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Sunday, Feb. 13 On this date in 1896, fifty armed men gathered at Bowie, Arizona, to prevent the entry of prizefighters from Texas after a federal law was passed banning prizefights. Monday, Feb.

A collection of the interesting — and sometimes unusual — events that happened this week in Arizona history.Feb. 13On this date in 1896, 50 armed men gathered at Bowie, Arizona, to prevent the entry of prizefighters from Texas after a federal law was passed banning prizefights.Feb. 14On this date in 1830, Anson P.K. Safford, the third territorial governor and founder of

IN a corner of Cockerton stands a curious tree which has just revealed its true colours – although its real history can only, at this stage, be…

NORTHALLERTON was a “pocket borough”. It needed cleaning up. A new broom was required to sweep away centuries of rottenness and open the town up…

How was it done? A splendid, 190-year-old silver tureen, one of the great treasures of the town, tells the story. The inscription on the tureen, which is topped by a hand clasping a key, says it was presented to Captain John George Boss by the friends of “reform and liberty of conscience”. The inscriptions says it was presented to him “as a token of esteem for his unwearied exertions in an arduous contest of six months, making every sacrifice even when visited with deep domestic a...

A FORTNIGHT ago, we showed an 1803 map which featured an expansive earthwork to the north of Northallerton which it referred to as Streetlam Castle. We thought that it was a “cartographer’s folly” – a deliberate mistake inserted by the map-maker so he could catch out anyone copying his work. But, says Mike Rooney, there may have been some form of a castle at Streetlam, which is a hamlet near Danby Wiske. In his archaeological researches in the area, he has come across an entry in an...

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