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harbormaster
01-13-2003, 06:11 PM
The Constitution of 1845, which was the resolution that allowed Texas into the Union, stated that Texas had the right to divide into 4 states in addition to the original Texas. That legal right still remains true. Texas is the only state in the union that is allowed to fly its flag at the same height as the American flag.

Texas is as large as all of New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois combined.

The population of Texas is 20 million, not including the 16 million cattle.

Texas has a total of 6,300 square miles of inland lakes and streams, second only to Alaska. It has 80,000 miles of rivers and streams, 190 Man-made lakes and reservoirs,But only 1 natural lake.

Texas' largest county is Brewster County with 6,208 square miles. Connecticut (5,544 Sq Mi), Delaware (2,489 Sq Mi) and Rhode Island (1,545 Sq Mi) can fit inside this county.

The King Ranch itself near Corpus Christi is larger than the state of Rhode Island and includes 50,000 head of cattle.

The state capitol building is the largest state capitol building in the country.

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

There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in Texas.

There are 10,000 types of spiders. 10,001 live in Texas.

Four fire ant species are found in Texas, three of which are native to the state. The tropical Solenopsis geminata Fabricus and southern Solenopsis xyloni McCook are the most common.

If it crawls, it bites.

To combat the deadly killer bee, the Harris County Fire Department has 11 trucks equipped with soapy water sprayers that do nothing but respond to killer bee calls.

Currently, the Austin Fire Department will only deal with emergency situations involving killer bee attacks in progress.

Nothing will kill a mesquite tree.

There are valid reasons some people put concertino wire around their house.

Texas has 6 seasons:
Spring, Feb 16 to April 15
Summer, April 16 to July 15 (temp 90 to 98 degrees)
Super Summer, July 16 to Sept 10 (temp 100 to 115 degrees)
Summer, Sept. 11 to Oct 1 (temp 90 to 98 degrees)
Fall, Oct 2 to Dec. 1 Winter Dec. 2 to Feb 15

Coldbeer is one word.

Texans really don't have an accent.

When the world ends, only cockroaches and mesquite trees will survive.

Green grass DOES burn.

The sound of coyotes howling at night only sounds good for the first couple of weeks.

When a buzzard sits on the fence and stares at you, it's time to go to the Doctor.

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.

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

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.

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

Dr. Pepper was invented in Waco, Texas in 1885. The Dublin Dr Pepper plant, 85 miles west of Waco, still uses pure imperial cane sugar in its product. It is the only place in the world where they make Dr. Pepper according to the original formula. There is no period after the Dr in Dr Pepper.

In Texas, it's illegal to put graffiti on someone else's cow.

According to one geographer, digging straight down from Austin will not get you to China but to Iraq.

For $150 you can become a licensed dead animal hauler in Texas.

75 percent of the world's Snickers bars are made in Waco at the M&M/Mars plant.

There's a Texas law that forbids people from carrying around a fence cutter or a pair of pliers that could cut a fence.

Fort Creek, Texas was hotter than hell in 1855.

Lubbock is the largest city in the United States that it dry.

Waco is one of only two cities in the U.S. that has a radio station whose call letters spell out the name of the city.
In Texas, it is illegal to curse in front of or indecently expose a corpse.

According to one report, more popcorn is sold in Dallas, Texas than anywhere in the U.S. (The average American eats 42 quarts of popcorn a year.)

Forty percent of the farm-grown catfish in the United States is consumed by Texans.

Lubbock doesn't have any storm drains.

Team Jefe
01-14-2003, 08:16 AM
This is a little over the Top, but then I'm Texan.

When you're from Texas, people that you meet ask you questions like....
"Do you have any cows?" It's nice to be able to say yes.
They ask you, "Do you have horses?" Yup
Bet you got a bunch of guns, eh? Of course.
They all want to know if you've been to Southfork. They watched "Dallas".
Have you ever looked at a map of the world? Heck, yes you have.
Look at Texas just for a second.

That picture, with the Panhandle and the Gulf Coast, and the Red River
and the Rio Grande is as much a part of you as anything ever will be. As
soon as anyone anywhere in the world looks at they know what it is. It's
TEXAS. Pick any kid off the street in Japan and draw him a picture of Texas
in the dirt, and he'll know what it is. What happens if I show you a
picture of any other state? You'll get it sooner or later, but who else in
the world would? Even if you do, does it ever stir any feelings in you?

In every man, woman and child on this little rock the Good Lord put us on,
there is somewhere in them a person who wishes just once he could be a real
live Texan and get up on a horse or ride in pickup or dance at a dancehall.

Did you ever hear anyone in a bar say, "Wow....so you're from Kansas. Cool.
Tell me about it."?
There is some bit of Texas in everyone. Do you know why? Because Texas is
Texas.

Texas is the Alamo.
Texas is 183 men standing in a church, facing thousands of Mexican
nationals, fighting for freedom, who had the chance to walk out and save
themselves, but stayed.

We send our kids to schools named William B. Travis and Bowie and do you
know why?
Because those men saw a line in the sand and they decided to be heroes.

John Wayne paid to do the movie himself. That is Texas.

Texas is Sam Houston capturing Santa Anna at San Jacinto.
Texas is Juneteenth and Texas Independence Day.
Texas is huge forests of Piney Woods like the Davy Crocket National Forest.
Texas is breathtaking mountains in Big Bend.
Texas is shiny skyscrapers in Houston and Dallas.
Texas is the uniqueness of Austin.
Texas is a world record bass from places like Lake Fork.
Texas is the best colleges around. From Houston to Lubbock and everywhere
in between…Like the Home Office in College Station, Whooop !
Texas is Mexican food like nowhere in the world, even Mexico.
Texas is larger-than-life legends like Willie Nelson and Buddy Holly, Earl
Campbell and Nolan Ryan, Denton Cooley and Michael DeBakey, Lyndon Johnson
and George Bush…..and George Bush
Texas is great companies like Texas Instruments, Dell Computer and Compaq.
Texas is huge herds of cattle and miles of crops.
Texas is skies blackened with doves and fields full of deer.
Texas is the best Barbecue anywhere. Period.
Texas is the nicest people you'll ever meet. Anywhere. Not to mention, the
prettiest girls.
Texas is a place where cities shut down for the Texans & Cowboys on Monday Night
Football and the streets are deserted during church.
Texas is the best music, with the best musicians in the world.
Texas is beaches, deserts, lakes and rivers, mountains and prairies.
If it isn't in Texas, you don't need it. No one does anything
bigger or better.

By federal law Texas is the only state in the U.S. that can fly its flag at
the same height as the U.S. Flag. Think about that for a second. You fly
the Stars and Stripes at 20 feet in Maryland, or California, or Maine, and
your state flag, whatever it is, flies at 17. You fly the Stars and Stripes
in front of Pine Tree High in Longview at 20 feet, and the Lone Star flies
at 20 feet. Do you know why? Our capitol is the only one in the country
that is taller than the capitol building in D.C. We signed that and the
flag height in as part of the deal when we came on. That the best part
right there....when we came on, Texas was its own country. The Republic of
Texas.

Aren't you proud to be a Texan? And if you aren't a Texan, don't you wish
you
were one?
You should be.