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Houston Black: Bird: Northern mockingbird: 1927 [1] [4] Song "Texas, Our Texas" [1] 1929 Mammal (small) ... A pledge of allegiance to the Texas flag was established ...
The flag of Houston, Texas consists of a large white five-pointed star on a blue background with the city's seal set within the star. The flag was adopted in 1915. The flag was adopted in 1915. In 1915, Mayor Ben Campbell decided Houston should have its own flag and organized a contest to solicit submissions from the public.
Texas's flag is similar to the flag of Chile, first used in 1817. However, the Chilean flag has a blue canton with a white star rather than the entire left side being blue, with the red bottom stripe beginning below the canton. One author suggests that both the Chilean flag and the Texas flag were designed to look like the flag of the United ...
He was introduced first in 1971 as a more sinister character named Evil Grimace. He was inclined to steal people's milkshakes, much like his counterpart Hamburglar, who steals hamburgers.
As you go about your day today, you may notice Texas flags flying at half-staff Thursday across the state. Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the flags at half-staff for the memorial service of United ...
McDonald's says he was born on June 12 (the day the new purple shake comes out), and made his first appearance in a McDonaldland commercial in 1971, when he was known as “Evil Grimace ...
"Come and take it" is a long-standing expression of defiance first recorded in the ancient Greek form molon labe "come and take [them]", a laconic reply supposedly given by the Spartan King Leonidas I in response to the Persian King Xerxes I's demand for the Spartans to surrender their weapons on the eve of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. [1]
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Monday ordered the state’s flags be raised to full-staff on Inauguration Day, as President-elect Trump enters his second term in the White House. The move disrupts ...