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39th Airlift Squadron

The 39th Airlift Squadron (39 AS) is a United States Air Force unit based at Dyess Air Force Base, Abilene, Texas.

Adlène

Adlene Harrison (born 1923), acting mayor of Dallas in 1976, and its first female mayor

Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western Railway

It passed through small southeast Texas communities such as Hull, Kenefick, and Huffman.

Beeville, Texas

TTa operated scheduled passenger flights with Douglas DC-3 prop airliners from Chase Field with service to Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Harlingen, Houston, San Antonio and other destinations in Texas.

Bob Hames

While a student at North Texas in 1946, Hames was one of eight student musicians from North Texas to guest star on Interstate's weekly musical radio show, 3:30, Sunday, April 14, 1946, aired on WFAA.

Camp Topridge

It is now owned by Texas real estate magnate, Harlan Crow, who has substantially restored the buildings and added a number of new ones.

Carole Boston Weatherford

In 1995, Lee & Low Books published her first picture book, Juneteenth Jamboree, about a summer celebration in memory of the Texas Emancipation.

Charles Victor Grahmann

During his tenure, the scandal of Rudolph Kos, a pedophile priest of the Dallas Diocese, came up.

Devils Rope Barbed Wire Museum

The Devils Rope Barbed Wire Museum is a museum located in McLean, Texas, USA.

Downtown Beaumont

Jefferson County Court house is located in downtown and is a notable Art Deco building.

Dusty Saxton

In 2005 Dusty responded to a MySpace ad for a guitarist spot in Dallas, Texas based rock band, Analogue, fronted by eventual Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights bassist, Nick Jay.

Ed Acker

Shortly thereafter, Acker led a group of investors who purchased a controlling interest in Air Florida, a low-cost carrier which reminded Acker of his competition with Southwest in Texas.

Eddy Waller

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Rawhide Geraghty in "The Truth About Rawhide Geraghty" (1959); Hugh O'Brian as Wyatt Earp rides shotgun for the retiring 69-year-old Wells Fargo stagecoach driver Rawhide Geraghty on his last run from Tucumcari, New Mexico Territory, to Amarillo, Texas.

Electronic News

The paper eventually grew to have a staff of three dozen full time journalists, working out of headquarters staffed by full time journalists in New York and bureaus in Boston, Washington DC, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis and Tokyo.

Empery

Nelson Bunker Hunt was not in attendance for the race, the most valuable ever run in Britain, as he was celebrating his 25th wedding anniversary at home in Dallas.

Ewa Malas-Godlewska

Queen of the Night in Mozart's Magic Flute production by Bob Wilson, Paris Opera, L'Opera Comique, Le Theatre du Chatelet, Le Theatre des Champs Elysees, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers and Parisian Bastille Opera, the Houston Grand Opera in Texas

Floresville, Texas

Floresville was the birthplace of former Texas Governor, United States Secretary of the Treasury, and Republican presidential contender John Bowden Connally, Jr. (1917–1993), and his seven siblings, including actor Merrill Connally (1921–2001) and Wayne Connally (1923–2000), a former member of both houses of the Texas State Legislature.

Freddie King

In 1993 by proclamation from the Texas Governor Ann Richards September 3, 1993, was declared Freddie King Day.

Grady Gaines

As of January 2013, Gaines continues to perform with his Texas Upsetters for private parties and wedding receptions and for public events, such as the Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club in Houston's Rice Village neighborhood.

Hermann Lungkwitz

In addition to Gillespie County vistas, his Texas subjects were the German settlements of New Braunfels and Sisterdale, the Hamilton Pool and West Cave at Round Mountain, Marble Falls, and areas around Austin and San Antonio.

Hugh Allen

Joseph Hugh Allen (1940–2008), Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives

Internet America

Internet America was headquartered in One Dallas Centre in Downtown Dallas.

Jack Hoogendyk

Hoogendyk was first elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in 2002 representing the 61st district, which includes the cities of Portage and Parchment, and the townships of Alamo, Kalamazoo, Oshtemo, Prairie Ronde and Texas.

Justin F. Kimball

Justin F. Kimball High School - a school in Dallas, Texas, administered by the Dallas Independent School District

Katrina Price

In her senior year she led La Vega High School (Waco, Texas) to the 1994 state finals and a 32-4 record, and averaged 30.0 points, 13.0 rebounds, 6.0 assists, and 5.0 steals per game.

KKLB

KVLR, a radio station (92.5 FM) licensed to serve Elgin, Texas, which held the call sign KKLB from 1990 to 2007

KPAR

KTXS-TV, a television station (channel 12 analog/20 digital) licensed to Sweetwater, Texas, United States, which held the call sign KPAR-TV from 1956 to 1966

KSAT

Krueger Middle School in San Antonio, Texas, United States, home of a magnet program called Krueger School of Applied Technologies (K-SAT)

KSJL

KYTY, a radio station (810 AM) licensed to serve Somerset, Texas, United States, which held the call sign KSJL from 1998 to 2007

KUVM

KUVM-LD, a television station (channel 10) licensed to Missouri City, Texas, United States

Leavin's Been a Long Time Comin'

The video features former Dallas Cowboys quarterback, Troy Aikman, who plays Cowboy Joe, the new gentleman friend of the woman playing the wife of Shenandoah lead singer, Marty Raybon, in a takeoff on a 1940-vintage divorce trial.

Liberty County Airport

Liberty Municipal Airport in Liberty County, Texas, United States (FAA: T78)

Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge

The bridge was officially lit in a special ceremony conducted by the City of Dallas and Mayor Mike Rawlings.

McFaddin

McFaddin-Ward House, Beaux-Arts colonial style house in Beaumont, Texas

Mohammed al Janahi

The film, which stars Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman, tells the story of a Texas congressman (Hanks) who works to help the Mujahideen defeat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan using an unlikely alliance of lawmakers, Israelis, Pakistanis, arms dealers and Egyptians.

Neil Rutherford

Also killed by gunshot wounds were the hotel owner, Linda Simcox (52); ex merchant seaman Johnny Gore Green (55), an antique dealer from Bay City, Texas; Simcox's daughter, Lorna (24); and her husband, Alastair McIntyre (55).

Norm Hitzges

Norman R. "Norm" Hitzges (born July 5, 1944) is an author and sports talk radio host at KTCK (1310 AM / 96.7 FM, "SportsRadio 1310 The Ticket") in Dallas, Texas.

Premiere Cinemas

Flagship megaplex Premiere Cinema locations are operated in Bryan-College Station, El Paso, Houston, and Temple, Texas, Orlando, Florida, Gadsden, Spanish Fort, and Bessemer, Alabama, and Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

Roy Orbison's Sun Recordings

Roy Kelton Orbison was born in Vernon, Texas, on April 23, 1936, and he grew up in Wink, Texas.

Sarah Kunstler

At Off Center Media, Sarah has produced and directed a number of short documentaries, including Tulia, Texas: Scenes from the Drug War (2003), which won Best Documentary Short at the Woodstock Film Festival (she was instrumental in winning exoneration for 46 wrongfully-convicted people in the small town of Tulia, Texas); and Getting Through to the President (2004), which has aired on the Sundance Channel, Current TV, and Channel Thirteen/WNET.

Scott White

Scott & White Memorial Hospital, hospital and primary clinical teaching campus of Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine

Shannon McRandle

Shannon Lynn Jones was born on August 28, 1969 in Killeen, Texas, US, to Leonard Jones (stationed at Fort Hood, drafted into the army for the Vietnam War) and Barbara Kubiszewski Walsh.

State Marriage Defense Act

It was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Representative Randy Weber, a Texas Republican, on January 9, 2014, who presented it as an attempt to clarify federal government's implementation of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Windsor in June 2013.

T. Texas Tyler

"T-Texas Tyler", a ballad on songwriter and recording artist Bucky Halker's 2008 CD Wisconsin 2.13.63, Volume 2, recalls Tyler's performances in Burley, Idaho in the early 1950s when he struggled with alcohol and drugs and barely made it through his set many nights, but still managed moments of skillful performance.

Texas Patriots PAC

The Texas Patriots PAC has hosted many Tea Party rallies in the Houston area, which have featured such guests as Andrew Breitbart, Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Jim DeMint, Laura Ingraham, Herman Cain, Michael Berry, Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick, and Jim "Mattress Mack" McIngvale.

Texas State Highway 180

Passing through the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, it forms the northern border of the Bishop Arts District.

Texas State Highway Spur 366

In 2012 the Santiago Calatrava designed Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge was opened, extending the Woodall Rodgers west of Interstate 35E across the Trinity River, into West Dallas.

Transgender inequality

For example, in November 2013, Jeydon Loredo was temporarily excluded from their La Feria Independent School District yearbook in Texas due to sporting a tuxedo that did not meet “community standards.”

West Indian manatee

While this is a regularly occurring species along coastal southern Florida, during summer, this large mammal has even been found as far north as Dennis, Massachusetts and as far west as Texas.

White Whale Records

White Whale also released Nino Tempo & April Stevens's single "All Strung Out (On You)", a hit single by Rene y Rene titled "Lo Mucho Que Ti Quiero", an album by Liz Damon's Orient Express, and the only album by Texas band The Clique.


see also

Arkansas Best Corp. v. Commissioner

Arkansas Best, a diversified holding company acquired a large percentage of the stock of the National Bank of Commerce in Dallas, Texas.

Baxter Taylor

Baxter Taylor grew up in Dallas, Texas and spent summers on the family farm in Fargo, Oklahoma.

Benjie Bollox

Bollox is also known for his involvement as a member of Riot Squad, U.K. Subs, Splodgenessabounds, The Visitors (who toured with Vice Squad and The Vibrators), and a handful of other local bands in Dallas, Texas, or the United Kingdom.

Carole Terry

Carole Terry received her musical training at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas (organ with Robert T. Anderson, harpsichord with Larry Palmer), Eastman School of Music (organ with David Craighead), and Stanford University, where she obtained in 1977 a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in early music performance practice.

Chad Griggs

Griggs' next fight was against Valentijn Overeem at Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum on June 18, 2011, in Dallas, Texas.

Clyde L. Garrett

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Technical assistant, Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C., and Dallas, Texas from 1949 to 1950.

Dallas, Moray

George Mifflin Dallas, whose family originally came from here, became the Vice President of the US, and Dallas, Texas may have been named after him.

DGSE Companies

is a leading precious metal and jewelry wholesaler and retailer in the Southwestern United States, headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

DotComGuy

Maddox now works in Dallas, Texas for Riverstone Residential Group as the Director of Systems Integration.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (born August 31, 1938 in Dallas, Texas) is an American journalist and playwright.

First Interstate Tower

Fountain Place, in Dallas, Texas, formerly named First Interstate Tower

FirstCom

Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the company offered several services utilized by radio stations throughout the United States.

Highland Capital

Highland Capital Management, a multi-billion dollar distressed investment firm and hedge fund and mutual fund manager based in Dallas, Texas

Jodi Leigh Miller

Miller, a bodybuilder and figure competitor, was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 8, 1972, and currently resides in Dallas, Texas.

John R. Bourgeois

He was the Fraternity's 2000 recipient of the Charles E. Lutton Man of Music Award, presented at its national convention in Dallas, Texas.

Juanita Miller

Juanita Miller (1912–2005), patron of the arts in Dallas, Texas, played a formative role in saving the Dallas Symphony Orchestra from collapse in the 1970s and promoting the city’s cultural institutions.

K. P. Yohannan

During his early years in Dallas, Texas, Yohannan became an ordained clergyman and served as a pastor of a Native American Southern Baptist church for four years.

Keyuo Craver

Keyuo Boderek Craver (born August 22, 1980 in Dallas, Texas) is an American football defensive back currently playing with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League, who signed Craver as a free agent on March 5, 2009.

KRLD

KZPS, a radio station (92.5 FM) licensed to Dallas, Texas, United States; formerly KRLD-FM from 1948 to 1972

Le'Shai Maston

Le'Shai Edwoin Maston (born October 7, 1970) is a former American football running back in the National Football League and current head football coach at Providence Christian School of Dallas, Texas.

Lee Raymond

Lee Raymond received the Woodrow Wilson Award from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution for Corporate Citizenship during a dinner held in his honor in Dallas, Texas in early 2003.

Linda St. Clair

In 1985, short of money, the couple moved to Dallas, Texas where St. Clair began working in marketing, selling artists’ services to ad agencies.

Marco Barrientos

He and his wife, Carla, have been married for fifteen years and currently reside in Dallas, Texas, along with their two children, Daniela and Marco.

MoneyGram

In September 2010, MoneyGram announced that it will move its global headquarters to the city of Dallas, Texas, although Minneapolis, Minnesota will continue to be the hub for its Global Operations and Information Technology Centers of Excellence, and Lakewood, Colorado will continue to host its Call Center Operations.

Norman Ayrton

He went on to direct his first production in the United States in 1967 with Twelfth Night in Dallas, Texas.

Oncor Electric Delivery

Predecessor companies include Dallas Power & Light (DP&L), which served the city of Dallas; Texas Electric Service Company (TESCO), which served areas surrounding Fort Worth; and Texas Power and Light (TP&L), which served other areas of northern and west-central Texas.

Paul Quinn

Paul Quinn College, private, historically black college (HBCU) located in Dallas, Texas

Payne Harrison

He lives in Dallas, Texas and formerly worked as a newspaper reporter and business consultant.

Republican Party presidential primaries, 1984

Incumbent President Ronald Reagan was again selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1984 Republican National Convention held from August 20 to August 23, 1984 in Dallas, Texas.

Ridgewood Park, Dallas

Ridgewood Park is a neighborhood in east Dallas Texas (USA).

Robyn Miller

Robyn Charles Miller (born August 6, 1966, in Dallas, Texas) is the co-founder of Cyan Worlds (originally Cyan) with brother Rand Miller.

Rogers Cadenhead

Rogers Cadenhead (b. April 13, 1967 in Dallas, Texas, USA) is a computer book author and web publisher who is currently chairman of the RSS Advisory Board, a group that assists developers in using the RSS 2.0 specification.

Ronnie Claire Edwards

Edwards also briefly appeared on an episode of PBS's Antiques Roadshow (2008) from Dallas, Texas, when she brought in for appraisal a chair formerly owned by P. T. Barnum.

SB Sberbank of Russia JSC

The bank was established as a TexakaBank in March 19, 1993 in Dallas, Texas.

TabletKiosk

Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas, United States has patients visiting its emergency department fill in their details using a TabletKiosk machine.

Ted Mooney

Ted Mooney (born in Dallas, Texas) is an American novelist and short story writer; He has published four novels: Easy Travel to Other Planets (1981), Traffic and Laughter (1990), Singing into the Piano (1998), and The Same River Twice, (2010).

Texas State Highway Spur 366

Spur 366, also named Woodall Rodgers Freeway, is a highway that connects Beckley Boulevard and Singleton Avenue in West Dallas to Interstate 345 and U.S. Highway 75 (North Central Expressway) in central Dallas, Texas.

The Black Strat

In 1986, Gilmour replaced it with three Candy Apple Red Stratocaster guitars with EMG pickups for touring and with a cream Stratocaster for rehearsals during the post Roger Waters era, retiring it for display at the Hard Rock Cafe in Dallas, Texas.

Ultratech, Inc.

Within the United States, as of 2004, sales and support offices are also leased in Woburn, Massachusetts and Dallas, Texas.

V. V. Whittington

They had two sons, Voss Whittington Graham (born 1948), a motivational speaker in Cordova, near Memphis, Tennessee, and James E. Graham, Jr., of Dallas, Texas.

W Dallas Victory Hotel and Residences

W Dallas Victory is located across the street from the American Airlines Center at 2425 North Houston Street in the Victory Park Neighborhood near downtown and Uptown Dallas, Texas.

W. Scott Wilkinson

On April 9, 1919, he married the former Margaret West (1898–1995), then of Corsicana, the seat of Navarro County south of Dallas, Texas.

Whataburger Field

The construction manager was Hunt Construction Group, Inc. of Dallas, Texas.

Winston School

The Winston School, a private coeducational day school in Dallas, Texas

Woodill Wildfire

The stars of the show, Gas Monkey Garage in Dallas, Texas, did light restoration and modification to the vehicle for resale.