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The Buffalo Bayou Cistern is Houston's former water supply. It's bigger than two football fields and is a beautiful public place,
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There are at least six different forms of music that were either invented here, or flouished from the Lone Star State.
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Dr. Denton Cooley was a world famous heart surgeon who performed the first heart transplant in the U.S. in 1968,
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Take the cutting blade off that riding mower, and let's race!
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The Dean of American Newspaper Publishers, George B. Dealey.
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The one-time capital of the Republic of Texas was located at 909 Texas Ave in Houston, Texas. We know it today as The Rice Hotel.
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The story oif the famous cannon that inspired the battle cry "Come and Take It".
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An abandoned dog was found swimming with dolphins in Galveston Bay.
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After the 1900 Storm, Buffalo Bayou was deepened and widened to accomadate large ships... and Buffalo Bayou became the Houston Ship Channel.
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The Gulf Freeway was the first feeway in Texas.
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It seems we only cry out for God when something is wrong, but God is always there.
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The town of Daisy, Texas had to change its name when it was learned there already was a Daisy, Texas in another part of the state. So it was renamed Alief.
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The term "Get Out of Dodge" may have originated from the old TV show "Gunsmoke"... but we have our own Dodge right here in Texas.
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Former concert venue and former home of the Houston Rockets... Now home to Lakewood Church.
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Texas is known for great Mexican food. Some of the spices used originated here.
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Houston is the nations 4th largest city, and still growing.
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In 1836 the Allen Brothers bought some land along Buffalo Bayou.
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When his parents died Howard Hughes inherited a fortune. He was a good businessman, and dabbled in everything from movies, tools, aircraft and aviation.
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Truax Field is home to Air Wing 4
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The former county seat of Calhoun County was Indianola, until hurricanes wiped it out.
- Visa fler
