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100 unusual facts about Texas


2006 Mountain West Conference football season

After being trounced by their former Southwest Conference rivals, 70-35, in Lubbock two years prior, the Horned Frog defense kept quarterback Graham Harrell and the Red Raider offense out of the endzone for the entire game, JR linebacker walk on Christopher Abbott led the defense with one sack, 8 tackles 3 for a loss of yards and one interception, to earn their fourth consecutive victory over the Big 12.

39th Airlift Squadron

The 39th Airlift Squadron (39 AS) is a United States Air Force unit based at Dyess Air Force Base, Abilene, Texas.

77th Fighter Squadron

The 77th would then move to Taliaferro Field # 2 (later named Barron Field), Everman, Texas on 18 March 1918.

Aero Africa

David Tokoph owns and operates Aero Africa, as well as Interair, from his base in El Paso.

Albert Connell

He played college football at Trinity Valley Community College in Athens, Texas for two years, and was a member of the 1994 Junior College National Championship team.

Alex Puccio

Alex Puccio, born Alexandrea Elizabeth Cocca on 15 June 1989 in McKinney, Texas, is a professional climber specializing in bouldering.

Aqib Talib

In March 2011, police in Garland, Texas issued a felony warrant for Talib for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after accusing him of firing a gun at his sister's boyfriend.

Barton Kyle Yount

Wayne, Michigan, Fort Sheridan, Illinois, on a mapping detail along the Canadian border, and with 4th Brigade, 2nd Division in Texas City, Texas.

Béla Károlyi

Károlyi required that all national team members attend frequent grueling camps at his New Waverly, Texas gymnastics ranch, north of Houston, and selection procedures for international meets became more arbitrary.

Bill Yates

He served as an aviator in the United States Navy during WWII, training fighter pilots in Corpus Christi, Texas, where he married Jessie Jean ("Skippy") Hardy.

Black Seminole Scouts

By 1876 he was a sheriff and had almost indisputable control over Kinney County.

Bobby Tolan

On December 31, 2008, Robbie was shot by a Bellaire, Texas policeman allegedly investigating reports of a stolen car after a confrontation in the Tolan driveway.

Brazosport High School

The high school serves Freeport, as well as surrounding Jones Creek, Oyster Creek, Quintana, and Surfside Beach.

Brendan Kibble

The Navahodads split up in 2003, and Kibble moved to Austin, Texas, where he formed The Texreys a Garage rock band.

Carlos Francis

Francis now coaches football, track, and basketball at The Oakridge School in Arlington, Texas.

CASA 2.111

The aircraft was attempting a landing at the Cheyenne Municipal Airport, near Cheyenne, Wyoming, while en route from Midland, Texas to an air show in Missoula, Montana.

Chandi Jones

She was a basketball and long jump standout at Bay City High School in Bay City, Texas.

Charles Binaggio

Born in Beaumont, Texas, Binaggio moved with his family to Kansas City, Missouri, at an early age.

Culebra Road

Culebra Road is a street in Bexar County, Texas, near San Antonio.

Devils Rope Barbed Wire Museum

The Devils Rope Barbed Wire Museum is a museum located in McLean, Texas, USA.

Devon Energy

It is the corporate sponsor of the Wise Eyes community watch program, begun in 1993 in and named for Wise County, Texas, which is located in the Barnett Shale, where Devon has a large presence.

Dolph Briscoe

Moreover, he denounced the party as a communist threat and blocked federal funds for Zavala County programs.

Eric Patrick

Originally from Port Arthur, Texas, he played in a band throughout the southern United States before he studied art and film at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Etta Candy

Her father, "Hard Candy," and mother, Sugar Candy, lived on the Bar-L Ranch in Brazos County, Texas that provided the setting for cowboy-themed adventures.

Floyd Weaver

David Floyd Weaver (May 12, 1941 – November 17, 2008) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who was born in Ben Franklin, Texas.

Fly Over States

It even shows different scenes that refer to the lyrics including the Badlands and a woman from Amarillo. At the end of the video, the camera looks up into the night sky after one last look at the graveyard.

Forrest Bess

Born October 5, 1911, in Bay City, Texas, Bess picked up his love of art from his mother.

Fort Stockton, Texas

Other forts in the frontier fort system were Forts Griffin, Concho, Belknap, Chadbourne, Richardson, Fort Davis, Fort Bliss, McKavett, Clark, Fort McIntosh, Fort Inge and Phantom Hill in Texas, and Fort Sill in Oklahoma.

Four Points Media Group

KEYE-TV in Austin, Texas, the other CBS affiliate owned by Four Points, was the only station not controlled by the KUTV hub facility.

Gaspar Castaño de Sosa

Castaño traveled north from Almaden, crossing the Rio Grande near present-day Del Rio, Texas, and reached the Pecos River near what is now Sheffield, Texas.

Genesis Television Network

The Genesis Television Network was a religious network in Cedar Hill, Texas, USA, and was owned and operated by GTN INC

George Sprague

During his time as mayor, Sprague supported the merger of Dallas, University Park and Highland Park and the election of the mayor by the citizens instead of the city council.

Glen Titensor

He is currently the owner of Timbercreek Golf Center in Lewisville, Texas.

Grumman OV-1 Mohawk

Texas Air Museum in Slaton, Texas has a modified OV-1D that was used by NASA that is on loan from the Museum of Naval Aviation.

H. Clyde Wilson Jr.

On May 6, 1926 he was born in Proctor, Texas to Houston Clyde Wilson Sr. and Lena B. Purvis Wilson.

Harold von Mickwitz

On October 22, 1902, von Mickwitz became a naturalized U.S. citizen during a ceremony in Federal Court in Sherman, Texas.

Harrell Site

The Harrell Site, also known as the M.D. Harrell Site, is a Native American archeological site near South Bend in southern Young County, Texas.

Honolulu Pegasus

On May 17, 2010, it was announced that the owners of the team would relocate the club to Cypress, Texas due to travel problems while based in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Hot Lips Page

In his early years, Page, who moved to Corsicana, Texas in his early teens, traveled across the Southwestern United States and toured as far east as Atlanta and as far north as New York City.

Jacob Falconer

He then moved to Fort Worth, Texas, in 1919 and engaged in road-construction contracting, then to Farmington, New Mexico, in 1925 and was in the oil and gas industry.

Jaime Gandara

Jaime Gandara (born El Paso, Texas, USA, 29 June 1982) is an American professional road and cyclocross cyclist.

Jamal Williams

In 1999, Williams married to singer-songwriter Surel Williams (née Sureldie Rycha Davis) of DeSoto, Texas.

Jennifer Gareis

She later competed in New York, winning the Miss New York USA 1994 title, and representing New York in the Miss USA 1994 pageant held in South Padre Island, Texas on February 11, 1994.

John Carona

First elected to the Texas Legislature in 1990, Carona is now in his fourth term in the Texas State Senate, representing District 16 in Dallas County.

John Henry Faulk

Other supporters in the blacklist struggle included radio pioneer and Wimberley, Texas native Parks Johnson and reporter and CBS television news anchor Walter Cronkite.

Jonathan Garcia

Jonathan Garcia was born December 14, 1986, and grew up in Katy, Texas, in the Houston metropolitan area.

Joseph D. Macchia

Macchia founded GAINSCO in 1978 after borrowing $500,000 from a local bank in Fort Worth, Texas.

KBVO-CD

call letters = KBVO-CD
(satellite of KBVO, Llano, Texas

Kemah

Kemah, Texas, a city in Galveston County, Texas, United States

Kendall Webb

Kendall Myles Webb (born September 24, 1984 in Amarillo, Texas) was an All-American point guard for Wayland Baptist University who went on to play professionally for the Bergheim Bandits of Germany.

Kenneth Pettway

He attended Gilmer High School in Gilmer, Texas and was a letterwinner in football, basketball, and track.

KEYU

KEYU, known locally as Univisión Amarillo or Univisión 41, is a Spanish-language television station in Borger, Texas, serving the Amarillo market on digital channel 31 as an affiliate of Univision, and on analog low-power station KEYU-LP channel 41.

KFXK-TV

That arrangement makes the two stations sister to NBC affiliate KETK-TV and all three share studios on Richmond Road (near the Texas 323 Loop) in Tyler.

Kot-in-Action Creative Artel

Kot-in-Action Creative Artel is an independent video game company headquarterd in Del Rio, Texas and founded in 2008 by Alexander Zubov.

KTXH

The group signed on a similarly formatted station, KTXA in Fort Worth, in January 1981.

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The two stations share studio facilities located on Southwest Freeway in Houston (between the Uptown and Greenway Plaza districts); KTXH transmitter is located in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County (near Missouri City).

Kyle Mackey

As a student (at Spring Hill High School in Longview, Texas) he set multiple passing records and was selected to the all-state team in both his Junior and Senior years.

KYVV-TV

KYVV-TV is a Spanish-language television station in Del Rio, Texas, broadcasting locally on digital channel 28 as an affiliate of MundoFox.

Lake Harney

There are several landmarks that are named after him in his honor; such as Harney Peak in South Dakota as well as Camp Harney in Zapata, Texas.

Lowe's Market

In 1964, Bud Lowe opened the first Lowe's Market grocery store in Olton, Texas, a small grocery market.

Ludwig Kieninger

As he grew older, he desired a studio more closely located to his home in DeSoto, Texas.

Lunar Lander Challenge

Armadillo Aerospace made their attempt for the Level 2 purse from Caddo Mills, Texas, on September 12 and 13, and successfully qualified for the Level 2 prize.

Margaret Varner Bloss

Margaret Varner Bloss (born October 4, 1927) is a retired American athlete and professor of physical education from El Paso, Texas who excelled in three distinctly different racket sports: badminton, squash, and tennis.

Marquis Floyd

Floyd ended his college career participating in the 2003 Cactus Bowl Division II all-star classic in Kingsville, Texas.

Neil Rutherford

Also killed by gunshot wounds were the hotel owner, Linda Simcox (52); ex merchant seaman Johnny Gore Green (55), an antique dealer from Bay City, Texas; Simcox's daughter, Lorna (24); and her husband, Alastair McIntyre (55).

Niederentzen

Some inhabitants of Niederentzen responded and settled in Castroville and D'Hanis.

North Zulch, Texas

North Zulch is an unincorporated community in Madison County, Texas, United States at the intersection of U.S. Highway 190 and State Highway 21 and is six miles from the Navasota River and thirteen miles west of Madisonville in west central Madison County.

Onalaska, Washington

Onalaska, Washington, Onalaska, Wisconsin, Onalaska, Arkansas and Onalaska, Texas are all historically connected to one another through the lumber industry.

Orville Taylor

Taylor set his personal best in the men's 200 metres (20.67) on 2002-05-25 in San Angelo, Texas.

Paul Seitz

Window on a War: An Anthropologist in the Vietnam Conflict, Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Press

Pee Wee Crayton

Born in Rockdale, Texas, United States, there are several stories on how Crayton acquired the name Pee Wee.

Randy Keisler

Randy Dean Keisler (born February 24, 1976 in Richards, Texas) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.

Raymond Clayborn

Raymond DeWayne Clayborn (born January 2, 1955 in Fort Worth, Texas), is a former American Football cornerback who played for the New England Patriots (1977–1989) and Cleveland Browns (1990, 1991) in the NFL.

Raymundo Joseph Peña

Born in Corpus Christi, Texas, he was the son of Cosme A. Peña and Elisa Ramon Peña.

Raza Unida Party

In Lubbock, the youth organization was headed by journalist Bidal Aguero, who later worked in the Raza Unida Party.

Republic of Texas

Under command of Potsanaquahip (Buffalo Hump), 500 to 700 Comanche cavalry warriors swept down the Guadalupe River valley, killing and plundering all the way to the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, where they sacked the towns of Victoria and Linnville.

Robert Dean Hunter

In 1986 Hunter became the first Republican since the Reconstruction Era to represent Abilene, Texas, in the Texas Legislature, where he served until retiring in 2006 from the Texas House of Representatives.

Robert T. Hill

In 1877, at the age of 19, Hill accepted an offer to work as a cowboy driving a large herd of cattle from Uvalde, Texas, to Dodge City, Kansas.

Rockport virus

Rockport virus was first isolated in archival tissues of four Eastern moles found in and around Rockport, Texas.

Rodrigo Barnes

Rodrigo DeTriana Barnes (born February 10, 1950 in Waco, Texas) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League.

Rodriguez de Quijas v. Shearson/American Express Inc.

In the early 1980s several small first-time investors in Brownsville, Texas, opened accounts with Shearson/American Express agent Jon Grady Deaton.

Shannon McRandle

Shannon Lynn Jones was born on August 28, 1969 in Killeen, Texas, US, to Leonard Jones (stationed at Fort Hood, drafted into the army for the Vietnam War) and Barbara Kubiszewski Walsh.

Sharon Gilchrist

Over the next five to six years, Blue Night Express played as a full-time band while the Erwin sisters were still attending private Greenhill School, in nearby Addison, (Sharon attended Carroll High School in Southlake TX.).

Sonya Fitzpatrick

She resides in the Conroe Woods subdivision in the Conroe, Texas area, outside Houston.

Stephen J. Anderson

Anderson grew up in Plano, Texas, before attending the California Institute of the Arts, where he also served as a story instructor for five years.

Texarkana Moonlight Murders

The picture is of her at her former home in Douglassville, Texas with her arm wrapped around a black and white dog.

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton (formerly Denton Community Hospital and Presbyterian Hospital of Denton) serves the communities of North Texas and southern Oklahoma.

Texas-Oklahoma League

Future Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby played for the Hugo Scouts and Denison Champions teams in 1914 before joining the 1915 St. Louis Cardinals.

The Judy's

The Judy's were a Pearland, Texas-based punk and new wave band from the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The Varnett Public School

In 2004 The Varnett School appointed Ronique Bastine-Robinson, a municipal judge of Stafford, Texas, to its board of directors.

Thomas Peter Lee

In 1903 he moved to Saratoga, Texas, where he gained employment with the newly formed Texas Company, which eventually became Texaco, and when he left that organization ten years later, he had attained the rank of general superintendent of production.

Time Warner Cable News

It debuted as "News 8 Austin" on September 13, 1999, as the first and only 24 hour cable news channel in Austin, Texas.

Tracey Perkins

Perkins attended Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, where he lettered as a member of the football team during the 1985-1988 seasons.

Uvalde

Uvalde Estates, Texas, a census-designated place in Uvalde County, Texas

Vanguard College Preparatory School

Vanguard College Preparatory School, founded in 1973, is a private, independent, coeducational, college preparatory day school located in Waco, Texas, United States, for students in grades 7-12.

Wat Buddhananachat of Austin

Wat Buddhananachat is a Buddhist Temple located about 20 miles southeast of Downtown, on Linden Rd. in Del Valle, Texas.

Wendelin Joseph Nold

Wendelin Nold was born in Bonham, Texas, to Wendelin Joseph and Mary Elizabeth (née Charles) Nold.

William Frels

William Frels co-founded the town of Frelsburg, Texas around 1837 with his brother John Frels.

William P. Hobby

Born in Moscow, Texas, Hobby became a circulation clerk for the Post in 1895 and was promoted to business writer in August 1901.

Zack Segovia

Zachary Ernest Segovia (born April 11, 1983) is an American professional baseball pitcher from Forney, Texas.


Blue Yodel

Tompall Glaser recorded a version of "T For Texas" which was included on the 1976 compilation, Wanted! The Outlaws, country music's first million-selling album.

Bob Hames

While a student at North Texas in 1946, Hames was one of eight student musicians from North Texas to guest star on Interstate's weekly musical radio show, 3:30, Sunday, April 14, 1946, aired on WFAA.

Camp Topridge

It is now owned by Texas real estate magnate, Harlan Crow, who has substantially restored the buildings and added a number of new ones.

Capital punishment in Mexico

In 2002, President Vicente Fox cancelled a trip to the United States to meet US President George W. Bush, in protest of the then imminent execution of a Mexican national, Javier Suárez Medina, in the U.S. state of Texas.

Carole Boston Weatherford

In 1995, Lee & Low Books published her first picture book, Juneteenth Jamboree, about a summer celebration in memory of the Texas Emancipation.

Celester Collier

He coached Veronica Mars creator and Dawson's Creek and Drive Me Crazy writer Rob Thomas at San Marcos High School in the late 1980s.

Dallas, Moray

George Mifflin Dallas, whose family originally came from here, became the Vice President of the US, and Dallas, Texas may have been named after him.

David Eagles

He spent fifteen months learning to fly with the United States Navy, where he flew the Harvard (US Navy SNJ), the Grumman F9F Panther and the North American T-28 Trojan at Naval Air Stations Pensacola FLA and Kingsville TEXAS.

District of Columbia War Memorial

In September 2008, Rep. Ted Poe of Texas, with the support of Frank Buckles, then the last living US veteran of World War I, proposed a bill in Congress stating the memorial should be expanded and designated the national memorial to World War I.

Dusty Saxton

In 2005 Dusty responded to a MySpace ad for a guitarist spot in Dallas, Texas based rock band, Analogue, fronted by eventual Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights bassist, Nick Jay.

Ed Acker

Shortly thereafter, Acker led a group of investors who purchased a controlling interest in Air Florida, a low-cost carrier which reminded Acker of his competition with Southwest in Texas.

Elmer Blaney Harris

He went to work for the Food Board under Herbert Hoover, but sick of working with Graham flour, he took a new position as civil aide to the commander in charge of amusements and morale at Camp Bowie, Texas as a dramatic director with the Fosdick Commission.

Garrya

Garrya wrightii – Wright's Silktassel; Arizona, New Mexico, Texas.

Heffelfinger

William Walter "Pudge" Heffelfinger (1867, Minneapolis, Minnesota - 1954, Blessing, Texas), an American football player

Hermann Lungkwitz

In addition to Gillespie County vistas, his Texas subjects were the German settlements of New Braunfels and Sisterdale, the Hamilton Pool and West Cave at Round Mountain, Marble Falls, and areas around Austin and San Antonio.

Hugh Allen

Joseph Hugh Allen (1940–2008), Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives

Jack Hoogendyk

Hoogendyk was first elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in 2002 representing the 61st district, which includes the cities of Portage and Parchment, and the townships of Alamo, Kalamazoo, Oshtemo, Prairie Ronde and Texas.

John Calvin Mason

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->During the Civil War served with Texas State troops from Brenham, Texas in 1863.

Katrina Price

In her senior year she led La Vega High School (Waco, Texas) to the 1994 state finals and a 32-4 record, and averaged 30.0 points, 13.0 rebounds, 6.0 assists, and 5.0 steals per game.

KETK

KETK-LP, a low-power television station (channel 53) licensed to Lufkin, Texas, United States

KEUS

KANG-LP, a low-power television station (channel 31) licensed to serve San Angelo, Texas, which held the call sign KEUS-LP from 2001 to 2013

Keyuo Craver

Keyuo Boderek Craver (born August 22, 1980 in Dallas, Texas) is an American football defensive back currently playing with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League, who signed Craver as a free agent on March 5, 2009.

KICA

KICA-FM, a radio station (98.3 FM) licensed to Farwell, Texas, United States

KPRC

KODA, a radio station (99.1 FM) licensed to Houston, Texas, United States; formerly KPRC-FM from 1946 to 1958

Kretschmarr Cave mold beetle

One of these studies was conducted be the Texas department of transportation that studied the karst environment along highway 45 in Texas.

KSAT

Krueger Middle School in San Antonio, Texas, United States, home of a magnet program called Krueger School of Applied Technologies (K-SAT)

KUVM

KUVM-LD, a television station (channel 10) licensed to Missouri City, Texas, United States

KWTX

KWTX-TV, a television station (channel 10) licensed to Waco, Texas, United States

Lampsilis bracteata

Historically the Texas fatmucket had populations in at least 18 rivers in the upper Colorado, Guadalupe, and San Antonio River systems in central Texas.

Liberty County Airport

Liberty Municipal Airport in Liberty County, Texas, United States (FAA: T78)

Lizzette Reynolds

In October 2007, Eugenie Scott, the executive director of the National Center for Science Education, sent an email to a list of addressees including Christine Comer, then Director of Science in the curriculum division of the Texas Education Agency.

Mohammed al Janahi

The film, which stars Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman, tells the story of a Texas congressman (Hanks) who works to help the Mujahideen defeat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan using an unlikely alliance of lawmakers, Israelis, Pakistanis, arms dealers and Egyptians.

Newt H. Hall

Newt Hamill Hall (Marshville, Texas, January 2, 1873 - Tennessee, May 24, 1939) was an American officer serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Boxer Rebellion who was one of 23 Marine Corps officers approved to receive the Marine Corps Brevet Medal for bravery.

Okkervil River

Okkervil River's founding members became friends at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire, and after parting ways for college moved to Austin, Texas to live together and start a band.

Pleasant Tackitt

Because of his battles with Indians in Texas, Tackitt became known as "The Fighting Parson."

Ray Barnhart

In a letter to Democratic State Senator Kirk Watson of Austin, Barnhart said that the legislature, not the Texas Department of Transportation, is responsible for problems involving highways.

Ronnie Claire Edwards

Edwards also briefly appeared on an episode of PBS's Antiques Roadshow (2008) from Dallas, Texas, when she brought in for appraisal a chair formerly owned by P. T. Barnum.

Roy Orbison's Sun Recordings

Roy Kelton Orbison was born in Vernon, Texas, on April 23, 1936, and he grew up in Wink, Texas.

Silver dollar

James Marion West, Jr., Texas oilman known as "Silver Dollar Jim" for throwing coins to passersby on the street

T. Texas Tyler

"T-Texas Tyler", a ballad on songwriter and recording artist Bucky Halker's 2008 CD Wisconsin 2.13.63, Volume 2, recalls Tyler's performances in Burley, Idaho in the early 1950s when he struggled with alcohol and drugs and barely made it through his set many nights, but still managed moments of skillful performance.

Texas Trail Stone Corral

The Texas Trail Stone Corral, near Imperial, Nebraska, was built in 1874 and is a rare surviving artifact of cattle drives along the Texas Trail.

The Alamo: Shrine of Texas Liberty

The Alamo: Shrine of Texas Liberty is a 1938 American black-and-white war film directed by Stuart Paton and produced by H. W. Kier and Norman Sheldon.

The J-Tex Corporation

Their name was reference to the fact that its two prominent members, Muta and Funk, were from Japan and Texas, respectively.

Thomas Crook Sullivan

His first assignment was as a second lieutenant in the First U.S. Artillery serving on the Texas frontier and during this period was with the expedition against Juan Cortina's Mexican marauders, seeing combat near Fort Brown, Texas.

West Indian manatee

While this is a regularly occurring species along coastal southern Florida, during summer, this large mammal has even been found as far north as Dennis, Massachusetts and as far west as Texas.

White Whale Records

White Whale also released Nino Tempo & April Stevens's single "All Strung Out (On You)", a hit single by Rene y Rene titled "Lo Mucho Que Ti Quiero", an album by Liz Damon's Orient Express, and the only album by Texas band The Clique.