I am not sure who was making the marketing decisions at Nocona boots in the late 1970s but whoever decided to engage Science Fiction/Fantasy artist Alex Ebel deserves a beer. Check out this great advertising poster. The boots were still made in Nocona, Tx. at that time.
A brass band in Castroville, Texas circa 1915. Don't you just know these guys made a mad, joyous cacophony when they got going? Courtesy the great archives at UTSA.
#FWFebStorm22 - FWPD has seized an AT-AT Walker from the Empire! Please don’t be out on #ChisholmTrail or other roadways unless it is an emergency…or you have an AT-AT.
Sarah Cockrell led a great Texas life. She married Alexander Cockrell in 1847 and, after he was killed in 1858, took over his businesses. When she died in Dallas in 1892, Sarah was worth hundreds of millions of dollars in today's money. Much of Dallas is built on her land.
While making entry, point man fired once and was shot multiple times. Operators know going in that this could happen. He didn’t freeze, kept pushing, allowing the rest of the team to handle business. The suspect fired 18 rounds.
Should it happen to come over breakfast tacos, kindly remind your companions that roadrunners are zygodoctile, having two toes forward and two facing back, and that they are one of two members of the cuckoo family in the U.S., the other being the rain crow/yellow-billed cuckoo.
Texan football games and other ceremonial events now feature a newly acquired cannon named "Doc's Revival." The 1905 three-inch field gun is the same model engraved on Tarleton's class ring and is a model of those used in WWI.
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Ghislaine Maxwell convicted of federal sex trafficking charges for her role in recruiting and grooming teenage girls to be sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein. https://t.co/DMHOkVN3ro
As first responders, we routinely see the stuff of nightmares, but we’re also able to play a part in some incredible miracles.
On 8/20/2021, #CAFMA Engine 61 was called to a #ChinoValley house because Lily, at the time only 8-months, was in cardiac arrest/respiratory distress.