SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco treasures its naval military history and is home to the SS Jeremiah O'Brien, one of the last remaining liberty ships that sailed into harm's way to help win World War II. Now it is facing another threat -- a financial one -- and they're putting out a...
A long-time, San Francisco tradition, theItalian Heritage Parade, formerly known as the Columbus Day Parade, starts at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday of Fleet Week, at Jefferson and Powell Streets, goes along Jefferson Street in Fisherman's Wharf, then down Columbus Avenue to Washington Square in No...
Zoom in on the historical Mile Rocks Lighthouse as viewed from USS San Francisco Memorial. 宏偉壯觀! Zoom in on Hawk Hill on Marin Headland as viewed from USS San Francisco Memorial. During the autumn months, from September through November, many bird watchers come to the summit of Hawk Hill...
This structure built in 1800, was a naval station and then home to the Spanish military following the Spanish-American War. Visitors will find a few galleries with paintings and decorative arts. The exhibits change throughout the year, and they do close between exhibits....
Close to the halfway point between San Francisco andOaklandis the 400-acre Treasure Island, created as an artificial land mass for the 1939 Golden Gate International Expo. Its role since has included being a seaplane harbor for Pan-Am airlines and a decades-long naval base. Treasure Island be...
The Battle of Midway is considered one of the most important naval battles of World War II. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Roland A. Franklin/Released)参考译文:2011年6月4日,海军和海军陆战队人员,以及来自大圣地亚哥地区的社区领导者们聚集在USS中途岛博物馆上,共同纪念...
“And winning a headquarters city of the Pacific meant—because San Francisco is so much smaller in land than New York—building an even more concentrated city: ‘The Ultimate Highrise.’” At the end of World War II San Francisco had only a few “skyscrapers,” but they began to multiply...
Wŏnsan is a port city and naval base that was opened by the occupying Japanese in 1880. It is located in the Kangwon Province (North Korea) of North Korea, on the westernmost part of the Sea of Japan (East Sea of Korea) and the capital of that province. However, before the Korean...
Cheryl Finnegan came to San Miguel in 2000 from San Francisco, where she had spent 14 years in the marketing department of Levi Strauss, the jeans and casual wear manufacturer. "One day I woke up and asked—Where is my passion? I had no passion," she recalls. "So I just dropped every...
SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco treasures its naval military history and is home to the SS Jeremiah O'Brien, one of the last remaining liberty ships that sailed into harm's way to help win World War II. Now it is facing another threat -- a financial one -- and they're putting out a...