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Frate Cu Meridianele Si Paralelele, Vol. 2

By: Florentin Smarandache

...lor... Vreo opt ceasuri ne-au trebuit ca s ă ajungem la Carlsbad, lâng ă San Diego... Pe traseu, dune de nisip... Ma şini gr ăbite, nesemnalizând.... ...i al lui Alexandru Sahia... “Cea mai mare gr ădin ă zoologic ă!” La “San Diego Zoo”. Suntem plimba ţi cu autobuzul 35 de minute şi putem vedea ... ...u posturi universitare 07 ianuarie 1997 Şapte ore am condus pân ă la San Diego (vreo 440 de mile). Eram şi bolnav (r ăcit, piciorul stâng luxat... ... Pearl Harbour. N-ai timp în 8-10 zile s ă le vezi pe toate. Am vizitat Chinatown. Magazine, pr ăv ălii mici cu produse marine. Se vorbea numai ch... ...la Kauai un muzeu cultural (cu galerii ale arti ştilor locali). În Chinatown. – Asta e brânz ă? întreb. – Nu, e tofu. În gândul meu: ce-i a... ...d ă de ras ă superioar ă... De la Aeroportul Interna ţional din San Francisco m-a preluat familia Nicoar ă – Iacob şi Asineta – români ardelen... ...ersitatea Hayward. 8-9 milioane de locuitori împânzesc zona golfului San Francisco. Trafic greu, în special în orele de vârf: începerea şi terminar... ...cul ă la suprafaţă, deasupra str ăzilor. Toate a şez ările din golf (San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Berkeley) formeaz ă o metropol ă: nu ştii un...

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Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the inside : Asian Culture Revealed

By: Chi, Anson

...gineer. He currently lives in a myriad of places, including Los Angeles and San Diego. Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the Inside: Asian Culture Rev... ...ana Republic cr@p, and maybe go to a regular restaurant instead of those in Chinatown or Koreatown.” He's right again, especially about the last par... ...'s the thing about Asian restaurants. They all congregate together to form a Chinatown, Koreatown, or a Japantown. And it's interesting that I've nev... ...ey don't think they can get any business, unless it has an Asian theme like Chinatown, Koreatown, or Japantown. They can't be unique so they have to ... ... wonder why I even bother hanging out with him. Hey Johnson. Let's go up to San Fran. I know this place where we can score some “ pretty good weed, ... ...abriel exhorts, almost on the edge of begging. ” We don't have time to visit San Francisco since I'll be @ss-kissing my aunt the entire “ weekend. No... ...el exhorts, almost on the edge of begging. ” We don't have time to visit San Francisco since I'll be @ss-kissing my aunt the entire “ weekend. Note t...

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Moran of the Lady Letty

By: Frank Norris

...s. There had been a great number of debutantes “coming out” that season in San Francisco by means of afternoon teas, pink, lavender, and otherwise. Th... ...here had been a great number of debutantes “coming out” that season in San Francisco by means of afternoon teas, pink, lavender, and otherwise. This p... ...or orders” slowly gorging themselves with whole harvests of wheat from the San Joaquin Valley; lumber vessels for Durban and South African ports settl... ...Bertha Millner” would even make the circuit of the bay before returning to San Francisco. He might be gone a week. Wilbur could already see the scare-... ...ha Millner” would even make the circuit of the bay before returning to San Francisco. He might be gone a week. Wilbur could already see the scare-head... ...adow just bluer than the sky, he could make out a few twinkling lights—San Francisco. Half an hour later Kitchell came on deck from his sup- per in th... ...s like this, son. This ship belongs to one of the Six Chinese Companies of Chinatown in Frisco. Charlie, here, is one of the share- holders in the bus... ...t done with it, Charlie?” 101 Frank Norris “I want plenty fine funeral in Chinatown in San Fran- cisco. Oh, heap fine! You buy um first-chop coffin—s... ...e said, looking up. “China boy him want go asho’ plenty big, seeum flen up Chinatown in um city.” “Shore leave, is it?” said Moran. “You deserted once...

...f many delicate perfumes and the hale, frank smell of Caroline Testout roses. There had been a great number of debutantes ?coming out? that season in San Francisco by means of afternoon teas, pink, lavender, and otherwise. This particular tea was intended to celebrate the fact that Josie Herrick had arrived at that time of her life when she was to wear her hair high and he...

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Blix

By: Frank Norris

...was at the rear of the house. From its window one could command a sweep of San Fran- cisco Bay and the Contra Costa shore, from Mount Diablo, along pa... ...; and Howard added: “Here she comes now.” Travis Bessemer came in. Even in San Francisco, where all women are more or less beautiful, Travis passed fo... ...d Howard added: “Here she comes now.” Travis Bessemer came in. Even in San Francisco, where all women are more or less beautiful, Travis passed for a ... ...pew in the church of their denomination on California Street, not far from Chinatown. By noon the family reassembled. at din- ner-table, where Mr. Bes... ...Yale, and a few months after his return home was taken on the staff of the San Francisco “Daily Times” as an associ- ate editor of its Sunday suppleme... ..., and a few months after his return home was taken on the staff of the San Francisco “Daily Times” as an associ- ate editor of its Sunday supplement. ... ...e or four times a week ever since. They two “went out” not a little in San Francisco society, and had been in a measure identified with what was known... ...East—sandalwood, punk, incense, oil, and the smell of mysterious cookery. “Chinatown!” exclaimed Travis. “I hadn’t the faint- est idea we had come up ... ...nt, and bought some crackers and a wedge of new cheese. On the way back to Chinatown Travis stopped at a music store on Kearney Street to get her banj...

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The Octopus a Story of California

By: Frank Norris

... end of the dry season, and all Tulare County, all the vast reaches of the San Joaquin Valley—in fact all South Central Califor- nia, was bone dry, pa... ...e part of Magnus Derrick, had come to stay in the dry, even climate of the San Joaquin for an indefinite length of time. He was thirty years old, and ... ... These matters, these eternal fierce bickerings between the farmers of the San Joaquin and the Pacific and Southwestern Railroad irritated him and wea... ...le. Once, even, he had made the entire run between the latter town and San Francisco in the cab. Dyke’s home was in Guadalajara. He lived in one of th... ...he county. The offices of the ranches were thus connected by wire with San Francisco, and through that city with Minneapolis, Duluth, Chicago, New Yor... ...ago wheat pits in the August of that year, which had affected even the San Francisco market, Harran and Magnus had sat up nearly half of one night wat... ...grewsome and made-to- order beauties of Sutro’s Gardens; they went through Chinatown, the Palace Hotel, the park museum—where Hilma resolutely refused... ...She turned aside in avoidance of this, only to plunge into the purlieus of Chinatown, whence only she emerged, panic-stricken and out of breath, after...

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Across the Plains

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...OSS THE PLAINS LEA VES FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF AN EMIGRANT BETWEEN NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO MONDAY. – It was, if I remember rightly, five o’clock when ... ...THE PLAINS LEA VES FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF AN EMIGRANT BETWEEN NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO MONDAY. – It was, if I remember rightly, five o’clock when we w... ...g miles of desert, we might have taken an hour to each repast and arrived at San Fran- cisco up to time. For haste is not the foible of an emigrant tr... ...as soon as I was alone with emigrants, and from the T ransfer all the way to San Francisco, I found this ceremony was pretermitted; the train stole fr... ...oon as I was alone with emigrants, and from the T ransfer all the way to San Francisco, I found this ceremony was pretermitted; the train stole from t... ...ne of my fellow-passengers months after, driving a street tramway car in San Francisco; and, as the joke was now out of season, told him my name witho... ... hind along the beach towards Santa Cruz, but from your right also, round by Chinatown and Pinos lighthouse, and from down before you to the mouth of ...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...the Chinese lantern which Mr. Marbury had brought back as his present from San Francisco. Carol found the Marburys admiring and therefore admirable. T... ...Chinese lantern which Mr. Marbury had brought back as his present from San Francisco. Carol found the Marburys admiring and therefore admirable. This ... ... of a place called Gopher Prai- rie, but ten thousand towns from Albany to San Diego: Dyer’s Drug Store, a corner building of regular and un- real blo... ... erywhere, in batik-curtained studios in New York, in Kan- sas farmhouses, San Francisco drawing-rooms, Alabama schools for negroes. From them she got... ...where, in batik-curtained studios in New York, in Kan- sas farmhouses, San Francisco drawing-rooms, Alabama schools for negroes. From them she got the... ...u know the Coast so well—tell me: would you start in at Los Angeles or San Francisco, and what are the best hotels?” The Jolly Seventeen looked disapp... ...e another, the miniature junk, and the Oriental drum, from San Fran- cisco Chinatown; the blocks carved by the old Frenchman in San Diego; the lariat ...

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Lay Morals

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ys and false ideas of hygiene. Brother officials used to call it “Damien’s Chinatown.” “Well,” they would say, “your China-town keeps growing.” And he... ...te a more pleasurable sense of contrast than when he passes from Damien’s ‘Chinatown’ at Kalawao to the beautiful Bishop- Home at Kalaupapa. At this p... ...atholic testi- mony. Here is a passage from my diary about my visit to the Chinatown, from which you will see how it is (even now) regarded by its own... ...isagreeable remembrance is of a bracing, Republican postman in the city of San Francisco. I lived in that city among working folk, and what my neighbo... ...reeable remembrance is of a bracing, Republican postman in the city of San Francisco. I lived in that city among working folk, and what my neighbours ...

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