Kendra Kielbasa says the Be a Santa for a Senior program succeeds because it brings the community together in a collective gesture of love and caring, and that,she says,is what the Christmas holiday is all about.

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Some of these findings were presented recently at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Santa Fe,New Mexico.

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Most of the buildings in Santa Fe are low and earth colored, a mixture of Spanish and native styles.

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In two thousand five Santa Fe was named a UNESCO Creative City -- the first American city to get that honor.

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A stone marker shows the spot where the Santa Fe Trail ended in the city's historic central plaza.

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A force known as the Army of the West used the Santa Fe Trail to protect American traders.

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This week on our program, we take you to a city in the American Southwest: Santa Fe,New Mexico.

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A businessman named William Becknell believed he could earn a lot of money by moving trade goods from Missouri to Santa Fe.

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But Santa Fe has a longer history of serving as a capital city than any of the other capitals of the fifty states.

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Dr.Armando Giuiliano at the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica,California, was a leader of the study.

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Early in eighteen fifty, Texas sent a representative to Santa Fe to take control of the government.

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Wagons traveled the Santa Fe Trail from eighteen twenty-two until a railroad replaced it in eighteen seventy-nine.

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His team won a national championship in nineteen eighty-nine which the school shared with Santa Clara University.

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The government built a series of bases in the New Mexico territory to protect the settlers and goods moving along the Santa Fe Trail.

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Mules were faster. For example, in eighteen fifty-seven a stagecoach pulled by six mules took twenty to twenty-five days to travel from Independence,Missouri,to Santa Fe.

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Stephen Kearny had seized Santa Fe, the capital of New Mexico, without firing a shot.

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The seat of government in Santa Fe for the Spanish, the Mexicans and the American territory was a building called the Palace of the Governors.

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"We put out some vegetables for Santa Claus and a glass of water, and then when we woke up there was a note from Santa Claus."

VOA: special.2009.12.21

The first was a huge oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara,California.

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On November twenty-fourth, nineteen twenty-two, officials signed a document in Santa Fe,New Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

Texas claimed a large part of New Mexico, including the capital,Santa Fe.

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He moved his forces into a position to fight Santa Ana.

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Polk secretly sent a representative to former Mexican dictator Santa Ana.

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Jill Cooper from Santa Fe,New Mexico, gave us a description.

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Someone asked him to paint a picture of Santa Claus.

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