Around 1100 CE—a good 400 years before Spanish conquistadors would first glimpse the Grand Canyon—Ancestral Puebloans tended terrace farms along the banks of the Colorado River. In order to store their crops during the rainy season, when floods might destroy food stores, and to keep animals from eating the harvest, they created the Nankoweap Granaries high up in the canyon walls.
Ancient storage in the Grand Canyon
Today in History
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International Tea Day
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World Whale Day
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We did not invent this, honest
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Mountains fit for a queen
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Lucian Blaga National Theater, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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A great white egret in Hungary
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Victory Day in Valletta
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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International Day for Biological Diversity
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Rethymno, Crete, Greece
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Coming home to roost
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A notorious gunfight that was incorrectly named
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In the Himalayas for International Mountain Day
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Spotted Lake emerges
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Irohazaka road
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Shark Awareness Day
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Northern cardinal in winterberry bush
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Welcome to ‘Hollywood North’
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Freeze frame
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Detroit Industry Murals by Diego Rivera
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Red squirrel
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A castle fit for a count
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Isla del Pescado on the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia
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Boxing Day in East Yorkshire, England
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Spreadsheet Day
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Milwaukee City Hall, Wisconsin
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Glenariff Forest Park, Northern Ireland, UK
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Arrr! Can you talk like a pirate?
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The call of the wild in Alaska
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Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain
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