He knew all about the infection and the fever, and, too, the moment of realization when he saw for himself, threw up his hands and quit, ended the war as a prisoner in Texas.

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.

There is a humorous but revealing story about a rancher who owned a large slice of Texas and who wanted to have on it everything that was necessary for a completely pleasant community.

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.

It would authorize the Texas Education Agency to establish county-wide day schools for the deaf in counties of 300,000 or more population, require deaf children between 6 and 13 years of age to attend the day schools, permitting older ones to attend the residential Texas School for the Deaf here.

Marshall Formby of Plainview, former chairman of the Texas Highway Commission, suggested a plan to fill by appointment future vacancies in the Legislature and Congress, eliminating the need for costly special elections.

Cotten construed this as a veiled effort by Parkhouse to help Dallas and other large cities get money which Cotten felt could better be spent providing water for rural Texas.

His statistical record that year, when Texas won only one game and lost nine, was far from impressive: he carried the ball three times for a net gain of 10 yards, punted once for 39 yards and caught one pass for 13 yards.

-- Held out of Texas Tech's sweat-suits drill Monday at Lubbock was tackle Richard Stafford, who is undergoing treatment for a leg injury suffered in the Raiders' 38-7 loss to Texas A & M Because of its important game with Arkansas coming up Saturday, Baylor worked out in the rain Monday -- mud or no mud.

The Texas Aggies got a day off Monday -- a special gift from Coach Jim Myers for its conference victory last Saturday night, but Myers announced that halfback George Hargett, shaken up in the Tech game, would not play against Trinity Saturday.

It is no coincidence that the Texas Cotton Ginner's Association is meeting here this week for the 46th time in their 52-year history.

The Stacy Co. makes cleaning and drying equipment for sale largely in Texas.

Higher tolls are planned for July 1, 1961, on the Richmond-Petersburg, Va., Turnpike, and proposals for increased tolls on the Texas Turnpike are under study.

Some jurisdictions have specialized appellate courts, such as the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which only hears appeals raised in criminal cases, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which has general jurisdiction but derives most of its caseload from patent cases, on the other hand, and appeals from the Court of Federal Claims on the other.

Gen. Felix Huston, challenging each other for the command of the Texas Army ; Johnston refused to fire on Huston and lost the position after he was wounded in the pelvis.

He served in that role for more than five years, making six tours, and traveling more than annually on the Indian frontier of Texas.

The Alamo and the Texas War for Independence, September 30, 1835 to April 21, 1836: Heroes, Myths, and History.

* 1956 –, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.

For example, in the U. S. states of California, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington, barratry is a misdemeanor ; in Texas, a misdemeanor on the first conviction, but a felony on subsequent convictions.

E. g., Texas Industries v. Radcliff, ( without an express grant of statutory authority, federal courts cannot create rules of intuitive justice, for example, a right to contribution from co-conspirators ).

Students at Rice University in Houston, Texas, for example, held tournaments with trees as targets as early as 1964, and in the early 1960s players in Pendleton King Park in Augusta, Georgia would toss Frisbees in 50-gallon barrel trash cans designated as targets.

* 2006 Texas Governor Election ( a real-life example where incumbent Rick Perry won re-election despite gaining less than 40 percent of the vote )

Newly employed by Texas Instruments, Kilby recorded his initial ideas concerning the integrated circuit in July 1958, successfully demonstrating the first working integrated example on 12 September 1958.

Other slave-owning tribes of North America were, for example, Comanche of Texas, Creek of Georgia, the Pawnee, and Klamath.

For example, in a game of Texas hold ' em, a player has 8 ♣ 6 ♠ with a flop of < font color =" red "> 9 ♥ 7 ♦</ font > 2 ♣, The player has an open-ended straight draw and so has eight outs ( four 10s and four 5s ).

For example, say a Texas Holdem player holds two spades, and two more appear in the flop.

For example, assume that a Texas hold ' em board looks like this after the third round: 5 ♠ < font color = red > K ♦ 7 ♦</ font > J ♠, and that a player is holding < font color = red > A ♦ 10 ♦</ font >.

* Advice on Positional Play in Texas Holdem ( including example hands )

Here's an example from Texas hold ' em: Angie holds, and Burt holds.

For example, in seven-card stud this is two downcards and one upcard ; in Texas hold ' em it is two downcards ; in five-card draw it is five cards.

For example, with a board of, a player with cannot play a flush using the ace as would be possible in Texas hold ' em ; the player must play two cards from in-hand and only three from the board ( so instead, this player's best hand is two pair: ).

For example: an apparition of John Wayne is a recurring character and serves as a sort of spiritual guide or conscience for Custer ; Monument Valley and The Alamo serve as backdrops to various legs of the journey ; for a time, Jesse acts as the sheriff of a small town in Texas, and must protect the inhabitants from harm ; the image of the Saint of Killers, a reformed bounty hunter-turned-killer-once-more in the tradition of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven character, William Munny, is a nod to the classic Western notion of nemesis, straight and true and terrible.

Texas, for example requires all agencies to provide annual reports to its Law Enforcement Commission.

For example, Ilya Prigogine, of the Center for Complex Quantum Systems at the University of Texas, Austin, has studied emergent properties, suggesting that they offer analogues for living systems.

The domino game Texas 42 is an example of a trick-taking game that is not a card game.

For example, at the start of the 2000 election cycle Dick Cheney was a resident of Texas ; Cheney quickly changed his residency back to Wyoming, where he had previously served as a U. S. Representative, when Texas governor and Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush asked Cheney to be his vice presidential candidate.

Some of his more successful and critically acclaimed movies, Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire, for example, have been the result of fruitful collaborations with avant-garde authors Peter Handke and Sam Shepard.

At Mina, for example, the Texas Ranger unit was divided so that half would protect the civilian evacuation and the remainder would serve as the rear guard and scouts (" spies " they were called ) during the military retreat.

For example, the Texas Instruments TI-92, by factory default can be programmed with a command script language.

An example of a significant and sustainable carbonate aquifer is the Edwards Aquifer in central Texas.

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

The Dallas Cowboys ' blue star logo representative of Texas as " The Lone Star State " is one of the best known team logos in professional sports.

For instance, red, white or blue polo shirts, with a logo, with navy or khaki bottoms and a belt, was the successful uniform policy imposed Palmer Elementary School in Houston, Texas.

In 1993 and 1994, Buffalo ( which is located approximately 110 miles southeast of Dallas ) temporarily changed its name to " Blue Star, Texas " during Super Bowl weekend, to show support for the Dallas Cowboys ( who faced the Buffalo Bills both years ; blue is the color of the star on the Cowboys ' helmet ).

With the exception of Texas and Oklahoma ( offset in blue ) -- which are counted as part of the Southern United States | South -- the Southwestern states are also classified as Western United States | West by the U. S. Census Bureau.

Represented species include Giant Centipede, Leafcutter Ant, Flower Mantis, Vietnamese walking stick, Atlas Beetle, American Burying Beetle, Sunburst Diving Beetle, Water Scorpion, Brown Widow Spider, Brown Recluse Spider, Cobalt blue tarantula, Texas brown tarantula, and Egyptian Fattail scorpion.

In the United States, in states where Mexican Americans make up a large percentage of the population, such as California and Texas, undocumented as well as legal immigrants from Mexico and Central America in addition to Mexican Americans combined often make up a large majority of workers in many blue-collar occupations: the majority of the employed men are restaurant workers, janitors, truck drivers, gardeners, construction laborers, material moving workers, or perform other types of manual or other blue collar labor ( Source, U. S. Census Bureau, American community survey data .).

Varying shades of the Senators ' red, white and blue colors are still used by their successor teams ( Minnesota and Texas ), and the Washington Nationals adopted these colors with gold accents upon their 2005 move from Montreal.

The official Pantone shades for the Texas flag are 193 ( red ) and 281 ( dark blue ).

The exact shades of red, white, and blue to be used in the flag are specified by Texas statute to be the same as those of the Flag of the United States, which are as follows:

Recent technologies such as Texas Instruments's BrilliantColor augment the typical red, green, and blue channels with up to three other primaries: cyan, magenta and yellow.

However, while back in his poorer district in Texas, Rayburn would wear simple shirts, blue jeans, cowboy boots, and cowboy hats.

There is some historical use of blue for Democrats and red for Republicans: in the late 19th century and early 20th century, Texas county election boards used colour coding to help Spanish speakers and illiterates identify the parties, however, this system was not applied consistently in Texas and was not picked up on a national level ; for instance, in 1888, Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison used maps that coded blue for the Republicans, the color Harrison perceived to represent the Union and " Lincoln's Party " and red for the Democrats.

The team's colors are navy blue and light blue, representing the ocean and sky of the popular South Texas fishing area.

The curved exedra at the entrance to the Hall of Texas features tall limestone pillars sit in front of blue tiles designed to evoke the state's flower, the bluebonnet ( Lupinus texensis ).

Texas Skyscreamer will be located in Goodtimes Square where the former Texas Chute Out was located, and it will feature a Texas theme with red, white, and blue colors, and a giant star with six other flags all on top of the tower.

In 1984, during a protest against the policies of the Reagan administration in Dallas, Texas, Gregory Lee Johnson doused an American flag that was given to him by a fellow demonstrator with kerosene and set it alight while those around him chanted " America the red, white and blue, we spit on you.

In 2004, a blue catfish was pulled from the lake weighing in at 121. 5 pounds ( 55. 1 kg ), temporarily setting a world weight record for rod and reel caught catfish The fish was moved to a freshwater aquarium in Athens, Texas.