>Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:49:38 -0700
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>Subject: Got CALICHE ?

>Got CALICHE ?  http://www.swanet.org/caliche.html
>
>MUSEUM SUPPORTERS TRY TO SAVE IT FROM AUCTIONEER 01/11/99 12:22AM CRIPPLE
>CREEK, Colo. (AP) _ It will be a busy winter for supporters of the
>Homestead House Museum in this historic gold mining town. They are trying
>to raise $250,000 to save the museum building from the auction block.  The
>parent company for the adjacent Jubilee Casino, which owns the museum,
>planned to auction off the 1890s-era furnishings, but agreed to sell the
>building and furnishings outright to the museum supporters. Supporters need
>to raise the money by May. The Cripple Creek City Council donated $50,000
>to the project last week. Homestead House was built by Pearl DeVere in 1896
>as a high-class brothel in the red-light district on Myers Avenue. When
>DeVere died, she had the biggest funeral in Colorado, said Charlotte
>Bumgarner, who has been giving tours at the museum for three years. ``We've
>just got to save Pearl's house.'' Today, the house is furnished as it was
>in 1896. It is open for tours, filled with anecdotes about historic Cripple
>Creek, from May through October. Groups of 10 or more can schedule visits
>year-round. Bumgarner said the Greatest Gold Camp Historical Association is
>helping with the fund raising until a separate nonprofit organization can
>be formed for the museum. Supporters are soliciting individual donations
>which may be sent to Homestead House Museum, P.O. Box 268, Cripple Creek,
>CO 80813. (719) 689-2485.
>
>
>http://www.azcentral.com:80/news/0112valbos.shtml The first synagogue built
>in Arizona Territory will undergo renovation and restoration as it is
>prepared for a new role as a community center and office space. Built in
>1910, it was said to be the only synagogue between San Francisco and Las
>Vegas, N.M.
>
>
>http://www.abqjournal.com/news/1news01-12.htm Milton Bluehouse said Monday
>that he would order the small tribal zoo closed "after the first thunder"
>in the spring, in accordance with the advice of a group of medicine men.
>Only the zoo's two Mexican gray wolves would be not be released because
>they are a protected species and under federal control. The rest of the
>some 30 indigenous animals would be released somewhere within the 26,000
>square miles of the Navajo reservation.
>
>
>http://www.sfnewmexican.com/news1999/news_january/jan12_POPE.html Adair
>said Popè "is just not worthy" to represent the state in the collection.
>"Popè didn't do enough, and what he did do was of questionable value,"
>Adair said. Little is known about the Indian leader, who is first mentioned
>in written history in 1675, when he was indicted by the Spanish for
>"sorcery." Popè became the leader of several Tewa-speaking pueblos after
>the 1680 revolt but was removed in 1688 - four years before the Spanish
>returned to re-conquer Northern New Mexico.
>
>
>http://nmbw.nmsource.com/capital.htm The New Mexico Department of Tourism
>has been awarded a $210,000 grant from the National Historic Scenic Byways
>Program to produce a CD-ROM on the state's historic trade routes. The funds
>will be used to produce a CD-ROM titled "Centuries of Scenic Byways,"
>according to incoming Tourism Department Secretary Janet Green. The project
>will chronicle the storied past of three of New Mexico's historic trade
>routes and highways including El Camino Real of the 1500s, the Old Santa Fe
>Trail of the 1800s, and Route 66 of the 1900s.
>
>
>http://www.washingtonpost.com:80/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-01/10/076l-011099-idx.ht
>ml The foundation restored O'Keeffe's adobe house and studio in Abiquiu,
>making the site available to 5,000 visitors a year. 
>

>http://www.accesswaco.com/news/rowland.html Technically, the defenders of
>the Alamo were not fighting for Texas independence. They were fighting as
>part of a struggle to re-establish Mexico's 1824 Constitution that had been
>repudiated by Santa Anna. They flew a red-white-and-green Mexican flag over
>the Alamo with "1824" on it. After the Alamo battle, the struggle shifted
>to one of Texas independence.
>
>
>http://www.salonmagazine.com:80/it/feature/1999/01/11sidebar.html These are
>just a few of the treasures awaiting students of history wishing to
>extricate themselves from the various swamps of cultural theory. What sets
>these books apart is this: Their method is narrative, and their subject
>matter is real people and real historical events. Doing theory is easy; it
>is the capacity for storytelling that distinguishes the truly great
>historians, and we should all be grateful for their talents. 
>
>

>http://detnews.com:80/1999/nation/9901/12/01120122.htm ADDIS ABABA,
>Ethiopia -- Scientists Monday said they had found fossilized remains of
>what appeared to be a 5-million-year-old ape-man, the oldest specimen yet
>discovered anywhere in the world. "The discovery quite clearly demonstrates
>Africa is the true origin of modern humans," said Tim White, a University
>of California in Berkeley paleontologist and leader of the research team.
>White said the discovery was made last year at Aldya, in the Awash valley
>of Ethiopia's northeastern Afar region. The previous oldest entire skeleton
>was the 3.2-million-year-old "Lucy," found in the same region of Ethiopia
>in 1974.
>
>
Anita Cohen-Williams
Listowner of HISTARCH, SUB-ARCH, SPANBORD
Acting Listowner of MUSEUM-L
Contributing Editor, Anthropology page, http://www.suite101.com
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