground motion, or soil failure due to earthquakes.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.

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SFGate

SFGate is a news website based out of San Francisco, California, covering news, culture, travel, food, politics and sports in the San Francisco Bay Area, Hawaii and California.

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Southern Pacific Transportation Company

The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials) was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1996 and operated largely in the Western United States.

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Spall

Spall are fragments of a material that are broken off a larger solid body.

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Special district (United States)

Special districts (also known as special service districts, special district governments, or limited purpose entities) are independent, special-purpose governmental units that exist separately from local governments such as county, municipal, and township governments, with substantial administrative and fiscal independence.

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Speed limit

Speed limits on road traffic, as used in most countries, set the legal maximum speed at which vehicles may travel on a given stretch of road.

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Sponsoring something (or someone) is the act of supporting an event, activity, person, or organization financially or through the provision of products or services.

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State highways in California

The state highway system of the U.S. state of California is a network of highways that are owned and maintained by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans).

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Strait

A strait is a landform connecting two seas or two water basins.

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Suicide bridge

A suicide bridge is a bridge used frequently by people to end their lives, most typically by jumping off and into the water or ground below.

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Suicide by jumping from height

Jumping from a dangerous location, such as from a high window, balcony, or roof, or from a cliff, dam, or bridge, is a common suicide method.

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Suicide prevention

Suicide prevention is a collection of efforts to reduce the risk of suicide.

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Sunrise Movement

Sunrise Movement is an American 501(c)(4) political action organization that advocates political action on climate change.

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Suspension bridge

A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders.

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Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940)

The 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge, the first bridge at this location, was a suspension bridge in the U.S. state of Washington that spanned the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound between Tacoma and the Kitsap Peninsula. Golden Gate Bridge and Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940) are historic Civil Engineering Landmarks and steel bridges in the United States.

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The Bridge (2006 documentary film)

The Bridge is a 2006 documentary film by Eric Steel spanning one year of filming at the Golden Gate Bridge which crosses the Golden Gate entrance to San Francisco Bay, connecting the city of San Francisco, California to the Marin Headlands of Marin County, in 2004.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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There's a Silver Moon on the Golden Gate

"There's a Silver Moon on the Golden Gate" is the official song commemorating the opening the Golden Gate Bridge in May 1937.

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Thesis

A thesis (theses), or dissertation (abbreviated diss.), is a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings.

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Tide

Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent, the Sun) and are also caused by the Earth and Moon orbiting one another.

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Traffic cone

Traffic cones, also called pylons, witches' hats, road cones, highway cones, safety cones, caution cones, channelizing devices, construction cones, roadworks cones, or just cones, are usually cone-shaped markers that are placed on roads or footpaths to temporarily redirect traffic in a safe manner.

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Transbay Tube

The Transbay Tube is an underwater rail tunnel that carries Bay Area Rapid Transit's four transbay lines under San Francisco Bay between the cities of San Francisco and Oakland in California.

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Truss arch bridge

A truss arch bridge combines the elements of the truss bridge and the arch bridge.

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Truss bridge

A truss bridge is a bridge whose load-bearing superstructure is composed of a truss, a structure of connected elements, usually forming triangular units.

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Turnstile

A turnstile (also called a turnpike, gateline, baffle gate, automated gate, turn gate in some regions) is a form of gate which allows one person to pass at a time.

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U.S. Bicycle Route 95

U.S. Bicycle Route 95 (USBR 95) is a U.S. Numbered Bicycle Route in California, Washington, and Alaska along the West Coast in the United States, that is also planned to run through Oregon.

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U.S. Route 101

U.S. Route 101, or U.S. Highway 101 (US 101), is a north–south highway that traverses the states of California, Oregon, and Washington on the West Coast of the United States.

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U.S. Route 101 in California

U.S. Route 101 (US 101) is a major north–south United States Numbered Highway, stretching from Los Angeles, California, to Tumwater, Washington. Golden Gate Bridge and U.S. Route 101 in California are U.S. Route 101.

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Ukiah Daily Journal

The Ukiah Daily Journal is an American daily paid newspaper which serves the city of Ukiah and surrounding Mendocino County, California.

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United States Department of Transportation

The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT or DOT) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government.

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United States Department of War

The United States Department of War, also called the War Department (and occasionally War Office in the early years), was the United States Cabinet department originally responsible for the operation and maintenance of the United States Army, also bearing responsibility for naval affairs until the establishment of the Navy Department in 1798, and for most land-based air forces until the creation of the Department of the Air Force on September 18, 1947.

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United States Navy in Vieques, Puerto Rico

The Vieques, Puerto Rico, Naval Training Range was a United States naval facility located on the island of Vieques, about 5 miles east of mainland Puerto Rico.

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United States Secretary of War

The secretary of war was a member of the U.S. president's Cabinet, beginning with George Washington's administration.

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United States support for Israel in the Israel–Hamas war

Following the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel and outbreak of the Israel–Hamas war, the United States began to send warships and military aircraft into the Eastern Mediterranean and began sending Israel more military supplies.

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University of California Press

The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.

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University of Cincinnati

The University of Cincinnati (UC or Cincinnati, informally Cincy) is a public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.

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Urban Partnership Agreement

The Urban Partnership Agreement (UPA) is an effort of the United States Department of Transportation and agencies in four metropolitan areas across the country which are testing out several technologies as an effort to reduce congestion in urban areas.

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Van Ness Avenue

Van Ness Avenue is a north–south thoroughfare in San Francisco, California. Golden Gate Bridge and Van Ness Avenue are U.S. Route 101.

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Vermilion

Vermilion (sometimes vermillion) is a color family and pigment most often used between antiquity and the 19th century from the powdered mineral cinnabar (a form of mercury sulfide).

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Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge

The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, also referred to as the Narrows Bridge, the Verrazzano Bridge, and simply the Verrazzano, is a suspension bridge connecting the New York City boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn. Golden Gate Bridge and Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge are roads with a reversible lane and steel bridges in the United States.

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Video tolling

Video tolling (sometimes referred to as video billing, toll by plate, pay by mail, or pay by plate) is a form of electronic toll collection that uses video or still images of a vehicle's license plate to identify a vehicle liable to pay a road toll.

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Visitor center

A visitor center or centre (see American and British English spelling differences), visitor information center or tourist information centre is a physical location that provides information to tourists.

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Wall Street Crash of 1929

The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, Crash of '29, or Black Tuesday, was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929.

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Whale watching

Whale watching is the practice of observing whales and dolphins (cetaceans) in their natural habitat.

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Wind tunnel

Wind tunnels are machines in which objects are held stationary inside a tube, and air is blown around it to study the interaction between the object and the moving air.

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Wire

Overhead power cabling. The conductor consists of seven strands of steel (centre, high tensile strength), surrounded by four outer layers of aluminium (high conductivity). Sample diameter 40 mm A wire is a flexible, round, bar of metal.

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Wire rope

Steel wire rope (right hand lang lay) Wire rope is composed of as few as two solid, metal wires twisted into a helix that forms a composite rope, in a pattern known as laid rope.

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Wonders of the World

Various lists of the Wonders of the World have been compiled from antiquity to the present day, in order to catalogue the world's most spectacular natural features and human-built structures.

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Woody Harrelson

Woodrow Tracy Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor.

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2008 Tibetan unrest

The 2008 Tibetan unrest, also referred to as the 2008 Tibetan uprising in Tibetan media, was a series of protests and demonstrations over the Chinese government's treatment and persecution of Tibetans.

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8 minutes 46 seconds

8 minutes 46 seconds (8:46) is a symbol of police brutality that originated from the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_Bridge

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