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![Galilee, built in Benicia, California](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Galilee_Cruise1.jpg/100px-Galilee_Cruise1.jpg)
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- ... that the Galilee (pictured), a brigantine built by Matthew Turner in 1891, spent three years on charter to the Carnegie Institute of Washington as a magnetic observatory?
- ... that Sonoma wine producer Hanzell Vineyards was one of the first California wineries to produce barrel-aged Chardonnay?
- ... that California attorney Charles Stetson Wheeler built a temple to fishing at his hunting lodge on McCloud River?
- ... that Ralph Stackpole's 81-foot (25 m) statue Pacifica was at one time planned for permanent construction on an island in San Francisco Bay?
- ... that San Francisco fireboat Phoenix (pictured) pumped some 5.5 million gallons (20.8 ML) of seawater to help fight fires after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake?
- ... that former California State Assemblyman George W. Milias, a graduate of both San Jose State and Stanford, was President of the California Republican Assembly and state Republican Party Chairman?
- ... that saxophonist King Curtis was stabbed to death a week after releasing his album Live at Fillmore West?
March/April 2011