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  2. Cowboy - Wikipedia

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    One writer states that cowboys were "of two classes—those recruited from Texas and other States on the eastern slope; and Mexicans, from the south-western region". [58] Census records suggest that about 15% of all cowboys were of African-American ancestry—ranging from about 25% on the trail drives out of Texas, to very few in the northwest ...

  3. History of the Middle East - Wikipedia

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    By the 5th century, Christianity was the dominant religion in the Middle East, with other faiths (gradually including heretical Christian sects) being actively repressed. The Middle East's ties to the city of Rome were gradually severed as the Empire split into East and West, with the Middle East tied to the new Roman capital of Constantinople.

  4. List of cities of the ancient Near East - Wikipedia

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    The earliest cities in history were in the ancient Near East, an area covering roughly that of the modern Middle East: its history began in the 4th millennium BC and ended, depending on the interpretation of the term, either with the conquest by the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BC or with that by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC.

  5. XIT Ranch - Wikipedia

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    Cowboys at the XIT Ranch in 1891. The XIT Ranch was a cattle ranch in the Texas Panhandle which operated from 1885 to 1912. Comprising over 3,000,000 acres (12,000 km 2) of land, it ran for 200 miles (300 km) along the border with New Mexico, varying in width from 20 to 30 miles (30 to 50 km).

  6. Cochise County Cowboys - Wikipedia

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    The word cowboy did not begin to come into wider usage until the 1870s. The men who drove cattle for a living were usually called cowhands, drovers, or stockmen. [4] While cowhands were still respected in West Texas, [5] in Cochise County the outlaws' crimes and their notoriety grew such that during the 1880s it was an insult to call a legitimate cattleman a "cowboy."

  7. List of Muslim states and dynasties - Wikipedia

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    Eastern Moghulistan / Uyghurstan (1462–1680) Yarkent Khanate (1514–1705) Turpan Khanate (1487–1570) Kashgaria Khanate (1865–1877) Kumul Khanate (1696–1930) Khoja Kingdom (1693–1857) Dughlats (1466–1514) Kingdom of Mangalai (1220–1877) Pingnan Guo (1856–1873) First East Turkestan Republic (1933–1934) Second East Turkestan ...

  8. Cowboys have always been Black. This KC rancher wants ... - AOL

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    The men on his mother’s side were cowboys, too, so he grew up ranching in a life rich in cowboy culture. Hollywood got it wrong, depicting an all-white, horse-and-cow-wrangling Old West.

  9. Tribes of Arabia - Wikipedia

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    The general consensus among 14th-century Arab genealogists is that Arabs are of three kinds: . Al-Arab al-Ba'ida (Arabic: العرب البائدة), "The Extinct Arabs", were an ancient group of tribes in pre-Islamic Arabia that included the ‘Ād, the Thamud, the Tasm and the Jadis, thelaq (who included branches of Banu al-Samayda), and others.