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Do not fill this in! == History == {{Main|History of Fort Worth, Texas}} {{For timeline}} The [[Treaty of Bird's Fort]] between the [[Republic of Texas]] and several Native American tribes was signed in 1843 at Bird's Fort in present-day [[Arlington, Texas]].<ref>http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/map/viewform.asp?atlas_num=5439004731 {{dead link|date=August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/viewform.asp?atlas_num=5439004732&site_name=Bird%27s%20Fort&class=5000 |title=Details for Site of Bird's Fort |access-date=July 23, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160118085504/http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/viewform.asp?atlas_num=5439004732&site_name=Bird%27s%20Fort&class=5000 |archive-date=January 18, 2016}}</ref> Article XI of the treaty provided that no one may "pass the line of trading houses" (at the border of the Indians' territory) without permission of the [[President of the Republic of Texas|President of Texas]], and may not reside or remain in the Indians' territory. These "trading houses" were later established at the junction of the Clear Fork and West Fork of the Trinity River in present-day Fort Worth.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T0q_bI8_gbAC&pg=PA22 |title=Fort Worth |access-date=March 3, 2016 |isbn=9780875655260 |last1=Garrett |first1=Julia Kathryn |date=May 31, 2013 |publisher=Texas A&M University Press |archive-date=July 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230710110821/https://books.google.com/books?id=T0q_bI8_gbAC&pg=PA22 |url-status=live }}</ref> A line of seven army posts was established in 1848β1849 after the Mexican War to protect the settlers of Texas along the western American Frontier and included Fort Worth, [[Fort Graham]], [[Fort Gates]], [[Fort Croghan]], [[Fort Martin Scott]], [[Fort Lincoln, Texas|Fort Lincoln]], and [[Fort Duncan]].<ref name=Crimmins>Crimmins, M.L., 1943, "The First Line of Army Posts Established in West Texas in 1849," Abilene: West Texas Historical Association, Vol. XIX, pp. 121β127</ref> Originally, 10 forts had been proposed by Major General [[William J. Worth|William Jenkins Worth]] (1794β1849), who commanded the [[Department of Texas]] in 1849. In January 1849, Worth proposed a line of 10 forts to mark the western Texas frontier from [[Eagle Pass, Texas|Eagle Pass]] to the confluence of the West Fork and Clear Fork of the [[Trinity River (Texas)|Trinity River]]. One month later, Worth died from [[cholera]] in South Texas.<ref name=Crimmins /> General [[William S. Harney]] assumed command of the Department of Texas and ordered Major [[Ripley A. Arnold]] (Company F, Second United States Dragoons)<ref name=Crimmins /> to find a new fort site near the West Fork and Clear Fork. On June 6, 1849, Arnold, advised by Middleton Tate Johnson, established a camp on the bank of the Trinity River and named the post Camp Worth in honor of the late General Worth. In August 1849, Arnold moved the camp to the north-facing bluff, which overlooked the mouth of the Clear Fork of the Trinity River. The United States War Department officially named the post Fort Worth on November 14, 1849.<ref name="tshaFtWrth">{{cite web |url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hdf01 |publisher=Texas State Historical Association |title=Fort Worth, TX |access-date=June 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141009100347/http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hdf01 |archive-date=October 9, 2014}}</ref> Since its establishment, the city of Fort Worth continues to be known as "where the West begins".<ref name=":3" /> E. S. Terrell (1812β1905) from Tennessee claimed to be the first resident of Fort Worth.<ref>Image of E. S. Terrell with note: "E. S. Terrell. Born May 24, 1812, in Murry {{sic}} County, Tenn. The first white man to settle in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1849. His wife was Lou Preveler. They had seven children. In 1869, the Terrells took up residence in Young County, Texas, where he died Nov 1, 1905. He is buried at True, Texas." Image on display in historical collection at Fort Belknap, Newcastle, Texas. Viewed November 13, 2008.</ref> The fort was flooded the first year and moved to the top of the bluff; the current courthouse was built on this site. The fort was abandoned September 17, 1853.<ref name=Crimmins /> No trace of it remains. As a stop on the legendary [[Chisholm Trail]], Fort Worth was stimulated by the business of the cattle drives and became a brawling, bustling town. Millions of head of cattle were driven north to market along this trail. Fort Worth became the center of the [[cattle drive]]s, and later, the [[ranch]]ing industry. It was given the nickname of Cowtown.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sightlines.usitt.org/archive/2013/07/CowtownNoMore.asp |title=A Brief History Of "Cowtown" |last1=Shurr |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Hagler |first2=Jack P. |publisher=United States Institute for Theatre Technology, Inc. |date=July 2013 |access-date=November 3, 2017 |archive-date=December 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201020840/http://sightlines.usitt.org/archive/2013/07/CowtownNoMore.asp |url-status=live }}</ref> During the [[American Civil War]], Fort Worth suffered from shortages of money, food, and supplies. The population dropped as low as 175, but began to recover during [[Reconstruction era|Reconstruction]]. By 1872, Jacob Samuels, William Jesse Boaz, and William Henry Davis had opened general stores. The next year, Khleber M. Van Zandt established Tidball, Van Zandt, and Company, which became Fort Worth National Bank in 1884. In 1875, the ''[[Dallas Herald]]'' published an article by a former Fort Worth lawyer, Robert E. Cowart, who wrote that the decimation of Fort Worth's population, caused by the economic disaster and hard winter of 1873, had dealt a severe blow to the cattle industry. Added to the slowdown due to the railroad's stopping the laying of track {{convert|30|mi|km}} outside of Fort Worth, Cowart said that Fort Worth was so slow that he saw a [[cougar|panther]] <!-- (cougar, mountain lion) --> asleep in the street by the courthouse. Although an intended insult, the name Panther City was enthusiastically embraced when in 1876 Fort Worth recovered economically.<ref name="panthercity">{{cite news |title=History of Panther Mascot |url=http://www.pantherfountain.com/dallas_daily_herald.asp |publisher=The Panther Foundation |date=May 2009 |access-date=May 9, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090826220421/http://www.pantherfountain.com/dallas_daily_herald.asp |archive-date=August 26, 2009}}</ref> Many businesses and organizations continue to use Panther in their name. A panther is set at the top of the police department badges.<ref name="FWPDBadge">{{cite news |title=Badge of Fort Worth Police Department |url=http://www.fortworthpd.com/badge.htm |publisher=[[Fort Worth Police Department]] |date=May 2009 |access-date=May 9, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012222216/http://www.fortworthpd.com/badge.htm |archive-date=October 12, 2008}}</ref> [[File:Old map-Fort Worth-1876.jpg|left|thumb|Lithograph of Fort Worth, 1876]] The "Panther City" tradition is also preserved in the names and design of some of the city's geographical/architectural features, such as Panther Island (in the Trinity River), the Flat Iron Building, [[Fort Worth Central Station]], and in two or three "Sleeping Panther" statues. [[File:Paddock Fort-Worth, Tex., and Rail-Roads 1888 UTA.jpg|thumb|''Map β showing β the Geographical location of Fort-Worth, Tex., and Rail-Roads'', 1888|alt=|left]] In 1876, the [[Texas and Pacific Railway]] finally was completed to Fort Worth, stimulating a boom and transforming the [[Fort Worth Stockyards]] into a premier center for the cattle wholesale trade.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.fortworthstockyards.org/history |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061102063342/http://www.fortworthstockyards.org/history.htm |url-status=dead |title=History |date=March 30, 2016 |archive-date=November 2, 2006 |website=Fort Worth Stockyards}}</ref> Migrants from the devastated war-torn South continued to swell the population, and small, community factories and mills yielded to larger businesses. Newly dubbed the "Queen City of the Prairies",<ref>{{cite web |url=http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.ct.023 |title=Fort Worth, Texas |website=Encyclopedia of the Great Plains |access-date=December 30, 2017 |archive-date=December 31, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171231051818/http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.ct.023 |url-status=live }}</ref> Fort Worth supplied a regional market via the growing transportation network. Fort Worth became the westernmost railhead and a transit point for cattle shipment. Louville Niles, a [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]-based businessman and main shareholder of the Fort Worth Stockyards Company, is credited with bringing the two biggest [[Meat packing industry|meatpacking]] firms at the time, [[Armour and Company|Armour]] and [[Swift & Company|Swift]], to the stockyards.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hvn39 |title=Nilcs City, TX |website=Handbook of Texas Online |access-date=December 30, 2017 |archive-date=December 31, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171231104810/https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hvn39 |url-status=live }}</ref> With the boom times came a variety of entertainments and related problems. Fort Worth had a knack for separating cattlemen from their money. Cowboys took full advantage of their last brush with civilization before the long drive on the [[Chisholm Trail]] from Fort Worth north to [[Kansas]]. They stocked up on provisions from local merchants, visited saloons for a bit of gambling and carousing, then rode northward with their cattle, only to whoop it up again on their way back. The town soon became home to "[[Hell's Half Acre (Fort Worth)|Hell's Half-Acre]]", the biggest collection of saloons, dance halls, and bawdy houses south of [[Dodge City, Kansas|Dodge City]] (the northern terminus of the Chisholm Trail), giving Fort Worth the nickname of the "Paris of the Plains".<ref>Julia Kathryn Garrett, ''Fort Worth: A Frontier Triumph'' (Austin: Encino, 1972)</ref><ref>Mack H. Williams, ''In Old Fort Worth: The Story of a City and Its People as published in the ''News-Tribune'' in 1976 and 1977'' (1977). Mack H. Williams, comp., The News-Tribune in Old Fort Worth (Fort Worth: News-Tribune, 1975)</ref> Certain sections of town were off-limits for proper citizens. Shootings, knifings, muggings, and brawls became a nightly occurrence. Cowboys were joined by a motley assortment of buffalo hunters, gunmen, adventurers, and crooks. Hell's Half Acre (also known as simply "The Acre") expanded as more people were drawn to the town. Occasionally, the Acre was referred to as "the bloody Third Ward" after it was designated one of the city's three political wards in 1876. By 1900, the Acre covered four of the city's main north-south thoroughfares.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hph01 |title=Hell's Half Acre, Fort Worth |website=Handbook of Texas Online |access-date=December 30, 2017 |archive-date=November 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181115220641/https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hph01 |url-status=live }}</ref> Local citizens became alarmed about the activities, electing [[Jim Courtright (gunman)|Timothy Isaiah "Longhair Jim" Courtright]] in 1876 as [[Marshal|city marshal]] with a mandate to tame it. Courtright sometimes collected and jailed 30 people on a Saturday night, but allowed the gamblers to operate, as they attracted money to the city. After learning that train and stagecoach robbers, such as the [[Sam Bass (outlaw)|Sam Bass]] gang, were using the area as a hideout, he intensified law enforcement, but certain businessmen advertised against too many restrictions in the area as having bad effects on the legitimate businesses. Gradually, the cowboys began to avoid the area; as businesses suffered, the city moderated its opposition. Courtright lost his office in 1879.<ref name=":0" /> Despite crusading mayors such as [[H.S. Broiles]] and newspaper editors such as B. B. Paddock, the Acre survived because it generated income for the city (all of it illegal) and excitement for visitors. Longtime Fort Worth residents claimed the place was never as wild as its reputation, but during the 1880s, Fort Worth was a regular stop on the "gambler's circuit" by [[Bat Masterson]], [[Doc Holliday]], and the [[Earp brothers]] (Wyatt, Morgan, and Virgil).<ref name=":0" /> [[James Earp]], the eldest of his brothers, lived with his wife in Fort Worth during this period; their house was at the edge of Hell's Half Acre, at 9th and Calhoun. He often tended bar at the Cattlemen's Exchange saloon in the "uptown" part of the city.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Wyatt Earp's cow-boy campaign : the bloody restoration of law and order along the Mexican border, 1882 |last=Hornung |first=Chuck |publisher=McFarland & Company |year=2016 |location=Jefferson, NC |page=12}}</ref> Reforming citizens objected to the [[dance hall]]s, where men and women mingled; by contrast, the saloons or gambling parlors had primarily male customers. In the late 1880s, Mayor Broiles and County Attorney R. L. Carlock initiated a reform campaign. In a public shootout on February 8, 1887, Jim Courtright was killed on Main Street by [[Luke Short]], who claimed he was "King of Fort Worth Gamblers".<ref name=":0" /> As Courtright had been popular, when Short was jailed for his murder, rumors floated of lynching him. Short's good friend Bat Masterson came armed and spent the night in his cell to protect him. The first [[Prohibition in the United States|prohibition]] campaign in Texas was mounted in Fort Worth in 1889, allowing other business and residential development in the area. Another change was the influx of [[African American|Black and African American]] residents. Excluded by state [[Racial segregation in the United States|segregation]] from the business end of town and the more costly residential areas, the city's black citizens settled into the southern portion of the city. The popularity and profitability of the Acre declined and more derelicts and the homeless were seen on the streets. By 1900, most of the dance halls and gamblers were gone. Cheap variety shows and prostitution became the chief forms of entertainment. Some progressive politicians launched an offensive to seek out and abolish these perceived "vices" as part of the broader [[Progressive Era]] package of reforms.<ref name=":0" /> [[File:Book of Texas (1916) (14770397571).jpg|thumb|[[Texas and Pacific Railway]] yard in Fort Worth, 1916|alt=|left]] [[File:Partial View of Business Section (20106688).jpg|thumb|left|Postcard of the Fort Worth business district, 1921]] [[File:Texas and Pacific Passenger Station, Fort Worth, Texas.jpg|thumb|Texas and Pacific Passenger Station, Fort Worth (postcard, ''circa'' 1909)]] In 1911, the Reverend [[J. Frank Norris]] launched an offensive against racetrack gambling in the ''Baptist Standard'' and used the pulpit of the First Baptist Church of Fort Worth to attack vice and prostitution. When he began to link certain Fort Worth businessmen with property in the Acre and announced their names from his pulpit, the battle heated up. On February 4, 1912, Norris's church was burned to the ground; that evening, his enemies tossed a bundle of burning oiled rags onto his porch, but the fire was extinguished and caused minimal damage. A month later, the [[arson]]ists succeeded in burning down the [[Clergy house|parsonage]]. In a sensational trial lasting a month, Norris was charged with [[perjury]] and arson in connection with the two fires. He was acquitted, but his continued attacks on the Acre accomplished little until 1917. A new city administration and the federal government, which was eyeing Fort Worth as a potential site for a [[Camp Bowie|major military training camp]], joined forces with the Baptist preacher to bring down the final curtain on the Acre. [[File:Fort Worth rally, 22 November 1963.jpg|thumb|President [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]] in Fort Worth on Friday morning, November 22, 1963. He was assassinated in Dallas later in the day.]] The police department compiled statistics showing that 50% of the violent crime in Fort Worth occurred in the Acre, which confirmed respectable citizens' opinion of the area. After Camp Bowie (a World War I [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] training installation) was located on the outskirts of Fort Worth in 1917, the military used [[martial law]] to regulate prostitutes and barkeepers of the Acre. Fines and stiff jail sentences curtailed their activities. By the time Norris held a mock funeral parade to "bury [[John Barleycorn]]" in 1919, the Acre had become a part of Fort Worth history. The name continues to be associated with the southern end of Fort Worth.<ref>''Fort Worth Daily Democrat'', April 10, 1878, April 18, 1879, July 18, 1881. Oliver Knight, ''Fort Worth, Outpost on the Trinity'' (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1953). Leonard Sanders, ''How Fort Worth Became the Texasmost City'' (Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 1973). Richard F. Selcer, ''Hell's Half Acre: The Life and Legend of a Red Light District'' (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1991). F. Stanley, ''Stanley F. L. Crocchiola'', Jim Courtright (Denver: World, 1957).</ref> In 1921, the whites-only union workers in the Fort Worth, Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in the Niles City Stockyards went on strike. The owners attempted to replace them with black [[strikebreakers]]. During union protests, strikebreaker African-American [[Lynching of Fred Rouse|Fred Rouse was lynched]] on a tree at the corner of NE 12th Street and Samuels Avenue. After he was hanged a white mob riddled his mutilated body with gunshots.{{sfn|Tarrant County Coalition for Peace and Justice|2021|p=}} On November 21, 1963, President [[John F. Kennedy]] arrived in Fort Worth, speaking the next morning before a breakfast meeting of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, then proceeding to Dallas where he was assassinated later that day. When oil began to gush in [[West Texas]] in the early 20th century, and again in the late 1970s, Fort Worth was at the center of the boom. By July 2007, advances in horizontal drilling technology made vast [[natural gas]] reserves in the [[Barnett Shale]] available directly under the city,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Recent Development of the Barnett Shale Play, Fort Worth Basin, by Kent A. Bowker, #10126 (2007). |url=http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2007/07023bowker/ |access-date=May 12, 2020 |website=Search & Discovery |archive-date=July 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731190623/http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2007/07023bowker/ |url-status=live }}</ref> helping many residents receive royalty checks for their mineral rights. Today, the City of Fort Worth and many residents are dealing with the benefits and issues associated with the natural-gas reserves underground.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1141711220070711?pageNumber=2 |title=In Fort Worth, gas boom fuels public outreach plan |date=July 11, 2007 |work=Reuters |access-date=July 1, 2017 |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414133616/https://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1141711220070711?pageNumber=2 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.realestatejournal.com/buysell/regionalnews/20050504-gold.html |title=Drilling for Natural Gas Faces Hurdle: Fort Worth |publisher=RealEstateJournal |date=April 29, 2005 |access-date=August 7, 2010 |archive-date=March 12, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312081319/http://www.realestatejournal.com/buysell/regionalnews/20050504-gold.html |url-status=live }}</ref> On [[2000 Fort Worth tornado|March 28, 2000]], at 6:15 pm, an [[Fujita scale|F3 tornado]] struck downtown Fort Worth, severely damaging many buildings. One of the hardest-hit structures was the Bank One Tower, which was one of the dominant features of the Fort Worth skyline and which had "Reata," a popular restaurant, on its top floor. It has since been converted to upscale [[Condominium (living space)|condominium]]s and officially renamed "The Tower." This was the first major [[tornado]] to strike Fort Worth proper since the early 1940s.<ref>National Weather Service statistics, "Tornados in North Texas, 1920β2009"</ref> From 2000 to 2006, Fort Worth was the fastest-growing large city in the United States;<ref>{{cite news |url=https://money.cnn.com/2007/06/27/real_estate/fastest_growing_cities/ |work=CNN |title=The fastest growing U.S. cities |date=June 28, 2007 |access-date=May 2, 2010 |first1=Les |last1=Christie |archive-date=April 4, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130404170946/http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/27/real_estate/fastest_growing_cities/ |url-status=live }}</ref> it was voted one of "America's Most Livable Communities".<ref>{{cite web |title=America's Most Livable: Fort Worth, Texas |url=http://www.mostlivable.org/cities/ftworth/home.html |access-date=July 19, 2007 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20160202101005/http://www.mostlivable.org/cities/ftworth/home.html |archive-date=February 2, 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In addition to the [[New Great Migration|reversal migration]], many African Americans have been relocating to Fort Worth for its affordable cost of living and job opportunities.<ref name="BlacksMovingSouth">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/nyregion/many-black-new-yorkers-are-moving-to-the-south.html |title=For New Life, Blacks in City Head to South |first=Dan |last=Bilefsky |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 21, 2011 |access-date=July 9, 2017 |archive-date=May 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170501194516/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/nyregion/many-black-new-yorkers-are-moving-to-the-south.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2020, Fort Worth's mayor announced the city's continued growth to 20.78%.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fort Worth's fast growth finds its way into mayor's 'State of the City' address |url=https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/fort-worths-fast-growth-finds-its-way-into-mayors-state-of-the-city-address/287-2d2ebfeb-9a71-477d-bd16-5b550f95ccae |date=February 29, 2020 |website=[[WFAA]] |access-date=February 29, 2020 |archive-date=February 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200229162841/https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/fort-worths-fast-growth-finds-its-way-into-mayors-state-of-the-city-address/287-2d2ebfeb-9a71-477d-bd16-5b550f95ccae |url-status=live }}</ref> The U.S. Census Bureau also noted the city's beginning of greater diversification from 2014β2018.<ref name=":2" /> On February 11, 2021, a [[Multiple-vehicle collision|pileup]] involving 133 cars and trucks crashed on I-35W due to freezing rain leaving ice. The pileup left at least six people dead and multiple injured.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/weather/2021/02/11/winter-weather-causes-hazardous-conditions-on-north-texas-roads/?outputType=amp |title=At least 6 dead in 133-car pileup in Fort Worth after freezing rain coats roads |date=February 12, 2021 |access-date=February 12, 2021 |archive-date=February 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210212000924/https://www.dallasnews.com/news/weather/2021/02/11/winter-weather-causes-hazardous-conditions-on-north-texas-roads/?outputType=amp |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/traffic/traffic-updates-overnight-sleet-turns-north-texas-roads-into-sheets-of-ice/2548822/?amp |title=6 Killed, Dozens Hurt as 130+ Vehicles Collide on 'Sheets of Ice' in Massive Fort Worth Pileup β NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth |date=February 11, 2021 |access-date=February 12, 2021 |archive-date=February 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210212032451/https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/traffic/traffic-updates-overnight-sleet-turns-north-texas-roads-into-sheets-of-ice/2548822/?amp |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2021/02/11/pileup-100-cars-trucks-trapped-drivers-interstate-35w-fort-worth/amp/ |title=6 Dead, Dozens Injured After Pileup Of Over 130 Vehicles On I-35W In Fort Worth β CBS Dallas / Fort Worth |access-date=February 12, 2021 |archive-date=February 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210212031743/https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2021/02/11/pileup-100-cars-trucks-trapped-drivers-interstate-35w-fort-worth/amp/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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