Four or five of the cousins from East Texas were about his age, so naturally they ran around together.

He also became a street musician, playing in East Texas towns in front of barbershops and on corners.

The largest oil field in the lower 48 states, the East Texas oil field, was not discovered until 1930, when wildcatter Columbus Marion Joiner ( more commonly known as " Dad " Joiner ) drilled the Daisy Bradford No. 3 well, in Rusk County, Texas.

The Ivory-billed Woodpecker was listed as an endangered species on 11 March 1967, though the only evidence of its existence at the time was a possible recording of its call made in East Texas.

Janis Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas, on, to Dorothy ( née East ) Joplin ( 1913 – 1998 ), a registrar at a business college, and her husband, Seth Joplin ( 1910 – 1987 ), an engineer at Texaco.

" Nearly all railroads were using Krupp rails, the New York Central, Illinois Central, Delaware and Hudson, Maine Central, Lake Shore and Michigin Southern, Bangor and Aarostook, Great Northern, Boston and Albany, Florida and East Coast, Texas and Pacific, Southern pacific, and Mexican National.

The Saints were forced to play their first scheduled home game against the New York Giants at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey ( the Giants ' home stadium ); other home games were rescheduled at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas or Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

The Regulator – Moderator War was a land feud in Harrison and Shelby Counties in East Texas from 1839 to 1844.

The feud eventually involved Nacogdoches, San Augustine, and other East Texas counties.

Joe R. Lansdale, who grew up in East Texas, often features the river in his work.

Semiconductor device manufacturing has spread from Texas and California in the 1960s to the rest of the world, such as Europe, Middle East, and Asia.

They opened the 1979 season 6 – 2 and were 10 – 5 heading into the season finale at Texas Stadium, against whom a win would assure a playoff spot and a possible NFC East title.

* July 28 – The Silent Protest is organized by the NAACP in New York to protest the East St. Louis Riot of July 2, as well as lynchings in Texas and Tennessee.

There is also a pocket of about 80 high school military marching bands in East Texas.

* A Guide to Literary East Texas

These include: Elephant Butte Lake in New Mexico ; Lake Ouachita, Lake Norfork, Beaver Lake ( Arkansas ) and Lake Hamilton in Arkansas ; Lake Powell, Lake Pleasant, and Lake Havasu in Arizona ; Castaic Lake, Lake George in Florida, Pyramid Lake, Silverwood Lake, Diamond Valley Lake, East Fork State Park Lake near Cincinnati Lewis Smith Lake in Alabama, Lake Cumberland, and Lake Murray in California ; Lake Lanier in Georgia ; Watts Bar Lake, Tennessee ; and Lake Mead, Nevada ; Lake Texoma, Lake Tawakoni, Lake Whitney, Possum Kingdom Lake, and Lake Buchanan in Texas ; Raystown Lake in Pennsylvania ; and in Virginia Smith Mountain Lake.

Pratt & Whitney is headquartered in East Hartford, Connecticut and also has plants in Columbus, Georgia ; Middletown, Connecticut ; Dallas, Texas ;

The Bishop's Palace, also known as Gresham's Castle, is an ornate Victorian house located on Broadway and 14th Street in the East End Historic District of Galveston, Texas.

* Caddo people speak a Caddoan language and is a confederation of several tribes who traditionally inhabited much of what is now East Texas, northern Louisiana and portions of southern Arkansas and Oklahoma.

He negotiated a peace settlement with the Cherokee of East Texas in February 1836 to allay their fears about independence.

* Lakewood, Dallas, Texas, a neighborhood in East Dallas

In 1914 the U. S. Supreme Court set limits on price discrimination that were effectively interstate commerce in Houston, East & West Texas Railway Co. v. United States.

The silent tells the story of a sheltered woman named Letty ( Lillian Gish ) who lives in the East in Virginia and moves to West Texas to live at her cousin Beverly's ranch at Sweet Water.

These three schools, along with Texas Tech, were reportedly considering applying to the Pacific-12 Conference, while the remaining schools entered talks with the Big East football schools to potentially combine conferences.

This was despite noticeable tensions between East Cambridge, Cambridgeport, and Old Cambridge that stemmed from differences in in each area's culture, sources of income, and the national origins of the residents.

Greater London has over 600, 000 Muslims, ( most of South Asian origins and concentrated in the East London boroughs of Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest ), and among them are some Muslims with a strong Islamist outlook.

Like her doublet Europa, her origins were in the East, in her case at Colchis, the palace of the Sun ; she was given in marriage to King Minos of Crete.

Very little formal attention was given to egg or meat production ... " Recent genetic studies have pointed to multiple maternal origins in Southeast, East, and South Asia, but with the clade found in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa originating in the Indian subcontinent.

However, that study was later found to be based on incomplete data, and recent studies point to multiple maternal origins, with the clade found in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, originating from the Indian subcontinent, where a large number of unique haplotypes occur.

Chardonnay's true origins were further obscured by vineyard owners in Lebanon and Syria, who claimed that the grape's ancestry could be traced to the Middle East, from where it was introduced to Europe by returning Crusaders, though there is little external evidence to support that theory.

* Romani people, an ethnic group with origins in northern India who are widely dispersed with their largest concentrated populations in Europe, especially Central and Eastern Europe, with more recent diaspora populations in the Americas and, to a lesser extent, in North Africa and the Middle East

The Ukrainian language traces its origins to the Old East Slavic of the early medieval state of Kievan Rus '.

Christopher Wise in his book Derrida, Africa, and the Middle East ( 2009 ) places Derrida's work in the historical context of his North African origins, an argument first briefly made by Robert J. C. Young in White Mythologies: Writing History and the West ( 1990 ) and extended in his Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction ( 2001 ) where Young surveys the writings of numerous theorists and situates the whole framework of Derrida's thinking in relation to the impact of growing up in the colonial conditions of French Algeria.

The University of Florida traces its origins to 1853, when the East Florida Seminary, the oldest of the University of Florida's four predecessor institutions, was founded in Ocala, Florida.

The influence of this period of Scandinavian settlement can still be seen in the North of England and the East Midlands, and is particularly evident in place-names: name endings such as-howe ,-by ( meaning " village ") or-thorp (" hamlet ") having Norse origins.

The United States Census Bureau defines White people as those " having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.

Isaac was the son of Manuel Erotikos Komnenos, the strategos autokrator of the East under Emperor Basil II Manuel originated in Thrace and was possibly of Vlach ancestry, though other ethnic origins have been suggested.

Parthia lies athwart the Silk Road, the cultural thread between East and West, allowing for possible connections between this Romanized Parthian dragon and distant Chinese origins.

The majority of Brawley's residents today are of Mexican and Latino origins ; the town contained white, East Indian, Chinese, Filipino and African American sections in the 20th century.

The U. S. Census Bureau definition of Asians refers to a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent.

People with origins in the Far East, Southeast Asia and the Indian Subcontinent are included in the Census definition of Asia.

Furthermore, East Polynesian was found to more likely have emerged out of extra-Samoan Ellicean than out of Samoa itself, an astonishing suggestion given the long assumption of a Samoan homeland for the origins of East Polynesian speech.

This adaptation was narrated by Dame Judi Dench, with Michael Maloney as Ged, and used a wide range of actors with different regional and social accents to emphasize the origins of the Earthsea characters ( for instance, Estarriol and others from the East Reach were played by actors with Southern Welsh accents ).

East coast hip hop is occasionally referred to as New York rap due to its origins and development at block parties thrown in New York City during the 1970s.

* Controversial critic of Israel's origins and its role in the Middle East Obituary in The Guardian, 26 June 2007

At that time, Bennett had already investigated the Sufi origins of many of Gurdjieff's teachings, based on both Gurdjieff's own numerous statements, and on travels Bennett himself made in the East where he met various Sufi Sheikhs.

However further studies need to be conducted to infer about relationships between the Jomon Japanese and their genetic relationships to other East Asian ethnic groups to better understand the origins of the Japanese people.