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• .tx.us – Internet
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  Second-level domain
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• 7-Eleven
  7-Eleven
  7-Eleven is part of an international chain of convenience stores, operating under Seven-Eleven Japan Co. Ltd, which in turn is owned by Seven & I Holdings Co...
  
  
• 28th State to join the United States of America

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• Abilene, Texas
  Abilene, Texas
  Abilene is a city in Taylor and Jones counties in west central Texas. The population was 117,063 at the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Abilene Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a 2006 estimated population of 158,063. It is the county seat of Taylor County...
  
  
• Adams-Onís Treaty
  Adams-Onís Treaty
  The Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819, also known as the Transcontinental Treaty or the Purchase of Florida, was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that gave Florida to the U.S. and set out a boundary between the U.S. and New Spain . It settled a standing border dispute between the two...
  
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• Adolphus Hotel
  Adolphus Hotel
  The Hotel Adolphus is an upscale hotel and Dallas Landmark in the Main Street District of downtown Dallas, Texas which was for several years the tallest building in the state of Texas.- History :...
  
  
• ADV Films
• Agriculture in Texas
• Alamo
  Alamo Mission in San Antonio
  The Alamo, originally known as Mission San Antonio de Valero, is a former Roman Catholic mission and fortress compound, site of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836, and now a museum, in San Antonio, Texas....
  
  
• Alamo Village
  Alamo Village
  Alamo Village is a movie set and tourist attraction north of Brackettville, Texas, United States. It was the first movie location built in Texas, originally constructed for and best known as the setting for The Alamo , directed by John Wayne and starring Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey and...
  
  
• Allen, TX
• Alley Theatre
  Alley Theatre
  The Alley Theatre is a Tony Award-winning indoor theatre in Downtown Houston, Texas, and hosts two stages. The "Hubbard" is the main stage with seating for 824; the more intimate "Neuhaus" seats 310. Nine towers and open-air terraces give the Alley Theatre a castle-like quality. Inside, a staircase...
  
  
• Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
  Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
  Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer of the New World, one of four survivors of the Narváez expedition...
  
  
• Amarillo Dillas
  Amarillo Dillas
  The Amarillo Dillas were a professional baseball team based in Amarillo, Texas, in the United States. The Dillas were a member of United League Baseball, an independent professional league which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball or Minor League Baseball...
  
  
• Amarillo Gorillas
  Amarillo Gorillas
  The Amarillo Gorillas were a minor league hockey team based in Amarillo, Texas. The team was affiliated with the Central Hockey League. The Gorillas began play in the Western Professional Hockey League in 1996 as the Rattlers, the name they would carry until an ownership change in 2002...
  
  
• Amarillo, Texas
  Amarillo, Texas
  Amarillo is the 14th-largest city, by population, in the state of Texas, the largest in the Texas Panhandle, and the seat of Potter County. A portion of the city extends into Randall County. The population was 190,695 at the 2010 census...
  
  
• American Airlines
  American Airlines
  American Airlines, Inc. is the world's fourth-largest airline in passenger miles transported and operating revenues. American Airlines is a subsidiary of the AMR Corporation and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas adjacent to its largest hub at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport...
  
  
• American Airlines Center
  American Airlines Center
  The American Airlines Center is a multi-purpose arena, located in the Victory Park neighborhood, near downtown Dallas, Texas.It is home to the Dallas Mavericks of the NBA, and the Dallas Stars of the NHL....
  
  
• Ameriquest Field in Arlington
  Ameriquest Field in Arlington
  Rangers Ballpark in Arlington is a ballpark in Arlington, Texas, located between Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. It was known until May 7, 2004, as The Ballpark in Arlington when Ameriquest bought the naming rights to the ballpark and renamed it Ameriquest Field in Arlington...
  
  
• Amusement parks in Texas
• Anahuac Disturbances
  Anahuac Disturbances
  The Anahuac Disturbances were uprisings of settlers in and around Anahuac, Texas in 1832 and 1835 which helped to precipitate the Texas Revolution. This eventually led to the territory's secession from Mexico and the founding of the Republic of Texas...
  
  
• Anahuac, Texas
  Anahuac, Texas
  Anahuac is a city in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. The population of the city was 2,210 at the 2000 census. Anahuac is the seat of Chambers County and is situated in East Texas.- History :...
  
  
• Anthony, Texas
  Anthony, Texas
  Anthony is an incorporated town in El Paso County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,850 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Anthony is located at ....
  
  
• Angleton, Doris
  Doris Angleton
  Doris Angleton was a Texas socialite and murder victim. Doris Angleton's husband, Robert Angleton, had been accused of planning the crime...
  
  
• Angleton, Robert
• Angleton, Roger
• Aquaria in Texas
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• Arboreta in Texas
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• Archaeology of Texas
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• Architecture of Texas
  Architecture of Texas
  The architecture in the state of Texas comes from a wide variety of sources. Many of the state's buildings reflect Texas' Spanish and Mexican roots; in addition, there is considerable influence from the American South as well as the Southwest...
  
  
• Area codes in Texas
• Ark-La-Tex
  Ark-La-Tex
  The Ark-La-Tex, Arklatex, or ArkLaTex is a U.S. socio-economic region where Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma intersect. Some prefer the more inclusive Arklatexoma...
  
  
• Arlen, Texas
• Arlington Stadium
  Arlington Stadium
  Arlington Stadium was a baseball stadium located in Arlington, Texas, United States, located between Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. It served as the home for the Texas Rangers from 1972 until 1993, when the team moved into The Ballpark in Arlington .-1960s:The stadium was built in 1965 as Turnpike...
  
  
• Arlington, Texas
  Arlington, Texas
  Arlington is a city in Tarrant County, Texas within the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area. According to the 2010 census results, the city had a population of 365,438, making it the third largest municipality in the Metroplex...
  
  
• Armadillo
  Armadillo
  Armadillos are New World placental mammals, known for having a leathery armor shell. Dasypodidae is the only surviving family in the order Cingulata, part of the superorder Xenarthra along with the anteaters and sloths. The word armadillo is Spanish for "little armored one"...
  
  
• Armadillo World Headquarters
  Armadillo World Headquarters
  The Armadillo World Headquarters was the premier music hall and entertainment center in Austin, Texas, United States from 1970 to 1980.-History:...
  
  
• Art Car Museum
  Art Car Museum
  The ArtCar Museum is a private museum of contemporary art located in Houston, Texas, USA. The museum, nicknamed the "Garage Mahal," opened in February, 1988. Its emphasis is on art cars, fine arts, and artists that are rarely seen in other cultural institutions...
  
  
• Art museums and galleries in Texas
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• Astronomical observatories in Texas
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• Austin, Texas
  Austin, Texas
  Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
  
  
• Austin-Bergstrom International Airport
  Austin-Bergstrom International Airport
  Austin-Bergstrom International Airport is a mixed-use commercial airport located southeast of the central business district of Austin, Texas, United States. It covers and has two runways and three helipads.The airport began passenger service on May 23, 1999...
  
  
• Austin City Limits (television)
• Austin Ice Bats
  Austin Ice Bats
  The Austin Ice Bats were a professional minor-league ice hockey team based in Austin, Texas, United States. They played in Austin from 1996 to 2008. Affiliated with the Central Hockey League, the team was named in honor of the Mexican Free-tailed Bats which nest under the Ann W. Richards Congress...
  
  
• Austin, Stephen F.
  Stephen F. Austin
  Stephen Fuller Austin was born in Virginia and raised in southeastern Missouri. He was known as the Father of Texas, led the second, but first legal and ultimately successful colonization of the region by bringing 300 families from the United States. The capital of Texas, Austin in Travis County,...
  
  
• Austin, Texas
  Austin, Texas
  Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
  
  , republican and state capital since 1839
• Austin Wranglers
  Austin Wranglers
  The Austin Wranglers were an arena football team based in Austin, Texas. They played four seasons in the Arena Football League from 2004 to 2007 and spent one season in AF2, the AFL's developmental league, in 2008. They made playoff appearances in the AFL in 2006 and in AF2 in 2008...
  
  

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• Balcones Fault
  Balcones Fault
  The Balcones Fault Zone is a tensional structural system in Texas that runs approximately from the southwest part of the state near Del Rio to the north central region near Waco along Interstate 35. The Balcones Fault zone is made up of many smaller features, including normal faults, grabens, and...
  
  
• Bank of America (Austin)
  Bank of America (Austin)
  The Bank of America Center is a building in Austin, Texas. It was built in 1975 and has of floor space on 26 floors. It is tall and is located on the east side of Congress Avenue in Downtown Austin between 5th Street and 6th Street.- External links :*...
  
  
• Bank of America Center, Houston
  Bank of America Center, Houston
  The Bank of America Center is a highrise representing one of the first significant examples of postmodern architecture construction in downtown Houston, Texas...
  
  
• Bank of America Plaza (Dallas)
  Bank of America Plaza (Dallas)
  Bank of America Plaza is a 72-story late-modernist skyscraper located in the Main Street District of downtown Dallas, Texas. Standing at a structural height of , it is the tallest skyscraper in the city of Dallas. It is also the 3rd tallest in Texas and the 22nd tallest in the United States, while...
  
  
• Bank One Center (Houston)
• Baptist General Convention of Texas
  Baptist General Convention of Texas
  The Baptist General Convention of Texas is the oldest surviving Baptist convention in the state of Texas. The churches cooperating with the Baptist General Convention of Texas partner nationally and internationally with both the Southern Baptist Convention and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship,...
  
  
• Bartlett, Steve
  Steve Bartlett
  Harry Steven "Steve" Bartlett is the President and CEO of the Financial Services Roundtable, an advocacy group lobbying the U.S. Congress on financial services legislation. He is a former U.S...
  
  
• Barton Springs
  Barton Springs
  Barton Springs is a set of four natural water springs located on the grounds of Zilker Park in Austin, Texas resulting from water flowing through the Edwards Aquifer. The largest spring, Main Barton Spring supplies water to Barton Springs Pool, a popular recreational destination in Austin...
  
  
• Barton Springs Salamander
  Barton Springs Salamander
  The Barton Springs salamander is an endangered lungless salamander that only lives in the habitat of Barton Springs in Austin, Texas, USA...
  
  
• Battle of the Alamo
  Battle of the Alamo
  The Battle of the Alamo was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar . All but two of the Texian defenders were killed...
  
  
• Battle of Gonzales
  Battle of Gonzales
  The Battle of Gonzales was the first military engagement of the Texas Revolution. It was fought near Gonzales, Texas, on October 2, 1835, between rebellious Texian settlers and a detachment of Mexican army troops....
  
  
• Battle of San Jacinto
  Battle of San Jacinto
  The Battle of San Jacinto, fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day Harris County, Texas, was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army engaged and defeated General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican forces in a fight that lasted just eighteen...
  
  
• Battle of Velasco
  Battle of Velasco
  The Battle of Velasco, fought June 25–26, 1832, was the first true military conflict between Mexico and settlers in Texas. It began when Texan insurgents attacked Fort Velasco, located in what was then Velasco and what is now the present day city of Freeport...
  
  
• Bauer College of Business
  Bauer College of Business
  The C.T. Bauer College of Business is the business school of the University of Houston and is fully accredited by the AACSB International. It offers B.B.A., M.B.A., MS Accountancy, MS Finance, and the Houston metropolitan area's only Ph.D...
  
  
• Bay Ridge Christian College
  Bay Ridge Christian College
  -Intercollegiate athletics:Bay Ridge Christian College holds membership in the Association of Christian College Athletics , competing in men's basketball. The school's colors are Royal Blue, Gold, and White and the nickname is the Eagles.-Notable alumni:...
  
  
• Baylor College of Medicine
  Baylor College of Medicine
  Baylor College of Medicine, located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas, USA, is a highly regarded medical school and leading center for biomedical research and clinical care...
  
  
• Baylor University
  Baylor University
  Baylor University is a private, Christian university located in Waco, Texas. Founded in 1845, Baylor is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.-History:...
  
  
• Baytown, Texas
  Baytown, Texas
  Baytown is a city within Harris County and partially in Chambers County in the Gulf Coast region of the U.S. state of Texas. Located within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area, it lies along both State Highway 146 and Interstate 10. As of 2010, Baytown had an population of 71,802...
  
  
• Beaches of Texas
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• Beaumont, Texas
  Beaumont, Texas
  Beaumont is a city in and county seat of Jefferson County, Texas, United States, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city's population was 118,296 at the 2010 census. With Port Arthur and Orange, it forms the Golden Triangle, a major industrial area on the...
  
  
• Bentsen, Lloyd
  Lloyd Bentsen
  Lloyd Millard Bentsen, Jr. was a four-term United States senator from Texas and the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President in 1988 on the Michael Dukakis ticket. He also served in the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1955. In his later political life, he was Chairman of the Senate...
  
  
• Bevo (mascot)
  Bevo (mascot)
  Bevo is the name of the mascot of the sports teams at the University of Texas at Austin, a Texas longhorn steer with burnt orange coloring. The shape of the Longhorn's head and horns gives rise to the school's hand symbol and saying, Hook 'em Horns...
  
  
• Bible Belt
  Bible Belt
  Bible Belt is an informal term for a region in the southeastern and south-central United States in which socially conservative evangelical Protestantism is a significant part of the culture and Christian church attendance across the denominations is generally higher than the nation's average.The...
  
  
• Big Bend National Park
  Big Bend National Park
  Big Bend National Park is a national park located in the U.S. state of Texas. Big Bend has national significance as the largest protected area of Chihuahuan Desert topography and ecology in the United States, which includes more than 1,200 species of plants, more than 450 species of birds, 56...
  
  
• Big Tex
  Big Tex
  Big Tex is the 52 foot tall icon of the annual State Fair of Texas held at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas. He wears size 70 boots, a 75 gallon hat, a size 100 180/181 shirt and 284W/185L XXXXXL pair of Dickies jeans...
  
  
• Bill Dauterive
  Bill Dauterive
  Bill Dauterive, born Gillaume Fontaine de la Tour D'Haute Rive is a fictional character on the Fox animated series King of the Hill...
  
  
• Blaffer Gallery
  Blaffer Gallery
  Blaffer Gallery is the art museum of the University of Houston. It was founded in 1973 and has won several awards, including the Coming Up Taller Award as part of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.-History:...
  
  
• Blockbuster Video
• Blue Bell Creameries
  Blue Bell Creameries
  Blue Bell Creameries, founded in 1907, is the manufacturer of Blue Bell brand ice cream.Blue Bell sells its ice cream directly in only 20 states, mostly in the Southern United States, although Blue Bell ice cream has also been eaten aboard the International Space Station and at Camp David...
  
  
• Bluebonnet
• Blue Line (Dallas Area Rapid Transit)
  Blue Line (Dallas Area Rapid Transit)
  The Blue Line is a light rail line in the system of mass transit in Dallas, Texas , operated by the Dallas Area Rapid Transit system. Along with the , it is one of the original modern rail lines in Dallas....
  
  
• Bobby Hill (King of the Hill)
  Bobby Hill (King of the Hill)
  Robert Jeffrey "Bobby" Hill is a character on the animated series King of the Hill and is voiced by Pamela Adlon. Bobby is the only child of Hank and Peggy Hill.- Biography :...
  
  
• Bonnell, Joseph
  Joseph Bonnell
  Joseph Bonnell was a formally recognized hero of the Texas Revolution. He was a West Point graduate and a member of The Long Gray Line .-Formal recognition by Texas Legislature:His heroism in support of the War for...
  
  
• Bonnie and Clyde
  Bonnie and Clyde
  Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow were well-known outlaws, robbers, and criminals who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression. Their exploits captured the attention of the American public during the "public enemy era" between 1931 and 1934...
  
  
• Boomhauer
  Boomhauer
  Jeff Dexter Boomhauer III, almost always referred to as simply Boomhauer, is a fictional character in the animated series King of the Hill. The character is voiced by series creator Mike Judge, and is known for his nearly incomprehensible speech....
  
  
• Botanical gardens in Texas
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• Bowie, Jim
  Jim Bowie
  James "Jim" Bowie , a 19th-century American pioneer, slave trader, land speculator, and soldier, played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution, culminating in his death at the Battle of the Alamo...
  
  
• Brazoria, Texas
  Brazoria, Texas
  Brazoria is a city of Brazoria County in the U.S. state of Texas within the metropolitan area. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, the city population was 2,787.Brazoria was originally founded as a port for Stephen F...
  
  
• Brazos River
  Brazos River
  The Brazos River, called the Rio de los Brazos de Dios by early Spanish explorers , is the longest river in Texas and the 11th longest river in the United States at from its source at the head of Blackwater Draw, Curry County, New Mexico to its mouth at the Gulf of Mexico with a drainage...
  
  
• Briscoe, Dolph
  Dolph Briscoe
  Dolph Briscoe, Jr. was a Uvalde, Texas rancher and businessman who was the 41st Governor of Texas between 1973 and 1979....
  
  
• Brown, Lee P.
  Lee P. Brown
  Lee Patrick Brown had a long-time career in law enforcement, leading police departments in Atlanta, Houston and New York over the course of nearly four decades. During this time he helped to implement a number of techniques in community policing that appeared to result in substantial decreases in...
  
  
• Brownsville, Texas
  Brownsville, Texas
  Brownsville is a city in the southernmost tip of the state of Texas, in the United States. It is located on the northern bank of the Rio Grande, directly north and across the border from Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Brownsville is the 16th largest city in the state of Texas with a population of...
  
  
• Bryan, Texas
  Bryan, Texas
  Bryan is a city in Brazos County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 76,201. It is the county seat of Brazos County and is located in the heart of the Brazos Valley . It shares its border with the city of College Station, which lies to its south...
  
  
• Buchanan Dam
  Buchanan Dam
  The Buchanan Dam is a multiple arch dam located on the Colorado River of Texas.-Description:The dam forms Lake Buchanan and was the first dam to be completed in the chain of Texas Highland Lakes...
  
  
• Buildings and structures in Texas
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• Burleson, Edward
  Edward Burleson
  Edward Burleson was a soldier, general, and statesman in the state of Missouri, the Republic of Texas, and later the U.S. state of Texas....
  
  
• BNSF Railway
  BNSF Railway
  The BNSF Railway is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. It is one of seven North American Class I railroads and the second largest freight railroad network in North America, second only to the Union Pacific Railroad, its primary...
  
  
• Burnet, David G.
  David G. Burnet
  David Gouverneur Burnet was an early politician within the Republic of Texas, serving as interim President of Texas , second Vice President of the Republic of Texas , and Secretary of State for the new state of Texas after it was annexed to the United States of America.Burnet was born in Newark,...
  
  
• Bush, George H. W.
  George H. W. Bush
  George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...
  
  
• Bush, George W.
  George W. Bush
  George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
  
  

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• Cabeza de Vaca, Álvar Núñez
  Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
  Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer of the New World, one of four survivors of the Narváez expedition...
  
  
• Caddo Lake
  Caddo Lake
  Caddo Lake is a lake and wetland located on the border between Texas and Louisiana, in northern Harrison County and southern Marion County in Texas and western Caddo Parish in Louisiana. The lake is named after the Southeastern culture of Native Americans called Caddoans or Caddo, who lived in...
  
  
• Cadillac Ranch
  Cadillac Ranch
  Cadillac Ranch is a public art installation and sculpture in Amarillo, Texas, U.S. It was created in 1974 by Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez and Doug Michels, who were a part of the art group Ant Farm, and it consists of what were either older running used or junk Cadillac automobiles, representing a...
  
  
• Cao, Anh "Joseph"
  Joseph Cao
  Anh "Joseph" Quang Cao is the former U.S. Representative for , serving from 2009 until 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party. In April 2011, he announced he will be a candidate for Attorney General of Louisiana in 2011, however in September 2011 he pulled out of the race.He was the first...
  
  
• Canyons and gorges of Texas
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• Capital of the State of Texas
  Austin, Texas
  Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
  
  
• Capitol of the State of Texas
  Texas State Capitol
  The Texas State Capitol is located in Austin, Texas, and is the fourth building to be the house of Texas government in Austin. It houses the chambers of the Texas Legislature and the office of the governor of Texas. It was designed originally during 1881 by architect Elijah E. Myers, and was...
  
  
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• Carrollton, Texas
  Carrollton, Texas
  -Climate:*On average, the warmest month is July.*The highest recorded temperature was 112°F in 1980.*The average coolest month is January.*The lowest recorded temperature was 1°F in 1989.*The most precipitation on average occurs in May....
  
  
• Caves of Texas
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• Central Texas tornado outbreak
• Chinatown, Houston
  Chinatown, Houston
  Chinatown is a community in southwestern Houston, Texas, United States. It is roughly bounded by Fondren, Beechnut, State Highway 6, and Westpark, west of Bellaire in the Alief area. The naming of the new Chinatown is disputed, as various ethnic groups live within the community...
  
  
• Chuck Norris
  Chuck Norris
  Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris is an American martial artist and actor. After serving in the United States Air Force, he began his rise to fame as a martial artist and has since founded his own school, Chun Kuk Do...
  
  
• Church of the SubGenius
  Church of the SubGenius
  The Church of the SubGenius is a "parody religion" organization that satirizes religion, conspiracy theories, unidentified flying objects, and popular culture. Originally based in Dallas, Texas, the Church of the SubGenius gained prominence in the 1980s and 1990s and maintains an active presence on...
  
  
• Clark, Edward
  Edward Clark (governor)
  Edward Clark was the eighth Governor of Texas. His term coincided with the beginning of the American Civil War.-Biography:...
  
  
• Clemens, Roger
  Roger Clemens
  William Roger Clemens , nicknamed "Rocket", is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who broke into the league with the Boston Red Sox, whose pitching staff he would help anchor for 12 years. Clemens won seven Cy Young Awards, more than any other pitcher. He played for four different teams over...
  
  
• Clements, Bill
  Bill Clements
  William Perry "Bill" Clements, Jr. was the 42nd and 44th Governor of Texas, serving from 1979 to 1983 and 1987 to 1991. Clements was the first Republican to have served as governor of the U.S. state of Texas since Reconstruction...
  
  
• Climate of Texas
  Climate of Texas
  Texas's climate varies widely, from arid in the west to humid in the east. Due to its large size, Texas is home to several different climates. There are several distinct regions within the state which have varying climates: Northern Plains, Trans-Pecos Region, Texas Hill Country, Piney Woods, and...
  
  
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• College Station, Texas
  College Station, Texas
  College Station is a city in Brazos County, Texas, situated in East Central Texas in the heart of the Brazos Valley. The city is located within the most populated region of Texas, near three of the 10 largest cities in the United States - Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio...
  
  
• Colorado River of Texas
  Colorado River (Texas)
  The Colorado River is a river that runs through the U.S. state of Texas; it should not be confused with the much longer Colorado River which flows from Colorado into the Gulf of California....
  
  
• Columbia, Republic of Texas
  West Columbia, Texas
  West Columbia is a city in Brazoria County in the U.S. state of Texas within 50 miles of Eastern Columbia. The population was 4,255 at the 2000 census....
  
  , republican capital 1836-1837
• Communications in Texas
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• Compaq Center (Houston)
  Compaq Center (Houston)
  The Lakewood Church Central Campus is a house of worship in Houston, Texas, United States...
  
  
• CompUSA
  CompUSA
  CompUSA is a retailer and reseller of consumer electronics, technology products and computer services. Its headquarters are in Miami, Florida.Until its reorganization, CompUSA, Inc. was a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Commercial Corp S.A.B...
  
  
• Connally, John
  John Connally
  John Bowden Connally, Jr. , was an influential American politician, serving as the 39th governor of Texas, Secretary of the Navy under President John F. Kennedy, and as Secretary of the Treasury under President Richard M. Nixon. While he was Governor in 1963, Connally was a passenger in the car in...
  
  
• ConocoPhillips
  ConocoPhillips
  ConocoPhillips Company is an American multinational energy corporation with its headquarters located in the Energy Corridor district of Houston, Texas in the United States...
  
  
• Conroe, Texas
  Conroe, Texas
  Conroe is a suburban city 40 miles north of Houston in the gulf coastal plains/piney woods region of southeast Texas.It is the seat of Montgomery County and falls within the metropolitan area.As of the 2000 U.S...
  
  
• Continental Airlines
  Continental Airlines
  Continental Airlines was a major American airline now merged with United Airlines. On May 3, 2010, Continental Airlines, Inc. and UAL, Inc. announced a merger via a stock swap, and on October 1, 2010, the merger closed and UAL changed its name to United Continental Holdings, Inc...
  
  

• Convention centers in Texas
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• Convention of 1836
  Convention of 1836
  The Convention of 1836 was the meeting of elected delegates in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas in March 1836. The Texas Revolution had begun five months previously, and the interim government, known as the Consultation, had wavered over whether to declare independence from Mexico or pledge to...
  
  
• Cornyn, John
  John Cornyn
  John Cornyn, III is the junior United States Senator for Texas, serving since 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party. He was elected Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee for the 111th U.S. Congress....
  
  
• Corpus Christi International Airport
  Corpus Christi International Airport
  Corpus Christi International Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located five nautical miles west of the central business district of Corpus Christi, in Nueces County, Texas, United States.The airport's new six gate, . Hayden W...
  
  
• Corpus Christi, Texas
  Corpus Christi, Texas
  Corpus Christi is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S. state of Texas. The county seat of Nueces County, it also extends into Aransas, Kleberg, and San Patricio counties. The MSA population in 2008 was 416,376. The population was 305,215 at the 2010 census making it the...
  
  
• Cotton Hill
  Cotton Hill
  Colonel Cotton Lyndal Hill was an American fictional character in the animated series King of the Hill. He is the father of Hank Hill, Good Hank Hill or "G.H.", and Junichiro . He is also a World War II veteran who had his shins "blowed off by a Japanman's machine gun" in combat, and later had his...
  
  
• Craft, Juanita
  Juanita Craft
  Juanita Craft was an American civil rights pioneer and member of the Dallas City Council in Texas....
  
  
• Crockett, Davy
  Davy Crockett
  David "Davy" Crockett was a celebrated 19th century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S...
  
  
• Counties of Texas
• Cuban, Mark
  Mark Cuban
  Mark Cuban is an American business magnate and investor. He is the owner of the National Basketball Association's Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theatres, and Magnolia Pictures, and the chairman of the HDTV cable network HDNet....
  
  
• Culture of Texas
  Culture of Texas
  The culture of Texas has been a melting pot of the "Southern" and Southwestern culture, with pockets of colonies of ethnic groups in Texas also has an influx of people fromNorth America moving in to find oil...
  
  
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• The Daily Cougar
  The Daily Cougar
  The Daily Cougar is a daily newspaper run entirely by students at the University of Houston.In publication since April 6, 1928, The Daily Cougar was originally named The Cougar...
  
  
• Dale Gribble
  Dale Gribble
  Dale Alvin Gribble is a fictional character in the animated series King of the Hill. and is voiced by Johnny Hardwick . He is an exterminator, bounty hunter, smoker, gun fanatic, and paranoid believer of almost all conspiracy theories and urban legends...
  
  
• Dallas Area Rapid Transit
  Dallas Area Rapid Transit
  The Dallas Area Rapid Transit authority is a transit agency based in Dallas, Texas . It operates buses, light rail, commuter rail, and high-occupancy vehicle lanes in Dallas and 12 of its suburbs...
  
  
• Dallas Cowboys
  Dallas Cowboys
  The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football franchise which plays in the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference of the National Football League . They are headquartered in Valley Ranch in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas...
  
  
• Dallas Desperados
  Dallas Desperados
  The Dallas Desperados were a professional Arena Football team. The Desperados played in the Southern Division of the now-defunct Arena Football League from 2002 to 2008....
  
  
• Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport
• Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex
  Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex
  The Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington Metropolitan Statistical Area, a title designated by the U.S. Census as of 2003, encompasses 12 counties within the U.S. state of Texas. The area is divided into two metropolitan divisions: Dallas–Plano–Irving and Fort Worth–Arlington. Residents of the area...
  
  
• Dallas Love Field
• Dallas Mavericks
  Dallas Mavericks
  The Dallas Mavericks are a professional basketball team based in Dallas, Texas. They are members of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association , and the reigning NBA champions, having defeated the Miami Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals.According to a 2011...
  
  
• The Dallas Morning News
  The Dallas Morning News
  The Dallas Morning News is the major daily newspaper serving the Dallas, Texas area, with a circulation of 264,459 subscribers, the Audit Bureau of Circulations reported in September 2010...
  
  
• Dallas Observer
  Dallas Observer
  The Dallas Observer is a free alternative weekly newspaper distributed around the Dallas, Texas . At its inception, it was conceived as a weekly local arts and cinema review publication, with the credo "Advocate for Excellence in the Arts" on the cover. For a time during the early years, the paper...
  
  
• Dallas Stars
  Dallas Stars
  The Dallas Stars are a professional ice hockey team based in Dallas, Texas. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The team was founded during the 1967 NHL expansion as the Minnesota North Stars, based in Bloomington, Minnesota. The...
  
  
• Dallas (TV series)
  Dallas (TV series)
  Dallas is an American serial drama/prime time soap opera that revolves around the Ewings, a wealthy Texas family in the oil and cattle-ranching industries. Throughout the series, Larry Hagman stars as greedy, scheming oil baron J. R. Ewing...
  
  
• Dallas, Texas
  Dallas, Texas
  Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
  
  
• The Dateline Downtown
  The Dateline Downtown
  The Dateline Downtown is a student-run newspaper at the University of Houston–Downtown . It includes news, features, editorials, photos, and advertising. The newspaper is published semi-weekly—providing news and information to the UHD community....
  
  
• Dealey Plaza
  Dealey Plaza
  Dealey Plaza , in the historic West End district of downtown Dallas, Texas , is the location of the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963...
  
  
• Debbie Does Dallas
  Debbie Does Dallas
  Debbie Does Dallas is a 1978 pornographic film starring Bambi Woods. The plot of the film focuses on a team of cheerleaders attempting to earn enough money to send the title character to Dallas, Texas, to try out for the famous “Texas Cowgirls” cheerleading squad. The fictional name "Texas...
  
  
• Deep Ellum
  Deep Ellum
  Deep Ellum is an arts and entertainment district near downtown in east Dallas, Texas . It lies directly east of the elevated I-45/US 75 freeway and extends to Exposition Avenue, connected to downtown by, from north to south, Pacific, Elm, Main, Commerce, and Canton streets...
  
  
• Dell Computer
• Demographics of Texas
  Demographics of Texas
  Texas is the second most populous U.S. state. In recent decades, it has experienced strong population growth. Texas has many major cities and metropolitan areas, along with many towns and rural areas...
  
  
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• Dell, Michael
  Michael Dell
  Michael Saul Dell is an American business magnate and the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Dell Inc. He is the 44th richest person in the world, with a net worth of US$14.6 billion in 2011, based primarily on the 243.35 million shares of Dell stock worth $3.5 billion that he owns,...
  
  
• Denison, Texas
  Denison, Texas
  Denison is a city in Grayson County, Texas, United States. The population was 22,773 at the 2000 census; it is estimated to have grown to 24,127 in 2009. Denison is one of two principal cities in the Sherman-Denison Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
  
  
• Denton, Texas
  Denton, Texas
  The city of Denton is the county seat of Denton County, Texas in the United States. Its population was 119,454 according to the 2010 U.S. Census, making it the eleventh largest city in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex...
  
  
• Dixie Chicks
  Dixie Chicks
  The Dixie Chicks are an American country band which has also successfully crossed over into other genres. The band is composed of founding members Martie Erwin Maguire and Emily Erwin Robison, and lead singer Natalie Maines...
  
  
• Dobie, J. Frank
  J. Frank Dobie
  James Frank Dobie was an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist best known for many books depicting the richness and traditions of life in rural Texas during the days of the open range...
  
  
• Don't Mess with Texas
  Don't Mess with Texas
  The phrase Don’t Mess with Texas is a trademark of the Texas Department of Transportation, which began as part of a statewide advertising campaign started in 1986...
  
  
• Downtown Houston
  Downtown Houston
  Downtown Houston is the largest business district of Houston, Texas, United States. Downtown Houston, the city's central business district, contains the headquarters of many prominent companies. There is an extensive network of pedestrian tunnels and skywalks connecting the buildings of the district...
  
  
• Dr Pepper
  Dr Pepper
  Dr Pepper is a soft drink, marketed as having a unique flavor. The drink was created in the 1880s by Charles Alderton of Waco, Texas and first served around 1885. Dr Pepper was first nationally marketed in the United States in 1904 and is now also sold in Europe, Asia, Canada, Mexico, Australia ...
  
  

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• Eagle Pass, Texas
  Eagle Pass, Texas
  Eagle Pass is a city in and the county seat of Maverick County The population was 27,183 as of the 2010 census.Eagle Pass borders the city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, which is to the southwest and across the Rio Grande. The Eagle Pass-Piedras Negras Metropolitan Area is one of six...
  
  
• East Texas
  East Texas
  East Texas is a distinct geographic and ecological area in the U.S. state of Texas.According to the Handbook of Texas, the East Texas area "may be separated from the rest of Texas roughly by a line extending from the Red River in north central Lamar County southwestward to east central Limestone...
  
  
• East Texas Baptist University
  East Texas Baptist University
  East Texas Baptist University is a private, coeducational Christian university in Marshall, Texas, United States associated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas.- History :...
  
  
• East Texas Musical Convention
  East Texas Musical Convention
  The East Texas Musical Convention, now usually called the East Texas Sacred Harp Convention, is an annual gathering of shape note singers. Songs are sung a cappella from the Sacred Harp tunebook. The Convention was organized in 1855, and is the oldest Sacred Harp convention in Texas, and the second...
  
  
• Echo Hill Ranch
  Echo Hill Ranch
  Echo Hill Ranch is a summer ranch camp of about 400 acres in the Texas Hill Country. The ranch was founded in 1953 by Dr. S. Thomas Friedman and Minnie Samet Friedman. It is located south of Kerrville near Medina. Echo Hill was founded as a noncompetitive, child-centered ranch camp for boys and...
  
  
• Economy of Texas
  Economy of Texas
  The economy of Texas is one of the largest and most rapidly growing economies in the United States. In 2011, Texas is home to six of the top 50 companies on the Fortune 500 list and 51 overall,...
  
  
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• Edinburg Roadrunners
• Edinburg, Texas
  Edinburg, Texas
  Edinburg is a city in and the county seat of Hidalgo County, Texas, United States. The population was 77,100 at the 2010 census. The University of Texas–Pan American, the only fully accredited four-year university in the Rio Grande Valley, is located in Edinburg.Edinburg is part of the...
  
  
• Education in Texas
  Education in Texas
  Texas has six public university systems and four independent public universities. The state has three nationally recognized public research universities: The University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University, and the University of Houston....
  
  
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• Edwards Plateau
  Edwards Plateau
  The Edwards Plateau is a region of west-central Texas which is bounded by the Balcones Fault to the south and east, the Llano Uplift and the Llano Estacado to the north, and the Pecos River and Chihuahuan Desert to the west. San Angelo, Austin, San Antonio and Del Rio roughly outline the area...
  
  
• Elections in the State of Texas
  Elections in Texas
  From 1836 to 1845 Republic of Texas elected Presidents. In 1845, it was admitted as the state of Texas.On March 4, 2008 Texas had Democratic and Republican primaries for President.-External links:* at the Texas Secretary of State official website...
  
  
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• Electronic Data Systems
  Electronic Data Systems
  HP Enterprise Services is the global business and technology services division of Hewlett Packard's HP Enterprise Business strategic business unit. It was formed by the combination of HP's legacy services consulting and outsourcing business and the integration of acquired Electronic Data Systems,...
  
  
• Ellington Field
  Ellington Field
  Ellington International Airport is a joint civil-military airport located in the U.S. state of Texas within the city of Houston— southeast of Downtown. Established by the Army Air Service on 21 May 1917, Ellington Field was one of the initial World War I Army Air Service installations when...
  
  
• El Paso International Airport
  El Paso International Airport
  El Paso International Airport is a public airport located four miles northeast of the central business district of the City of El Paso, in El Paso County, Texas, USA....
  
  
• El Paso, Texas
  El Paso, Texas
  El Paso, is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States, and lies in far West Texas. In the 2010 census, the city had a population of 649,121. It is the sixth largest city in Texas and the 19th largest city in the United States...
  
  
• Elections in the State of Texas
• Enchanted Rock
  Enchanted Rock
  Enchanted Rock is an enormous pink granite pluton rock formation located in the Llano Uplift approximately north of Fredericksburg, Texas, USA and south of Llano, Texas. Enchanted Rock State Natural Area, which includes Enchanted Rock and surrounding land, spans the border between Gillespie...
  
  
• Enron
  Enron
  Enron Corporation was an American energy, commodities, and services company based in Houston, Texas. Before its bankruptcy on December 2, 2001, Enron employed approximately 22,000 staff and was one of the world's leading electricity, natural gas, communications, and pulp and paper companies, with...
  
  
• Environment of Texas
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• Excel Communications
  Excel Communications
  Excel Communications was founded in 1988 by Dallas entrepreneur Kenny Troutt as a long distance reseller in the US telecom sector at the birth of telecom deregulation. It began selling franchises using a multi-level marketing business model, eventually selling over 200,000 of these franchises, or...
  
  
• Extreme points of Texas
• Exxon Mobil

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• Fair Park
  Fair Park
  Dallas Fair Park is a recreational and educational complex located in Dallas, Texas . The complex is registered as a Dallas Landmark, National Historic Landmark and is home to nine museums, six performance facilities, a lagoon, and the largest Ferris wheel in North America...
  
  
• Faulk, John Henry
  John Henry Faulk
  John Henry Faulk from Austin, Texas was a storyteller and radio show host. His successful lawsuit against blacklisters of the entertainment industry helped to bring an end to the Hollywood blacklist.-Early life:...
  
  
• F.C. Dallas
• Festivals in Texas
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• Flag of the State of Texas
• The Flame
  The Flame (newspaper)
  The Flame is a student newspaper at the University of Houston–Victoria.The Flame is written by the students in the "Writing for the Print Media" class and produced by students in the "Online Production" lab. The courses' instructor oversees the paper's publication....
  
  
• Flyleaf
  Flyleaf
  Flyleaf is an American alternative metal band, formed in the Belton and Temple, Texas regions in 2000. The band has charted on mainstream rock, Christian pop and Christian metal genres. They performed around the United States in 2003 until releasing their eponymous debut album, Flyleaf, in 2005....
  
  
• Fort Parker Massacre
  Fort Parker massacre
  The Fort Parker massacre was an event in May 1836 in which members of the pioneer Parker family were killed in a raid by Native Americans. In this raid, a 9-year old girl, Cynthia Ann Parker, was captured and spent most of the rest of her life with the Comanche, marrying a Chief, Peta Nocona, and...
  
  
• Fort Worth Cats
  Fort Worth Cats
  The Fort Worth Cats are a professional baseball team based in Fort Worth, Texas, in the United States. The Cats are a member of the South Division of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball. Since the 2002 season the Cats...
  
  
• Fort Worth, Texas
  Fort Worth, Texas
  Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. Located in North Central Texas, just southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and...
  
  
• Forts in Texas
  • Fort Bliss
    Fort Bliss
    Fort Bliss is a United States Army post in the U.S. states of New Mexico and Texas. With an area of about , it is the Army's second-largest installation behind the adjacent White Sands Missile Range. It is FORSCOM's largest installation, and has the Army's largest Maneuver Area behind the...
    
    
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• Fountain Place
  Fountain Place
  Fountain Place is a 60-story late-modernist skyscraper in the Arts District in downtown Dallas, Texas. Standing at a structural height of , it is the fifth-tallest in Dallas, and the 15th-tallest in Texas.-Design:...
  
  
• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
  Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
  Francisco Vásquez de Coronado y Luján was a Spanish conquistador, who visited New Mexico and other parts of what are now the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542...
  
  
• Franklin Mountains
  Franklin Mountains (Texas)
  The Franklin Mountains of Texas are a small range that extend from El Paso, Texas north into New Mexico. The Franklins were formed due to crustal extension related to the Cenozoic Rio Grande rift...
  
  
• Fredericksburg, Texas
  Fredericksburg, Texas
  Fredericksburg is the seat of Gillespie County, in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 Census estimate, the city had a population of 10, 530...
  
  
• Freebirds World Burrito
  Freebirds World Burrito
  Freebirds World Burrito, Freebirds for short, is a regional chain of fast casual burrito restaurants. Founded in 1987 in Isla Vista, California by Mark Orfalea and Pierre Dube, the restaurant chain expanded into Texas in 1990...
  
  
• Friedman, Kinky
  Kinky Friedman
  Richard S. "Kinky" Friedman is an American Texas Country singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for Texas Monthly who styles himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain. He was one of two independent candidates in the 2006 election...
  
  
• Frisco RoughRiders
  Frisco RoughRiders
  The Frisco RoughRiders are currently the Class AA affiliate of the Texas Rangers major league baseball club. The team plays in the Texas League, assigned to the South Division. Prior to 2003, the franchise was based in Shreveport, Louisiana, and were known as the Shreveport Captains...
  
  
• Frisco, Texas
  Frisco, Texas
  Frisco is an affluent city in Collin and Denton Counties in the U.S. state of Texas and a rapidly growing suburb of Dallas. As of the 2010 Census, 116,989 people were living in Frisco up from 33,714 in the previous census. Frisco was the fastest growing city in the United States in 2009, and also...
  
  
• Frontiersmen
  Frontiersmen (University of Houston)
  The Frontiersmen is a group of students from the University of Houston that are involved in many university events including athletic games. The Frontiersmen began as a tradition at the university in 1948.-History:...
  
  
• Frontier Fiesta
  Frontier Fiesta
  Frontier Fiesta is a three day event at the University of Houston that takes place on campus every spring semester, usually in the last weekend of March to the first weekend in April...
  
  
• Frito Lay
• FUNimation

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• Galveston, Texas
  Galveston, Texas
  Galveston is a coastal city located on Galveston Island in the U.S. state of Texas. , the city had a total population of 47,743 within an area of...
  
  , republican capital 1836
• Galveston County, Texas
  Galveston County, Texas
  Galveston County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the population was 291,309. Its county seat is Galveston. League City is the largest city in Galveston County in terms of population; between...
  
  
• Galveston Hurricane of 1900
  Galveston Hurricane of 1900
  The Hurricane of 1900 made landfall on the city of Galveston in the U.S. state of Texas, on September 8, 1900.It had estimated winds of at landfall, making it a Category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale...
  
  
• Gardens in Texas
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• Garland, Texas
  Garland, Texas
  -Climate:* The average warmest month is July.* The highest recorded temperature was in 2000.* On average, the coolest month is January.* The lowest recorded temperature was in 1989.* The maximum average precipitation occurs in May....
  
  
• Geography of Texas
  Geography of Texas
  The geography of Texas is diverse and far reaching in scope. Occupying about 7% of the total water and land area of the U.S., it is the second largest state after Alaska, and is the southernmost part of the Great Plains, which end in the south against the folded Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico...
  
  
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• Geology of Texas
  Geology of Texas
  Texas contains a great variety of geologic settings. The state's stratigraphy has been largely influenced by marine transgressive-regressive cycles during the Phanerozoic, with a lesser but still significant contribution from late Cenozoic tectonic activity, as well as the remnants of a Paleozoic...
  
  
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• George Bush Intercontinental Airport
  George Bush Intercontinental Airport
  George Bush Intercontinental Airport, is a Class B international airport in Houston, Texas, serving the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area, the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the United States. Located north of Downtown Houston between Interstate 45 and U.S. Highway 59...
  
  
• Ghost towns in Texas
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• Gilmore, Jimmie Dale
  Jimmie Dale Gilmore
  Jimmie Dale Gilmore is a country singer, songwriter, actor, recording artist and producer, currently living in Austin, Texas.-Biography:...
  
  
• Golf clubs and courses in Texas
• Goodnight, Charles
  Charles Goodnight
  Charles Goodnight, also known as Charlie Goodnight , was a cattle rancher in the American West, perhaps the best known rancher in Texas. He is sometimes known as the "father of the Texas Panhandle." Essayist and historian J...
  
  
• Goodnight-Loving Trail
• Government of the State of Texas  website
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• Governor of the State of Texas
  Governor of Texas
  The governor of Texas is the head of the executive branch of Texas's government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. The governor has the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the Texas Legislature, and to convene the legislature...
  
  
  • List of Governors of Texas
• Gramm, Phil
  Phil Gramm
  William Philip "Phil" Gramm is an American economist and politician, who has served as a Democratic Congressman , a Republican Congressman and a Republican Senator from Texas...
  
  
• Grand Prairie, Texas
  Grand Prairie, Texas
  Grand Prairie is a city in Dallas, Ellis, and Tarrant counties in the U.S. state of Texas and is a part of the Mid-Cities region in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. Grand Prairie is a suburb of both Dallas and Fort Worth and had a population of 175,396 at the 2010 census.- History :The city of...
  
  

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• Hagerman, Amber
  Amber Hagerman
  Amber Rene Hagerman was a young girl who became a victim of an abduction and murder. On January 13, 1996, she was riding her bike near her grandparents' home in Arlington, Texas, and was kidnapped soon thereafter...
  
  
• Hall of State
  Hall of State
  The Hall of State is a building in Dallas's Fair Park that commemorates the history of the U.S. state of Texas and is considered one of the best examples of Art Deco architecture in the state.-History:...
  
  
• Halliburton
  Halliburton
  Halliburton is the world's second largest oilfield services corporation with operations in more than 70 countries. It has hundreds of subsidiaries, affiliates, branches, brands and divisions worldwide and employs over 50,000 people....
  
  
• Hank Hill
  Hank Hill
  Henry Rutherford "Hank" Hill Age 50 animated series King of the Hill. Hank lives in Arlen, Texas and works at the fictional Strickland Propane selling propane and propane accessories. Hank's voice is provided by series creator Mike Judge. The Economist named Hank Hill as one of the wisest people...
  
  
• Harlingen, Texas
  Harlingen, Texas
  Harlingen is a city in Cameron County in the heart of the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, United States, about from the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The city covers more than , and is the second largest city in Cameron County and the sixth largest in the Rio Grande Valley...
  
  
• Harrisburgh, Republic of Texas
  Harrisburg, Houston, Texas
  Harrisburg is located within the city of Houston, Texas, United States....
  
  , republican capital 1836
• Hawkins, Aubrey
• Heritage railroads in Texas
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• Hicks, Tom
  Tom Hicks
  Thomas Ollis Hicks, Sr. , is an American 'leveraged buyout' businessman living in Dallas, Texas. Despite Forbes Magazine estimating Hicks' wealth at USD 1 billion in 2009, Hicks was unable to pay off joint loans of circa £200 million the following year...
  
  
• Highway system of Texas
  Texas state highways
  Texas state highways are a network of highways owned and maintained by the U.S. state of Texas. The Texas Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for the day-to-day operations and maintenance of the system. In addition to the nationally-numbered Interstate highways and U.S...
  
  
• Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management
  Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management
  The Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management is one of twelve academic college of the University of Houston. The college, consisting of several facilities, includes a full-service Hilton Hotel. The College currently offers multiple programs that include: Bachelors of Science...
  
  
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• Hiking trails in Texas
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• Hines College of Architecture
  Hines College of Architecture
  The Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture is an architecture school and is one of twelve academic colleges of the University of Houston. It offers both undergraduate and graduate level degree programs....
  
  
• Hightower, Jim
  Jim Hightower
  James Allen "Jim" Hightower is an American syndicated columnist, activist and author.-Life and career:Born in Denison, Texas, Hightower came from a working class background. He worked his way through college as assistant general manager of the Denton Chamber of Commerce and later landed a spot as...
  
  
• Hippie Hollow Park
  Hippie Hollow Park
  Hippie Hollow Park is a park located on the shore of Lake Travis in northwest Austin . It is the only legally recognized clothing-optional public park in the State of Texas. Though the land is owned by the Lower Colorado River Authority, it is leased to Travis County, whose Parks Department has...
  
  
• History of Houston
  History of Houston
  This article documents the wide-ranging history of the city of Houston, the largest city in the state of Texas and the fourth-largest in the United States.-Houston's turbulent beginning:...
  
  
• History of Sugar Land, Texas
  History of Sugar Land, Texas
  The history of Sugar Land, Texas, documents the historical events starting with the land grant by Stephen F. Austin to what would later become a company town in the early 1900s and then the fastest growing city in the U.S. state of Texas during the 1990s....
  
  
• History of Texas
  History of Texas
  European conquistadors first arrived in the region now known as Texas in 1519, finding the region populated by various Native American tribes...
  
  
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• Hockaday School, The
  The Hockaday School
  The Hockaday School is an independent, secular, college preparatory day and boarding school for girls located in Dallas, Texas, USA and surrounding areas...
  
  
• Holly, Buddy
  Buddy Holly
  Charles Hardin Holley , known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll...
  
  
• Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development
  Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development
  The Holy Land Foundation was the largest Islamic charity in the United States. Headquartered in Richardson, Texas, it was originally known as Occupied Land Fund....
  
  
• Hotter'N Hell Hundred
  Hotter'N Hell Hundred
  The Hotter’N Hell Hundred is an annual bicycle ride in Wichita Falls, Texas. It is held each year on the 4th or 5th Saturday in August and includes professional as well as amateur riders. The professional racers ride a 100-mile road race, as well as time trials and criterium...
  
  
• Houston Aeros
  Houston Aeros
  The Houston Aeros are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. The team plays in Houston, Texas, at the Toyota Center. They are the AHL affiliate of the NHL's Minnesota Wild.- History :...
  
  
• Houston Astros
  Houston Astros
  The Houston Astros are a Major League Baseball team located in Houston, Texas. They are a member of the National League Central division. The Astros are expected to join the American League West division in 2013. Since , they have played their home games at Minute Maid Park, known as Enron Field...
  
  
• Houston Chronicle
  Houston Chronicle
  The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Texas, USA, headquartered in the Houston Chronicle Building in Downtown Houston. , it is the ninth-largest newspaper by circulation in the United States...
  
  
• Houston Comets
  Houston Comets
  The Houston Comets were a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Houston, Texas, United States. Formed in 1997, the team was one of the best original eight WNBA teams and won the first four championships of the league's existence. The Comets were the first dynasty of the WNBA and...
  
  
• Houston Galleria
  Houston Galleria
  The Galleria, stylized theGalleria, is an upscale mixed-use urban development centrally located in the Uptown District of Houston, Texas, United States. The development consists of a retail complex, as well as the Galleria Office Towers complex, two Westin hotels, and a private health club...
  
  
• Houston Independent School District
  Houston Independent School District
  The Houston Independent School District is the largest public school system in Texas and the seventh-largest in the United States. Houston ISD serves as a community school district for most of the city of Houston and several nearby and insular municipalities...
  
  
• Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
  Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
  The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, also called RodeoHouston, is the world's largest live entertainment and livestock exhibition. It also includes the richest regular-season rodeo event. It has been held at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas, since 2003...
  
  
• Houston Museum District
  Houston Museum District
  The Houston Museum District commonly known as, “The Museum District,” is an association of museums, galleries, cultural centers and community organizations located in Houston, Texas, dedicated to promoting the arts, sciences, and cultural amenities of the area.The Houston Museum District currently...
  
  
• Houston Rockets
  Houston Rockets
  The Houston Rockets are an American professional basketball team based in Houston, Texas. The team plays in the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was established in 1967, and played in San Diego, California for four years, before being...
  
  
• Houston, Sam
  Sam Houston
  Samuel Houston, known as Sam Houston , was a 19th-century American statesman, politician, and soldier. He was born in Timber Ridge in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, of Scots-Irish descent. Houston became a key figure in the history of Texas and was elected as the first and third President of...
  
  
• Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown Metropolitan Area
  Greater Houston
  Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown is a 10-county metropolitan area defined by the Office of Management and Budget. It is located along the Gulf Coast region in the U.S. state of Texas...
  
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• Houston Texans
  Houston Texans
  The Houston Texans are a professional American football team based in Houston, Texas. The team is currently a member of the Southern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  
• Houston, Texas
  Houston, Texas
  Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...
  
  , republican capital 1837-1839
• Houston Zoo
  Houston Zoo
  The Houston Zoo is a zoological park located within Hermann Park in Houston, Texas, United States. Housing over 6,000 animals belonging to over 900 species, the zoo receives 1.6 million visitors each year and is the seventh most visited zoo in the nation...
  
  
• Hurricane Alicia
  Hurricane Alicia
  Hurricane Alicia was the costliest tropical cyclone in the Atlantic since Hurricane Agnes in 1972. Alicia was the third depression, the first tropical storm, and the only major hurricane of the 1983 Atlantic hurricane season...
  
  
• Husband, Rick D.
• Hutchison, Kay Bailey
  Kay Bailey Hutchison
  Kathryn Ann Bailey Hutchison, known as Kay Bailey Hutchison , is the senior United States Senator from Texas.She is a member of the Republican Party. In 2001, she was named one of the thirty most powerful women in America by Ladies Home Journal. The first woman to represent Texas in the U.S....
  
  

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• id Software
  Id Software
  Id Software is an American video game development company with its headquarters in Richardson, Texas. The company was founded in 1991 by four members of the computer company Softdisk: programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and artist Adrian Carmack...
  
  
• Images of Texas
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• Inks Dam
  Inks Dam
  Inks Dam was constructed from 1936 to 1938 and forms Inks Lake, one of the seven Texas Highland Lakes. The dam is located at 30.7307 -98.3842 about west-southwest of Burnet, Texas. It was constructed to provide hydroelectric power, and helps buffer the large changes in water flow Buchanan Dam, ...
  
  
• Inks Lake
  Inks Lake
  Inks Lake is a reservoir on the Colorado River in the Texas Hill Country in the United States. The reservoir was formed in 1938 by the construction of Inks Dam by the Lower Colorado River Authority. Located near Burnet, Texas, the lake serves to provide flood control in tandem with Lake Buchanan...
  
  
• Institute for Christian Studies
  Institute for Christian Studies
  The Institute for Christian Studies Toronto, Ontario is one of several unrelated institutions bearing that name.ICS Toronto is an independent graduate school of inter-disciplinary philosophy. At ICS, Junior Members and Senior members take part in shared learning through participatory seminars,...
  
  
• Interstate highway routes in Texas
• Ireland, John
  John Ireland (actor)
  John Benjamin Ireland was an actor and film director.-Biography:Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he was raised in New York City from the age of 18. He started out in minor stage roles on Broadway...
  
  
• Irving, Texas
  Irving, Texas
  Irving is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within Dallas County. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city population was 216,290. Irving is within the Dallas–Plano–Irving metropolitan division of the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, designated...
  
  
• Islands of Texas

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• JCPenney
• John Connally Unit
  John Connally Unit
  The John B. Connally Unit is a maximum-security prison for males located in unincorporated Karnes County, Texas, United States. It is located on Texas State Highway 181 south of the city of Kenedy. The prison, with about of space, is operated by the Correctional Institutions Division of the Texas...
  
  
• John F. Kennedy assassination
  John F. Kennedy assassination
  John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas...
  
  
• John Redcorn
  John Redcorn
  John Redcorn III , is a character in the animated series King of the Hill. He is addressed or referred to as "John Redcorn" or "Mr...
  
  
• John Sealy Hospital
  John Sealy Hospital
  John Sealy Hospital is a hospital that is a part of the University of Texas Medical Branch complex in Galveston, Texas, United States.Sealy opened on January 10, 1890. It was founded by the widow and brother of one of the richest citizens of Texas, John Sealy after his death...
  
  
• Johnson, Lady Bird
  Lady Bird Johnson
  Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor Johnson was First Lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969 during the presidency of her husband Lyndon B. Johnson. Throughout her life, she was an advocate for beautification of the nation's cities and highways and conservation of natural resources and made that...
  
  
• Johnson, Lyndon Baines
• Johnston, Albert Sidney
  Albert Sidney Johnston
  Albert Sidney Johnston served as a general in three different armies: the Texas Army, the United States Army, and the Confederate States Army...
  
  
• Jones, Anson
  Anson Jones
  Anson Jones was a doctor, businessman, congressman, the fourth and last President of the Republic of Texas, sometimes called the "Architect of Annexation."- Early life :...
  
  
• Jones, Jerry
  Jerry Jones
  Jerral "Jerry" Wayne Jones is the owner and general manager of the NFL team, the Dallas Cowboys.-Early life:Jones was born in Los Angeles, California. His family moved to North Little Rock, Arkansas when he was an infant. Jones was a star running back at North Little Rock High School...
  
  
• Joplin, Janis
  Janis Joplin
  Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer, songwriter, painter, dancer and music arranger. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist with her backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band...
  
  
• Jordan, Barbara
  Barbara Jordan
  Barbara Charline Jordan was an American politician who was both a product and a leader, of the Civil Rights movement. She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first southern black female elected to the United States House of Representatives...
  
  
• Joseph Gribble
• JPMorgan Chase Tower
  JPMorgan Chase Tower (Dallas)
  Chase Tower is a , 55-story postmodern skyscraper at 2200 Ross Avenue in the City Center District of downtown Dallas, Texas. Although it is the fourth tallest skyscraper in the city, if one were to exclude antennas and spires, it would be the third. It is also the 12th tallest building in Texas...
  
   - Dallas
  Dallas, Texas
  Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
  
  
• JPMorgan Chase Tower
  JPMorgan Chase Tower (Houston)
  JPMorgan Chase Tower, formerly Texas Commerce Tower, is a , 75-story skyscraper in Houston, Texas. It is currently the tallest building in the city, the tallest building in Texas, the tallest five-sided building in the world, 12th tallest building in the United States, and the 54th tallest building...
  
   - Houston
  Houston, Texas
  Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...
  
  

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• Katy, Texas
  Katy, Texas
  Katy is a city located in Harris, Fort Bend and Waller Counties in the U.S. state of Texas, within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area...
  
  
• Killeen, Texas
  Killeen, Texas
  Killeen is a city in Bell County, Texas, The United States. The population was 86,911 at the 2000 census. As of 2009, Killeen had 119,510 people. In 2010 Killeen's population shot to 127,921...
  
  
• Kimberly-Clark
  Kimberly-Clark
  Kimberly-Clark Corporation is an American corporation that produces mostly paper-based consumer products. Kimberly-Clark brand name products include "Kleenex" facial tissue, "Kotex" feminine hygiene products, "Cottonelle", Scott and Andrex toilet paper, Wypall utility wipes, "KimWipes"...
  
  
• King of the Hill
  King of the Hill
  King of the Hill is an American animated dramedy series created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, that ran from January 12, 1997, to May 6, 2010, on Fox network. It centers on the Hills, a working-class Methodist family in the fictional small town of Arlen, Texas...
  
  
• King Ranch
  King Ranch
  King Ranch, located in south Texas between Corpus Christi and Brownsville, is one of the world's largest ranches. The ranch, founded in 1853 by Captain Richard King and Gideon K. Lewis, includes portions of six Texas counties, including most of Kleberg County and much of Kenedy County, with...
  
  
• Kirk, Ron
  Ron Kirk
  Ronald "Ron" Kirk is the 16th United States Trade Representative, serving in the Obama administration. He served as mayor of Dallas, Texas from 1995 to 2002; he also ran for the United States Senate in 2002.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Knowles, Beyoncé
  Beyoncé Knowles
  Beyoncé Giselle Knowles , often known simply as Beyoncé, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she enrolled in various performing arts schools and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child...
  
  
• Koresh, David
  David Koresh
  David Koresh , born Vernon Wayne Howell, was the leader of a Branch Davidian religious sect, believing himself to be its final prophet. Howell legally changed his name to David Koresh on May 15, 1990. A 1993 raid by the U.S...
  
  
• KTRK-TV
  KTRK-TV
  KTRK-TV, channel 13, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, located in Houston, Texas...
  
  

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• Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge
  Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge
  Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge is the largest protected area of natural habitat left in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. The refuge is located almost entirely in Cameron County, Texas , although a very small part of its northernmost point extends into southern Willacy County...
  
  
• Lake Marble Falls
  Lake Marble Falls
  Lake Marble Falls is a reservoir on the Colorado River in the Texas Hill Country in the United States. The reservoir was formed in 1951 by the construction of Max Starcke Dam by the Lower Colorado River Authority. Originally named Marble Falls Dam, the dam was renamed in 1962 for Max Starcke, the...
  
  
• Lakes in Texas
  • Lady Bird Lake
  • Lake Austin
    Lake Austin
    Lake Austin is a reservoir on the Colorado River in Austin, Texas in the United States. The reservoir was formed in 1939 by the construction of Tom Miller Dam by the Lower Colorado River Authority....
    
    
  • Lake Buchanan
  • Lake LBJ
    Lake LBJ
    Lake Lyndon B. Johnson is a reservoir on the Colorado River in the Texas Hill Country in the United States. The reservoir was formed in 1950 by the construction of Granite Shoals Dam by the Lower Colorado River Authority. The Colorado River and the Llano River meet in the northern portion of the...
    
    
  • Lake Travis
    Lake Travis
    Lake Travis is a reservoir on the Colorado River in central Texas in the United States. The reservoir was formed in 1942 by the construction of Mansfield Dam on the western edge of Austin, Texas by the Lower Colorado River Authority...
    
    
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• Lamar, Mirabeau B.
  Mirabeau B. Lamar
  Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar was a Texas politician, diplomat and soldier who was a leading Texas political figure during the Texas Republic era. He was the second President of the Republic of Texas, after David G. Burnet and Sam Houston.-Early years:Lamar grew up at Fairfield, his father's...
  
  
• Landmarks in Texas
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• Landry, Tom
  Tom Landry
  Thomas Wade "Tom" Landry was an American football player and coach. He is ranked as one of the greatest and most innovative coaches in National Football League history, creating many new formations and methods...
  
  
• Lane, Walter P.
  Walter P. Lane
  Walter Paye Lane was a Confederate general during the American Civil War who also served in the armies of the Republic of Texas and the United States of America.-Early life:...
  
  
• Laredo International Airport
  Laredo International Airport
  -Air cargo operators & destinations :* ABX Air * FedEx Express * UPS Airlines -Accidents and incidents:...
  
  
• Laredo, Texas
  Laredo, Texas
  Laredo is the county seat of Webb County, Texas, United States, located on the north bank of the Rio Grande in South Texas, across from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. According to the 2010 census, the city population was 236,091 making it the 3rd largest on the United States-Mexican border,...
  
  
• Las Colinas
  Las Colinas
  Las Colinas is an upscale, developed area in the Dallas suburb of Irving, Texas.Due to its central location between Dallas and Fort Worth and its proximity to DFW Airport, Las Colinas has been a viable place in the Metroplex for corporate and business relocation.As a planned community, it has many...
  
  
• Lee College
  Lee College
  Lee College is a comprehensive community college located in Baytown, Texas, approximately east of Houston, Texas.Lee College's main campus occupies landscaped near downtown Baytown and maintains extension campuses throughout its service area...
  
  
• Legal status of Texas
  Legal status of Texas
  The legal status of Texas is the standing of Texas as a political entity. The legal status of Texas relative to the United States of America has been the subject of debate. Texas is considered to be a state under the sovereignty of the United States of America. United States sovereignty over Texas...
  
  
• Leland, Mickey
  Mickey Leland
  George Thomas "Mickey" Leland was an anti-poverty activist who later became a congressman from the Texas 18th District and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus...
  
  
• LeTourneau University
  LeTourneau University
  LeTourneau University is a private, interdenominational Christian university located in Longview, Texas, United States with flagship programs in engineering, aeronautical science, business and education...
  
  
• Lipan Apache
  Lipan Apache
  Lipan Apache are Southern Athabascan people who are aboriginal to present-day Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and the northern Mexican states of Chihuahua, Nuevo León, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas prior to the 17th century. Present-day Lipans mostly live throughout the U.S...
  
  
• Lists related to the State of Texas:
  • List of airports in Texas
  • List of census statistical areas in Texas
    Texas census statistical areas
    thumb|An enlargeable map of the [[List of counties in Texas|254 counties]] of the [[State of Texas]]The United States Census Bureau has defined 8 Combined Statistical Areas , 25 Metropolitan Statistical Areas , and 43 Micropolitan Statistical Areas in the State of Texas. The following table...
    
    
  • List of cities in Texas
  • List of colleges and universities in Texas
  • List of companies in Texas
  • List of counties in Texas
  • List of county name etymologies in Texas
  • List of county seat name etymologies in Texas
  • List of farm to market roads in Texas
  • List of forts in Texas
  • List of freeways in the Dallas-Fort Worth area
  • List of ghost towns in Texas
  • List of Governors of Texas
  • List of high schools in Texas
  • List of highways in the Houston area
  • List of highways in the San Antonio area
  • List of hospitals in Texas
  • List of individuals executed in Texas
  • List of Interstate highway routes in Texas
  • List of islands of Texas
  • List of lakes in Texas
  • List of law enforcement agencies in Texas
  • List of mayors of Austin, Texas
  • List of mayors of Dallas, Texas
  • List of mayors of El Paso, Texas
  • List of mayors of Fort Worth, Texas
  • List of mayors of Houston, Texas
  • List of mayors of Plano, Texas
  • List of mayors of San Antonio, Texas
  • List of museums in Texas
  • List of National Historic Landmarks in Texas
  • List of newspapers in Texas
  • List of people from Texas
  • List of radio stations in Texas
  • List of railroads in Texas
  • List of Registered Historic Places in Texas
  • List of rivers of Texas
  • List of school districts in Texas
  • List of state forests in Texas
  • List of state highway loops in Texas
  • List of state highway spurs in Texas
  • List of state highways in Texas
  • List of state parks in Texas
  • List of state prisons in Texas
  • List of symbols of the State of Texas
  • List of telephone area codes in Texas
  • List of television stations in Texas
  • List of United States congressional delegations from Texas
    United States Congressional Delegations from Texas
    These are tables of congressional delegations from Texas to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.-United States Senate:-United States House of Representatives:...
    
    
  • List of United States congressional districts in Texas
  • List of United States Representatives from Texas
  • List of United States Senators from Texas
  • List of U.S. highway routes in Texas
• Literature of Texas
  Texas literature
  Texas literature is literature about the history and culture of Texas. It includes every literary genre and dates from the time of the first European contact.-Non-fiction:...
  
  
• Llano Estacado
  Llano Estacado
  Llano Estacado , commonly known as the Staked Plains, is a region in the Southwestern United States that encompasses parts of eastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas, including the South Plains and parts of the Texas Panhandle...
  
  
• Llano River
  Llano River
  The Llano River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 105 mi long, in central Texas in the United States. It drains part of the Edwards Plateau in Texas Hill Country northwest of Austin....
  
  
• Llano Uplift
  Llano Uplift
  The Llano Uplift is a roughly circular geologic dome of Precambrian rock, primarily granite, in Central Texas in the United States. It is located in the eastern region of the Edwards Plateau, west of the Texas Hill Country...
  
  
• Longhorn Dam
  Longhorn Dam
  Longhorn Dam is a dam located at 30.2504, -97.7135 on the Colorado River within the city limits of Austin, Texas, USA. Longhorn Dam was built by the city of Austin and finished in 1960 as the last in a chain of Colorado River dams in central Texas started during the Great Depression...
  
  
• Longview, Texas
  Longview, Texas
  Longview is a city in Gregg and Harrison Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 80,455. Most of the city is located in Gregg County, of which it is the county seat; only a small part extends into the western part of neighboring Harrison County. It is...
  
  
• Louisiana Purchase
  Louisiana Purchase
  The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of America of of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana in 1803. The U.S...
  
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• Love Field
• Lower Colorado River Authority
  Lower Colorado River Authority
  The Lower Colorado River Authority or LCRA is a nonprofit public utility that was created in November 1934 by the Texas Legislature. LCRA's mission is to protect people, property and the environment by providing public services for more than one million people in Central and Southeast Texas...
  
  
• Luanne Platter
• Lubbock, Francis
  Francis Lubbock
  Francis Richard Lubbock was the ninth Governor of Texas and was in office during the American Civil War. He was the brother of Thomas Saltus Lubbock, for whom the City of Lubbock is named....
  
  
• Lubbock International Airport
• Lubbock, Texas
  Lubbock, Texas
  Lubbock is a city in and the county seat of Lubbock County, Texas, United States. The city is located in the northwestern part of the state, a region known historically as the Llano Estacado, and the home of Texas Tech University and Lubbock Christian University...
  
  
• Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
  Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
  The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's center for human spaceflight training, research and flight control. The center consists of a complex of 100 buildings constructed on 1,620 acres in Houston, Texas, USA...
  
  

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• Machemehl, Charles W.
• Machemehl, Chuck
  Chuck Machemehl
  Chuck Machemehl is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. A rancher and businessman in Central Texas, he was drafted by the Cleveland Indians in 1967, and played for them during the 1971 season. .-External links:...
  
  
• Machemehl, Louis A.
• Machemehl, Paul
• McAllen, Texas
  McAllen, Texas
  McAllen is the largest city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States. It is located at the southern tip of Texas in an area known as the Rio Grande Valley and is part of the . Its southern boundary is located about five miles from the U.S.–Mexico border and the Mexican city of Reynosa, the Rio...
  
  
• McAllen-Miller International Airport
  McAllen-Miller International Airport
  McAllen-Miller International Airport is an airport in McAllen, Texas, United States, located south of the central business district. The airport has 2 runways and one terminal with 5 gates. According to the updated 20-year Master Plan for MFE, runway 13/31 will be extended to 10,000 ft. In...
  
  
• McClure, Jessica
  Jessica McClure
  Jessica McClure Morales became famous at the age of 18 months after falling into a well in the backyard of 3309 Tanner Dr. Midland, Texas, on October 14, 1987. Between that day and October 16, rescuers worked for 58 hours to free "Baby Jessica" from the eight-inch-wide well casing below the ground...
  
  
• Magnolia Hotel (Dallas, Texas)
• Magnolia Hotel (Houston)
  Magnolia Hotel (Houston)
  The Magnolia Hotel is a hotel located at 1100 Texas Ave., in downtown Houston, Texas. It was the tallest building in Houston from 1926 to 1927.-References:*...
  
  
• Mansfield Dam
  Mansfield Dam
  Mansfield Dam is a dam located at across a canyon at Marshall Ford on the Colorado River, northwest of Austin, Texas. Construction of the dam began in 1937 and was completed in 1941 as a joint project by the Lower Colorado River Authority and the United States Bureau of Reclamation...
  
  
• Maps of Texas
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• Marshall, Texas
  Marshall, Texas
  Marshall is a city in Harrison County in the northeastern corner of Texas. Marshall is a major cultural and educational center in East Texas and the tri-state area. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the population of Marshall was about 23,523...
  
  
• Mesquite Championship Rodeo
  Mesquite Championship Rodeo
  The Mesquite Championship Rodeo is a rodeo located in Mesquite, Texas that operates during rodeo season .Founded in 1958 by Neal Gay as a permanent rodeo , the rodeo struggled in the early years, but grew as the city of Mesquite grew...
  
  
• Mesquite, Texas
  Mesquite, Texas
  Mesquite is a city located within the Dallas/Ft.Worth area of Texas. As of the 2010 US Census, the population was 139,824.-History:The city was founded May 22, 1873, by a Texas & Pacific Railway engineer who purchased land along the Texas & Pacific line outside of Dallas...
  
  
• Metroplex
• Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas
  Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas
  The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County is a major public transportation agency based in Houston . It operates bus, light rail, future commuter rail, and paratransit service in the city as well as most of Harris County...
  
  
• METRORail
  METRORail
  METRORail is the light rail line in Houston . It is the second major light rail service in Texas following the Dallas Area Rapid Transit system. With an approximate daily ridership of 34,155, the METRORail ranks as the fourteenth most-traveled light rail system in the United States, with the...
  
  
• Mexican Texas
  Mexican Texas
  Mexican Texas is the name given by Texas history scholars to the period between 1821 and 1836, when Texas was an integral part of Mexico. The period began with Mexico's victory over Spain in its war of independence in 1821. For the first several years of its existence, Mexican Texas operated very...
  
  
• Michelson Museum of Art
  Michelson Museum of Art
  The Michelson Museum of Art is a museum in Marshall, Texas originally founded to permanently house the works of the Russian-American artist Leo Michelson....
  
  
• Midland, Texas
  Midland, Texas
  Midland is a city in and the county seat of Midland County, Texas, United States, on the Southern Plains of the state's western area. A small portion of the city extends into Martin County. As of 2010, the population of Midland was 111,147. It is the principal city of the Midland, Texas...
  
  
• Miller, Laura
  Laura Miller
  Laura Miller served as mayor of Dallas, Texas from 2002 through 2007. She did not run for re-election in the 2007 mayoral race. She was the third woman to serve as mayor of Dallas.- Education and career :...
  
  
• Minute Maid Park
  Minute Maid Park
  Minute Maid Park is a ballpark in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States that opened in 2000 to house the Major League Baseball Houston Astros....
  
  
• Mission, Texas
  Mission, Texas
  Mission is a city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States. The population was 77,058 at the 2010 census Mission is part of the McAllen–Edinburg–Mission and Reynosa–McAllen metropolitan areas.-Geography:Mission is located at ....
  
  
• Monuments and memorials in Texas
  • commons:Category:Monuments and memorials in Texas
• Moody Gardens
  Moody Gardens
  Moody Gardens is a tourist complex in Galveston, Texas. It is owned, through a complex agreement, by the City of Galveston but funded, operated, and supported by the multi-billion dollar Moody Foundation....
  
  
• Moores School of Music
  Moores School of Music
  The Rebecca and John J. Moores School of Music is the music school of the University of Houston. The Moores School offers the Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Arts in Music, Master of Music, and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in music performance, conducting, theory and composition, music history...
  
  
• Mountains of Texas
  • commons:Category:Mountains of Texas
• Mount Bonnell
  Mount Bonnell
  Mount Bonnell , also known as Covert Park, is a prominent point alongside Lake Austin portion of the Colorado River in Austin, Texas. It has been a popular tourist destination since the 1850s. The mount provides a vista for viewing the city of Austin, Lake Austin, and the surrounding hills...
  
  
• Murrah, Pendleton
  Pendleton Murrah
  Pendleton Murrah was the tenth Governor of Texas. His term in office coincided with the American Civil War.A native of South Carolina, Murrah graduated from Brown University in 1848. He moved to Texas and opened a law practice in Marshall. He ran and was defeated for the U.S...
  
  
• Museums in Texas
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• Music of Texas
  Music of Texas
  Texas has long been a center for musical innovation. Texans have pioneered musical developments in tejano & conjunto music, Western Swing, Jazz, punk rock, mariachi, country music, electronic music, gothic and industrial music and the blues...
  
  
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• Mustangs at Las Colinas
  Mustangs at Las Colinas
  Mustangs at Las Colinas is a bronze sculpture by Robert Glen, that decorates Williams Square in Las Colinas in Irving, Texas. It is said to be the largest equestrian sculpture in the world....
  
  

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• Nancy Gribble
• National Forests of Texas
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• Natural history of Texas
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• Nature centers in Texas
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• Neiman Marcus
  Neiman Marcus
  Neiman Marcus, formerly Neiman-Marcus, is a luxury specialty retail department store operated by the Neiman Marcus Group in the United States. The company is headquartered in the One Marcus Square building in Downtown Dallas, Texas, and competes with other department stores such as Saks Fifth...
  
  
• New Braunfels, Texas
  New Braunfels, Texas
  New Braunfels is a city in Comal and Guadalupe counties in the U.S. state of Texas that is a principal city of the metropolitan area. Braunfels means "brown rock" in German; the city is named for Braunfels, in Germany. The city's population was 57,740 as of the 2010 census, up 58% from the 2000...
  
  

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• Odessa, Texas
  Odessa, Texas
  Odessa is a city in and the county seat of Ector County, Texas, United States. It is located primarily in Ector County, although a small portion of the city extends into Midland County. Odessa's population was 99,940 at the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Odessa, Texas Metropolitan...
  
  
• Orange, Texas
  Orange, Texas
  Orange is a city in Orange County, Texas, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 18,643. It is the county seat of Orange County, and is the easternmost city in Texas. Located on the Sabine River at the border with Louisiana, it is part of the Beaumont–Port Arthur...
  
  
• Orbison, Roy
  Roy Orbison
  Roy Kelton Orbison was an American singer-songwriter, well known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly/country & western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis...
  
  
• Outdoor sculptures in Texas
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• Palo Duro Canyon
  Palo Duro Canyon
  Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, United States. As the second largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly long and has an average width of , but reaches a width of at places. Its depth is around...
  
  
• Parker, Cynthia Ann
  Cynthia Ann Parker
  Cynthia Ann Parker, or Naduah , was an American woman of old colonial stock of Scots-Irish descent who was captured and kidnapped at the age of nine by a American Indian band which massacred her family and...
  
  
• Parker, Daniel
  Daniel Parker
  Daniel Parker was a leader in the Primitive Baptist Church in the Southern United States. As an elder, Parker led a group who separated from that church and formed the Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists...
  
  
• Parker, Quanah
  Quanah Parker
  Quanah Parker was a Comanche chief, a leader in the Native American Church, and the last leader of the powerful Quahadi band before they surrendered their battle of the Great Plains and went to a reservation in Indian Territory...
  
  
• Pasadena, Texas
  Pasadena, Texas
  Pasadena is a city in the U.S. state of Texas within the metropolitan area. It is the second-largest city in Harris County, 17th-largest in Texas, and 162nd largest in the United States. The area was founded in 1893 by John H. Burnett of Galveston....
  
  
• Pecos River
  Pecos River
  The headwaters of the Pecos River are located north of Pecos, New Mexico, United States, at an elevation of over 12,000 feet on the western slope of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range in Mora County. The river flows for through the eastern portion of that state and neighboring Texas before it...
  
  
• Pedernales River
  Pedernales River
  The Pedernales River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately long, in central Texas in the United States. It drains an area of the Edwards Plateau, flowing west to east across the Texas Hill Country west of Austin...
  
  
• Peggy Hill
  Peggy Hill
  Margaret J. "Peggy" Hill is a fictional character in the American animated series King of the Hill.-Biography:Peggy is the matriarch of the Hill family, and the wife of series protagonist Hank Hill. She wears rimless glasses and is generally seen wearing cut-off blouses and culottes...
  
  
• People from Texas
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• Plano, Texas
  Plano, Texas
  Plano is a city in the state of Texas, located mostly within Collin County. The city's population was 259,841 at the 2010 census, making it the ninth-largest city in Texas and the 71st most populous city in the United States. Plano is located within the metropolitan area commonly referred to as...
  
  
• Poe, Ted
  Ted Poe
  Lloyd "Ted" Poe is a Republican politician currently representing Texas's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. The district includes most of northern Houston, as well as most of the Beaumont-Port Arthur metropolitan area. He is the first Republican to ever...
  
  
• Politics of Texas
  Politics of Texas
  For approximately 100 years, from the end of Reconstruction until the 1970s, the Democratic Party was dominant in Texas politics. However, since the 1950s the Republican Party has grown more prominent within the state, and became the state's dominant political party in the mid-1990s...
  
  
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• Port Arthur, Texas
  Port Arthur, Texas
  -Demographics:As of the 2000 census, there were 57,755 people, 21,839 households, and 14,675 families residing in the city. The population density was 696.5 people per square mile . There were 24,713 housing units at an average density of 298.0 per square mile...
  
  
• Protected areas of Texas
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• Radio Shack
  Radio shack
  Radio shack is a slang term for a room or structure for housing radio equipment.-History:In the early days of radio, equipment was experimental and home-built. The first radio transmitters used a noisy spark to generate radio waves and were often housed in a garage or shed. When radio was first...
  
  
• Railroad museums in Texas
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• Red Line (Dallas Area Rapid Transit)
  Red Line (Dallas Area Rapid Transit)
  The Red Line is a light rail line in the system of mass transit in Dallas, Texas operated by the Dallas Area Rapid Transit system. Along with the , it is one of the original modern rail lines in Dallas....
  
  
• Red River (Mississippi watershed)
  Red River (Mississippi watershed)
  The Red River, or sometimes the Red River of the South, is a major tributary of the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers in the southern United States of America. The river gains its name from the red-bed country of its watershed. It is one of several rivers with that name...
  
  
• Registered Historic Places in Texas
• Reliant Astrodome
  Reliant Astrodome
  Reliant Astrodome, also known as the Houston Astrodome or simply the Astrodome, is the world's first multi-purpose, domed sports stadium, located in Houston, Texas, USA. The stadium is part of the Reliant Park complex...
  
  
• Reliant Energy
  Reliant Energy
  RRI Energy, Inc. , based in Houston, Texas, United States, was an energy company that provided electricity to wholesale customers in the United States. The company was one of the largest independent power producers in the nation with more than 14,000 megawatts of power generation capacity across...
  
  
• Reliant Park
  Reliant Park
  Reliant Park is a complex in Houston, Texas, USA, named after the energy company Reliant Energy. It is located on Kirby Drive at the 610 Loop...
  
  
• Reliant Stadium
  Reliant Stadium
  Reliant Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium, in Houston, Texas, USA. Reliant Stadium has a seating capacity of 71,500, a total square footage of with of natural grass playing surface....
  
  
• Religion in Texas
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• Renaissance Tower (Dallas)
• Republic of Texas
  Republic of Texas
  The Republic of Texas was an independent nation in North America, bordering the United States and Mexico, that existed from 1836 to 1846.Formed as a break-away republic from Mexico by the Texas Revolution, the state claimed borders that encompassed an area that included all of the present U.S...
  
  
• Republic of Texas (group)
  Republic of Texas (group)
  The Republic of Texas is a militia group that claims that the annexation of Texas by the United States was illegal and that Texas remains an independent nation under occupation. The issue of the Legal status of Texas led the group to claim to reinstate a provisional government on December 13, 1995...
  
  
• Resendiz, Angel Maturino
  Ángel Maturino Reséndiz
  Angel Maturino Reséndiz, aka The Railroad Killer/The Railway Killer , was an itinerant Mexican serial killer responsible for as many as thirty murders across the United States and Mexico during the 1990s. Some also involved sexual assault...
  
  
• Reunion Arena
  Reunion Arena
  Reunion Arena was an indoor arena, in the Reunion district of downtown Dallas, Texas . It held 18,293 for basketball and 17,001 for ice hockey.It was demolished in November 2009 and the site was cleared by the end of the year.-History:...
  
  
• Rice University
  Rice University
  William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...
  
  
• Rice, William Marsh
  William Marsh Rice
  William Marsh Rice was an American businessman who bequeathed his fortune to found Rice University in Houston, Texas.-Biography:...
  
  
• Richards, Ann
• Richardson, Texas
  Richardson, Texas
  Richardson is a city in Dallas and Collin Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 99,223. In 2011 the population was estimated to be 107,684. Richardson is an affluent inner suburb of Dallas and home of the Telecom Corridor with a high...
  
  
• Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport
  Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport
  Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport is a public airport located six miles east of the central business district of Amarillo, a city in Potter and Randall Counties, Texas, United States...
  
  
• Rio Grande
  Rio Grande
  The Rio Grande is a river that flows from southwestern Colorado in the United States to the Gulf of Mexico. Along the way it forms part of the Mexico – United States border. Its length varies as its course changes...
  
  
• Rio Grande Valley
  Rio Grande Valley
  The Rio Grande Valley or the Lower Rio Grande Valley, informally called The Valley, is an area located in the southernmost tip of South Texas...
  
  
• Rio Grande Valley White Wings
• Rivas, George
• Rock formations in Texas
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• Roller coasters in Texas
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• Round Rock Express
  Round Rock Express
  The Round Rock Express is a class Triple-A Pacific Coast League minor league baseball team in Round Rock, Texas, owned by RSR Sports and founded by Reid Ryan, son of Baseball Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan. The team is affiliated with the Texas Rangers, for whom Nolan Ryan serves as the president and...
  
  
• Ryan, Nolan
  Nolan Ryan
  Lynn Nolan Ryan, Jr. , nicknamed "The Ryan Express", is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He is currently principal owner, president and CEO of the Texas Rangers....
  
  

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• Sabine River
  Sabine River (Texas-Louisiana)
  The Sabine River is a river, long, in the U.S. states of Texas and Louisiana. In its lower course, it forms part of the boundary between the two states and empties into Sabine Lake, an estuary of the Gulf of Mexico. The river formed part of the United States-Mexican international boundary during...
  
  
• St. Edward's University
  St. Edward's University
  St. Edward's University is a private Roman Catholic institution of higher learning located south of Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas. The university offers a liberal arts education and its campus is located on a hill overlooking the city of Austin. The campus's most notable landmark is Main...
  
  
• Saint Mary's University of San Antonio
• San Angelo Colts
  San Angelo Colts
  The San Angelo Colts are a professional baseball team based in San Angelo, Texas, in the United States. The Colts are a member of North American League, an independent professional league which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball or Minor League Baseball...
  
  
• San Angelo, Texas
  San Angelo, Texas
  San Angelo is a city in the state of Texas. Located in West Central Texas it is the county seat of Tom Green County. As of 2010 according to the United States Census Bureau, the city had a total population of 93,200...
  
  
• San Antonio de Béxar, colonial capital 1772-1824
• San Antonio International Airport
  San Antonio International Airport
  San Antonio International Airport is a commercial airport in San Antonio, Texas, USA. The airport has three runways and covers . Its elevation is above sea level. SAT is a Class C airport.- Overview :...
  
  
• San Antonio Silver Stars
  San Antonio Silver Stars
  The San Antonio Silver Stars are a professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded in Salt Lake City, Utah before the league's inaugural 1997 season began; the team moved to San Antonio...
  
  
• San Antonio Spurs
  San Antonio Spurs
  The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas. They are part of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association ....
  
  
• San Antonio, Texas
  San Antonio, Texas
  San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest city within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.33 million. Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. In 2011,...
  
  
• San Benito, Texas
  San Benito, Texas
  San Benito is a city in Cameron County, Texas, United States. The population was 24,250 at the 2010 census. It is the birthplace of Country and Tex-Mex music icon Freddy Fender. San Benito celebrated the 100th anniversary of the naming of the city April 3, 2007. The post office was named Diaz...
  
  
• San Jacinto College
  San Jacinto College
  San Jacinto College is a community college in the Greater Houston area in the U.S. state of Texas. Established in 1961, San Jacinto College originally consisted of the areas of Channelview ISD, Deer Park ISD, Galena Park ISD, La Porte ISD, and Pasadena ISD. The College now also serves Sheldon ISD,...
  
  
• San Marcos, Texas
  San Marcos, Texas
  San Marcos is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, and is the seat of Hays County. Located within the metropolitan area, the city is located on the Interstate 35 corridor—between Austin and San Antonio....
  
  
• Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge
  Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge
  Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge is a refuge situated along the banks of the Rio Grande in Hidalgo County, Texas south of Alamo, Texas. It was established for the protection of migratory birds in 1943...
  
  
• Schlitterbahn
  Schlitterbahn
  Schlitterbahn is a family-owned and operated company based in New Braunfels, Texas, USA. Schlitterbahn began its first park, Schlitterbahn Waterpark Resort, in 1979. Since then Schlitterbahn has developed three waterparks located in Texas and one in Kansas City, Kansas.Schlitterbahn Waterparks are...
  
  
• Seal of the State of Texas
• Selena
  Selena
  Selena Quintanilla-Pérez , known simply as Selena, was a Mexican American singer-songwriter. She was named the "top Latin artist of the '90s" and "Best selling Latin artist of the decade" by Billboard for her fourteen top-ten singles in the Top Latin Songs chart, including seven number-one hits...
  
  
  • Selena, Death of
• Service Corporation International
  Service Corporation International
  For other uses of the acronym SCI, see SCIService Corporation International is North America’s largest provider of end-of-life arrangements and services. With its headquarters in Neartown, Houston, Texas, United States, SCI operates more than 1500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries in 43 states,...
  
  
• Settlements in Texas
  • Cities in Texas
  • Towns in Texas
  • Villages in Texas
  • Census Designated Places in Texas
  • Other unincorporated communities in Texas
  • List of ghost towns in Texas
• Sharpstown scandal
  Sharpstown scandal
  The Sharpstown scandal was a stock fraud scandal in the state of Texas in 1971 and 1972 involving the highest levels of the state government. The name came from the involvement of the Sharpstown area of Houston.-Background:...
  
  
• Sherman, Texas
  Sherman, Texas
  Sherman is a city in and the county seat of Grayson County, Texas, United States. The city's estimated population as of 2009 was 38,407. It is also one of two principal cities in the Sherman-Denison Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
  
  
• Shasta
  Shasta (mascot)
  Shasta is the mascot of the University of Houston athletics teams, the Houston Cougars. Shasta is a female cougar. While previously a live cougar, Shasta is now a costumed mascot.-History:...
  
  
• Shiner beer
• Sid Richardson College
• The Signal
• Six Flags
  Six Flags
  Six Flags Entertainment Corp. is the world's largest amusement park corporation based on quantity of properties and the fifth most popular in terms of attendance. The company maintains 14 properties located throughout North America, including theme parks, thrill parks, water parks and family...
  
  
• Six Flags Astroworld
  Six Flags Astroworld
  AstroWorld was a seasonally operated theme park located on approximately of land between Kirby Drive and Fannin Avenue, directly south of Loop 610 in Houston, Texas, USA...
  
  
• Smith, Preston
  Preston Smith (Texas)
  Preston Earnest Smith was the 40th Governor of Texas from 1969 to 1973, who earlier served as the lieutenant governor from 1963 to 1969.-Early life:...
  
  
• South by Southwest Festival
• Southeast Texas Regional Airport
  Southeast Texas Regional Airport
  Jack Brooks Regional Airport , is a public airport located near Port Arthur, Texas, United States, nine miles southeast of the central business district of Beaumont and northeast of Port Arthur...
  
  
• Southern Methodist University
  Southern Methodist University
  Southern Methodist University is a private university in Dallas, Texas, United States. Founded in 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, SMU operates campuses in Dallas, Plano, and Taos, New Mexico. SMU is owned by the South Central Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church...
  
  
• South Padre Island, Texas
  South Padre Island, Texas
  South Padre Island is a town in Cameron County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Brownsville–Harlingen Metropolitan Statistical Area. It may be included as part of the Brownsville–Harlingen–Raymondville and the Matamoros–Brownsville metropolitan areas. The population was 2,816 at the...
  
  
• South Park Mexican
  South Park Mexican
  Carlos Coy , better known by his stage name South Park Mexican, is an American rapper, founder of Dope House Records, and convicted felon...
  
  
• Southwest Airlines
  Southwest Airlines
  Southwest Airlines Co. is an American low-cost airline based in Dallas, Texas. Southwest is the largest airline in the United States, based upon domestic passengers carried,...
  
  
• Southwest Conference
• Spindletop
  Spindletop
  Spindletop is a salt dome oil field located in the southern portion of Beaumont, Texas in the United States. The Spindletop dome was derived from the Louann Salt evaporite layer of the Jurassic geologic period. On January 10, 1901, a well at Spindletop struck oil . The new oil field soon produced...
  
  
• Sports in Texas
  Sports in Texas
  Texas is home of several national sports league franchises among other professional sports, being the second most populated U.S. state. Since the state is located in the South Central United States, most teams are part of the Central / South or West league divisions, with the notable exception of...
  
  
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• Max Starcke Dam
• State Fair
  State Fair (1962 film)
  State Fair is a 1962 film directed by José Ferrer. The film is a remake of the 1933 and 1945 films of the same name.It was considered to be a financially and critically unsuccessful film. It starred Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, Ann-Margret, Tom Ewell, Pamela Tiffin and Alice Faye.Richard Rodgers wrote...
  
  
• State Fair of Texas
  State Fair of Texas
  The State Fair of Texas is an annual state fair held in Dallas, Texas . The fair season usually begins the last Friday in September and ends 24 days later. The fair is held at the historic Fair Park where it has been held since 1886. The 2012 State Fair of Texas will run from September 28th...
  
  
• State of Texas  website
  • Government of the State of Texas
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• Strauss, Annette
  Annette Strauss
  Annette Strauss was a philanthropist and a former mayor of Dallas. The Annette Strauss Artist Square in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas is named in honor of her...
  
  
• Structures in Texas
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• Sugar Land Regional Airport
  Sugar Land Regional Airport
  Sugar Land Regional Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located in Sugar Land, Texas , southwest of the central business district of Houston....
  
  
• Sugar Land, Texas
  Sugar Land, Texas
  Sugar Land is a city in the U.S. state of Texas within the metropolitan area and Fort Bend County. Sugar Land is one of the most affluent and fastest-growing cities in Texas, having grown more than 158 percent in the last decade. In the time period of 2000–2007, Sugar Land also enjoyed a...
  
  
• Superconducting Supercollider
• Superfund sites in Texas
• Symbols of the State of Texas
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• Tandy Center Subway
• Tejanos
• Telecommunications in Texas
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• Telephone area codes in Texas
• Temple, Texas
  Temple, Texas
  Temple is a city in Bell County, Texas, United States. Located near the county seat of Belton, Temple lies in the region referred to as Central Texas. Located off Interstate 35, Temple is 65 miles north of Austin and 34 miles south of Waco. In the 2010 Census, Temple's population was 66,102, an...
  
  
• Texarkana, Texas
  Texarkana, Texas
  Texarkana is a city in Bowie County, Texas, United States. It effectively functions as one half of a city which crosses a state line — the other half, the city of Texarkana, Arkansas, lies on the other side of State Line Avenue...
  
  
• Texas
  Texas
  Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
  
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• Texas 7
• Texas A&M University
  Texas A&M University
  Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...
  
  
• Texas A&M University at Galveston
  Texas A&M University at Galveston
  Texas A&M University at Galveston is an ocean-oriented branch campus of Texas A&M University offering undergraduate degrees in marine biology, marine fisheries, marine engineering technology, marine sciences, marine transportation, maritime administration, maritime studies, maritime systems...
  
  
• Texas Annexation
  Texas Annexation
  In 1845, United States of America annexed the Republic of Texas and admitted it to the Union as the 28th state. The U.S. thus inherited Texas's border dispute with Mexico; this quickly led to the Mexican-American War, during which the U.S. captured additional territory , extending the nation's...
  
  
• Texas Centennial Exposition
  Texas Centennial Exposition
  The Texas Centennial Exposition was a World's Fair held at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Texas's independence from Mexico in 1836. More than 50 buildings, for which "George Dahl was director general of a group of architects who designed the buildings ", were...
  
  
• Texas Christian University
  Texas Christian University
  Texas Christian University is a private, coeducational university located in Fort Worth, Texas, United States and founded in 1873. TCU is affiliated with, but not governed by, the Disciples of Christ...
  
  
• Texas City Disaster
  Texas City Disaster
  The Texas City Disaster was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history. The incident took place on April 16, 1947, and began with a mid-morning fire on board the French-registered vessel SS Grandcamp which was docked in the Port of Texas City...
  
  
• Texas City, Texas
  Texas City, Texas
  Texas City is a city in Chambers and Galveston counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 41,521 at the 2000 census. It is a part of the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
  
  
• Texas Declaration of Independence
  Texas Declaration of Independence
  The Texas Declaration of Independence was the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution. It was adopted at the Convention of 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 2, 1836, and formally signed the following day after errors were noted in the...
  
  
• Texas Highland Lakes
  Texas Highland Lakes
  The Texas Highland Lakes is a chain of seven reservoirs in Central Texas formed by several dams on the Colorado River. This portion of the river winds southeast from its headwaters near the border of Texas and New Mexico to Matagorda Bay and the Gulf of Mexico...
  
  
• Texas Hill Country
  Texas Hill Country
  The Texas Hill Country is a vernacular term applied to a region of Central Texas featuring tall rugged hills consisting of thin layers of soil atop limestone or granite. It also includes the Llano Uplift and the second largest granite monadnock in the United States, Enchanted Rock, which is located...
  
  
• Texas Historical Commission
  Texas Historical Commission
  The Texas Historical Commission is an agency dedicated to historic preservation within the state of Texas. It administers the National Register of Historic Places for sites in Texas....
  
  
• Texas Instruments
  Texas Instruments
  Texas Instruments Inc. , widely known as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, United States, which develops and commercializes semiconductor and computer technology...
  
  
• Texas Legation
• Texas Legislature
  Texas Legislature
  The Legislature of the state of Texas is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Texas. The legislature is a bicameral body composed of a 31-member Senate and a 150-member House of Representatives. The Legislature meets at the Capitol in Austin...
  
  
• Texas literature
  Texas literature
  Texas literature is literature about the history and culture of Texas. It includes every literary genre and dates from the time of the first European contact.-Non-fiction:...
  
  
• Texas Longhorn
  Texas longhorn (cattle)
  The Texas Longhorn is a breed of cattle known for its characteristic horns, which can extend to tip to tip for steers and exceptional cows, and tip to tip for bulls. Horns can have a slight upward turn at their tips or even triple twist. Texas Longhorns are known for their diverse coloring...
  
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• Texas Longhorn
  Texas Longhorn Athletics
  Texas Longhorns athletics programs include the extramural and intramural sports teams of The University of Texas at Austin. These teams are referred to as the Texas Longhorns , taking their name from the Longhorn cattle that were an important part of the development of Texas, and are now the...
  
   sports teams (The University of Texas)
• Texas Medical Center
  Texas Medical Center
  The Texas Medical Center is the largest medical center in the world with one of the highest densities of clinical facilities for patient care, basic science, and translational research...
  
  
• Texas Our Texas
• Texas Panhandle
  Texas Panhandle
  The Texas Panhandle is a region of the U.S. state of Texas consisting of the northernmost 26 counties in the state. The panhandle is a rectangular area bordered by New Mexico to the west and Oklahoma to the north and east...
  
  
• Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
  Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
  The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department is a Texas state agency that oversees and protects wildlife and their habitats. In addition, the agency is responsible for managing the state's parks and historical areas...
  
  
• Texas Psychological Association
  Texas Psychological Association
  The Texas Psychological Association is a professional association representing psychologists in the U.S. state of Texas. It was established in 1947 and is headquartered in Cedar Park, Texas.-About TPA:...
  
  
• Texas Rangers
  Texas Rangers (baseball)
  The Texas Rangers are a professional baseball team in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, based in Arlington, Texas. The Rangers are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League, and are the reigning A.L. Western Division and A.L. Champions. Since , the Rangers have...
  
  
• Texas Ranger Division
  Texas Ranger Division
  The Texas Ranger Division, commonly called the Texas Rangers, is a law enforcement agency with statewide jurisdiction in Texas, and is based in Austin, Texas...
  
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• Texas Revolution
  Texas Revolution
  The Texas Revolution or Texas War of Independence was an armed conflict between Mexico and settlers in the Texas portion of the Mexican state Coahuila y Tejas. The war lasted from October 2, 1835 to April 21, 1836...
  
  
• Texas Southern University
  Texas Southern University
  Texas Southern University is a historically black university located in Houston, Texas, United States....
  
  
• Texas State Capitol
  Texas State Capitol
  The Texas State Capitol is located in Austin, Texas, and is the fourth building to be the house of Texas government in Austin. It houses the chambers of the Texas Legislature and the office of the governor of Texas. It was designed originally during 1881 by architect Elijah E. Myers, and was...
  
  
• Texas State University-San Marcos
• Texas Tech University
  Texas Tech University
  Texas Tech University, often referred to as Texas Tech or TTU, is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas, United States. Established on February 10, 1923, and originally known as Texas Technological College, it is the leading institution of the Texas Tech University System and has the...
  
  
• Texas Woman's University
  Texas Woman's University
  Texas Woman's University is a co-educational university in Denton, Texas, United States with two health science center branches in Dallas, Texas and Houston, Texas...
  
  
• Tex-Mex cuisine
  Tex-Mex cuisine
  "Tex-Mex" is a term used to describe a regional American cuisine that blends food products available in the United States and the culinary creations of Mexican-Americans influenced by the cuisines of Mexico. The cuisine has spread from border states such as Texas and those in the Southwestern...
  
  
• Thanks-Giving Square
  Thanks-Giving Square
  Thanks-Giving Square is a public-private complex in the City Center District of downtown Dallas, Texas . Originally planned as the first of several traffic-relieving complexes in downtown Dallas, it was dedicated in 1976; at the time it was the first public-private partnership of its kind in Dallas...
  
  
• The T
  Fort Worth Transportation Authority
  The Fort Worth Transportation Authority is the operator of the bus system in Fort Worth, Texas and Richland Hills, Texas popularly known as The T...
  
  
• Theatres in Texas
  • commons:Category:Theatres in Texas
• Timeline of the Texas Revolution
  Timeline of the Texas Revolution
  This is a timeline of the Texas Revolution, spanning the time from the earliest independence movements of the area of Texas, over the declaration of independence from Spain, up to the secession of the Republic of Texas from Mexico....
  
  
• Tom Miller Dam
  Tom Miller Dam
  Tom Miller Dam is a dam located at 30.2932, -97.7855 on the Colorado River within the city limits of Austin, Texas, USA. It is one of several dams constructed by the City of Austin for the purpose of flood control and for generating hydroelectric power...
  
  
• Tourism in Texas  website
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• Toyota Center (Houston)
  Toyota Center (Houston)
  The Toyota Center is an indoor arena located in downtown Houston, Texas. It is named after the Japanese automobile manufacturer Toyota. The arena is home to the Rockets of the National Basketball Association, the principal owners of the building, and the Aeros of the American Hockey League.Rockets...
  
  
• Transportation in Texas
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• Travis, William B.
  William B. Travis
  William Barret Travis was a 19th-century American lawyer and soldier. At the age of 26, he was a lieutenant colonel in the Texas Army...
  
  
• Treaty Oak (Austin, Texas)
  Treaty Oak (Austin, Texas)
  The Treaty Oak, a once-majestic Southern live oak in Austin, Texas, is the last surviving member of the Council Oaks, a grove of 14 trees that served as a sacred meeting place for Comanche and Tonkawa Tribes. Forestry experts estimate the Treaty Oak to be about 500 years old and, before its...
  
  
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is the peace treaty, largely dictated by the United States to the interim government of a militarily occupied Mexico City, that ended the Mexican-American War on February 2, 1848...
  
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• Trinity Railway Express
  Trinity Railway Express
  The Trinity Railway Express is a commuter rail line in the Dallas – Fort Worth Metroplex. It was established by an interlocal agreement between Dallas Area Rapid Transit and the Fort Worth Transportation Authority . Each transit authority owns a 50% stake in the joint rail project and...
  
  
• Trinity River
  Trinity River (Texas)
  The Trinity River is a long river that flows entirely within the U.S. state of Texas. It rises in extreme north Texas, a few miles south of the Red River. The headwaters are separated by the high bluffs on the south side of the Red River....
  
  
• Tropical Storm Allison
  Tropical Storm Allison
  Tropical Storm Allison was a tropical storm that devastated southeast Texas in June of the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season. The first storm of the season, Allison lasted an unusually long period of time for a June storm, remaining tropical or subtropical for 15 days...
  
  
• Turtle Bayou Resolutions
  Turtle Bayou Resolutions
  The Turtle Bayou Resolutions were signed by settlers during the Anahuac Disturbances, which played a role in the secession of Texas from Mexico and the creation of the Republic of Texas....
  
  
• TX – United States Postal Service
  United States Postal Service
  The United States Postal Service is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for providing postal service in the United States...
  
   postal code for the State of Texas
• Tyler, Texas
  Tyler, Texas
  Tyler is a city in and the county seat of Smith County, Texas, in the United States. It takes its name from President John Tyler . The city had a population of 109,000 in 2010, according to the United States Census Bureau...
  
  

U

• United States of America
  • States of the United States of America
    U.S. state
    A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...
    
    
  • United States census statistical areas of Texas
    Texas census statistical areas
    thumb|An enlargeable map of the [[List of counties in Texas|254 counties]] of the [[State of Texas]]The United States Census Bureau has defined 8 Combined Statistical Areas , 25 Metropolitan Statistical Areas , and 43 Micropolitan Statistical Areas in the State of Texas. The following table...
    
    
  • United States congressional delegations from Texas
    United States Congressional Delegations from Texas
    These are tables of congressional delegations from Texas to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.-United States Senate:-United States House of Representatives:...
    
    
  • United States congressional districts in Texas
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* Eastern District of Louisiana* Middle District of Louisiana...
    
    
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
    United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
    The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas is the Federal district court with jurisdiction over the eastern part of Texas and is a part of the Fifth Circuit. The court's headquarters are in Tyler, Texas and has five subdivision offices in Beaumont, Lufkin, Marshall,...
    
    
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
    United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
    The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas is a United States district court. Its first judge, Andrew Phelps McCormick, was appointed to the court on April 10, 1879. The court convenes in Dallas, Texas with divisions in Fort Worth, Amarillo, Abilene, Lubbock, San Angelo...
    
    
  • United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
    United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
    The United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas is the Federal district court with jurisdiction over the southern part of Texas...
    
    
  • United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
    United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
    The United States District Court For the Western District Of Texas is a Federal district court. The court convenes in San Antonio with divisions in Austin, Del Rio, El Paso, Midland, Pecos, and Waco. It has jurisdiction in over 50 Trans-Pecos, Permian Basin and Hill Country counties of the U.S....
    
    
  • United States Representatives from Texas
  • United States Senators from Texas
• University of Houston
  University of Houston
  The University of Houston is a state research university, and is the flagship institution of the University of Houston System. Founded in 1927, it is Texas's third-largest university with nearly 40,000 students. Its campus spans 667 acres in southeast Houston, and was known as University of...
  
  
• University of Houston–Clear Lake
  University of Houston–Clear Lake
  The University of Houston–Clear Lake is a state university, and is a component institution of the University of Houston System. Its campus spans 524-acre in Pasadena, with a satellite campus in Pearland. Founded in 1971, UHCL has an enrollment of more than 8,000 students...
  
  
• University of Houston–Downtown
  University of Houston–Downtown
  The University of Houston–Downtown is a four-year state university, and is a distinct component institution of the University of Houston System. Its campus spans 20-acre in Downtown Houston, with a satellite location in northwestern Harris County...
  
  
• University of Houston Law Center
  University of Houston Law Center
  The University of Houston Law Center is a law school located in Houston, Texas. It is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Founded in 1947, the Law Center is one of 12 academic colleges of the University of Houston...
  
  
• University of Houston System
  University of Houston System
  The University of Houston System is a state university system in Texas, encompassing four separate and distinct universities. It has two system centers, which operate as and distance learning course delivery sites for its universities...
  
  
• University of Houston System at Cinco Ranch
  University of Houston System at Cinco Ranch
  The University of Houston System at Cinco Ranch is a multi-institution teaching center of the located near Katy, Texas in Fort Bend County. It was founded in 1980 as the West Houston Institute and was part of the University of Houston. The Institute offered night classes at Memorial High...
  
  
• University of Houston System at Sugar Land
  University of Houston System at Sugar Land
  The University of Houston System at Sugar Land is a multi-institution teaching center of the University of Houston System located in Sugar Land, Texas...
  
  
• University of Houston–Victoria
  University of Houston–Victoria
  The University of Houston–Victoria is a four-year state university, and is a component institution of the University of Houston System. Its campus spans 20-acre in Victoria, with satellite locations at UH System centers in Sugar Land and Cinco Ranch...
  
  
• University of North Texas
  University of North Texas
  The University of North Texas is a public institution of higher education and research in Denton. Founded in 1890, UNT is part of the University of North Texas System. As of the fall of 2010, the University of North Texas, Denton campus, had a certified enrollment of 36,067...
  
  
• University of Texas at Austin
  University of Texas at Austin
  The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...
  
  
• University of Texas at El Paso
  University of Texas at El Paso
  The University of Texas at El Paso is a four-year state university, and is a component institution of the University of Texas System. Its campus is located on the bank of the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas. The school was founded in 1914 as The Texas State School of Mines and Metallurgy,...
  
  
• University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
• University of Texas at San Antonio
  University of Texas at San Antonio
  The University of Texas at San Antonio, commonly referred to as UTSA, is a state university in San Antonio, Texas. With an enrollment of more than 30,000 students, it is the third-largest of nine universities and six health institutions in the University of Texas System and the eighth-largest in...
  
  
• University of Texas System
  University of Texas System
  The University of Texas System encompasses 15 educational institutions in Texas, of which nine are academic universities and six are health institutions. The system is headquartered in Austin and has a total enrollment of over 190,000 students...
  
  
• Uptown Houston
  Uptown Houston
  The Uptown District of Houston is located 6.2 miles west of downtown and is centered along Post Oak Boulevard, Westheimer Road , and the Galleria...
  
  
• U.S. highway routes in Texas
• US-TX – ISO 3166-2:US
  ISO 3166-2:US
  ISO 3166-2:US is the entry for the United States in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently for the United States, ISO...
  
   region code for the State of Texas
• USS Texas
  USS Texas
  Four ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Texas, in honor of the state of Texas:, the US Navy's first battleship, which served from 1895 until 1911, a New York-class dreadnought battleship that served in both World Wars, the second Virginia-class nuclear guided missile cruiser ,...
  
  

V

• Van Zandt, Isaac
  Isaac Van Zandt
  Isaac Van Zandt was a political leader in the Republic of Texas. Van Zandt County, Texas, was named in his honor....
  
  
• Vaughan, Stevie Ray
  Stevie Ray Vaughan
  Stephen Ray "Stevie Ray" Vaughan was an American electric blues guitarist and singer. He was the younger brother of Jimmie Vaughan and frontman for Double Trouble, a band that included bassist Tommy Shannon and drummer Chris Layton. Born in Dallas, Vaughan moved to Austin at the age of 17 and...
  
  
• Velasco, Republic of Texas
  Velasco, Texas
  Velasco was a town in Texas, United States, that was later annexed by the city of Freeport. Founded in 1831, Velasco is situated on the east side of the Brazos River in southeast Texas. It is sixteen miles south of Angleton, Texas, and four miles from the Gulf of Mexico.The town's early history is...
  
  , republican capital 1836
• Victoria, Texas
  Victoria, Texas
  Victoria is a city in and the seat of Victoria County, Texas, United States. The population was 60,603 at the 2000 census. The three counties of the Victoria Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 111,163 at the 2000 census,...
  
  
• Voice of Hope
  Voice of Hope
  Voice of Hope Ministries, Inc. is an American non-profit organization operating in Texas.Voice of Hope, founded in 1982 by Kathy Dudley is a Christian community center founded on principles of self-help, spiritual enrichment and urban renewal...
  
  , a non-profit organization in Dallas, Texas
  Dallas, Texas
  Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
  
  

W

• Waco, Texas
  Waco, Texas
  Waco is a city in and the county seat of McLennan County, Texas. Situated along the Brazos River and on the I-35 corridor, halfway between Dallas and Austin, it is the economic, cultural, and academic center of the 'Heart of Texas' region....
  
  
• Walker, Texas Ranger
  Walker, Texas Ranger
  Walker, Texas Ranger is an American television action crime drama series created by Leslie Greif and Paul Haggis, and starring Chuck Norris as a member of the Texas Ranger Division. The show aired on CBS in the spring of 1993, with the first season consisting of three pilot episodes. Eight full...
  
  
• Waller, Edwin
  Edwin Waller
  Judge Edwin Waller was an entrepreneur, signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, the first mayor of Austin, Texas, and the designer of its downtown grid plan....
  
  
• Washington, Republic of Texas
  Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas
  Washington-on-the-Brazos is an unincorporated area along the Brazos River in Washington County, Texas, United States. It was founded when Texas was still a part of Mexico, and the settlement became the site of the Convention of 1836 and the signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence...
  
  , republican capital 1836
• Water parks in Texas
• Waterfalls of Texas
  • commons:Category:Waterfalls of Texas
• Wells Fargo Plaza (El Paso)
  Wells Fargo Plaza (El Paso)
  The Wells Fargo Plaza is a high-rise skyscraper located on 221 North Kansas Street in Downtown El Paso, Texas, United States. It opened as the First National Bank Plaza on October 25, 1971, and was later renamed the State National Plaza. It is 296 feet tall...
  
  
• Wells Fargo Plaza (Houston)
• West Texas
  West Texas
  West Texas is a vernacular term applied to a region in the southwestern quadrant of the United States that primarily encompasses the arid and semi-arid lands in the western portion of the state of Texas....
  
  
• West Texas A&M University
  West Texas A&M University
  West Texas A&M University , part of the Texas A&M University System, is a public university located in Canyon, Texas, a small city south of Amarillo. West Texas A&M opened on September 20, 1910...
  
  
• Whataburger
  Whataburger
  Whataburger is a privately held, regional restaurant chain specializing in hamburgers. The company, founded by Harmon Dobson, opened its first restaurant in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1950...
  
  
• Wheatley Place
  Wheatley Place
  Wheatley Place is a neighborhood in south Dallas, Texas that is designated as a Dallas Landmark District and National Historic District. by the city...
  
  
• White, D. P.
  David Patillo White
  David Patillo White was a shape note singing teacher, composer, and a co-issuer, with his father, of the 1870 Sacred Harp. He was the second child of Benjamin Franklin White and Thurza Melvina Golightly, whose other children were William Decatur, Robert H., Mary Caroline, Nancy Ogburn, Thurza...
  
  
• White, Mark
  Mark White
  Mark Wells White is an American lawyer, who served as the 43rd Governor of Texas from January 18,1983-January 20,1987.-Biography:...
  
  
• Whitman, Charles
  Charles Whitman
  Charles Joseph Whitman was a student at the University of Texas at Austin and a former Marine who killed 16 people and wounded 32 others during a shooting rampage on and around the university's campus on August 1, 1966....
  
  
• Wichita Falls, Texas
  Wichita Falls, Texas
  Wichita Falls is a city in and the county seat of Wichita County, Texas, United States, United States. Wichita Falls is the principal city of the Wichita Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Archer, Clay and Wichita counties. According to the U.S. Census estimate of 2010,...
  
  
• Wikimedia
  • Wikimedia Commons:Category:Texas
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    • Wikinews:Portal:Texas
  • Wikipedia Category:Texas
    • Wikipedia Portal:Texas
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Texas
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      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Texas#Participants
• Wiley College
  Wiley College
  Wiley College is a four-year, private, historically black, liberal arts college located on the west side of Marshall, Texas. Founded in 1873 by the Methodist Episcopal Church's Bishop Isaac Wiley and certified in 1882 by the Freedman's Aid Society, it is notable as one of the oldest predominantly...
  
  
• William P. Hobby Airport
  William P. Hobby Airport
  William P. Hobby Airport is a public airport in Houston, Texas, located from Downtown Houston. The airport covers and has four runways. Hobby Airport is Houston's oldest commercial airport and was the city's primary air terminal until the opening of Houston Intercontinental Airport in 1969...
  
  
• Williams Tower
  Williams Tower
  The Williams Tower is a skyscraper located in the Uptown District of Houston, Texas. It was designed by architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee, in association with Houston-based Morris Architects , and erected in 1983. The tower is among Houston's most visible buildings...
  
  
• Wind power in Texas
  Wind power in Texas
  Wind power in Texas consists of many wind farms with a total installed nameplate capacity of 10,223 MW from over 40 different projects. Texas produces the most wind power of any U.S. state, followed by Iowa with 3,708 MW...
  
  
• Wines of Texas
  Texas wine
  Texas has a long history of wine production. The sunny and dry climate of the major wine making regions in the state have drawn comparison to Portuguese wines. Some of the earliest recorded Texas wines were produced by Spanish missionaries in the 1650s near El Paso...
  
  
• Wirtz Dam
  Wirtz Dam
  Wirtz Dam was constructed from 1949 to 1950 in tandem with Max Starcke Dam to provide hydroelectric power and to form Lake LBJ, one of the Texas Highland Lakes. Originally called Granite Shoals Dam, it was renamed in 1951, in honor of Alvin J. Wirtz, who had been instrumental in the formation of...
  
  

Z

• Zellweger, Renée
  Renée Zellweger
  Renée Kathleen Zellweger is an American actress and producer. Zellweger first gained widespread attention for her role in the film Jerry Maguire , and subsequently received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her roles as Bridget Jones in the comedy Bridget Jones's Diary ...
  
  
• Zoos in Texas
  • commons:Category:Zoos in Texas
• ZZ Top
  ZZ Top
  ZZ Top is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "That Little Ol' Band from Texas". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based boogie rock, has come to incorporate elements of arena, southern, and boogie rock. The band, from Houston Texas, formed in 1969...
  
  

See also

• Outline of Texas
  Outline of Texas
  thumb|The location of the [[state of Texas]] in the United States of Americathumb|An enlargeable map of the state of TexasThe state of Texas is the second most populous and the second most extensive of the 50 states of the United States of America...
  
  
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• :Category:Texas-related lists