Marshall, Texas, is a major cultural and educational center in Northeast Texas, located near the Louisiana and Arkansas borders in the Ark-La-Tex region. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 23,935. The county seat of Harrison County, the city is known for its Civil War, railroad, and civil rights movement history, for holding one of the largest light festivals in the United States, the Wonderland of Lights, and, as the self-proclaimed Pottery Capital of the World, for its sizable pottery industry. It is also known variously as the Cultural Capital of East Texas, the Gateway of Texas, the Athens of Texas, and the City of Seven Flags. Read the rest of this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall%2C_Texas

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

435: Nestorius, the originator of Nestorianism, was exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestorius)

1916: Sir Roger Casement was hanged for his role in the Easter Rising in Ireland. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Casement)

1923: Calvin Coolidge was inaugurated as the 30th President of the United States, succeeding Warren G. Harding. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge)

1940: World War II: Approximately 175,000 Italian troops invaded British Somaliland, beginning the East African Campaign. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Campaign)

1948: Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss of being a communist and a Soviet spy. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittaker_Chambers)

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"When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe. It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose." -- Clifford D. Simak (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Clifford_D._Simak)