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          "Featured webpages" for January 2007

     Featured Webpages started on March 16, 2006. Months available:
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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: January 1, 1881 — Billy the Kid, in a Santa Fe jail, wrote the third of six letters to Gov. Lew Wallace, requesting that the statesman visit the outlaw in his cell.

picture of red-figured calyx krater January 2nd Today's featured webpage:
Ancient Greek Art
 from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Today in New Mexico History: January 2, 1867 — Colonel Thomas Means was taken from a Taos jail and lynched. Means was allegedly a habitual bully who terrorized his family and neighbors. He was in jail for slashing the face of a local judge.

picture of earth with words World History January 3rd Today's featured webpage:
HyperHistory
 

picture of yoko ono January 4th Today's featured webpage:
Yoko Ono
 from aiu

Picture of Cannery Row January 5th Today's featured webpage:
Cannery Row
 

Picture of crinoid, stem and calyx January 6-7 Weekend's featured webpage:
Crinoids

  from the Paleontological Society

Today in New Mexico History: January 6, 1912 — U.S. President William H. Taft signed the proclamation that admitted New Mexico into the Union as the 47th state.
Today in New Mexico History: January 7, 1598 — Juan de Oñate and 130 men, women and children left northern Mexico and blazed the trail that would become El Camino Real.
Today in New Mexico History: January 7, 1874 — Governor Marsh Giddings offered a reward of $500 for the arrest of five men accused of murdering four men at a dance the month before. The murders began six years of lawlessness called the Lincoln County War.

Picture of Lucrezia Borgia January 8-9 Monday-Tuesday's featured webpage:
The Borgias
 from Crime Library

Picture of Rembrandt's painting Night Watch January 10-11 Wednesday-Thursday's featured webpage:
Night Watch
 from Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Today in New Mexico History: January 10, 1880 — Believed to be the day Billy the Kid killed Joe Grant in a Fort Sumner saloon.

Picture of January 12th Today's featured webpage:
Dilbert
 from United Media

Today in New Mexico History: January 12, 1889 — J. Francisco Chavez and Albert Fountain, leaders of the New Mexico Senate and House of Representatives, received death threats and are given 36 hours to leave Santa Fe. Threats implied the existence of a "death committee."

Picture of Martin Luther King, Jr. January 13-15 Long Weekend's featured webpage:
Martin Luther King, Jr. Speeches
 from Info Please

Today in New Mexico History: January 14, 1869 — The Santa Fe New Mexican reported a young attorney, Tom Catron, was confirmed as the New Mexico Attorney General. In 1912, Catron, a Confederate veteran, became the first of two U.S. Senators for New Mexico.
Picture of paper folded like a fan January 16th Today's featured webpage:
Geometric Paper Folding
  by Dr. David Huffman

picture of flying football touchdown January 17th Today's featured webpage:
Trick plays - Football & Basketball
  from ''Sports Illustrated''

Today in New Mexico History: January 17, 1852 — Some were scandalized when Gertrudes Barcelo, aka La Doña Tules, reportedly is buried beneath Santa Fe's La Parroquia Church (later the site for the St. Francis Cathedral) on this day. Tules had operated a popular gambling saloon-bordello near Santa Fe's Burro Alley.

picture of a wombat January 18th Today's featured webpage:
Wombats
 from Wombania

Today in New Mexico History: January 18, 1855 — Newly arrived Surveyor-General William Pelham asked New Mexicans to submit land grant documents given by Spain and Mexico. The United States agreed to honor grants, but deceptive individuals caused misgivings about the process.
Today in New Mexico History: January 18, 1948 — The Santa Fe New Mexican operating since 1849, proudly announced that daily circulation has reached an all-time high of 9,000 copies.

picture of Model 300 bubble-enclosed helicopter January 19th Today's featured webpage:
The Hughes Companies
 from U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission

Today in New Mexico History: January 19, 1847 — Governor Charles Bent was killed along with other U.S. appointed officials in Taos, in the beginning of the "Revolt of 1847."
Today in New Mexico History: January 19, 1876 — In the Colfax County War, Clay Allison and confederates broke into the News and Press office in Cimarron, threw the printing press into the Cimarron River, and set off a charge of black powder, in response to being identified in the paper as leading mob violence in Cimarron.

Picture of book cover showing girl tossing fairy dust into the wind January 20-22 ALA Meeting's featured webpage:
  Newbery & Caldecott winners
  from Association for Library Service to Children

Aerial view of the west ruins at Aztec, NM January 23rd Today's featured webpage:
Aztec Ruins National Monument
  from the National Parks Service

Today in New Mexico History: January 23, 1884 — Sometime after midnight 200 citizens released serial killer Joel Fowler from jail in Socorro and strung him up from the "hanging tree" some 200 feet from the jail.
Today in New Mexico History: January 23, 1923 — Aztec Ruins National Monument opened, boasting impressive ancestral Pueblo ruins dating from about 1100 A.D.

Picture of loading a gun, World War II artillery January 24th Today's featured webpage:
Artillery, World War II
  from 44th Infantry Division

Today in New Mexico History: January 24, 1945 — Camp O'Donnell, Philippines, was liberated from Japan by U.S. troops. Many New Mexicans with the 200th and 515th coastal artillery units were discovered, having survived the Bataan Death March and several years of captivity.

picture of rock wallaby against sky January 25th Today's featured webpage:
Rock Wallabies
  Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby Recovery Team

picture of Ho Phra Keo temple, Vientiane January 26th Today's featured webpage:
Laotian architecture
  from Asian Historical Architecture

Picture of cover of book showing Lance Armstrong on a bicycle January 27-28 Weekend's featured webpage:
Sports Books
 from Reader's Club

Today in New Mexico History: January 28, 1870 — Lucien B. Maxwell sold the "Maxwell Land Grant" to foreign investors for $1,350,000. It consisted of more than 1.7 million acres. The land grant was the largest tract of privately owned land in the Western Hemisphere.

picture of red Hawaiian Locomotive Ewa 1 January 29th Today's featured webpage:
Hawaiian Railways
 

Today in New Mexico History: January 29, 1822 — William Becknell, founder of the Santa Fe Trail, returned to Franklin, Mo., after his first trading expedition to Santa Fe. As Becknell talked of second trip, silver pesos fell to the ground from a leather pouch atop his pack animals.

picture of atom exploding January 30th Today's featured webpage:
Nuclear Fusion Basics
  from EFDA Jet

Today in New Mexico History: January 30, 1945 — Camp Cabanatuan, Philippines, was liberated from Japan by U.S. troops. Many New Mexicans with the 200th and 515th coastal artillery units were discovered, having survived the Bataan Death March and several years of captivity.

picture of 10 franc banknote Martinique January 31st Today's featured webpage:
Banknotes of the French Antilles
 

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