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Texas Representative Harvey Hilderbran, whose district includes the main FLDS compound, authored an amendment [193] to a child protection statute to both discourage the FLDS from settling in Texas and to "prevent Texas from succumbing to the practices of taking child brides, incest, welfare abuse, and domestic violence". [194]
Texas joined the newly created Confederate States of America on March 4, 1861, ratifying the permanent C.S. Constitution on March 23. [1] [101] Not all Texans favored secession initially, although many of the same would later support the Southern cause. Texas's most notable Unionist was the state governor, Sam Houston. Not wanting to aggravate ...
Cedar Creek, Texas, is an unincorporated community in Bastrop County, Texas, United States. It is located 11 mi (18 km) west of Bastrop, the county seat. [11] It is at the intersection of Texas State Highway 21 (SH 21) and Farm to Market Road 535 (FM 535), south of the Texas State Highway 71 (SH 71) that connects Bastrop with Austin, the state ...
Houston (/ ˈ h juː s t ən / ⓘ HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the Southern United States.Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat of Harris County; as well as the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the second ...
India, officially the Republic of India, [j] [20] is a country in South Asia.It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country as of June 2023; [21] [22] and since its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy.
The Vickers Wellington (nicknamed the Wimpy) is a British twin-engined, long-range medium bomber.It was designed during the mid-1930s at Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey.Led by Vickers-Armstrongs' chief designer Rex Pierson, a key feature of the aircraft is its geodetic airframe fuselage structure, which was principally designed by Barnes Wallis.
Canadian civil servant, frontier teacher, land surveyor, and soldier [12] Caroline Anthonypillai: 1908–2009: 100: Ceylonese/Sri Lankan political activist and trade unionist; wife of S. C. C. Anthony Pillai. [13] Frank Pierpoint Appleby: 1913–2015: 101: Canadian soldier and politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1971 ...