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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / July 2004Otp Its about Texas true too
Subject: Texas Facts Little Known Texas Facts! Beaumont to El Paso: 742 miles Beaumont to Chicago: 770 miles Texarkana is closer to Chicago than to El Paso Texarkana is closer to New York City than El Paso World's first rodeo was in Pecos...July 4, 1883. The Flagship Hotel in Galveston is the only hotel in North America built over water. The Heisman Trophy was named after John William Heisman who was the first full time coach for Rice University, Houston. Brazoria County (near Houston) has more species of birds than any other area in North America. Aransas Wildlife Refuge is the winter home of North America's only remaining flock of whooping cranes. Jalapeno jelly originated in Lake Jacksonin 1978. The worst natural disaster in U.S. history was in 1900 caused by a hurricane in which over 8000 lives were lost on Galveston Island. The first word spoken from the moon, July 20, 1969, was "Houston..." El Paso is closer to California than to Dallas. Laredo is the world's largest inland port. Tyler Municipal Rose Garden is the world's largest rose garden with over 38,000 bushes with 500 varieties on 22 acres. King Ranch is larger than Rhode Island. Tropical Storm Claudette brought a U.S. rainfall record of 43" in 24 hours in and around Alvin in July 1979. Texas is the only state to enter the U.S. by TREATY, instead of by annexation. (This allows theTexas flag to fly at the same height as the US flag.) A Live Oak tree near Fulton is estimated to be 1500 years old. Caddo Lake is the only natural lake in the state. Dr Pepper was invented in WACO in 1885. There is no period after Dr in Dr Pepper. Texas has had six capital cities ... 1. Washington-on-the-Brazos 2. Harrisburg 3. Galveston 4. Velasco 5. West Columbia 6. Austin The Capitol Dome in Austin is the only dome in the U.S.which is taller than the Capitol Building in Washington D.C.(by 7 feet). The name Texas comes from the Hasini Indian word "tejas" meaning friends. Tejas is not Mexican forTexas. The State animal is the Armadillo. The first domed stadium in the U.S. was the Astrodome in Houston. *An interesting bit of trivia about the armadillo is they always have four babies! They have one egg which splits into four and they either have four males or four females. AMERICAN BY BIRTH. TEXAN BY THE GRACE OF GOD! THE TEN COMMANDMENTS -TEXAS STYLE People here in Texas have trouble with all those shall's and shall not's in the 10 Commandments. Folks here just aren't used to talking in those terms. So, some folks out in west Texas got together and translated the "King James" into "King Ranch" language: Ten Commandments, cowboy Style. Cowboy's Ten Commandments posted on the wall at Cross Trails Church in Fairlie,Texas. (1) Just one God. (2) Honor yer Ma & Pa. (3) No telling tales or gossipin'. (4) Git yourself to Sunday meeting. (5) Put nothin' before God.. (6) No foolin' around with another fellow's gal. (7) No killin'. (8) Watch yer mouth. (9) Don't take what ain't yers. (10) Don't be hankerin' for yer buddy's stuff. Now that's kinda plain an' simple don't ya think? Y'all have a good Day. OK, Not trying to cause any ruckus round here but, I am Sooner Born and bred and I know by fact that Texas has allot of great things down there but football ain't one of them. GO SOONERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Beat Texas!!!!!!!! Love ya Harv hope ya don't take it personal. :o) > Subject: Texas Facts > [quoted text clipped - 113 lines] > > Now that's kinda plain an' simple don't ya think? Y'all have a good Day. > OK, Not trying to cause any ruckus round here but, > I am Sooner Born and bred and I know by fact that Texas has allot of great [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Love ya Harv hope ya don't take it personal. > :o) LOLOL,,, I want you to send all the players from Texas back home and thennn do some talken. LOL The longhorn and Okla battle is something to enjoy and wait for. So it goes. Harv >> GO SOONERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Beat Texas!!!!!!!! [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > thennn do some talken. LOL The longhorn and Okla battle is something to > enjoy and wait for. So it goes. ROFL! I went to TCU in Ft Worth for a few years, once upon a time. I well remember OU/UT weekends and all the reports on the newscast of wild behavior. LOL We stayed away from Dallas on those weekends! (and Rhonda, I gotta side with you for now..... We Gator fans remain fond of Bob Stoops!)  SignatureNann remove the Gator cheer to email me Simply the thing I am shall make me live --- William Shakespeare Don't ya just love Stoops? I think he was the best thing in a LONG time to happen to OU. I really like our QB too he is truly a sweetheart. My hubby and I met him after he broke his knee a couple of seasons ago and he was so nice. I met him also at media day last season and I said something like this is your year, and it was! He won the Heisman(sp?) > >> GO SOONERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > >> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Beat Texas!!!!!!!! [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > (and Rhonda, I gotta side with you for now..... We Gator fans remain fond of > Bob Stoops!) I am not gonna commit on that we'd be here all day..:o) We do have Jason White from Tuttle OK. > > OK, Not trying to cause any ruckus round here but, > > I am Sooner Born and bred and I know by fact that Texas has allot of great [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > enjoy and wait for. So it goes. > Harv >Dr Pepper was invented in WACO in 1885. There is no period after Dr in Dr >Pepper. Had my first sip of Dr Pepper in 1947 on a train going from NYC to California. (With a change of trains in Chicago.) I think it was somewhere after Chicago. Fell in love with the Dr. Didn't taste it again until I came back to NY about 15 years later. By then it was being distributed all over the country. I always thought it tasted like carbonated prune juice. But I liked prune juice then and I love prune Danish now. Thanks, Harvey, for evoking that memory. We were a motley crew on that train. At 12, I was the oldest child and was in charge of the rest of the tribe. I remember a long stop in Salt Lake City, when I was carrying the baby and dropped her bottle on the marble floor of the train station. No plastic baby bottle then. The glass shattered in every direction. Can't remember where we got another bottle. (Could it have been a Dr Pepper bottle?) But I do remember the sight from the window of the train of the Great Salt Lake in the early morning as we set off on the last leg of our 3-day journey to the SF Bay Area. Isn't memory a funny thing? Joyce > Isn't memory a funny thing? > > Joyce Yes, it is and it is something to enjoy as it happens or you might say happened. Harv not to be a nitpicker,but the Edgewatwater Hotel in Seattle is built over water and I think a lot more are also! > Subject: Texas Facts > [quoted text clipped - 113 lines] > > Now that's kinda plain an' simple don't ya think? Y'all have a good Day. > not to be a nitpicker,but the Edgewatwater Hotel in Seattle is built over > water and I think a lot more are also! LOL, I knew someone would catch that. I think the hotel is like the Astrodome. One of a kind when it was built and their are lots of dome stadiums now. There are at least two stadiums with retractable roofs and those are in Houston also. The thing is that tickets cost so much that the common man can no longer go. Is that progress?? When I pay my taxes,,,, I do not think so but its all about the will of the many don't ya know. So it goes. Harv Harv wrote: > Little Known Texas Facts! What do you know about San Antonio? Mary & I probably will be there in late June 2005 for the National Square Dance Convention. > Harv wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Mary & I probably will be there in late June 2005 for the > National Square Dance Convention. Hi Chief,,,, So good to see your post. Ya know, you and I got a different virus about the same time. I got real lucky with mine and was back on in a couple of days. Yours must of been a real SOB. What do I know about San Antonio??? I know it is a town that is pretty easy to get around in and I have been there twice. Soooo, I am no where near an expert on San Antonio. I know that you will have to do the river walk and the Alamo or you might as well not go there. LOLOL I hope you and yours are doing well. Harv My wife and I visited San Antonio about 3 years ago and stayed at the Crockett Hotel. http://www.crocketthotel.com/ It's right behind the Alamo and about 300 yards from the River Walk area. However the price was half what the hotels on the Walk wanted. It's not the finest but the location was good and the price was right. Cooly Good to see you back Chief > Harv wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Mary & I probably will be there in late June 2005 for the > National Square Dance Convention. > My wife and I visited San Antonio about 3 years ago and stayed at the > Crockett Hotel. Thanks Cooly. We're going to wait until we learn the exact location (convention center, etc) before planning accommocations. ... Fatal System Error: MIL moving in. Stick head in oven (Y/y) Joe! It's really you...wow, how good to have you back again. You've been missed. Kelly C.;o) ain't that the truth?!! welcome back, Chief! donnah > Joe! It's really you...wow, how good to have you back again. You've been > missed. > > Kelly C.;o) > What do you know about San Antonio? > > Mary & I probably will be there in late June 2005 for the > National Square Dance Convention. They have great margaritas! Sarah L "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (unattributed) |
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