- ... that the Lemon Drop cocktail (example pictured) was invented sometime in the 1970s at Henry Africa's, a fern bar in San Francisco?
- ... that in 1997 the Linguistic Society of America passed a resolution supporting the Oakland Unified School District board's decision to teach some students using African American Vernacular English?
- ... that Zvezdelina Stankova (pictured) brought ideas from her Bulgarian mathematical education to California by founding the Berkeley Math Circle?
- ... that conservationist Caroline Sealy Livermore was able to ensure protection for Angel Island and have it declared a state park, with the highest mountain on Angel Island subsequently named Mount Livermore?
April 2016