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          "Featured webpages" for June 2007

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picture of old map of Europe June 1st Today's featured webpage:
Historic Cities
 

Today in New Mexico History: June 1, 1868 — The Treaty of Bosque Redondo created the Navajo Indian Reservation, which later expanded into areas of western New Mexico, northeastern Arizona and southeastern Utah.

Picture of Chino mine pit, Sanat Rita, NM June 2-3 Weekend's featured webpage:
Brief Mining History of New Mexico
  from Albuquerque Gem and Mineral Club

Today in New Mexico History: June 2, 1860 — The U.S. Congress confirmed the Las Trampas land grant based on the investigation of the Surveyor-General William Pelham. The community grant was quickly honored according to the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.
Today in New Mexico History: June 3, 1872 — New Mexico voters rejected a second constitutional referendum to gain statehood. The loss is attributed to low voter turnout. The first 1850 Constitution passed New Mexico voters but not U.S. Congress.

picture of Bob Ewing baseball card 1909, American Tobacco Co. June 4th Today's featured webpage:
Historic Baseball cards
  from Library of Congress

Today in New Mexico History: June 4, 1696 — Many Pueblo Indians staged a second revolt, which took Governor Don Diego de Vargas, Spanish soldiers and a contingent of Pecos Pueblo warriors six months to control.

picture of flying bald eagle June 5th Today's featured webpage:
All About Eagles
 

Today in New Mexico History: June 5-9, 1952 — Multiple sightings of UFOs in Albuquerque stumped the Air Force, Project Bluebook #'s 1233, 1256, 1260, and 1263.
Today in New Mexico History: June 5, 1967 — Reies Lopez Tijerina and a group of his followers (Alianza Federal de Mercedes) took over the Rio Arriba County Courthouse in Tierra Amarilla and took hostages in protest of land grant transfer irregularities. They were routed by the National Guard with two deaths.

picture of Monopoly logo June 6th Today's featured webpage:
Probabilities in the Game of Monopoly®
 

Today in New Mexico History: June 6, 1954 — The burning of trash and construction debris in the Jemez started the Water Canyon Fire which burned approximately 5,000 acres.
Today in New Mexico History: June 6, 1971 — At the University of New Mexico, Yvonne Knight became the first American Indian woman to obtain a law degree.

picture of pop-up-book with pop-up house June 7th Today's featured webpage:
Cool book art
  from Anagram Bookshop in Prague

picture of a television June 8th Today's featured webpage:
Top 10 Inventions Of All Time
  by Dennis O'Connell

Picture of police arresting a man June 9-10 Weekend's featured webpage:
Quiz: Your rights during police encounters
  from Flex Your Rights Foundation

Today in New Mexico History: June 10, 1967 — Reies Lopez Tijerina, wanted for the Tierra Amarilla shoot-out on June 5th, was captured by State Police.

picture of Boeing 747-400 with Lufthansa markings June 11th Today's featured webpage:
Boeing 747-400
 from Aircraft-Info.net

picture of advertisement for Mercs video game June 12th Today's featured webpage:
The Top 10 Classic Run-and-Gun Scrollers
  from Game FAQs

picture of supernova June 13th Today's featured webpage:
Brightest Supernova
  from NASA

picture of stars and planets June 14th Today's featured webpage:
Isaac Asimov
  scientist and science fiction writer

Today in New Mexico History: June 14, 1962 — The New Mexico Supreme Court in the case of Montoya v. Bolack, 70 N.M. 196, prohibited state and local governments from denying Indians the right to vote because they lived on a reservation.

picture of zebra bug Rosalia funebris June 15th Today's featured webpage:
"Cottonwood borer" or "Zebra bug"
  a New Mexico pest and recycler
  by Bug Guide

Today in New Mexico History: June 15, 1904 — The U.S. Court of Private Land Claims adjourned its final session after 13 years of adjudicating Spanish and Mexican land grants guaranteed by the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. Most grants were in New Mexico.

picture of krill, Euphausia superba June 16-17 Weekend's featured webpage:
Dive and Discover
  from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Today in New Mexico History: June 16, 1977 — The La Mesa Fire was started by human carelessness. Over the next seven days it burned 15,444 acres of Bandelier National Monument and part of Los Alamos National Laboratory in the Jemez.
Today in New Mexico History: June 17, 1527 — The Narvaez flotilla sailed from Cuba carrying Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and others in an effort to colonize Florida. A violent storm shipwrecked the expedition along the Gulf Coast near present-day Galveston. Cabeza de Vaca and three others (including Estevan the Moor) survive, live among the Indians and emerge in 1536 with the first stories of New Mexico.

picture of seashell, Maoricolpus roseus June 18th Today's featured webpage:
Mike's Seashell Collection
  from Microseashell.com
  select group on left, species on right

Today in New Mexico History: June 18, 1909 — An agreement between 111 landowners of the Jacona land grant (north of Santa Fe) transformed it from a community to a private grant. The action was taken to prevent losing common lands to the U.S. government.

picture of Katherine Parr June 19th Today's featured webpage:
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
 

Today in New Mexico History: June 19, 1854 — The bill to create the office of Surveyor-General of New Mexico was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. The office was charged with investigating land grants assumed by the United States from the Mexican and Spanish regimes through the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.

picture of Hampton Court Maze aerial view June 20th Today's featured webpage:
Hampton Court Maze
  from Historic Royal Palaces

Today in New Mexico History: June 20, 1850 — Voters approved the 1850 Constitution in the first attempt at statehood (8,371 to 39), but the fledgling territory-to-be would have to wait another 62 years before admission to Union.
Today in New Mexico History: June 20, 1998 — An arsonist started the Oso Complex Fire in the Jemez which burned for 16 days and burned 5,185 acres.

picture of hippo and tortoise June 21st Today's featured webpage:
Animal Friendships
 

Today in New Mexico History: June 21, 1860 — Congress approved the Maxwell Land Grant, 1,714,765 acres granted by the Mexican government to Charles Beaubien in 1841 and later acquired by Lucien B. Maxwell who married Beaubien's daughter Luz. The Maxwells later bought out other family members and eventually sold the grant to foreign investors in 1872. Maxwell, who many said was a very generous man, eventually died broke. He allowed many squatters to establish homes on the grant and when the new owners began evicting them the Colfax County War erupted.

picture of game June 22nd Today's featured webpage:
Bubble Shooter "game"
  from Absolutist

picture of Danish with Emir June 23rd - June 24th Weekend featured webpage:
The Story Of Danish And The Figs
 

picture of Felicity June 25th Today's featured webpage:
Felicity's Williamsburg
  from American Girl

picture of John Philip Sousa in band uniform June 26th Today's featured webpage:
John Philip Sousa
 

Today in New Mexico History: June 26, 1853 — Romolo Barela received a land grant from Mexican authorities in the Gadsden Purchase area of southern New Mexico, which he uses to plant an orchard. Fifty years later, his heirs lost their fight to have the grant confirmed by the United States because only a minor official had issued the grant.

Victorian carricature June 27th Today's featured webpage:
Victorian Books
 

Today in New Mexico History: June 27, 1994 — It was the hottest day ever, reaching 122°F (50°C) in Eddy County, recorded at both Lakewood and WIPP. Officially the maximum was 118 degrees F (47.8 degrees C).

picture of small sea animal via bioluminescence June 28th Today's featured webpage:
Bioluminescence
  from Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution

picture of Isabel Allende in 1991 June 29th Today's featured webpage:
Isabel Allende
 

picture of a mobile steam engine c.1870 June 30 - July 1 Today's featured webpage:
Steam engines on the farm
 from The Museum of English Rural Life

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