Posted on 03/02/2005 5:45:18 AM PST by BellStar
Happy Texas Independence Day Y'all!
Ain't it funny how you can go anywhere in the world, and everyone knows about Texas.I found that when I mentioned Tennessee overseas, people said something about Jack Daniels before anything else. ^^
hehe! I'll drink to that. :^D
Hey! Lookie here. One of my neighbors hit it BIG TIME!:$112M lottery ticket sold in Rowlett
09:33 AM CST on Wednesday, March 2, 2005
ROWLETT A single player has won the grand prize from the latest Mega Millions lotto drawing with a ticket bought in this Dallas suburb.
Lottery officials said the winning ticket from Tuesday night's drawingworth $112 millionwas sold at the Dal-Rock Grocery in Rowlett.
Store owner John Kamali said Wednesday that he was preparing to go open his other store when one of his employees called with the word. That was just the first of a cascade of phone calls about the drawing.
"I feel great," Kamali said. "It was the best news all this year and last year. It was very good news. I'm very excited."
He said he does not know who bought the winning ticket, but he does know that his store receives a bonus of $1.12 million1 percent of the jackpot.
That was also good news to assistant store manager Phillip Marks. "It has been ecstatic here all morning long," he said. "We're just hoping the winner will come in and identify themselves."
The winning numbers from Tuesday night's drawing were: 1, 8, 18, 39 and 48. The Mega Ball number was 1.
This is the second time a ticket bought in Texas has won the Mega Millions jackpot. Both were sold in the Dallas area.
In October, Ut Van Nguyen of Carrollton won $62 million on the cash-value option from a $101 million jackpot.
Besides the grand prize winner, eight players matched all five numbers but not the Mega Ball number. They will receive second prizes of $175,000 each.
Another 56 players matched four numbers, plus the Mega Ball number -- good for third prizes of $5,000 each.
While he was happy for his store's good fortune, Marks said it could have been even better for him. "I bought three tickets and was hoping they'd win, but unfortunately, I didn't win."
WFAA-TV reporter Cynthia Vega in Rowlett and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Happy Birthday Texas!
Davy Crockett: a fine statesman and hero!
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/030205dnwebtxindy.f79e1955.html
Texans set to celebrate their independenceTuesday marks birth of state as a nation
10:57 PM CST on Tuesday, March 1, 2005
From the tip of the Panhandle to the bottom of the Rio Grande Valley, its time for the annual remembrance of all things Texan.
Texas Independence Day is March 2, honoring the day that the Republic of Texas became its own nation with the historic adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence in 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos.
Texas history often focuses on scrappy losses at the Alamo. But a month after signing the declaration, the state won its independence, along with its defiant reputation, at the Battle of San Jacinto. A small band of Texans whipped Santa Annas large Mexican army on April 21, 1836.
We were the only state that was its own country and thats something, said Roger T. Moore, a Texas editorial cartoonist. Texas has got a mystique. We do think we are different. We have a pioneer spirit that sort of lingers in us. People who settled here were tough.
Moore is a member of Celebrate Texas, a group that promotes Texas Independence Day with parades, music, barbecues and other festivities. The group organizes events in Austin, but encourages other parts of the state to celebrate March 2.
It can be simple, Moore said. Eat some barbecue and raise your glass of sweet ice tea and say, Happy Independence Day.
In Austin, Wednesdays festivities include a memorial ceremony at the Texas State Cemetery and a celebration with music and speeches at the Capitol. Some events are scheduled Saturday, including a 5K run, parade on Congress Avenue and barbecue cookoff.
Together were Texas, Moore said. It doesnt matter whether you got here yesterday or that you are a native. If you want to be a Texan, you are. Its a state of mind.
At the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin, a current exhibit shows how the shape of the state has evolved over the last 500 years of mapmaking. The museum provides a continuous rotation of artifacts, films and other exhibits illustrating the states rich history.
We like to celebrate Texas Independence all year round, spokeswoman Heather Brand said.
Texas pride has persisted partly because Texas was once a sovereign nation recognized by England, France and United States for a decade. But it swells during the rough times, such as the 1980s oil bust, historian T.R. Fehrenbach said.
Its a subculture, he said. When Texans feel besieged, it intensifies their efforts to uphold their own ways. The best way to keep the death penalty in Texas is to attack it.
So are Texans superior?
I have always pushed the idea that we are different, Fehrenbach said. Northerners have hated the idea that we could be different. They have accepted that Texas is distinct.
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Remember the Alamo!!!
Remember Goliad!!
Remember San Jacinto!
Happy Birthday Texas
I think I have it bookmarked great pictures in that thread Valerie does a great job!
Remember the Alamo!!!
Remember Goliad!!166 years later, Texas recalls the Goliad massacre
- "Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!"
More men died at Goliad thatn the Alamo or San jacinto and it always seems to be forgotten.
Go to the Persidio La Bahia in Goliad Remember those that died for freedom at the hand of a tyrannical dictator. Never Forget!!
If the Gonzales 32 were still alive they would have went to Goliad as well. But they got the call to the Alamo and went.
Texas Independence!
Thanks for the pic of the Bob Wills band - copied it to my Mom who introduced me to that Texas Swing.
Been a gypsy most of my life til I came to Texas and put down a tap root many years ago. All the places I've lived and people I knew - there's no place like Texans or people like Texans!
Thank you very much!
There is a large museum here in Huntsville, Texas devoted to Sam Houston.
I wish it was had a web site.
Sam Houston was very ill before the civil war but there are letters begging him to run against Lincoln.
He passed away during the civil war.
Suerte.
You bet. My pleasure. :^D"It don't matter who's in Austin, Bob Wills is still the King!"
I am of the good fortune to have been born deep in the heart of
Texas (San Marcos).
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