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  2. Xavier Institute of Social Service - Wikipedia

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    In 1963, Micheal Van Den Bogaert was appointed as the director of XISS and rendered his service to the institute for 23 years. [5] In 1973 the institute was registered as a separate educational society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860.

  3. List of Texas state symbols - Wikipedia

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    The battleship USS Texas (BB-35) [1] Shrub: Crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica) Shrub (native) Texas sage (Leucophyllum frutescens) Slogan "The Friendly State" [1] 1930: Snack Tortilla chips and salsa [1] 1995: Sport: Rodeo: 1997 [6] Stone: Petrified palmwood: Tartan: Texas Bluebonnet Tartan: May 25, 1989: Pastry: Strudel and sopaipilla: 2003 ...

  4. Seal of Texas - Wikipedia

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    The seal of Texas has changed 5 times since independence from Mexico in 1836. The original Great Seal of the Republic was created on December 10, 1836, by the Congress, with a bill providing that "for the future the national seal of this republic shall consist of a single star, with the letters 'Republic of Texas', circular on said seal, which seal shall also be circular".

  5. Flag of Texas - Wikipedia

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    The state flag is officially described by law as: a rectangle that: (1) has a width to length ratio of two to three; and (2) contains: (A) one blue vertical stripe that has a width equal to one-third the length of the flag; (B) two equal horizontal stripes, the upper stripe white, the lower stripe red, each having a length equal to two-thirds the length of the flag; and (C) one white, regular ...

  6. Texas Declaration of Independence - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Declaration of Independence was the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution. It was adopted at the Convention of 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 2, 1836, and was formally signed the next day after mistakes were noted in the text.

  7. Cirsium texanum - Wikipedia

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    Common names include Texas thistle, Texas purple thistle or southern thistle. [2] The species is native to northern Mexico ( Coahuila , Durango , Nuevo León , San Luis Potosí , Tamaulipas ) and the southern Great Plains of the south-central United States (primarily Texas , Oklahoma , and eastern New Mexico with additional populations in ...

  8. Mortal Kombat - Wikipedia

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    Mortal Kombat is an American media franchise centered on a series of fighting video games originally developed by Midway Games in 1992. The original Mortal Kombat arcade game spawned a franchise consisting of action-adventure games, a comic book series, a card game, films, an animated TV series, and a live-action tour.

  9. Taro - Wikipedia

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    The form taro or talo is widespread among Polynesian languages: [4] taro in Tahitian; talo in Samoan and Tongan; kalo in Hawaiian; taʻo in Marquesan. All these forms originate from Proto-Polynesian * talo , [ 4 ] which itself descended from Proto-Oceanic * talos (cf. dalo in Fijian ) and Proto-Austronesian * tales (cf. taleus in Sundanese ...