The federal minimum wage<span> provisions are contained in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The federal </span>minimum wage<span> is $7.25 per hour effective July 24, 2009. Many states also have </span>minimum wage<span> laws. Some state laws provide greater employee protections; employers must comply with both.</span>
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February 1, 1861 – Meeting in Austin, a special convention passes the Texas Ordinance of Secession. Within the month, Texas voters ratify the ordinance in a special election.
February 16, 1861 – General David E. Twiggs, commander of federal forces in Texas, surrenders the federal arsenal in San Antonio to secessionist volunteers led by the famed Texas Ranger Ben McCulloch, along with all additional army posts and property in Texas. Twiggs orders all 3000 Army troops stationed in Texas – mostly in defense of the Indian frontier – to march to the coast to be evacuated.
April 6-7, 1862 – Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee is first of the massive land battles of the Civil War. The 20,000 killed and wounded exceed the American casualties from the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War combined. Among the dead is Confederate commander Albert Sidney Johnston, famed veteran of the Texas army.
October 1862 – Fifty-three suspected Unionists are murdered by mob violence in North Texas in a series of incidents that becomes known as “The Great Hanging at Gainesville.”
January 1, 1863 – President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation.
January 1, 1863 – Under the command of General John B. Magruder, newly appointed Confederate commander of Texas, Confederate forces launch a surprise attack on Galveston and regain control of the city.
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Opera seria
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Opera seria is a style of Italian opera predominated in Europe from 1710s ,dominated in the 18th century typically based on a classical subject that was either contain heroic,chronicled the triumphs and tragedies of historical or mythological monarchs and deities.
Opera seria is also know as serious opera or dramma per musica were italian in nature and was a big hit in other countries in Europe especially London in the United Kingdom, all it big stars were castratos.
example are Demofoonte (1764), by Niccolò Jommelli,Rinaldo (1711), by George Frideric Handel etc
