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Preston Jones (April 7, 1936 – September 19, 1979) was an American playwright best known for A Texas Trilogy, a set of three plays. Biography Jones was born in ...
A Texas Trilogy (also known as The Bradleyville Trilogy) is a set of three plays written by Preston Jones. The three plays are set in a mythical West Texas town and employ idiosyncratic language and characters that present an evocative depiction of small-town Texas life. [ 1 ]
Texian was a popular demonym, used by Texas colonists, for all the people of the Republic of Texas (1836–1846), before it became a U.S. state. [5] This term was used by early colonists and public officials, including many Texas residents, [5] and President Mirabeau Lamar frequently used it to foster Texas nationalism.
Jones was presented with a watch by Saddam featuring Saddam's face. In the 1960s and 1970s, Jones became a "significant voice in the London literary journalism", described at his death as being "among the outstanding British intellectual journalists of the past 40 years" [ 4 ] until a series of strokes, and mental health issues, lead to an ...
Anthony Levine "Jam" Jones (born May 30, 1959) is a former American football running back who played for the Texas Longhorns from 1979 to 1982 and then in the National Football League (NFL) for the Los Angeles Rams and Detroit Lions. [1] Jones was drafted by the Rams in the eighth round of the 1982 NFL draft.
Jones was born in Lane's Chapel, Texas. [2] He was one of eight children born to William Penn Jones, a sharecropper, and his wife Gussie Earline Jones (née Browning). [2] [3] Three of his siblings died in infancy. The family later bought a farm in Annona, Texas. After graduating from Clarksville High School in 1932, Jones attended Magnolia A&M ...
Thomas David Jones (born January 22, 1955) is a former United States astronaut. He was selected to the astronaut corps in 1990 and completed four Space Shuttle flights before retiring in 2001. He flew on STS-59 and STS-68 in 1994, STS-80 in 1996, and STS-98 in 2001.
Edward Allen Jones (1903-1981) was an African-American linguist, scholar and diplomat. He is best known for his book A Candle in the Dark: A History of Morehouse College . [ 1 ]