Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/Archive

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...that the Palace of Fine Arts (pictured) in the Marina, which today houses the Exploratorium science museum, was built for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
...that KCBS has its roots in the experiments of Charles Herrold, who, using call letters FN, SJN, 6XF, 6XE, and KQW, made regular radio broadcasts from San Jose as early as 1909.
...that the National Ignition Facility for inertial confinement fusion research will be housed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
...that Sonoma County Airport is named after Peanuts creator Charles Schultz and features Snoopy riding his sopwith camel as its logo.

...that a 1973 Cabernet Sauvignon from Stag's Leap Wine Cellars (pictured) in Napa Valley won a blind taste test at the Paris Wine Tasting of 1976.
...that the Port of Oakland was the first major port on the West Coast to handle container ships.
...that craigslist was founded in 1995 by Craig Newmark and, since 2004, has been partly owned by eBay.
...that colonies of the San Bruno elfin butterfly, an endangered species, are located on San Bruno Mountain and near the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve.

The Bay Area has many marvels of modern civil engineering:

The world famous Golden Gate Bridge which was at one point the largest suspension in the world and is now the second longest in the United States.

The East Bay section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is one of the largest Cantilever bridges in the world.

Transbay Tube - The longest underwater tube for rapid transit in the world and also the deepest vehicular tube in service today.