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		<title>Arizona Geography Trivia: Can You Pass?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Aker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Test your knowledge of Arizona Geography with this short quiz, originally published in Marshall Trimble’s Official Arizona Trivia. Don’t scroll down too quickly. The answers are posted shortly below the questions. When you’re finished, leave a comment with your score. Did any answers surprise you?
1. Name one of three Arizona dams named after U.S. Presi­dents.
2. What mountain range is north of Tucson?
3. What Indian reservation is located completely within the boundaries of another?
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		<title>General Arizona Trivia: Can You Pass?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Aker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Test your knowledge of Arizona with this short quiz, originally published in Marshall Trimble’s Official Arizona Trivia. Don’t scroll down too quickly. The answers are posted shortly below the questions. When you’re finished, leave a comment with your score.
1. What is Arizona's best-known nickname>
2. Name Arizona's five C's.
3. What is the largest Indian tribe in the United States?
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		<title>Seven Cities of Gold: The Story Behind Arizona’s Earliest Yarnspinners</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Aker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpt from “Arizoniana” by Marshall Trimble, the state’s official historian. Most folks believe the art of pullin&#8217; legs attached to tenderfeet began with the arrival of windjammin&#8217; mountain men, prospectors and cowboys. But it seems that Arizonans have been tellin&#8217; whoppers to newcomers much earlier. Latter-day liars would be hard pressed to match the native [...]
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		<title>The (Mis)Truth About Montezuma&#8217;s Castle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SamLowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although the history of Montezuma Castle is pretty well documented, considering that nobody wrote down much of anything when it was a hot spot of ancestral civilization, there's this one thing that sticks out as a case of mistaken identity. Or make that, mistaken transplantation.
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		<title>Arizona History Trivia: Can You Pass?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 23:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Aker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Test your knowledge of Arizona history with this short quiz, originally published in Marshall Trimble’s Official Arizona Trivia. Don’t scroll down too quickly. The answers are posted shortly below the questions. When you’re finished, leave a comment with your score.
   1. Before Arizona became a territory in 1863, it was part of which territory?
   2. From what observatory was the planet Pluto discovered?
   3. From what city did Barry Goldwater launch his 1964 Presidential campaign?
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		<title>Arizona Trivia Sampler: Can You Pass?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 19:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Aker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Test your knowledge of Arizona with this quick sampler, originally published in Marshall Trimble's Official Arizona Trivia. Don't scroll down too quickly. The answers are posted shortly below the questions. When you're finished, leave a comment with your score.
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		<title>The Partial Resurrection of Fairbank in Southern Arizona</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 01:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SamLowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In its prime, Fairbank was the site of a hotel, school, mercantile, several houses, stage depots and four railroads. Not bad for a town which, even at the height of its popularity, had only about 500 residents. But those days are gone and Fairbank is now a mere remnant of its glory days as a center of mining activity. Now, however, there's a valiant effort underway to make sure those days aren't forgotten, as well.
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		<title>Mining the Past at Castle Dome City</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SamLowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a time when Castle Dome City was bigger than Yuma, but those days are long gone. So is most of Castle Dome City.
Fortunately, Allen Armstrong and his wife, Stephanie, are collectors, and what they collect is history in the form of old buildings. As a result, Castle Dome City lives on. In a way.
The Armstrongs have collected and restored more than 20 old buildings that were once part of the Castle Dome Mining District, a former major silver producer. The mining began in 1862 and was productive until 1978, when the last mine closed. The Armstrongs bought what was left of the town and began collecting artifacts that related to mining.
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		<title>Lieutenant Amiel Whipple’s Good Deed Saved 47 Lives</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Aker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a hot afternoon in 1849 not far from the Yuma River Crossing, a small party of Army Topographical Engineers came upon a young Indian girl wandering in the desert. She was nearly dead from exposure, hunger and thirst. Many would have left the youngster to her fate. It was a tough, unforgiving land where the strong survived and the weak perished.
The officer in charge was a kind, thoughtful man from Massachusetts, named Amiel Weeks Whipple. He'd only been in the Southwest a short time but had already devel­oped a deep respect for the customs and culture of the native residents.
Whipple shared his canteen with the youngster, then gave her some food. Before she departed he presented her with a small mirror—a simple token of friendship and also something any young lady would surely cherish. She smiled and left to return to her people. Lieutenant Whipple went back to his job—that of surveying a boundary between Yuma and San Diego, marking the new land won in the recent war with Mexico.
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		<title>Arizona Place Names (Pt. 3): Surprising Towns Named After People</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 03:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Aker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long ago, Arizona settlers felt inspired to attach names to the special places they found. Sometimes they achieved palpable immortality by naming it after themselves; and sometimes it backfired.
Like the time Henry Mortimer Coane was running a small store in the Verde Valley. Folks wanted to use the place as a post office, so Coane filled out the paperwork and applied to Washington and requested it be named Coaneville after himself. Much to Mr. Coane's disappointment some bureau­crat got the letters mixed up and the place was officially named Cornville.
Contrary to logical assumption
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