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Fusakichi Omori

... that seismologist Fusakichi Omori (pictured) of the Imperial University of Tokyo, who mapped the effects of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, later designed and donated the equipment to found the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory?
... that Flo Allen was "San Francisco's best loved artists' model" and modeled for 30 years?
... that in San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc. v. United States Olympic Committee, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment did not protect the use of the word "Olympics", over the objections of the U.S. Olympic Committee?
... that, after the 1906 earthquake, Sid Grauman (pictured), owner of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, showed movies in a tent with a sign that read "Nothing to fall on you but canvas if there is another quake"?
... that after being named the UCLA Bruins MVP in 2006 and 2007, San Francisco Giants rookie Brandon Crawford hit a grand slam in his first Major League Baseball game?
... that the Sausalito Record Plant served for a time as the residence for Rick James who slept in a conference room built with a waterbed floor?
... that University of California, Berkeley math professor Ian Agol has a twin brother who is a University of Washington astronomy professor?

May/June 2011