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  • bacon English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292)
  • fletcher prolific English dramatist who collaborated with Francis Beaumont and many other dramatists (1579-1625)
  • hippies a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music
  • sarajevo capital and largest city of Bosnia; scene of the assassination of Francis Ferdinand in 1914 which precipitated World War I
  • berkeley a city in California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay; site of the University of California at Berkeley
  • oakland a city in western California on San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco; primarily and industrial urban center
  • sacramento a city in north central California 75 miles to the northeast of San Francisco on the Sacramento River; capital of California
  • serra Spanish missionary who founded Franciscan missions in California (1713-1784)
  • magenta a battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I
  • franciscan a Roman Catholic friar wearing the grey habit of the Franciscan order
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