29．After WWII Los Alamos and Albuquerque had many new laboratories．Hundreds of highly educated Scientists and Engineers moved in the state．New Mexico soon had a higher percentage of people with Ph．D．s than any other state．
30．1out of 4workers in New Mexico work directly for the Federal Government．State and local governments are also major employers．
31．Public education was almost nonexistent in New Mexico until the end of the 19th century．As late as 1888there was not a single public college or high school in the entire territory．
32．Two important aspects of New Mexico’s economy are scientific research such as the nuclear energy research carried out at Sandia National Laboratories and mining of natural resources such as oil，natural gas，uranium，potash（［化］碳酸钾，苛性钾），copper，coal，zinc（锌），gold and silver．
33．New Mexico has far more sheep and cattle than people．There are only about 12people per square mile．
34．Since New Mexico’s climate is so dry 3／4of the roads are left unpaved（没有铺石砖的，没有铺柏油的）．The roads don’t wash away．
35．During the height of the socalled lawless era（时代，纪元，时期）of the late 1800’when Lew Wallace served as territorial Governor，he wrote the popular historical novel BenHur．First published in 1880，it was made into a movie in 1959starring Charleton Heston．
36．Saint Paul’s United Methodist church in Las Cruces has 7bell choirs（唱诗班，唱诗班的席位）．
37．The world famous Santa Fe Opera has an openair（outdoor）theater situated dramatically outside of the capital city in the foothills of the Sangre de Christo Mountains．
38．The town of Deming is known for its annual duck races．
39．Cimarron was once known as the“Cowboy capital of the world”．Some of the old west’s most famous names，such as Kit Carson and“Buffalo Bill”Cody lived there．A quote from the Las Vegas Gazette illustrates（举例说明，图解，阐明）how lawless Cimarron was．“Everything is quiet in Cimarron．Nobody has been killed in 3days．”
40．Roswell the states 4th largest city was founded in 1869when a professional gambler（赌博的人，赌徒）established a lone store on the cattle trail．
41．Moon Rocks can be found at the International Space hall of fame that is located in Alamogordo．
42．Tens of thousands of bats live in the Carlsbad Caverns（巨洞，洞窟，深处）．The largest chamber of Carlsbad Caverns is more than 10football fields long and about 22stories high．
43．Taos Pueblo is located 2miles north of the city of Taos．It is one of the oldest continuously occupied communities in the United States．People still live in some of its 900yearold buildings．
44．New Mexico’s largest city Albuquerque was founded in 1706as a Spanish farming community．It was named after a province in Spain．
45．New Mexico’s capital city Santa Fe is the ending point of the 800mile Santa Fe Trail．
46．The City of Truth or Consequences was once called Hot Springs．In 1950the town changed its name to the title of a popular radio quiz program．
47．The town of Gallup calls itself the“Indian Capital of the World”and serves as a trading center for more than 20different Indian groups．Every August it is the site of the InterTribal Indian Ceremonial（仪式）．
48．New Mexico was named by 16th century Spanish explorers who hoped to find gold and wealth equal to Mexico’s Aztec（阿芝台克人，阿芝台克语）treasures．
49．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．
50．On the same desert grounds where today’s space age missiles（导弹，发射物）are tested，tenthousandyearold arrowheads（箭头，箭头状物）have been found．New Mexican history has ranged from arrows to atoms and has embraced（拥抱，互相拥抱）Indian，Spanish and Anglo cultures．Few states can claim such a distinctive past．
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