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# Texas is popularly known as The Lone Star State.

# The Alamo is located in San Antonio. It is where Texas defenders fell to Mexican General Santa Anna and the phrase Remember the Alamo originated. The Alamo is considered the cradle of Texas liberty and the state's most popular historic site.

# The lightning whelk is the official state shell.

# Texas is the only state to have the flags of 6 different nations fly over it. They are: Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, Confederate States, and the United States.

# Although six flags have flown over Texas, there have been eight changes of government: Spanish 1519-1685, French 1685-1690, Spanish 1690-1821, Mexican 1821-1836, Republic of Texas 1836-1845, United States 1845-1861, Confederate States 1861-1865, United States 1865-present

# The King Ranch in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.

# During the period of July 24-26, 1979, the Tropical Storm Claudette brought 45 inches of rain to an area near Alvin, Texas, contributing to more than $600 million in damages. Claudette produced the United States 24 hour rainfall record of 43 inches.

# More wool comes from the state of Texas than any other state in the United States.

# Edwards Plateau in west central Texas is the top sheep growing area in the country.

# Texas is the only state to enter the United States by treaty instead of territorial annexation.

# The state was an independent nation from 1836 to 1845.

# Texas boasts the nation's largest herd of whitetail deer.

# A coastal live oak located near Fulton is the oldest tree in the state. The tree has an estimated age of more than 1,500 years.

# Sam Houston, arguably the most famous Texan, was actually born in Virginia. Houston served as governor of Tennessee before coming to Texas.

# Caddo Lake is the only natural lake in the state.

# The first offensive action of the Texas Revolution occurred in Goliad on October 9, 1835 when local colonists captured the fort and town.

# On December 20, 1835 the first Declaration of Texas Independence was signed in Goliad and the first flag of Texas Independence was hoisted.

# The Hertzberg Circus Museum in San Antonio contains one of the largest assortments of circusana in the world.

# The capital city of Austin is located on the Colorado River in south-central Texas. The capitol building is made from Texas pink granite. It served as the capital of the Republic of Texas in 1840-1842.

# Austin is considered the live music capital of the world.

# Texas is home to Dell and Compaq computers and central Texas is often referred to as the Silicon Valley of the south.

# Professional sports teams include the Dallas Cowboys, Dallas Mavericks, Dallas Stars, Houston Astros, Houston Comets, Houston Rockets, San Antonio Spurs, and Texas Rangers.

# Dr Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885. The Dublin Dr Pepper, 85 miles west of Waco, still uses pure imperial cane sugar in its product. There is no period after the Dr in Dr Pepper.

# The first suspension bridge in the United States was the Waco Bridge. Built in 1870 and still in use today as a pedestrian crossing of the Brazos River.

# In 1836 five sites served as temporary capitals of Texas: Washington-on-the-Brazos: Harrisburg: Galveston: Velasco: and Columbia. Sam Houston moved the capital to Houston in 1837. In 1839 the capital was moved to the new town of Austin.

# The capitol in Austin opened May 16, 1888. The dome of the building stands seven feet higher than that of the nation's Capitol in Washington, D.C.

# Texas comes from the Hasinai Indian word tejas meaning friends or allies.

# The armadillo is the official state mammal.

# Texas has the first domed stadium in the country. The structure was built in Houston and opened in April 1965.

# The Houston Comets are the only team in the country to win four back-to-back WNBA championships. 1997-2000 Cynthia Cooper remains the only player to win the WNBA Championship MVP.

# The worst natural disaster in United States history was caused by a hurricane that hit Galveston in 1900. Over 8000 deaths were recorded.

# The first word spoken from the moon on July 20, 1969 was Houston.

# Texas' largest county is Brewster with 6,208 square miles.

# Texas possesses three of the top ten most populous cities in the United States. These towns are Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio.

# El Paso is closer to Needles, California than it is to Dallas.

# Texas includes 267,339 square miles, or 7.4% of the nation's total area.

# The state's cattle population is estimated to be near 16 million.

# More land is farmed in Texas than in any other state.

# More species of bats live in Texas than in any other part of the United States.

# Laredo is the world's largest inland port.

# Port Lavaca has the world's longest fishing pier. Originally part of the causeway connecting the two sides of Lavaca Bay, the center span of was destroyed by Hurricane Carla in 1961.

# The Tyler Municipal Rose Garden is the world's largest rose garden. It contains 38,000 rose bushes representing 500 varieties of roses set in a 22-acre garden.

# Amarillo has the world's largest helium well.

# The world's first rodeo was held in Pecos on July 4, 1883.

# The Flagship Hotel on Seawall Boulevard in Galveston is the only hotel in North America built entirely over the water.

# The Heisman trophy is named for John William Heisman the first full-time coach and athletic director at Rice University in Houston.

# Brazoria County has more species of birds than any other comparable area in North America.

# The Aransas Wildlife Refuge is the winter home of North America's only remaining flock of whooping cranes.

# Jalapeno pepper jelly originated in Lake Jackson and was first marketed in 1978.

Also, we can leave the US anytime we damn well want to. Which I hope is soon... Plus, we're the only state that is allowed to have their state flag fly the same height of the US's national flag.

Conclusion? Texas> US>> All other states

 

[Ninja Scooter]

you forgot one:

# Texas is California's BITCH.

 

[levious]

Plus, we're the only state that is allowed to have their state flag fly the same height of the US's national flag.

www.snopes.com/history/american/texasflag.asp

might as well stop, your bit about being able to secede at will is just as false.

My family's from texas, and I've spent much more time there than I wish I ever had... South Texas, horrible cultural environment for a mexican-american unless you're content to remain contained within the local hispanic circles. Much worse if you're black cause whites and hispanics both hate you.

 

[Seth C]

Please stop fucking pretending that you aren't Lonestar.

 

[Incognito]

Please stop fucking pretending that you aren't Lonestar.

What could you possibly do if he didn't stop? Sit on him?

 

[Seth C]

By the way, the Dr Pepper made from can sugar is FANTASTIC.

 

[mjq jazz bar]

I live in Plano, Texas.

Texas sucks.

I'd go back to the Northeast in an instant.

http://www.powerofattorneytv.com

 

[element]

texans just have big egos.

 

[Seth C]

And hey, while we're at it, REAL facts about my state:

1. The town of Murray is home to the Boy Scouts of America Scouting Museum located on the campus of Murray State University.

2. The Kentucky Derby is the oldest continuously held horse race in the country. It is held at Churchill Downs in Louisville on the first Saturday in May.

3. Chevrolet Corvettes are manufactured in Bowling Green.

4. Mammoth Cave is the world's longest cave and was first promoted in 1816, making it the second oldest tourist attraction in the United States. Niagara Falls, New York is first.

5. Begun in 1819 the first commercial oil well was on the Cumberland River in McCreary County.

6. The first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant owned and operated by Colonel Sanders is located in Corbin.

7. Kentucky is the state where both Abraham Lincoln, President of the Union, and Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, were born. They were born less than one hundred miles and one year apart.

8. Cumberland is the only waterfall in the world to regularly display a Moonbow. It is located just southwest of Corbin.

9. The song "Happy Birthday to You" was the creation of two Louisville sisters in 1893.

10. Teacher Mary S. Wilson held the first observance of Mother's Day in Henderson in 1887. It was made a national holiday in 1916.

11. The great Man o' War won all of his horse races except one which he lost to a horse named Upset.

12. The first American performance of a Beethoven symphony was in Lexington in 1817.

13. Post-It Notes are manufactured exclusively in Cynthiana. The exact number made annually of these popular notes is a trade secret.

14. Kentucky was the 15th state to join the Union and the first on the western frontier.

15. Daniel Boone and his wife Rebecca are buried in the Frankfort Cemetery. Their son Isaac is buried at Blue Licks Battlefield near Carlisle, where he was killed in the last battle of the Revolutionary War fought in Kentucky.

16. The only monument south of the Ohio River dedicated to Union Soldiers who died in the Civil War is located in Vanceburg.

17. The public saw an electric light for the first time in Louisville. Thomas Edison introduced his incandescent light bulb to crowds at the Southern Exposition in 1883.

18. The radio was invented by a Kentuckian named Nathan B. Stubblefield of Murray in 1892. It was three years before Marconi made his claim to the invention.

19. The first enamel bathtub was made in Louisville in 1856.

20. In the War of 1812 more than half of all Americans killed in action were Kentuckians.

21. Middlesboro is the only city in the United States built within a meteor crater.

22. Joe Bowen holds the world record for stilt walking endurance. He walked 3,008 miles on stilts between Bowen, Kentucky to Los Angeles, California.

23. The world's largest free-swinging bell known as the World Peace Bell is on permanent display in Newport, KY.

24. High Bridge located near Nicholasville is the highest railroad bridge over navigable water in the United States.

25. More than $6 billion worth of gold is held in the underground vaults of Fort Knox. This is the largest amount of gold stored anywhere in the world.

26. Pike County the world's largest producer of coal is famous for the Hatfield-McCoy feud, an Appalachian vendetta that lasted from the Civil War to the 1890s.

27. Kentucky is known as the Bluegrass State.

All that, and we aren't self obsessed or desperate to secede from the Union!

 

[Incognito]

Unlike Kentucky, if Texas were to leave the union, we'd be more than capable enough to support ourselves.

GNP, what?

 

[truesayian]

Yea for waco.. that's where i'm at..

 

[Matrix]

TEXAS 4 LIFE BIZNITCHS!

 

[Seth C]

Unlike Kentucky, if Texas were to leave the union, we'd be more than capable enough to support ourselves.

GNP, what?

6 billion in gold, bourbon, tobacco, Post-Its, KFC, and Corvettes. What more do we need?

 

[Doth Togo]

texans just have big egos.

IAWTP.

 

[Seth C]

IAWTP.

"Texas - It's Like a Whole Other Country" pretty much cements it.

 

[Doth Togo]

But I tell ya. Austin is a hell of a lot of fun. Lots of crazy shit goes on down there man.

Also, it's a beautiful drive from Dallas to Austin... I opened my v6 Passat up on I-35 and cruised at 110mph or so for over an hour. Best driving time I've had in a while.

 

[Ferrio]

You know, if we split Alaska into two seperate states, Texas would be the 3rd largest state.

 

[belgurdo]

Also, we can leave the US anytime we damn well want to. Which I hope is soon...

Thank God

 

[Kon Tiki]

4. Mammoth Cave is the world's longest cave and was first promoted in 1816, making it the second oldest tourist attraction in the United States. Niagara Falls, New York is first.

:rock

 

[Smiles and Cries]

I just moved to Texas...

things are different here for sure... it should really be it's own Nation
every part is a little different

 

[Desperado]

go h-town.

 

[Gek54]

texans just have big egos.

AND PROUD OF IT!

No matter where I live I will always be a Texan.

 

[Mr. E. Yis]

18. The radio was invented by a Kentuckian named Nathan B. Stubblefield of Murray in 1892. It was three years before Marconi made his claim to the invention.

Actually, I did research on the invention of radio about a month ago. Stubblefield's boxes weren't radio. They used the earlier ideas of wireless telegraphy - they used induction instead of electro-magnetic waves. It even says this in his patents.

 

[xsarien]

# The Alamo is located in San Antonio. It is where Texas defenders fell to Mexican General Santa Anna and the phrase Remember the Alamo originated. The Alamo is considered the cradle of Texas liberty and the state's most popular historic site.

Yeah, but tell us about the basement.

Also, we can leave the US anytime we damn well want to. Which I hope is soon...

Well, if you need help packing, us Yanks are here for ya'.