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This video demonstrates the streaming of EtherPad into Second Life®. EtherPad (beta) provides an easy interface for a complex job: collaborative text editing, in real time.

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With Google Docs it takes about 5 to 15 seconds for a change to make its way from your keyboard to other people's screens. Imagine if whiteboards or telephones had this kind of delay! In contrast, the EtherPad infrastructure is built to carry your every keystroke at the speed of light, limited only by the time it takes electrons to travel over a wire (such as an "ethernet" cable).

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And yet a visitor to the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site 15 miles east of downtown Houston gets almost no sense of how the battle was fought, what the terrain looked like 168 years ago and why it's important to understand the cultural tensions.

The nation's largest petrochemical complex surrounds the battleground. There is no visitor center. No signs explain the flow of the battle. No guided tours are offered. Most visitors don't bother to pay a fee to watch a slide show about the battle. Unrelated historical markers clutter the hallowed ground, everything from a stone marker honoring a PTA leader to a bronze plaque commemorating the War of 1812.

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Packed with letters, notes, and photographs, the McArdle Notebooks are among the most historically significant treasures of the Texas State Library and Archives. This web site is designed to make these fragile rarities available for both the serious researcher and for the general public.

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This 2.5 mile hiking tour of the San Jacinto Battleground was developed to see the battleground with a minimum of back tracking and incorporates a visit to the San Jacinto Monument for a look at historical materials that will enhance your understanding of the events leading to Texas' independence from Mexico in 1836. We will see and comment on sites in the sequence in which they are encountered geographically, rather than in the sequence of their chronological significance.

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The San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site holds a significant responsibility to preserve the proud history of the State of Texas and the United States. The famous Battle of San Jacinto that brought TEXAS its independence was fought on this site. Because of the great importance of the Battle to the course of history, the Battleground is of state, national and international significance, a fact that is attested to by the site's National Historic Landmark status.

The primary purpose of the 1,200-acre site is to commemorate the Battle and to preserve the Battleground on which Texian troops under General Sam Houston achieved the independence of Texas by defeating a Mexican Army led by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna on April 21, 1836.

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