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The New England Patriots, commonly called the "Pats," are a professional football team based in the Greater Boston area, playing their home games in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts at Gillette Stadium. The team is part of the East Division of the American Football Conference in the National... Football League . The team changed its name from the original Boston Patriots after relocating to Foxborough in 1971, although Foxborough is a suburb of Boston, 22 miles away. An original member of the American Football League , the Patriots joined the NFL in the 1970 merger of those leagues. The team advanced to the playoffs four times before appearing in Super Bowl XX in January 1986, losing to the Chicago Bears. The team also appeared in Super Bowl XXXI in January 1997, losing to the Green Bay Packers. In the 2000s, the Patriots became one of the most successful teams in NFL history. They are third in appearances in a Super Bowl with seven , and have the most appearances in the last 25 years.
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The University of North Texas is a public institution of higher education and research in Denton, Texas. Founded in 1890, UNT is part of the University of North Texas System. As of the spring of 2012, the school had an enrollment of 33,422, making it the fourth largest in the state, behind The... University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University, and the University of Houston. The university is composed of ten colleges, two schools, and one academy: Since the 1980s, North Texas has expanded its research in science and engineering. In 2006, the National Science Foundation ranked UNT Denton campus 122nd among 417 academic institutions for number of science and engineering doctorates awarded.
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Waxahachie is a city in Ellis County, Texas, United States, and a southern suburb of Dallas. The population was 29,621 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Ellis County. Waxahachie was the birthplace of Tom Blasingame, considered the oldest cowboy in the history of the American West,... R&B singer Tevin Campbell, Bill Ham , Byron Nelson, a professional golf legend and Academy Award winning director Robert Benton, who made his 1984 film " Places in the Heart" in his hometown. It was said that Edward McDaniel was from Waxahachie, but he was born in Bernice, Oklahoma. In 1988 the area around Waxahachie was chosen as the site for the Superconducting Super Collider, which was to be the world's largest and most energetic particle accelerator, with a planned ring circumference of 87.1 kilometers . Seventeen shafts were sunk and 23.5 km of tunnel were bored before the project was cancelled by Congress in 1993. The town is also the namesake of the former United States Naval ship USS Waxahachie .
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