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Wood County voted for secession by a 70% majority. The two delegates to the Secession Convention, though, both opposed secession. [3] The first soldiers raised for the Confederacy in Wood County were Company A, 10th Texas Cavalry Regiment. [8] A training ground called Camp Flournoy was established east of Quitman.
Birching was also featured in the French Revolution. One leader of the revolution, Anne-Josèphe Théroigne de Méricourt, went mad, ending her days in an asylum after a public birching. On 31 May 1793 the Jacobin women seized her, stripped her naked, and flogged her on the bare bottom in the public garden of the Tuileries. [6]
The Pine Mills Oilfield is an oilfield developed in the late 1940s and early 1950s in Wood County, Texas extending from the townsite of Pine Mills toward US Highway 80 and the settlement of Crow, Texas. J.M. "Julius" DeuPree and F.R. Jackson are credited with being responsible for the initial exploration of the Pine Mills Oil Field.
Whether a carver can get 100 bowls out of a birch or none, every bit of the log gets used, says Malen Bratcher, who is now the marketing and wholesale manager for his father's company.
Some Tarrant County Republicans are drawn to the conspiracy club that opposes public education and federal civil-rights law. [Opinion]
New York: Chelsea Publishing Co., 1969 [1881], MR 0260557, archived from the original on 2013-05-13 Canon arithmeticus , sive tabulae quibus exhibentur pro singulis numeris primis vel primorum potestatibus infra 1000 numeri ad datos indices et indices ad datos numeros pertinentes, Berlin: Typis Academicis, Berolini, 1839, MR 0081559
Long Properties was Long’s personal holding company, Texas Naval Stores Company ran a turpentine distillery, and Hudson River Lumber Company had operations in DeRidder, Louisiana. The King-Ryder Lumber Company in Bon Ami, Louisiana , was the first Long-Bell venture in Louisiana; it also owned mills at Thomasville in Indian Territory ...
Bomb-making materials linked to the New Year's Day attack in New Orleans were recovered by FBI agents and local law enforcement Thursday at the suspect's residence in Houston, Texas, sources ...