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Texas Buys the Alamo
In 1885, the State of Texas purchased the Alamo chapel from the Catholic Church. Most people in Texas at the time knew the story of the siege and fall, but had never visited, and may not have even seen a picture...
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Bad information leads to bad decisions and bad outcomes. Ask Vida Henry.   Back in 1917, what is now Memorial Park in Houston was a mix of pines and prairie being turned into a new Army training center called Camp Logan. Construction sites...
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The following was written by Dr. David Fentress, a Texas surgeon serving in the Confederate Army.  He had spent the previous two years in the field in Arkansas and Louisiana. He was back in Texas, but it would still be several...
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This week, in honor of the listmaker rumored to be coming to town, I decided to have a look at beards. First lets get some hard data. In 1976 an economist at the University of Washington, Dwight Robinson, made a study of...
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