The tsunami reached Galveston, Texas, where it registered as a disturbance on tide gauges.
Bobbi Bacha also was involved and worked on the case of New York millionaire Robert Durst who was charged with murder in Galveston, Texas for killing his neighbor Morris Black but was found not guilty by a Galveston County Jury.
This form of government originated in Galveston, Texas as a response to the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, mainly for the reason that extra support was needed in certain areas.
In late 2012, Disney Magic and Disney Wonder began sailing cruises out of Galveston, Texas and Miami, Florida, respectively.
In 2001, his brother Robert Durst was charged with murdering a neighbor and dismembering his body in Galveston, Texas.
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Operated by Sicilian immigrant barbers-turned-bootleggers Sam and Rosario Maceo, the Balinese Room was an elite spot in the 1940s and 1950s (Galveston's open era), featuring entertainment by Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, George Burns, The Marx Brothers and other top acts of the day.
The film contains interviews and footage of Galveston mayor Lyda Ann Thomas.
In 1915, Samuel Miller, who was instrumental in the final name change, acquired a cannon which had been used in the Civil War battle of Galveston.
After a brief time in Galveston and Freeport, Dunaway returned to Houston and his hometown favorite station KNUZ as a DJ.
On the afternoon of November 8, 1875, the ship arrived off Galveston, but heavy weather made it impossible to enter the port, so the ship hove to offshore and waited for the storm to subside.
Republican precinct chairs from four counties, including Harris, Brazoria, and Galveston in addition to Fort Bend, later nominated dermatologist and Houston city councilwoman Shelley Sekula-Gibbs as a candidate in 2006.
One of his protégés was Norris Wright Cuney of Galveston, who continued the struggle for equality until his own death in 1896 and is honored as one of the important figures in Texas and American black history.
He has researched and written about nobility in Tonga, an upper-class group with family fortunes in Galveston, Texas, and a Portuguese nobleman.
Though Blake had lost his ship, he had frustrated Semmes' plan to resupply his ship from captured merchantmen off Galveston, and then sail to the mouth of the Mississippi River to interdict Nathaniel P. Banks' Red River Campaign.
He then transferred to the Texas Annual Conference, where he served these appointments: St. James Church, Galveston (1881-82); Huntsville (1882-84); Shearn Church, Houston (1884-86); and the Marvin Church in Tyler (1885-88).
The project would be a dramatic enhancement of the existing Galveston Seawall, complete with floodgates, which would protect more of Galveston, the Bolivar Peninsula, the Galveston Bay Area, and Houston.
The company was founded in 1843 by Samuel May Williams and passed through a series of owners until its purchase in 1907 the I. H. Kempner family of Galveston.
First the captain sailed past Galveston for Matagorda, Texas but heavy seas prevented him from entering so Jones headed for the Brazos River where on June 3 he was informed by a local pilot that "several Acts of Piracy" had been committed by the Montezuma and that there were no slave ships in the area.
Writer Erik Larson argued in his book Isaac's Storm that Cline did not warn anyone in Galveston prior to the hurricane warning.
He settled in Texas in 1839 and lived in Galveston and later Houston where he was elected a state representative to the Second Texas Legislature in 1847.
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After living in Galveston, De Cordova moved to Houston, Texas where he was elected to the Texas House of Representatives to the second Texas Legislature in the year 1847.
John Sealy Hospital, a hospital that is a part of the University of Texas Medical Branch complex in Galveston, Texas, United States
As resident Composer and Sound Designer of Deep Ellum Ensemble Theater Company, Joseph Troski has scored multiple works for the stage including Dr. Tedrow's Last Breath an original play written and directed by Matthew Earnest about the worst natural disaster in U.S. history, “The Great Storm” of 1900 in Galveston, Texas which destroyed the city and claimed 8000 lives, with choreography by Tina Fehlandt, a founding member of the world-renowned Mark Morris Dance Group.
On June 18, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger and 2,000 federal troops arrived on the island of Galveston, Texas, to take possession of the state and enforce the emancipation of its slaves.
Kemah, Texas, a city in Galveston County, Texas, United States
It broadcasts weather and hazard information for the following Counties: Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, and Waller.
KOVE-FM, a radio station (106.5 FM) licensed to Galveston, Texas, United States
After living in Houston, Galveston, Dallas, and Lockhart she settled in Austin with her husband, Joel Warren Barna, and their son.
Another common origin tale begins the cocktail’s history at the legendary Balinese Room in Galveston, Texas where, in 1948, head bartender Santos Cruz created the Margarita for singer Peggy (Margaret) Lee.
Archbishop Emeritus Joseph Fiorenza of Galveston-Houston, and Bishop Kevin William Vann of Orange, California were the co-consecrators.
In 1965, the arena was renamed Moody Coliseum in memory of William Lewis Moody, Jr. of Galveston, Texas.
At the time of the murder, according to the book and an interview with Durst's attorney, Dick DeGuerin, Durst had traveled to California while awaiting trial in Galveston, Texas, for the murder of an elderly acquaintance.
Nicholas Joseph Clayton (November 1, 1840 in Cloyne, County Cork - December 9, 1916) was a prominent Victorian era architect in Galveston, Texas.
Washington-on-the-Brazos was Texas' first capital in 1836 (provisional), followed quickly by Harrisburg 1836 (provisional), Galveston 1836 (provisional), Velasco 1836 (provisional), Columbia 1836-37, Houston, 1837–39, and finally Austin, the modern capital, 1839-46.
In 2001, Durst was arrested in Galveston, Texas, shortly after body parts of his elderly neighbor, Morris Black, were found floating in Galveston Bay, but he was released on bail.
All of Texas' dioceses had been suffragan sees under San Antonio until December 2004 when Pope John Paul II created the new Ecclesiastical Province of Galveston-Houston and elevated the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston to a Metropolitan See.
The Gulf of Mexico also teemed with ships running from Mexico and the Bahamas to Galveston, Texas, the Louisiana swamps and Alabama coast.
Captains of the Ports of Houston and Galveston objected to its location close to manufacturing plants, shipyards and an oil refinery, but the US Coast Guard approved the project.
As a result of this tragedy, the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word across the world sing Queen of the Waves every year, on September 8, and remember the sisters and the children that died in Galveston that fateful day.
Texas Star Flyer, a Funtime-manufactured ride at Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier, US
The ships, running low on water, started back to Galveston, but not before Brutus captured Rafaelita on 17 August and blockaded Matamoros.
Outside Galveston, Price designed the Lasher House (1956) in the Memorial section of Houston, Texas which has been renovated and restored by Ray Bailey architects and the Bauer House outside Port Lavaca, Texas (1958).
Robin Armstrong, M.D. - Internal medicine, physician in Galveston County, and vice chairman of the Republican Party of Texas
At this General Conference, she was reappointed to serve as the presiding prelate of the 10th Episcopal District, serving major cities such as Fort Worth, Waco, Dallas, Tyler, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, and Galveston, Texas; in the Northwest, North, Southwest, and Texas Annual Conferences.
In 2009, a controversial amendment sponsored by fellow Republican, Mike "Tuffy" Hamilton passed the Texas House, allowing Christian and a handful of neighbors on the Bolivar Peninsula near Galveston to rebuild houses destroyed by Hurricane Ike.
William J. Winslade, Ph.D., J.D. (born 18 November 1941) is the James Wade Rockwell Professor of Philosophy of Medicine at the Institute for Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law and Associate Director for Graduate Programs, Health Law & Policy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center.