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		<title>Kofa Mountains Weren&#8217;t Always the &#8220;Kofa Mountains&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Aker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q: What happened to the SH Mountains? I can’t find them on any maps anymore.
A: Nothing happened to them. It’s not like they disappeared or something. It’s just that over the years they got renamed, and rightly so. They are now known as the Kofa Mountains, located about 70 miles northeast of Yuma.
The SH Mountains were so named back in the 1800s either by miners or soldiers who noticed that from a distance they resembled outhouses. I will leave it to you to figure out what SH stood for. Suffice it to say, it is not a word one would expect to read in this newspaper.
In the interest of delicacy, the SH range was also known over the years as the Short Horn or Stone House mountains until the mapmakers finally settled on Kofa.
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		<title>Why is Tucson a Few Degrees Cooler than Phoenix?</title>
		<link>http://arizonaoddities.com/2010/06/why-is-tucson-a-few-degrees-cooler-than-phoenix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Aker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q: If Tucson and Phoenix are both in the desert, why is it always just a little bit cooler in Tucson than it is in the Valley?
A: Tucson is usually a little bit cooler than Phoenix because it is a little bit higher up. You may not actually have a sense of ascending when you drive there because you are lulled into a state of semiconsciousness because it is the most boring drive in the world.
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		<title>The Partial Resurrection of Fairbank in Southern Arizona</title>
		<link>http://arizonaoddities.com/2010/05/the-partial-resurrection-of-fairbank-in-southern-arizona/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://arizonaoddities.com/2010/04/mining-the-past-at-castle-dome-city/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://arizonaoddities.com/2010/04/lieutenant-amiel-whipple%e2%80%99s-good-deed-saved-47-lives/</link>
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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>The Hoo-Doos of the Chiricahua Monument</title>
		<link>http://arizonaoddities.com/2010/04/the-hoo-doos-of-the-chiricahua-monument/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SamLowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chiricahua National Monument in southeastern Arizona is one of my favorite places because of the spectacular rocks. Officially, they're the result of the Turkey Creek volcanic eruption that occurred more than 27 million years ago, but I look at the formations and think of cartoon characters (one looks like a giant mouse) and crinkly spires that resemble giant trolls waiting to pounce upon the unwary traveler and demand coinage for safe passage.]]></description>
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		<title>The Birds of Santa Cruz County</title>
		<link>http://arizonaoddities.com/2010/02/the-birds-of-santa-cruz-county/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SamLowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Santa Cruz County is for the birds. That's not a criticism. It's a compliment.
Literally and figuratively, birds are a major component of the Santa Cruz Tourism Council's effort to draw visitors to the state's smallest county. The area is well known as a birders' hot spot, and that's probably why birds of another feather have landed in 1o different locales. They are all sculptures, spread across the county at resorts, offices and parks as beacons that direct visitors to places of interest.
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		<title>Mini-Taj in the Yuma Desert</title>
		<link>http://arizonaoddities.com/2010/01/mini-taj-in-the-yuma-desert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SamLowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's not as big as the Taj Mahal in India, but a little church in the desert north of Yuma was also built for the same reason -- in memory of one man's beloved companion. The Taj was erected between 1632 and 1654 near Agra, India, as a mausoleum for Mumtaz-I-Mahal, a favorite wife of Mogul emperor Shah Jahan. It stands about 330 feet tall at its highest points and features a massive double dome sitting atop a 260-foot pinnacle. An estimated 20,000 men worked on the project.
Yuma area farmer Loren Pratt's tribute to his late wife, Lois, is a tiny wooden chapel that sits on a flat spot in the middle of his cotton and lettuce fields. The building stands about 15 feet tall  and can seat six to eight people. With the help of friends and relatives, Pratt constructed it in a few months in 1966.
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		<title>Giant Crosses Watch Over Cochise County</title>
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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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