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The Third T.S. Golden Bear ship

• ...that Rattlesnake James, the last man to be hanged in California, was convicted of drowning his wife after a failed first attempt to kill her with rattlesnake venom?
• ...that the California Maritime Academy has named three of its four training ships Golden Bear since 1946?
• ...that exploitation film director/producer S. S. Millard was able to pass himself off as Romanian nobility when a former Romanian queen visited California?

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