Texas (disambiguation)

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Texas is a state of the United States of America, formerly the Republic of Texas.

Texas may also refer to:

[edit] Arts and entertainment

• Texas (TV series), a 1980s U.S. television program
• Texas (band), a Scottish blues rock band
• Texas (SpongeBob SquarePants episode)
• Texas (novel), written by James A. Michener
• Texas (musical), produced annually in Canyon, Texas
• Texas (1941 film), a western starring William Holden and Glenn Ford
• Texas (1994 film), a TV movie starring Benjamin Bratt and Patrick Duffy
• Texas (album), the first full-length album by electronic/pop artist, PlayRadioPlay!
• Texas Bowl a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Division I FBS college football bowl game
• "Texas" (song), a song by Chris Rea

[edit] Buildings

• Texas Hall, a combination theater and special events center on the campus of the University of Texas at Arlington
• Texas High School, a public school in Texarkana, Texas
• Texas Theatre, a performing arts theatre in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, Texas

[edit] Historical

• CSS Texas, a twin-screw ironclad ram of the Confederate Navy
• Operation Texas, an undercover operation to relocate European Jews to Texas, away from Nazi persecution.
• Republic of Texas
• Texas Brigade, a Confederate States Army brigade during the American Civil War
• The Texas (locomotive), a steam locomotive involved in the American Civil War Great Locomotive Chase
• Texas Road, a major trade and emigrant route across Indian Territory
• USS Texas, name of a number of ships of the United States Navy

[edit] Places

• The Republic of Texas
• The University of Texas at Austin
• Texas avenue, the Business State Highway 6-R section of Texas State Highway 6 in the College Station-Bryan metropolitan area
• Texas County, Missouri, USA, named for the republic
• Texas County, Oklahoma, USA, named for the neighboring state
• Texas District a district of the Lutheran Church
• Texas Township, DeWitt County, Illinois
• Texas Township, Kalamazoo County, Michigan
• Texas Township, Crawford County, Ohio
• Texas Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania
• Texas, New York
• Texas, Queensland, Australia

[edit] People

• Einar "Texas" Ljungberg (1880-1974), Swedish Socialist leader
• Hasinai, Tejas or Texas, a Native American people after whom the state was named
• John Slaughter or Texas John Slaughter (1841–1922), an American lawman, Civil War soldier and gambler
• T. Texas Tyler (1916-1972), a country music singer and songwriter
• Texas Battle, an American actor
• Texas Gladden (1895-1967), an American folk singer
• Texas Ruby (born Ruby Agnes Owens), a pioneering country music female vocalist
• Texas Terri, born Terri Laird is a punk rock singer and songwriter

[edit] Terminology

• 2-10-4, a class of locomotive commonly called Texas-type
• Texas (nautical), a deckhouse on a ship
• Texas or C6 tuning, commonly used on a ten string pedal steel guitar
• Texas heart shot a euphemism used in hunting referring to a shot fired at the base of the tail of an animal facing directly away from the shooter.
• Texas Rig a technique used for fishing soft plastic lures.

[edit] See also

• All pages beginning with Texas
• Tex
• Texan
• Texas City, Texas

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