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In 1958, UPI created the first wire service audio network, an offshoot of the film service above. UPI Audio provided news material to radio stations. It was renamed United Press International Radio Network in 1983. [26] [46] In 1974, UPI launched the first "high-speed" data newswire—operating at 1,200 WPM. [citation needed]
Spanish Texas was one of the interior provinces of the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain from 1519 until 1821. Spain claimed ownership of the region in 1519. Slave raids by Spaniards into what became Texas began in the 16th century and created an atmosphere of antagonism with Native Americans (Indians) which would cause endless difficulties for the Spanish in the future.
The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad --the "Katy"--was the first railroad to enter Texas from the north Racial violence continued by whites against blacks as they enforced white supremacy . Despite this, freedmen pursued education, organized new churches and fraternal organizations, and entered politics, winning local offices.
In Au Texas, Considerant described a colonization company that would supervise the initial stages of settlement, and which would serve as a center from which different social experiments could be tried. Considerant was dubious that a Fourierist colony could succeed immediately under frontier conditions and in a foreign country. [8] [9]
The naming of Kelsey, Texas came from a true love story. In 1843, Captain William H. Hart moved to Upshur County as a land surveyor and as the first settler in Upshur County. Captain Hart named the creek and community of Kelsey in honor of the Kelsey family, who also were among the first settlers of Upshur County.
1833 map of Coahuila and Texas; Austin's Colony is the large pink area in the southeast.. The "Old Three Hundred" were 297 grantees who purchased 307 parcels of land from Stephen Fuller Austin in Mexican Texas.
The New Philippines (Spanish: Nuevas Filipinas or Nuevas Philipinas) was the abbreviated name [a] of a territory in New Spain. Its full and official name was Nuevo Reino de Filipinas. [2] [b] The territory was named in honor of its sovereign, King Philip V of Spain. [4] The New Philippines ceased to be a legal entity upon the extinction of New ...
Mexican Texas is the historiographical name used to refer to the era of Texan history between 1821 and 1836, when it was part of Mexico. Mexico gained independence in 1821 after winning its war against Spain , which began in 1810.