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The first recorded proposal of a Wikimedia news site was a two-line anonymous post on January 5, 2003, on the Wikimedia community's Meta-Wiki. [7] [8] Daniel Alston, who edited Wikipedia as Fonzy, [9] claimed to have been the one who posted it.
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Daniel Irvin Rather Jr. (/ ˈ r æ ð ər /; born October 31, 1931) is an American journalist, commentator, and former national evening news anchor.He began his career in Texas, becoming a national name after his reporting saved thousands of lives during Hurricane Carla in September 1961.
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- Daniel Irvin Rather Jr., October 31, 1931 (age 91), Wharton, Texas, U.S.
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TSLAC. A hatchet Stephen F. Austin used for chipping trees in surveying land in the colonial times of Texas. It was in the custody of Col. Guy M. Bryan until his death in 1901. His children Guy M. Bryan Jr. and Miss Holly Bryan then consigned it to the care of the State Library. View larger image of Hatchet, 1820-1830 on our Texas Digital ...
Columbus, Texas is located off of Interstate Highway 10 just sixty-five miles southwest of Houston. Today, it holds a population of 3,916 live folks and is a historical marker in itself in the Lone Star State. The small town of Columbus, Texas came about when a settler by the name of Benjamin Beeson settled in the area in 1822.
