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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.

77th Fighter Squadron

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

Adam Ulatoski

Ulatoski attended Carroll High School in Southlake, Texas, where he was coached by former Texas Longhorn quarterback Todd Dodge, and protected quarterback Chase Daniel as left tackle.

Aero Africa

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

Albert Clinton Horton

He died on September 1, 1865 in Matagorda, and was buried in Matagorda Cemetery located on South Gulf Road.

Alex Puccio

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

Alvis Wayne

Alvis was born in Paducah, Texas and listened to country music on the radio as a child and was given a guitar at age ten.

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.

Beaumont Botanical Gardens

The Beaumont Botanical Gardens (23.5 acres), also known as the Tyrrell Park Botanical Gardens, are botanical gardens and a conservatory located in Tyrrell Park at 6088 Babe Zaharias Drive, Beaumont, Texas, USA.

Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western Railway

It passed through small southeast Texas communities such as Hull, Kenefick, and Huffman.

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.

Black Seminole Scouts

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

Many of the scouts' remains rest at the Seminole Indian Scouts Cemetery in Kinney County, Texas, including Adam and Isaac Payne and members of their family.

Blame It on Texas

The narrator tells that from his humble beginnings in Beaumont, Texas (Mark's birthplace) he has traveled all around the country.

Bob Glasgow

Robert "Bob" Glasgow is a Democratic Party politician from Stephenville, Texas who held office as a member of the Senate of Texas.

Brendan Kibble

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

Canyon Lake, Texas

Communities located on the fringes of the CDP are Fischer, Spring Branch, and Smithson Valley.

Cash Asmussen

From a Texas horse racing family, his parents, Keith and Marilyn "Sis" Asmussen, operate a ranch in Laredo in Webb County, Texas.

Championship Cup Series

Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, CCS has been in operation since 1984, founded by Roger Edmondson in Asheville, North Carolina.

Chandi Jones

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

Culebra Road

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

Dalsa Cutoff

One segment of the San Antonio and Arkansas Pass Railway (SA&AP) lives on as part of the cutoff: the section between Giddings to Flatonia.

Dana Hamilton

Dana Hamilton (born November 17, 1950, Arlington, Texas) is an American hammered dulcimer player.

Derry Area School District

Additionally, Sturdisteel Company of Waco, Texas, was awarded a $204,500 contract to replace the stadium press box with a new prefabricated steel structure.

Devils Rope Barbed Wire Museum

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

Dolph Briscoe

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

Edd Hargett

Edward Eugene Hargett (born June 26, 1947 in Marietta, Texas) is a former American football quarterback for Texas A&M University who went on to play professionally for the NFL's New Orleans Saints and Houston Oilers.

Elsa Benham

Elsa Benham (November 20, 1908 – April 20, 1995, Irving, Texas) was a dancer and silent movie performer from St. Louis, Missouri.

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.

Floyd Weaver

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

Forrest Bess

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

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.

Gender segregation and Islam

In 1998 activists from the National Organization for Women picketed Unocal's Sugar Land, Texas office, arguing that its proposed pipeline through Afghanistan was collaborating with "gender apartheid".

Genesis Television Network

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

Glen Titensor

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

H. Clyde Wilson Jr.

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

Haematobia irritans

A white-eyed "albino" horn fly was discovered in a colony maintained at the Knipling-Bushland U.S. Livestock Insects Research Laboratory in Kerrville, Texas.

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.

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.

Hubert Vo

Vo currently serves as a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives, representing the 149th District which contains part of Harris County including part of west Houston and the suburbs of Alief and Katy.

John Calvin Mason

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

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.

John Yanta

John Yanta (born October 2, 1931, in Runge, Texas), is a former Roman Catholic bishop who served the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio in San Antonio, Texas and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Amarillo in Amarillo, Texas.

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.

KAKW-DT

The station first signed on the air on May 31, 1996 as a primary affiliate of UPN and a secondary affiliate of The WB for the Waco/Killeen/Temple market; the station was originally owned by Communications Corporation of America, along with Waco-based Fox affiliate KWKT (channel 22) and the station's Bryan-based satellite KYLE (channel 48).

KBVO-CD

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

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.

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).

KXFX-CA

From its time affiliated with Telefutura, KXFX-CA programming was also seen in McAllen on KTFV-CA channel 32, in La Feria on KCWT-CA channel 30, and on the digital signal of KNVO channel 48.2 / 49.2.

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.

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.

Laura Furman

After living in Houston, Galveston, Dallas, and Lockhart she settled in Austin with her husband, Joel Warren Barna, and their son.

Louis Curtiss

Other Curtiss railroad architecture included the 1910-1912 Union Terminal in Wichita, Kansas, the 1909-1911 Santa Fe Railroad depot in Sweetwater, Texas, the 1909-1911 Santa Fe Railroad depot in Lubbock, Texas, the 1909-1911 Santa Fe Railroad depot in Snyder, Texas, the 1909-1911 Santa Fe Railroad depot in Post, Texas, and the 1910-1911 Joplin Union Depot in Joplin, Missouri.

Louis R. Douglass

Douglass also served in the United States Army Quartermaster Corps during World War I, with responsibility for the construction of Army hospitals at Leon Springs, Texas, as well as U.S. Army General Hospital No. 7 in Baltimore, Maryland, and at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan.

Lowe's Market

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

Lowell Mick White

White currently teaches English at Texas A&M University, and is Writer-in-Residence at the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, 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.

Marion Fresenius Fooshee

They typically worked independently on their residential commissions; Fooshee is credited with 3606 Cornell in Highland Park (ca. 1923).

Marquis Floyd

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

Naomi Gonzalez

Naomi R. Gonzalez (born June 4, 1978) is an attorney and politician from El Paso, Texas.

Niederentzen

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

North Irving Transit Center

North Irving Transit Center is a bus-only station located along Northwest Highway (Spur 348) in Irving, Texas (USA).

Obie Bermúdez

He became engaged to Latin Popstar Jennifer Peña, they married on June 3, 2007 in a private ceremony in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Onalaska, Washington

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

Orangefield

Orangefield, Texas, an unincorporated town in Orange County, United States

Parker University

18 months later, Dr. Parker served as many as 300 patients a day at affiliate clinics in Dallas, Waco, Texas, and Meridian, Texas.

Phantom shiner

The native range of the phantom shiner was the Rio Grande from Espanola downstream to Brownsville, Texas.

PrimeCo

When the company was founded, PrimeCo was headquartered in the Solana Office Complex in Westlake, Texas, a suburb of Dallas.

Randy Keisler

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

Raymundo Joseph Peña

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

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.

Roaring Springs, Texas

(June 23, 1919–July 30, 2012), a native of Willis near Conroe in Montgomery County, Texas, was for thirty-five years the depot agent of the Quanah, Acme and Pacific Railroad, first in Roaring Springs and after 1960 in Floydada.

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.

Roy Orbison's Sun Recordings

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

Ruthe B. Cowl

During a trip to Mexico during the Christmas school vacation in 1952, the family stopped in the Rio Grande border city of Laredo, the seat of Webb County in south Texas to visit people whom they had met through mutual friends in Dallas.

Sally Mayes

Born in Livingston, Texas, Mayes began her career as a rock and jazz singer in Houston.

Sonya Fitzpatrick

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

Sorbian languages

Sorbian has also been spoken in the small Sorbian ("Wendish") settlement of Serbin in Lee County, Texas, and it is possible that a few speakers still remain there.

Stacy Sykora

She was raised in Burleson (a Fort Worth suburb) with her two older sisters, Kim and Keri.

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.

Sugar Land Skeeters

The team's primary logo consists of a mosquito flying over a Texas contour with its proboscis marking Fort Bend County.

Texans for Public Justice

Texans for Public Justice (TPJ) is an Austin-based non-profit that was organized in 1997 to take on political corruption and corporate abuses in Texas, USA.

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.

Texas's 20th congressional district

Charlie Gonzalez, who represented the district from 1999 to 2013 after succeeding his father, Henry B. Gonzalez, did not seek re-election in the 2012 United States House of Representatives elections.

Texico, New Mexico

The city is located on the Texas-New Mexico border with the town of Farwell, Texas across the border.

The Judy's

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

Thomas N. Barnes

After retiring to Fannin County, Texas, he raised Longhorn cattle and two years in a row won the team penning at the Kueckelhan Rodeo.

Tommy Hancock

In 1980 the Hancock family settled in Austin, Texas, where they found the local attitudes much to their liking.

Uvalde

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

Waco, Texas

The press center provided briefing and office facilities for the press corps whenever Bush visited his "Western White House" near Crawford.

Wayne Christian

In 2009, a controversial amendment sponsored by fellow Republican, Mike "Tuffy" Hamilton passed the Texas House, allowing Christian and a handful of neighbors on the Bolivar Peninsula near Galveston to rebuild houses destroyed by Hurricane Ike.

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.


Aldine

Aldine Independent School District, a school district in Houston, Texas, United States

Beeville, Texas

TTa operated scheduled passenger flights with Douglas DC-3 prop airliners from Chase Field with service to Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Harlingen, Houston, San Antonio and other destinations in 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.

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.

Cephalanthus occidentalis

Southwestern North America, from western Texas west to California (Sierra Nevada foothills, San Joaquin Valley, Sacramento Valley, and the Inner North Coast Ranges) and south to Mexico and Central America.

Conn's

is an electronics and appliance store chain headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, United States.

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.

Dan Sandifer

He once played in a tennis exhibition match in Houston, Texas with future president, George H. W. Bush and professionals Tony Roche and John Newcombe.

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.

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.

Eastern Commerce Collegiate Institute

Myck Kabongo, basketball player currently attending the University of Texas on Basketball scholar

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.

Eugene Nelson

In 1966 Nelson became Texas director of the first grape boycott by César Chávez's farmworker union.

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.

Frank Davison

Frank B. Davison, 1855–1935, considered one of the founding fathers of Texas City, Texas

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

Hugh Allen

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

Jay Levin

Levin hired Texas writers Big Boy Medlin, Ginger Varney, and Michael Ventura, as well as Anita Hoffman (wife of then-fugitive Abbie Hoffman).

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.

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

KPAR

KTXS-TV, a television station (channel 12 analog/20 digital) licensed to Sweetwater, Texas, United States, which held the call sign KPAR-TV from 1956 to 1966

KPRC

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

KTSM

KTSM-TV, a television station (channel 9 analog/16 digital) licensed to El Paso, Texas, United States

KUIL

KUIL-LD, a low-power television station (channel 43) licensed to serve Beaumont, Texas, United States

Lake of the Pines, California

:For the lake in Texas, see Lake O’ the Pines.

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.

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.

McFaddin

McFaddin-Ward House, Beaux-Arts colonial style house in Beaumont, Texas

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.

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."

Premiere Cinemas

Flagship megaplex Premiere Cinema locations are operated in Bryan-College Station, El Paso, Houston, and Temple, Texas, Orlando, Florida, Gadsden, Spanish Fort, and Bessemer, Alabama, and Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

Quinlan, Texas

In 1892 Edward H. R. Green, Hetty Green's son and president of the Texas Midland, abandoned Roberts as a depot and established a new depot town, Quinlan, 1½ miles north of the older community.

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.

Sarah Kunstler

At Off Center Media, Sarah has produced and directed a number of short documentaries, including Tulia, Texas: Scenes from the Drug War (2003), which won Best Documentary Short at the Woodstock Film Festival (she was instrumental in winning exoneration for 46 wrongfully-convicted people in the small town of Tulia, Texas); and Getting Through to the President (2004), which has aired on the Sundance Channel, Current TV, and Channel Thirteen/WNET.

State Marriage Defense Act

It was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Representative Randy Weber, a Texas Republican, on January 9, 2014, who presented it as an attempt to clarify federal government's implementation of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Windsor in June 2013.

Texas Coastal Bend

For example, the California Fan Palm (Washingtonia filifera) is found only west of the Texas Coastal Bend, or more specifically the Balcones Fault.

The Marshall News Messenger

The Texas Republican and the Tri-Weekly Herald, both published by Robert W. Loughery, were credited with aiding the election of Marshall citizens J.P. Henderson, Edward Clark, and Pendleton Murrah to the Governor's office and Louis T. Wigfall to the U.S. Senate.

The Shops at Willow Bend

The majority of the stores in the mall cater to women, although some stores have broader appeal, such as the department stores, the restaurants, and North Texas' largest Apple Store.

Tony Rudy

After serving as a staffer in the office of U. S. Representative Tom DeLay (R-TX) from approximately 1995 to 2001, and rising to deputy chief of staff, Rudy joined "Team Abramoff" at Greenberg Traurig.

Transgender inequality

For example, in November 2013, Jeydon Loredo was temporarily excluded from their La Feria Independent School District yearbook in Texas due to sporting a tuxedo that did not meet “community standards.”

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.