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3 unusual facts about Texan


Gaspar Flores de Abrego

However, on December 1835 a group of Texan volunteers managed to drive them out of Bexar and Texas during the siege of Bexar.

Texian

In reality, it was Anglo-Americans who eventually championed the usage of Texan.

Ziegenbock

Ziegenbock is an imitation craft brew marketed under Anheuser-Busch's ICS (Import - Craft - Specialty) brand, positioned as a Texan beer to compete with Shiner Bock.


Andreas Lipa

In 2009, it was revealed that the couple had been defrauded by Texan swindler Allen Stanford.

Battle of Coleto

Simultaneously, Mexican president Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna led a larger force into the Texan interior, where on March 6 his troops won the Battle of the Alamo.

Beaumont Exporters

Greenberg led the league with 39 home runs and 123 runs scored, while pitcher Schoolboy Rowe — a Texan who would star with Greenberg on the 19341935 Tiger pennant-winners — posted a league-best 2.34 earned run average.

Bee Cave, Texas

Tie-in literature for the class-based multiplayer shooter video game Team Fortress 2 lists the Engineer, an amiable Texan in a hard hat and with a penchant for building murderous contraptions, as a native of Bee Cave.

Betty Sue Flowers

Flowers is a native Texan and graduated from the University of Texas and the University of London.

Bill Daniels

Daniel's sponsored the USAC Championship Car campaigns of Texan Lloyd Ruby both in 1970 under the Daniel's Cablevision banner and in 1971 while promoting Daniel's Utah Stars franchise.

Colonel John Henry Moore

Texan commander Stephen F. Austin ordered Moore to organize a cavalry company, who were outfitted with pistols and double-barreled shotguns.

Conradt

Louis Conradt, former Texan district attorney who committed suicide

Cornbread

President John F. Kennedy's staffers, who were mostly northeastern ivy league elites and despised Texan Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson's rural speech patterns, used to refer to Johnson behind his back as 'Uncle Cornpone' or 'Rufus Cornpone'.

Crossing Bridges

"Olympic Reel" was written for the 1996 Summer Olympics, and segues into a medley of the other fiddle tunes and styles of the trio member's cultures, Scottish, Irish, and Texan folk music.

David Box

Box was influenced by fellow Texan Buddy Holly, and even took his place as singer of his group, The Crickets, for a short time after his death.

Dick Menchaca

In 1940, Menchaca became the first Texan to win the National Golden Gloves title.

Epiphone Texan

Other artists with which the Texan is identified are Benjamin Gibbard, Tom Rush, Al Stewart, Noel Gallagher and Peter Frampton.

General Henderson

James Pinckney Henderson (1808 – 1858), Texan brigadier general, lawyer, politician and the first Governor of the State of Texas

George W. Littlefield

Works on Littlefield include David B. Gracy, II, George Washington Littlefield: A Biography in Business (Ph.D. dissertation; Texas Tech University, 1971) and J. Evetts Haley's George W. Littlefield, Texan (1943; through the University of Oklahoma Press in Norman, Oklahoma).

History of Fort Worth, Texas

The history of Fort Worth, Texas, in the United States is closely intertwined with the history of northern Texas and the history of the Texan frontier.

Holotype

Texan paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee proposed that a new type specimen, a complete skeleton, be designated.

Homerazzi

Homer bursts in on the celebrities at their favorite nightclub and takes many compromising photos (of which include Sideshow Mel eating the American flag, Paris Texan making out with Milhouse, Drederick Tatum snorting the ashes of Secretariat like cocaine, and Mayor Quimby and Kent Brockman dressed in sexual costumes and roleplaying) Wolfcastle, resigned to having everyone's outrageous acts exposed, asks Homer what he plans to do with the pictures.

James Austin

James E.B. Austin (1803–1829), Texan settler and brother of Stephen F. Austin, "The Father of Texas"

James Farmer

James L. Farmer, Sr. (1886–1961), first African-American Texan to earn a doctorate

Jennifer Leonhardt

The middle of three children born to an economist and a ballerina, Jennifer is a fifth generation Texan and a great-niece of Texas' New Deal governor James Allred.

John Henry Phelan

As a recompense for his many contributions, Pope Pius XI made Harry a Knight of St. Gregory in January 1933, an honor received previously by only one other Texan and only about fifty men in the entire country.

Last of the Country Gentlemen

Last of the Country Gentlemen is a single disc album release from Texan musician Josh T. Pearson.

Lauro Cavazos

A sixth-generation Texan, he was born on the King Ranch near Kingsville, Texas, where his father served as foreman of the showcase Santa Gertrudis Division.

Leonard Eugene Dickson

Dickson considered himself a Texan by virtue of having grown up in Cleburne, where his father was a banker, merchant, and real estate investor.

Mere Christianity

A passage in the book also influenced the name of contemporary Christian Texan Grammy-nominated pop/rock group Sixpence None the Richer.

Molwyn Joseph

Despite a scandal surrounding donations he had received from Texan businessman Robert Stafford, Joseph was selected to contest the seat of St Mary's North in the 2004 Antiguan general election, in which the ALP lost power, being replaced in government by the United Progressive Party (UPP) led by Baldwin Spencer.

In late 2003, it was discovered that Texan businessman Allen Stanford had given both Joseph and fellow minister Gaston Browne cheques worth 100,000 East Caribbean dollars.

Night Fever

Texan punk rock band The Dicks covered this song on the B-side of their 1980 debut single "Hate the Police" under the title "All Night Fever".

Paninaro

Later, they added Sebago or Vans deck shoes, Burlington socks, Armani jeans, Americanino or Rifle corduroy pants, all hemmed to ankle height, El Charro belts with Texan or western-style big buckles, By american and Best Company sweatshirts, Schott flyer's leather jackets, Moncler down jackets, and brightly colored Invicta rucksacks.

Rhythm Pigs

This article is about the Texan punk rock band, for the Californian Rock band see Top Jimmy & The Rhythm Pigs

Sam Giammalva

In 1958, he knocked out Crawford Henry, Gustavo Palafox, and Donald Dell before falling to fellow Texan Bernard Bartzen in the singles final by a score of 7–5, 6–3, 6–2.

San Patricio, Texas

With the approval of the General Council, Texas revolutionaries James Grant, Frank W. Johnson and Robert C. Morris collaborated on plans to lead an assault on the Mexican town of Matamoros.

Shuckey Duckey

Fellow Texan, and former commentator of WWE SmackDown, Booker T has been known to use Armstrong's catchphrase to express his appreciation for the beauty of the female talent.

Texas constitutional amendment election, 2007

Cyclist Lance Armstrong, a native Texan and cancer survivor, campaigned in favor of Proposition 15 in the highest-funded campaign of the election.

Texas Revolution

After surprising Colonel Frank Johnson and his troops at the Battle of San Patricio, Urrea's forces defeated a small Texan force at the Battle of Agua Dulce on March 2, 1836.

The Fabulous Texan

The Fabulous Texan is a 1947 Western B-picture directed by Edward Ludwig and starring Wild Bill Elliott, John Carroll, Catherine McLeod, Albert Dekker, and Andy Devine.

The Love Specialist

Diana Dixon, a Texan girl (played by Dors), wins a quiz show jackpot, and uses her winnings (a prize in cash and a brand new Cadillac car) for a trip to Italy.

Troublemaker

Troublemaker Studios, a Texan film production company founded by Robert Rodriguez and Elizabeth Avellan

William Broderick Cloete

Cloete is also noted for his belief in the legend of the Lost Nigger Gold Mine; he offered Lock Campbell, a Texan man, expenses of $10,000 if he would undertake an expedition to find it.

Yer Bird Records

Texan songwriter Blackbird Harmony released his second album, Hardwood Exits, in 2008 featuring harmony and duet vocals by Bosque Brown.


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