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Texas boasts that "Six Flags" have flown over its soil: the Fleur-de-lis of France, the national flags of Spain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Confederate States of America and the United States of America.
It is mostly sedimentary rocks, with east Texas 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—oftentimes dominating over all else for the purposes of socializing and leisure.
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 Britain.tv Wikipedia - Texas
Texas boasts that "Six Flags"?title=have flown over its soil: the Fleur-de-lis of France, the national flags of Spain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Confederate States of America and the United States of America.
As a whole, Texas was mainly a "supply state"?title=for the Confederate forces until mid 1863, when the Union capture of the Mississippi River made large movements of men or cattle impossible.
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is a governmental agency and its purpose is to "provide safe, effective, and efficient movement of people and goods"?title=throughout the state.
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 Texas
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—oftentimes dominating over all else for the purposes of socializing and leisure.
Texas is the only state in the U.S. to have three cities with populations exceeding one million: Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio; which are also among the 10 largest cities of the United States.
Texas freeways are heavily traveled and are often under construction to meet the demands of continuing growth.
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 Battleship Texas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
USS TEXAS took part in the bombardment of the fortress on Cayo del Tore, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in concert with USS MARBLEHEAD.
The USS TEXAS was authorized by the U.S. Congress on August 3, 1886.
On June 16, 1898, USS TEXAS and USS MARBLEHEAD bombarded the fort at Cayo del Tore in Guantanamo Bay, damaging the fort to the point that it was no longer a threat to the United States forces.
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 The Building of the Texas SSN 775: Other Ships Named Texas
The Norfolk Navy Yard launched the first Texas battleship on June 28, 1892 and it went on to take part in the war between the United States and Spain that erupted in 1898.
The battleship was decommissioned April 21, 1948 and turned over to the state of Texas to serve as a permanent memorial.
Texas saw combat for the first time when it responded to Libyan aggression in the Gulf of Sidra.
www.nn.northropgrumman.com /texas/pages/texasships.html   (331 words)

  
 U.S. Navy Battleships - USS Texas
The first Texas was laid down on 1 June 1889 at Portsmouth, Va., by the Norfolk Navy Yard; launched on 28 June 1892; sponsored by Miss Madge Houston Williams; and commissioned on 15 August 1895, Capt. Henry Glass in command.
Texas arrived in New York on 31 July and remained in nearby waters until late November.
Texas went out of commission briefly in 1901 for repairs at the Norfolk Navy Yard but was commissioned again on 3 November 1902.
www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/battleships/texas/texas.html   (737 words)

  
 Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The University of Texas System (UT), established by the Texas Constitution in 1876, consists of nine academic universities and six health institutions.
UT System institutions enrolled a total of 182,752 students in fall 2004 making it one of the largest systems of higher education in the nation.
In 2004, the University of Texas at Austin, which is the largest institution in the UT System and in the state of Texas, maintained an enrollment of 50,377 students.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Texas   (7413 words)

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