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| | Column:
Population Ranks
by Mike Cox 11-19-09
The historic urban population hierarchy and population
figures dating back to 1850... Sculptor:
Pompeo Luigi Coppini
by John Troesser 11-2-09
Coppini's Life and His Works |
| | People:
Zapata
by Maggie Van Ostrand
10-22-09
John Steinbeck wrote it, Elia Kazan directed it, Marlon Brando
starred in it: Viva Zapata! But how close did these great artists come to the
real thing? The answer lay in a telling 1916 interview by reporter Guillermo Ojara,
sent by his paper, El Democrata of Mexico City, to interview Zapata himself...
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| Column:
Port Isabel Wireless
by Mike Cox
8-27-09
In 1915 the
U.S. military had plans to install at Point Isabel a state-of-the-art radio facility
that would provide virtually instantaneous communication as the government prepared
for the possibility of a second war with Mexico... |
| Drives:
U.S. 67
by Mike Cox 8-6-09
It
may not be the Mother Road, but U.S. 67 stretches 1,560 miles across five states,
connecting Iowa to Mexico. Six hundred thirty-seven miles of U.S. 67 are in Texas,
from Presidio to Texarkana...Historic
Tree: The Ben Milam Cypress
Photos courtesy Terry Jeanson 7-26-09 Ghosts:
Ghost Road in Hardin County
by Bob Bowman 7-26-09Texas
Ranching : Texas Fever
by C. F. Eckhardt 7-5-09 |
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Texas
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New Category
Index by Sarah Reveley
During the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration, the state built memorial museums,
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and installed over 1,000 historical markers.
This
ongoing project will examine the extant Centennial projects and include the stories
behind them. |
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