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--Posted By David Fine to <http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/02/invention-of-san-francisco.htm>monochrom at 2/02/2009 06:44:00 PM
A few days past the anniversary, but this is an interesting story of
how proto-cities formed and competed for prominence in the American
old west. And more to the point, how San Francisco won prominence by
use of linguistic jujitsu.
