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          Featured webpages" for December 2006

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picture of cover of the Little Red Book December 1st Today's featured webpage:
“Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries”
 from Human Events: The National Conservative Weekly

Picture of Gibson girls with snowballs December 2-3 Weekend's featured webpage:
 an Old Fashioned Christmas
 

Today in New Mexico History: December 2, 1927 — Calvin Coolidge dedicated the New Mexico Stone in the Washington Monument.

picture of paper roll December 4th Today's featured webpage:
Visualize the Age of the Earth
  from The Worsley School

Picture of Sphere of Water in Freefall December 5th Today's featured webpage:
Waves in a Large Free Sphere of Water
  from Devil Ducky

Painting of boxer in ring, name of Jack Dempsey, painted by Home December 6th Today's featured webpage:
National Art Museum of Sport
  from Indiana University

Today in New Mexico History: December 6, 1681 — Ousted Gov. Antonio de Otermin and 70 Spanish soldiers came back to New Mexico after the Pueblo Revolt and learned that all northern pueblos except Isleta were still in rebellion.

Picture of Kanzi, a talking chimp December 7th Today's featured webpage:
Famous Monkeys Through History
 

Close-up of a stripped quilt, 19th century December 8th Today's featured webpage:
America's Quilting History
 

Today in New Mexico History: December 8, 1702 — The Duke of Alburquerque, Francisco Fernandez de la Cueva Enriquez, arrived in Mexico City to assume duties as the 34th viceroy of New Spain. In 1706, the villa of Alburquerque was founded in his honor.

Picture of fawn December 9-10 Weekend's featured webpage:
 Fawn rescue

 

Today in New Mexico History: December 9, 1902 — The last case was filed before the Court of Private Land Claims. In 13 years the court adjudicated 228 grants in New Mexico, 17 in Arizona and three in Colorado. A total of 158 claims were rejected and only 21 were confirmed without adjustment.

Today in New Mexico History: December 10, 1961 — US performed a "Peaceful Nuclear Explosions" underground nuclear test at Carlsbad.

Picture of statue to the boll weevil in Enterprise, Alabama December 11th Today's featured webpage:
 Crop diversification - Boll Weevil
  from the Library of Congress

Picture of bumper key and pry bar December 12th Today's featured webpage:
The Security of Tumbler Locks
 by Marc Weber Tobias

Today in New Mexico History: December 12, 1880 — While on the lam, Billy the Kid wrote the second of six letters to Gov. Lew Wallace, claiming innocence to recent charges of horse thieving and killing deputy James Carlysle.

Picture of fording the Rappahannock at the Battle of Fredericksburg December 13th Today's featured webpage:
The Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg
 from The Brothers War

Picture of indian planting corn December 14th Today's featured webpage:
Colonization & Print in the Americas
 from the Univ. of Pennsylvannia

Today in New Mexico History: December 14, 1868 — New Mexico Supreme Court Chief Justice John P. Slough responded to Legislative Council censure, calling Col. William L. Rynerson "a thief in the army, a thief out of the army, a coward and an S.O.B."

Picture of Mother arctic wolf carrying her cub December 15th Today's featured webpage:
Arctic Wolves
 from Athropolis Productions Ltd.

Today in New Mexico History: December 15, 1868 — Col. William L. Rynerson killed Supreme Court Chief Justice John P. Slough in a barroom duel at the Exchange Hotel in Santa Fe. Rynerson was found not guilty and he later served many years in territorial politics.

Picture of thin section of clinopyroxenite December 16-17 Weekend's featured webpage:
Microtextures of plutonic rocks
 from GeoLab at the University of North Carolina

Today in New Mexico History: December 17, 1996 — At the Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, the "Option Red" supercomputer is started up, performing one trillion floating-point operations per second, making it the fastest computer in the world.

picture of volleyball game December 18th Today's featured webpage:
Volleyball News
 from United States Volleyball Association (USVBA)

picture of December 19th Today's featured webpage:
Saturn
 from University of Exeter

picture of modern ballet dancers December 20th Today's featured webpage:
History of Ballet
 from the Kennedy Center

Picture of outside of farmhouse December 21st Today's featured webpage:
Bhutanese farm
  from Oriental Architecture

picture of elephant head in profile December 22nd Today's featured webpage:
the African Elephant
 from the African Elephant Specialist Group

Picture of kids dancing in conga line December 23-26 Long Christmas Weekend's featured webpage:
 More things to do when you're stuck at home
  from Kids Health

Today in New Mexico History: December 25, 1846 — U.S. Army Col. A. W. Doniphan reinforced U.S. troops and defeated Mexican soldiers at Brazitos near Las Cruces, the only Mexican War battle fought in New Mexico.
Today in New Mexico History: December 23, 1880 — Sheriff Pat Garrett killed Kid cohort Charlie Bowdre at Stinking Springs in De Baca County and captured Billy the Kid, who later escaped from the Lincoln County Courthouse.
Today in New Mexico History: December 25, 1887 — Hotel king Conrad Nicholson Hilton was born in San Antonio, Socorro County.

picture of time sequence of baseball from pitcher to plate December 27th Today's featured webpage:
The Physics of Baseball
 by Alan Nathan

Today in New Mexico History: December 27, 1950 — "Brushy" Bill Roberts dies in Hico, Texas. Roberts contended for most of his later years that he, indeed, was the real Billy the Kid.

picture of extinct Smilodon leaping with jaws open December 28th Today's featured webpage:
Saber-toothed Tiger
  from Blue Lion

Today in New Mexico History: December 28-30, 2006 — northern New Mexico has the heaviest snowfall ever recorded, the storm lasted three days in parts of New Mexico, dumping, for example, 30 inches of snow with 16 foot high drifts in Clayton and 25 inches in Santa Fe.
picture of Mars Rover after 2001 December 29th Today's featured webpage:
Mars Rovers
  from Space.com

Picture of modern book burning December 30-January 1 New Years Weekend's featured webpage:
Censorship Quotes
  from The Forbidden Library

Today in New Mexico History: December 30, 1853 — James Gadsden, the U.S. Minister to Mexico, and General Antonio López de Santa Anna, the President of Mexico, signed the Gadsden Purchase in Mexico City, transferring 30,000 sq. miles to the U.S.
December 31, 1943 — John Denver was born John Henry Deutschendorf in Roswell. He had four No. 1 singles. His biggest album was the 1973 release "John Denver's Greatest Hits," which topped the Billboard chart for three weeks and stayed on the chart a remarkable 175 weeks.
Today in New Mexico History: December 31, 1987 — El Malpais National Monument was established.

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