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May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (130th in leap years). ... Plate LXXA shows detail on a ceremonial walking staff found buried with Tutankhamun; it depicts the two foes, or the Northern and Southern enemies of Egypt. ...
In the spring of 1874 a handful of men and one woman set out for the Texas Panhandle to seek their fortunes in the great buffalo hunt.
They intended to establish a trading post to serve the hunters, or "hide men," and at a place called Adobe Walls they dug blocks from the sod and built their center of operations.
BILLY R. was curator of archaeology at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas.