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100 unusual facts about Texas


2006 Mountain West Conference football season

After being trounced by their former Southwest Conference rivals, 70-35, in Lubbock two years prior, the Horned Frog defense kept quarterback Graham Harrell and the Red Raider offense out of the endzone for the entire game, JR linebacker walk on Christopher Abbott led the defense with one sack, 8 tackles 3 for a loss of yards and one interception, to earn their fourth consecutive victory over the Big 12.

Aaryn Gries

Aaryn Elizabeth Gries (born September 3, 1990 in San Angelo, Texas) is an American student and former model from San Marcos, Texas.

Abraham Lincoln Neiman

His ex-nephew Stanley visited him out of fears that few others would before Al's death at a Masonic home in Arlington, Texas in 1970.

AgustaWestland AW609

On 6 December 2002, the first ground tests of the BA609 prototype began, and the first flight took place on 6 March 2003 in Arlington, Texas, flown by test pilots Roy Hopkins and Dwayne Williams.

Albert Clinton Horton

He died on September 1, 1865 in Matagorda, and was buried in Matagorda Cemetery located on South Gulf Road.

Aqib Talib

In March 2011, police in Garland, Texas issued a felony warrant for Talib for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after accusing him of firing a gun at his sister's boyfriend.

Arthur Chin

About a month after Chin died, on October 4, 1997, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the American Airpower Heritage Museum in Midland, Texas as the first American ace of World War II.

Beaumont Botanical Gardens

The Beaumont Botanical Gardens (23.5 acres), also known as the Tyrrell Park Botanical Gardens, are botanical gardens and a conservatory located in Tyrrell Park at 6088 Babe Zaharias Drive, Beaumont, Texas, USA.

Béla Károlyi

He and Márta still have a ranch and gymnastics camp in New Waverly, Texas.

Bill Hartack

On November 26, 2007, days before what would have been his 75th birthday, Hartack was found dead in a cabin at a camp near the town of Freer, Texas, in southern Texas, where he went each winter to hunt.

Black Seminole Scouts

By 1876 he was a sheriff and had almost indisputable control over Kinney County.

Many of the scouts' remains rest at the Seminole Indian Scouts Cemetery in Kinney County, Texas, including Adam and Isaac Payne and members of their family.

Blame It on Texas

The narrator tells that from his humble beginnings in Beaumont, Texas (Mark's birthplace) he has traveled all around the country.

Bob Glasgow

Robert "Bob" Glasgow is a Democratic Party politician from Stephenville, Texas who held office as a member of the Senate of Texas.

Bobby Livingston

Livingston was originally enrolled at Estacado High School before transferring to Trinity Christian High School in Lubbock, Texas for his final year of school.

Bobby Tolan

On December 31, 2008, Robbie was shot by a Bellaire, Texas policeman allegedly investigating reports of a stolen car after a confrontation in the Tolan driveway.

Brad Maule

Maule was born in Rotan, Texas, and grew up on a farm, being educated at one of the last remaining country schools (which had an enrollment of 150 students in 12 grades).

Brazosport High School

The high school serves Freeport, as well as surrounding Jones Creek, Oyster Creek, Quintana, and Surfside Beach.

Candice Patton

She was born in Jackson, Mississippi but raised in Plano, Texas, she attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Carlos Francis

Francis now coaches football, track, and basketball at The Oakridge School in Arlington, Texas.

CASA 2.111

The aircraft was attempting a landing at the Cheyenne Municipal Airport, near Cheyenne, Wyoming, while en route from Midland, Texas to an air show in Missoula, Montana.

Championship Cup Series

Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, CCS has been in operation since 1984, founded by Roger Edmondson in Asheville, North Carolina.

Chandi Jones

She was a basketball and long jump standout at Bay City High School in Bay City, Texas.

Charles Binaggio

Born in Beaumont, Texas, Binaggio moved with his family to Kansas City, Missouri, at an early age.

Chase Craig

Born in Ennis, Texas, Craig studied in 1933-34 at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and then worked at The Christian Science Monitor in Boston, where he drew Little Chauncey.

Chuck Dunaway

In 1952, after graduating from high school, Dunaway obtained his first full time on-air radio job at KBST in Big Spring, Texas, at the rate of 65 cents an hour, where he remained for one year before joining KPRC in Houston as a staff announcer in 1953.

Clarkwood, Corpus Christi, Texas

Clarkwood is an area on the west side of Corpus Christi, Texas.

Craig McMurtry

Joe Craig McMurtry (born November 5, 1959 in Troy, Texas) was a pitcher for the Atlanta Braves (1983–86), Texas Rangers (1988–90) and Houston Astros (1995).

Culebra Road

Culebra Road is a street in Bexar County, Texas, near San Antonio.

Dalsa Cutoff

One segment of the San Antonio and Arkansas Pass Railway (SA&AP) lives on as part of the cutoff: the section between Giddings to Flatonia.

Dana Hamilton

Dana Hamilton (born November 17, 1950, Arlington, Texas) is an American hammered dulcimer player.

DeBakey High School for Health Professions at Qatar

The school is a branch campus of Michael E. DeBakey High School for Health Professions of Houston, Texas, United States.

Devils Rope Barbed Wire Museum

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

Dolph Briscoe

Moreover, he denounced the party as a communist threat and blocked federal funds for Zavala County programs.

Eduardo Oropeza

:1988 Galeria Otra Vez, Los Angeles, California Galeria Sin Frontera, Austin, Texas

Edwin Outwater

He has also held posts as Associate Conductor of the Festival-Institute at Round Top (a renowned music-training program based in Texas), Principal Conductor of the Adriatic Chamber Music Festival in Molise, Italy, and Assistant Conductor of the Tulsa Philharmonic.

Elizabeth McDonald

Elizabeth McDonald (born 1985, Plano, Texas, United States) is an American painter.

Eric H. du Plessis

After graduating from VCU with a degree in philosophy, he studied at the University of Richmond, where he received a master's degree, and then went on to the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Virginia, where he obtained his Ph.D. He then relocated to College Station, Texas where he became an assistant professor at Texas A&M University.

Flour Bluff, Corpus Christi, Texas

Flour Bluff is a specified area of the city of Corpus Christi, Texas.

Fly Over States

It even shows different scenes that refer to the lyrics including the Badlands and a woman from Amarillo. At the end of the video, the camera looks up into the night sky after one last look at the graveyard.

Forrest Bess

Born October 5, 1911, in Bay City, Texas, Bess picked up his love of art from his mother.

Gaspar Castaño de Sosa

Castaño traveled north from Almaden, crossing the Rio Grande near present-day Del Rio, Texas, and reached the Pecos River near what is now Sheffield, Texas.

Gospel Advocate

The Gospel Advocate also publishes Sunday School materials and operates Christian bookstores in Nashville and Mesquite, Texas.

Grumman OV-1 Mohawk

Texas Air Museum in Slaton, Texas has a modified OV-1D that was used by NASA that is on loan from the Museum of Naval Aviation.

H. Clyde Wilson Jr.

On May 6, 1926 he was born in Proctor, Texas to Houston Clyde Wilson Sr. and Lena B. Purvis Wilson.

Harold von Mickwitz

On October 22, 1902, von Mickwitz became a naturalized U.S. citizen during a ceremony in Federal Court in Sherman, Texas.

Harrell Site

The Harrell Site, also known as the M.D. Harrell Site, is a Native American archeological site near South Bend in southern Young County, Texas.

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.

Hot Lips Page

In his early years, Page, who moved to Corsicana, Texas in his early teens, traveled across the Southwestern United States and toured as far east as Atlanta and as far north as New York City.

Jacob Falconer

He then moved to Fort Worth, Texas, in 1919 and engaged in road-construction contracting, then to Farmington, New Mexico, in 1925 and was in the oil and gas industry.

Jaime Gandara

Jaime Gandara (born El Paso, Texas, USA, 29 June 1982) is an American professional road and cyclocross cyclist.

Jamal Williams

In 1999, Williams married to singer-songwriter Surel Williams (née Sureldie Rycha Davis) of DeSoto, Texas.

Jennifer Gareis

She later competed in New York, winning the Miss New York USA 1994 title, and representing New York in the Miss USA 1994 pageant held in South Padre Island, Texas on February 11, 1994.

John Calvin Mason

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->During the Civil War served with Texas State troops from Brenham, Texas in 1863.

Jonathan Garcia

Jonathan Garcia was born December 14, 1986, and grew up in Katy, Texas, in the Houston metropolitan area.

Jordan Malone

She also spent years driving Jordan to practices and meets, including a two-hour trip to Waco, Texas every weekend.

KAGS-LD

KAGS-LD (branded on-air as KAGS-HD) is the NBC affiliate for the Brazos Valley of Central Texas, licensed to Bryan.

KAKW-DT

The station first signed on the air on May 31, 1996 as a primary affiliate of UPN and a secondary affiliate of The WB for the Waco/Killeen/Temple market; the station was originally owned by Communications Corporation of America, along with Waco-based Fox affiliate KWKT (channel 22) and the station's Bryan-based satellite KYLE (channel 48).

KBVO-CD

call letters = KBVO-CD
(satellite of KBVO, Llano, Texas

KEYU

KEYU, known locally as Univisión Amarillo or Univisión 41, is a Spanish-language television station in Borger, Texas, serving the Amarillo market on digital channel 31 as an affiliate of Univision, and on analog low-power station KEYU-LP channel 41.

KTXH

The two stations share studio facilities located on Southwest Freeway in Houston (between the Uptown and Greenway Plaza districts); KTXH transmitter is located in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County (near Missouri City).

Lake Fork Reservoir

It consists of 27,690 acres (112 km²), situated in Wood and Rains County in Northeast Texas, between the towns of Quitman, Alba, Emory, and Yantis, Texas.

Louis R. Douglass

Douglass also served in the United States Army Quartermaster Corps during World War I, with responsibility for the construction of Army hospitals at Leon Springs, Texas, as well as U.S. Army General Hospital No. 7 in Baltimore, Maryland, and at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan.

Lunar Lander Challenge

Armadillo Aerospace made their attempt for the Level 2 purse from Caddo Mills, Texas, on September 12 and 13, and successfully qualified for the Level 2 prize.

Madison Pettis

Madison Pettis was born in Arlington, Texas on July 22, 1998, to Steven and Michelle Pettis.

Margaret Varner Bloss

Margaret Varner Bloss (born October 4, 1927) is a retired American athlete and professor of physical education from El Paso, Texas who excelled in three distinctly different racket sports: badminton, squash, and tennis.

Marion Fresenius Fooshee

They typically worked independently on their residential commissions; Fooshee is credited with 3606 Cornell in Highland Park (ca. 1923).

Matthew Ladner

Matthew Ladner (born September 1, 1967 in Port Arthur, Texas) is the Senior Advisor for Policy and Research at the Foundation for Excellence in Education (FEE).

Missouri Territory

The Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819 established the southern and western boundaries of the territory with the Spanish territories of Tejas and Santa Fe de Nuevo México.

Naomi Gonzalez

Naomi R. Gonzalez (born June 4, 1978) is an attorney and politician from El Paso, Texas.

Nevada–Texas–Utah Retort

In 1925, the NTU Company built a test plant at Sherman Cut near Casmalia, California.

Niederentzen

Some inhabitants of Niederentzen responded and settled in Castroville and D'Hanis.

Orangefield

Orangefield, Texas, an unincorporated town in Orange County, United States

Orville Taylor

Taylor set his personal best in the men's 200 metres (20.67) on 2002-05-25 in San Angelo, Texas.

Parker University

18 months later, Dr. Parker served as many as 300 patients a day at affiliate clinics in Dallas, Waco, Texas, and Meridian, Texas.

Phantom shiner

The native range of the phantom shiner was the Rio Grande from Espanola downstream to Brownsville, Texas.

Pliny Fisk III

When the Lo Vaca Gathering Co shut off the natural gas supply to the small town of Crystal City, Texas in the fall of 1977, Fisk developed the idea of using Army surplus wood stoves and abundant mesquite for heating.

PrimeCo

When the company was founded, PrimeCo was headquartered in the Solana Office Complex in Westlake, Texas, a suburb of Dallas.

Raza Unida Party

In Lubbock, the youth organization was headed by journalist Bidal Aguero, who later worked in the Raza Unida Party.

Rodrigo Barnes

Rodrigo DeTriana Barnes (born February 10, 1950 in Waco, Texas) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League.

Roy Orbison's Sun Recordings

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

Ruthe B. Cowl

During a trip to Mexico during the Christmas school vacation in 1952, the family stopped in the Rio Grande border city of Laredo, the seat of Webb County in south Texas to visit people whom they had met through mutual friends in Dallas.

Shamrock Basketball Association

Included in these locations are the following Texas cities: Dallas, Fort Worth, Forney, Richardson, Irving, Tyler, Longview, Conroe, College Station, Waco, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Lubbock, Abilene, and Midland.

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.

Sharon Gilchrist

Over the next five to six years, Blue Night Express played as a full-time band while the Erwin sisters were still attending private Greenhill School, in nearby Addison, (Sharon attended Carroll High School in Southlake TX.).

Stacy Sykora

She was raised in Burleson (a Fort Worth suburb) with her two older sisters, Kim and Keri.

Stephen J. Anderson

Anderson grew up in Plano, Texas, before attending the California Institute of the Arts, where he also served as a story instructor for five years.

Texans for Public Justice

Texans for Public Justice (TPJ) is an Austin-based non-profit that was organized in 1997 to take on political corruption and corporate abuses in Texas, USA.

Texas-Oklahoma League

Future Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby played for the Hugo Scouts and Denison Champions teams in 1914 before joining the 1915 St. Louis Cardinals.

Texas's 20th congressional district

Charlie Gonzalez, who represented the district from 1999 to 2013 after succeeding his father, Henry B. Gonzalez, did not seek re-election in the 2012 United States House of Representatives elections.

Texico, New Mexico

The city is located on the Texas-New Mexico border with the town of Farwell, Texas across the border.

The Judy's

The Judy's were a Pearland, Texas-based punk and new wave band from the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The Show with No Name

public-access television cable TV show in Austin, Texas, hosted by Charlie Sotelo and the mysterious "Cinco." Each show featured clips of TV, film and music ephemera along with commentary by the hosts and calls from a predictably unruly Public-access television audience.

Thomas Peter Lee

In 1903 he moved to Saratoga, Texas, where he gained employment with the newly formed Texas Company, which eventually became Texaco, and when he left that organization ten years later, he had attained the rank of general superintendent of production.

Uvalde

Uvalde Estates, Texas, a census-designated place in Uvalde County, Texas

Vicente T. Ximenes

Ximenes was raised in the town of Floresville, Texas, where he, along with the Mexican American community, were subjected to racial segregation.

Waco, Texas

The press center provided briefing and office facilities for the press corps whenever Bush visited his "Western White House" near Crawford.

Wayne Christian

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 Frels

William Frels co-founded the town of Frelsburg, Texas around 1837 with his brother John Frels.

Zack Segovia

Zachary Ernest Segovia (born April 11, 1983) is an American professional baseball pitcher from Forney, Texas.


39th Airlift Squadron

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

Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western Railway

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

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.

Calum Best

In September 2006, Best appeared in the ITV2 series Calum, Fran and Dangerous Danan, in which he was seen traveling with Paul Danan and Fran Cosgrave from Texas to Los Angeles on America's U.S. Route 66.

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.

Celester Collier

He coached Veronica Mars creator and Dawson's Creek and Drive Me Crazy writer Rob Thomas at San Marcos High School in the late 1980s.

Cephalanthus occidentalis

Southwestern North America, from western Texas west to California (Sierra Nevada foothills, San Joaquin Valley, Sacramento Valley, and the Inner North Coast Ranges) and south to Mexico and Central America.

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.

Elmer Blaney Harris

He went to work for the Food Board under Herbert Hoover, but sick of working with Graham flour, he took a new position as civil aide to the commander in charge of amusements and morale at Camp Bowie, Texas as a dramatic director with the Fosdick Commission.

Fort Stockton, Texas

Other forts in the frontier fort system were Forts Griffin, Concho, Belknap, Chadbourne, Richardson, Fort Davis, Fort Bliss, McKavett, Clark, Fort McIntosh, Fort Inge and Phantom Hill in Texas, and Fort Sill in Oklahoma.

Frank Davison

Frank B. Davison, 1855–1935, considered one of the founding fathers of Texas City, Texas

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.

Hugh Allen

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

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

KETK

KETK-LP, a low-power television station (channel 53) licensed to Lufkin, Texas, United States

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.

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

KPRC

KODA, a radio station (99.1 FM) licensed to Houston, Texas, United States; formerly KPRC-FM from 1946 to 1958

Kretschmarr Cave mold beetle

One of these studies was conducted be the Texas department of transportation that studied the karst environment along highway 45 in Texas.

KSAT

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

KTSM

KTSM-TV, a television station (channel 9 analog/16 digital) licensed to El Paso, Texas, United States

KWTX

KWTX-TV, a television station (channel 10) licensed to Waco, Texas, United States

Lake of the Pines, California

:For the lake in Texas, see Lake O’ the Pines.

Lampsilis bracteata

Historically the Texas fatmucket had populations in at least 18 rivers in the upper Colorado, Guadalupe, and San Antonio River systems in central Texas.

Lizzette Reynolds

In October 2007, Eugenie Scott, the executive director of the National Center for Science Education, sent an email to a list of addressees including Christine Comer, then Director of Science in the curriculum division of the Texas Education Agency.

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).

Okkervil River

Okkervil River's founding members became friends at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire, and after parting ways for college moved to Austin, Texas to live together and start a band.

Pleasant Tackitt

Because of his battles with Indians in Texas, Tackitt became known as "The Fighting Parson."

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.

Pterospoda nigrescens

It occurs at moderate elevations in arid scrub and open woodland habitat, ranging from south-eastern Arizona and the Edwards Plateau of west-central Texas south to at least Durango, Mexico.

Quinlan, Texas

In 1892 Edward H. R. Green, Hetty Green's son and president of the Texas Midland, abandoned Roberts as a depot and established a new depot town, Quinlan, 1½ miles north of the older community.

Ridgewood Park, Dallas

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

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.

Silver dollar

James Marion West, Jr., Texas oilman known as "Silver Dollar Jim" for throwing coins to passersby on the street

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 Coastal Bend

For example, the California Fan Palm (Washingtonia filifera) is found only west of the Texas Coastal Bend, or more specifically the Balcones Fault.

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.

Texas Trail Stone Corral

The Texas Trail Stone Corral, near Imperial, Nebraska, was built in 1874 and is a rare surviving artifact of cattle drives along the Texas Trail.

The Shops at Willow Bend

The majority of the stores in the mall cater to women, although some stores have broader appeal, such as the department stores, the restaurants, and North Texas' largest Apple Store.

Thomas Crook Sullivan

His first assignment was as a second lieutenant in the First U.S. Artillery serving on the Texas frontier and during this period was with the expedition against Juan Cortina's Mexican marauders, seeing combat near Fort Brown, Texas.

Tony Rudy

After serving as a staffer in the office of U. S. Representative Tom DeLay (R-TX) from approximately 1995 to 2001, and rising to deputy chief of staff, Rudy joined "Team Abramoff" at Greenberg Traurig.

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.”

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.