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> <channel><title> &#187; Valley of the Sun</title> <atom:link href="http://arizonaoddities.com/category/valley-of-the-sun/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://arizonaoddities.com</link> <description></description> <lastBuildDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 14:00:02 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2</generator> <item><title>The &#8220;Flying Mushroom&#8221; in Downtown Phoenix</title><link>http://arizonaoddities.com/2012/05/the-flying-mushroom-in-downtown-phoenix/</link> <comments>http://arizonaoddities.com/2012/05/the-flying-mushroom-in-downtown-phoenix/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 03:25:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>SamLowe</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Valley of the Sun]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[phoenix]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://arizonaoddities.com/?p=2526</guid> <description><![CDATA[PHOENIX -- One of the more recent additions to the city's public art is large and a bit difficult to understand. Since being installed in the Civic Space Park in 2009, it has drawn considerable comment, not all of it favorable.
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isPermaLink="false">http://arizonaoddities.com/?p=2395</guid> <description><![CDATA[Just east of Carefree, the Sears-Kay Ruin offers a peek into the lifestyles of ancient Hohokam Indians, ancestors of today’s Pima Indians and the Valley’s first residents. A 1-mile loop trail guides visitors along a series of 40 rooms along a hilltop in four different compounds.
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isPermaLink="false">http://arizonaoddities.com/?p=2351</guid> <description><![CDATA[SCOTTSDALE -- The City of Scottsdale is benefiting from an error in judgement by the State of Arizona. In 1957, famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed a new State Capitol that would have been located in Papago Park, about seven miles east of the existing capitol.
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isPermaLink="false">http://arizonaoddities.com/?p=2335</guid> <description><![CDATA[PHOENIX -- Most waterfalls cascade across mountain faces or plummet into deep gorges, and they're usually hard to reach. But there's one in Phoenix that is not only readily accessible, it's also an energy source. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://arizonaoddities.com/2012/03/arizona-falls-serves-as-double-duty-waterfall/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Giant Arrow Points to Phoenix</title><link>http://arizonaoddities.com/2012/03/giant-arrow-points-to-phoenix/</link> <comments>http://arizonaoddities.com/2012/03/giant-arrow-points-to-phoenix/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 02:20:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>SamLowe</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Odd Observations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Valley of the Sun]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mountains]]></category> <category><![CDATA[phoenix]]></category> <category><![CDATA[rock formations]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://arizonaoddities.com/?p=2330</guid> <description><![CDATA[PHOENIX -- More than 50 years ago, the Valley of the Sun was a whole lot of desert sprinkled with a few towns, mostly of them small. Phoenix had the only airport and it was also small and, because it was in the middle of some pretty barren landscape, it was sometimes hard to spot from the air.
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A: It would be nice to report that Valley fever is a disease named for our very own Valley, something we could all be proud of, but unfortunately this is not the case. It is named for the San Joaquin Valley in California.
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