Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/29

April 2013
 * ... that the Tom Lantos Tunnels are named after late Congressman Tom Lantos, who was instrumental in securing funding for the project?
 * ... that in 1999, winemaker Daniel Baron persuaded Cabernet Sauvignon producers Silver Oak Cellars to establish Twomey Cellars (pictured), to pursue Merlot production?
 * ... that Live at Keystone, an album by Merl Saunders, Jerry Garcia, John Kahn, and Bill Vitt, was recorded live at the Keystone in Berkeley, California in 1973?
 * ... that James L. Patton (pictured) is emeritus professor of integrative biology and curator of mammals at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley?
 * ... that when Charles O'Rear took a photograph of a green, lush hillside near Napa Valley, he did not expect it to be "the most viewed image of the world"?
 * ... that Berkeley law dean Frank C. Newman, whose work on international human rights law was prompted by a sabbatical year in Geneva, Switzerland, was appointed to the Supreme Court of California in 1977?