In 1964, Austin writer John Morthland became the first person in America to interview the Rolling Stones. John, who was a high school junior in San Bernardino, California, interviewed the band when they arrived for the maiden U.S. tour for his school's paper.

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The only place in the world where they make Dr. Pepper according to the original formula is in Dublin, Texas. Dr Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885. There is no period after the Dr in Dr Pepper


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Travel The World And Never Leave Texas

Without leaving Texas, you can go to Holland, Malta, India, China, Ireland, Italy, Trinidad, Turkey, Crete, Wake, Palestine, Scotland and Egypt.

You can visit Jericho, Liverpool, London, Macedonia, Manchester,Moscow, Tampico, Tokyo, Troy, Vienna, Warsaw, Tunis, Odessa, Paris, Petersburg, Plymouth, Rugby, Sparta, Sheffield, Stockholm, Athens, Belgrade, Bolivar, Cadiz, Canton, Caledonia, Cologne, Delhi, Dorchester, Dreasden, Dublin, Edinburg, Geneva, Genoa and Oxford.

These are all cities, towns in Texas. Now you can understand why the United States train the majority of it's army here!

Lupinus Texensis - The Bluebonnet

One of the beauty thrills of Texas is found by riding along the highway in the spring to see the heavy blankets of Bluebonnets, our state flower.

Like Texans themselves, it is not only the most picturesque thing of it's kind, but the toughest. Texas livestack have read all the laws protecting and revering bluebonnets, and they refuse to eat a single flowewr or plant. The fact that this plant is very bitter and tough in texture has nothing to do with it.

Texas Has No Bum Steers!

If all the steers in Texas were one big steer, he could stand with his front feet in the Gulf of Mexico, his hind feet in the Hudson Bay, and punch a hole in the moon with his horns whwile he brushed his tail through the Aurora Barealis with his tail.

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Texas Is Big!

Texas occupies all of the continent of North America Except a small part set aside for the United States, Canada & Mexico. It is bounded on the north by up to 40 states, on the east by all the oceans except the Pacific, on the south by the Gulf of Mexcico & South America, and on the West by the Pacific ocean and the rest of the world.

Fold Texas northward and Brownsville will be 120 miles into Canada. Fold it eastward and El Paso will be 40 mile into the atlantic. Fold it westward and Orange will be 215 mles into the Pacific.

Texas is both in the South and in the West. But...Us Texans are neither Southerners nor Westerners. WE ARE TEXANS!

Total area......263,644 square miles

Water area......3,695 square miles

North to south......825 miles

East to west......740 miles

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The population of Texas is 24 million, not including the 16 million cattle.

Honor The Texas Flag

Pledge of Allegiance to State Flag
Honor the Texas flag;
I pledge allegiance to thee,
Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible.