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	The Six Flags of Texas
		This flag consisted of a blue perpendicular stripe of the width of one-third of the whole length of the flag with a white star of five points in the center thereof, and two horizontal stripes of equal breadth, the upper stripe white, the lower red, of the length of two-thirds of the whole flag.
		The Texas flag should be on the marching left in a procession in which the flag of the United States is carried; it's staff should be behind the staff of the flag of the United States when the two are displayed with crossed staffs.
		A pledge to the Texas flag was adopted by the 43rd Legislature and from 1933 until 1965 that pledge was used.
	www.lnstar.com /mall/txtrails/flag.htm (770 words)

	Six Flags of Texas - Texas State Library
		Over the years, there has been some debate over exactly which flags should be used as the official Six Flags of Texas.
		This red and yellow striped flag depicts a lion of Leon and a castle of Castile on a shield surmounted by a crown.
		The second flag, know as the Stainless Banner, flew from May 1, 1863 until March 4, 1865 and was a white banner with the battle flag in the upper corner near the pole.
	www.tsl.state.tx.us /ref/abouttx/sixflags.html (837 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: FLAGS OF TEXAS
		The strong Texas interest in flags is shown in public and private displays of the "Six Flags Over Texas," i.e., the flags of the six countries that have ruled over Texas: the Kingdom of France, the Kingdom of Spain, the Mexican Federal Republic, the Republic of Texas,
		This flag (circa 1643 to October 31, 1790) was a simplified version of the French state flag and ensign that bore the entire arms of France on the field of fleurs-de-lys.
		Texas has had three official national or state flags during its existence: the 1836 national standard, the 1836 national flag for the naval service, and the 1839 national flag, which became the state flag.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/print/FF/msf1.html (2331 words)

	City of Arlington, Texas > Landmark > Historic Properties > Six Flags Over Texas
		The Republic of Texas was born in the dark era of the fall of the Alamo, Goliad Massacre and "Runaway Scrape" of settlers fleeing before the coming of Santa Anna and his army.
		As a nation, Texas built towns and mills; developed strong commerce; fought against the Indians and foreign raiders; established patterns of justice, with Homestead Acts and other laws; and won the respect of all the world.
		On February 16, 1846, the Lone Star banner became a state flag and Texas took her position as the 28th star in the United States flag.
	www.ci.arlington.tx.us /landmark/historic_properties_sixflags.html (480 words)

	Six Flags Over Texas
		Texas' flag during the last seven years as an independent country.
		The 28 star flag was the first United States flag to fly over Texas.
		This is the first of three National Confederate Flags flown over Texas between 1861 and 1868.
	www.kwanah.com /txmilmus/flags/eaglemt.htm (135 words)

	SFOT Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Six Flags Railroad is the oldest operating attraction at Six Flags Over Texas and has the distinction of being the ONLY attraction remaining from the park's initial season.
		The Green Train, originally the "Mary Ann" at the Enterprise Plantation, was renamed the "General Sam Houston" by Six Flags, in honor of the Texas hero.
		The Six Flags Railroad is an official operating railroad regulated by the Texas Railroad Commission.
	www.parktimes.com /sections/texas/train.htm (1152 words)

	Texas (U.S.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Republic of Texas was the name of Texas before it joined the Union and the current flag was the legal national flag from 10 December 1836 until 25 January 1839 (that's why the "Republic of Texas" proponents use it).
		Texas has had two naval ensigns, the 1824 green-white-red flag adopted in 1835 and the 1836 13 red-and-white striped flag with a white lone star in the blue canton.
		The 1839 legislation, which adopted the current State flag as the flag of the Republic of Texas, implicitly repealed the 1836 law regarding the naval ensign, in section 4, when it authorized the President to establish a flag for the naval service.
	fotw.vexillum.com /flags/us-tx.html (1307 words)

	Six Flags Over Texas
		One of the world's oldest theme parks, born about 10 years after Disneyland opened, the Six Flags creator had visited Disneyland and returned to Texas with the idea a theme park was just what was needed to give a boost to the midway between Dallas and Fort Worth town of Arlington.
		The Six Flag's 'oil derrick' is the highest edifice in the mid-cities area of the D/FW Metroplex.
		Six Flags has a lot of rides which seem to be of the carnival sort, not the theme park sort.
	durangotexas.com /eyesontexas/sixflags/sixflags.htm (897 words)

	Six Flags Over Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Six Flags Over Texas is a major amusement park located in Arlington, Texas, about 15 miles away from Dallas.
		It was the oldest park of the Six Flags chain.
		The park's name "Six Flags Over Texas" stands for the six different nations' flags which have governed Texas, including: France, Spain, Mexico, The Republic of Texas, The Confederate States of America, and the United States of America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Six_Flags_Over_Texas (2223 words)

	The Six National Flags of Texas
		Six national flags have flown over Texas since the first European exploration of the region by Cortez in 1519.
		Texas became the birthplace of the American cowboy; Texas Rangers were the first to use Sam Colt's remarkable six-shooters; Sam Houston became an American ideal of rugged individualism.
		The first Confederate flag flown in Texas was the South's national emblem, "The Stars and Bars" of the Confederate States of America, although the later-crossed Confederate battle flag is better known today.
	www.lsjunction.com /facts/6flags.htm (739 words)

	Six Flags Over Texas Theme Park \| Arlington, TX
		Six Flags Over Texas officially opened to the public on August 5, 1961.
		The "Six Flags" name comes from the six different nations' flags that have flown over the state of Texas.
		In 2006 Six Flags Over Texas celebrates its 45th anniversary with the largest expansion in park history.
	www.ultimaterollercoaster.com /coasters/yellowpages/parks/sfot_tx.shtml (173 words)

	Six Flags Over Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Six Flags Over Texas is an amusement park located at Arlington, TX in USA.
		Texas Giant is a wood tracked roller coaster manufactured by Dinn Corp.
		Texas Giant was my 132nd coaster, and my 25th wooden coaster.
	www.bannister.org /coasters/parks/six_flags_over_texas.htm (622 words)

	Six Flags Over Texas
		The six flags which have flown over Texas present a brief glimpse of the history of the state.
		The red, gold, and white Spanish flag of this historic period depicts the lions of Leon and the castles of Castile.
		The French flag features a host of golden fleurs-de-lis emblazoned on a field of white, which was actually the French merchant-marine banner of the period.
	www.toledo-bend.com /general/index.asp?request=sixflags (805 words)

	Texas Giant - Six Flags Over Texas \| Ride Review
		Standing the same height as a fourteen-story building, Texas Giant can be seen for miles in the flat Texas landscape, but what you can't see from the outside is the wild layout on the inside.
		The Texas Giant is not a ten second ride, in fact more than two minutes will pass between the time you leave the station and the time you return.
		Just as the Giant is about to put on the brakes you emerge out of the structure to jump over a couple of bunny hops, lifting your buns from your seat once more before coming to a rest on the brake run.
	www.ultimaterollercoaster.com /coasters/reviews/texasgiant (895 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Six Flags over Texas, a tourist attraction, is located equidistant between Dallas and Fort Worth in Arlington just off Interstate Highway 30 and State Highway 360.
		The six flags are those that have flown over Texas: the flags of Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas,
		The Handbook of Texas Online is a joint project of The General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas State Historical Association.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/SS/lls1.html (380 words)

	American Paint Horses proudly bear the colors for Six Flags Over Texas in 2002 - Equiworld Magazine June 2002
		FORT WORTH, Texas-American Paint Horses are bearing the six flags that have flown over Texas during the past 500 years as part of an exciting new outreach program undertaken by the American Paint Horse Association (APHA).
		American Paint Horses ride in precision drill-team formation as they carry the six flags that have flown over Texas as part of a two-month performance expected to be seen by nearly 2 million people this summer.
		Six Flags theme parks serve 40 of the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the United States.
	www.equiworld.net /uk/ezine/0602/apha01.htm (1279 words)

	CoasterGallery.com -- Six Flags Over Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Wynne decided his park would have six areas based on the governments that have ruled Texas: Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Confederate States, and The U.S.A. The park was going to be named Texas Under Six Flags, but Wynne decided Texas should not be under anything.
		Two other Six Flags parks were built, and several other existing parks were purchased and brought into the Six Flags family in the 1970's.
		Six Flags Over Texas had the world's first log flume ride and the first Mine Train coaster.
	www.coastergallery.com /2001T/SFOT.html (239 words)

	Six Flags - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The park took its name from the six flags that have flown over the state of Texas during its history (Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the United States of America and the Confederate States of America).
		The Six Flags chain began in 1961 with the creation of Six Flags Over Texas by Angus G. Wynne at Arlington in Tarrant County, which featured (in the beginning) a Native American village, a gondola ride, a railroad, some Wild West shows, a stagecoach ride, and "Skull Island", a pirate-themed adventure attraction.
		Over time, all of those attractions, except for the railroad, would be replaced by other attractions, such as roller coasters, swing rides, log flumes, and shoot-the-chute rides, as well as an observation tower.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Six_Flags (1351 words)

	Theme Dinners : Six Flags (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Visit the varied cuisine of the world of Texas as you stroll through the beautifully decorated ballroom at the Six Flags Over Texas theme party.
		Six separate stations will display foods and decor that relive the six seperate nations of Texas' hisory.
		The flags of France, Spain, Mexico, Texas, The United States and the old Confederacy will line the entrance to the ballroom as you are greeted by banquet staff costumed to represent these countries.
	www.dellago.com /_dining/sixflags.htm (258 words)

	SIX FLAGS OVER TEXAS
		Growing up in the Dallas, Texas area during the 1970s' through the very early 90s', Six Flags Over Texas always was a real treat to go to.
		Special landscape lighting turns SIX FLAGS Over Texas into another wonderland after dark, high-lighting the stately Corinthian colums and the flags of Spain, France, Great Britian, Confederacy, State of Texas, and USA.
		There's never been alost child at SIX FLAGS Over Texas, but there are plenty of "lost parents." Youngsters can wait for their parents in the theme park's colorful Lost Parents Caboose.
	arkansasacer.tripod.com /id4.html (356 words)

	THE 6 FLAGS OVER TEXAS
		The first European, Alonso Alvarez de Pineda, made his way along the Texas coast in 1519, exploring and bringing it under the Spanish Flag.
		In February of 1846, the Republic of Texas became the State of Texas in the United States of America.
		The United Confederate Veterans designated the battle flag of the army of Northern Virginia the flag for use by veterans organizations.
	www.beer-bytch.com /texas6flags.htm (895 words)

	Six Flags Over Texas: The History Behind the Name - Associated Content
		Six Flags theme parks are now a countrywide phenomenon, and even an international one.
		Although the Spanish had claimed Texas as early as 1519, it took them well over a century to build their first true settlement there.
		Texas was a frontier territory, one that the Spanish did little to capitalize upon it.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/5521/six_flags_over_texas_the_history_behind.html (543 words)

	Six flags over Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.csres.utexas.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The third flag flown (1821 thru 1836) was the the [[Mexico]mexican] flag.
		The mexican flag displayed in the Austin Capitol is the one of the Mexican Replublic of 1823 thru 1864.
		This flag was in use in Texas until its independence from Mexico in 1836 (Texas's declaration of independence).
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Six_flags_over_Texas (496 words)

	Sixty-Six Flags Over Palestine
		The notion of Texas having a rich history would be a joke in the rest of the world, and nowhere more than in Palestine.
		Muhammad Ali, an Ottoman governor of Egypt of Albanian origin, became essentially independent of the Ottomans, and his son tried to extend their realm into Palestine and Syria, and succeeded for a while, until the British fearing an independent power in that region, put a stop to it.
		The six flags would be flying over armies, and there would be Six Wars Over Texas.
	www.isi.edu /~hobbs/middle-east-web/node12.html (1551 words)

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		Rene Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle attempted to establish a French colony on the Texas coast.
		Stars and Bars, is the flag most commonly used in the Six Flags of Texas today.
		Handbook of Texas Online article on Flags of Texas, in 1906, the United Confederate Veterans designated the battle flag of the army of Northern Virginia the flag for use by veterans organizations.
	www.kronbergsflagsandflagpoles.com /six_flags_of_texas.html (922 words)

	Six Flags Over Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		At the conclusion of the Civil War, the flags of six nations had flown over Texas -- Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, United States of America and the Confederate States of America.
		Spain's ability to maintain the frontier in Texas was tenuous, and France did little more than land the adventurous Robert Cavalier Sieur de la Salle at Matagorda Bay in 1685, where he raised the French flag over Fort St Louis and forayed inland briefly.
		Most Texans sided with the Confederacy from 1861-65, but not all were in favor of the war as Texas was a culturally diverse state with increasing immigration from eastern European nations.
	www.houstonculture.org /tour/texas3.html (210 words)

	Six Flags Over Texas
		To celebrate 45 years of family fun, Six Flags Over Texas is adding ten new family rides to the park.
		Six Flags features two covered pavilions with 15,000 square feet of space to accommodate your group.
		SIX FLAGS and all related indicia are trademarks of Six Flags Theme Parks
	www.arlington.org /six_flags.php (535 words)

	MultiVu \| Six Flags Over Texas Invites Park Guests to Soar Like A Super Hero in 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Riders are secured into their launch vehicles by over the shoulder restraints in vibrant Superman yellow.
		With nothing beneath their feet but sky, Guests are positioned with their backs to three massive steel towers as they prepare to leap tall buildings in a single bound.
		"Six Flags Over Texas is thrilled to have a new Super Hero in town," said Steve Calloway, vice president and general manager of Six Flags Over Texas.
	www.prnewswire.com /mnr/sixflags/10654 (494 words)

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	www.sixflags.com (438 words)

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