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The Texas rig is a fishing rig used for angling with soft plastic lures. [1] [2] It comprises a bullet weight or similar sliding fishing sinker, an offset worm hook, and a soft plastic lure. [3] Diagram of a Texas rig comprising a soft plastic worm (green), bullet weight (grey), hook (black), and fishing line (blue) A Texas-rigged ribbontail worm
The tourism industry is also a mainstay for communities on the lagoon. Beach-goers must pass the Laguna Madre to reach the prime beaching destination at both North and South Padre Islands. Fishing has drawn tourists to Port Isabel, where the Texas International Fishing Tournament has been held since 1934. [6]
StarTropics is a 1990 action-adventure video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System.Unlike most of Nintendo's games, it was never released or intended to be released in Japan (being the second game from Nintendo to not see Japanese release besides Gumshoe, albeit this is the first one that uses conventional controls), and was released only in North ...
The Wallace Pratt Lodge was the summer residence of Wallace Pratt, the principal donor of the lands that would become Guadalupe Mountains National Park. Pratt was a petroleum geologist employed by the Humble Oil Company , scouting for oilfield leases in west Texas.
The Northern Plains' climate is semi-arid and is prone to drought, annually receiving between 16 and 32 inches (410 and 810 mm) of precipitation, and average annual snowfall ranging between 15 and 30 inches (380 and 760 mm), with the greatest snowfall amounts occurring in the Texas panhandle and areas near the border with New Mexico.
The map of North America with the Western Interior Seaway during the Campanian. The Western Interior Seaway (also called the Cretaceous Seaway, the Niobraran Sea, the North American Inland Sea, or the Western Interior Sea) was a large inland sea that split the continent of North America into two landmasses for 34 million years.
The Texas Star Party (TSP) is a large annual star party in the United States. TSP was started by Deborah Byrd , members of the Austin Astronomical Society, and McDonald Observatory in August 1979. It was a weekend gathering of amateur astronomers at Davis Mountains State Park near McDonald Observatory in far west Texas.
The Northern Hemisphere equivalent of the Tropic of Capricorn is the Tropic of Cancer. The Tropic of Capricorn's position is not fixed, but constantly changes because of a slight wobble in the Earth's longitudinal alignment relative to its orbit around the Sun. Earth's axial tilt varies over a 41,000 year period from about 22.1 to 24.5 degrees ...