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I am changing the text stating that Texas operated as an independent country for nine years to say 10 years. The reason is that Texas became independent in 1836, and the treaty between the U.S. and the Republic of Texas agreeing on annexing/merging the countries was signed in 1845... which is nine years... but the actual transfer of power took place in 1846, not in 1845, which means that it operated as a Republic for 10 years, not nine.
-- WisTex 07:20, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
In the section on "health care", someone deleted info about the other large health care centers in Texas.
The entire section is now only about Houston's Texas Medical Center. If that is so, then it doesnt belong here in this article, and should be on the Houston page.
Texas is not just Houston. The medical centers in Dallas in fact have more famous researchers than the one in Hosuton.
Im adding the deleted info back in.-- Zereshk 08:34, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
RJN,
Dont look too hard. Ive got enough links for you.
I dont know why you keep deleting Texas' non-Houston medical centers from the article.
I'm therefore adding those two back in. A mention of them is not going to hurt the greatness of Houston by any means.-- Zereshk 09:27, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
I do agree about UTMB as well.-- Zereshk 03:25, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
The Father of Texas is Moses Austin: "Prior to 1821, Texas was part of the Spanish colony of New Spain. Moses Austin managed to buy land from the Spanish government in Texas. Moses purchased it with the help of Baron Felipe de Bastrop who presented the land scheme to the royal governor of Texas Antonio de Martinez. The governor passed along the favorable idea to his superior Commandant General of the Eastern Interior Province Joaquin de Arredondo. Moses was granted 200,000 acres (800 km²) of land of his choice."
The Son of Moses is Stephen Austin: "After Mexican independence in 1821, Texas became part of Mexico and in 1824 became the northern section of Coahuila y Tejas. On 3 January 1823, Stephen F. Austin began a colony of 300 American families along the Brazos River in present-day Fort Bend County and Brazoria County, centered primarily in the area of what is now Sugar Land. This group became known as the "Old Three Hundred." The "Conventions" of 1832 and 1833 responded to rising unrest at the policies of the ruling Mexican government."
I am Garry Denke 18:28, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Despite UT professor Jonathan Sessler lobbying for texaphyrin, the buckyball was selected. [1] Johntex\ talk 04:16, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
Someone please verify the statement "The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), in Galveston, also contains the only non-governmental Biosafety Level 4 laboratory in the United State" in the Healthcare and medical research section of the article.
I have a source saying that the only such center is located at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in San Antonio, not UTMB: see 3rd paragraph from bottom
Thanx.-- Zereshk 19:12, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
They share many similarities as well as differences. If you ask southerners "What'd ya think about Texas?". They will most likely say "Dem's cowboys is a hell of a football team but ain't nothin like dem' dawg's"(or what ever college team they support) which I learned from my stay in the Atlanta area. They also have a big of an ego as we texans do. They just love all of their south from Louisiana to North Carolina they can brag and tell you why they should have won the war. But my question is are we Texans southerners or not, even though we fought for the confederacy its not really glamourized here, while over there in school instead of saying the pledge they sing dixie to the confederate flag (a common joke in Metro Atlanta). I think Geography would have alot to do with it. The south is so similar to the last detail, it seems like an endless amount of land with all the same vegetation. Sometimes a nice drive to the Houston area from my home in Dallas reminds me of the trees so common in Georgia, the graceful tall pines in houston, and the flowering magnolia's, with large majestic live oaks and spanish moss draped trees with the small palms remind me how beautiful the southland was it truly is God's country. No wonder generations of people still remember those who fought for it. Don't get me wrong I love Texas but is it okay to say your both a southerner and a Texan?
Texas is essentially a Southern state, even if not a typical one. And most of the things that make Texas TEXAS are Southern in origin. With the exeption of out around El Paso and parts of far west Texas, the Southwest thing has a whole different meaning than it does with New Mexico and Arizona. In the book "Cultural Regions of the United States" by Raymond Gastil, most of Texas (far East Texas was listed as Deep South) is put into a sub-classification of the Greater South, that is called the "Western South"..which makes much better sense than confusing it with the true desert Southwest. Texas history, culture, etc, shares little in common with that area and it has been my experience that residents of New Mexico and Arizona tend to reject any sense of identity with Texas, and think of us as Southerners and part of the South. In fact, something related to that particular point is, I think, very relevent. To wit, a Southern Focus Poll (John Shelton Reed, U.North Carolina Chapel Hill) spanning some ten years once measured the boundaries of the South by where a majority of residents in the particular states considered themselves to be in the South. By an overwhelming majority (86%), Texans surveyed said they lived in the South. And in another study (I can't remember who did this one, although I have it around somewhere), a many more Texans polled considered themselves Southern than Western.
Last time I checked, Victoria isn't a metropolitan area - the entire county only has a population of ~85,000. Yet the table in the Metropolitan areas section lists Victoria as a metropolitan area with a population of 113,450. It says the table came from the 2004 US Census estimate, but I think whoever created the table may have accidentally put a future estimate into the table rather than an estimation of the current population. That was just a guess, but I know that Victoria doesn't have 100,000 people. - User:SeanQuixote | talk | my contribs
Last time _I_ checked, Longview did _not_ have 200,405 citizens. In fact when I drove by the sign today, it said something along the lines of 74,000. Kar98 01:21, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
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I am changing the text stating that Texas operated as an independent country for nine years to say 10 years. The reason is that Texas became independent in 1836, and the treaty between the U.S. and the Republic of Texas agreeing on annexing/merging the countries was signed in 1845... which is nine years... but the actual transfer of power took place in 1846, not in 1845, which means that it operated as a Republic for 10 years, not nine.
-- WisTex 07:20, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
In the section on "health care", someone deleted info about the other large health care centers in Texas.
The entire section is now only about Houston's Texas Medical Center. If that is so, then it doesnt belong here in this article, and should be on the Houston page.
Texas is not just Houston. The medical centers in Dallas in fact have more famous researchers than the one in Hosuton.
Im adding the deleted info back in.-- Zereshk 08:34, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
RJN,
Dont look too hard. Ive got enough links for you.
I dont know why you keep deleting Texas' non-Houston medical centers from the article.
I'm therefore adding those two back in. A mention of them is not going to hurt the greatness of Houston by any means.-- Zereshk 09:27, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
I do agree about UTMB as well.-- Zereshk 03:25, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
The Father of Texas is Moses Austin: "Prior to 1821, Texas was part of the Spanish colony of New Spain. Moses Austin managed to buy land from the Spanish government in Texas. Moses purchased it with the help of Baron Felipe de Bastrop who presented the land scheme to the royal governor of Texas Antonio de Martinez. The governor passed along the favorable idea to his superior Commandant General of the Eastern Interior Province Joaquin de Arredondo. Moses was granted 200,000 acres (800 km²) of land of his choice."
The Son of Moses is Stephen Austin: "After Mexican independence in 1821, Texas became part of Mexico and in 1824 became the northern section of Coahuila y Tejas. On 3 January 1823, Stephen F. Austin began a colony of 300 American families along the Brazos River in present-day Fort Bend County and Brazoria County, centered primarily in the area of what is now Sugar Land. This group became known as the "Old Three Hundred." The "Conventions" of 1832 and 1833 responded to rising unrest at the policies of the ruling Mexican government."
I am Garry Denke 18:28, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Despite UT professor Jonathan Sessler lobbying for texaphyrin, the buckyball was selected. [1] Johntex\ talk 04:16, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
Someone please verify the statement "The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), in Galveston, also contains the only non-governmental Biosafety Level 4 laboratory in the United State" in the Healthcare and medical research section of the article.
I have a source saying that the only such center is located at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in San Antonio, not UTMB: see 3rd paragraph from bottom
Thanx.-- Zereshk 19:12, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
They share many similarities as well as differences. If you ask southerners "What'd ya think about Texas?". They will most likely say "Dem's cowboys is a hell of a football team but ain't nothin like dem' dawg's"(or what ever college team they support) which I learned from my stay in the Atlanta area. They also have a big of an ego as we texans do. They just love all of their south from Louisiana to North Carolina they can brag and tell you why they should have won the war. But my question is are we Texans southerners or not, even though we fought for the confederacy its not really glamourized here, while over there in school instead of saying the pledge they sing dixie to the confederate flag (a common joke in Metro Atlanta). I think Geography would have alot to do with it. The south is so similar to the last detail, it seems like an endless amount of land with all the same vegetation. Sometimes a nice drive to the Houston area from my home in Dallas reminds me of the trees so common in Georgia, the graceful tall pines in houston, and the flowering magnolia's, with large majestic live oaks and spanish moss draped trees with the small palms remind me how beautiful the southland was it truly is God's country. No wonder generations of people still remember those who fought for it. Don't get me wrong I love Texas but is it okay to say your both a southerner and a Texan?
Texas is essentially a Southern state, even if not a typical one. And most of the things that make Texas TEXAS are Southern in origin. With the exeption of out around El Paso and parts of far west Texas, the Southwest thing has a whole different meaning than it does with New Mexico and Arizona. In the book "Cultural Regions of the United States" by Raymond Gastil, most of Texas (far East Texas was listed as Deep South) is put into a sub-classification of the Greater South, that is called the "Western South"..which makes much better sense than confusing it with the true desert Southwest. Texas history, culture, etc, shares little in common with that area and it has been my experience that residents of New Mexico and Arizona tend to reject any sense of identity with Texas, and think of us as Southerners and part of the South. In fact, something related to that particular point is, I think, very relevent. To wit, a Southern Focus Poll (John Shelton Reed, U.North Carolina Chapel Hill) spanning some ten years once measured the boundaries of the South by where a majority of residents in the particular states considered themselves to be in the South. By an overwhelming majority (86%), Texans surveyed said they lived in the South. And in another study (I can't remember who did this one, although I have it around somewhere), a many more Texans polled considered themselves Southern than Western.
Last time I checked, Victoria isn't a metropolitan area - the entire county only has a population of ~85,000. Yet the table in the Metropolitan areas section lists Victoria as a metropolitan area with a population of 113,450. It says the table came from the 2004 US Census estimate, but I think whoever created the table may have accidentally put a future estimate into the table rather than an estimation of the current population. That was just a guess, but I know that Victoria doesn't have 100,000 people. - User:SeanQuixote | talk | my contribs
Last time _I_ checked, Longview did _not_ have 200,405 citizens. In fact when I drove by the sign today, it said something along the lines of 74,000. Kar98 01:21, 16 May 2006 (UTC)