In 1855, Santa Anna’s dictatorship collapsed, and the liberal government of I. Comonfort came to power. In 1856 the Mexican Congress passed a number of anticlerical laws, and in 1857 it adopted a new constitution which dealt a blow to feudal vestiges and strengthened the basic achievements ...
Upon reaching Santa Fe the intrepid band found the headlines and town chatter were full of news of the Mexican-American War. Despite the situation the group determined to travel south, cross the border, and make it to the state of Chihuahua by September, which they did. Immediately upon reac...
From Cork, Bass Odyssey were Alan O’Keeffe, Chris O’Driscoll (MC Strict) and Graham Finn. Finn was previously a member of Emperor of Ice Cream. The session was broadcast by Dave Fanning on February 15th 1999. Thanks to Dan Hegarty for airing this track ‘Poncherello’ on a recent Tue...
This 1926 oceanfront, Addison Mizner-designed resort has a new life thanks to its recent $200 million investment and rebranding. Despite the shiny update, though, the historic atmosphere remains. This is especially true in the hotel's 1930s-inspired MB Supper Club, which blends whimsical touches...
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Certainly he is normally more interested than Mark in linking up his story of Jesus with the Jewish past; but actually his relationship with the Jewish past on this matter is more with the most recent phase of it: the period when most of the present books of the Hebrew Scripture were ...
From 1821 until 1880, the Santa Fe Trail connected Independence, Missouri, with Santa Fe, New Mexico. Traders, settlers, and the military used the trail to move through what was then the homeland of several different native American cultures, including the Comanche, Cheyenne, and Jicarilla Apac...
In addition, the interlayer [MO2(H2O,OH)4]n– octahedra (M = Fe2+, Fe3+, Ca2+) that links adjacent layers together, possess two M-O bonds in a trans-configuration. Sergeysmirnovite is a dimorph of reaphookhillite, which has been described recently in the Reaphook Hill zinc deposit...
In 1982, Littmann succeeded in making Maya blue from palygorskite and leaves from a Mexican indigo bush, pushing the reconstruction process along a little further [33] (p. 307) and [100]. It should be noted that van Olphen used indoxyl acetate, an indigo precursor, as his starting material...
(He’s also donated to, and served as board chair for, theSanta Fe Institute, where I will continue to be Fractal Faculty — our interests have considerable overlap!) Both departments are already very high-quality; physics and astronomy includes friends and colleagues like Adam Riess, Marc ...