Aviva Directory
Aviva Directory
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| Loma Prieta Quake |
| It was October 17, 1989, and I had just started our Christmas tree charity drive. I had spent the day calling technology companies and hotels in San Francisco, Hayward, Cupertino, and other Bay Area localities, offering our services decorating their lobbies for Christmas. |
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| Sports & Recreation |
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| First Successful “Temporary Insanity” Plea in the United States |
| US Representative Daniel E. Sickles is the first defendant known to have won an acquittal of a first degree murder charge with a plea of not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. In 1859 he shot and killed Philip Barton Key, the son of composer Francis Scott Key, in broad daylight. |
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| Sports & Recreation |
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| Little Known Facts about Venus |
| * Venus is the sixth largest planet. Its orbit is almost circular and varies only 1%. It has the most perfect orbit of all of the planets. It is the second planet from the sun. |
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| Sports & Recreation |
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| History of the Jack O’Lantern |
| A brightly lit pumpkin with a ghastly glowing face sits on the porch. It is one of the most well recognized Halloween traditions. However, do you know where this tradition originated? Origin During the 1800′s, immigrants from the Irish Potato Famine brought their use of this lantern. |
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