Part 1: The History of Engineering Natural Habitats Throughout human history our interactions with animals have been mostly ones of confrontation, either as hunter and prey or master and beast of burden. While menageries have existed since around 3500 BCE as rare...
Rising to the west of Albuquerque, the New Mexico Petroglyph National Monument spans 17 miles along the west mesa. The Eastern boundary of the mesa is defined by an escarpment bordering the Rio Grande floodplain and continues up into the area of the National monument....
Amidst the dusty southwestern plains of New Mexico lies the city of Roswell, NM – home to roughly 50,000 residents, not all of them aliens. In the 1850s the area within the Pecos Valley was settled by Mexican farmers with the first non-indigenous and...
Constructed at the Northernmost reaches of the Roman province of Britannia, on the outskirts of the empire, Hadrian’s Wall was built to defend Roman military and civilian settlements from the local Celtic tribes. The tribes occupied the territory in the North of the...
The first mention of land transportation between the Florida Keys and mainland Florida appears to be from a political address given in 1835 by George W. Allen. Mr. Allen was a reverend and member of what would become one of the largest black families on Key West...
Since the early 1900’s, the U.S. government had an eye on the Black Canyon, situated on the border between Nevada and Arizona. The Black Canyon was a potential site to build a dam that would provide flood control, irrigation, and hydroelectric power to the nearby...
