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1. The Purchase -- Lands
   In 1861, during the American Civil War, the Confederacy formed the Confederate Territory of Arizona, including in the new territory mainly areas acquired by the Gadsden Purchase. In 1863, using a north-to-south dividing line, the Union created its own Arizona Territory out of the western half of the New Mexico Territory. The new U.S. Arizona Territory ... included most of the lands acquired in the Gadsden Purchase. This territory would be admitted into the Union as the State of Arizona on February 14, 1912, the last area in the lower 48 to receive statehood.
2. The Purchase -- Louisiana Territory
   If the territory included all the tributaries of the Mississippi on its western bank, the northern reaches of the Purchase extended into the equally ill-defined British possession—Rupert's Land of British North America, now part of Canada. The Purchase originally extended just beyond the 50th parallel. However, the territory north of the 49th parallel such as the Red River Basin, Milk River, and Poplar River watershed was ceded to the UK in the Anglo-American Convention of 1818.
3. Robert Conrad -- High Sierras
   Synopsis: Robert Conrad plays Jesse Hawkes, a retired mountain ranger. Hawkes is reactivated to track down a killer in the Sierra mountains. He does so with the aid of his sons -- played by Conrad's real-life sons Christian and Shane (the actor's daughter Joan was executive producer of this film). Shot onRead More
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
   LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Actor Brock Peters, best known for his heartbreaking performance as the black man falsely accused of rape in To Kill a Mockingbird, died Tuesday at his home after battling pancreatic cancer. He was 78.
5. 1973 -- Commercial Department
   Colonial Mall Gadsden, developed in 1973 and opened in 1974 by Colonial Properties Trust, is a 480,000-square-foot regional mall. It is anchored by Sears, McRae's and Belk department stores. At December 31, 2004, the mall was 96% occupied including both in-line and anchor tenants.
6. South Carolina -- John Mccain
   Seeking to protect their riches and solidify respect for their position in society, the South Carolina planters and merchants who had so profited from the British colonial system became the leaders of revolutionary activity in South Carolina. Sentiment against imperial authority was aroused by arrogant customs officials, the Stamp Act of 1765, the Townshend Acts of 1767, and British political claims. Wealthy low-country Carolinians such as Christopher Gadsden, Henry Laurens, Thomas Lynch, and Arthur Middleton led the colony's independence movement, and in March 1776, a provincial congress set up an independent government with Charlestonian John Rutledge as chie fexecutive. A British attempt to take Charleston by force failed on 28 June 1776 at the Battle of Sullivan's Island, but in the spring of 1780 a British siege led to the city's surrender. In spite of the loss of the colonial capital, in the decisive campaign of the American Revolution upcountry militias rallied behind the leadership of Francis Marion, Andrew Pickens, and Thomas Sumter in late 1780 and 1781. In a brutal civil war punctuated by notable victories at King's Mountain (7 October 1780) and Cowpens (17 January 1781), they held the British army and their Tory allies at bay.
7. The Longest Yard -- Years
   There's no reason in hell to remake "The Longest Yard." Not one. In fact, the idea behind the film, that a corrupt warden who wants to run for governor would allow a football game between inmates and guards to take place for publicity, is even more dubious now than it was 30 years ago. At least in the 70's, such shenanigans seems likely. In the modern day, even in prison-happy Texas, such an idea seems contrived at best, ridiculous at the worst.
8. Franklin Pierce -- Civil War
   On the domestic scene Pierce stood for development of the West (the Gadsden Purchase was made during his administration), but plans for a transcontinental railroad fell through. The Kansas-Nebraska Act enraged many Northerners and precipitated virtual civil war between the pro- and antislavery forces in Kansas. Pierce, by that time very unpopular, was passed over by the Democrats for renomination, and Buchanan succeeded him. Pierce's opposition to the Civil War made him more than ever disliked in the North, where he died in obscurity.
9. 1907
   The Panic of 1907, ... known as the 1907 Bankers' Panic, was a financial crisis in the United States. The stock market fell nearly 50% from its peak in 1906, the economy was in recession, and there were numerous runs on banks and trust companies. Its primary cause was a retraction of loans by some banks that began in New York and soon spread across the nation, leading to the closings of banks and businesses. The severity of the downturn was such that it eventually pressured the United States Congress to enact the Federal Reserve Act creating the Federal Reserve System in 1913. The 1907 panic was the fourth panic in 34 years.
10. Southern Arizona -- New Mexico
    Sonora and southern Arizona are truly beef country, and the traditional Mexican diet to this day includes a lot of beef. You can cook your beef over a grill, and it becomes carne asada. It is even said that a high Mexican government official in the 1920s described Sonora as the place "where civilization ends and carne asada begins." Chop your beef into cubes and cook it with red chile sauce and you have carne de chile colorado, a dish that has been a mainstay of the local diet since at least the 1750s, w hen the German Jesuit missionary Ignaz Pfefferkorn tasted some and thought he had put hellfire into his mouth. You can cook it with green chile too, but that isn't as popular here as it is in New Mexico. If you cut your beef into thin strips, dry it, shre d it, and cook it up with chiles, onions, garlic and some tomatoes, you have machaca, a wonderful dish ... called carne seca or "dry meat."

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