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3: Shirley MacLaine's House
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The Academy Award-winning film and theatre actress lives here. She is also the writer of a large number of autobiographical works, many dealing with her new age beliefs, such as solipsism, as well as her Hollywood career. She is the older sister of Warren Beatty.
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The film director and producer whose credits include the Austin Powers movies, and the hit comedies "Meet the Parents" and "Meet the Fockers", and the vocalist and rhythm guitarist best known for being a member of the all-female pop band The Bangles lives here. They have been married since 1993.
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The Imus Ranch is a sprawling 4500-acre ranch designed to resemble an old western town. Over the last 11 summers Don Imus and his wife, Deirdre, have welcomed nearly 1,000 children with cancer to their cattle ranch here in northern New Mexico for week long stays intended to be more work than play.
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Colleen Maloof mother of Adrienne Maloof-Nassif, Joe Maloof, Gavin Maloof, George J. Maloof, Jr. and Phil Maloof owns this house.
The Maloof family runs a billion-dollar empire that includes the NBA's Sacramento Kings, the ultra-hip Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas and a huge liquor distributorship in New Mexico.
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Cave opening is in the center.
Established to preserve Carlsbad Cavern and numerous other caves within a Permian-age fossil reef, the park contains more than 100 known caves, including Lechuguilla Cave—the nation's deepest limestone cave at 1,567 feet (478m) and fourth longest.
Carlsbad Cavern, with one of the world's largest underground chambers and countless formations, is highly accessible, with a variety of tours offered year-round.
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Kirtland Air Force Base.
The facility is the largest wood-and-glue laminated structure in the world. Aircraft tested here are subjected to up to 10 million volts of electricity to simulate the effects of a nuclear explosion and assess the "hardness" of electrical and electronic equipment to the EMP pulse generated by a nuclear burst.
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The actor, director and musician, owns this home. He is best-known for starring in such films as: "Catch-22", "The In-Laws", "Edward Scissorhands", "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming", "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "Little Miss Sunshine", for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2007. He is the father of actors Adam Arkin, Anthony Arkin and Matthew Arkin.
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This naked-eye observatory, a kind of modern Stonehenge, is designed to illustrate the 26,000 year precession of the Earth on its axis as represented by the location and path of Polaris, the Pole star, through different eras. Other portions of the structure illustrate the movement of stars in an hour and the position of the sun at the equinox and solstices. It is still under construction, but near completion and should be opening very soon.
Más sobre 'Star Axis' by Charles Ross41: Holloman High Speed Test Track (HHSTT)
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Holloman High Speed Test Track (HHSTT) occupies 11 square miles in the northwest area of Holloman AFB and is adjacent to the 4000-square-mile White Sands Missile Range (WSMR). During operations, HHSTT restricts 1000 feet of airspace above the track for safety. Access to the track is limited during preparation and operations. HHSTT has supported up to SECRETSAR projects. The air space over the area is closed to all civilian air traffic and can be closed to all air traffic when requested. HHSTT is a one-of-a-kind aerospace ground facility.
Test capabilities include the following:
* Aircraft: crew escape, airblast, birdstrike, aeropropulsion, munitions launch, and infrared countermeasures
* Missile: guidance systems, aerodynamics, aeroelastics, dispensers, seekers, and components
* Life support systems: crew modules, decelerators, parachutes, ballutes/paraloons, canopies, and catapults
* Erosion: rain, dust/particle, hail, transpiration cooling, material ablation, heatshields, radomes, electro-optical windows, and re-entry phenomena
* Impact: warhead, fuse sensitivity, kinetic energy penetrators, hit-to-kill vehicles, hit sensors, survivability/vulnerability, and lethality.
HHSTT support resources encompass all the engineering, analysis, and manufacturing support a customer will likely need. HHSTT can provide the engineering design for a test, including the mechanical and aerodynamic aspects using modern CAD/CAM equipment. Fabrication shops can perform all the machining, sheet metal work, welding, heat treatment, and NDI that may be needed. HHSTT can provide the propulsion vehicles, heavy equipment, and geodetics for the test build-up, as well as perform instrument calibration, telemetry, photography, event timing (msec), and data processing/analysis.
Más sobre Holloman High Speed Test Track (HHSTT)45: Movie location of Employee of the Month
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Employee of the Month was shot at a Costco Wholesale warehouse club in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Products in several interior shots display the Kirkland Signature house brand logo. In the scene where Zack and Vince are doing the final Employee of the Month challenge, on the shopping carts it says clearly Costco Wholesale. Construction of a Sam's Club store across the street had recently been completed; the rivalry between Super Club and Maxi Mart in the film parodies the real life competition between Costco and Sam's Club. The Costco location chosen is well known to Albuquerque residents; for a long time, it had been the only such store in town, previously known as Price Club.
Más sobre Movie location of Employee of the Month48: Tethered Aerostat B-42 - Deming
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The Tethered Aerostat Radar System is a balloon-borne radar system. The primary aerostat mission is to provide low level radar surveillance data in support of federal agencies involved in the nation's drug interdiction program. Secondary mission is to provide North American Aerospace Defense Command with low level surveillance coverage for air sovereignty in the Florida Straights.
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The retired automobile racer lives here. He is the brother of Al Unser and Jerry Unser, the father of Robby Unser, and the uncle of Al Unser, Jr. and Johnny Unser. He is one of 7 drivers to win the "Indianapolis 500" 3 times, and 1 of only 2 to have won the 500 in 3 different decades (1968, 75, 81). He has also been a spokesman and advocate of "Amsoil".
Más sobre Bobby Unser's House51: Very Large Array
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Twenty-seven linked radio telescopes
In the plains of Saint Agustin, west of Socorro, is the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope, part of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, one of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world. The VLA consists of 27 82-foot radio dishes that can be moved on tracks to cover an area as large as 20 by 20 miles. The antennas are linked together to form a single image of the radio source being studied. The facility was constructed from 1974 to 1982 by the National Science Foundation. As part of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), information from the VLA is combined with that from other NRAO facilities at Green Bank, West Virginia; Tucson, Arizona; and the main office at Charlottesville Virginia. For a typical experiment the dishes are configured to track a distant astronomical entity, one which emits radio signals, for a designated amount of time, from several hours to several days. These signals are picked up by the collector dishes, amplified, and transmitted to the control building through underground wave guides. The amplifiers in each dish are cooled to -427 degrees F, just slightly warmer than absolute zero, to reduce the amount of noise they produce. The wave guides are precision-made pipes 60 millimeters wide which steer the cosmic radio waves to the computer processors with minimal loss or distortion. The signals are then converted into data and are stored in computers. The experimenters, who have usually waited for years for this brief window of data-collection, take the computerized data, stored on magnetic tapes, back to their institution to be analyzed and interpreted for months and even years into the future.
Más sobre Very Large Array53: Lost Gold of Victorio Peak
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In 1937 a man named Milton 'Doc' Noss supposedly found a treasure trove of gold bars and valuable artifacts hidden in a secret chamber beneath Victorio Peak in what is now part of White Sands Missle Range, New Mexico. He was unable to retrieve the treasure because the opening was too narrow so he hired an engineer to dynamite a larger passage. Too much dynamite was used and the opening was closed.
The many roads and trails visible around Victorio Peak are evidence of several unsuccessful attempts to find Doc Noss' treasure.
Más sobre Lost Gold of Victorio Peak54: John Malone's "Bell Ranch"
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The media mogul Jon Malone, who is the current chairman of Liberty Media and CEO of Discovery Holding Company owns this ranch.
The Bell Ranch features Bell Mountain and a a 10,832-square feet hacienda with swimming pool and tennis courts The property includes a general manager residence and lake house, ranch offices, stables, barns, garage and storage facilities. Cowboy camps are located throughout the property. The Bell Ranch airfield (8,200' x 75' lighted dirt airstrip) has a large hangar. It was listed for $115 million back in 2007 and then was at $103 million in 2009. It was most recently at $83 million. The final selling price hasn't been revealed.
http://www.luxist.com/2010/08/17/bell-ranch-finally-sold-after-years-on-the-market/
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Site where Englishman John Henry Tunstall was murdered on 18 February 1878. Tunstall is remembered today only because one of his employees at the time of his murder was William H. Bonney aka Billy the Kid. The spot where Tunstall fell mortally wounded from his horse is marked with a lump of cement holding in place a vertical metal shaft. When I visited in August 2003 the shaft was bare. It now holds a US Forest Service sign identifying the site.
Más sobre Tunstall Canyon63: Kirtland AFB - Nuclear Weapon Storage
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Of the 15 states that host nuclear weapons, New Mexico ranks number one by virtue of the many warheads stored at the Kirtland Underground Munitions Storage Complex (KUMSC), a modern $43 million, 300,000-square-foot facility opened in 1992. Special military aircraft land at the Albuquerque International Airport and load and unload nuclear weapons at the "Hot Cargo Pad." Warheads are taken to the KUMSC and stored in one of 58 storage bays/underground bunkers. The facility has state-of-the-art security.
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An artist's (and I use that term loosely) recreation of Stonehenge. Apparently a monument to America's waste which is, instead of being aligned with lunar and solar activity, aligned with Los Alamos since the artist is a nuclear critic.
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The St James Hotel was built in 1872 by Henri Lambert (later changed to Henry) and was originally called Lambert's Inn. Its saloon, restaurant and 43 rooms were witness to at least 26 murders during Cimarron's wilder days. Clay Allison, Black Jack Ketchum, Jesse James, and Buffalo Bill Cody have all left their mark on the St. James, as attested by the numerous bullet holes in the ceiling of the main dining room.
Más sobre St James Hotel80: Aztec Ruins National Monument
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Aztec Ruins National Monument preserves ancestral Pueblo structures in north-western New Mexico, United States, located close to the town of Aztec and northeast of Farmington, near the Animas River. Salmon Ruins and Heritage Park, with more ancestral Pueblo structures, lies a short distance to the south, just west of Bloomfield and near the San Juan River.
The buildings date back to the 11th to 13th centuries, and the misnomer attributing them to the Aztec civilization can be traced back to early American settlers in the mid-19th century.
The site was declared "Aztec Ruin National Monument" on January 24, 1923, and with a boundary change it was renamed "Ruins" on July 2, 1928. As an historical property of the National Park Service the National Monument was administratively listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. Aztec Ruins was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites, as part of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park, on December 8, 1987.
Más sobre Aztec Ruins National Monument86: ¡Explora! Children's Museum
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Interactive exhibits include a highwire bicycle, a colorful ball maze, a magnetic table that lets mount plastic gears to create elaborate machines and an extreme close-up camera that lets users get up close and personal with the insides of their noses. Exhibits allow children to explore scientific themes -- such as generating electricity or programming robots -- with hands-on experiments and activities.
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