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The Chicago Shamrock Shuffle is an 8 kilometer road race held in Chicago which was started in 1980. The race is held during celebrations of Saint Patrick's Day in the Chicago area. History. For the first couple of decades, the number of participants and competitiveness of the field grew each year. In its inaugural year, the race attracted ...
With 110,000 participants, the Bay to Breakers race held on May 18, 1986, in San Francisco, California was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest footrace. [2] On October 10, 2010, 116,086 out of 160,000 registered runners in Manila were reported to have finished a run entitled "10.10.10 A Run for the Pasig ...
Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth (December 22, 1905 – June 6, 1982 [ 1]) was an American poet, translator, and critical essayist. He is regarded as a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, and paved the groundwork for the movement. [ 2][ 3] Although he did not consider himself to be a Beat poet, and disliked the association, he was ...
Honey Mahogany(born December 30, 1983)[2]is an American activist, politician, drag performer, and singer. She first came to national attention on the fifth seasonof RuPaul's Drag Race, followed by releasing her debut EP Honey Love.
5.97 m (19.6 ft) Sail area. 1,189 m 2 (12,800 sq ft) Columbia was an American racing yacht built in 1899 for the America's Cup races. She was the defender of the tenth America's Cup race that same year against British challenger Shamrock[ 1] as well as the defender of the eleventh America's Cup race in 1901 against British challenger Shamrock II.
The University Club of San Francisco was founded in 1890 by William Thomas, an alumnus of Harvard University (class of 1873) and the President of the Harvard Club of San Francisco. Thomas wanted a club that would accept alumni of more universities than just Harvard, including other Ivy League schools and West Coast schools like Stanford ...
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R.J.Q. Adams, Ph.D. 1972 –American historian and Patricia & Bookman Peters Professor of History at Texas A&M University. Reza Aslan, Ph.D. 2009 – Iranian-American author, commentator and religious scholar; professor of creative writing at University of California, Riverside. Wendy Berry Mendes, Ph.D. 2003 – social psychologist and former ...