Duchess of Weaselskin

Bayfield, Colorado - Our human buddy, Robert Wagner, has made a fantastic slow-motion video last Friday the 13th of July, 2012, of the hummingbirds feeding at the northend of Vallecito Reservoir, in SW Colorado, with his GoPro Hero2 camera with it set at 120 FPS, slowed down 16x.

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Pendleton County, (West) Virginia - Beginning of Settlement

Pendleton county, W VA - The spirit of the eighteenth century was aristocratic. The colonial government of Virginia had not risen above the idea that the public domain should be a perquisite to the few. The governor and his council (state senate of that day) would issue an order in favor of a land gentleman, permitting that gentleman to select from the public lands 20,000 acres, or perhaps 100,000 acres.

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Oklahoma's Carlisle Indian Industrial School

The first book in a series on Native American sports heroes will be of interest to Oklahomans from seventh grade to senior citizen. In addition to the biographies of 14 core Carlisle Indian School football stars with ties to Oklahoma, the book includes chapters on Carlisle Indian School, early football and their primary coach, Pop Warner. The book is heavily illustrated with period photos and cartoons. In addition, Bob Carroll of the Professional Football Researchers Association drew busts for each. Oklahoma's Carlisle Indian Industrial school. Did Oklahoma have a Carlisle Indian Industrial School?

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100 Years Ago Today - 16 July 1912

Stockholm - It was one hundred years ago that The San Francisco Call, dated Tuesday, 16 July 1912, had the following front page headlines: "U.S. Can Boast of Greatest All Round Athlete" as Jim Thorpe won the pentathlon and decathlon from Pick O' World at Stockholm.

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15 July 1912, 3rd Party of Utah Calls State Meeting

Utah - It was to be a Saturday, July 27, 1912, that Roosevelt's Mass Convention would be held at Provo, Utah. As The Salt lake Tribune reported 15 July 1912, Officers of the Roosevelt Club of utah had issued an official call for a state mass convention to be held in the opera house at Provo, Saturday forenoon, 27 July 1912, at 11 o'clock.

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Mid-Air Collision of 12 February 1944 - Mill Creek, Oklahoma

Mill Creek, Oklahoma - Let us take you back to 12 February 1944, in Mill Creek, Oklahoma for a bit of history. You can find more information on Our Little Memorial blog that we have put up in conjunction with others to share memorials and special stories of family, friends and loved ones who have died in service for their country in times of war.

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NW Okie's Corner

Bayfield, Colorado - Reading the History of Pendleton County, (W) Virginia and the beginning of the settlement, I found mention of my 6th great Grandfather, Frederick Keister (1704-1787), who had a son by the same name (Frederick Keister (1730-1815)). Frederick Keister, Jr. had a daughter named Esther (1767-1825) who married into the HOHL family.

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District Party Will Be Formed By Bull Moose

San Francisco, California - In The San Francisco Call, Tuesday 16 July 1912, page 2, these are the headlines you might have read concerning Colonel Roosevelt's Bull Moose party and his stand against his old Republican party where Roosevelt says there must be No Bartering with Regular Republicans: "District Party Will Be Formed By Bull Moose."

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