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The first book about the incident was 1993's Inside the Cult co-authored by ex-Branch Davidian Marc Breault, who left the group in September 1989, and Martin King who interviewed Koresh for Australian television in 1992. In July 1993, true crime author Clifford L. Linedecker published his book Massacre at Waco, Texas.
While far from the major battlefields of the American Civil War, Texas contributed large numbers of soldiers and equipment. [101] Union troops briefly occupied the state's primary port, Galveston. Texas's border with Mexico was known as the "backdoor of the Confederacy" because trade occurred at the border, bypassing the Union blockade. [102]
Children's book writer [148] John S. Foster Jr. M: September 18, 1922: 102 years, 169 days: American: Physicist [149] Jacques Borker: M: September 29, 1922: 102 years, 158 days: French: Artist [150] [self-published source?] Yang Chen-Ning: M: October 1, 1922: 102 years, 156 days: Chinese: Chinese theoretical physicist and recipient of the 1957 ...
X Logo used since 2023 [a] X homepage visited while logged out in March 2025 Formerly Twttr (early 2006) Twitter (2006–2023) Type of site Social networking service Available in Multilingual Founded March 21, 2006 ; 18 years ago (2006-03-21), in San Francisco, California, U.S. Headquarters Bastrop, Texas, United States Area served Worldwide, except blocking countries Owner Odeo (March ...
Covering an area of 163,696 sq mi (423,970 km 2), California is the third-largest state in the United States in area, after Alaska and Texas. [126] California is one of the most geographically diverse states in the union and is often geographically bisected into two regions, Southern California , comprising the ten southernmost counties, [ 127 ...
Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws criminalizing sodomy between consenting adults are unconstitutional. [ a ] [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Court reaffirmed the concept of a " right to privacy " that earlier cases had found the U.S. Constitution provides, even though it ...
First page of the 1804 edition of the Napoleonic Code. Civil law is the legal system used in most countries around the world today. In civil law the sources recognised as authoritative are, primarily, legislation—especially codifications in constitutions or statutes passed by government—and custom.