• Waco is an unincorporated community in Giles County, Tennessee, formerly known as "Old Lynville". It is located at the crossroads of U.S. Route 31 and...
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  • Waco, Nebraska, a village Waco, North Carolina, a town Waco, Ohio, an unincorporated community Waco, Tennessee, an unincorporated community Lake Waco...
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    The Waco siege, also known as the Waco massacre, was the siege by U.S. federal government and Texas state law enforcement officials of a compound belonging...
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    Waco (/ˈweɪkoʊ/ WAY-koh) is a city in and the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States. It is situated along the Brazos River and I-35, halfway...
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    The Waco CG-4 was the most widely used American troop/cargo military glider of World War II. It was designated the CG-4A by the United States Army Air...
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    The Waco 10/GXE/Waco O series was a range of three-seat open-cockpit biplanes built by the Advance Aircraft Company, later the Waco Aircraft Company....
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    peaking at number 11 on the US Billboard Blues Albums chart and The Man from Waco breaking the US Billboard 200. In September 2023, Crockett was nominated...
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    the US in August. An F3 tornado spawned by Hurricane Danny struck Waco, Tennessee, and produced a damage swath that was 500 yards wide. There were 40...
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  • Sanctuary Church bought and moved to a compound 40 miles from Waco, Texas, the site of the Waco siege. Upon moving to the compound they continued to espouse...
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    Dr. Benjamin Franklin Smith House (category Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee)
    The Dr. Benjamin Franklin Smith House is a historic house in Waco, Tennessee, U.S.. The house was built in the early 1850s for William M. Hackney, a horse...
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    Elisha White House (category Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee)
    White House, also known as Maple Tree Farm, is a historic mansion in Waco, Tennessee, U.S.. The land was granted to Thomas Armstrong, a veteran of the American...
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  • Popcorn Sutton (category Suicides in Tennessee)
    died in the rural areas around Maggie Valley and nearby Cocke County, Tennessee. He wrote a self-published autobiographical guide to moonshining production...
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  • of the children, including Billy, were placed in a Methodist orphanage in Waco, Texas. He attended High School in Whiteface, Texas, and had won a talent...
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  • Clayton Homes (category 1956 establishments in Tennessee)
    build a modular duplex in Waco, Texas on a lot owned by NeighborWorks Waco in order to create affordable housing in the Greater Waco area. In 2016, Clayton...
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    Rufus Columbus Burleson (category Burials at Oakwood Cemetery (Waco, Texas))
    (August 7, 1823 – May 14, 1901) was the president of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, from 1851 to 1861 and again from 1886 to 1897. Burleson was born...
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    Morrison moved around Texas, ending in Waco. In 1882 he bought John W. Castles's drug store in downtown Waco. In 1885, Morrison employed pharmacist Charles...
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  • Texas Motto of Baylor University, a private Christian Baptist university in Waco, Texas. pro fide et patria for faith and fatherland Motto of the originally...
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    Liberty Hill Olivet Prospect Waco Weakley Although historically part of overwhelmingly Democratic and secessionist Middle Tennessee, Giles County has, like...
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  • The Tennessee state routes do not follow a systematic numbering system unlike the U.S. Highway System and some other states' highway systems. The routes...
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  • Communications (Franklin, Tennessee). The book presents Moore's interpretations of events concerning the lead up to, during, and after the Waco siege in 1993. The...
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  • John McClain (category Writers from Waco, Texas)
    Fame. McClain grew up in Waco, Texas and graduated from Baylor University in 1975. McClain began his career writing for the Waco Tribune-Herald in 1973...
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  • Word Records (category Companies based in Waco, Texas)
    unveiled in 1995. Headquarters moved from Waco, Texas, to its present headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee. Nelson split the record label and book publishing...
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    Waco Female College is a former private college in Waco, Texas, affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church. It opened in 1857 and closed in 1895;...
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    Beer—first made in Biloxi, Mississippi Big Red—cream soda originally from Waco, Texas Blenheim Ginger Ale Bourbon—made in central Kentucky Brownie Chocolate...
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  • Dayna Curry (category People from Davidson County, Tennessee)
    Forest Hills, Tennessee. In 1989, she graduated from Brentwood High School in Brentwood, Tennessee and went to Baylor University in Waco, Texas. A social...
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  • commuted. Killed again three days after 1989 parole and 10 further times in Waco, Texas until 1992. Executed by lethal injection in 1998. Robert Joseph Silveria...
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  • Baylor University is a private Baptist Christian research university in Waco, Texas. Baylor was chartered in 1845 by the last Congress of the Republic...
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  • Sanctuary Church bought and moved to a compound 40 miles from Waco, Texas, the site of the Waco siege. Upon moving to the compound, they continued to espouse...
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  • Thomas Harris (category People from Jackson, Tennessee)
    University in Waco, Texas, where he majored in English and graduated in 1964. While in college, he worked as a reporter for the local newspaper, the Waco Tribune-Herald...
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    on the siege. The law enforcement's response at Ruby Ridge and during the Waco siege roughly six months later were both cited by Timothy McVeigh as his...
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