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The Star on the Mountain is a man-made star-shaped landmark on the Franklin Mountains in El Paso, Texas, that is illuminated nightly by the El Paso Chamber.It was first lit as a Christmas decoration in 1940 and was meant as a reminder to people on both sides of the nearby Mexico–United States border that America was at peace during the holiday season.
Roughly, S of the Texas and Pacific-Southern Pacific RR tracks from western El Paso to Fabens 31°40′21″N 106°22′35″W / 31.6725°N 106.376389°W / 31.6725; -106.376389 ( Franklin
Mexican scholars of the nineteenth century posited the painting's artist as Marcos Cipac de Aquino, including Joaquín García Icazbalceta in his Carta acerca del Origen de la Imagen de Nuestra Sra. de Guadalupe (1883) and Francisco del Paso y Troncoso's Noticia del indio Marcos y de otros pintores del siglo XVI (1891). [4]
Juan de Oñate, born in present-day Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico, was the first explorer to arrive at the Rio Grande near El Paso (near the current small town of San Elizario, which is about 30 miles (48 km) downstream of El Paso), where he ordered his expedition party to rest and where the official act of possession, La Toma, was executed and celebrated, on April 30, 1598.
El Paso Museum of Art El Paso Museum of Art Migrant Worker Exhibit. Founded in 1959, The El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) is located in downtown El Paso, Texas. First accredited in 1972, it is the only accredited art museum within a 250-mile radius and serves approximately 100,000 visitors per year. A new building was completed in 1998.
List of Mayors of El Paso. Mayor Term Ben S. Dowell: 1873–1875 Melton A. Jones: ... Peter De Wetter: 1969–1971 Bert Williams: 1971–1973 Fred Hervey: 1973–1975
In 2003, Editora purchased another piece of property at 1801 Texas Avenue in downtown El Paso. On May 16, 2005, Editora launched El Diario de El Paso, El Paso's first daily Spanish-language newspaper. On November 10, 2014. El Diario de El Paso launched The New York Times International Weekly Archived 2016-03-17 at the Wayback Machine inserted ...
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