The Republic of Texas claimed the portion east of the Rio Grande when it seceded from Mexico in 1836.

Spindletop is a salt dome oil field located in the southern portion of Beaumont, Texas in the United States.

In southern New Mexico and the upper portion of the Texas border segment, the river's discharge dwindles.

The future Interstate 69 from northeast to southwest will pass through Memphis when it is completed, linking Brownsville, Texas to the already-existing portion that runs from Indianapolis, Indiana to Port Huron, Michigan.

A portion of Galveston is within District 11 of the Texas Senate ; Mike Jackson represents the district.

ZZ Top's song " Tush " uses the prosaic and risque meaning in exact equal portion, as in the band's native Texas " tush " has two meanings: when rhyming with " bush " refers to the female buttocks but when rhyming with " rush " is a slang term for " good enough " or " adequate ".

Texas A & M will still receive a portion of the revenue from the recently signed contract between the Big 12 Conference and Fox Sports.

Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, United States ( US ), raised primarily in Texas, US, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, US, the area in which he first gained popularity.

Part of the large Haley Ranch, founded by the father of Texas historian J. Evetts Haley, is in Winkler County, with another portion in neighboring Loving County.

A map commissioned in the 1860s and distributed by the United States Army for the benefit of wounded troops indicates that, based on data from the 1860 national census, 80. 9 % of the population of Wharton County was enslaved, representing the highest portion of slaves in a single county in the state of Texas.

Encinal County was established on February 1, 1856 and was to consist of the eastern portion of Webb County, Texas.

The Texas state legislature carved Ward County from a portion of Tom Green County in 1887.

Shelby County is a county located in the far eastern portion of the U. S. state of Texas.

Today, Baylor, McLennan Community College, and Texas State Technical College remain in McLennan County and absorb a large portion of the college-bound high school graduates from the County and the surrounding areas.

Part of the Haley Ranch, founded by the father of Texas historian J. Evetts Haley, is in Loving County, with another portion in neighboring Winkler County.

Located in the northeast portion of Texas, it is bounded on the southwest by Trinity River, and drained by the east fork of that stream.

Hutchinson County is a county in the US state of Texas in the northern portion of the Texas Panhandle.

The park features a portion of the state Texas longhorn herd.

With a large portion of its economy based around agriculture, Falls County is sixth among 254 Texas counties in corn production.

The Missouri – Kansas – Texas Railroad reached Lewisville, located in the southern portion of the county, by the early 1880s.

The county is on the western edge of the Eastern Cross Timbers and also encompasses parts of the Grand Prairie portion of the Texas blackland prairies.

Dallam County is a county located in the far northwestern portion of the U. S. state of Texas.

During the floods of 1912 and 1927, however, the southern portion of the town, including the main business district, remained dry, as the flood waters to the north and east were held back by the Texas & Pacific Railroad embankment.

The Plato R-V School District is in Texas County but serves the southern portion of Pulaski County.

The Fourth Corps assaulted and carried a small portion of the enemy works but could not hold possession of the gain for want of cooperation from the balance of the line.

Under leave to extend my remarks, I include the relevant portion of my newsletter, together with the text of the article from the U.S. News & World Report: `` your Congressman, Samuel S. Stratton, reports from Washington, May 1, 1961

At that time consideration will be given to whether in the light of the United States supplies of rice available for Title 1, disposal, India's production, consumption and stocks of food grains, other imports from the United States and countries friendly to the United States, India's storage capacity, and other related factors, any increase would be possible in the portion of the total rice programmed which is currently planned for procurement during the first year.

Aside from this, the average portion contains some protein, an appreciable amount of vitamins A and C -- about one-tenth of the minimum daily requirement, and about a third of the official vitamin E requirement.

First, the upper portion requires series of films for every child, consisting of those from Hand, Elbow, Shoulder, Knee, and Foot.

Second, the upper portion permits comparison of maturity levels of an equal number of growth centers from the long, short, and round bones of the five regions.

Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states, " A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragoust.

The most productive portion of arable land is that from sediments left by rivers and the sea in geological times.

A wheel of cheese from the Emmental in Switzerland can weigh up to 100 pounds, and owners of the cows traditionally receive from the cheesemakers a portion in relation to the proportion of the cow's milk from the summer months in the high alps.

In the northern or " Anasazi " portion of the Ancestral Pueblo world, from about 500 to 1300 CE, the most common decorated pottery had black painted designs on white or light gray backgrounds.

The pithecus portion of the name is from the Greek word for " monkey ".

In the remainder of this region, the southern portion, the most prominent feature is Little Mountain, extending about from east to west between two valleys, and rising precipitously on the north side above them or above the sea.

Semi-permanent mooring anchors ( such as mushroom anchors ) and large ship's anchors derive a significant portion of their holding power from their mass, while also hooking or embedding in the bottom.

The crew reported they had observed additional paint peeling from a portion of the LM's outer aluminum skin.

Having fallen from public notice, the tunnel was rediscovered in 1981 by then 18-year-old Robert " Bob " Diamond, who entered from a manhole he located at Atlantic Avenue and Court Street, crawled a distance of underground through a filled-in section of tunnel less than two feet high, and located the bulkhead wall that sealed off the main portion of the tunnel.

Following Schubert's early death in 1828, Diabelli purchased a large portion of the composer's massive musical estate from Schubert's brother Ferdinand.

More technically, the law is concerned with the speedup achievable from an improvement to a computation that affects a proportion P of that computation where the improvement has a speedup of S. ( For example, if an improvement can speed up 30 % of the computation, P will be 0. 3 ; if the improvement makes the portion affected twice as fast, S will be 2.

French forces occupied Aargau from 10 March to 18 April 1798 ; thereafter the Bernese portion became the canton of Aargau in the Helvetic Republic and the remainder formed the Canton of Baden.

A significant portion of ANC leadership agreed that this violence was needed to combat increasing backlash from the government.

Originally designed to breach fortifications, they have evolved from nearly static installations intended to reduce a single obstacle to highly mobile weapons of great flexibility in which now reposes the greater portion of a modern army's offensive capabilities.

He ordained further that some should be called " Abbreviators of the Upper Bar " ( Abbreviatores de Parco Majori ; the name derived from a space in the chancery, surrounded by a grating, in which the officials sat, which is called higher or lower ( major or minor ) according to the proximity of the seats to that of the vice-chancellor ), the others of the Lower Bar ( Abbreviatores de Parco Minori ); that the former should sit upon a slightly raised portion of the chamber, separated from the rest of the hall or chamber by lattice work, assist the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, subscribe the letters and have the principal part in examining, revising, and expediting the apostolic letters to be issued with the leaden seal ; that the latter, however, should sit among the apostolic writers upon benches in the lower part of the chamber, and their duty was to carry the signed schedules or supplications to the prelates of the upper bar.