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Book Synopsis Texas Ingenuity: Lone Star Inventions, Inventors & Innovators by : Alan C. Elliott
Download or read book Texas Ingenuity: Lone Star Inventions, Inventors & Innovators written by Alan C. Elliott and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of informative, and sometimes quirky, stories about Lone Star innovators, inventors and inventions. Each story emphasizes a Texas connection and shows how Texas ingenuity, determination or sheer dumb luck made the person or product famous and successful.
Book Synopsis Texas Ingenuity - Inventions, Inventors & Innovators by : Alan C. Elliott
Download or read book Texas Ingenuity - Inventions, Inventors & Innovators written by Alan C. Elliott and published by . This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elliott presents a collection of informative and sometimes quirky stories about Lone Star innovators, inventors, and inventions. Each story emphasizes a Texas connection and shows how Texas ingenuity, determination, or sheer dumb luck made the person or product famous and successful.
Book Synopsis Texas Ingenuity by : Alan C. Elliott
Download or read book Texas Ingenuity written by Alan C. Elliott and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagination is bigger in Texas, too. This collection of inspiring and often quirky stories highlights dozens of examples of innovation from Lone Star history. The Hamill brothers devised a better oil well to reach gushers at Spindletop. The first Neiman-Marcus store opened in Dallas in 1907, revolutionizing the retail fashion world. Astroturf emerged at the Astrodome in 1966. Fritos and corn dogs are just two ubiquitous snack foods claimed as Texan originals. Houston native, and civil rights activist, Congresswoman Barbara Jordan rose to national prominence as a voice of unity during the Watergate scandal. Author Alan C. Elliott details these and many more lessons in success in Texas Ingenuity.
Book Synopsis The Handy Texas Answer Book by : James L. Haley
Download or read book The Handy Texas Answer Book written by James L. Haley and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and fun look at the Lone Star State’s history, culture, and people Texas is the country's second-largest state by size and population. It has a unique and varied history, having been ruled by a succession of nations—from which the term “six flags over Texas” sprang—before becoming an independent republic. From its traditional oil, cattle, and cotton industries to the modern energy, electronics, computer, aerospace, and biomedical industries, Texas has become an economic powerhouse. It’s known for its low taxes, diverse population, thriving universities, and art scenes. Exploring the state’s fascinating history, people, myths, culture, and trivia, The Handy Texas Answer Book takes an in-depth look at this fascinating and diverse state with the bigger-than-life personality. Learn about the original Indigenous peoples, the Spanish, French, and Mexican colonizations, the independence from Mexico, the ties to the Confederacy and United States, devastating hurricanes, football culture, fast-growing cities and urban sprawl, food, attitude, and much, much more. Tour landmarks from the Alamo and cattle ranches to the Rio Grande and the state capital. Learn about famous sons and daughters, including Lyndon Johnson, Sam Houston, Howard Hughes, Janis Joplin, and Renée Zellweger. Sports (both college and professional) are illuminated. The government, parks, and cultural institutions are all packed into this comprehensive guide to the state of Texas. Find answers to more than 850 questions, including: • What is the origin of “Howdy?” • Where in Texas can you find all three kinds of dinosaur tracks in one place? • Where can gold be found in Texas? • How did we come to have “Dr. Pepper”? • Is it true that Texas’s annexation to the United States was never really legal? • How did Texas women get to vote a year before women in the rest of the United States? • What Texan became the most-decorated soldier in World War II? • Is it true that the only Texas governor to die in office expired in the arms of his mistress? • How did Texas transform from solidly Democratic to solidly Republican? • How did the discovery of Texas oil change the face of American business? • How did rodeos originate? • What was the University of Texas mascot before there was Bevo the Longhorn? • What was the slightly dishonest secret of UT’s early success in baseball? • What is so special about the television show Austin City Limits? • What are the “Marfa Lights”? • How many Texas convicts have been freed after proving their innocence with DNA? • What is the Cuero Turkey Trot? Illustrating the unique character of the state through a combination of facts, stats, and history, as well as the unusual and quirky, The Handy Texas Answer Book answers intriguing questions about people, places, events, government, and places of interest. This informative book also includes a helpful bibliography and an extensive index, adding to its usefulness.
Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1982-09-11 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Author :United States. Congress. Organization of Congress Special Joint Committee Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :512 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Organization of Congress by : United States. Congress. Organization of Congress Special Joint Committee
Download or read book The Organization of Congress written by United States. Congress. Organization of Congress Special Joint Committee and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hill Country Chronicles by : Clay Coppedge
Download or read book Hill Country Chronicles written by Clay Coppedge and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas Hill Country is a rugged and hilly area of central Texas known for its food, architecture and unique melting pot of Spanish and European settlers. The area's rich history is filled with quirky and fascinating tales about this landscape and the animals and people who have called it home. Clay Coppedge has been gathering Texas stories for over thirty years. This collection of his favorite columns includes his best Texas-sized stories on Hill Country history. From the legend of Llano's Enchanted Rock and the true story of Jim Bowie's famous knife to one rancher's attempt at bringing reindeer to the hottest area of the country and an oilman's search for Bigfoot, Hill Country Chronicles has them all and more.
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Book Synopsis Senior Moments by : Willard Spiegelman
Download or read book Senior Moments written by Willard Spiegelman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving collection of essays on aging and happiness Drawing on more than six decades' worth of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, Willard Spiegelman reflects with candid humor and sophistication on growing old. Senior Moments is a series of discrete essays that, when taken together, constitute the life of a man who, despite Western cultural notions of aging as something to be denied, overcome, and resisted, has continued to relish the simplest of pleasures: reading, looking at art, talking, and indulging in occasional fits of nostalgia while also welcoming what inevitably lies ahead. Spiegelman's expertly crafted book considers, with wisdom and elegance, how to be alert to the joys that brim from unexpected places even as death draws near. Senior Moments is a foray into the felicity and follies that age brings; a consideration of how and what one reads or rereads in late adulthood; the eagerness for, and disappointment in, long-awaited reunions, at which the past comes alive in the present. A clear-eyed book of memories, written in eight searching and courageously honest essays, Senior Moments is guaranteed to stimulate, stir, and restore.
Book Synopsis Prisons and Punishment in Texas by : Hannah Thurston
Download or read book Prisons and Punishment in Texas written by Hannah Thurston and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the identity of Texas as a state with a large and severe penal system. It does so by assessing the narratives at work in Texas museums and tourist sites associated with prisons and punishment. In such cultural institutions, complex narratives are presented, which show celebratory stories of Texan toughness in the penal sphere, as well as poignant stories about the witnessing of executions, comical stories that normalize the harsher aspects of Texan punishment, and presentations about prison officers who have lost their lives in the war on crime. In analysing these representations, the book shows that Texan history plays an important role in the production of Texan self-identity, and that to understand the Texan commitment to harsh punishment we must be prepared to focus on Texan myths and memories. Prisons and Punishment in Texas draws on diverse interdisciplinary work, including criminology, cultural studies about Southern values, as well as research on cultural memory and dark tourism. Museums are shown to be under-researched sites of criminological significance, which offer rich evidence through which penal imaginaries and the cultural role of punishment can be explored. The book will be of great interest to criminologists as well as scholars of sociology, cultural studies, museum studies and politics.
Book Synopsis The Engines of Our Ingenuity by : John H. Lienhard
Download or read book The Engines of Our Ingenuity written by John H. Lienhard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the nature of creativity in engineering and technology, and how it relates to creativity in art or science. Lienhard has for ten years done a twice-weekly radio show, carried on about 35 NPR stations, consisting of 3-minute essays on technology. He uses the substance of selected segments of his radio program to create a continuous narrative presenting his insights on technological creativity. This book has the same title as his radio program, to further draw the attention of his one million listeners.
Book Synopsis Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Texas by : Texas. Supreme Court
Download or read book Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Texas written by Texas. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The T -- Southwest to Northwest Rail Corridor by :
Download or read book The T -- Southwest to Northwest Rail Corridor written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gas Power Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Texas Magazine by : Frank Eberle
Download or read book The Texas Magazine written by Frank Eberle and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Men of Ingenuity: from Beneath the Orange Tower, 1884-1964 by : Willis Raymond Woolrich
Download or read book Men of Ingenuity: from Beneath the Orange Tower, 1884-1964 written by Willis Raymond Woolrich and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Redheaded Rants of a God and Country Loving Patriot by : Allyson Scott
Download or read book Redheaded Rants of a God and Country Loving Patriot written by Allyson Scott and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part memoir, part "SOMEBODY-had-to-say-it", Redheaded Rants will take you on a trip to West Texas, and show you that your family is not as strange as you once thought they were.
