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JULY 27, 1831: Ludwig Immanuel Nobel was born in Stockholm. It is six degrees of separation that ultimately link Nobel to San Francisco’s Great Powder Company, the first company in the United States to manufacture dynamite.

Ludwig Nobel lived his life in Sweden. When he died on April 12, 1988 in France, newspapers around the globe mistakenly identified him as Alfred…

APRIL 24, 1887: The artist Rowena Fischer Meeks Abdy was born and eventually moved to a property on San Francisco’s famous serpentine section of Lombard.

REPOST Rowena Fischer Meeks Abdy (1887 – 1945) was a modernist painter renowned for her landscapes of Northern California. She was the first female artist…