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          Featured webpages" for October 2006

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picture of old librarian behind a desk September 30- October 1 Weekend featured webpage:
Free Books on-line
  from Cranky Librarian

Black & White picture of Chaco Ruins October 2nd Today's featured webpage:
Chaco Canyon
  from the National Park Service

picture of T-Rex October 3rd Today's featured webpage:
Dinosaurs
  from Forbes

picture of jefes October 4th Today's featured webpage:
Mexican Independence
  from Sons Of Dewitt Colony Texas

Today in New Mexico History: October 4, 1821 -- The Mexican Congress adopts a constitution patterned after the U.S. charter. A republic of federated states is created, but New Mexico remains a territory without the right to create its own constitution.

picture of burro and miner October 5th Today's featured webpage:
Harding Pegmatite Mine
  from University of New Mexico

picture of diver and coral October 6th Today's featured webpage:
National Parks of Thailand
 

picture of dancers in play October 7-9 Columbus Day Weekend featured webpage:
Día de la Resistencia Indígena
  from Agencia Digital Independiente de Noticias

Today in New Mexico History:October 8, 1878 -- Probate Judge Florencio Gonzales and other Lincoln residents petition the governor for protection due to the violent circumstances of the Lincoln County War. Rivaling cattle barons and merchants escalated the economic-turf standoff into a full-fledged range war, which catapulted Billy the Kid into an intriguing international figure.

picture of beehive in crossstitch October 10th Today's featured webpage:
Proverbs
  from Beeline

Today in New Mexico History: October 10, 1848 -- Influential citizens begin a convention in Santa Fe to ask the U.S. Congress for the privilege of organizing a territorial government. Most participants were Hispanics who had served the Mexican regime and were now eager to join the Union.

picture of Aztec Serpent head October 11th Today's featured webpage:
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
  from UNM

Today in New Mexico History: October 11, 1814 -- Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy, who ordered the construction of St. Francis Cathedral in Santa Fe and other drastic changes to the Roman Catholic Church in New Mexico, is born in Lempdes, France.

picture of columbines October 12th Today's featured webpage:
Colorado Wilderness
 

picture of Montezuma Castle at night October 13th Today's featured webpage:
Montezuma Castle
  from United World College

Today in New Mexico History: October 13, 1903 -- The historic Montezuma Hotel west of Las Vegas is sold to the Young Mens' Christian Association for $1. Two prior massive hotels built out of wood in the same area each burned to the ground before this structure, still standing, was sold. Although there were grand plans for the hotels and adjoining hot springs to turn a profit from the vacationing idle rich, the hotel venture was mostly unsuccessful.

picture of Alvarado Hotel in 1910 October 14-15 Weekend featured webpage:
Alvarado Hotel, Albuquerque
  from The Wheels Museum

Today in New Mexico History:October 14, 1848 -- Local leaders send a memorial to Congress for a "speedy organization by law of a territorial government" protected from Texas land claims and the introduction of slavery.
Today in New Mexico History: October 15, 1909 -- President William Howard Taft visits the Alvarado Hotel in Albuquerque and later that evening he gets in sharp debate with citizens who are rallying for statehood.

picture of an iguana eating a banana chip October 16th Today's featured webpage:
Iguanas
  from International Reptile Conservation Foundation

picture of cars on smashed and tiltted roadway October 17th Today's featured webpage:
1989 San Francisco earthquake
 from BBC

Today in Baseball History: October 17, 1989 -- A 6.9 Mw earthquake shook the Bay Area just before the third game of the World Series was scheduled to begin in Candlestick Park between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland A's. The series was postponed for 11 days, and the Oakland Athletics won the series four to zip.

picture of blue car in flood waters October 18th Today's featured webpage:
New Mexico Floodplain Managers Association
 

picture of Los Lunas Mystery Stone October 19th Today's featured webpage:
Los Lunas Mystery Stone
 from New Mexico State Land Office

picture of large pot of orange chrysanthemums October 20th Today's featured webpage:
Garden Mums
 from Peter Fraser

Today in New Mexico History: October 20, 1835 -- Manual Sanchez, mayor of Las Trampas, establishes the Mora land grant. After a boundary survey, he distributes land parcels to 75 families who mostly settle along the Mora River.

picture of sleeping baby October 21-22 Weekend featured webpage:
Children's names
  from Institute for Naming Children Humanely

Today in New Mexico History: October 22, 1791 — Pedro de Nava, military commander of the Internal Provinces of New Spain, instructs his captains to distribute some presidio lands to soldiers. Santa Fe was the only community with a presidio in New Mexico.
Today in New Mexico History: October 22, 1913 — A coal dust explosion from an incorrectly set dynamite charge in the Stag Canyon Mine No. 2, in Dawson, left 263 miners dead.

picture of arctic sunrise over melting iceflows October 23rd Today's featured webpage:
Hunting in the Arctic wilderness
 from the BBC

picture of abstract circle October 24th Today's featured webpage:
"How Everyday Things Are Made"
 from Stanford University

picture of Megiddo October 25th Today's featured webpage:
The Megiddo Expedition
 from Tel Aviv University

Today in New Mexico History: October 25, 1861 -- Confederate Army Lt. Col. John R. Baylor writes Gen. H.H. Sibley to send more troops to the area because the Mexican population was in favor of the Union and "nothing but a strong force will keep them quiet."

picture of dog listening to victrola October 26th Today's featured webpage:
LibriVox: free audiobooks
 

picture of a Hippeastrum cultivar in flower, red flowers with yellow and white centers October 27th Today's featured webpage:
Hippeastrum (Amaryllis)
 from Better Homes and Gardens

picture of Big Ben, London October 28-29 Weekend featured webpage:
Daylight Savings Time
  from Web Exhibits

Today in New Mexico History: October 28, 1880 -- President Rutherford B. Hayes arrives in Santa Fe, becoming first sitting president to visit New Mexico. He arrived by railroad in Grant County then traveled by horse-drawn ambulance.

picture of city skyline October 30th Today's featured webpage:
Skyscraper Page
 

picture of squid October 31st Today's featured webpage:
Giant Squid
 from Museum of Unnatural Mystery

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