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    San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association, commonly abbreviated as SPUR, is a think tank focused on urban policy in San Francisco...
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    San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center within Northern California. With a population...
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  • spurs, a skeletal disorder forming small bony outgrowth along joint margins Heel spur, a thin spike of calcification in the human foot San Francisco Bay...
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    The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a region of California surrounding and including San Francisco Bay. The Association of...
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    San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland. San Francisco Bay drains water from approximately 40 percent of California. Water from the Sacramento and San Joaquin...
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    The Chinatown centered on Grant Avenue and Stockton Street in San Francisco, California, (Chinese: 唐人街; pinyin: tángrénjiē; Jyutping: tong4 jan4 gaai1)...
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    The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. It was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic...
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    alternative sexuality street fair, held in September that concludes San Francisco's "Leather Pride Week". The Folsom Street Fair, sometimes referred to...
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    Democratic Party organization, was founded around 1971. In 1975, the Gay Latino Alliance (GALA) was founded in San Francisco, spurred by an interest in...
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    The Fillmore District is a historical neighborhood in San Francisco located to the southwest of Nob Hill, west of Market Street and north of the Mission...
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    The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (reporting mark SLSF), commonly known as the "Frisco", was a railroad that operated in the Midwest and South Central...
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    Daniel Lurie (category Businesspeople from San Francisco)
    1977) is an American heir and philanthropist who is the mayor-elect of San Francisco, having defeated incumbent mayor London Breed in the 2024 election....
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    from Fresno to Reno, Nevada. In 2007, the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR), published a report detailing a more restrictive...
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    Gregg Popovich (category San Antonio Spurs head coaches)
    head coach for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Popovich has been a member of the Spurs organization since 1994, as president...
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    (14 km) spur line running to Antioch, and Oakland Airport Connector, a 3-mile (4.8 km) automated guideway transit line serving San Francisco Bay Oakland...
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    Stephen Jackson (category San Antonio Spurs players)
    Milwaukee Bucks, Charlotte Bobcats, San Antonio Spurs, and Los Angeles Clippers. Jackson won an NBA championship with the Spurs in 2003. Jackson emerged as an...
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    The San Francisco trolleybus system forms part of the public transportation network serving San Francisco, in the state of California, United States....
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    name San Francisco de Macorís comes from a combination of the name of Saint Francis, patron saint of the Franciscan Order (a religious organization from...
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    Kiva Microfunds is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California. Kiva's mission is "to expand financial access to help...
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    Stockton Street is a north-south street in San Francisco. It begins at Market Street passing Union Square, a major shopping district in the city. It then...
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  • State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based in San Francisco. The Warriors compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as...
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    in San Francisco for a year before becoming homeless. By 2016, according to a report by urban planning and research organization SPUR, San Francisco had...
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    Occupation of Alcatraz (category History of the San Francisco Bay Area)
    finally spurred by the loss of the San Francisco Indian Center to fire on October 10, 1969. The loss of the San Francisco Indian Center spurred action...
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    Anita Friedman (category University of San Francisco alumni)
    numerous awards, including the San Francisco Business Times Most Influential Women in Business Award, SPUR's Silver Spur Award for civic leadership, the...
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    The San Francisco Committee of Vigilance was a vigilante group formed in 1851. The catalyst for its formation was the criminality of the Sydney Ducks...
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    The San Francisco Public Defender's Office is an agency of the Government of San Francisco. Since 1921, it has provided legal assistance to indigent individuals...
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  • Rick Laubscher (category Businesspeople from San Francisco)
    Financial District. In 2011, Laubscher received the Silver SPUR Award from the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association for notable...
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    Boeing 777-200ER operating the flight crashed on final approach into San Francisco International Airport in the United States. Of the 307 people on board...
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  • Harvey Milk founded a splinter organization known as the San Francisco Gay Democratic Club. In the 1980s LGBT organizations were happening in many aspects...
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  • The history of the San Francisco Giants begins in 1883 with the New York Gothams and has involved some of baseball's greatest players, including Willie...
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