VPN (Virtual Private Network) technology lets a computer using a public Internet connection join a private network by way of a secure tunnel between that machine and the network. The most common case is a business allowing its employees to connect to its work network from home or from the road.
The San Agustin Cathedral was built during the Spanish Texas period. South Texas is a region of the U.S. state of Texas that lies roughly south of -- and sometimes including -- San Antonio. The southern and western boundary is the Rio Grande, and to the east it is the Gulf of Mexico. The population of this region is about 4.67 million according to the 2013 census estimates.
The states in dark red compose the Deep South today. Adjoining areas of East Texas, West Tennessee, and North Florida are also considered part of this subregion. Historically, each of these states were in the Confederate States of America and was largely reliant on slave labor at the time of the Civil War. (In Texas, East Texas was the prime region for slavery.) The Deep South is a cultural and geographic subregion in the Southern United States. Historically, it is differentiated from the Upper South as being the states most dependent on plantation-type agriculture and considered slave societies during the preâCivil War period.