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He had goblets made of silver to award the winning competitors. Agriculture in Corpus Christi brought many wealthy families to the area that helped bring success through the ages. Corpus christi has subsisted mostly on agriculture based in sheep, cotton, and cattle. King ranch subsists mostly of cattle. They have the running w brand. He sent he fenced his land in barbed wire. That stopped transporting of any goods through his land without his control. Since he controlled who was on his land, he also controlled the cotton that could be smelled around the Union Blockade and eventually sold to mexico since they could not get it out of the ports in Corpus Christi to sell for profit. King ranch has been one of the prominent wrenches in the area. They own most of the land between here and mexico which control the lot of the commerce happening during the mid to late 1800s, before the railroads came into town. After the civil war, with all the ranch money being made by king, entity and others,
Later and finally they do it again and again, it is not fixed and much worse and i think that is what people think at the moment. Rose i am going to stay with that. I dont know i dont want to go to the idea of default yet. Sebastian, what do you think, what does it say . Is there regard he is of the outcome some diminished credibility for the United States because of the amount because of the argument, you know, democracy doesnt work as well as we thought it did . Right, i mean, with this happening, if we stick on the financial theme here at the time when the global dominance is possibly more resented than ever since 1989 when we had a mix son shock and the gold convertibility was ended. And i think this sort of impatience with the u. S. Is partly because the whole world owns u. S. Treasury securities which dont appear to be quite 100 percent secure although i agree with martin that probably we will get through this but nonetheless even a shadow of a doubt when you own that much around
Were going to cover the mexicanamerican war today. This is where a lot of americans. I think they know very we are going to cover the Mexican American war today. This is a war lot of americans think they know very little about. Its considered one of the more embarrassing wars in american history. Theres a reason americans dont want to talk about it. My own mother, even though written a couple books about it still thinks of this as the spanish american war sometimes. We cleared up that confusion a few years back. When im going to do is not take us through battle by battle in the war, mainly in the causes of the war. A little bit about the war itself. And then the consequences i want to cover a big summary right up front and say, this war was in the 1840. It was consequential for both countries. The cause lay in disputed territory. Down in texas, thats where american and mexican troops clashed in april of 1846. Two years later, the mexican section, the section part of the treaty ending t
Disturbances gliding across moist, unstable air brought significant rain to the Coastal Bend early today, and more rain is expected through Wednesday. Excessive heat looms again mid- to late-week.