Texas Trivia

[St. Michael's]

TEXAS TRIVIA
Nobody asked for them, but here are some little known Texas facts:
Beaumont to El Paso: 742 miles
Beaumont to Chicago: 770 miles
El Paso is closer to California than to Dallas
World's first rodeo was in Pecos... July 4, 1883.
The Flagship Hotel in Galveston is the only hotel in North America built over water.
The Heisman Trophy was named after John William Heisman who was the first full time coach for Rice University in Houston.
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.
Jalapeno jelly originated in Lake Jackson in 1978.
The worst natural disaster in U.S. history was in 1900 caused by a hurricane in which over 8000 lives were lost on Galveston Island.
The first word spoken from the moon, July 20, 1969 was
"Houston.."
King Ranch is larger than Rhode Island.
Tropical Storm Claudette brought a U.S. rainfall record of 43" in 24 hours in and around Alvin in July, 1979.
Texas is the only state to enter the U.S. by TREATY, instead of by annexation. (This allows the Texas flag to fly at the same height as the US flag.)
A Live Oak tree near Fulton is estimated to be 1500 years old.
Caddo Lake is the only natural lake in the state.
Dr Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885. There is no period after Dr in Dr Pepper.
Texas has had six capital cities:.
1. Washington-on-the-Brazos
2. Harrisburg
3. Galveston
4. Velasco
5. West Columbia
6. Austin
The Capitol Dome in Austin is the only dome in the U.S. which is taller than the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. (by 7 feet).
The name Texas comes from the Hasini Indian word "tejas" meaning friends.
Tejas is not Spanish for Texas.
The State animal is the Armadillo. (An interesting bit of trivia about the armadillo is they always have four babies! They have one egg which splits Into four and they either have four males or four females. (Well... I thought it was interesting anyway!)
The first domed stadium in the U.S. was the Astrodome in Houston.

Y'all have A NICE Day NOW, Ya Hear?

[39mto39g]

St.M
Your book is wrong , Bud.
all correct except . "The first word spoken from the moon, July 20, 1969 was "Houston.."

Contact was the first word spoken on the moon.

It went , "Contact right, engine shut down sequence begin, Houston, Tranquility base hear, The eagle has landed."


Ron

Also Texas coppied there flag from another country.

[Bill Farnie]

http://www.netstate.com/states/symb/flags/tx_flag.htm

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/texasflag.asp

All you goat ropers think your state is something special.

[39mto39g]

Bill
Be nice.

Chile founded Santiago (1541) Its capitol city.
Chile flag.
Looks kinda like some other flag I know and love.

[Stick]

Perhaps the proper phrasing should be;

Originally posted by St. Michael's The first word spoken from the moon" to the Earth was, "Houston.."

Tranquility base here, The Eagle has landed." The "Contact right, engine shut down sequence begin" was spoken among the crew members of the first Lunar Lander.

[Robert Ryan]

THOUGH IT'S A PART OF THE LONE STAR STATE PEOPLE DON'T SEEM TO CARE OH OH CHINA GROVE. (DOOBIE BROTHERS)

[39mto39g]

Nope,
He was talking to houston, He was giving number of feet to the ground just before that.
The first word spoken on the moon, or to anyone including Houston was Contact.

The flag looks like the Texas flag but its Chile flag

RR,
What are you talking about?

[SEATJERKER]

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...RR is refering to the lyrics from the song "China Grove" by the "Doobie brothers",...

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[Boats]

St. Mike - one things for sure in Texas its big and takes forever to drive through. It has all four seasons and it's Eastern section is green and hardly looks like Texas. San Antonio now that's Texas.
Houston (hate it) Dallas OK - others don't know as well but I do like many areas of the state. Brother lives in Mosquite, Tx just outside of Dallas. Home of Lone Star beer - had many a good day in Texas. Great folks.

[melody1181]

I love my state but I can't wait to live a certain somewhere else.

We are rather cocky about it but its not our fault the state is like it is.

Boats, I hate Houston too, thats a pain in the butt kind of city. I love San Antonio but mostly the hill country to the north of there. The area of the state I live in is kind of eck. Nothing much here really except I-40, Big Texan steak place and caddilac ranch. OH and Oprah was sued here...wooooo.