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"Featured webpages" for June 2008

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June 1^st Today's featured webpage:
Map of Vilnius, 1581
for more see European History Atlas: Ancient, medieval and modern European and world history by James Henry Breasted et al. - 911 Eu

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.

June 2^nd Today's featured webpage:
Las Trampas

for more see The great Taos bank robbery: and other Indian country affairs by Tony Hillerman - SW 917.89 Hil

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.

June 3^rd Today's featured webpage:
Machu Picchu

for more see Atlas of Mysterious Places edited by Jennifer Westwood - 909 Atlas

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.
Today in New Mexico History: June 3, 1924 — The Gila Wilderness became the first declared wildness in the United States when the Forest Service set aside 750,000 acres of the Gila National Forest for special protection. This was confirmed in the Wilderness Act of 1964.

June 4^th Today's featured webpage:
Sloths
from Cal Tech for more see Of kinkajous, capybaras, horned beetles, seladangs, and the oddest and most wonderful mammals, insects, birds, and plants of our world by Jeanne K. Hanson - 570 Hanson

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.
Today in New Mexico History: June 4, 1947 — The first test balloons were launched from Alamogordo Army Air Field, which was later renamed Holloman Air Force Base.

June 5^th Today's featured webpage:
All About Eagles
for more see A Family of Eagles by Dan True - SW 598.9 Tr

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 Bob Ewing baseball card 1909, American Tobacco Co.

June 6^th Today's featured webpage:
Historic Baseball cards
from Library of Congress for more see Baseball Card Price Guide - 796.075 Beckett

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.

June 7-8 Weekend's featured webpage:
National Trail Day
from About.com for more see Hiking Alone: Trails Out, Trails Home by Mary Beath - SW 921 Beath

June 9^th Today's featured webpage:
New Mexico Weaving Styles
for more see Rio Grande Textiles by Nora Fisher - SW 746.41 RI

June 10^th Today's featured webpage:
Oldest printed book
from Did You Know? for more see Linocuts and Woodcuts: A complete block printing handbook by Michael Rothenstein - 761 Ro

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

June 11^th Today's featured webpage:
Boeing 787 Dreamliner
from Aircraft-Info.net for older aircraft see Aircraft in Profile - 623.7 AI

Today in New Mexico History: June 11, 1948 — Blossom III (V-2 #37) carried the first monkey into space, Albert I, to altitude of 39 miles from White Sands Proving Grounds. However, it appeared that Albert I had died before launch.

June 12^th Today's featured webpage:
Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST)
from NASA, for more see Observing Meteors, Comets, Supernovae, and Other Transient Phenomena by Neil Bone - 523 Bone

June 13^th Today's featured webpage:
Siberian Husky
from Petside.com, for more see The Complete Dog Book by the American Kennel Club - 636.7 Am

June 14-15 Weekend's featured webpage:
Smoke Jumpers
from the National Smokejumper Association, for more see The Smokejumpers by Randle M. Hurst - SW 634.96 Hu

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.
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.

June 16^th Today's featured webpage:
Isaac Asimov
scientist and science fiction writer, for example Foundation by Issac Asimov - LT Asi

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.

picture of zebra beetle Rosalia funebris

June 17^th Today's featured webpage:
"Cottonwood borer" or "Zebra beetle"
by Bug Guide, for more see Learning about & Living with Insects of the Southwest: How to identify helpful, harmful, and venomous insects by Floyd G Werner & Carl E Olson - SW 595.2046 We

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.

June 18^th Today's featured webpage:
Seashell collecting
from Seashell Collector, for more see Spotter's guide to shells: an introduction to seashells of the world by Graham D. Saunders - J 594 Sa

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.

June 19^th Today's featured webpage:
How to Paint Watercolors
by Greg Conley, for more see Painting in watercolor by Kate Gwynn - 751.42 Gw

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.

June 20^th Today's featured webpage:
Kew Palace
from Historic Royal Palaces, for more see London, Eyewitness Travel Guide by Michael Leapman - 914.21 London

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 church at Rancho De Las Golondrinas

June 21-22 Weekend's featured webpage:
Adobes at Rancho De Las Golondrinas
from the History Channel, for more see Mud, Space & Spirit: Handmade Adobes by Virginia Gray & Alan Macrae - cSW 690.8 Mud

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.

June 23^rd Today's featured webpage:
New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan
for more see Politics in New Mexico by Jack Ellsworth Holmes - SW 320.789 Hol

June 24^th Today's featured webpage:
Jet Pack "game"
from Absolutist, for a novel set in gamelike world, see Epic by Conar Kostick - J Kostick

June 25^th Today's featured webpage:
Mia "2008 Girl of the Year"
from American Girl, for more skating fiction see Undercover by Beth Kephart - Y Kephart

June 26^th Today's featured webpage:
Penitentes
for more see Brothers of Light: The Penitentes of the Southwest by William P. Henderson - SW 271.093 Hen

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.
Today in New Mexico History: June 26, 2007 — High winds from a derecho hit southeastern New Mexico with gusts to 80 mph in Tatum and McDonald.

June 27^th Today's featured webpage:
John Reese
for more see Texas Gold by John Henry Reese - W Re

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).

June 28-29 Weekend's featured webpage:
Native American Dwellings
for more see Native American Architecture by Peter Nabokov - SW 722.91 Nabokov

June 30^th Today's featured webpage:
Isabel Allende
for more see Inés of My Soul by Isabel Allende - F Allende

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