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Frédéric Dard ( Frédéric Charles Antoine Dard; 29 June 1921, in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère, France – 6 June 2000, in Bonnefontaine, Fribourg, Switzerland) [ 1] was a French crime writer. He wrote more than three hundred novels, plays and screenplays, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms, including the San-Antonio book series.
Samuel Maverick. Samuel Augustus Maverick (July 23, 1803 – September 2, 1870) was a Texas lawyer, politician, land baron and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. His name is the source of the term "maverick", first attested in 1867. [1] He was the grandfather of Texas politician Maury Maverick, who coined the term gobbledygook (1944).
This came directly from the school board following State Representative Matt Krause targeting 839 books, in which he asked for audits from the schools on how much was spent to obtain them. Most of the books banned in this district had themes of racism, homosexuality, sex education, or abortion. The San Antonio banning followed similar reasons.
Alamy San Antonio, Texas is unique, and apparently this fact hasn't escaped the 21 million or so tourists that visit each year. With influence from its Indian, Spanish, Mexican, and German ...
San Antonio Sporting District. The Sporting District was a red-light district in the U.S. city of San Antonio, Texas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was established by the city council to manage prostitution in the city. For a time it was one of the nation's largest vice districts with venues ranging from brothels to gambling halls.
Fiesta San Antonio (or simply Fiesta) is an annual festival held in April in San Antonio, Texas, and is the city's signature event (along with some events held in the following surrounding cities: Boerne, Schertz, Windcrest, Balcones Heights, and Alamo Heights) since 1891. The festival, also known as the Battle of Flowers, commemorates of the ...
San Antonio, Texas. Genre. children's literature. Carmen Tafolla (born 29 July 1951) [1] is an internationally acclaimed [2] Chicana writer from San Antonio, Texas, and a professor emerita of bicultural bilingual studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Tafolla served as the poet laureate of San Antonio from 2012 to 2014, and was ...
The Puzzle Place is an American children's television series produced by KCET in Los Angeles and Lancit Media in New York City.Although production was dated and premiered on two Los Angeles PBS stations, KCET and KLCS, on September 15, 1994, it did not officially premiere on all PBS stations nationwide until January 16, 1995, with its final episode airing on December 4, 1998, and reruns airing ...