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Greeley Independence Stampede 2000
The World’s Largest Fourth of July Rodeo...
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A Powerful Nineteenth-Century Voting Bloc
In 1860, New England academics and radicals supported a largely unknown Westerner for president. That year, this voting bloc helped Abraham Lincoln win the White House.
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The Archbishop in Andalusia
"Blackie" ventures away from his home base of Chicago to solve a mystery in Seville, where ghosts of past passions and strive are still very real.
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Superstition and Magic in Medieval Europe
Superstition, magic, and the infusion of early Christian traditions resulted in a rich tradition that still upholds seasonal practices and sustains individual faith.
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Forever Together Takes Diana Stakes Again
Turfer Forever Together took serious aim at a grass championship by winning the Diana Stakes, while Kensei also triumphed at Saratoga. Cardashi won at Penn National.
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Third Parties from the GOP
In 1872 and 1912, a liberal or progressive faction of the Republican party broke away to organize their own party and nominate a candidate for president.
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ELECTION SURPRISES: LINCOLN'S 1864 RE-ELECTION VICTORY
In early 1864, many Republicans thought Lincoln would not be re-elected. Lincoln agreed. Learn what happened to change everybody's opinion.
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LIFE AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE, PART III
The Presidents at the end of the 19th century remained active in politics and civic affairs after they left the White House. A number of them served in other offices, one returning to Congress. In this article, we examine the records of the men who served at the end of the century.
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Poverty Rates in Colorado
In some geographically isolated rural regions of the Rockies, hunger and poverty are very common. However, isolation from the rest of Colorado prevents action.
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Wonderous Times on the Frontier Book Review
This Historian writes from the perspective of the miner, cowboy, the farmer, saloon owner, prostitutes, and anyone else that spent time in the west during its expansion.
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Abbot and the Solar Constant
Samuel Pierpont Langley and Charles Greeley Abbot pioneered efforts to measure the solar constant and solar variability.
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Maunder Minimum & Variable Sun
Long cycles in sunspots and other solar activity may have affected the Sun's energy output and Earth's climate.
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NYC Neighborhoods: Turtle Bay
New York City is a bunch of small towns - neighborhoods - gathered together. Each has its charms, its unique population, its own raison d'etre. This one has the U.N.
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Solar Constant and Variable Sun
Many stars are variable stars that change brightness. Any possible solar variations must be very small, but does the Sun's energy output vary?
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Thomas Nast
Thomas Nast's passionate crusades to preserve the Union and promote equality reached their heights during the Civil War and Reconstruction era.
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Abigail Scott Duniway (Part 1)
Abigail Scott Duniway was one of the leading women who fought for women's rights in the Pacific Northwest, especially the right to vote. She also fought for the rights for women to enter a contract and for women to have equal rights in a divorce. She also fought for the abolition of slavery. She had six children of her own, but never stopped fighting for human rights.
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Abigail Scott Duniway (Part 2)
Abigail Scott Duniway was one of the leading women who fought for women's rights in the Pacific Northwest, especially the right to vote. She also fought for the rights for women to enter a contract and for women to have equal rights in a divorce. She also fought for the abolition of slavery. She had six children of her own, but never stopped fighting for human rights.
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AN OPEN LETTER: December 1818
This is an open letter from Back East Settlements (B. E. Settlements) to Great American Plains (G. A. Plains), dated December 1818. This letter concerns the births, 1800-1818, of several men whose later lives had major effects on the development of the Great American Plains.
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LEAVENWORTH-PIKE'S PEAK EXPRESS
An account of the risky and short-lived express route across Kansas to the gold fields in Colorado. Before the stage line could turn a profit, the gold panned out.
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Joseph Medill Pre-Tribune
Joseph Medill was a man of significant accomplishment long before he set foot in the Clark Street office of the Chicago Tribune in 1855.
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Visiting the Mormons
As overland travelers visited Utah in the 1850s and 1860s, their reports of the Mormon people became steadily more negative.
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Brooklyn's Historical Green-Wood Cemetery
The noted and the notorious lie side-by-side in Brooklyn's venerated burying ground including Leonard Bernstein and Lola Montez, both involved with music.
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ICE Raids Agriprocessors in Iowa
The detention of nearly 400 Agriprocessors employees by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) suggests strike-busting more than it does law enforcement.
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The Presidential Election of 1864
Although renominated unanimously, Republicans had strong doubts that Abraham Lincoln would be returned to office given the shift in mood among Northern voters.
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Winning Colors and Genuine Risk Progeny
Raise a Native granddaughter Genuine Risk birthed her first offspring at risk of her life. She was in foal to the immortal Secretariat. The foal, a colt, was stillborn.
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Giacomo Tries to Win Some Respect, Preakness
Giacomo is attempting on Saturday to become the seventh Kentucky Derby winner in nine years to capture the Preakness.
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Early Days of Bicycles in Denver and Colorado
Bicycles provided transportation for everyone. Children, men, and women could now enjoy a leisurely ride. Watching professionals and amatuers race was an exciting sport.
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Kate and Maggie Fox
The 19th Century witnessed the beginning of a new religious movement called Modern Spiritualism. Kate and Maggie Fox were two of the movement's most successful mediums.
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CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS: UNSUNG HERO
Charles Francis Adams was much like his father and grandfather. He served his country well, but never achieved the high offices he would have filled so well. Learn how his service in the Civil War helped the Union win the war.
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Best Fall Hikes in New Hampshire
Granite mountaintops, rushing waterfalls, and fast-moving rivers, set against a colorful backdrop-- no wonder fall is one of the best times to visit New Hampshire.
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Causes of the Civil War: The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
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Images Reveal Interesting Landscape on a Jupiter Moon - Callisto
A recent fly-by of Callisto reveals a strange, but interesting surface.
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Angels in America are Alive and Well
Angels have remained popular throughout the ages, perhaps even more so in modern times. No longer a child's belief, angels have graduated to mainstream culture.
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Book Review - Unholy Grail
First one Jesuit priest, then another, turns up dead, right after meeting with journalist Brittany Hamar. When she calls on Father Romano, he is wary ... but intrigued.
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Book Review - Laced
Regan Reilly finally marries the man of her dreams and takes off for an idyllic Irish honeymoon. However, the couple can't seem to leave crime at home.
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Kentucky Bear Beefs Up for Pimlico
Gaining 75 pounds on Kentucky blue grass since Apr.2, Kentucky Bear, third in the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes, takes on Big Brown in the May 17 Preakness.
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Review - Body Surfing
Once widowed, once divorced, and still under thirty, Sydney takes a summer off to tutor a wealthy couple's daughter at their "cottage" on the rugged New Hampshire coast.
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Writers Alice and Phoebe Cary
A brief look at the lives and careers of the Cary sisters, Alice and Phoebe, from Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Run for the Roses: Beware of the No No's
There are trends involving the Run for the Roses that can't be dismissed when handicapping America's Race.
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Among the Mad by Jacqueline Winspear
London between the wars is filled with "forgotten" men, those who served their country honorably who came home shell-shocked and unable to work. Is one capable of murder?
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An Incomplete Revenge
Maisie Dobbs, a psychologist and investigator in London between the wars, returns for her fifth adventure -- this one about a town enveloped in a decade-old tragedy.
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Big Brown Big Favorite at Pimlico
Big Brown is a huge favorite at Pimlico. Only one horse from the Kentucky Derby follows Big Brown to the Preakness Stakes; no other is being seriously betted.
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Book Review -- Messenger of Truth
Some mysteries are best left unsolved, as 1930s intrepid detective Maisie Dobbs and her wealthy client discover, much too late.
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Camping Along Colorado's Cache La Poudre River
A lesser-known, less crowded destination among all of Colorado's outdoor playgrounds, the Cache La Poudre River & canyon is a hidden treasure.
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Colorado University Summer Enrichment Program
This year, for the 32nd time, the University of Northern Colorado offers the Summer Enrichment Program for gifted, talented and creative children.
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Cookery Holidays in Italy
If you love Italian food and drink - and also fancy a holiday - there are several hotels in Italy offering gourmet Italian cookery courses.
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Dietary Salt is an Important Mineral in the Body
The body cannot survive without salt, from enhancing its flavor; to preserving and prolonging the shelf-life of food, salt is a part of everyone's diet.
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Grass Fed Beef
Before World War II, more than ninety percent of American cattle were grass-fed, not grain-fed. They grazed the range, eating native grasses, or hay.
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Second Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint
The field was fully loaded at Santa Anita for the second annual Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint. This was the first running of the BC races on an artificial surface.
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St. Patrick's Day Murder
Strange things are happening in Tinker's Cover, Maine. An old bar-owner is found in the bay, his strange relatives arrive from Ireland, and crows are appearing everywhere
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