The great state of Texas offers metropolitan attractions such as the Dallas Fair Park with its art and natural history museums.

State Party Chairman James W. Dorsey added that enthusiasm was picking up for a state rally to be held Sept. 8 in Savannah at which newly elected Texas Sen. John Tower will be the featured speaker.

Austin is the capital of the U. S. state of Texas.

Like many regular army officers from the South he was opposed to secession, but resigned his commission soon after he heard of the secession of his adopted state Texas.

Causes include controversy over admitting Missouri as a slave state in 1820, the acquisition of Texas as a slave state in 1845 and the status of slavery in western territories won as a result of the Mexican – American War and the resulting Compromise of 1850.

and has the highest-ranked business, engineering, and law programs of any university in the state of Texas.

In March 2006 Texas judges upheld the state blue law that requires car dealerships to close either Saturday or Sunday each weekend.

It is comparable in size to Ukraine, and is somewhat smaller than the US state of Texas.

The state of Wisconsin produces the most Cheddar cheese in the United States ; other centres of production include California, Idaho, Upstate New York, Vermont, Tillamook, Oregon, Texas, and Oklahoma.

The only conservation corps in Texas, E-Corps is a 501 ( c ) 3 non profit corporation based in Austin, Texas, which serves the entire state.

* Steely, James W. " Parks for Texas: Enduring Landscapes of the New Deal " ( 1999 ), detailing the interaction of local, state and federal agencies in organizing and guiding CCC work.

* 1845 – In accordance with International Boundary delimitation, United States annexes the Mexican state of Texas, following the Manifest Destiny doctrine.

The Republic of Texas, which had been independent since the Texas Revolution of 1836, is thereupon admitted as the 28th U. S. state.

* 1846 – In Austin, Texas the newly formed Texas state government is officially installed.

The Marlins had the second overall pick in the 1999 draft and drafted Josh Beckett from the state of Texas.

* It is often stated that the Texas flag is the only state flag that can be flown at the same height as the American flag, because of Texas's former status as a nation.

Moreover, Texas is not the only U. S. state to formerly have diplomatic recognition ; Hawaii shares this status.

Texas in particular has benefited tremendously from this industry over the course of the 20th century and economic diversification has made the state a magnet for population and home to more Fortune 500 companies than any other U. S. state.

* John Salmon Ford ( 1815 – 1897 ), American political figure in Texas ; best known as " Rip " Ford ; served in state Congress and Senate ; veteran of Mexican War and Civil War

Texas promptly accepted the offer and officially became a state on December 29, 1845.

He told the committee the measure would merely provide means of enforcing the escheat law which has been on the books `` since Texas was a republic ''.

* 2008 – Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch.

Under Texas law, the death penalty can only be issued if the jury is convinced that the defendant is not only guilty, but will commit further violent crimes in the future if he is not put to death.

However, there is a body of case law governing the civil commitment of individuals under the Fourteenth Amendment through U. S. Supreme Court rulings beginning with Addington v. Texas in 1979 which set the bar for involuntary commitment for treatment by raising the burden of proof required to commit persons from the usual civil burden of proof of " preponderance of the evidence " to the higher standard of " clear and convincing " evidence.

* 1969 – Governor of Texas Preston Smith signs a bill into law converting the former Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, originally founded as a research arm of Texas Instruments, into the University of Texas at Dallas.

The requirement began on September 1, 2001, when the State of Texas passed a law to require all law enforcement agencies in the State to begin collecting certain data in connection to traffic or pedestrian stops beginning on January 1, 2002.

The law is found in the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure beginning with Article 2. 131.

Additionally, on January 1, 2011, all law enforcement agencies began submitting annual reports to the Texas State Law Enforcement Officers Standards and Education Commission.

By now, however, only four states – Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Texas – still rely on the Restatement as their primary source of guidance ( other than their body of state case law ).

Johnson was promptly arrested and charged with violating a Texas law prohibiting the vandalizing of venerated objects.

* May 24 – John Riley Banister, American law officer and Texas Ranger ( d. 1918 )

* The foremost contribution, which is the raison d ’ etre for Moore's law, is the invention of the integrated circuit itself, credited contemporaneously to Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments and Robert Noyce at Intel.

The fence cutters war came to an end with the passage of a Texas law in 1884 that stated among other provisions that fence cutting was a felony ; and other states followed, although conflicts still occurred through the opening years of the 20th century.

The Compromise came to coalesce around a plan dividing Texas at its present-day boundaries, creating territorial governments with " popular sovereignty " ( without the Wilmot Proviso ) for New Mexico and Utah, admitting California as a free state, abolishing the slave auctions in the District of Columbia, and enacting a new fugitive slave law.

In many states, including California and Texas, punitive damages are determined based on statute ; elsewhere, they may be determined solely based on case law.

Martin argued in rebuttal that because of the U. S. Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas ( finding that state's sodomy law unconstitutional ), Virginia's anti-fornication law was also unconstitutional for the reasons cited in Lawrence.

The most frequently cited example is the 1973 United States Supreme Court case of Roe v. Wade,, which challenged a Texas law forbidding abortion in most circumstances.

According to Robert Caro, " On November 5, 1960, Lyndon Johnson won election for both the vice presidency of the United States, on the Kennedy-Johnson ticket, and for a third term as Senator ( he had Texas law changed to allow him to run for both offices ).

" ( In 1988, Lloyd Bentsen, the Vice Presidential running mate of Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, and also a Senator from Texas, took advantage of " Lyndon's law ," and was able to retain his seat in the Senate despite Dukakis ' loss to George H. W. Bush.

A few days before I saw your mention of what Texas Liberals were doing to promote `` Louis Capet '' ( The Week '', June 3 ), another analogy had occurred to me.

No matter how determined or wealthy boating lovers of the Southwest had been, for example, they could never have created anything approaching the fifty square-mile Lake Texoma, located between Texas and Oklahoma, which resulted when the Corp of Army Engineers dammed the Red River.

From the standpoint of the army of duffers, however, this was easily the most heartening exhibition they had had since Ben Hogan fell upon evil ways during his heyday and scored an 11 in the Texas open.

Together with earlier arrivals to the United States ( including the indigenous American Indians, Hispanic and Latino Americans, particularly in the West, Southwest, and Texas ; African Americans who came to the United States in the Atlantic slave trade ; and early colonial migrants from Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and elsewhere ), these new waves of immigrants had a pro profound impact on national or regional cuisine.

Hunt offered to buy the Cardinals and move them to Dallas, Texas, where he had grown up.

* 1922 – The first Aggie Muster is held as a remembrance for fellow Texas A & M graduates who had died in the previous year.

The theme song introduces the viewer to the world's most fortunate hunting accident – whereby Jed shoots at game but instead hits " black gold, Texas tea ": he had discovered oil.

Guerrero hit 29 home runs and had a. 300 batting average in the 2010 season with the Texas Rangers.

" The Berliner Zeitung " reported a few days later that Haley had collapsed after a performance in Texas and been taken to the hospital in his home town of Harlingen, Texas.

In his 1917 draft registration, Jefferson gave his birth date as October 26, 1894, further stating that he then lived in Dallas, Texas, and that he had been blind from birth.

I regret that .... I wish I had gotten up then and seized the moment to set a tone, a tone that I had set in Texas, a positive and inclusive tone.

The fact that Wills made his professional debut in blackface was commented on by Wills ' daughter, Rosetta: " He had a lot of respect for the musicians and music of his black friends ," Rosetta is quoted as saying on the Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys Web site.

He became an enormous draw in Los Angeles, where many of his Texas, Oklahoma and regional fans had also relocated during the Great Depression and World War II in search of jobs.

The Canon Pocketronic was a development of the " Cal-Tech " project which had been started at Texas Instruments in 1965 as a research project to produce a portable calculator.

He had to work with the Democratic Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson in the Senate and Speaker Sam Rayburn in the House, both of Texas.

The Ninth Circuit, analyzing the Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas ( 2003 ), determined that DADT had to be subjected to heightened scrutiny, meaning that there must be an " important " governmental interest at issue, that DADT must " significantly " further the governmental interest, and that there can be no less intrusive way for the government to advance that interest.

Holly had already told his hometown friends in Texas that he would be singing " Oh, Boy!

Madero set up shop in San Antonio, Texas, and quickly issued his Plan of San Luis Potosí, which had been written during his time in prison, partly with the help of Ramón López Velarde.

After a drought had ruined crops in several Texas counties, Congress appropriated $ 10, 000 to purchase seed grain for farmers there.