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San Rafael, California, the Glossary

San Rafael (Spanish for "St. Raphael") is a city and the county seat of Marin County, California, United States.^[1]

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1874 establishments in California
Spanish mission settlements in North America

Albert Park, San Rafael

Albert Park is a baseball field that is now home to the San Rafael Pacifics.

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Ali Akbar College of Music

The Ali Akbar College of Music (AACM) is the name of three schools founded by Indian musician Ali Akbar Khan to teach Indian classical music.

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Ali Akbar Khan

Ali Akbar Khan (14 April 192218 June 2009) was an Indian Hindustani classical musician of the Maihar gharana, known for his virtuosity in playing the sarod.

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Alta California

Alta California ('Upper California'), also known as Nueva California ('New California') among other names, was a province of New Spain formally established in 1804.

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The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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American Graffiti

American Graffiti is a 1973 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by George Lucas, produced by Francis Ford Coppola, written by Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz and Lucas, and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Harrison Ford, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips, Bo Hopkins, and Wolfman Jack.

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Andrew Leker

Andrew Leker is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

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Archangel

Archangels are described as the second-lowest rank of angel in De Coelesti Hierarchia (On the Celestial Hierarchy) written by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in the 5th or 6th century.

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Area codes 415 and 628

Area codes 415 and 628 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the city of San Francisco and its northern suburbs in Marin County (across the Golden Gate), and the northeast corner of San Mateo County in the U.S. state of California.

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Asistencias

Asistencias or visitas were smaller sub-missions of Catholic missions established during the 16th-19th centuries of the Spanish colonization of the Americas and the Philippines.

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Atlanta Braves

The Atlanta Braves are an American professional baseball team based in the Atlanta metropolitan area.

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Atlanta Falcons

The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta.

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Autodesk

Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational software corporation that provides software products and services for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, education, and entertainment industries.

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Bill English (computer engineer)

William Kirk English (January 27, 1929July 26, 2020) was an American computer engineer who contributed to the development of the computer mouse while working for Douglas Engelbart at SRI International's Augmentation Research Center.

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BioMarin Pharmaceutical

BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. is an American biotechnology company headquartered in San Rafael, California.

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Brad Gilbert

Brad Gilbert (born August 9, 1961) is an American former professional tennis player, tennis coach, and tennis commentator and analyst for ESPN.

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Broderbund

Broderbund Software, Inc. (stylized as Brøderbund) was an American maker of video games, educational software, and productivity tools.

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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 Democratic Party

The California Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of California.

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California Republican Party

The California Republican Party (CAGOP) is the affiliate of the United States Republican Party in the U.S. state of California.

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California State Assembly

The California State Assembly is the lower house of the California State Legislature, the upper house being the California State Senate.

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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's 12th State Assembly district

California's 12th State Assembly district is one of 80 California State Assembly districts.

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California's 2nd congressional district

California's 2nd congressional district is a U.S. congressional district in California.

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California's 2nd senatorial district

California's 2nd senatorial district is one of 40 California State Senate districts.

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The Canadian Football League (CFL; Ligue canadienne de football—LCF) is a professional sports league in Canada.

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Cannabis

Cannabis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cannabaceae.

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Carlos Santana

Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán (born July 20, 1947) is an American guitarist, best known as a founding member of the rock band Santana.

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Carmen Sandiego (video game series)

Carmen Sandiego is a series of American educational mystery video games that spawned an edutainment franchise of the same name.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.

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Census-designated place

A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.

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Central Valley (California)

The Central Valley is a broad, elongated, flat valley that dominates the interior of California.

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Charles Dorman Robinson

Charles Dorman Robinson (alternate: Charles Dormon Robinson; nickname: C.D.) (July 17, 1847 - May 8, 1933) was an American panorama, cyclorama, landscape, and marine painter.

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Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport

Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport is a domestic airport located northwest of downtown Santa Rosa, California, in Sonoma County, California, United States.

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Chiang Mai

Chiang Mai is the largest city in northern Thailand, the capital of Chiang Mai province and the second largest city in Thailand.

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China Camp State Park

China Camp State Park is a state park in Marin County, California, surrounding a historic Chinese American shrimp-fishing village and a salt marsh.

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Choplifter

Choplifter (stylized as Choplifter!) is a military themed scrolling shooter developed by Dan Gorlin for the Apple II and published by Broderbund in 1982.

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Christian Mortensen

Thomas Peter Thorvald Kristian Ferdinand Mortensen (August 16, 1882 – April 25, 1998), known as Christian Mortensen, was a Danish supercentenarian who resided in California, United States.

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Christians

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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City manager

A city manager is an official appointed as the administrative manager of a city in the council–manager form of city government.

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Coast Miwok

The Coast Miwok are an Indigenous people of California that were the second-largest tribe of the Miwok people.

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Commuter rail

Commuter rail, or suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates within a metropolitan area, connecting commuters to a central city from adjacent suburbs or commuter towns.

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Computer mouse

A computer mouse (plural mice, also mouses) is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface.

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Conquest of California

The Conquest of California, also known as the Conquest of Alta California or the California Campaign, was a military campaign of the Mexican–American War carried out by the United States in Alta California (modern-day California), then a part of Mexico.

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Council–manager government

The council–manager government is a form of local government used for municipalities, counties, or other equivalent regions, commonly used in the United States and the Republic of Ireland.

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County seat

A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish.

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CRN (magazine)

CRN is an American computer publication.

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Cynthia Harvey

Cynthia Harvey (born May 17, 1957) is an American former ballet dancer, ballet mistress and educator.

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Dana Sabraw

Dana Makoto Sabraw (born July 3, 1958) is the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.

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Dave Archer (painter)

Dave Archer (born David Archer Nelson on January 15, 1941) is an American reverse glass painter and sculptor.

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Decline to State

Decline to State (DTS) was an affiliation designation on the California voter registration form that allows voters to register to vote without choosing a party affiliation.

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Degaussing

Degaussing is the process of decreasing or eliminating a remnant magnetic field.

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Demonym

A demonym or gentilic is a word that identifies a group of people (inhabitants, residents, natives) in relation to a particular place.

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Detroit Lions

The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit.

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Domestic partnership

A domestic partnership is an intimate relationship between people, usually couples, who live together and share a common domestic life but who are not married (to each other or to anyone else).

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Dominican University of California

Dominican University of California is a private university in San Rafael, California.

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Don Daglow

Don Daglow (born circa 1953) is an American video game designer, programmer, and producer.

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Doug Carlston

Douglas Gene Carlston (born April 30, 1947 in Boston, Massachusetts) is the founder and CEO of Tawala Systems based in San Rafael, California.

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EA Sports

EA Sports is a division of Electronic Arts that develops and publishes sports video games.

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East Bay

The East Bay is the eastern region of the San Francisco Bay Area and includes cities along the eastern shores of the San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay.

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Elastica

Elastica were an English rock band formed in London in 1992 by ex-Suede members Justine Frischmann and Justin Welch.

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Elizabeth Charleston

Elizabeth Charleston was a San Francisco native who painted impressionist flower and landscape paintings.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction.

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Ethan Hawke

Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is an American actor, author and film director.

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Factor 5

Factor 5 GmbH is an independent software and video game developer.

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Falkirk

Falkirk (Fawkirk; An Eaglais Bhreac) is a town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, historically within the county of Stirlingshire.

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Family (US census)

A family is defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes as "a group of two people or more (one of whom is the householder) related by birth, marriage, or adoption, and residing together; all such people (including related subfamily members) are considered as members of one family." A family household is more inclusive, consisting of "a household maintained by a householder who is in a family (as defined above), and includes any unrelated people (unrelated subfamily members and/or secondary individuals) who may be residing there." In 2014, the US Census Bureau began including same-sex marriages in their counts of families and family households.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) of the United States are a set of publicly announced standards that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed for use in computer situs of non-military United States government agencies and contractors.

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First Mexican Empire

The Mexican Empire (Imperio Mexicano) was a constitutional monarchy, the first independent government of Mexico and the only former viceroyalty of the Spanish Empire to establish a monarchy after independence.

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Flight simulator

A flight simulator is a device that artificially re-creates aircraft flight and the environment in which it flies, for pilot training, design, or other purposes.

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Full Throttle (1995 video game)

Full Throttle is a 1995 graphic adventure video game developed by LucasArts and designed by Tim Schafer.

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GameSpot

GameSpot is an American video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information on video games.

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Gattaca

Gattaca is a 1997 American dystopian science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol in his feature directorial debut.

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General officer

A general officer is an officer of high rank in the armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica.

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George Duke

George M. Duke (January 12, 1946 – August 5, 2013) was an American keyboardist, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer.

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George Lucas

George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and philanthropist.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Gladys Kathleen Parkin

Gladys Kathleen Parkin (September 27, 1900 – August 3, 1990) was one of the earliest and youngest women to obtain a first-class government-issued radio license.

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Gold Box

Gold Box is a series of role-playing video games produced by Strategic Simulations from 1988 to 1992.

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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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Greyhound Lines

Greyhound Lines, Inc. (Greyhound) is a company that operates the largest intercity bus service in North America.

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Grim Fandango

Grim Fandango is a 1998 adventure game directed by Tim Schafer and developed and published by LucasArts for Microsoft Windows.

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Guide Dogs for the Blind

Guide Dogs for the Blind (GDB) is a guide dog school located in the United States, with campuses in San Rafael, California, and Boring, Oregon.

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Hearts of Space

Hearts of Space is an American weekly syndicated public radio show featuring music of a contemplative nature"When you listen to space and ambient music you are connecting with a tradition of contemplative sound experience whose roots are ancient and diverse.

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In Defense of Animals

In Defense of Animals (IDA) is an animal protection organization founded in 1983 in San Rafael, California, US.

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Income

Income is the consumption and saving opportunity gained by an entity within a specified timeframe, which is generally expressed in monetary terms.

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Independent Games Festival

The Independent Games Festival (IGF) is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), the largest annual gathering of the independent video game industry.

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Indian classical music

Indian Classical Music is the classical music of the Indian Subcontinent.

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Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones is an American media franchise consisting of five films and a prequel television series, along with games, comics, and tie-in novels, that depicts the adventures of Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones Jr. (portrayed in all films by Harrison Ford), a fictional professor of archaeology.

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Industrial Light & Magic

Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is an American motion picture visual effects company that was founded on May 26, 1975 by George Lucas.

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Interstate 580 (California)

Interstate 580 (I-580) is an approximately east–west auxiliary Interstate Highway in Northern California.

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Isabel Allende

Isabel Angélica Allende Llona (born 2 August 1942) is a Chilean-American writer.

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James Hetfield

James Alan Hetfield (born August 3, 1963) is an American musician.

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Jared Goff

Jared Thomas Goff (born October 14, 1994) is an American football quarterback for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL).

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Julian Eggebrecht

Julian Eggebrecht is a German video game businessman.

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Justine Frischmann

Justine Elinor Frischmann (born 16 September 1969) is an English artist and retired musician.

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Kaiser Permanente

Kaiser Permanente (KP) is an American integrated managed care consortium, based in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles

La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles (English: "The Church of Our Lady Queen of the Angels") is a historic Catholic church in Los Angeles, California, located on the historic Plaza de Los Ángeles near Downtown Los Angeles.

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Larkspur Landing

Larkspur Landing, also known as Larkspur Ferry Terminal, is the main Golden Gate Ferry terminal in Larkspur, California, in Marin County, north of San Francisco.

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Larkspur station

Larkspur station is a Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) station in Larkspur, California.

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Lauren Grandcolas

Lauren Grandcolas (August 31, 1963 – September 11, 2001) was one of the passengers on board United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, who made calls providing information about the hijacking of the flight as part of the September 11 attacks.

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List of counties in California

The U.S. state of California is divided into 58 counties.

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List of municipalities in California

California is a state located in the Western United States. San Rafael, California and List of municipalities in California are Incorporated cities and towns in California.

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List of United States urban areas

This is a list of urban areas in the United States as defined by the United States Census Bureau, ordered according to their 2020 census populations.

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Llewellyn F. Haskell

Llewellyn Frost Haskell (born Thomas Frost Haskell; October 8, 1842 – November 26, 1929) was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War.

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Local Agency Formation Commission

Local Agency Formation Commissions or LAFCOs are regional service planning agencies of the State of California.

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Lode Runner

Lode Runner is a 2D puzzle-platform game, developed by Doug Smith and published by Broderbund in 1983.

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Lonate Pozzolo

Lonate Pozzolo is a town and comune located in the province of Varese, in the Lombardy region of northern Italy.

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Lucas Valley-Marinwood, California

Lucas Valley-Marinwood is a census-designated place (CDP) in Marin County, California, United States.

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Lucasfilm

Lucasfilm Ltd.

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Lucasfilm Games

Lucasfilm Games (known as LucasArts between 1990 and 2021) is an American video game licensor and a subsidiary of Lucasfilm.

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Marc Diraison

Marcus Diraison is an American voice actor, ADR director and script writer who has worked for Bang Zoom! Entertainment, NYAV Post, 4Kids Entertainment and DuArt Film and Video.

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Marin Academy

Marin Academy (familiarly known as MA) is a private college preparatory high school in San Rafael, California.

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Marin Civic Center station

Marin Civic Center station is a Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit station in San Rafael, California, located adjacent to the Marin County Civic Center.

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Marin County Board of Supervisors

The Marin County Board of Supervisors is the governing body for the unincorporated areas of Marin County, California in the San Francisco Bay Area's North Bay region.

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Marin County Civic Center

The Marin County Civic Center, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is located in San Rafael, California, the county seat of Marin County, California, 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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Marin Sais

Marin Sais (born Mae Smith; August 2, 1890 – December 31, 1971) was an American actress whose career was most prolific during the silent film era of the 1910s and 1920s.

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Marin Transit

Marin Transit is a public bus agency in Marin County, California, in the United States.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.

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Massively multiplayer online role-playing game

A massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a video game that combines aspects of a role-playing video game and a massively multiplayer online game.

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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Mediterranean climate

A Mediterranean climate, also called a dry summer climate, described by Köppen as Cs, is a temperate climate type that occurs in the lower mid-latitudes (normally 30 to 44 north and south latitude).

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Metallica is an American heavy metal band.

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Mexican secularization act of 1833

The Mexican Secularization Act of 1833, officially called the Decree for the Secularization of the Missions of California, was an act passed by the Congress of the Union of the First Mexican Republic which secularized the Californian missions.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Michael Johnson (sprinter)

Michael Duane Johnson (born September 13, 1967) is an American retired sprinter who won four Olympic gold medals and eight World Championships gold medals in the span of his career.

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Michael Savage

Michael Alan Weiner (born March 31, 1942), known by his professional name Michael Savage, is an American right-wing author, political commentator, activist, and former radio host.

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Miller Creek (Marin County, California)

Miller Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Miller Creek Elementary School District

The Miller Creek Elementary School District, formerly the Dixie School District, is a school district located in San Rafael, California that operates four schools in the northern portion of the city: Mary E. Silveira Elementary School in the Marinwood area, Vallecito Elementary School in the Terra Linda area, Lucas Valley Elementary School, and Miller Creek Middle School in the Marinwood area.

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Milwaukee Brewers

The Milwaukee Brewers are an American professional baseball team based in Milwaukee.

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Mind Control Software

Mind Control Software was an American video game developer based in California.

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Mindscape (company)

Mindscape was a video game developer and publisher.

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Mission San Francisco de Asís

The Mission San Francisco de Asís (Misión San Francisco de Asís), also known as Mission Dolores, is a historic Catholic church complex in San Francisco, California.

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Mission San José (California)

Mission San José is a Spanish mission located in the present-day city of Fremont, California, United States.

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Mission San Rafael Arcángel

Mission San Rafael Arcángel is a Spanish mission in San Rafael, California.

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Municipal corporation

Municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs.

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Myst

Myst is an adventure video game designed by Rand and Robyn Miller.

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Narciso Durán

Narcís Duran (in Catalan), commonly known as Narciso Durán, OFM (December 16, 1776 in Empúries, Catalonia, Spain – June 4, 1846 in Santa Barbara, Alta California, Mexico) was a Franciscan friar and missionary.

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NASCAR 2000

NASCAR 2000 is a racing simulator video game developed by Stormfront Studios and published by EA Sports.

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The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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Natu Tuatagaloa

Gerardus Mauritius "Natu" Tuatagaloa (born May 25, 1966) is a former American football defensive end in the NFL.

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Neverwinter Nights (1991 video game)

Neverwinter Nights was an early graphical multiplayer online role-playing game, which ran from 1991 to 1997 on AOL.

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New-age music

New-age is a genre of music intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism.

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North American Numbering Plan

The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a telephone numbering plan for twenty-five regions in twenty countries, primarily in North America and the Caribbean.

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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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Northwestern Pacific Railroad

The Northwestern Pacific Railroad is a mainline railroad from the ferry connections in Sausalito, California north to Eureka with a connection to the national railroad system at Schellville.

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Novato, California

Novato (Spanish for "Novatus") is a city in Marin County, California, United States, situated in the North Bay region of the Bay Area. San Rafael, California and Novato, California are cities in the San Francisco Bay Area and Incorporated cities and towns in California.

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Oasis (video game)

Oasis is a turn-based strategy video game developed by American studio Mind Control Software and published for Microsoft Windows by PlayFirst in April 2005.

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Pacific Time Zone

The Pacific Time Zone (PT) is a time zone encompassing parts of western Canada, the western United States, and western Mexico.

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Per capita income

Per capita income (PCI) or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Philip K. Dick

Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982), often referred to by his initials PKD, was an American science fiction writer and novelist.

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POSSLQ

POSSLQ (plural POSSLQs) is an abbreviation (or acronym) for "Person of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters", a term coined in the late 1970s by the United States Census Bureau as part of an effort to more accurately gauge the prevalence of cohabitation in American households.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States census

In the United States census, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) define a set of self-identified categories of race and ethnicity chosen by residents, with which they most closely identify.

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Radio personality

A radio personality is a person who has an on-air position in radio broadcasting.

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Raphael (archangel)

Raphael ("God has healed") is an archangel first mentioned in the Book of Tobit and in 1 Enoch, both estimated to date from between the 3rd and 2nd century BCE.

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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.

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Rick Kranitz

Richard Alan Kranitz (born September 15, 1958) is an American professional baseball coach for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball (MLB).

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Riparian zone

A riparian zone or riparian area is the interface between land and a river or stream.

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Role-playing video game

A role-playing video game, a role-playing game (RPG) or computer role-playing game (CRPG), is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character (or several party members) immersed in some well-defined world, usually involving some form of character development by way of recording statistics.

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Salt marsh harvest mouse

The salt-marsh harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys raviventris), also known as the red-bellied harvest mouse, is an endangered rodent endemic to the San Francisco Bay Area salt marshes in 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. San Rafael, California and San Francisco are cities in the San Francisco Bay Area, county seats in California, Incorporated cities and towns in California, Populated coastal places in California and Spanish mission settlements in North America.

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San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad

San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad (SF&NP) provided the first extensive standard gauge rail service to Sonoma County and became the southern end of the regional Northwestern Pacific Railroad.

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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 Quentin Rehabilitation Center

San Quentin Rehabilitation Center (SQ), formerly known as San Quentin State Prison, is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated place of San Quentin in Marin County.

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San Rafael City Schools

San Rafael City Schools is a school district headquartered in San Rafael, California, United States.

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San Rafael Creek

San Rafael Creek is a watercourse in Marin County, California, United States that discharges to San Rafael Bay, a small embayment of the San Francisco Bay.

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San Rafael del Norte

San Rafael del Norte is a municipality and a town in the Jinotega department.

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San Rafael High School

San Rafael High School is a public high school located at 150 Third St.

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San Rafael Transit Center

The San Rafael Transportation Center (also called C. Paul Bettini Transportation Center) is an intermodal transportation center located in downtown San Rafael, California.

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Santa Rosa, California

Santa Rosa (Spanish for "Saint Rose") is a city in and the county seat of Sonoma County, in the North Bay region of the Bay Area in California. San Rafael, California and Santa Rosa, California are cities in the San Francisco Bay Area, county seats in California, Incorporated cities and towns in California and Spanish mission settlements in North America.

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Santa Venetia, California

Santa Venetia is a census-designated place (CDP) in Marin County, California, United States.

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Scott Thunes

Scott Thunes (born January 20, 1960) is a bass player, formerly with Frank Zappa, Wayne Kramer, Steve Vai, Andy Prieboy, Mike Keneally, Fear, The Waterboys, Big Bang Beat, and others.

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Secretary of State of California

The secretary of state of California is the chief clerk of the U.S. state of California, overseeing a department of 500 people.

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Sega

is a Japanese multinational video game company and subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo.

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Sega Sports R&D

, or Sega Sports R&D, was a development division of the Japanese video game company Sega.

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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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Shel Silverstein

Sheldon Allan Silverstein (September 25, 1930 – May 10, 1999) was an American writer, poet, cartoonist, singer-songwriter, musician, and playwright.

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SimCity (1989 video game)

SimCity (also known as the retronyms Micropolis or SimCity Classic) is a city-building simulation video game developed by Will Wright, and released for several platforms from 1989 to 1991.

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Snopes

Snopes, formerly known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a fact-checking website.

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In many countries' curricula, social studies is the combined study of humanities, the arts, and social sciences, mainly including history, economics, and civics.

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Sonoma County Transit

Sonoma County Transit is a public transportation system based in Sonoma County, California.

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Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit

Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) is a rail line and bicycle-pedestrian pathway project in Sonoma and Marin counties of the U.S. state of California.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Spanish language

Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Spanish missions in California

The Spanish missions in California (Misiones españolas en California) formed a series of 21 religious outposts or missions established between 1769 and 1833 in what is now the U.S. state of California.

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Special effect

Special effects (often abbreviated as F/X or simply FX) are illusions or visual tricks used in the theatre, film, television, video game, amusement park and simulator industries to simulate the imagined events in a story or virtual world.

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St. Vincent's School for Boys

St.

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Stacey Bailey

Stacey Dwayne Bailey (born February 10, 1960) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL).

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Star Wars

Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon.

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Stormfront Studios

Stormfront Studios, Inc. was an American video game developer based in San Rafael, California.

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Supercentenarian

A supercentenarian, sometimes hyphenated as super-centenarian, is a person who is 110 years or older.

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Take-Two Interactive

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is an American video game holding company based in New York City founded by Ryan Brant in September 1993.

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Telltale Games

Telltale Incorporated (trade name: Telltale Games) was an American video game developer based in San Rafael, California.

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Terra Linda High School

Terra Linda High School (also known as TLHS and more commonly known as TL) is a public secondary school located in Terra Linda, San Rafael, California, United States.

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Terra Linda, San Rafael, California

Terra Linda (Portuguese for "Beautiful Land") is a district of the city of San Rafael, California.

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The Bronze Bow

The Bronze Bow is a book by Elizabeth George Speare that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1962.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (video game)

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is a 2002 action hack and slash video game developed by Stormfront Studios for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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The Print Shop

The Print Shop is a desktop publishing software package originally published in 1984 by Broderbund.

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The Savage Nation

The Savage Nation (also called The Michael Savage Show) was an American conservative talk radio show hosted by Michael Savage.

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The Secret of Monkey Island

The Secret of Monkey Island is a 1990 point-and-click graphic adventure game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games.

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THX

THX Ltd. is an American audio company based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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THX 1138

THX 1138 is a 1971 American social science fiction film co-written and directed by George Lucas in his directorial debut.

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Tomlinson Holman

Tomlinson M. Holman (born 1946) is an American film theorist, audio engineer, and inventor of film technologies, notably the Lucasfilm's THX sound system.

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Totally Games

Totally Games was a video game developer located in Marin County, California.

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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.

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U.S. state

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.

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Union Army

During the American Civil War, the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the collective Union of the states, was often referred to as the Union Army, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Federal Army, or the Northern Army.

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United Airlines Flight 93

United Airlines Flight 93 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight that was hijacked by four al-Qaeda terrorists on the morning of September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber.

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Vicente Francisco de Sarría

Father Vicente Francisco de Sarría (1767 Etxebarri, Spain – 1835 Soledad) was a Basque missionary to the Americas.

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Video game

A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.

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Visual Concepts

Visual Concepts Entertainment is an American video game developer based in Novato, California.

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Wide receiver

A wide receiver (WR), also referred to as a wideout, and historically known as a split end (SE) or flanker (FL), is an eligible receiver in gridiron football.

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Will Venable

William Dion Venable (born October 29, 1982) is an American professional baseball coach and former player.

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Winston Venable

Winston Venable (born March 31, 1987) is an American football coach and former linebacker who is currently the running backs coach and player development director at Boise State University.

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Wireless telegraphy

Wireless telegraphy or radiotelegraphy is transmission of text messages by radio waves, analogous to electrical telegraphy using cables.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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ZIP Code

A ZIP Code (an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan) is a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS).

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13 Reasons Why

13 Reasons Why is an American teen drama television series developed for Netflix by Brian Yorkey and based on the 2007 novel Thirteen Reasons Why by author Jay Asher.

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2010 United States census

The 2010 United States census was the 23rd United States census.

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2020 United States census

The 2020 United States census was the 24th decennial United States census.

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420 (cannabis culture)

420, 4:20 or 4/20 (pronounced four-twenty) is cannabis culture slang for marijuana and hashish consumption, especially smoking around the time 4:20 p.m. (16:20).

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