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Lemon Drop coctails
Zvezdelina Stankova
... that the
Lemon Drop
cocktail
(example pictured)
was invented sometime in the 1970s at Henry Africa's, a
fern bar
in San Francisco?
... that in 1997 the
Linguistic Society of America
passed a resolution supporting the
Oakland Unified School District board's decision
to teach some students using
African American Vernacular English
?
... that
Zvezdelina Stankova
(pictured)
brought ideas from her Bulgarian mathematical education to California by founding the
Berkeley
Math Circle
?
... that conservationist
Caroline Sealy Livermore
was able to ensure protection for
Angel Island
and have it declared a state park, with the highest mountain on Angel Island subsequently named Mount Livermore?
April 2016
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