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…Java, Ruby, JQuery, Git, HTML, and APIs. W3 Schools – Learn HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, and other web skills in these self-paced courses. Hour of Code tutorials – These tutorials… (Search hits: 1 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 10.06)

1918 Influenza

…the flu in just the three months between October and December of 1918, according to an essay by Stephen Leonard in the 1989 edition of Essays and Monographs in Colorado… (Search hits: 1 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 10.06)

Time Machine Tuesday: College and University Histories on Film

…1960s. Arapahoe Community College has produced two videos that look at specific decades through photographs: Arapahoe Community College in the 1960s and Arapahoe Community College in the 1970s. They have… (Search hits: 1 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 10.06)

Time Machine Tuesday: Bent’s Fort

…n.3, July 1956. “Bent’s Fort: Outpost of Manifest Destiny,” by David Lavender, was originally published in 1987 in the Colorado Historical Society’s Essays and Monographs in Colorado History and has… (Search hits: 1 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 10.06)

Time Machine Tuesday: Avalanches

…employed by the Shenandoah Mine. Using weather data, photographs, newspaper stories, personal interviews, and other accounts, the publication tells a fascinating story about the danger of avalanches — their causes,… (Search hits: 1 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 10.06)

Colorado’s Pioneer Women

…in “‘Papa Bought Some Cattle’: The Diary of Mary Davis Painter.” For more on the Painter family, see the Colorado Encyclopedia. Photographs supplement the story of one pair of sisters… (Search hits: 1 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 10.06)

All About Pikes Peak

…Colorado nor the most difficult to scale, Pikes Peak is famous for its visibility from the plains, its use as a symbol of the 1859 Colorado Gold Rush, and for… (Search hits: 1 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 10.06)

Colorado Missing Persons Day

…a CBI website containing crime statistics for each year. Finally, the CBI’s Cold Case Database “features unsolved homicides, missing person, and unidentified person cases.” The files include photographs, physical descriptions,… (Search hits: 1 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 10.06)

Friday Grab Bag, May 3, 2024

…Lafayette Public Library invites adults and older teens to Lafayette Learns: Lafayette Historic Digitized Photographs on May 9 at 6:30 pm. Hear exciting stories from Old Lafayette and explore digitized… (Search hits: 1 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 10.06)