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  1. 4 days ago · Texas was, of course, a province of New Spain, the vast royal possession that would become the new nation of Mexico. Unbeknownst to many Texans — and some more who think Texans should not revere Mexican independence — Texas played a role in the Mexican independence movement, particularly in the earliest days of the conflict.

  2. 4 days ago · Near the end of the Paleozoic Era, the inland seas retreated southwestward, and West Texas became the site of broad evaporite basins where salt, gypsum, and red muds were deposited in a hot, arid climate.

    • David Flaxbart
    • 2016
  3. 3 days ago · Below is a list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites located in upper North America. Greenland has been included here as part of North America despite its cultural and political associations with Europe. The separate List of World Heritage Sites in Central America covers the continental areas further south. Mexico leads North America hosting 35 ...

  4. 4 days ago · Of the 23,000 people who lived in Austin in 1900, only about 500 were of Mexican heritage. In Central Texas, they helped build the railroads, tended to the crops of white farm owners and worked as ...

  5. 1 day ago · Since 2015, Texas has a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The San Antonio Missions is a group of former frontier missions and a ranch situated along a stretch of the San Antonio River basin in southern Texas.

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  6. 3 days ago · Overview of World Heritage sites, areas or objects of ’outstanding universal value’ as recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) under the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, or World Heritage Convention.

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  8. 3 days ago · The World Heritage Convention entered into force on December 17, 1975, and in 1978 the World Heritage List was created. Twelve sites were inscribed to the list in its inaugural year, among them Aachen Cathedral (Germany), the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador), L’Anse aux Meadows (Canada), the rock churches of Lalībela (Ethiopia), the Wieliczka and ...