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San Jose State transgender volleyball controversy
San Jose State transgender volleyball controversy: 2024 Mountain West season in which forfeits, lawsuits by teammate Brooke Slusser, and a 2026 OCR Title IX finding against SJSU centered on alleged transgender player Blaire Fleming.
San Jose State University
San Jose State University (SJSU), founded 1857 as Minns' Evening Normal School, is the oldest public university in California and the oldest CSU campus, now a Silicon Valley institution with roughly 40,000 students, R2 research status, and a Title IX dispute over a transgender volleyball athlete.
San Jose, California
San Jose (San José), California: founded 1777 as El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, first civil settlement in Alta California and the state's first capital; now California's third-largest city and center of Silicon Valley.
San José, Costa Rica
San José, Costa Rica: capital and core of the Greater Metropolitan Area (GAM) in the Central Valley. Known for rapid 1975–2000 urban growth, a bus-only transit system converging downtown, a depopulating center, and museums like the National Theatre and Gold Museum.
San Juan 2
San Juan 2 (San Juan II) is a slot-machine gaming hall in San Juan de Lurigancho district, Lima, Peru, mapped at -11.96746, -77.00573; operated under MINCETUR authorization, listed with about 211 machines and a license valid to 2029.
San Juan Capistrano, California
San Juan Capistrano is an Orange County, California city incorporated in 1961, population about 35,000, built around Mission San Juan Capistrano, founded November 1, 1776 as the seventh of 21 Alta California missions.
San Juan County, New Mexico, United States
San Juan County, New Mexico, a Four Corners county in the state's northwest corner; county seat Aztec, largest city Farmington; 121,661 residents (2020); economy built on San Juan Basin oil and gas, now diversifying.
San Juan de la Peña (monastery)
San Juan de la Peña is a former Benedictine royal monastery in Huesca, Aragon, Spain, built partly beneath a massive rock overhang, holding the tombs of the first Aragonese kings.
San Juan de Ulúa
San Juan de Ulúa is a Spanish colonial fortress on an islet facing the port of Veracruz, Mexico, begun in the 16th century and now a museum.
San Juan Generating Station
The San Juan Generating Station was a coal-fired power plant near Waterflow, New Mexico, about 12 miles northwest of Farmington, run by PNM from 1973 until its shutdown in 2022.
San Juan Hill
San Juan Hill: hill in the San Juan Heights east of Santiago de Cuba, site of the July 1, 1898 Spanish-American War battle involving Roosevelt's Rough Riders and the 9th and 10th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers; also a demolished Manhattan neighborhood and several American peaks.
San Juan Islands
The San Juan Islands are an archipelago of about 473 islands in Washington's Salish Sea, home to Coast Salish peoples for millennia, site of the 1859 Pig War, and settled by U.S. arbitration in 1872.
San Juan LNG Terminal
The San Juan LNG Terminal is an LNG import and regasification facility at the Port of San Juan, Puerto Rico, owned by New Fortress Energy and opened in 2020.
San Juan massacre
The San Juan massacre (Masacre de San Juan) was a 1967 army attack on Bolivian mining camps in Potosí, killing more than 20 miners and their families.
San Juan Province
San Juan Province (Provincia de San Juan), Argentina: Cuyo-region Andean province, capital City of San Juan, 19 departments. Founded 1562 by Juan Jufré; rebuilt after the 1944 earthquake; economy led by gold mining, wine, and solar energy.
San Juan-Bayamón-Caguas, PR Metro Area
San Juan-Bayamón-Caguas, PR Metro Area (also San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo, code 41980): Puerto Rico's largest MSA, about 2.04 million residents across 15 municipalities, composite cost-of-living index 102.3, ranked 82nd of 301 U.S. urban areas in Q1 2024.
San Juan–Chama Project
The San Juan–Chama Project is a Bureau of Reclamation diversion, completed in 1971, that moves San Juan River water across the Continental Divide into New Mexico's Rio Grande Basin.
San Juan, Metro Manila
San Juan, historically San Juan del Monte, is a highly urbanized city in Metro Manila, Philippines; the region's smallest, it became a city on June 16, 2007, with 126,347 people in 2020.
San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan is the capital and largest municipality of Puerto Rico, founded in 1521, with UNESCO-listed fortifications, about 330,000 residents in 2025, and ongoing water, power, and flood-resilience challenges.
San Juanico Bridge
The San Juanico Bridge is a 2.16-kilometer steel bridge in the Philippines that carries the Pan-Philippine Highway across the San Juanico Strait, linking Samar and Leyte.
San Junipero
San Junipero (Black Mirror season 3, episode 4, aired 21 October 2016) is a Charlie Brooker-written episode about two women, Kelly and Yorkie, who fall in love in a simulated 1987 digital afterlife; it won two 2017 Emmy Awards.
San Lázaro Aqueduct
San Lázaro Aqueduct (Acueducto de Rabo de Buey-San Lázaro), Roman aqueduct at Mérida, Spain, one of three supplying Emerita Augusta; three granite-and-brick pillars, 14.97 m high, survive; 16th-century Renaissance replacement; part of UNESCO site 664.
San Lorenzo Colossal Head 1
San Lorenzo Colossal Head 1, also called Monumento SL1, is the largest of the ten colossal Olmec heads at San Lorenzo, Veracruz, carved before 900 BC.
San Lorenzo de Almagro
San Lorenzo de Almagro (El Ciclón), Buenos Aires football club founded 1 April 1908 by Father Lorenzo Massa; 15 league titles, Copa Libertadores 2014, Estadio Pedro Bidegain, and an estimated USD 67.9 million debt crisis.
San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan
San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan, Olmec site complex in southern Veracruz, Mexico (San Lorenzo, Tenochtitlán, Loma del Zapote). First major Olmec center, San Lorenzo phase about 1200-900 BC, oldest known civilized communities in Mexico or Central America.
San Lorenzo, Central Department
San Lorenzo del Campo Grande, a city in Central Department, Paraguay, 9 km from Asunción; founded 1775 by Agustín Fernando de Pinedo on former Jesuit lands; 225,395 residents (2022 census); home of the Universidad Nacional de Asunción campus.
San Luis Obispo County, California
San Luis Obispo County is a Central Coast California county, one of the original 27 counties (1850), seat at San Luis Obispo, population 282,424 (2020), 3,300 square miles, 100 miles of coastline.
San Luis Obispo, California
San Luis Obispo is a California central-coast city, county seat, home of Cal Poly (est. 1901), founded around Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa in 1772; population about 50,600 with high housing costs.
San Luis Potosí
Estado de San Luis Potosí, a central Mexican state (capital San Luis Potosí city), 2,822,255 inhabitants in 2020, 59 municipalities, 61,138 km²; mining leader in fluorite, silver, and copper with an automotive-centered export economy.
San Luis Potosí (city)
San Luis Potosí, capital of the Mexican state of the same name, founded 1592 as a mining real on the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro; UNESCO World Heritage, Learning City, and Creative City of Literature; metro of about one million with a deep-aquifer water supply.