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		<title>The Big Indian Head of Winslow</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SamLowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Wolf Toth arrived in Winslow in 1979, intent on adding one of his art works to the city's landscape. When he left about four months later, he had turned a single ponderosa pine log into a 30-foot tall Indian head, and he left it there for posterity. The work was one in Toth's series of giant heads that he carved in every state and four Canadian provinces. He called the effort "The Trail of the Whispering Giants," and dedicated it to what he considered the mistreatment of Native Americans by early settlers and the federal government.
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		<title>Know the Origin of the Highway 89 Screamers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SamLowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under normal circumstances, I can readily find the origins of weird things in Arizona, but there's one north of Flagstaff that puzzles me. No one seems to know anything about what it is, why it's there and who put it there. It is three weathered tree trunks (they look like junipers) standing next to each other, and someone painted strange faces on them. The images on the two smaller trunks are badly faded, but the face on the tallest one is still in relatively good shape. It resembles "The Scream," the famous expressionist painting by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1893.
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		<title>Giant Crosses Watch Over Cochise County</title>
		<link>http://arizonaoddities.com/2010/01/giant-crosses-watch-over-cochise-county/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SamLowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two huge Celtic crosses keep silent watch over the landscape of Cochise County. One graces the Holy Trinity Monastery, a Benedictine community just south of St. David. The second is on a hillside overlooking Our Lady of the Sierras Shrine near Hereford. Both tower more than 75 feet over their surroundings, and both are the result of a journey Pat and Gerry Chouinard made to a shrine in Medjugorje, in what was then Yugoslavia. When they retired in 1995, the couple decided to build a similar shrine on their property near Hereford.
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		<title>Courthouse Diversity in Tucson</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SamLowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pima County Courthouse has been a Tucson landmark for eight decades, but it took a long time for the community to accept it because of a lingering controversy over the colors and style. But over the years, the Spanish Colonial Revival structure has become became a city icon.
The building, designed by Roy W. Place and built by Herbert Brown, is the third courthouse to occupy the site.
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		<title>A Unique Shrine of Concrete and Rocks in Yarnell</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SamLowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody can say for sure if any miracles have actually happened at the Shrine of St. Joseph in Yarnell, but the story behind its creation is almost a miracle itself. It was built by a dishwasher on a site unsuitable for any kind of construction, and under the supervision of a family that had to invent a new type of concrete to make it happen.
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		<title>Giant Skull in Yavapai County</title>
		<link>http://arizonaoddities.com/2009/10/giant-skull-in-yavapai-county/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SamLowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Skulls are usually hidden away where they're hard to find, but the Giant Skull of Date Creek is right out in the open, and it's been in the exact spot for more than 100 years. The skull is actually a huge boulder painted white with black eyes, nose and a black toothy mouth so it looks like a real skull, even to those who are "imaginationally" challenged. Like many pieces of rock art, the origins are a bit hard to trace, but local legend says it was the work of some railroad workers who had extra paint and extra time on their hands.
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		<title>Yuma&#8217;s Water Tank Art</title>
		<link>http://arizonaoddities.com/2009/09/yumas-water-tank-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SamLowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most communities adorn their water towers and tanks with either the town's name or first initial, but in Yuma they opted for something more artistic -- a giant tryptich that spreads across the city's three huge water tanks. The city council received gallons of flak when it approved the $50,000 project in 1999, but the criticism died down a year later when the work received an award from the Governor's Pride in Arizona Committee.
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		<title>Giant Kachina Guards Carefree Subdivision</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SamLowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world's largest kachina is a 39-footer that stands guard over the Tonto Hills subdivision about sevel miles north of downtown Carefree. This giant Hopi legend weighs 14.5 tons and took four months to complete. E.V. Graham, the subdivision's developer, had it built as an inducement to get his wife to move onto the property, which at that time was way out in the country.
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		<title>A Rattler Over Tucson&#8217;s Broadway</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SamLowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Diamondback Bridge in Tucson can probably lay claim to a variety of different titles -- "the world's longest rattlesnake," "the world's largest rattlesnake" and even "the world's most artistic use of steel floor grating." The pedestrian bridge is 300 feet long, 16 feet high, 16 feet wide, and it spans Broadway, one of the city's major traffic arterials. It's the creation of Tucson artist Simon Donovan, who observed that "the proportion of the bridge seemed to be perfect for depicting a large snake." And so he made one.
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		<title>The Helping Hand Helps Superior</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SamLowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The town square in Superior isn't very big. In fact, it's not even a square; it's a triangle. A small triangle. So small that if it weren't for the statue, there's a good chance nobody would ever notice it. But the statue's there and it gives the square triangle purpose.
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