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Wow, Waco must be fantastic because it has 5 bridges you can walk across... whoopededoo.
Why does everything need to become a pissing contest between a city and NYC with you? No one even instigated anything, you just showed up with your ego and a tape measure.
Why does everything need to become a pissing contest between a city and NYC with you? No one even instigated anything, you just showed up with your ego and a tape measure.
Why does everything need to become a pissing contest between a city and NYC with you? No one even instigated anything, you just showed up with your ego and a tape measure.
*The Flagship Hotel was in the only Hotel in North America to be built over water.
*King Ranch is larger than Rhode Island.
*Brazoria County has more species of birds than any other area in North America.
*Aransas Wildlife Refuge is the winter home of North America's only remaining flock of whooping cranes.
*Laredo is the world's largest inland port.
*Beaumont,tx to El Paso: 742 miles
Beaumont,tx to Chicago: 770 miles
*Tyler Municipal Rose Garden is the world's largest rose garden with over 38,000 bushes with 500 varieties on 22 acres.
*Texas is the only state to enter the US by TREATY, instead of by annexation. (This allows the Texas flag to fly at the same height as the US Flag.)
*Texas is the only state to have the flags of 6 different nations fly over it. They are: Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, Confederate States, and the United States.
*The name Texas comes from the Hasini Indian word "tejas" meaning friends. Tejas is not Mexican for Texas.
*Dr Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885.
There is no period after Dr in Dr Pepper.
*A Live Oak tree near Fulton is estimated to be 1500 years old.
*World's first rodeo was in Pecos... July 4, 1883.
*Jalapeno jelly originated in Lake Jackson in 1978.
*[SIZE=2]The same man who created the Waco Suspension Bridge, also created the Brooklyn Bridge.[/SIZE]
*[SIZE=2]During the period of July 24-26, 1979, the Tropical Storm Claudette brought 45 inches of rain to an area near Alvin, Texas, contributing to more than $600 million in damages. Claudette produced the United States 24 hour rainfall record of 43 inches.[/SIZE]
I just looked it up and Jluke is correct and the Waco Susepnsion Bridge was created by the same architect who designed the Brooklyn Bridge!
What is even more amazing that only a few years after the devastation of the Civil War (1869), Waco was able to pay for such a beautiful bridge instead of putting up something cheap like is so often done today. We need that kind of public spirit and attitude, not to mention architects like Roebling --- today!
That's a small elementary. The one I teach in has 1000 students.
The only reason it is small because the schools in Dallas Independent School District were built in the 30s 40s 50s when the population of Dallas was really small so instead of expanding the schools new schools were built next to each other or down the street from each other.
The elementary school I went to Clara Oliver built 1956
The middle school I went to Boude Storey Built in 1932
The high school I went to Lincoln High built 1939
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