The Handbook of Texas Online is a multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texashistory, geography, and culture sponsored by the TexasState Historical Association and the General Libraries at UT Austin.
The Handbook of Texas Online is a joint project of The General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin and the TexasState Historical Association.
Texas will be releasing a new Album later in 2005, it might be called "Red Book", it was almost given another name before this was chosen.
Semisonic were supporting Texas for the first part of the tour and were getting the crowd going well before the main act.
The third time I saw Texas was the last of the Greatest Hits tour, they were even better than earlier in the tour and this does go down as the best concert I've been to.
It is mostly sedimentary rocks, with eastTexas underlain by a Cretaceous and younger sequence of sediments, the trace of ancient shorelines east and south until the active continental margin of the Gulf of Mexico is met.
Texas is known for its love of American football and is noted for the intensity with which people follow high school and college football teams—often times dominating over all else for the purposes of socalizing and leisure.
Its southern and western-most boundary with Mexico was under dispute throughout the lifetime of the Republic, with Texas claiming that the boundary was the Rio Grande and Mexico claiming the Nueces River as the boundary.
All the Mexicanstates that revolted, including Texas, were upset with Santa Anna over the abolishing of the Mexican Constitution of 1824, dissolving the Mexican Congress and changing the structure of the Mexicangovernment from a federal one to a centralized one.
Texas comes from the Indian word "tejas," meaning friends or allies, and appropriately Texas's motto is "Friendship." Probably the two most recognized symbols of Texas are its unique shape and the lone star that is represented on the State flag.
The Texas flag design was approved in 1839 to symbolize the Republic of Texas and was adopted as the State flag in 1845.
Texas is the only state to have had six different flags fly over its land -- Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, ConfederateStates of America and the UnitedStates of America.
Texasranches and farms also produce poultry and eggs, dairy products, greenhouse and nursery products, wheat, hay, rice, sugar cane, and peanuts, and a variety of fruits and vegetables.
Texas women's athletic director Chris Plonsky issued a statement refuting Oklahomapresident David Boren's claim that OU women's basketball coach Sherri Coale was offered the Texas job.
Former Texas running back Earl Campbell was forced off the road by an 18-wheeler making a sudden lane change on Interstate 20 near Tyler on Sunday afternoon and was taken to the hospital with back pain, authorities said.
The basketball future of Texas freshman power forward Gary Johnson, a top national recruit and an anticipated starter for the Longhorns in 2007-08, may be in jeopardy.
The Republic of Texas achieved its independence from Mexico in 1836, the same year as the famous siege of the Alamo in which pioneers Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett were slain.
The name Texas is a Spanish name, which comes from an Indian word meaning "friends" or "allies." Texas is the second-largest state in the Union in area, after Alaska.
Although it has a wild, frontier history, today Texas is a major producer of oil and has important centers of industry and finance.
The Department of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin is located on the 15th floor of the Robert Lee Moore Building, at the southeast corner of Dean Keeton (26th Street) and Speedway Avenue.
Twenty active teaching faculty and nineteen research scientists, as well as a number of research associates and postdoctoral fellows, maintain activity and research in virtually all areas of modern astronomy.
Details of the astronomical research work going on at the University of Texas at Austin can be found in the 2001-2002 Department of Astronomy Annual Report, available in our research section.
In his first start at quarterback for the defending national champions, McCoy hit Limas Sweed for a 60-yard touchdown on his second pass and Texas cruised to a 56-7 victory over North Texas on Saturday.
197, 212: Balance -- Texas threw for 197 yards and 3 TDs, and rushed for 4 TDs and 212 yards.
Texas redshirt freshman quarterback Colt McCoy, right, notes the defensive alignment before the snap during first...
In addition, the section accepts appointment of the Secretary of State as agent for service of process by foreign corporate fiduciaries under the Texas Probate Code.
AUSTIN, Texas-Coming off a disappointing 10-3 season, Texas begins spring practice Friday trying to shore up a defense that gave up too many big plays as the Longhorns fell to third in the Big 12.
SAN MARCOS, Texas-In a Jan. 22 story about the new football coach at TexasState, The Associated Press erroneously reported the coach's first name.
SAN MARCOS, Texas-Bob Wright, a former walk-on at TexasState, was promoted to head coach of his alma mater Monday after three years as an assistant.
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