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Clyde Vernon Thompson (1910–July 1, 1979 [1]) was an American prisoner turned chaplain.He is most noted for being cited and labeled as The Meanest Man in Texas. The film titled The Meanest Man in Texas has been filmed and is currently in the post production process and is based on the true story and book of the same title (ISBN 978-0-9714958-6-9), written by Don Umphrey.
The first European to see Texas was Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, who led an expedition for the governor of Jamaica, Francisco de Garay, in 1520.While searching for a passage between the Gulf of Mexico and Asia, [17] Álvarez de Pineda created the first map of the northern Gulf Coast. [18]
La Matanza ("The Massacre" or "The Slaughter") and the Hora de Sangre ("Hour of Blood") [1] was a period of anti-Mexican violence in Texas, including massacres and lynchings, between 1910 and 1920 in the midst of tensions between the United States and Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. [2]
Recent excavations unearthed artifacts presumably from the 1813 Battle of Medina south of San Antonio.
Dallas crime family; Founded: c. 1910; 115 years ago () Founder: Carlo Piranio: Founding location: Dallas, Texas, United States: Years active: c. 1910–1990s Territory: Primarily the Dallas metropolitan area, with additional territory throughout Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas
Set in the Filipino world of pre-World War II Intramuros of Old Manila in October 1941, [3] the play explores the many aspects of Philippine high society by telling the story of the Marasigan sisters, Candida and Paula, and their father, the painter Don Lorenzo Marasigan.
However, anything can be bought, and Michelina agrees to marry Marianito; the story ends with their wedding, after which Michelina and Leonardo flit across the border to the U.S. and hook up at last. La pena Juan Zamora is the main character; the narrator tells Juan's story in a first person voice, while Juan “keeps his back to us.” Juan is ...
He graduated from Princeton University in 1947 [2] with a degree in modern languages ("he never pursued graduate study or held a faculty post") [3] and wrote more than twenty books, including the bestseller Lone Star: A History of Texas and Texans [4] and This Kind of War, about the Korean War.