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![John A. Stones California Songster](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/PUT%27S_ORIGINAL_CALIFORNIA_SONGSTER_book_cover.jpg/70px-PUT%27S_ORIGINAL_CALIFORNIA_SONGSTER_book_cover.jpg)
![Elizabeth Thacher Kent](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Elizabeth_Thacher_Kent_%281868-1952%29_in_1916.jpg/90px-Elizabeth_Thacher_Kent_%281868-1952%29_in_1916.jpg)
• ... that the 1985 Pacific Conference Games, held at Edwards Stadium in Berkeley, was the fifth and final Pacific Conference Games between Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and the United States?
• ... that California Gold Rush song collector John A. Stone composed Sweet Betsy from Pike? (songbook pictured)
• ... that during the Cold War Fort Cronkhite was used to house soldiers of the nearby SF-88 Nike Missile launch site?
• ... that Elizabeth Thacher Kent (pictured) helped create the Muir Woods National Monument by donating land to the government?
• ... that Mountain View based Made In Space, Inc.'s 3D Zero-G Printer was the first manufacturing device in space?
• ... that Marsh Creek State Park was named for John Marsh, the first non-Hispanic European to settle in what is now Contra Costa County?
February 2015