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          Featured webpages" for December 2007

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Picture of Gibson girls with snowballs December 1-2 Weekend's featured webpage:
 an Old Fashioned Christmas
  for more see Victorian Christmas Crafts by Barbara Bruno - 745.59 Br

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

picture of architect reconstruction of Tyuonyi ruin December 3rd Today's featured webpage:
An Architect in Northern New Mexico
  for more see A City at the End of the World by V.B. Price - SW 720 Pri

picture of goliath beetle December 4th Today's featured webpage:
Goliath beetles (Goliathus)
  from The Worsley School
 for more see Of kinkajous, capybaras, horned beetles, seladangs, and the oddest and most wonderful mammals, insects, birds, and plants of our world - 570 Hanson

Picture of Geronimo December 5th Today's featured webpage:
Geronimo
  for more see Once They Moved Like the Wind by David Roberts - SW 970.3 Ro

Pic CAP seal December 6th Today's featured webpage:
Civil Air Patrol
  for more see Flying Minute Men by Robert Neprud - at N.M.S.U. D790 .N4

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

Picture of jitterbug December 7th Today's featured webpage:
Swing and Jitterbug
  listen to The Spirit of St. Louis by Manhattan Transfer - MCD 180

Today in New Mexico History: December 7, 1878 — The first train entered New Mexico, via switchback, over Raton Pass. It was an Santa Fe Railway train.

Geological Map of NM December 8-9 Weekend's featured webpage:
New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources
  for more see Mosaic of New Mexico's scenery, rocks, and history - SW 917.89 Mo

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.
Today in New Mexico History: December 8, 1966 — Dubbed the "Roundhouse", a new state capitol, an architectural mix of Territorial, Greek Revival and Pueblo styles, was dedicated.
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.

Poster Making Human Rights a Reality December 10th Today's featured webpage:
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  for more see The Human Rights Book by Milton Meltzer - 323.4 Meltzer

Today in New Mexico History: December 10, 1961 — Project Gnome's underground nuclear detonation at Carlsbad was the first test of a peaceful application of a nuclear explosion.

Picture of lace doily December 11th Today's featured webpage:
Tatting
  for more see Reader's Digest Complete Guide to Needlework - 746.4 Re

Picture of fire fighter December 12th Today's featured webpage:
Photojournalism
  from the Victoria and Albert Museum
  for more see Photojournalism from Time-Life Books - 778 Ti

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

Picture of 1933 Jim Thorpe football card December 13th Today's featured webpage:
Football Cards
 from About.com
  for more see Beckett Football Cards Price Guide - 796.075 Beckett

Picture of ruins on island December 14th Today's featured webpage:
Nan Modal
  for more see Lost City of Stone by Bill Ballinger - 996.5 Ba

Today in New Mexico History: December 14, 1867 — 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 Church at Isleta Pueblo December 15-16 Weekend's featured webpage:
Isleta Pueblo
  for more see The Pueblo Indian World by Hewett and Dutton - SW 970.3 He

Today in New Mexico History: December 15, 1867 — Colonel William L. Rynerson shot and mortally wounded Supreme Court Chief Justice John P. Slough in a barroom duel at the Exchange Hotel in Santa Fe. Rynerson was found not guilty of murder and he later served many years in territorial politics.
Today in New Mexico History: December 15, 1924 — The Socorro Public Library was founded by the Woman's Auxillary to the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers (WAAIMME).

Picture of kitchen December 17th Today's featured webpage:
Kitchen Design guidelines
  from National Kitchen & Bath Association
  for more see The Kitchen: 100 solutions to design problems by James Brett - OS 643.3 Br

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

picture of Darwin as ape December 18th Today's featured webpage:
Darwin, Mind and Meaning
  by Alvin Plantinga
  for more see Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Deniel C. Dennett - 146.7 Den

picture of a jumping spider December 19th Today's featured webpage:
Jumping Spiders (Family: Salticidae)
 from the University of Arkansas
  for more see Spiders of the World by Rod & Ken Preston-Mafham - 595.4 Pr

picture of wind turbine December 20th Today's featured webpage:
Turbines
 from Weekly Reader
  for more see The Wind Power Book by Jack Park - 621.45 Pa

Picture of Swayambunatha Stupa December 21st Today's featured webpage:
Swayambunatha Stupa
  from Oriental Architecture
  for more see The Himalayan Kingdoms by Bob Gibbons & Bob Ashford - 915.49 Gi

Picture of faralitos December 22-25 Long Christmas Weekend's featured webpage:
Christmas Eve in New Mexico
  from Nancy's Fiery Fare
  for more see Christine Mather's Santa Fe Christmas - SW 394.2 Ma
  and Christmas in Old Santa Fe by Pedro Ribera Ortega - SW 394.2 Or

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 24, 1880 — Methodist deacon A. M. Conklin was shot to death in Socorro during church services by Antonio Baca and two Baca cousins, Onofrio and Abran. Antonio was shot in his jail cell, and Onofrio Baca was pulled from the train transporting him to Santa Fe and lynched from a corral crossbar. Abran Baca was acquitted, but fled from Socorro in fear of his life.
Today in New Mexico History: December 25, 1846 — U.S. Army Colonel 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 25, 1887 — Hotel king Conrad Nicholson Hilton was born in San Antonio, Socorro County.

Wood gatherers in the snow December 26th Today's featured webpage:
Snowbound
 by John Greenleaf Whittier
  for more see Snow-bound, Among the hills, Songs of labor ... by John Greenleaf Whittier - 811 Wh

picture of December 27th Today's featured webpage:
Insect mimicry
  from Live Science
  for more see The marvels of Animal Behavior Thomas B. Allen (ed.) - 591.52 Marvels

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

timelapse picture of Leonid meteor shower December 28th Today's featured webpage:
2008 Meteor Showers
  from The Amateur Astronomical Society of Rhode Island
  and Nightwatch: A practical guide to viewing the Universe by Terence Dickinson - 523 Dic

Today in New Mexico History: December 28, 1854 — Surveyor-General William Pelham arrived in Santa Fe to begin the process of investigating the legitimacy of Spanish and Mexican land grants pursuant to the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and based his work largely on the historical New Mexico archives.
Today in New Mexico History: December 28, 1881 — Panteleon Micra and Santos Benevides were lynched in Bernalillo for horse thieving, and suspected of running a Bloody Benders operation west of Bernalillo.
Today in New Mexico History: December 28-30, 2006 — northern New Mexico had 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.

Squash Blossom Necklace December 29-January 1 New Years Weekend's featured webpage:
Squash Blossom Necklaces
  for more see Turquoise jewelry of the Indians of the Southwest by Edna Mae & John F. Bennett - SW 739.23 Be

Today in New Mexico History: December 29, 1693 — Governor Don Diego de Vargas, 100 Spanish soldiers and 140 Pecos Pueblo warrior allies engaged in a two-day battle to reconquer Santa Fe from rebellious Pueblo Indians. The Spanish gained the wall on the first afternoon, and occupied Santa Fe the next day.
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. and $10 million to Mexico.
Today in New Mexico History: December 30, 1930 — Robert H. Goddard made his first launch of a rocket in New Mexico, at his Mescalero Ranch outside of Roswell.
Today in New Mexico History: 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.
Today in New Mexico History: January 1, 1881 — Billy the Kid, in a Santa Fe jail, wrote the third of his six letters to Governor Lew Wallace, requesting that the statesman visit the outlaw in his cell.

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