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Texas

 * State of California, Military Department. Flags Over California: A History and Guide. Sacramento: State of California, Military Department, 2002.


 * "Conservation" and "Preservation." Brochures from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.


 * Thurber Historical Association, Inc. Brochure, 2003.


 * "From Boom Town to Ghost Town" and "Learn to Play Bocce Ball!." Brochures from the W. K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas, Tarleton State University.


 * "1836 William Barret Travis Letter from the Alamo." Brochure. Texas State Library and Archives Commission, 2017.

Theology Papers

 * Bracey, Matthew Steven. "A Historical Sketch of Thomas Helwys." The Helwys Society Forum. August 25, 2022. Accessed October 20, 2022. https://www.helwyssocietyforum.com/a-historical-sketch-of-thomas-helwys/.
 * Burgess, Walter H. "The Helwys Family." Transactions of the Baptist Historical Society 3 (1912-1913): 18-28.
 * Christianson, Gale E. In the Presence of the Creator: Isaac Newton and His Times. New York: Free Press, 1984. Photocopy of page 251 on Newton's anti-Trinitarianism.
 * Johnson, Phillip R. "Spurgeon's Love of Fine Cigars." The Spurgeon Archive. 2001. Printed. from the internet.
 * Jordan, M. Dorothea. "John Smyth and Thomas Helwys: The Two First English Preachers of Religious Liberty: Resemblances and Contrasts." Baptist Quarterly  12 (1947): 187-195.
 * Harrison, Paul V. "A Free Will Baptist Catechism." Free Will Baptist Women's Ministries. https://www.wnac.org/resources/a-free-will-baptist-catechism/.
 * _______. "A Free Will Baptist Catechism." National Association of Free Will Baptists. https://nafwb.org/site/catechism/.
 * Keathley III, J. Hampton. "The Trinity (Triunity) of God."
 * Picirilli, Robert E. "Hebrews 6:4-6 and the Possibility of Apostasy." Dimension 2 (Fall 1985): 5-12.
 * Philosophia Christi: Journal of the Evangelical Philosophical Society 21, no. 1 (Summer 1998).
 * Pinson, J. Matthew. "The Diversity of Arminian Soteriology: Thomas Grantham, John Goodwin, and Jacobus Arminius." Paper presented at the Southeastern Regional Evangelical Theological Society meeting, Charlotte, NC, March 10-11, 1995. https://place.asburyseminary.edu/trenpapers/740.
 * _______. "The First Baptist Treatise on Predestination: Thomas Helwys’s Short and Plaine Proofe." The Baptist Journal for Theology and Ministry 6, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 139-151.
 * _______. "The Nature of Atonement in the Theology of Jacobus Arminius." Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 53, no. 4 (December 2010): 773-785.
 * _______. "Thomas Grantham's Theology of the Atonement and Justification." Journal for Baptist Theology and Ministry 8, no. 1 (Spring 2011): 7-21.
 * Lemke, Steve W. "Editorial Introduction: Calvinist, Arminian, and Baptist Perspectives on Soteriology." Journal for Baptist Theology and Ministry 8, no. 1 (Spring 2011): 1-4.
 * Putman, Rhyne. "Response to J. Matthew Pinson’s 'Thomas Grantham’s Theology of the Atonement and Justification'." Journal for Baptist Theology and Ministry 8, no. 1 (Spring 2011): 22-24.
 * Bass, Clint. "Response to J. Matthew Pinson’s 'Thomas Grantham’s Theology of the Atonement and Justification'." Journal for Baptist Theology and Ministry 8, no. 1 (Spring 2011): 25-28.
 * Leonard, James M. "Response to J. Matthew Pinson’s 'Thomas Grantham’s Theology of the Atonement and Justification'." Journal for Baptist Theology and Ministry 8, no. 1 (Spring 2011): 29-33
 * Pinson, J. Matthew. "A Rejoinder to Responses to J. Matthew Pinson’s 'Thomas Grantham’s Theology of the Atonement and Justification'." Journal for Baptist Theology and Ministry 8, no. 1 (Spring 2011): 34-39.
 * _______. "Will the Real Arminius Please Stand Up? A Study of the Theology of Jacobus Arminius in Light of His Interpreters." Integrity 2 (2003): 121-139.
 * Reasoner, Vic. "Arminius: The Scapegoat of Calvinism." Originally printed in: "Arminius, The Scapegoat of Calvinism." The Arminian Magazine 19, no. 1 (Spring 2001); "Arminius, the Scapegoat of Calvinism, Part 2." The Arminian Magazine 19, no. 2 (Fall 2001); and "Arminius, The Scapegoat of Calvinism, Part 3." The Arminian Magazine 20, no. 1 (Spring 2002).  With a copy annotated by Dr. Jefferson Dillman.
 * Rich, Antony D. "Thomas Helwys' First Confession of Faith, 1610." Baptist Quarterly 43, no. 4 (2009): 235-241.
 * SMM. "The Catholic Doctrine of Justification by Grace." Printed from the internet, annotated by Gene Rhea Tucker.
 * St. Claire, E. L. What Free Will Baptists Believe and Why. Printed from the internet.
 * Stanglin, Keith D., and Richard A. Muller. "Bibliograhia Arminiana: A Comprehensive, Annotated Bibliography of the Works of Arminius." In Arminius, Arminianism, and Europe, 263-290. Leiden: Brill, 2009. Photocopy.
 * Stark, Michael. "Smoking a Good Cigar to the Glory of God." Sermons by Logos. [2007]. https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/33576-smoking-a-good-cigar-to-the-glory-of-god.
 * Stevenson, George, and Jared Dease. "Laker, Benjamin." NCPedia. December 2022. Accessed January 23, 2023. https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/laker-benjamin.
 * Tolsma, Marijke. "Facing Arminius: Jacobus Arminius In Portrait." In Arminius, Arminianism, and Europe, 201-237. Leiden: Brill, 2009. Photocopy.
 * _______. "Iconographia Arminiana: Portraits From 1609 Until Ca. 1850." In Arminius, Arminianism, and Europe, 239-261. Leiden: Brill, 2009. Photocopy.
 * Wickman, Eric. "General Baptist Origins and Original Sin." Baptist Quarterly 51, no. 2 (2020): 47-55.
 * Whitley, W. T. "Thomas Helwys of Gray's Inn and of Broxtowe Hall, Nottingham." The Baptist Quarterly  12 (1934-1935): 241-255.

Prostration in Prayer

 * Blessitt, Arthur. "Positions of Prayer." The Official Website of Arthur Blessitt. Accessed January 24, 2023. https://blessitt.com/positions-of-prayer/.
 * _______. "Positions of Prayer (Part 2) 'Laying Flat Down or Prostrate'." The Official Website of Arthur Blessitt. Accessed December 1, 2022. https://blessitt.com/positions-of-prayer-part-2-laying-flat-down-or-prostrate/.
 * _______. "Positions of Prayer (Part 3) 'Hands Raised'." The Official Website of Arthur Blessitt. Accessed December 1, 2022. https://blessitt.com/positions-of-prayer-part-3-hands-raised/.
 * _______. "Positions of Prayer (Part 4) 'Kneeling and Praying Toward Jerusalem or the Temple'." The Official Website of Arthur Blessitt. Accessed December 1, 2022. https://blessitt.com/positions-of-prayer-part-4-kneeling-and-praying-toward-jerusalem-or-the-temple/.
 * _______. "Positions of Prayer (Part 5) 'Standing, Sitting, Bowing, Dancing, Eyes open, Eyes looking down and beating on the chest, In Bed, Facing the wall, Face between knees, Hidden face, Clapping, Walking, Eyes open, Laying on of Hands']." The Official Website of Arthur Blessitt. Accessed December 1, 2022. https://blessitt.com/positions-of-prayer-part-5/.
 * _______. "Positions of Prayer (Part 6) Praying Always." The Official Website of Arthur Blessitt. Accessed December 1, 2022. https://blessitt.com/positions-of-prayer-part-6-praying-always/.
 * Horner, Lynnette. "The Spiritual Journey Embodied: Prostrations." Ancient Faith Ministries. March 27, 2019. Accessed December 1, 2022. https://blogs.ancientfaith.com/walkinganancientpath/2019/03/27/the-spiritual-journey-embodied-prostrations/.
 * Mathewes-Green, Frederica. "About Prostrations." Ancient Faith Ministries. March 15, 2016. Accessed December 1, 2022. https://blogs.ancientfaith.com/frederica/writings/about-prostrations.

Contents of the Ephemera Binder
1.                  1933 Charles Urschel Kidnapping, clipping from Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 August 1933

2.                  Photograph of windmill in French North Africa with inscription in French

3.                  Lt. Prof. Aaron K. Smith’s syllabus for HIST 2023-110, History of the United States Since Reconstruction, Spring 2005

4.                  Reading Quiz #10 from Lt. Prof. Aaron K. Smith’s class HIST 2023-110, History of the United States Since Reconstruction, Spring 2005

5.                  Reading Quiz #11 from Aaron Smith’s class HIST 2023-110, History of the United States Since Reconstruction, Spring 2005

6.                  Reading Quiz #10 from Aaron Smith’s class HIST 2023-110, History of the United States Since Reconstruction, Spring 2005 with G. R. Tucker as cult leader chosen as an answer to the question “Levittown was…”

7.                  Handbill for Long Endowed Chair Lecture Series (“Long Endowed”- kid you not)

8.                  Scene 3 from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (“Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I’m being repressed!”)

9.                  Texas Hall of Fame flyer signed by Johnny Bush

10.              “Contra Hag” – 3 pp. – letters written by G. R. Tucker, Aaron Smith, and Kyle Hagberry about the horrid The J-TAC advice column “Hey Hag!” – none of this correspondence was published, but a similar, though less biting, piece was later accepted

11.              “Kingdom of Fear” draft by Aaron Smith

12.              Picture of Chipper R. Tucker in flagrante delicto (L - poor puppy, “for those who have ears…”)

13.              Clipping of letter to the Editor of The J-TAC about supposed the Deism of the Founding Fathers by one Tristan McDonald, The J-TAC, March 31, 2005, Volume 169, Number 9 – with annotations for my follow up rebuttal

14.              “Contra McDonald” – rough manuscript draft and printed e-mail of my rebuttal to Tristan McDonald on the Deism of the Founders later printed in The J-TAC, April 7, 2005, Volume 169, Number 10 – 7 pp.

15.              Satirical flyer for a fictional Dr. Michael Pierce Lecture, part of the Special, High Self-esteem Lecture Series, “On the German Mentality”

16.              Satirical flyer urging Dr. Pierce to run for Texan Rider

17.              Crap from a Dr. T. Lindsay Baker Class: “We Girls Awheel Through Germany,” Outing 20, No. 4 (July 1892): pp. 298-302.

18.              Helen Alten, “Labeling Ethnographic Objects,” ICOM Ethnographic Conservation Newsletter No. 17 (April 1998): 18-21.

19.              Anna Pegler-Gordon, “Seeing Images in History,” Perspectives 44, No. 2 (February 2006): 28-31.

20.              Christopher Guthrie to G. R. Tucker, e-mail, March 30, 2006.

21.              Flyer promoting G. R. Tucker’s presentation at the W. K. Gordon Center entitled: “Oysters, Macaroni, and Beer: The Texas Pacific Mercantile and Manufacturing Company of Thurber, Texas”

22.              Satirical flyer mocking the previous flyer entitled: “Cigars, Bourbon, and my Thesis”

23.              Flyer promoting “Blades in the Sky Exhibit Opening” by Dr. T. Lindsay Baker at the W. K. Gordon Center – I painted the exhibit stands and did various other work for the exhibit

24.              “Conservatives Opt Out of Academe, Professors Assert,” The Chronicle of High Education, February 22, 2008.

25.              Three pages of satellite images from Google Maps showing 5601 Westcliff Road, Killeen, Texas 76543—the old pink house on Westcliff and attached 12¾ acres—(254)699-5115.

26.              Jerry Rodnitzky, “After 25 years, legend of John F. Kennedy’s mystique still endures,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, November 21, 1988.

27.              Keith Windschuttle, The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past (New York: Free Press, 1997), 5-6.

E. A. Wallis Budge bibliography
Make a Budge bibliography.

Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys

 * To do:
 * 1) Separate Bob Wills and Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
 * 2) Fix all redirects thusly
 * 3) Create a longer, fuller discography at a Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys discography page


 * Rough Outline of a Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys article:
 * Intro
 * Formation
 * 1930s
 * 1940s
 * 1950s
 * 1960s
 * 1970s
 * Discography (link to Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys discography page)
 * List of members
 * Legacy
 * Notes
 * Bibliography
 * External links

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Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys

Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys was a western swing band founded in 1934

Donovan Courville
Donovan Amos Courville (April 6, 1901 in Michigan – August 1996, in Fresno, California) (Ph.D., Chemistry), was a graduate of Andrews University. He taught at Pacific Union College from 1935 to 1949 before moving to Loma Linda University from 1949 to 1970 where he was emeritus professor of biochemistry at the School of Medicine. He was a practicing Seventh-day Adventist. He authored numerous articles on bio-chemistry and poisonous marine animals.

He also maintained an interest in archaeology, Egyptology, and biblical chronology. The fruit of his biblically related study resulted in the 1971 private publication of a two-volume, 700-page work that is his main claim to fame, The Exodus Problem and Its Ramifications.

The Exodus Problem


The Exodus Problem and Its Ramifications: A Critical Examination of the Chronological Relationships Between Israel and the Contemporary Peoples of Antiquity, to give its full title, attempts to correlate the history and chronology of Egypt as it related to the Bible.

Courville noted that if the Bible is correct about the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, there should be evidence of a calamitous catastrophe in Egyptian history at that point. Like Immanuel Velikovsky, he noted the similarities between the Ipuwer Papyrus and the Ten Plagues.

Courville lowered the era of the Hyksos to a period after the Exodus and, like Velikovsky and David Rohl, identified them with the biblical Amalekites. Like Velikovsky, he accepted that Shishak of the Bible was Thutmose III rather than the Libyan Sheshonq I. He further stated that the father-in-law of Solomon was Thutmose I. Courville also lowered the fall of Troy from about 1200 BC to the 8th century BC. He also lowered the date of Hammurabi and his dynasty to the 15th century BC. The final result of his efforts was to place the founding of Egypt (and by extension, Sumer) to around 2300 BC, after the most literal biblical date of Noah's Deluge according to James Ussher and others. The bulk of The Exodus Problem dealt with demonstrating his radically shortened version of Egyptian history.

Courville used a different methodology than Velikovsky. He believed that the Sothis King List, regarded by most Egyptologists as incomplete, was designed to list only the Pharaohs who were the primary power during Egypt's history. Other Pharaohs were either coregents or members of lesser, overlapping dynasties.

Unlike Velikovsky, Courville examined the Old and Middle Kingdoms of Egypt. He suggested the Exodus occurred during the 6th Dynasty and 13th Dynasty, which he claimed ran parallel to each other.

Courville did not support Velikovsky's proposed "alter-ego" dynasties, which duplicated the 19th and 26th dynasties. He claimed that the reference to Israel on Merneptah's stele commemorated the fall of Israel in 721 to Assyria.

Personal life
His mother's maiden name was Kroupa, he was married to Bernice, and had three daughters, Donna (b. 1923, Mrs Albert Patt), Verna (1925–1994, Mrs Turney Hitler) and Carol (Mrs Elton Morel). He trained initially for the ministry in the Seventh-day Adventist church, completing his B.Th degree in 1922, but became a chemistry teacher, gaining a doctorate in chemistry from Washington University in 1945. He taught at Pacific Union College from 1935 to 1949, then joined the Loma Linda University School of Medicine biochemistry department, where he remained until retirement in 1970.

He worked for seven years with Dr Bruce Halstead researching the chemistry for the authoritative monograph, The Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals of the World which was published by the US Government Press in 1963. The Exodus Problem was the result of similar library research and a lifelong interest in archaeology.