As the morning wore on and a blazing West Texas sun wiped the shadows off the Franklin Mountains, police got close enough to the plane to pry into the baggage compartment.

A bunch of young buckaroos from out West, who go by the name of Texas Boys Choir, loped into Town Hall last night and succeeded in corralling the hearts of a sizable audience.

He served on the Texas frontier at Fort Mason and elsewhere in the West.

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.

* Pecos Bill is an American cowboy, apocryphally immortalized in numerous tall tales of the Old West during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona.

Wills formed several bands and played radio stations around the South and West until he formed the Texas Playboys in 1934 with Wills on fiddle, Tommy Duncan on piano and vocals, rhythm guitarist June Whalin, tenor banjoist Johnnie Lee Wills, and Kermit Whalin, who played steel guitar and bass.

Wills and the Texas Playboys played dances throughout the West to more than 10, 000 people every week.

Early dental chair in Pioneer West Museum in Shamrock, Texas | Shamrock, Texas

Graduating in 1948, he moved his family to West Texas and entered the oil business, becoming a millionaire by the age of 40.

Forty-eight states ( Texas and West Virginia are the exceptions ) have a model set of instructions, usually called " pattern jury instructions ", which provide the framework for the charge to the jury ; sometimes, only names and circumstances have to be filled in for a particular case.

Stuart graduated from West Point in 1854 and served in Texas and Kansas with the U. S. Army, a veteran of the frontier conflicts with Native Americans and the violence of Bleeding Kansas.

The following all-color musicals were produced in 1929 and 1930 alone: The Show of Shows ( 1929 ), Sally ( 1929 ), The Vagabond King ( 1930 ), Follow Thru ( 1930 ), Bright Lights ( 1930 ), Golden Dawn ( 1930 ), Hold Everything ( 1930 ), The Rogue Song ( 1930 ), Song of the Flame ( 1930 ), Song of the West ( 1930 ), Sweet Kitty Bellairs ( 1930 ), Under A Texas Moon ( 1930 ), Bride of the Regiment ( 1930 ), Whoopee!

Between 1907 and 1923, Newport News built six of the U. S. Navy's total of 22 dreadnoughts -- Delaware, Texas, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Maryland, and West Virginia -- and all but the first would still be in active service in World War II.

The first Congress of the Republic of Texas convened in October 1836 at Columbia ( now West Columbia ).

The first Congress of the Republic of Texas convened in October 1836 at Columbia ( now West Columbia ).

* The exhibition The Persian Sensation: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in the West at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin, February 3 – August 2, 2009

In West Texas, however, he was exposed to many forms of music: " sepia "— a euphemism for what became known as rhythm and blues ( R & B ); Tex-Mex ; orchestral Mantovani, and zydeco.

Although if you grow up in West Texas, there are a lot of ways to be lonely.

"' Only The Lonely ' – Roy Orbison's Sweet West Texas Style ", pages 18 – 41 in John Covach and Mark Spicer Sounding Out Pop: Analytical Essays in Popular Music, University of Michigan Press.

Taking place in turn of the century West Texas, Noon Wine was a dark tragedy about a farmer's act of futile murder which leads to suicide.

The Giants faced the four American League West teams that year: Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers, Anaheim Angels and the Oakland A's, while compiling a 10 – 6 record.

* West Point, Texas

Warner Bros. released a large number of color films from 1929 to 1931, including The Show of Shows ( 1929 ), Sally ( 1929 ), Bright Lights ( 1930 ), Golden Dawn ( 1930 ), Hold Everything ( 1930 ), Song of the Flame ( 1930 ), Song of the West ( 1930 ), The Life of the Party ( 1930 ), Sweet Kitty Bellairs ( 1930 ), Under A Texas Moon ( 1930 ), Bride of the Regiment ( 1930 ), Viennese Nights ( 1931 ), Woman Hungry ( 1931 ), Kiss Me Again ( 1931 ), Fifty Million Frenchmen ( 1931 ), and Manhattan Parade ( 1932 ).

In 1966, the US First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, denounced the racist name, asking the U. S. Board on Geographic Names and the U. S. Forest Service to rename it, becoming " Colored Mountain " in 1968 ; and in West Texas, " Dead Nigger Creek " was renamed " Dead Negro Draw ".

Direct negotiations to determine the permanent status of Gaza and the West Bank had begun in September 1999 after a three-year hiatus, but have been derailed by the al-Aqsa Intifada that began in September 2000.

* In the West Wing episode " The Warfare of Genghis Khan ", a NASA staffer describes Mars Direct to the skeptical White House Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman and is able to convince him of its merit.

Direct conflict between the East and West erupted in the Korean War, when the United Nations Security Council, with the absence of the Soviet Union at the time of the vote, voted for international intervention in Korea to stop the civil war.

Godalming railway station is on the Portsmouth Direct Line between London ( Waterloo ) and Portsmouth, and is served by South West Trains.

** 21 September: Bank of Ireland completes the sale of the Bristol and West branch and Direct Savings ( Contact Centre ) to Britannia Building Society.

* 300: " Gatwick Direct "-Gatwick Airport-City Place-Manor Royal-Langley Green-Ifield-Ifield West

* West Direct delivers industry-specific solutions designed to sell products and services to consumers responding to mass media advertisements.

Kempkes is the president of West Direct, where he has the profit and loss responsibility for West Corporation ’ s direct response subsidiary, which includes home agents, IVR and government services.

He had previously held the positions of President of West Direct, Inc., and President of West Interactive Corporation between July 2001 and August 2006.

* March 2002 — West acquires Dakotah Direct.

* West Direct

:# Direct participation in acts of espionage for the West and Zionism.

However the Direct Factory Outlet development on Spencer St in the CBD, and Errol St North Melbourne sit just outside the boundary of West Melbourne.

The line was electrified ( 750v DC third rail ) by the Southern Railway during the inter war years in two stages, stage one being Brighton to West Worthing, Stage two being from West Worthing to Havant ( where it joined up with the electrified Portsmouth Direct Line ), including the Littlehampton and Bognor branches.

The Portsmouth Direct Line is the route of a railway service operated by South West Trains which runs between London Waterloo and Portsmouth Harbour, England.

This line was not direct, going out of its way to stay near the Erie Canal and serve Rome, and so the Syracuse and Utica Direct Railroad was chartered January 26, 1853, although nothing of this line was ever built because the West Shore Railroad served the same purpose.

* West face, Direct route to the north summit.

* 1968 West Face or Direct Route ( NCCS VI F8 A3 ), Lost Arrow Spire, Yosemite, CA, with Pat Callis.

For instance, between Oneida and Utica, the West Shore followed the general line of the never-built Syracuse and Utica Direct Railroad, which had been merged into the New York Central.

In July 2010, Direct Air expanded their Worcester service further to West Palm Beach, and is expected to announce further destinations in the near future.

South West Trains operate services to London Waterloo via the Portsmouth Direct Line ( via Guildford ) and also via Fareham, Winchester and Basingstoke.