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This service record is an account of military actions during the American Civil War by veteran J. J. Winters (1831- ), dated from 1905. ; 1 leaf ; 2 pdf pages. ; All descriptive lists and service records in this United Confederate (Civil War) Veterans manuscript collection believed to be based out of Robert E. Lee Camp #158 of the United Confederate Veterans (Fort Worth, Tex.). United Confederate Veterans. R.E. Lee Camp No. 158 (Fort Worth, Tex.) ; The Southwest Collection Manuscript Record can be accessed at the following URL: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttusw/00119/tsw-00119.html

SummaryA relation between solar activity and extreme wintersThe well‐known II‐years period in solar activity is eliminated by computing moving averages of relative sunspot numbers over II‐year intervals. The averages thus obtained reveal a 'long period' probably of about 89 years. By subtracting the averages from the original figures reduced sunspot numbers are obtained which represent the normal II‐years fluctuations after elimination of the long period.Standard deviations of winter temperatures have been computed in a similar fashion for moving II‐year intervals, and these standard deviations have been plotted against the average sunspot numbers in figs. 1 and 2, crosses referring to the years before 1831 and dots to the years after. Both at De Bilt and at Prague the observations from 1831 onwards exhibit a pronounced positive correlation, with correlation coefficients of +0.82 and +0.74 respectively. No such correlation can be detected in the earlier observations, which the author is, however, inclined to ascribe to the inaccuracy and incompleteness of the data collected in these early periods. As shown by fig. 3 no correlation does exist between the temperature deviations and the reduced sunspot numbers.It must be concluded that extreme winters occur during the peak solar activities of the long solar period; the normal II‐years period is of no consequence.From a statistical point of view these results are noteworthy: the standard deviation shows systematic variations which are doubtless of physical origin. Statisticians are advocated not to lose sight of the physical background when applying statistical methods to physical phenomena.

Much of the scholarship on Indigenous water rights in the United States focuses on legal and political rights awarded or denied in water settlements. This article highlights the voice of settlement opponents within Diné communities over the proposed Little Colorado River Settlement in 2012 between the Navajo Nation and Arizona. Using interviews with key actors, observations of water hearings, and a mini focus group with settlement opponents, my research finds that the proposed water settlement produced contradictory logics, practices, and frameworks that combined two "traditions of Indigenous resistance," one rooted in the language of self-determination and sovereignty and the other in emerging notions of decolonization. This hybridity of seeking increased water recognition within colonial law, while advocating for decolonial waterscapes, speaks to the complicated and fundamentally entangled political landscapes of Indigenous peoples. Ultimately, in opposing the water settlement, Diné opponents and community members demonstrate that they seek to rectify the injustice of ongoing settler colonialism and realize their collective capabilities as nations, not "Indians," "tribes," or "minorities" within and against the authorities of the colonial state.