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editI feel bad deleting all this, but we got to due to the manual of style. I did save all this hard work. maybe we can make some new pages out of it. a Pop culture and texas page maybe? who knows?
Arts and entertainment
edit- A Texas Trilogy an award winning set of three plays
- Little Texas (band) an American country music band
- Miss Texas, a Miss America state pageant
- Texas Bowl a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Division I FBS college football bowl game*Texas Bowl a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Division I FBS college football bowl game
- Texas Country or "Texas music" is a sub-genre of country music
- Texas Cyclone (film) a 1932 American western film
- Texas Derby, or El Capitan Clasico, is a soccer rivalry (derby) between Texas's two Major League Soccer teams Houston Dynamo and FC Dallas
- Texas Flood an electric blues album by the band Double Trouble
- Texas John Slaughter (TV series) was a television series run from 1958 to 1961 as part of the Wonderful World of Disney
- Texas hold 'em, a popular form of poker
- Texas League is a minor league baseball league
- Texas Relays or The Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays are an annual track and field competition held at Mike A. Myers Stadium
- The Texas Trail a 1925 Western film featuring Harry Carey
- Texas Tom a 1950 cartoon
- Texas Twister is a fictional comic book superhero
- Texas Blues is a subgenre of the blues
- Texas Motor Speedway, a superspeedway in Justin, Texas near Dallas
Historical
edit- Operation Texas, an undercover operation to relocate European Jews to Texas, away from Nazi persecution.
- Texas Brigade, a Confederate States Army brigade during the American Civil War
- Texas Road, a major trade and emigrant route across Indian Territory
Objects
edit- Texas Cyclone, a roller coaster at Six Flags Astroworld
- Texas Giant, a wooden roller coaster located at Six Flags Over Texas
- Texas Interconnection, one of the three minor alternating current (AC) power grids in North America.
- Texas Pete, a retail brand name for a Louisiana-style hot sauce
- Texas Red, or sulforhodamine 101 acid chloride is a red fluorescent dye
- Texas Roadhouse, a national restaurant franchise
- Texas Star, the largest Ferris wheel in North America
- Texas toast, thicker variation of pre-sliced packaged bread
- Texas Towers a set of off-shore radar facilities used by the United States Air Force during the Cold War
- Texas Tower (lighthouse), a structure, similar to an off-shore oil platform, used as a platform for a lighthouse
- Texas Wiener, a type of hot dog
- Texas Zephyr, a historical passenger train that was operated by the Fort Worth and Denver Railway
Organizations
edit- Texas College, a historically black four-year college located in Tyler, Texas
- Texas Comics, a short lived independent comics company set up in 1983
- Texas Homecare, a defunct DIY store in the United Kingdom
- Texas Industries a publicly traded construction materials company
- Texas Instruments, manufacturer of semiconductors
- Texas Utilities, a former name of Energy Future Holdings Corporation
Places
edit- Texas Canyon located in Cochise County, Arizona
Roads
edit- Texas T, or T-ramp, is a T-shaped highway ramp
- Texas U-turn, or Texas turnaround: lane allowing cars traveling on one side of a one-way frontage road to U-turn into the opposite frontage road
Species
edit- Babesia, a parasite that causes Texas cattle fever
- Fraxinus texensis (Texas Ash or Mountain Ash) is a species of Fraxinus
- Senecio ampullaceus also known as Texas ragwort, Texas squaw-weed, Texas groundsel, and Texas butterweed, a species of Senecio
- Texas Antelope Squirrel (Ammospermophilus interpres) a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family
- Texas Brown Snake (Storeria dekayi texana) is a non-venomous snake
- Texas cichlid (Herichthys cyanoguttatus, formerly Cichlasoma cyanoguttatum) is a freshwater fish of the cichlid family
- Texas Honey locust (Gleditsia × texana) is a tree native to America
- Texas longhorn is a breed of cattle
- Texas Mescalbean (Calia secundiflora, formerly Sophora secundiflora), also known as the Frijolito or, confusingly, as Texas Mountain Laurel, is a slow-growing, common shrub or small tree
- Texas Pinyon or Papershell Pinyon (Pinus remota) is a pine in the pinyon pine group
- Texas root rot, or cotton root rot, a plant pathogen
- Texas Sage (Leucophyllum frutescens) is an evergreen shrub
- Texas Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus olivaceus) is a species of phrynosomatid lizard native to the south central United States
- Quercus fusiformis, commonly known as Texas Live Oak, an evergreen or nearly evergreen tree
Buildings
edit- Texas Hall, a combination theater and special events center on the campus of the University of Texas at Arlington
- Texas High School, a public school in Texarkana, Texas
- Texas Theatre, a performing arts theatre in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, Texas
Terminology
edit- Texas heart shot a euphemism used in hunting referring to a shot fired at the base of the tail of an animal facing directly away from the shooter.
- Texas Rig a technique used for fishing soft plastic lures.