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Aug 22, 2018
Houston Press - We've learned about the Holocaust through photographs, archival footage, Hollywood cinema and oral histories. But one story rarely told is that life-changing moment when soldiers walked through the gates to free the Jews, homosexuals, Roma gypsies and others held prisoner in the Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
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Aug 21, 2018
CenTexProud - McLENNAN COUNTY, Texas - Tarleton State University and Texas Tech University have announced new degree options beginning this fall through partnerships with the University Center at McLennan Community College.
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Aug 21, 2018
The Hub - Melisa Simon is starting her first full year of teaching at Annie Webb Blanton Elementary School in Pleasant Grove. A graduate of Dallas ISD’s W.W. Samuell Early College High School, she credits that program for a large measure of her success as a first-generation college graduate who is degreed and beginning her career at the age of 20. “I’m looking forward to welcoming my new students. I’m excited and ready to give them all that I can.”
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Aug 21, 2018
NPR - On the High Plains in West Texas, hot winds blast through cotton fields as far as the eye can see. In the middle of it all is a tiny vineyard. Andis Applewhite is the owner. She's an artist whose family has worked this land for a century. They once planted crops more typical of the neighborhood, like cotton and wheat. Applewhite decided to try something different: She put in a couple of acres of cabernet franc grapes.
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