Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/10
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- ... that the former fur trading outpost of Fort Ross was the southernmost Russian installation in North America?
- ... that the Pentium chip (pictured) was so named because Intel was unable to trademark numbers such as 386, 486, 586?
- ... that Scott McKenzie's hippie anthem San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) was written by John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas to promote the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival?
- ... that BART and Amtrak share the Richmond rail station, connecting the Bay Area with Sacramento and the Central Valley?
February 2007