Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/9

... that the Palace of Fine Arts (pictured) in the Marina, which today houses the Exploratorium science museum, was built for the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition?
... that KCBS has its roots in the experiments of Charles Herrold, who, using call letters FN, SJN, 6XF, 6XE, and KQW, made regular radio broadcasts from San Jose as early as 1909?
... that the National Ignition Facility (pictured) for inertial confinement fusion research will be housed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory?
... that Sonoma County Airport is named after Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz and features Snoopy riding his sopwith camel as its logo?
... that the Carbonera Creek watershed in California has diverse plant communities including a rare assemblage known as Maritime coast range ponderosa pine forests?
... that the Suisun Shrew is a rare mammal species that survives only in a narrow marshland at the northern extremity of San Francisco Bay?

January 2007