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Washoe (c. September 1965 – October 30, 2007) was a female common chimpanzee who was the first non-human to learn to communicate using signs adapted from American ...
Contents: List of Registered Historic Places in Washoe County, Nevada, USA: The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below), may be seen in an online map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates".
Roger S. Fouts delivering Washoe's Eulogy. Roger S. Fouts (born June 8, 1943) is a retired American primate researcher. He was co-founder and co-director of the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute (CHCI) in Washington, and a professor of psychology at the Central Washington University.
Washoe woman. Washoe people are the only Great Basin tribe whose language is not Numic, so they are believed to have inhabited the region prior to neighboring tribes.The Kings Beach Complex that emerged about 500 CE around Lake Tahoe and the northern Sierra Nevada are regarded as early Washoe culture.
Prior to the creation of the Nevada Territory, the area was part of western Utah Territory and was known as Washoe, after the native Washoe people.
The Old Winters Ranch/Winters Mansion, near Carson City, Nevada, was completed in 1864. [2] Also known as Rancho del Sierra, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. [1]
Mary Edith Silvani (September 29, 1948 – July 17, 1982), known as "Sheep's Flat Jane Doe" and "Washoe County Jane Doe" while unidentified, was an American woman found shot to death near Lake Tahoe in Washoe County, Nevada in July 1982. She was unidentified for 37 years, the investigation becoming a cold case. The Washoe County Sheriff's ...
As told by the Washoe Tribe, [7] Ong was a giant man-eating bird that nested in the middle of Lake Tahoe on a spire that rose from the water. Ong was so large and so powerful that his wing beats could bend the trees when he flew near shore. The legend tells that one day a Washoe man was snatched up by Ong and taken to his nest.