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It was 79 years ago today, on March 18, 1937, that the New London school explosion occurred. Approximately 294 people, mostly children, are believed to have died. This car was two miles away and was crushed by the two-ton piece of cement that you see in the foreground. It was the worst school disaster in U.S. history. There is a very good website devoted to the explosion, here: http://nlsd.net/index2.html

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Texas Wine:
Texas has a long history of wine production. The sunny and dry climate of the major wine making regions in the state have drawn comparison to Portuguese wines. Some of the earliest recorded Texas wines were produced by Spanish missionaries in the 1650s near El Paso.

The state is home to over 36 members of the Vitis grape vine family with fifteen being native to the state, more than any other region on earth.As of 2006, the state had over 3,200 acres (1,300 ha) planted with Vitis vinifera.

Despite being the largest of conterminous states, this relatively small amount of planted land is dwarfed by the production of even the smallest French AOCs like Sancerre.

The Texan wine industry is continuing its steady pace of expansion and has gained a reputation as an established wine growing region in the United States.