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| Johan Cruyff, The Flying Dutchman |
Today, The Beans have continued their English classes reviewing some aspects of the Past Simple with the irregular forms.
After doing some exercises, the family has adviced Edgar Bean, who has an offer to play in the Brazilian Football League, to continue with the family and try to find a better offer in the European Leagues. The family has been discussing about legends like Pelé, Cruyff, Beckenbauer, Buffon and Messi, people who have changed football forever.
Tomorrow, it's Saint Valentine and some Beans have been talking about their memories about their first dates after reading a little more of Charles Dickens's Christmas Carol.
More information: Past Simple (Irregular Verbs)
The family is flying from Rio de Janeiro to San Francisco, California. It's a 16-hours flight again, and The Beans are a little exhausted because of the rythm of the Carnival in Rio. This is the main reason because some members of the family have decided to read some English grammar books and some English novels that Eli Bond-Bean and Natalia Bean bought in their last staying in New York.
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. The consolidated city-county covers an area of about 121 km2 mostly at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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| The Grandma at the Summer Solstice Festival (1967) |
San Francisco was founded on June 29, 1776, when colonists from Spain established Presidio of San Francisco at the Golden Gate and Mission San Francisco de Asís a few miles away, all named for St. Francis of Assisi.
The California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later.
In World War II, San Francisco was a major port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. It then became the birthplace of the United Nations in 1945.
After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, massive immigration, liberalizing attitudes, along with the rise of the hippie counterculture, the Sexual Revolution, the Peace Movement growing from opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines.
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Thanks, but The Grandma is not interested in buying more properties.
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