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Jesuit priest associated with the San Felipe de Neri Church; one of the priests brought to New Mexico in the mid-1870s at the behest of Archbishop Lamy. Gasparri arranged for the Sisters of Charity, including Sister Blandina Segale, to join the San Felipe de Neri Parish in 1880. Spoke at the celebration commemorating the arrival of the AT&SF Railroad into Albuquerque April 22, 1880. Gasparri Chapel at the Church named for him.

Took a leave of absence from Harvard to come to Albuquerque in 1975, where he founded Microsoft with Paul Allen. The company moved to Seattle in 1979. Gates is one of the richest and most influential businessmen in the world.

Event held annually in September at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque to celebrate world music and culture. Musicians have attended from every continent.

Albuquerque's first daily newspaper, publishing briefly in 1880 until its editor contracted a fatal illness. Purchased soon after by the Albuquerque Publishing Company and reorganized as the Albuquerque Journal.

AKA: La Doctora. (1917-1975) Educator and pioneer in bilingual education. Born in Springer. Degrees from Columbia University and Pennsylvania State University. Professor at UNM. Dolores Gonzales Elementary School in Albuquerque named in her honor.

May 24, 1898. Robbers "Bronco Bill" Walters and "Kid" Johnson stopped the train south of Albuquerque; when they moved to blow up the safe in the baggage car, the agent begged them to throw it off the train before they used the explosives. The outlaws removed approx. $50,000, including several heavy bags of coins, then set off across the mesa west of Belen. A posse organized in Belen soon set off after the men, forcing them to bury the bags of coins as they fled. The lawmen confronted the robbers near Puertocito; the ensuing shootout left two lawmen and a Navajo tracker dead. The outlaws were brought to bay two months later in Arizona, where Kid Johnson was killed and Bronco Bill injured and sent to prison. Belen area legend says that coins from the robbery still wait to be found.

Interruption in the geological record that is visually plainly apparent in the layers on the face of the north Sandia Mountains. In the Sandias 300 million-year-old limestone deposits are directly atop much older granite; this unconformity is "great" because it represents a gap in the rock record of 1.1 billion years. The gap is believed to be due to erosion of softer materials above the granite before the formation of the limestone.

AKA: New Mexico burger, GCCB, "chile cheeser". The name describes the ingredients. This menu item has become so much a part of New Mexico cuisine that there are competitions among restaurants as to who has the best. Some leading contenders are the Owl Bar & Cafe (San Antonio, with a branch in Albuquerque), the Buckhorn Tavern (also in San Antonio, across the road from the Owl Bar), ABQ Brew Pub (Albuquerque), Badlands Burgers & Tortas (Grants), Sparky's Burgers Barbecue & Espresso (Hatch), Frontier Restaurant (Albuquerque), Benny's Mexican Kitchen (Bosque Farms), El Farolito (El Rito), Willard Cantina & Cafe (Willard), Ancient Way Cafe (Ramah), Sugar's BBQ & Burgers (Embudo), Plaza Cafe Southside (Santa Fe), Rockin' BZ Burgers (Alamogordo), and the Blake's Lotaburger chain around Albuquerque.

Bright green "fireballs" seen in the skies above New Mexico in the late 1940s. The phenomena were so active around installations such as Sandia and Los Alamos Labs that the government commissioned several investigations; 1949's Project Sign involved world-class scientists, many of whom had themselves witnessed the phenomenon. Some of the eyewitness reports suggested that the fireballs did not move as meteors would, and that the color was distinctively atypical from normal meteor reports. Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, founder of the Institute of Meteoritics at UNM, did research on the phenomena including triangulation to try to recover fallen materials. No solid conclusions were reached as to the cause; occasional sightings continue to this day.

(1951-) Sidney Gutierrez; born in Albuquerque. Astronaut; first native New Mexican to command a Space Shuttle mission. Flew two Shuttle missions totaling over 20 days in space. After retiring from NASA worked for Sandia Labs; served on several committees involving the New Mexico Spaceport. Inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame in 1995.