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6 unusual facts about Pacifica


Coastsiders

Coastsiders is a community along the coast of San Mateo County, California, and includes the towns of Montara, Moss Beach, Princeton-by-the-Sea, El Granada, Pacifica, Half Moon Bay, Pescadero, Loma Mar, La Honda and San Gregorio.

Golden Gate National Recreation Area

The latest acquisition by the National Park Service is Mori Point, a small parcel of land on the Pacifica coast.

Jefferson Elementary School District

Jefferson Elementary School District is a K-8 school district headquartered in Daly City, San Mateo County, California and serves Daly City, Colma, Broadmoor and part of Pacifica.

Jefferson Union High School District

The Jefferson Union High School District is a high school district in northern California, and serves the cities of Daly City, Brisbane, Pacifica, and the town of Colma.

Pedro Mountain Road

This Pedro Mountain headland blocks the easy passage of coastal travelers between the Pedro Valley in Pacifica, California and Montara, California.

San Bruno Park Elementary School District

The Portola Elementary School, located in the city's northwestern corner, had long been part of the Laguna Salada School District, headquartered in Pacifica, California.


Abarenicola pacifica

pacifica is found in the intertidal and subtidal zones round the coasts of North America between Alaska and northern California and in Japanese waters.

Ambrose I. Lane Sr.

He used his vast knowledge of law and people to co-anchored gavel-to-gavel coverage of U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings and Pacifica’s daily national six weeks live coverage of the Persian Gulf War.

B. Jill Carroll

For two years she co-hosted with Kym King a regular radio program called "Peaceful Coexistence" on Pacifica 90.1FM KPFT in Houston.

Claude Baker

Other ensembles include the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Esprit Orchestra, the Voices of Change, the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, the Empyrean Ensemble and the Pacifica String Quartet (with pianist Ursula Oppens).

Collinia oregonensis

It caused a mass mortality of E. pacifica in June 2001 at the base of Astoria Canyon.

Costa Pacifica

On December 11, 2012 Costa Pacifica struck a piling while maneuvering into dock at the Port of Marseille, France.

DJ Sun

DJ Sun started a radio show in 1995, Soular Grooves on KPFT 90.1 FM, Pacifica Network.

Helen Caldicott

She also hosted a weekly radio show on WBAI (Pacifica) and became the Founding President of the STAR (Standing for Truth About Radiation) Foundation.

Joel Rose

Rose has edited and co-authored graphic novels for DC Comics, including La Pacifica (Paradox Press) written with Amos Poe and art by Tayyar Ozkan, and Get Jiro! (Vertigo) written with Anthony Bourdain and art by Langdon Foss.

John Stanislaw Kubary

Kubary discovered at least four bird species -- the Samoan Wood Rail (Gallinula pacifica), the Mariana Crow (Corvus kubaryi), the Caroline Islands Ground Dove (Gallicolumba kubaryi), and the Pohnpei Fantail (Rhipidura kubaryi) -- as well as numerous insects, among them the Paradise Birdwing (Ornithoptera paradisea).

Larry Bensky

In 1972, he anchored and produced Pacifica Radio's coverage of the Democratic and Republican national conventions, both held in Miami, along with the attendant massive anti-war protests, dubbed "The Siege of Miami".

Marc Cooper

From 1980 to 1983, Cooper was the news and public affairs director of Pacifica station KPFK-FM, Los Angeles.

MTR Professional Audio

Apart from manufacturing 'problem-solver' audio products such as the RaxX expandable 19" rack-mounting system, MTR distributes the Dutch stageClix digital wireless system for guitars, basses, microphones etc., Mcgregor UK-made mixer-amplifiers, power amplifiers, speakers, karaoke systems, the Californian A-Designs boutique audio products including the REDDI valve DI box, Pacifica microphone preamplifier, Hammer valve EQ.

Occupation: Foole

Pacifica appealed this decision, which ultimately made its way to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Pacifica Forum

The former president of the UO, David B. Frohnmayer, criticized the Pacifica Forum and stated that its views do not represent those of the university.

Roy Campanella II

In 2004, Campanella was named general manager of Pacifica radio station, KPFA in Berkeley, California.

Samoan Woodhen

The Samoan Woodhen (Gallinula pacifica), also known as Samoan Wood Rail, is a nearly flightless rail endemic to the Samoan island of Savai'i, and probably extinct.

Sepioloidea pacifica

Sepioloidea pacifica, also known as the Pacific Bobtail Squid, is a species of cuttlefish native to the southern Pacific Ocean; it occurs off New Zealand in the west and in the Nazca and Sala y Gomez submarine ridges in the east.

Spying on Democracy

Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance is a book by Heidi Boghosian, executive director of the National Lawyers Guild, and co-host of Pacifica's WBAI weekly civil liberties radio program, "Law and Disorder."


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