To pursue their understanding and their living out of christianity if they feel it is as they feel is appropriate. I think the nation has supported that. Its when you move from your belief system into some practices that are seen to be dangerous to others or harmful in some way that you might xpect government intervention. A 1953 tornado destroyed much of Downtown Waco and killed 114 people. It remains the 11th deadliest tornado in u. S. History. We spoke with the city of wacos Municipal Information director about the tornado. Fraternal groups, clubs, fundraisers. That was part of it. The city itself stepped forward and dedicated a lot of the city funds to doing things that would not be typically funded by the city. But to recover from a tragedy and when you have major losses, major infrastructure losses in our city organization. Again, as you look back it is hard to identify it but collectively the whole community of waco came together and served again. There were no racial lines, jus
Nice. The other thing thats interesting about it is that mary austin holley, shes shes a widow, the niece of stephen f. Austin. And for her to come here and to write about her travels is significant. To have a female voice at that time period its incredible. So i do think, and if i recall correctly from some of the things that ive read, austins map steven f. Austins map, theres some influence in this particular map but i think its a great progression to show from the 1816 map on into this map from 1836. The next map id like to show you is a colton map. This is really during the republic time period. Its dated 1839 and you can see the different counties that have been set up certainly they are not the way they are today. Again, this would have been hand colored well after the map would have been printed. Its by the general land off of the republic of texas. And it shows this progression of 1836. And then you really begin to see more dealing with the republic of texas time period. And, o
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they garnered little notice, they never the less used their time in obscurity to systematically review contemporary tactics and strategies of an ongoing losing war. well, matthew ridgeway s on the cover of time magazine, and today called him old iron tits. he has a grenade here and a medical pack. but they didn t realize he d been studying late at night strategy tactics, history, language of korea. or you take somebody like sherman, wild uncle billy sherman, war is hell and all that. he was a magnificent student of history. he understood the psychology of the southern plantation other than. and when he said i m going to make war and ruin synonymous ideas, he really had thought about it in advance. so they re showy, they re sort of a good example is george patton. they re showy, they tend to be like moths to candles as far as publicity goes. but they are serious students. petraeus was a part of our popular culture from 2007 to 2008, but for 50 years in his earlier career h