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Texas ( / ˈtɛksəs / TEK-səss, locally also / ˈtɛksɪz / TEK-siz; [8] Spanish: Texas or Tejas, [b] pronounced [ˈtexas]) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua ...
- Republic of Texas
The Burnet Flag used from December 1836 to January 1839 as...
- Flag of Texas
Flag design. The state flag is officially described by law...
- Senate
The Texas Senate is the upper house of the Texas...
- United States Congressional Delegations From Texas
Texas's congressional districts since 2023. These are tables...
- History of Texas
History of Texas. Timeline. Years in Texas. Texas portal. v....
- Talk
The first line of the third paragraph of the Taxation...
- Austin
Austin (/ ˈ ɔː s t ɪ n / AW-stin, UK: / ˈ ɒ s t ɪ n /...
- Six Flags Over Texas
Six Flags Over Texas is a 212-acre (86 ha) amusement park,...
- List of Texas Metropolitan Areas
The following is a complete list of 25 metropolitan areas in...
- Supreme Court of Texas
The Supreme Court of Texas is the court of last resort for...
- Republic of Texas
UNT Libraries house the complete news archive of NBC 5/KXAS (formerly WBAP), the oldest television news station in Texas. The archive contains historic broadcast footage, scripts, advertisements, still photography, and research files dating from 1950 through 2012.
Stephen F. Austin and Anglo-American Texas. In 1820, Moses Austin (1761-1821), an innovator of the American lead industry, traveled to San Antonio from his home in Missouri hoping to gain permission to establish a colony in what was then Spanish Texas.
Evidence of habitation of the Balcones Escarpment region of Texas can be traced to at least 11,000 years ago. Two of the oldest Paleolithic archeological sites in Texas, the Levi Rock Shelter and Smith Rock Shelter, are located southwest and southeast of present-day Austin respectively. [7]
Paying particular attention to materials from Houston's KPRC, BREAKING NEWS explores the difficulties of working with physically breaking local television news collections and the obstacles for present-day archivists to decode the clues left behind.
The first American settlers arrived in 1821 on what is known as the legendary site of Montezuma's Indian village. In 1822, the Mexican government issued land grants to members of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred , who included Benjamin Beason (originally spelled "Beeson") and Abram Alley.