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Vallejo

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Val·le·jo  (v-l, -h)
A city of western California on San Pablo Bay north of Oakland. It is a trade and processing center and has a large naval shipyard, founded by Adm. David Farragut in 1854. Population: 117,000.
Vallejo [vəˈleɪəʊ -ˈleɪhəʊ (Spanish) baˈʎɛxo]
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(Biographies / Vallejo, César (Abraham) (1892-1938) M, Peruvian, WRITING: poet) César (Abraham) (ˈsesar). 1892-1938, Peruvian poet, living in France and Spain from 1923: noted for his experimental style in such works as Trilce (1922)


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From a room in Vallejo he sent his electric discharges across the Vallejo Straits to Mare Island.
The Strength of the Strong by London, Jack View in context
Daylight, after I had been four hours in the water, found me in a parlous condition in the tide-rips off Mare Island light, where the swift ebbs from Vallejo Straits and Carquinez Straits were fighting with each other, and where, at that particular moment, they were fighting the flood tide setting up against them from San Pablo Bay.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
And what made it particularly exasperating was the fact that every fisherman, from Benicia to Vallejo knew that he was successfully defying us.
Tales of the Fish Patrol by London, Jack View in context
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