Alcatraz Island is a small island located 1.5 miles offshore from San Francisco that has housed facilities for a lighthouse, military fortification, military prison, and federal prison from 1933 to 1963. In 1969, indigenous activists occupied Alcatraz Island for 19 months to protest issues facing native peoples. Alcatraz Island is now a national recreation area and historic landmark that receives many visitors each year.
2. 1 THE CHINESE FORTUNE COOKIE WAS
INVENTED BY JAPANESE RESIDENT OF SAN
FRANCISCO
2 SAN FRANCISCO WAS PART OF MEXICO UNTIL
THE MEXICAN –AMERICAN WAR IN 1848
3 IN SEPTEMBER 1859 ,SAN FRANCISCO’S
FAVOURITE ECCENTRIC RECIDENT, JOSHUA
ABRAHAM NORTON, DECLARED HIMSELF
AMERICA’S EMPEROR
4 THE CITY’S CABLE CARS ARE THE ONLY
NATIONAL HISTORICAL MONUMENT THAT CAN
MOVE
3. Alcatraz Island is located in the San
Francisco Bay, 1.5 miles offshore
from San Francisco, California, United
States. Often referred to as "The Rock",
the small island was developed with
facilities for a lighthouse, a military
fortification, a military prison , and
a federal prison from 1933 until
1963. Beginning in November 1969, the
island was occupied for more than 19
months by a group of aboriginal
people from San Francisco who were
part of a wave of
Native activism across the nation with
public protests through the 1970s. In
1972, Alcatraz became a national
recreation area and received
designation as a National Historic
Landmark in 1986.
4. The Chinatown centered on Grant
Avenue and Stockton Street in San
Francisco, California, is the
oldest Chinatown in North America and the
largest Chinese community outside Asia. It is the
oldest of the four notable Chinatowns in the
city Since its establishment in 1848, it has been
highly important and influential in the history and
culture of ethnic Chinese immigrants in North
America. Chinatown is an enclave that
continues to retain its own customs,
languages, places worship, social clubs, and
identity. There are two hospitals, numerous parks
and squares, a post office, and other
infrastructure. Visitors can easily become
immersed in a microcosmic Asian world, filled
with herbal shops, temples, pagoda roofs and
dragon parades. While recent immigrants and
the elderly choose to live in here because of the
availability of affordable housing and their
familiarity with the culture the place is also a
major tourist attraction, drawing more visitors
annually than the Golden Gate Bridge.
5. San Francisco (Spanish for "Saint Francis")
was founded on June 29, 1776,
when colonists from Spain established at
the Golden Gate and a mission named
for St.
The city of Buenos Aires is neither part
of Buenos Aires Province nor the Province's
capital; rather, it is
an autonomous district.In 1880,
after decades of political infighting, Buenos
Aires was federalised and removed from
Buenos Aires Province