SASABE, Ariz. (KGUN) It might just be the most historically significant ranch in the state of Arizona. Rancho de la Osa is located an hour and a half southwest of Tucson, but a world away from civilization.

On an average day at Rancho de la Osa you will find manager Lynne Knox and her husband Ross Knox on horseback, cutting cattle, just like it has been done on this ranch for well over 300 years.

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"Ross and I feel very privileged to be here," said Lynne Knox. "Not just for the history of the ranch, but the folks that we get to meet."

Guests come from all over the world for the scenic beauty and the horseback riding.

They leave with an appreciation for the rich history of Rancho de la Osa. A history that actually began in 1699, when Padre Kino came to the Tohono O'odham village on this site.

"He came to the village and brought a heard of cattle and sheep to the villagers," Rancho de la Osa Proprietor Paul Bear explained. "He came through the pass over here, Presumido Pass, down the pass and to the ranch. He worked out a deal to build a mission outpost here."

Jesuit priests then ran the ranchero, constructing a building that same year. You can still see part of it today.

"It's the foundation of the original building from 1699," said Bear.

He says in 1722, Jesuit priests used the foundation for a new mission outpost.

Today, the building is home to the La Osa Cantina. What a story it could tell.

At age 300, it's the oldest continually used building in Arizona.

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U.S. Presidents, Supreme Court Justices and Hollywood stars have all stayed at Rancho de la Osa and spent time in the cantina.

A quick tour through the historic and beautiful Hacienda gives you a sense of the famous people who also once stayed here.

"This one up here's Lady Bird Johnson, out front of the cantina," Bear said pointing to a black and white photo on the wall.

Lady Bird's husband, Lyndon Johnson, loved the ranch so much, he had his own horses brought in from Texas so he could ride in the Sonoran Desert.

Rancho de la Osa

When the ranch first opened to guests in 1924, early Western film star Tom Mix was a regular. By the 1960s, so was legendary actor John Wayne.

"He did stay here maybe even more than a lot of the ranches," said Know. "They filmed several of those films here. That's really cool to people and we do know there's a room that he did enjoy. So, it's really nice to say that that room John Wayne did stay in."

Many guests request room 10, where John Wayne stayed.

The author of Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell, was also a frequent guest.

Fast forward to today, and they still call guests and ranch hands the same way when it's time to eat, by ringing the bell.

Meals are still served family style.

The only thing that's changed, the backdrop of the border wall on the hillside adjacent to the ranch.

"Everyone was concerned about the wall making a big difference, it's just the opposite," Knox said. "People are fascinated. They want to come down, the want to figure out what's going on here, what's it like on the border."

Despite the pandemic, Rancho de la Osa is doing well. Occupancy is up, with visitors still managing to come from all around the world.

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After nearly 325 years, Paul Bear says the future is bright for this hidden gem in the desert.

"There's a lot of history here and I'm proud to be a caretaker of it."

Osa is bear in spanish. Paul Bear, and his partners, bought the ranch at auction in 2016. They soon reopened it as a guest ranch after being closed for six years.

-Pat Parris is an anchor and reporter for KGUN 9. He is a graduate of Sabino High School where he was the 1982 high school state track champion in the 800 meters. While in high school and college, he worked part-time in the KGUN 9 newsroom. His father, Jack Parris, is a former general manager of the station. Share your story ideas and important issues with Pat by emailing pat.parris@kgun9.com or by connecting on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) Tensions continue to rise in Ukraine as an estimated 127,000 Russian soldiers are in position near its eastern border.

President Biden and other world leaders have warned the Russian government not to invade, even taking steps toward a possible military response. The Pentagon put 8,500 troops on heightened alert to possibly be deployed to Europe.

The State Department is asking diplomats families, non-essential embassy personnel and U.S. citizens to evacuate Ukraine.

With questions of remaining, a military and Russian history expert are weighing in on the impact this could have here at home.

Theres been a number of opening gambits that have opened in the past couple of weeks then things have just escalated from there, University of Alabama Professor of Russian History Dr. Margaret Peacock said putting American troops in Ukraine is like Russia putting troops in Mexico.

They see Ukraine as a critical part of what it means to be Russian or a critical part of the Russian self, Peacock said. Theres no simple sending in American troops to solve a problem in Ukraine.

Any time tensions are high, the 117th Air Refueling Wing in Birmingham is standing by, ready to do whats needed.

Theyre prepared to respond to the orders of governor and president at moments notice, Retired U.S. Airforce Colonel Scott Grant said.

Grant said units there are ready to aid in a refueling process so military planes can fly for hours overseas without landing.

The air refueling aspect of that allows us to project that force globally and at a moments notice, Grant said.

According to Peacock, America needs to be careful about what the cost of escalation is. She says its a terrible idea for American troops to invade in Ukraine because that could create an even larger global problem.

It may be possible that delaying the conversation about Ukrainian entrance into NATO is in fact the price of peace, Peacock said.

In the long run, Grant said we may be focusing on Ukraine, but countries like China and North Korea are watching our response.

The sovereignty of the U.S. depends in the long game on how we project power and how we project deterrence, Grant said.

Both Peacock and Grant said the messaging the U.S. projects is tied to global stability. They said if the U.S. starts to cut trade relationships, it could do more harm especially with the supply chain issues we face right now due to the pandemic.

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The phrase history is written by the victors has ricocheted off the halls of history for as long as there have been victors. This saying implies that those who win or come out on top get to write how it all went down and, more importantly, how we remember it. While revisionist history has made a comeback through avenues like Broadways Hamiltonand Malcolm Gladwells appropriately titled podcast Revisionist History, this is still largely true. This saying shines a light on how we perceive the past, what we remember, and why.

Even guitar history is susceptible to this dynamic. The first half of the 1960s was an explosive time for music and the innovation that fueled it, and the Maestro Fuzz-Tone was at the center of that explosion. Although many credit the Fuzz-Tone with single-handedly starting the fuzz craze, thats a major oversimplification. True, it helped transform the electric guitar from the adolescent, clean, jangly sound of Peggy Sue and I Want To Hold Your Hand into the full-on nuclear assault of songs like Purple Hazeand Communication Breakdown, but the Fuzz-Tone didnt do it alone.

The Fuzz-Tone was the first fuzz pedal (and guitar pedal in general) to be produced for mass consumption, but it was not the first device to create such a sound. Up until now in this series, youve mostly heard the winners stories, but between that accidental malfunction of Glen Snoddys tube mixer channel during the Nashville recording session of Dont Worry and Keith Richards mid-sleep epiphany of Satisfactionfour years later in 1964, a lot happened behind the scenes.

So, before we tackle the Tone Bender and commit to moving our narrative fully into 1965, I want to cover these easily overlooked moments from the first half of the 1960s. You can think of these as the guitars deleted scenes from the greatest decade in rock history.

As the worlds first guitar pedal, the Fuzz-Tone would set the template for every pedal that came after it

Our first stop is Phoenix, Arizona. Producer and songwriter Lee Hazlewood was known as a pioneer in the recording booth, and in 1960 he commissioned a Phoenix radio station technician to create a fuzz box that would allow him to produce the sound of fuzzed-out distortion on demand. Sadly, the technicians name is lost to history, which only underscores my earlier point: important moments (and people!) are often obscured by the bigger headlines.

Session guitarist Al Casey was the first musician to use this fuzz box in a recording, specifically in Sanford Clarks Go On Home. In an interview, Casey explained that he and Clark wanted a good, nice, clean sound but that Hazlewood pushed for something more distorted. Hazlewood got his way in the end, and as a result Go On Homewas released in March 1960 featuring gritty, distorted fuzz. Listen to the track and you will hear this fantastic fuzz sound used in tandem with what seems to be the tremolo tone from his amplifier. The sound is fat and warm and the tremolo adds the perfect movement to the track. Its like a beautifully broken Spaghetti Western soundtrack.

This is one of the first, if not the first recorded use of an electronic circuit specifically built to create a distorted fuzz tone on a guitar. Note that this is not the first recorded use of fuzz, as many other methods of producing fuzzy, distorted guitar tones had been used prior to this (even as far back as 1946 with the Bob Wills Boogie), but this was likely the first use of a solid-state electronic device to produce the sound. Now, heres where the timeline gets a little confusing. That same year, Dont Worry was recorded and the infamous broken mixer channel created a very similar fuzz tone on Grady Martins six-string bass. The difference? Dont Worryachieved its fuzz sound purely by accident, an electronic malfunction due to a blown transformer, whereas Hazlewood had built a device specifically to create this fuzz sound.

If youve been following this column, you already know that Glen Snoddy liked the fuzz effect in Dont Worry so much that he collaborated with radio technician Revis Hobbs to create a circuit that replicated that broken mixers sound. This collaboration in return created the first mass-produced guitar pedal, the Maestro Fuzz-Tone. What most people do not realize is that the fuzz box that Hazlewood commissioned in 1960 and used on Sanford Clarks Go On Home predates the Maestro Fuzz-Tones design by at leasta year (Revis designed that circuit sometime in 1961).

Does this devalue Hobbs and Snoddys monumental accomplishment in creating the Fuzz-Tone? Not at all. But Hazlewoods unnamed fuzz box also represents a (largely unknown) landmark moment in guitar history. This comparison also highlights how much a good idea is usually dependent on great marketing. Both Hazlewood and Snoddy made a groundbreaking device, but because Snoddy successfully pitched his device to Gibson/Maestro, he and Hobbs were the victors. In turn, this partnership allowed the Maestro Fuzz-Tone to make its way from the humble beginnings of Revis Hobbs home workbench into the hands of such guitarists as Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and Keith Richards.

Lee Hazelwood. Image: C Brandon / Redferns

Our next stop is California, 1961, the same year that Revis Hobbs designed the Maestro Fuzz-Tone with Glen, but a full year before it would hit the market. A pedal steel guitarist and electronics technician named Orville Red Rhodes tried his hand at making a fuzz circuit he could use in the recording studio and he succeeded. He produced the Rhodes fuzz in a small metal box, a simple device with a distortion level knob and a bypass switch. The Rhodes fuzz box worked so well that he ended up making several to sell to his fellow musicians (including Nokie Edwards of the Ventures and Billy Strange of the Wrecking Crew).

The best-known use of the Rhodes fuzz was in the Ventures 1962 hit The 2000 Pound Bee. This single is generally accepted as the first recorded use of fuzz in a rock n roll song. I dont know about you, but I find it deliciously ironic that country music popularized fuzz first, not rock n roll. Nokie Edwards played guitar on the track and also used the Rhodes fuzz on albums like Walk Dont Run(1964) and Live in Japan(1965).

Some historians speculate that the Rhodes fuzz was created in 1962 and inspired by Dont Worry, but this theory has major issues. For one thing, both Billy Strange and Ann-Margret Olsson used the Rhodes fuzz on separate recordings in 1961. For another, Nokie Edwards was seen using the Rhodes fuzz while performing in Hawaii in December 1961. Unless time travel was in play in the early 1960s, we have a problem. Theres even evidence to suggest that Rhodes may have made this fuzz circuit as early as 1960 which means it could possibly predate the Hazlewood fuzz box andthe Maestro Fuzz-Tone.

Basically, this isnt a well-documented period of history, so it can be challenging to know for certain who did what first. But recordings like The 2000 Pound Bee, Go On Home, and Dont Worrydefinitely prove one thing: circa 1962, fuzzed-out electric guitar was already on the rise.

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The United Kingdom may be the birthplace of modern rock, but in 1962 (two years before the British Invasion) fuzz was still finding its feet. The same year that Gibson released the Maestro Fuzz-Tone, Dick Denney (who designed the Vox AC15 and AC30 amps) claims to have made his own prototype clone of the FZ-1 more than three years before he assisted in developing the Vox V816 Distortion Booster, encasing the simple prototype circuit in a truly DIY OXO Cube tin.

The reason this first pedal never made it to the production line, Denney argues, is that the Fuzz-Tone was still selling poorly (this was three years before The Rolling Stones would rocket it to popularity with Satisfaction), so Vox wasnt willing to risk financial loss by producing their own version. Moreover, Tom Jennings absolutely hated the sound of distortion and didnt want anything to do with a fuzz box. Curiosity pushed Denney to make his prototype anyway and Denney claims that a rogue employee working for Vox stole this design and started selling fuzz boxes himself (though its anyones guess who this employee could have been, I have my hunches). Nearly 60 years later, Denneys prototype still hasnt resurfaced, so we have to file this pedals existence under rumor rather than fact.

But another Fuzz-Tone clone may have been created in 1964. Guitarist Jimmy Page allegedly approached electronics guru Roger Mayer (you may know Roger better as the guy who later designed the Octavia Fuzz and pitched it to Jimi Hendrix after a gig in 1967) and Jimmy asked him to build a device that would replicate the Ventures distorted guitar sound in The 2000 Pound Bee. Although the FZ-1 had been on the market for two years at this point, it was still considered a flop and wouldnt have been easily available in London. So how could Roger Mayer have made a clone of it? A touring musician might have brought the FZ-1 back from the United States and sold it to Roger Mayer. More likely, the design of the FZ-1 circuit was so simple that it was easy for another engineer to recreate it or get darn close using transistor cookbooks available at the time.

For his part, Mayer claims that he had never seen an FZ-1 when he created this pedal, so the facts are a little murky on this, too.

In any case, the pedal that Roger Mayer produced for Jimmy Page was a clone or approximation of the FZ-1 with a few major differences:

It was rumored (but not confirmed) that Page used this pedal both in the recording studio and while touring with the Yardbirds. With almost 60 years between us and this story, we may never know for sure.

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Full disclosure: I debated whether to include this story. Its not exactly a deleted scene (honestly, its a story that weve all heard in one form or another), but its important to the timeline of fuzz, so Im rolling with it.

To understand this story well, you have to understand that there are myths that are so ingrained in the guitar community that we dont really care if theyre true or not. This is one of those stories. Whats funny is that we know what happened. Its a certified fact. What we dont know is howit happened.

The Davies brothers, founding members of the Kinks, recorded arguably their most iconic song in 1964 You Really Got Me. This song basically trail-blazed the use of power chords as we know them, and its cited as the birthplace of the metal genre (its no coincidence that Van Halen covered the song in 1978). The heart of the song is, naturally enough, a fuzzed-out electric guitar. But the real question is howthat fuzz effect made it onto the track.

Dave and Ray Davies both claim to have taken a razor blade, box cutter or knitting needle to an Elpico amp nicknamed Little Green. Reports vary as to what weapon was used or who wielded it, for that matter but the end result was an utterly destroyed speaker that produced a distorted, fuzzed-out sound.

Dave attempted to set the record straight in a 2015 Facebook post, in which he clarified: My brother [Ray] is lying. I dont know why he does this but it was my Elpico amp that I bought and out of frustration I cut the speaker cone up with a razor blade I played the riff on my guitar with MY new sound. I ALONE CREATED THIS SOUND. But this still raises more questions than it answers: why would a frustrated Dave take a knife to his own amp? Was the amp not working? Was he frustrated with the direction the band was going? Did he just lose to his brother in a particularly competitive game of rock, paper, scissors? We dont know, but this brotherly feud has gone down in history as one of the greats, right alongside the Gallagher brothers and Cain and Abel.

Coincidentally, this specific sound was so coveted that Electro-Harmonix released a distortion pedal in 2021 called the Ripped Speaker Fuzz. In the end, life imitated art.

Image: Electro-Harmonix

This next story comes courtesy of fellow pedal historian Nick Sternberg, a dude who has devoted countless hours to the study of guitar pedals and may actually have me beat in terms of sheer nerdiness. He is also British, which automatically makes him more interesting than me, a boring Midwest American. His website fuzzboxes.org and his generous time answering my insane questions were a huge help in putting this article together, but Id be remiss if I didnt include his most recent discovery: the Harmonic Generator.

The story starts in the early 1960s, with a gear company called GP Electronics, founded by inventor Gerry Pope. During the 60s and 60s, GP produced a pretty wide variety of gear, including amps, PAs, treble and bass boosters and one guitar pedal: The Harmonic Generator distortion.

According to Nick, the Harmonic Generator was allegedly conceived in 1964, after somebody referred Pope to an American recording of a fuzz sound. This would have been a year too early for The Stones Satisfaction, so its likely that the American recording in question was either The 2000 Pound Bee, Dont Worry or Grady Martins The Fuzz. Nick adds that strong anecdotal evidence confirms that the Harmonic Generator was already available to the general public between late 1965 and early 1966. Again, this is where the dates get a little dicey. Depending on just how late in 1965 PG Electronics released the Harmonic Generator, it could pre-date the Sola Sound Tone Bender. Regardless, the timeline shows that Pope had the foresight to develop a fuzz pedal before Satisfactionrocketed the effect to fame in 1965, which reflects impressive intuition.

The Harmonic Generator allegedly made its way into the hands of guitarists like Martin & Glen Turner (later of Wishbone Ash), The Shadows (in Bombay Duck & Tennessee Waltz) and the New Vaudeville Band (in Winchester Cathedral).

This all basically boils down to two questions. Have most people heard of the Harmonic Generator? No. Did it still change guitar history? Yes.

In closing out this chapter of forgotten guitar effects, it is important that we take the time to dig a little deeper. Invention is more of a gradual evolutionary process than a sudden epiphany. Nothing just appears from thin air. Everything we love about guitar comes from a collective of ideas that have been accumulated, shared and improved upon, and every guitar effect has its roots in another device or inventor. Some ideas make huge splashes while others are resigned to a ripple, but that doesnt mean one is more important than the other.

It just means that, for better or for worse, history is written by the victors.

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If you're a numbers person, it's hard not to compare what the Lady Vols are doing now to that final four team..

On April 8th, 2008, the Tennessee women's basketball team ended the season just as they started it -- as national champions.

The Lady Vols clinched their unprecedented 8th national title as they defeated Stanford.

It was a revenge game for Tennessee, who fell to Stanford in overtime during the regular season.

On January 24th, 2008, exactly 14 years ago today, the Lady Vols sat at 17-1, with 8 top 25 wins, riding a 7 game win streak.

Now, fast forward, 14 years later, the Lady Vols sit at 18-1. Its their best start since the 2007-08 season.

Tennessee's only loss is to, you guessed it, Stanford.

The Lady Vols have 5 top 25 wins so far this season and are currently riding a nine game win streak.

If you're a numbers person, it's hard not to compare what the Lady Vols are doing now to that final four team.

The question becomes 'is history repeating itself?'

Well, sort-of, but these two teams are winning in completely different ways.

In 2008, Tennessee had arguably the best player in program history - a name that speaks for itself, Candance Parker. The first overall pick in the WNBA Draft.

But the star-studded roster was deeper than that. Alexis Hornbuckle was also a first round pick... Shannon Bobbitt and Nicky Anosike were taken in the second round and Alberta Auguste was a third round selection.

This year's team is younger and less flashy. They are led by junior guard Jordan Horston.

This team is gritty, securing huge wins by committee. That was evident against No. 13 Georgia on Sunday. The Lady Vols won on the road, despite committing 15 first half turnovers, playing without starting guard Tess Darby, and limiting Tamari Key late in the game because of foul trouble.

On Monday, the Lady Vols moved up one spot to No. 4 on the AP Top 25 Poll.Tennessee leads the nation in field-goal percentage defense, allowing just 54 points per game. UT is also ranked number one nationally in defensive rebounds.

The characteristics are uncanny to the 2008 national title team, but are the Lady Vols final four material?

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The U.S. Olympic team of 222 athletes for the Beijing Games includes 108 women, set to be the most women competing for any nation in the history of the Winter Olympics.

It will mark the 11th consecutive Games that the U.S. will tie or break the record for most women competing at a Winter Olympics for a single nation, a streak that began in 1984, according to Olympedia.org.

In 1984, it had 30 women, then tying the record it set in 1976. In 1992, the U.S. became the first nation with 50 female competitors at a Winter Olympics. It had 100 in 2014 and 101 in 2018.

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At the first Winter Olympics in 1924, there were 312 athletes: 299 men and 13 women, according to Olympedia.

Now, every Winter Olympic sport has female participation except Nordic combined, which may have a womens event come the 2026 Games.

Last year, the U.S. shattered the record for most women competing at a Summer Games with 336, upping the mark of 291 that the U.S. set at the 2016 Rio Games.

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Jan. 21WATERTOWN A man who has a history of damaging apartments and painting biblical quotes on the walls was arrested again on Friday after allegedly causing more than $40,000 in damage.

Mark R. Stewart, 61, of 521 Jefferson St., was charged by city police with second-degree criminal mischief. He was arrested Friday morning and appeared for an arraignment hearing in the afternoon, after which he was held in jail without bail.

In July 2021, Mr. Stewart was renting an apartment from Cardmen Gee at 310 S. Massey St. when he allegedly caused extensive damage to the unit, as well as painting all over the walls. The estimated repair cost is $40,866.16, according to city police.

Mr. Stewart had rented Mr. Gee's apartment for roughly nine months, the landlord said in September when a criminal investigation into Mr. Stewart was getting started. The fully furnished apartment which Mr. Gee offers to soldiers was turned into what looked like a mangled construction site. A plastic tarp was hung in a hallway. The door to the refrigerator was ripped off. A smiley face made of charcoal medallions was left on the floor. The bathtub was broken, as well as the chimney.

The paintings mainly consisted of what appear to be posters for Jimmy Swaggart's ministries, with phone numbers and addresses at the bottom. Mr. Swaggart was a pastor in Baton Rouge, La., whose ministry TV show was popular in the 1970s before he was defrocked by the Assemblies of God for a sex scandal involving prostitutes in 1988.

Mr. Stewart pleaded guilty in 2014 to a felony attempted criminal mischief count, admitting he caused more than $5,000 in damage to an apartment on Washington Street. He was sentenced in that matter to five years of probation and ordered to pay $500 to the property owner and $26,177 to the property owner's insurance carrier in the form of a civil judgment.

In 2009, Mr. Stewart was sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to pay $5,800 in restitution after damaging an apartment on LeRay Street. In 2013, Mr. Stewart was arrested in Baton Rouge and charged with entering and remaining at Mr. Swaggart's ministry campus after having been banned from the property.

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Braves Franchise History

1973 - Warren Spahn becomes just the sixth player to be elected to the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. Spahn received 316 of 380 votes to gain admission.

2008 - The Braves avoided arbitration with reliever Rafael Soriano by signing him to a two-year, $9 million deal.

2013 - The Braves acquire outfielder Justin Upton and third baseman Chris Johnson from the Arizona Diamondbacks in exchange for Randall Delgado, Zeke Spruill, Martin Prada, Nick Ahmed and Brandon Drury.

2018 - Chipper Jones is elected to the Hall of Fame in his first attempt along with Jim Thome, Trevor Hoffman and Vladimir Guerrero.

MLB History

1939 - Eddie Collins, Willie Keeler and George Sisler are elected to the Hall of Fame. Sisler set a major league record with 257 hits in 1920 and hit .420 in 1922. Collins hit .333 for his career and stole 744 bases while winning the World Series four different times. Keeler hit .341 for his career while amassing 2,932 hits.

1950 - Jackie Robinson signs a contract for $35,000 reportedly making him the highest-paid player in Brooklyn Dodgers history.

2012 - The Detroit Tigers sign Prince Fielder to a nine-year, $214 million contract. The Giants also agreed to a two-year, $40.5 million deal with Tim Lincecum avoiding what would have likely been a record pay out through arbitration.

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2021 - The Braves signed Pablo Sandoval to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. They would later deal Sandoval at the deadline to Cleveland in exchange for Eddie Rosario who would play a huge part in their run to the World Series title.

2018 - Mentioned above but here is Demetrius write up of Chipper Jones being elected to the Hall of Fame on his first ballot.

2013 - The Justin Upton trade is completed. Scott took a closer look at Chris Johnson whom the Braves also acquired in the deal.

2007 - A fun series completes with John Smoltz landing in the top spot in the list of the 29 most important Braves during their run of division titles.

Information for this article was found via Baseball Reference, Nationalpastime.com and Today in Baseball History.

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Around 1900 B.C., a student in the Sumerian city of Nippur, in whats now Iraq, copied a multiplication table onto a clay tablet. Some 4,000 years later, that schoolwork survives, as do the students errors (10 times 45, for example, is definitely not 270). The work is a reminder that no matter how elegant or infallible mathematics may seem, its still a human endeavor.

Thats one lesson I took from History of Mathematics, an online exhibit developed by the National Museum of Mathematics in New York City and Wolfram Research, a computational technology company. Bringing together the Sumerian tablet and more than 70 other artifacts, the exhibit demonstrates how math has been a universal language across cultures and throughout time.

Divided into nine galleries, the exhibit sums up the development of key topics related to mathematics, including counting, arithmetic, algebra, geometry and prime numbers. Each gallery has a short timeline and features a handful of artifacts that serve as entry points to explore some milestones in more depth.

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Among the highlights: The oldest known surviving calculating device, the Salamis Tablet, is a marble counting board from the Greek island of Salamis dating to 300 B.C. Its a precursor to the abacus. By moving pebbles across the board, a person could perform calculations. An early documented instance of using a symbol for zero as a placeholder (to, say, distinguish 1 from 10, 100 or 1,000) appears in the Bakhshali Manuscript, an Indian text dating to perhaps as early as A.D. 300. The manuscripts black dots eventually morphed into the open circles we know today as zeros. Also on display is Al-Jabr. Written in around 820 by Persian polymath Muammad ibn Ms al-Khwrizm, the book established the field of algebra and gave the discipline its name. In 1557, the Whetstone of Witte, an English algebra text, introduced the modern equal symbol.

But the exhibit is more than just a collection of fun facts. As the galleries explain, humans relationship with numbers goes back deep into prehistory. Modern math, however, stems from the rise of cities, with the need to keep track of people and supplies, and to undertake ever more complex construction projects.

Some mathematical principles must have been so vital to civilizations success that they appeared in many ancient cultures. Take the Pythagorean theorem. The Greek philosopher Pythagoras, who lived in the sixth century B.C., famously related the side lengths of a right triangle in the equation a2 + b2 = c2. But a clay tablet reveals that people in Mesopotamia had worked out the relationship more than 1,000 years earlier. Ancient Chinese and Indian scholars were also familiar with the relationship.

Other math problems have had multiple solutions. The history of counting is littered with an array of methods for keeping track of numbers, from various forms of finger counting to the stringed recording devices called quipus, or khipus, used in the Inca Empire in the 1400s and 1500s. The placement and types of knots along a quipus strings indicate different numerical values, though researchers today are still trying to understand exactly how to interpret the data recorded on these devices (SN: 7/6/19 & 7/20/19, p. 12).

Parts of the exhibit assume a high level of mathematical knowledge, such as some of the interactive features that give technical explanations behind some artifacts mathematical principles. But a section of learning journeys aimed at kids and others provides materials that fill in some of the missing details from the main galleries and will appeal to adults whose memories of high school or college math are fuzzy.

History of Mathematics is a fascinating starting point for anyone interested in learning about the origins of the mathematical concepts that so many of us use every day but often take for granted.

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McDonald's (MCD) - Get McDonald's Corporation Report wants customers who care about healthy eating, and it wants options for its existing customers when they want a meal that's healthier than a Big Mac or a 10-piece Chicken McNuggets.

The business logic for this makes sense -- some people want to eat healthy food -- but the reality has never proven that anyone wants healthy choices from McDonald's. McPlant might be different, but the fast-food giant has gone down this road before and the ending has always been the same.

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McDonald's dropped all of its salads during the pandemic. That happened as part of an effort to streamline the company's menu -- which made sense during the time when the chain's dining rooms were closed and all orders were delivery or drive-through -- but they have not returned to its menu even though operations have returned to (somewhat) normal.

The reality is that people looking to eat healthy don't choose McDonald's. Salads might be attractive to adults who take their kids to the fast-food chain, but that's a very limited audience.

"According to food research firm Technomic, 47% of Americans say they want healthier restaurant options, but only about 23% actually order them. So Wendy's, Burger King and McDonald's can offer all the apple slices and plain baked potatoes and yogurt parfaits they want, but despite what customers say, these items aren't selling," Huffpost reported.

That same article also noted that salads only accounted for 3% of the chain's sales before they were discontinued.

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Adding a plant-based burger brings McDonald's good publicity. The chain, however, has been very careful in how it has rolled out the Beyond Meat (BYND) - Get Beyond Meat, Inc. Report sandwich option. It started the test in a handful of stores and plans to bring it to 600 locations in mid-February.

McDonald's has about 14,000 locations in the U.S.

Chains often test new products in a small number of stores then increase availability. That's sort of what's happening here, but McDonald's has also taken every chance to tout its efforts because offering a plant-based burger option brings good publicity while quietly dropping it when nobody wants it -- as Dunkin' did with its Beyond Meat sausage sandwich -- barely gets noticed,

"The McPlant includes a plant-based patty co-developed with Beyond Meat thats exclusive to McDonalds and made from plant-based ingredients like peas, rice, and potatoes. The patty is served on a sesame seed bun with tomato, lettuce, pickles, onions, mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, and a slice of American cheese," the company touted in a press release.

In addition, it's important to note that the McPlant won't appeal to many people who don't eat meat for a reason the chain probably can't correct.

"Its also cooked on the same grill as meat-based products and eggs," the company shared.

That makes the McPlant a plant-based sandwich for non-vegetarians. (It's already not a vegan-friendly product as it comes with cheese and mayonnaise, though it can be ordered without those). That's a very small audience -- probably fewer people than might have eaten a McSalad -- and it makes McPlant a product that's not likely to succeed if you base success on sales, not media attention.

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A customer's groceries are rung up at a store in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021.

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Critical supply chains are choked off. Demand soars. Prices surge and everyone starts freaking out about inflation and wonder how long it will last.

Is it 1945? 1916? 1974?

The answer, of course, is all of the above, and you can throw 2021 in there as well.

Inflation is not something new for the U.S. as the nation has weathered seven such episodes of lasting price surges since World War II including the current run, which is the strongest in 30 years. Getting out of the pandemic shock has been a difficult exercise for the world's largest economy, and inflation has been a painful side effect.

But trying to find a historical parallel and, thus, perhaps a way out isn't easy. Virtually every cycle bears at least some similarities to others, but each is unique in its own way.

The most common comparison to these days is the stagflation low growth, high prices environment of the 1970s and early '80s. And while there's probably at least some validity to that, the reality is more complicated.

"In terms of how widespread inflation is, it's pretty much touching everything. It's widespread, or more than what we saw in the 1970s," said Peter Boockvar, chief investment officer at Bleakley Advisory Group. "The question is, how long it remains elevated and when it backs off and at what rate does it settle out?"

Most U.S. policymakers reject the 1970s connection.

Leaders such as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Biden administration officials view inflation as temporary and almost wholly driven by factors unique to the pandemic. Once those factors subside, they see inflation drifting lower, eventually getting around the 2% level the Fed considers emblematic of a healthy and growing economy.

Some White House economists have asserted that the current stretch looks not like the stagflation era, but more like the immediate post-World War II climate, when price controls, supply problems and extraordinary demand fueled double-digit inflation gains that didn't subside until the late 1940s.

Episodes of U.S. inflation

Consumer price index, percent change from a year ago

Note: Periods of heightened inflation are shaded.

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics (CPI), White House (inflationary periods through 08). Data is

seasonally adjusted and as of Oct. 21.

Episodes of U.S. inflation

Consumer price index, percent change from

a year ago

Late 1960's economic expansion

Note: Periods of heightened inflation are shaded.

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics (CPI), White

House (inflationary periods through 08).

Data is seasonally adjusted and as of Oct. 21.

Episodes of U.S. inflation

Consumer price index, percent change from a year ago

Note: Periods of heightened inflation are shaded.

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics (CPI), White House (inflationary periods through

08). Data is seasonally adjusted and as of Oct. 21.

"Today's shortage of durable goods is similar a national crisis necessitated disrupting normal production processes," a team of White House economists wrote in a July 2021 paper. "Instead of redirecting resources to support a war effort, however, manufacturing capabilities were temporarily shut down or reduced to avoid COVID contagion."

Once the supply chain disruptions are remedied and there are signs that at least the major ports are becoming less crowded in recent days "inflation could quickly decline once supply chains are fully online and pent-up demand levels off," the paper stated.

The idea that inflation is "transitory" a well-worn term that is transitioning out of vogue is central to the insistence from fiscal and monetary authorities that excessively easy policy is not to blame for the inflation surge.

However, easy policy has been at the core of many previous cycles, and trying to blame everything on the pandemic hasn't gone over especially well with consumers, whose confidence is running at decade lows, and on Wall Street, where investors are getting antsy over how long inflation will last.

Whether inflation is temporary, in fact, is probably the biggest debate happening in investing circles these days.

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"The debate is always couched in black and white. The reality is, it's probably in between there," said Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at the Leuthold Group.

In fact, Paulsen has studied inflation over the past century or so and found that while there may been many periods where it has become problematic, there are only two where it proved lasting: after World War I and in the aforementioned 1970s-early '80s.

He's largely in the camp that this run, too, will pass as it has been fueled largely by supply chain problems that ultimately will resolve.

Still, he's wary of being wrong.

"It's not as temporary as we first thought, but I still think that's the best odds" that it will pass in the coming months, Paulsen said. "But I'd also say that it is undoubtedly the biggest risk that it's not. If it's not, then it's a disastrous outcome not only for stocks but also for the economy if it's truly runaway."

The inflation danger comes because this cycle is unlike any other in one important way: Policymakers have never thrown anything close to this amount of money at the economy.

What if sometime next year we not only declare pseudo-victory over Covid, but we declare it over inflation, too?

Jim Paulsen

chief investment strategist, the Leuthold Group

While President Joe Biden and Yellen have insisted that all the fiscal and monetary stimulus is not the underlying cause of inflation, the argument that nearly $10 trillion between Congress and the Fed hasn't pushed prices higher is hard to swallow for some.

Even though Paulsen believes the present conditions will fade in 2022, he worries about what he calls "global synchronized abuse of policy." In essence, the meaning is that policymakers remain in emergency posture for an economic picture that seems long past crisis stage, with the potential for boiling over should officials continue to turn up the heat.

Still, he also sees declining commodity prices with oil at the center as well as falling shipping costs and the lessening of clogs at the ports as hopeful signs that inflation will, at least in historical terms, prove temporary.

"What if sometime next year we not only declare pseudo-victory over Covid, but we declare it over inflation, too?" Paulsen said.

The emergence of a new Covid variant in South Africa complicates both questions. Even Powell, Bush and others in the inflation-is-transitory camp say that the pandemic has been the root cause of price pressures, so if the new variant turns into a larger threat, that means inflation stays higher for longer.

Beside that, though, most mainstream economists are sticking to the belief that 2022 will say a significant drop in inflation.

Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody's Analytics, feels that way even though he says there are close parallels between the current predicament and the runaway inflation of the 1970s.

For one, he said the waves in that inflation shock were both demand-driven and the product of supply issues because of the oil embargoes back then. Unions that were able to negotiate cost of living increases in contracts also boosted the wage-price spiral.

A sentient Fed also contributed to the problems by taking inflation too lightly and resisting the interest rate hikes that could have slowed the economy.

While Fed policymakers have been slow to tighten in the present day, they have vowed that if inflation expectations become unhinged, they'll act. The worry, though, is that the Fed is already too late.

"The wage spiral that we suffered back then was because of the COLAs and the explosion if inflation expectations. They did rise and the Fed did not recognize that and did not respond to it," Zandi said. "Assuming each future wave of the virus is less disruptive, then, yeah, I think we would see signs of moderation."

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For two weeks, speculation (some of it seemingly powerful, but most of it wishful thinking) had Lincoln Riley bolting Oklahoma for soon-to-be conference rival LSU. That was dead wrong. But not much was said about USC.

On Sunday afternoon, reports not only had Riley meeting with Sooners players to tell them of his departure for Southern Cal, but had Bob Stoops stepping in for one game to coach Oklahoma in a bowl. For the first time since Riley replaced Stoops, the Sooners are not competing in the Big 12 Championship after OU lost to rival Oklahoma State 37-33 Saturday night in Stillwater. The Cowboys will play Baylor here Saturday.

Riley collected four Big 12 titles and made three trips to the CFP while going 55-10 at Oklahoma. The Heisman Trophies won by Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray along with Jalen Hurts substantial improvement as a passer in his one season in Norman made Riley the great quarterback whisperer and a powerful candidate for any college job.

Its always curious to see what kind of job a highly successful coach will pack his bags to undertake. Two years ago, without question, Riley could have replaced Jason Garrett as the Dallas Cowboys head coach, but he never showed interest in the NFL. LSU has been more competitive than the Trojans ever since Pete Carroll left the private school in a state of NCAA disarray more than a decade ago. And, to some degree, before that, too.

But USC has two things going for it that must have jumped out at Riley a powerful history and a promising future.

The Trojans won national titles under Carroll, John Robinson and John McKay and claim others going as far back as 1928. Regardless, USCs reputation as a national power is as strong as almost anybodys outside of Alabama. The other and more important attraction has to be the future.

Riley can look at the AP rankings heading into December and find the Pac-12 represented by Oregon at 10 and Utah at 14. But in the SEC, where Oklahoma is headed, there is Georgia at 1, Alabama at 3, Ole Miss at 8 and, yes, the Sooners at 13. Then there are Arkansas, Texas A&M and Kentucky at 23-24-25, not to mention Florida and LSU ready to bounce back in 2022.

Basically, the Sooners (and Texas Longhorns) are destined to face tougher battles for conference supremacy than anything they have seen in the last century. If ever there was a time for Riley to leave behind one solid legacy and begin the establishment of another, that time is now. We can all speculate on whether a 12-team playoff is coming and how many SEC teams might earn invitations each year, but until that happens, its better to just go conquer a much more winnable conference.

Whether or not he can do for USC what he failed to do in three tries with OU only one of his CFP defeats was close remains to be seen. Meanwhile, Oklahoma has not had a football coaching search this century (since Stoops directly handed the reins to Riley when he resigned).

The Sooners could ask their longtime rival Texas how that works, but, come to think of it, they might want to take a pass.

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Upcoming colony sim TFM: The First Men has an intriguing idea: What if you're in charge of the very first people? Starting with the first two people, you'll take charge of building up a base for your people like in other city builders or colony sims, but you'll also send people out into the world as parties to explore on RPG-style adventures.

It's a neat twist that offers something beyond the basics of your normal colony builder. The idea that your characters are part of a story that grows as they do, and that becomes part of living world, is a new one for a colony builder. Rimworld lets you chase stories and construct them around your characters, but it's not an overall campaign on a series of custom maps.

In addition to the campaign maps, TFM will include skirmish maps more like a 4x game. It'll also have more "roguelike" procedurally generated maps with custom constraints.

The creators at Gathering Tree cite the classic Knights and Merchants, as well as Rimworld, as inspirations. I'm warily interested: This is a very hard genre to make, let alone get right. But, hell, give me a colony builder with goblins and the part of my lizard brain that always wants to play Dwarf Fortress will be interested.

TFM: The First Men will release some time in the spring of 2022 on Steam.

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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. Leddie Brown became just the eighth running back in WVU football history to eclipse 1,000 yards twice in a career on Saturday night.

He did so as he rushed for 156 yards and a touchdown in the Mountaineers win in the regular season finale over Kansas.

Brown will likely play his final game in a WVU uniform when West Virginia plays in its bowl game this postseason.

The career that hes put together, especially since taking over the starting job in 2020, puts him among the best backs in WVU history.

The senior tailback joined an elite group of WVU rushers by amassing 1,000 rushing yards for the season second in a row.

Eight since 1891. Thats pretty good, head coach Neal Brown said of the accomplishment.

Heres the list of WVU players to rush for 1,000 yards in two different seasons: Avon Cobourne, Justin Crawford, Noel Devine, Artie Owens, Steve Slaton, Pat White and Amos Zereoue.

Brown joins that list with 1,065 rushing yards (and counting) this year.

All but one of the seven players to previously accomplish that feat are honored in the WVU Sports Hall of Fame.

Brown will leave WVU as one of just 25 players in program history to collect 2,600 or more total yards. He currently sits at 3,492. Brown has rushed for more than 2,800 yards and has just over 600 receiving yards for his career.

With his performance Saturday, Leddie Brown has had the 21st most-prolific rushing season in program history. He can improve on that in the bowl game.

If Leddie Brown rushes for exactly 100 yards in the bowl game, he will have run for the 14th-most yards in a single season in program history.

The Philadelphia native has also rushed for 13 touchdowns this year. That puts him into a tie for the 10th-most rushing touchdowns in a season. He would tie Whits 2007 output with one more rushing score.

If he scores two more touchdowns on the ground, he would tie the great Ira Errett Rodgers for eighth-most in a single season.

This is all possible thanks to Browns durability. His 223 rushes so far this year are the 15th-most in a single season, and hell likely climb inside the top 10 in that category during the bowl game.

Brown ran for more than 100 yards in five games this year. Four of those performances came in the final six games of the regular season. He also ran for a season-best 161 yards against Virginia Tech in the third game of the year.

Speaking of going over the century mark, Leddie Brown has rushed for 100 or more yards twelve times in his collegiate career. Thats as many as Rodgers and Major Harris combined.

His twelve 100-yard rushing performances are the seventh-most in program history, and hes one away from tying Owens for sixth on that all-time list.

Not only that, but if he goes over 100 yards on the ground in the bowl game, it will mark the first time in his career that hes done so in three-straight games.

Leddie Brown will likely end his career in sixth place on WVUs all-time rushing yards list.

He has amassed 2,888 rushing yards so far in his career, with the bowl game still to come. That puts his career total above former Mountaineer standouts like Owens, Quincy Wilson and Wendell Smallwood.

He is one of just nine players in WVU history to rush for more than 2,500 yards in his career, as well as one of just six to rush for at least 2,800. He will leave Morgantown having rushed for more yards than at least 14 WVU Sports Hall of Famers.

The fourth-year back has also recorded 27 rushing touchdowns in his collegiate career. Thats seven more than WVU Sports Hall of Famer Fred Wyant (1952-55) and just two fewer than Devines total.

Leddie Brown currently ranks eighth on that all-time list, but is just one rushing touchdown away from tying Paul H. Martin (1901-05) for seventh-most.

His 87-yard run against Kansas in 2020 is the fifth-longest in program history.

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In the world of civic projects, the first budget is really just a down payment, he wrote in a guest newspaper column in 2013. If people knew the real cost from the start, nothing would ever be approved. The idea is to get going. Start digging a hole and make it so big theres no alternative to coming up with the money to fill it in.

U.S. Transportation Department officials declined to comment for this article, but Biden administration officials have said the new infrastructure package will redress decades of neglect and will boost the efficiency of the American economy, address climate change and provide immediate jobs in construction.

Were going to reduce congestion, Mr. Biden said. Were going to address repair and maintenance backlogs, deploy state-of-the-art technologies and make our ports cleaner and more efficient.

Mr. Flyvbjerg, the Oxford professor, said infrastructure keeps getting more expensive at a time when many products, such as televisions, refrigerators and computers, get cheaper or better each year.

Big infrastructure is becoming cost prohibitive, he said, a problem he blames on institutional sclerosis at government agencies that keep repeating mistakes and choose infrastructure projects that are unlikely to succeed.

The mistakes, he said, include a lack of transparency to the public, flawed contracts that put government agencies at the mercy of contractors and a failure to attract enough private investment to bear some of the projects risk.

The new infrastructure law, he said, does little to change the outlook.

Ronald N. Tutor, chief executive of Tutor Perini, a California firm that is building some of the nations largest projects, said the industry has done a good job of advancing and completing projects that by their nature are complex and unpredictable.

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Make history with History Cambridge! This history organization with a local focus seeks a storyteller fellow, age 15 to 18, to help identify, gather, interpret and amplify the experiences of what its like to grow up in our city. Help share the who, what, where, when and why of Cambridge teens. Who are the people who have influenced you in your family, your school, your neighborhood? What do you want people to know about yourself and your friends, about the citys past? Where are the places that have shaped you? Using social media to create and share content, our fellow will help us give voice to the issues and experiences Cambridge teens care about.

History Cambridge knows that history is being made today, right here, right now, executive director Marieke Van Damme said. We want to find it, in all its forms, and in the process incorporate more voices into the conversation.

The History Cambridge fellow is a paid position that offers experience in several areas and helps direct and define the teens take on local history. The fellow will get hands-on experience working with History Cambridge, a local history organization thats more than 100 years old and dedicated to documenting and sharing the stories of a diverse and dynamic city. Theyll engage with a range of government, cultural and educational institutions, partnering with History Cambridge to share resources and ideas. And theyll gain experience in creating and sharing content on social media platforms.

The fellow will develop their ideas about what Cambridge history is and should be, programs director Beth Folsom said. We really want to get the teen perspective.

Apply by Dec. 10. Contact folsom at bfolsom@historycambridge.org with questions.

History Cambridge started in 1905 as the Cambridge Historical Society. Today we have a new name, a new look and a whole new mission.

We engage with our city to explore how the past influences the present to shape a better future. We strive to be the most relevant and responsive historical voice in Cambridge. We do that by recognizing that every person in our city knows something about Cambridges history, and their knowledge matters. We support people in sharing history with each other and weaving their knowledge together by offering them the floor, the mic, the platform. We shed light where historical perspectives are needed. We listen to our community. We live by the ideal that history belongs to everyone.

Our theme for 2021 is How Does Cambridge Mend? Make history with us at cambridgehistory.org.

Amy Marquis is communications manager for Cambridge Historical Society.

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A collection of the interesting and sometimes unusual events that happened this week in Arizona history.

On this date in 1905, floods caused bridges to be washed out and other extensive damage at San Carlos, Florence, Maricopa, Phoenix, Globe and Dudleyville.

On this date in 1927, Tucson became the terminal of the first daily air passenger service from Los Angeles to southern Arizona.

On this date in 2012, one of two winning tickets for the Powerball jackpot of $587.5 million is sold at a convenience store in Fountain Hills.

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On this date in 1877, the first Mormon settlers arrived on the San Pedro River to found what is now the town of St. David.

On this date in 1919, heavy floods swept down the Hassayampa and Verde Rivers. A 14-foot head of water passed Jerome.

On this date in 1927, the Colorado River changed course below Yuma and the United States gained 600 acres of Mexican land.

On this date in 1933, the first commencement of nurses from the Sage Memorial School of Nursing on the Navajo Reservation took place.

On this date in 1872, it was announced that water would only be delivered on Sunday in Tucson.

On this date in 1915, Walnut Canyon was made a national monument by Presidential Proclamation.

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Neil Erickson worked as a United States Forest Service Forest Ranger at Walnut Canyon National Monument, before it became a National Park Service site.

On this date in 1927, the Apache Trail between Phoenix and Roosevelt Lake was opened to tourists.

On this date in 1929, the citizens and police department of Douglas threatened to raise an army of 600 armed Mexican and U.S. citizens to hunt down a lawless band of Apaches who raided along the border before taking refuge in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico. The Mexican Cavalry offered to cooperate.

On this date in 1979, the first cable TV line in Phoenix was connected to the home of the William Ritchie family by American Cable TV Inc.

On this date in 1883, a fight broke out in District Court in Prescott over water rights litigation. The attorney general and district attorney engaged in a fist-fight, and the defendant drew a knife, stabbed two litigants and was finally fatally wounded.

On this date in 1920, the Nogales Chamber of Commerce presented lvaro Obregn, newly inaugurated President of Mexico, with a solid-gold paperweight which was a replica of the Sonora border between the United States and Mexico.

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Gen. lvaro Obregn of Mexico (left) meets with Sonora Gov. Flavio Brquez (center) and Arizona Gov. Thomas Campbell (right) in Nogales, Ariz., July 11, 1920.

On this date in 1924, the town of Benson was incorporated.

On this date in 1929, the formal dedication of the Globe airport, with an elaborate program scheduled, including exhibition flights by Army and Navy planes, a speech by the governor and entertainment, took place.

On this date in 1852, the first steamer on the Colorado River reached Yuma. Uncle Sam was brought to the mouth of the river in sections on a schooner and assembled in Yuma.

On this date in 1861, Mormon settlers established the community of Beaver Dams, now known as Littlefield.

On this date in 1920, Arizona raised the salaries of teachers in one-room schools from $80 to $100 per month and paid them in state warrants.

On this date in 1927, Arizona became the first state to regulate and control airplanes engaged in the commercial transportation of passengers and freight.

On this date in 1929, an American Indian of a huge build, armed with a knife and a big appetite for liquor, took over as mayor, sheriff, prosecutor and executioner of the town of Twin Buttes. When county deputies arrived, they found most of the rest of the population hiding in the brush outside of town.

On this date in 1936, the Yuma Morning Sun and Arizona Sentinel newspapers merged to become the Yuma Daily Sun.

On this date in 1933, Arizonans passed the $1 million mark in income taxes paid the total was $1,164,000.

On this date in 1933, 15,000 people attended an enormous barbecue in Paradise Valley to celebrate the receipt of a federal grant for the Verde River Project.

On this date in 1856, the first post office to be opened in Arizona Territory was established at Fort Buchanan in the Sonoita Valley.

On this date in 1871, it rained continuously in Clifton for 30 hours. The resulting floods killed 18 people.

On this date in 1871, the Silver Queen Mine was recorded.

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Weve had shocking Iron Bowls that were instant classics.

Beautiful endings, we have seen. Stunning things. Brilliant chaos, and violent art. Unbelievable mistakes, too, and unforgivable scores.

This 86th edition of Auburn vs. Alabama was none of those things, but it was unlike all the others, too. Never has this game that makes an entire state stop and watch given us an overtime battle until Saturday at Jordan-Hare Stadium when a most beautiful train wreck finally came to a scratching, grinding, silent stop with Alabama ahead 24-22 after four extra frames.

It was so, so loud, and then it was not.

Then, after it was Bryce Young to John Metchie III in the corner of the end zone for the win, it was Alabama center Chris Owens, a COVID-19 sixth-year super senior, waving good-bye to Auburns fans as they stood stunned and exhausted and spent like jilted lovers at the altar of eternal bliss.

So long, cozy happiness by the raging fire of a burning rivalry. So long love. The long, cold winter is here instead. For Auburn, the chill from this one will linger.

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Alabama needed a Heisman-esque touchdown drive from its California quarterback in the final minutes of regulation just to send the game into overtime. With Young behind center, and given yet again another chance after so many inexplicable errors, the Crimson Tide went 97 yards to save its season. A lot about this game was difficult to watch for fans of competent offenses, but the catch by Alabama freshman receiver JaCorey Brooks with 24 seconds left in the fourth quarter was an all-time Iron Bowl moment.

The poise. The confidence. The glory. Who the heck cares about stats after an ending like that? It will be a noisy week for Alabama, but none of it will matter when the SEC championship game kicks off with No. 1 Georgia. Win and Alabama is in the College Football Playoff. Win and Young will have a strong case for the Heisman. Its all that simple. During Nick Sabans time at Alabama, it has never felt this difficult.

The ending was crazy just because of the adversity we had to go through, Metchie said.

We knew it was going to be a dogfight, said Alabama linebacker Will Anderson Jr. It was a dogfight.

It was Auburns nightmare in the end after blowing a lead for a third loss in a row. The Tigers led Mississippi State 28-3 before giving it all away. They were up on South Carolina 14-0 before blowing it. This time, Auburn led No. 3 Alabama 10-0, but for most of the game it felt more like 50-0.

The good news for Auburn should be obvious. The Iron Bowl can humble fan bases and players and especially the coaches, but this one showed that maybe Auburn isnt too far behind its in-state rival after all.

The bad news is less clear, but an ever-present concern unlike anything weve seen in sports. How is it that Auburns new coach, Bryan Harsin, still isnt saying whether or not he has complied with the federal directive to vaccinate himself during this ongoing pandemic? Its newsworthy because hes Auburns coach, but he might not be for too much longer.

He was asked after the game if he was committed to staying at Auburn amid rumors of opportunities elsewhere, and I heard a lot of things come out of his mouth, but never heard a definitive yes.

I love it here, Harsin said. I love the orange and blue and we have a lot more work to do.

Hopefully he sticks around because next year he might have an even better shot.

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Alabama just had a No.1-ranked recruiting class. Auburn had a backup quarterback from LSU playing for the injured Bo Nix, and by the time the fourth quarter and the four overtimes found TJ Finley behind center he was playing with one good leg, too. Auburns defense gave Finley the chance, and he nearly became one of the most unlikely stars in the history of the Iron Bowl.

Entering the game, Alabama was favored by 20.5 points. Entering halftime, Alabama trailed 10-0 and only had 68 yards of total offense. The Crimson Tide was hot and cold at times this regular season, but never like that.

Alabama quarterback Bryce Young set a single-game passing record last week against Arkansas (559 yards and five touchdowns), but he struggled in his first Iron Bowl due to constant pressure from Auburns defenders. For Alabama, it was the first victory in Jordan-Hare Stadium since 2015. For everyone watching the dynasty of dynasties, it was more proof that this might be Georgias year.

Its what you work for all year, Saban said of the ending, and no one can deny that Alabama surviving death like this is something its counterweight in the SEC East hasnt experienced.

Four Overtimes we will call this one, and put it right there alongside Kick Six, Punt Bama Punt and Wrong Way Bo. Maybe it was never pretty, but it was ugly only for the self-absorbed.

Self-absorbed Alabama fans are what Saban called supporters of the Crimson Tide who have grown fat with winning. Someone asked him a question during his radio show on Wednesday about the margin of victories, and the greatest college football coach of all time rattled his old gobbler with anger on Thanksgiving-eve.

Lean meat is no longer good enough, they say. The sacrifices must be marbled and juicy.

Wrong. One more grizzled victory is all that matters, and its Georgia with all the pressure now. We all know that when it comes to Alabama, the Dawgs have always lacked the power for the final bite.

Joseph Goodman is a columnist for the Alabama Media Group. Hes on Twitter @JoeGoodmanJr. His first book, We Want Bama: A season of hope and the making of Nick Sabans ultimate team is available wherever books are sold.

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Happy Thanksgiving.

This years holiday is more normal than last years, before the Covid vaccines had arrived. But it still is unusual for many families, involving some combination of antigen tests, outdoor meals (where the weather allows) and underlying anxiety.

With that mind, my colleagues and I put together a brief history of Thanksgiving celebrations since the 1850s, focusing on unusual years like this one. Farther down in todays newsletter, youll also find last-minute cooking tips, suggestions for holiday television and more.

However you spend the day, we hope its a good one. We want to say thanks specifically to two groups of people: first, to everybody whos working today (including our colleagues putting out The Times and delivering the print edition); and, second, to all of you the readers of The Morning. We are grateful that you make time in your day for this newsletter.

The first appearance of the word thanksgiving in The Times digital archives which go back to 1851 did not refer to the holiday. It instead was a reference on Oct. 4, 1851, to an appropriate prayer and thanksgiving from a reverend at the opening of the Queens Countys annual agricultural exhibition.

Thursday was quite a jubilee in the pleasant village of Jamaica, Long Island, an unnamed reporter for The New York Daily Times wrote. The ruddy, manly appearance of the farmers, and the freshness, delicacy, and real natural loveliness of their wives and daughters, (for which the county is justly renowned,) were sights to cheer and amaze the citizen, and many were there to witness and enjoy them.

The first mention of the holiday occurred less than a week later, in a brief news item reporting that the governor of Massachusetts had declared Thursday, Nov. 27, 1851, as a day of public thanksgiving and praise. There was no national Thanksgiving holiday at the time.

As other states announced when they would also be observing the holiday that year, The Times printed an infographic of questionable value on Oct. 31, 1851:

The origin story of Thanksgiving thats often told in school of a friendly meal between pilgrims and Native Americans is inaccurate. (As far back as 1974, The Times ran an article describing the holiday as a national day of mourning for many Native people.)

The real origin of the national holiday dates to Abraham Lincoln. On Oct. 3, 1863, he called for the country, in the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, to set aside the last Thursday in November as a day of Thanksgiving. The Times published his Thanksgiving proclamation on the front page, and several times subsequently.

While reciting the countrys many blessings a productive economy, bountiful harvests and a growing economy Lincoln also recommended that Americans give thanks with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience.

Lincolns proclamation was in part a response to Sarah Josepha Hale, an editor who had spent decades campaigning for a national day of gratitude.

Like this years version, Thanksgiving in 1918 occurred in the midst of a global pandemic. But the atmosphere was surprisingly joyous. World War I had ended on Nov. 11, and the country was celebrating, despite a horrific number of influenza deaths in October. During the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving, Times articles contained relatively few mentions of the so-called Spanish flu.

Thanksgiving Day this year will evoke a gratitude deeper, a spirit of reverence more devout, than America has felt for many years, a Times editorial on Nov. 19 said.

One factor may have been that the pandemic briefly receded that November, before surging again at the end of the year. As has happened over the past two years, a virus ebbed and flowed in mysterious ways.

By 1930, the countrys mood was much darker. A front-page headline on Thanksgiving Day that year reported: 450 Tons of Food Given to Needy, But Supply Fails. The police turned away elderly men and women to reserve the food for families with young children.

The Times also reported that the Thanksgiving tradition of ragamuffins in which children would dress up and go door to door asking for coins or treats seemed to be fading in Manhattan. Things aint the way they used to be, a police officer said.

In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to spark the economy by moving Thanksgiving one week earlier, to create a longer Christmas shopping season. Critics mocked the policy as Franksgiving, and it failed. Roosevelt announced in 1941 that he was abandoning the experiment for the next year.

Roosevelt ultimately settled on the fourth Thursday of the month a middle ground that made sure the holiday would not occur later than Nov. 28 and that Christmas shopping could always begin in November.

Thanksgiving in 1963 came only six days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and most public celebrations were canceled. The Macys parade was an exception, The Times reported, because the organizers felt its cancellation would be a disappointment to millions of children.

The Kennedys gathered at the family compound in Hyannis Port, Mass., but they skipped their usual game of touch football. Like millions of other Americans, they will give the day over to the children and mourn together their loss, The Times wrote.

The Covid-19 pandemic arguably caused a bigger break in Thanksgiving traditions than anything that came before. Since Lincolns proclamation, even during war, depression and tragedy, most Americans still found ways to gather with family and friends for a holiday meal.

But the threat from a pandemic better understood in 2020 than it had been in 1918 caused many people to stay home last year.

Today will be different. The pandemic is not over, but the worst of it almost certainly is. Vaccines have allowed most Americans to gather safely.

The country is hardly in a joyous mood. Even as people are happy to be together again, many are mourning the losses of the past two years and deeply worried about the countrys future. Yet mixed feelings are also part of the Thanksgiving tradition, all the way the back to Lincolns proclamation.

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Last years Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade lacked its typical pageantry. Because of the pandemic, there were no spectators, the route spanned only one block and thousands fewer participants marched.

This year, the parade is almost all the way back: About 6,500 people will be working on it, up from 960 last year. The number of giant balloons and floats is back to roughly what it was two years ago. And 10 marching bands, many of which couldnt travel last year, will fill the streets.

There is one caveat: No kids under 12 will participate. Everyone in the parade must be fully vaccinated, but children 5 to 11 were eligible for their first shots only a few weeks ago. (They can still watch; spectators have no vaccination requirement.)

Their absence will be curious in an event whose stars have included Pikachu, SpongeBob SquarePants and Shrek. This year, the young people waving from floats will be vaccinated tweens and teens so viewers can perhaps expect less unadulterated joy and wide-eyed wonder, The Timess Julia Jacobs writes.

The televised parade will feature the Rockettes, Carrie Underwood, Mickey Guyton, Kristin Chenoweth, Jon Batiste and Nelly. It starts at 9 a.m. Eastern, and you can watch it on NBC, Telemundo or the Peacock streaming service. Sanam Yar, a Morning writer

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A History of Unusual Thanksgivings - The New York Times

Tribune Staff Report| South Bend Tribune

MISHAWAKA Peter J. De Kever will sign copies of his new book, Hidden History of Mishawaka, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dec. 4 at the downtown branch of the Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library, 209 Lincoln Way E.

Published by Arcadia Publishing and The History Press, the 160-page paperback includes 10 essays on forgotten stories of people and events that shaped the city and even influenced the nation.

They include the life of Mishawakas first mayor, Manuel Fisher; Vice President Charles Fairbankss visit in 1908; the citys July 4 celebration in 1909 that saw the dedication of Hotel Mishawaka, and Ball-Bands vital role in the Doolittle Raid during World War II.

The book is illustrated with more than 50 historic and contemporary photos, many not published in decades.

Hidden History of Mishawaka retails for $21.99 and is available through arcadiapublishing.com and other online book retailers.

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Local author to sign copies of his book 'Hidden History of Mishawaka' - South Bend Tribune