Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/44

... that Icehouse Wilson, a member of "Oakland's first World Champion Baseball team," had a career batting average of .000 in Major League Baseball?
... that the machinima-based music video Dance, Voldo, Dance was featured at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of an exhibit in 2006?
... that San Jose Mercury News West Magazine received awards for reporting on Japanese American internment, environmental policies of the Reagan administration, and effects of Proposition 13?
... that Rancho Cañada de Pogolimi, a fertile California ranch exceeding 8,780 acres (35.5 km²), was granted in 1844 to María Antonia Cazares, who was married at 14 and widowed at 17?
... that Triangle, the 1967 album by The Beau Brummels, was partially inspired by the Legion of Honor? (Terpsichore (1739), by Jean-Marc Nattier pictured)
... that the Bonny Doon Ecological Reserve (map pictured) in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California contains an ancient seabed with fossils of various marine lifeforms, such as sand dollars and bivalves?

September 2009