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          Featured webpages" for October 2007

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picture of Vishwanathan Anand October 1st Today's featured webpage:
Vishwanathan Anand - Chess Champion
 

picture of Chaco Canyon Big Kiva October 2nd Today's featured webpage:
Chaco Canyon
 

picture of clock faces October 3rd Today's featured webpage:
World Clock
  (requires Adobe Flash software)

picture of cowboy on bull coming out of the shoot October 4th Today's featured webpage:
Bull Riding
  from Kidz World

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

picture of stegosaurus and raptor October 5th Today's featured webpage:
Dinosaurs
  from Berkeley

Today in New Mexico History: October 5, 2004 — Socorro was hit by a devastating hail storm just after 2pm with hail as large as baseballs. Millions of dollars in damage was reported from broken windshields and dented car bodies to people being knocked out. The majority of the roofs in town had to be replaced.

picture of Devil's Tower October 6-8 Columbus Day Weekend featured webpage:
Climbing Devil's Tower
 

Today in New Mexico History: October 7, 1870 — R.C. "Clay" Allison led a mob which broke into the jail in Elisabethtown, near Cimarron, and lynched Charles Kennedy, a suspected murderer.
Today in New Mexico History: October 7, 1954 — Severe floods along the Pecos River left seven dead along an eighty-mile stretch in the southeastern part of the state. Hagerman was the hardest hit.
Today in New Mexico History: October 8, 1878 — Probate Judge Florencio Gonzales and other Lincoln residents petitioned 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 Corrales October 9th Today's featured webpage:
Best Places to Live 2007 - Corrales
  from Money Magazine

picture of camel head October 10th Today's featured webpage:
African Proverb of the Month
  from African Proverbs, Sayings and Stories

Today in New Mexico History: October 10, 1848 — Influential citizens convened in Santa Fe to petition 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 skull October 11th Today's featured webpage:
Laboratory of Human Osteology
  from Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

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

picture of October 12th Today's featured webpage:
Origami
  from Origami Nut

Today in New Mexico History: October 12, 1888 — Roving dog packs had become a big problem in the mining boom town of Socorro, the Deming Headlight reported that the deputy marshal had killed eighteen dogs in one afternoon.

map of NM with area codes October 13-14 Weekend featured webpage:
New Mexico Area Codes
  from Qwest

Today in New Mexico History: October 13, 1903 — The historic Montezuma Hotel west of Las Vegas was sold to the Young Mens' Christian Association for $1. Two prior massive hotels built out of wood in the same area had each burned to the ground before this structure, still standing, was built. 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.
Today in New Mexico History: October 14, 1848 — Local leaders sent a memorial to Congress for a "speedy organization by law of a territorial government" protected from Texas land claims and from the introduction of slavery.

aerial view of byway October 15th Today's featured webpage:
Flat Tops Trail Scenic Byway
  from U.S. Dept. of Transportation

Today in New Mexico History: October 15, 1909 — President William Howard Taft visited the Alvarado Hotel in Albuquerque and later that evening got into sharp debate with citizens who were rallying for statehood.

picture of October 16th Today's featured webpage:
10 ways to get you to read a book
  from the BBC

picture of October 17th Today's featured webpage:
Culinary Uses for Lavender
 from High Country Gardens

picture of football helmet October 18th Today's featured webpage:
College Football Hall of Fame
 

picture of two babies October 19th Today's featured webpage:
Children's names
 from Institute for Naming Children Humanely
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picture of white sands October 20-21 Weekend featured webpage:
White Sands National Monument
  from National Parks Service

Today in New Mexico History: October 20, 1835 — Manual Sanchez, mayor of Las Trampas, established the Mora land grant. After a boundary survey, he distributed land parcels to some 75 families who mostly settled along the Mora River.

picture of oak trees October 22th Today's featured webpage:
The Man Who Planted Trees
 by Jean Giono

Today in New Mexico History: October 22, 1791 — Pedro de Nava, military commander of the Internal Provinces of New Spain, instructed 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, Colfax County, left 263 miners dead.

picture ofMcDonald Observatory October 23rd Today's featured webpage:
Most Powerful Supernova Ever
 from Univ. of Texas

picture of Fall foliage October 24th Today's featured webpage:
Fall colors
 

picture of arrowheads and bows October 25th Today's featured webpage:
Archery Collecting
 

Today in New Mexico History: October 25, 1861 — Confederate Army Lt. Colonel John R. Baylor requested General H.H. Sibley 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 boy tossing beanbag at pumpkin target October 26th Today's featured webpage:
Fun Halloween Party Games
  from Better Homes and Gardens

picture of Socorro creasote bushes October 27-28 Weekend featured webpage:
New Mexico Photos by New Mexico Photographers
  from Flickr

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

picture of Alexandrite in different light October 29th Today's featured webpage:
Why are things colored?
 from Web Exhibits

picture of Jose Gallegos October 30th Today's featured webpage:
José Manuel Gallegos
 from Library of Congress

Today in New Mexico History: October 30, 1875 — R.C. "Clay" Allison led a mob that seized and lynched the new Cimarron Constable, Cruz Vega, who was suspected of involvement in the murder of a Methodist circuit rider.

picture of quicksand sign and hat October 31st Today's featured webpage:
Quicksand
 from Museum of Unnatural Mystery

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