Louis Davis @LouisMDavis - Twitter Profile

5 days ago

🚨 TSRA Shooting Disciplines 🚨 Come check out our website and read about our Shooting Disciplines! 🔗: https://t.co/sQ0K2kxaVd #TSRA #ShootingDisciplines #Texas

TSRA_outreach's tweet photo. 🚨 TSRA Shooting Disciplines 🚨

Come check out our website and read about our Shooting Disciplines!

🔗: https://t.co/sQ0K2kxaVd

#TSRA #ShootingDisciplines #Texas https://t.co/mtFTdwFkG3

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Louis Davis

@LouisMDavis

7 days ago

@DaisyRifles Happy Birthday, Steven.

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Traces of Texas

@TracesofTexas

7 days ago

The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day is deliciously arcane: It was 60 years ago today, on Saturday, July 29, 1966, that the first Batman movie debuted at the Paramount Theater in Austin. Paramount Pictures had agreed to the debut after Austin's Glastron Boat Company agreed to build, free of charge, the fancy boat used in the movie. The event drew press and publicity folks from all over. There was a parade down Congress avenue, a sold-out matinee show for youth in the afternoon and a sold-out show for adults that evening. On hand were Batman (Adam West), Robin (Burt Ward), Cat Woman (Lee Meriweather), Penguin (Burgess Meredith), and Joker (Cesar Romero). The boat, still fully functional, went up for auction in 2014. The movie is silly, campy fun, as was the TV series.

TracesofTexas's tweet photo. The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day is deliciously arcane: It was 60 years ago today, on Saturday, July 29, 1966, that the first Batman movie debuted at the Paramount Theater in Austin. Paramount Pictures had agreed to the debut after Austin's Glastron Boat Company agreed to build, free of charge, the fancy boat used in the movie. The event drew press and publicity folks from all over. There was a parade down Congress avenue, a sold-out matinee show for youth in the afternoon and a sold-out show for adults that evening. On hand were Batman (Adam West), Robin (Burt Ward), Cat Woman (Lee Meriweather), Penguin (Burgess Meredith), and Joker (Cesar Romero). The boat, still fully functional, went up for auction in 2014. The movie is silly, campy fun, as was the TV series.

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Bite-Sized Nostalgia

@landofthe80s

7 days ago

Rush frontman, bassist, and keyboardist Geddy Lee celebrates his birthday today. BITE-SIZED FACT | His stage name came from the way his grandmother, whose first language was Yiddish, pronounced his birth name, Gary.

landofthe80s's tweet photo. Rush frontman, bassist, and keyboardist Geddy Lee celebrates his birthday today.

BITE-SIZED FACT | His stage name came from the way his grandmother, whose first language was Yiddish, pronounced his birth name, Gary. https://t.co/ReCrKIwBb1

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Traces of Texas

@TracesofTexas

8 days ago

If you go to the Preston Bend graveyard about 10 miles north of Pottsboro in Grayson county --- which is one of the prettiest cemeteries in Texas, by the way ---- you will find the grave marker shown here, that of Sophia Suttenfield Aughinbaugh Coffee Butts Porter. Sophia's marker is very nice, as you can see, and you can also see that she lived a long life, 81 years. What the marker doesn't tell you is that, during the Civil War, Sophia was a spy for the Confederacy. I need to back up. Sophia was born Sophia Suttenfield in 1813 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She came to Texas in 1835 as the bride of James Aughinbaugh, who deserted her during the Runaway Scrape in 1836. But Sophia was considered beautiful and glamorous and didn't remain single long: she caught the eye of a trader named Holland Coffee. When they wed in Washington-on-the-Brazos in 1837, Sam Houston was one of the guests. The newly married couple moved to a stockade trading post that Coffee had built at Preston, Texas, which now lies beneath the waters of Lake Texoma. Coffee built a very nice two-story house for Sophia, a place known throughout the countryside as the finest in North Texas. Unfortunately, Coffee was killed in a duel in 1846 so Sophia was a widow once again. After Coffee's death, Sophia married Major George Butts, but he died just a few years later. Undaunted, Sophia married a fourth and final time to Judge James Porter from Waco. The judge knew a good thing when he saw it and Sophia's house was definitely a good thing. The couple lived the remainder of their lives in Sophia's house. Sophia is best remembered today not for her beauty/glamor but for her services as a spy on behalf of the Confederacy. She frequently garnered military secrets and plans from conversations with officers and soldiers from Union patrols that occasionally passed through, then passed that information on to Texan authorities. Perhaps the best story is this one: Sophia saved Confederate commander James Bourland, who was responsible for the border area along the Red River, from arrest by federal troops. The federal troops appeared at her doorway, seeing information on Bourland's whereabouts. Sophia knew Bourland's whereabouts on account of he and his men had passed through a couple of days earlier, on their way to Fort Washita. Sophia went into action. She hosted the Union soldiers at her nice house and opened up her wine cellar to them, entertaining them into the wee hours. As the party was rockin', she slipped away into the darkness to warn Bourland. Being that all the horses were ranging in the pastures, she thought that trying to catch one might make so much noise that she would be detected, so she saddled and bridled a mule in her own barn, swam it across the Red River in the middle of the night, caught up with Bourland, warned him, and returned before the drunken soldiers woke up the next day. They never suspected a thing. Major Butts died in 1886, but Sophia lived another eleven years. As you can see, part of her tombstone reads "a Pioneer of Texas since 1835." And now you know the rest of the story. Good day.

TracesofTexas's tweet photo. If you go to the Preston Bend graveyard about 10 miles north of Pottsboro in Grayson county --- which is one of the prettiest cemeteries in Texas, by the way ---- you will find the grave marker shown here, that of Sophia Suttenfield Aughinbaugh Coffee Butts Porter. Sophia's marker is very nice, as you can see, and you can also see that she lived a long life, 81 years. What the marker doesn't tell you is that, during the Civil War, Sophia was a spy for the Confederacy.

I need to back up. Sophia was born Sophia Suttenfield in 1813 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She came to Texas in 1835 as the bride of James Aughinbaugh, who deserted her during the Runaway Scrape in 1836. But Sophia was considered beautiful and glamorous and didn't remain single long: she caught the eye of a trader named Holland Coffee. When they wed in Washington-on-the-Brazos in 1837, Sam Houston was one of the guests.

The newly married couple moved to a stockade trading post that Coffee had built at Preston, Texas, which now lies beneath the waters of Lake Texoma. Coffee built a very nice two-story house for Sophia, a place known throughout the countryside as the finest in North Texas. Unfortunately, Coffee was killed in a duel in 1846 so Sophia was a widow once again.

After Coffee's death, Sophia married Major George Butts, but he died just a few years later. Undaunted, Sophia married a fourth and final time to Judge James Porter from Waco. The judge knew a good thing when he saw it and Sophia's house was definitely a good thing. The couple lived the remainder of their lives in Sophia's house.

Sophia is best remembered today not for her beauty/glamor but for her services as a spy on behalf of the Confederacy. She frequently garnered military secrets and plans from conversations with officers and soldiers from Union patrols that occasionally passed through, then passed that information on to Texan authorities.

Perhaps the best story is this one: Sophia saved Confederate commander James Bourland, who was responsible for the border area along the Red River, from arrest by federal troops. The federal troops appeared at her doorway, seeing information on Bourland's whereabouts. Sophia knew Bourland's whereabouts on account of he and his men had passed through a couple of days earlier, on their way to Fort Washita.

Sophia went into action. She hosted the Union soldiers at her nice house and opened up her wine cellar to them, entertaining them into the wee hours. As the party was rockin', she slipped away into the darkness to warn Bourland. Being that all the horses were ranging in the pastures, she thought that trying to catch one might make so much noise that she would be detected, so she saddled and bridled a mule in her own barn, swam it across the Red River in the middle of the night, caught up with Bourland, warned him, and returned before the drunken soldiers woke up the next day. They never suspected a thing.

Major Butts died in 1886, but Sophia lived another eleven years. As you can see, part of her tombstone reads "a Pioneer of Texas since 1835."

And now you know the rest of the story. Good day.

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Brian Roemmele

@BrianRoemmele

8 days ago

Some guys taking a walk in Princeton, New Jersey.

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DK🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸

@1Nicdar

9 days ago

Happy Birthday Wishes to cartoon character BUGS BUNNY! 86 years old today! 🥳

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Mike Netter

@nettermike

9 days ago

In 1963, a Texas Highway Department crew was core drilling near Georgetown to test the bedrock for a new Interstate 35 bridge. About 26 feet down, the drill bit dropped straight through into open air. They had punched into the roof of a cavern nobody knew existed. The crew lowered a man down the borehole on a cable to see what was under the future highway. What he found was a limestone cave system that had been sealed off from the surface for thousands of years, filled with flowstone, soda straw formations, and still pools. The bones were the real shock. The cave held remains of Ice Age animals that had fallen into it through openings that later closed, including mammoth, mastodon, glyptodont, dire wolf, and saber toothed cat, some of them dated to roughly 45,000 years ago. It opened to the public in 1966 as Inner Space Cavern. Millions of people have driven over it on I-35 without ever knowing it was there. A highway test drill found a 45,000 year old cave. Have you been down in Inner Space?

nettermike's tweet photo. In 1963, a Texas Highway Department crew was core drilling near Georgetown to test the bedrock for a new Interstate 35 bridge. About 26 feet down, the drill bit dropped straight through into open air.

They had punched into the roof of a cavern nobody knew existed. The crew lowered a man down the borehole on a cable to see what was under the future highway. What he found was a limestone cave system that had been sealed off from the surface for thousands of years, filled with flowstone, soda straw formations, and still pools.

The bones were the real shock. The cave held remains of Ice Age animals that had fallen into it through openings that later closed, including mammoth, mastodon, glyptodont, dire wolf, and saber toothed cat, some of them dated to roughly 45,000 years ago. It opened to the public in 1966 as Inner Space Cavern. Millions of people have driven over it on I-35 without ever knowing it was there.

A highway test drill found a 45,000 year old cave. Have you been down in Inner Space?

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Louis Davis

@LouisMDavis

9 days ago

@joelpollak Is that “Morning Mist” - https://t.co/wYUlLSzr4O

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Mike Kobe (Wild Horse) 🪶

@Oklahoma_Brave

14 days ago

Just a FYI for those interested, only liberal clowns care if you call us "Indians". We don't mind. The best way to refer to us collectively is by our nation. 99% of us never gave any thought to the Redskins, and all my friends thought changing the name was the bigger slap in the face. We don't care if hot White/Adian/Hispanic chicks dress up as NDNs. Just so long as they're hot. We don't really care if you call us Chief, but Tonto will probably earn you a punch. We remain the demographic that enlists in the military more than any other, but rates of domestic violence and other crimes on the reservations continue to be a major problem, indicating that maybe it's not the best way to go. NDNs like Whites, Asians and Hispanics. We're not as relaxed around Blacks and we generally really hate [dot] Indians. Sometimes in film and TV shows you'll see NDNs wearing what may seem like a strange mix of western and classically Native attire. This isn't a mistake. Around the time that the first Yellowstone prequel was set, the majority of Comanche wore "mixed" White/Hispanic and Native clothing. Interestingly, at the same time, the bulk of the Navajo were stubbornly clinging to buckskins and furs. Just some trivia for you.