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"Featured webpages" for January 2008

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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: 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.

January 2^nd Today's featured webpage:
Mandolin and other musical instruments
from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
for more see Stradivari's genius: five violins, one cello, and three centuries of enduring perfection by Toby Faber - 787.219 Faber

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.

January 3^rd Today's featured webpage:
K'ang Hsi
from Answers.com
for more see The Dynasties of China: A History by Bamber Gascoigne - 915.103 Gas

January 4^th Today's featured webpage:
High-Definition TV (HDTV)
from Lets Go Digital magazine
for more see HDTV for Dummies by Danny Briere & Pat Hurley - not yet available

January 5-6 Weekend's featured webpage:
New Mexico Scorpions Hockey

for more see The complete Idiot's Guide to Hockey by Malcolm G. Kelly & Mark Austin - 796.962 Kel

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.

January 7^th Today's featured webpage:
The Human Mind

for more see Readers's Digest ABC's of The Human Mind by Alma E. Guinness (ed.) - 150 AB

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.

January 8^th Today's featured webpage:
The Gambino Crime Family
from Crime Library
for more see Gangsters, swindlers, killers, and thieves : the lives and crimes of fifty American villains by Lawrence Block - 364.1092 Gan

January 9^th Today's featured webpage:
The Presidio of Monterey, California
from Presidio Museum
for more see The last of the conquistadors, Junípero Serra (1713-1784) by Omer Englebert - 921 Serra Eng

January 10^th Today's featured webpage:
Good Neighbor Policy toward Latin America
from US History.com
for more see Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy by Edward O. Guerrant - 327.73098 Guerrant

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

January 11^th Today's featured webpage:
Sydney, Austrailia
from
for more see Sydney by Peter Porter - 919.4 Po

Today in New Mexico History: January 11, 1986 — The New Mexico Museum of Natural History opened in Albuquerque. It was later renamed the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.

January 12-14 Long Weekend's featured webpage:
Acequia Renovation Programs
from The State Engineer's Office
for more see Acequia: Water-sharing, Sanctity, and Place by Sylvia Rodríguez - SW 304.2 Rodriguez

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."
Today in New Mexico History: January 14, 1869 — The Santa Fe New Mexican reported a young attorney and Confederate veteran, Tom Catron, was confirmed as the New Mexico Attorney General. In 1912, Catron became the first of two U.S. Senators for New Mexico.

January 15^th Today's featured webpage:
Haystacks Calhoun, Professional Wrestler
from Online World of Wrestling
for more see Encyclopedia of Professional Wrestling by Kristian Pope and Ray Whebbe Jr. - 986.812 Pop

January 16^th Today's featured webpage:
Temple of Heaven

for more see China's Imperial Past by Charles O. Hucker - 951 HU

January 17^th Today's featured webpage:
Ivan the Terrible
from The Xenophile Historian
for more see Armies of Ivan the Terrible : Russian troops 1505-1700 by V. Shpakovsky and David Nicolle - 355.00947 Shp

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.

January 18^th Today's featured webpage:
Accuracy of Fossils and Dating Methods
by Michael Benton
for more see Timescale by Nigel Calder - 529 Calder

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.

January 19-20 Weekend's featured webpage:
Javalina
from Sedona, AZ
for fun read Los Tres Pequeños Jabalíes - The Three Little Javalinas by Susan Lowell - S E Lo

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.

January 21^st Today's featured webpage:
Robot Missions to the Moon
from U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission
for more see The Moon: a Spaceflight Away by David J. Darling - J 523.2 Da

January 22^nd Today's featured webpage:
Digital Photography

for more see Your Lifestyle Guide to Digital Photography from Gateway Press - 775 You

January 23^rd Today's featured webpage:
Roman Aqueducts
from InfoRoma
for more see Builders of the Ancient World from National Geographic - 722 NA

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.

January 24^th Today's featured webpage:
History of the English Language
from the English Club
for more see The Stories of English by David Crystal - 427 Crystal

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.

January 25^th Today's featured webpage:
Award Winning Books for Teens
from Reader's Club
read Speak by Laurie H. Anderson - Y An

January 26-27 Weekend's featured webpage:
San Juan River Goosenecks
from
for more see Navajo Country: A geology and natural history of the Four Corners Region by Donald L Baars - SW 557 Ba

January 28^th Today's featured webpage:
Alchemy

for more see Secrets of the Alchemists Time-Life Book - 540.112 Sec

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.

January 29^th Today's featured webpage:
Native American Fossil Legends

for more see Fossil Legends of the First Americans by Adrienne Mayor - 398.36 Mayor

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.

January 30^th Today's featured webpage:
Nuclear Fusion Basics
from EFDA Jet
for more see The Fusion Quest by T. Kenneth Fowler - 621.484 Fowler

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.

January 31^st Today's featured webpage:
Engineering Disasters

for more see The Control of Nature by John M^cPhee - 304.2 M^cPhee

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