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| New Mexico Facts |
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To test the latest rockets White Sands Missile Range was created on the same land where the first atom bomb had been exploded. |
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Native Americans have been living in New Mexico for some twenty thousand years. The Pueblo, Apache, Comanche, Navajo, and Ute peoples were in the New Mexico region when Spanish settlers arrived in the 1600s. |
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Public education was almost non-existent in New Mexico until the end of the 19th century. As late as 1888 there was not a single public college or high school in the entire territory. |
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