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8 unusual facts about Burlingame


Andrea Lo

Andrea grew up in Burlingame, California where she attended Franklin Elementary School and Burlingame Intermediate School.

Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia

The Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia, located in Burlingame, California, opened in 1995 and is run by Gary and Nancy Doss, who had been collecting Pez dispensers for more than a decade.

Burlingame, San Diego

Burlingame is a historic district recognized by the City of San Diego for its Craftsman Bungalow, Tudor Revival, Mission Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival, Prairie School, Art Deco and California Ranch architectural styles as well as properties that are hybrids of several styles.

Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr.

Though his father, who was originally from Wisconsin, had attended Grinnell College for two years, he ultimately led an agrarian lifestyle that took him to both New Mexico and Oklahoma before settling down in Burlingame to raise a family.

Percy Gray

From 1912 to 1923 Gray lived in Burlingame, California about twenty miles south of San Francisco, while keeping his studio in the city itself.

Sun Chia-ku

Sun Chia-ku was a native of Anhui who graduated as chin shih in 1856 and was a senior clerk in the Tsung-li Yamen when appointed in 1869 to be Co-Envoy with Anson Burlingame, then United States Minister at Beijing, on a friendly mission to foreign countries.

It was as a forecast of the results of this mission that Burlingame announced the speedy appearance of "a shining cross on every hill" in the Middle Kingdom.

USAT General Frank M. Coxe

For the 16 years up until 2006, the General Frank M. Coxe was a vacant hulk, until local restaurateurs bought the ship from Mr. Robert Sherman, who had preserved the General Frank M. Coxe on an unused canal in Burlingame, California, just south of San Francisco International Airport.


Burlingame Daily News

After McClatchy's acquisition of Knight Ridder in early 2006, all six Daily News editions, including the Burlingame Daily News, were bundled with the San Jose Mercury News and sold to MediaNews Group of Denver, Colorado.

California Least Tern

Gary Deghi, C. Michael Hogan et al., Biological Assessment for the Proposed Tijuana/San Diego Joint International Wastewater Treatment Plant, Publication of the United States Environmental Protection Agency Region IX, Earth Metrics Incorporated, Burlingame, CA with Harvey and Stanley, Alviso, CA

Charles Burlingame Waite

Charles Burlingame Waite (born in Wayne County, New York, 29 January 1824; died 1909) was a United States lawyer, jurist and author.

Jeff Burlingame

In 2012, Burlingame was once again nominated for an Image Award, this time for his in-depth biography of Olympic track and field legend Jesse Owens, and traveled to Los Angeles, California, for the award ceremonies, held at the historic Shrine Auditorium, in February 2012.

Jeff Burlingame (born June 14, 1971, in Aberdeen, Washington) is an NAACP Image Award winning American author of several books, including biographies of musicians John Lennon and Kurt Cobain, and critical looks at the historic and tragic plights of the Lost Boys of Sudan and the crew and passengers of the Titanic.

John B. Whyte

John Burlingame Whyte (May 22, 1928 - March 22, 2004) was an American real estate entrepreneur who developed Fire Island Pines, New York.

LETTERS

In addition to the Author and Germaine Pitt (or 'Lady Amherst', unrelated to any of Barth's previous novels), the correspondents are: Todd Andrews (from The Floating Opera), Jacob Horner (from The End of the Road), A.B. Cook (a descendent of Burlingame in The Sot-Weed Factor), Jerome Bray (associated with Giles Goat-Boy and Chimera) and Ambrose Mensch (from Lost in the Funhouse).

Martini Creek

Hogan, Michael and Ballard George, Air Quality and Noise Analyses for the Bypass Alternative, Devil's Slide Improvement Project, Caltrans District 4, prepared by Earth Metrics Inc., Burlingame, CA (1984)

Michigan Condensed Milk Factory

Samuel Whaley Hopkins was born in 1845 in Exeter, Rhode Island, the youngest child of Samuel and Freelove Burlingame Hopkins.

Rudy Behlmer

Twelve O'Clock High, with film historians Jon Burlingame and Nick Redman

San Mateo Union High School District

The district consists of seven public high schools, one alternative high school (a "college high school"), and one adult School in San Bruno, Millbrae, Burlingame, and San Mateo.

South Burlingame, Portland, Oregon

It included the present day South Burlingame neighborhood as well as an eight block corridor of land that follows Terwilliger Boulevard north from Interstate 5 to Capital Highway.

Interstate 5 cuts through the northern part of the neighborhood, separating the Fulton Park area from the rest of South Burlingame.

The Planet of Doubt

Burlingame decides that the creature is similar to the larval Thaumetopoeidae, which forms processions when it travels from its nest.

Venezuelan general strike of 2002–03

Eva Golinger, Esq., "The Adaptable U.S. Intervention Machine in Venezuela," in Olivia Burlingame Goumbri, The Venezuela Reader, Washington D.C., U.S.A., 2005.

Willborough, Burlingame Terrace, Burlingame, California

Burlingame's Historic Willborough neighborhood, located in Burlingame Terrace, is a block-long strip of early 20th century Tudor revival homes.


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