Late 14th and 15th century pottery from central Arizona, widely traded in the region, has colors and designs which may derive from earlier ware by both Ancestral Pueblo and Mogollon peoples.

Near Kayenta, Arizona, Jonathan Haas of the Field Museum in Chicago has been studying a group of Ancient Pueblo villages that relocated from the canyons to the high mesa tops during the late 13th century.

Arizona State University has an active extracurricular involvement program ( Sun Devil Involvement Center ) with over 600 registered clubs and organizations on campus.

Also known as the D-Backs, Arizona has one World Series title, in 2001, becoming the fastest expansion team in the majors to win a championship, doing it in only the fourth season since their expansion in 1998.

"... Turquoise was chosen because the greenish-blue stone is indigenous to Arizona, copper because Arizona is one the nation's top copper-producing states and purple because it has become a favorite color for Arizona sports fans, thanks to the success of the National Basketball Association's Phoenix Suns.

Although every Major League Baseball team cultivates fans from outside its immediate metropolitan area, and even though the greater Phoenix area has 2 / 3 of the statewide population, Colangelo still decided to call the team the " Arizona Diamondbacks " rather than the " Phoenix Diamondbacks ".

The award has never been presented to a member of the following five teams: Arizona Diamondbacks, Miami Marlins, New York Mets, Tampa Bay Rays, and Washington Nationals.

A recent rivalry has developed between the Panthers and Arizona Cardinals.

They met Arizona in the NLDS, but controversy followed as Piniella, in a move that has since come under scrutiny, pulled Carlos Zambrano after the sixth inning of a pitcher's duel with D-Backs ace Brandon Webb, to ".... save Zambrano for ( a potential ) Game 4.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 76 % of the money handed out for Arizona ’ s voucher program has gone to children already in private schools.

Apart from a known and possibly breeding population in Arizona ( southeast of Tucson ), the cat has largely been extirpated from the United States since the early 20th century.

( The feat has since been repeated once, by the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2001.

The four states bordering Mexico ( Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California ), and the other southwest states such as Colorado, Nevada and Utah have large expatriate Mexican populations, which in effect has produced a wide variety of authentic Mexican restaurants.

It also has the second-highest percentage of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, after Alaska, and the fourth-highest total number of Indigenous peoples of the Americas after California, Oklahoma, and Arizona.

Yellowstone National Park has a mountainside containing obsidian located between Mammoth Hot Springs and the Norris Geyser Basin, and deposits can be found in many other western U. S. states including Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Washington, Oregon and Idaho.

Research through random sampling in the South Tucson, Arizona area has established that immigration authorities sometimes target the residents of barrios with the use of possibly discriminatory policing based on racial profiling.

Arizona has probably the most well known and fastest growing tax credit program.

Several adventures centre on his intention to kill ( for example, " Arizona " in The Saint Goes West has Templar planning to kill a Nazi scientist ).

While the first of these novels, The Saint in Miami, has Templar stumbling upon a Nazi plot, beginning with the " Arizona " novella Templar is fighting his own war against Germany.

The team has played its spring training games at the Peoria Sports Complex in Peoria, Arizona since 1994.

The Biosphere 2 project in Arizona has shown that a complex, small, enclosed, man-made biosphere can support eight people for at least a year, although there were many problems.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been the subject of controversy in Arizona, where a parent group's attempt to have it removed from a required reading list was struck down by the court.

In addition to Changemaker Central, the Freshman Year Residential Experience ( FYRE ) and the Greek community ( Greek Life ) at Arizona State University have been important in binding students to the university, and providing social outlets.

Arizona had originally been intended to join Tampa Bay in the American League.

While a young researcher working for the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, Tombaugh was given the job to perform a systematic search for a trans-Neptunian planet ( also called Planet X ), which had been predicted by Percival Lowell and William Pickering.

None of the other four male jaguars sighted in Arizona in the last 15 years have been seen since 2006.

The concept of " Miranda rights " was enshrined in U. S. law following the 1966 Miranda v. Arizona Supreme Court decision, which found that the Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights of Ernesto Arturo Miranda had been violated during his arrest and trial for domestic violence.

The raid is often thought to have been related to Operation Sundevil, a nationwide investigation of computer crime ; however, Sundevil was based in Arizona and the Steve Jackson Raid was coordinated out of Chicago.

During halftime, USA Network aired a special edition of WWF Sunday Night Heat called Halftime Heat featuring a match between The Rock and Mankind for the WWF Championship in an Empty Arena Match that took place in Arizona and had been taped five days before.

This procedure has been in place in races for all statewide and legislative offices in Arizona and Maine since 2000.

If Mogambo had been made in Arizona, I wouldn't have done it.

In Phoenix, Arizona and Seattle, Washington, among other places, metered on-ramps have been implemented.

This has not been changed by rulings of the U. S. Supreme Court such as in Ring v. Arizona,, which found Arizona's practice, having the judge decide on aggravating factors making a defendant eligible for the death penalty, to be unconstitutional, and reserved that decision for the jury.

) The twin communities of Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah, Bountiful, British Columbia, and sites in Mexico are historic locations of several Mormon Fundamentalist sects. Mormon fundamentalist leaders and individuals have been charged under Mann when " wives " are transported across the Utah-Arizona state line or the U. S .– Canadian and U. S .– Mexican borders.

Dubbed the Canyon Diablo crater – from Canyon Diablo, Arizona, the closest community to the crater in the late 19th century, northwest of the crater, but now a ghost town – it had initially been ascribed to the actions of a volcano.

The concept has been fully duplicated since then by Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, and University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, US, and partially by the Sapporo Dome in Japan ( which has a sliding pitch but a fixed roof ).

The Hopi and Zuni are believed to have been descended from ancient Puebloan cultures who constructed large apartment-house complexes in northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico.

Iowa, Milwaukee, Tennessee Valley ( which changed its name to Alabama to reflect the state, rather than the region ), Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Bossier-Shreveport, and Spokane all seamlessly moved to the new AFL to join " old " AFL teams Arizona, Orlando, Tampa Bay, Chicago, and Cleveland, along with expansion teams in Dallas and Jacksonville, and the AIFA team in Utah which had originally been in the old AFL.

Virgil served for three years during the Civil War and had also been involved in a police shooting in Prescott, Arizona Territory.

Through the influence of Ernest Becker's writings, Rank's eternal dialectic between " life fear and death fear " has been tested experimentally in Terror Management Theory by Skidmore College psychology professor Sheldon Solomon, University of Arizona psychology professor Jeff Greenberg, and University of Colorado at Colorado Springs psychology professor Tom Pyszczynski.

The Grand Canyon of northern Arizona with an average depth of one mile and a volume of 4. 17 trillion cubic metres, has been referred to as one of the world's seven natural wonders.