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>Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest!
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>Wednesday, February 05, 2003
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>TEXAS
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>http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=939947
>A new exhibit, which went on display in mid-January, highlights medical
>care at the Alamo in what was the first recorded hospital in Spanish
>Texas. From 1805 until 1812, there was a Spanish military hospital in the
>Long Barracks. Later, that space served as a 30-bed hospital during the
>1836 battle.
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>http://www.dailytexanonline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/02/04/3e3f71a031730
>With Kodak cameras and a list of questions, interviewers were sent out to
>scour the 48 states, searching for and documenting the stories of the last
>living testaments of slavery. Their tales were compiled and copies were
>sent to the Library of Congress, volumes bound in simple green covers with
>gold lettering. The original Texas records, complete with editor's
>mark-ups, have been housed on the UT campus since their creation.
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>NEW MEXICO
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>http://www.ratonrange.com/ratonrange/myarticles.asp?P=568054&S=318&PubID=9082&EC=0
>Voters last week repealed Trinidad's new historic preservation ordinance
>569-391 in a special election. When asked if the city would go back to the
>drawing board and formulate a new ordinance, Trinidad Mayor Joe Reorda
>said, "We didn't have a Plan B. We planned to win, and we didn't win."
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>http://santafenewmexican.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2144&dept_id=414519&newsid=6927754&PAG=461&rfi=9
>Governor Richardson, speaking at a Roundhouse celebration marking the
>anniversary of the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, said he wants the
>state government involved in an ongoing federal study of how well the U.S.
>government lived up to its commitment under the treaty to respect Spanish
>and Mexican land grants.
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>COLORADO
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>http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/legislature/article/0,1299,DRMN_37_1721407,00.html
>A Colorado House Committee approved a measure to change the source of
>funding for the Colorado Historical Fund. Instead of receiving money from
>the state General Fund, it would receive money from tax revenues collected
>by the state's limited gaming industry.
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>WYOMING
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>http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2003/02/04/news/wyoming/bbe57725b21f1b787efa194bb2e5421a.txt
>BLM officials are seeking public help in determining how to protect
>visitors on BLM-administered lands within the historic ghost town of Gebo.
>Little remains of the community except a few structures and the town's
>cemetery.
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>CYBERIA
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>http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-2376006,00.html
>President Bush has asked Congress for $25 million to spread knowledge of
>American history. Under the president's budget request Monday, the
>Smithsonian Institution would get $13.7 million prepare for the opening of
>its National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall in
>September 2004.
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>http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y03/m02/i04/s02
>The original ship's bell of the Santa Maria is the only known artifact of
>the history of the American discovery. The bell will be sold in a single
>item sale in Madrid on 20 February. The Bell of the Santa Maria was
>discovered in 1994, off the coast of Portugal.
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