e, which was at the time part of the state of Coahuila y Tejas. Under the guidance of Sam Houston, former governor of the US state of Tennessee, a committee drafted a state constitution to submit to the Mexican Congress. Stephen F. Austin (pictured) journeyed to Mexico City to present the petitions to the government. Frustrated with the lack of progress, in October Austin wrote a letter
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... that the Bacon Super T-6 (pictured) was described as looking like the result of "an illicit hangar affair between a T-33 and a T-6"?
... that Johann Balthasar König, the church musician of the Katharinenkirche and director of music in Frankfurt, published a hymnal with 1,913 melodies?
... that Bill Gates plans to build a "smart city" near Phoenix, Arizona?
... that Ireland national rugby union team player Dr. Claire McLaughlin gained the nickname "McSwaplin" owing to her swapping medical shifts in order to play rugby?
... that the mushrooms of Austroboletus olivaceoglutinosus have a fruity smell?
... that Sir John Minsterworth, who joined the French army during the Hundred Years' War, was later returned to England and hanged, drawn and quartered in 1375 for "wilful support" of the enemy?
... that one of the greatest mountain ranges in China is made up of multiple individual tectonic blocks, dividing north and south China?
have a fruity smell?
... that Sir John Minsterworth, who joined the French army during the Hundred Years' War, was later returned to
