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  • Dose of HistoryOdd Observations
    By Marshall Shore
    May 13, 2016
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    Before Google Earth There was the CORONA Program

    CORONA was America’s first satellite program, developed as a safer way to gather intelligence after a U-2 aircraft was shot down and the pilot captured. This cold war era program was, at its core, a way to spy on the Soviet Union.
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  • Dose of HistorySouthern Arizona
    By Sam Lowe
    February 26, 2016
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    That Was One Big Sarah With a Dynamic Past

    YUMA – Sarah Bowman was a large woman. So large that she was nicknamed “the Great Western,” after a huge ocean-going steamship known throughout the country. She was a camp follower who hooked up with, and married, several soldiers so she could travel with the Army. After her first marriage, she became the first prostitute ...
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  • Odd ObservationsSouthern Arizona
    By Sam Lowe
    March 21, 2015
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    A Graveyard for Winged Warriors in Tucson

    TUCSON -- Where to old airplanes go to die? The Boneyard. Officially known as the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center, the Boneyard is a central depot for U.S. military planes that have been taken out of service and put into storage. More than 5,000 of them now sit on 2,600 acres in the desert near ...
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  • ArtSouthern Arizona
    By Sam Lowe
    May 4, 2014
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    Worldly Art Inside St. Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church

    SIERRA VISTA -- Those who stop for an initial visit and prayers at St. Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church here might mistakenly get the impression that they have inadvertently stumbled into an art gallery. It's understandable because there is art everywhere inside.
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  • Odd ObservationsSmall Town SceneSouthern Arizona
    By Sam Lowe
    April 21, 2014
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    Eternal Flickers at Patagonia Shrine

    PATAGONIA -- Near a small jog in the pavement south of Patagonia, cars pull into a small area where a set of cement stairs leads to a small shrine carved into a large rock. Several candles surround the religious statues inside the grotto. They flicker day and night, illuminating the small space while their smoke ...
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  • Dose of HistoryNorthern Arizona
    By Sam Lowe
    July 9, 2013
    3592
    1

    Sitting in the Cockpit of Gen. MacArthur’s Personal Aircraft

    VALLE - Most people never get the chance to plop their behinds down on a seat that once held the rear end of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the World War II and Korean War leader. But there's an opportunity here, in the Planes of Fame Air Museum. One of the planes on display is the huge ...
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  • Art
    By Sam Lowe
    March 3, 2013
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    Anthem’s Amazing Solar Tribute to Veterans

    Anthem's new Veterans Memorial is impressive, touching and monumental and, in a way, most unusual. It is composed of five large marble pillars of varying height, standing in perpendicular perfection about two feet apart.
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  • Dose of HistorySouthern Arizona
    By Sam Lowe
    December 15, 2012
    2806
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    Titan Missiles Once Housed at Catalina Church Site

    CATALINA -- On a hillside just west of Oracle Road, a church sits as a classic example of turning swords into plowshares. These days, all is peaceful and calm as the Montana United Methodist Church and there is no sign of the instrument of war that once lurked directly beneath the plot of ground now ...
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  • Buckey O'Neill
    Dose of History
    By Andrea Aker
    July 13, 2012
    5063
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    The Story of Buckey O’Neill: Arizona’s Happy Warrior

    Prescott is one of Arizona's most historically-conscious communities. Public-spirited citizens have worked long and hard to keep the rich cultural heritage alive. Standing in front of the old Yavapai County Courthouse is a bronze statue of a soldier on a spirited horse. This monument honors a group of young Arizonans who gallantly served their country ...
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  • Dose of HistoryOdd ObservationsSouthern Arizona
    By Andrea Aker
    October 6, 2011
    3366
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    Discrete Monument Honors Mormon Battalion Near Casa Grande

    Regarding monuments Will Rogers used to say: "You don't need much monument if the cause is good. It's only the monument that's for no reason at all that has to be big." On the outskirts of Casa Grande, along what used to be the main highway...
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