> >Got CALICHE? http://www.swanet.org/caliche.html >Thursday December 9, 1999 > >NEVADA > >http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1999/Dec-09-Thu-1999/news/12519414.html A >coin collection that includes all but two of the different coins minted at >the closed Carson City Mint was donated Wednesday to the Nevada State >Museum. The museum is housed in an old red brick building that served as >the mint between 1870 and 1893. > >A new job opportunity has been posted to http://www.swanet.org/ jobs99.html > >TEXAS > >http://www.borderlandnews.com/neighborhoods/WS1.shtml El Paso has nine >historical districts for the protection, enhancement, preservation and use >of historic landmarks. > >MEXICO > >http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/0699toc/6exploits1-ivy.shtml Classic >Maya pottery was highbrow stuff until Michael Coe found an enema pot. Coe >knew that enemas were first brought to Europe by French explorers who found >rubber enema bags in South America. [Ed Note - Major gifts from the New >World were corn, beans, squash, tomato and potato. Coe seemingly expands >this list with the earliest ever French marketing of an New World product >in Europe.] > >CYBERIA > >http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000140326706927&rtmo=lQuonkvt&atmo=lQuon >kvt&pg=/et/99/12/9/nbon09.html A woman put up for sale her engagement >present - a skeleton. An archaeologist whom tipped off police said it was >illegal to sell human bones. > > Anita Cohen-Williams Listowner of HISTARCH, SUB-ARCH, and SPANBORD http://www.angelfire.com/ca/cohwill/index.html http://shop.affinia.com/anitacohen/Store