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In the fictional history of the world by J. R. R. Tolkien, Moria, also named Khazad-dûm, is an ancient subterranean complex in Middle-earth, comprising a vast labyrinthine network of tunnels, chambers, mines, and halls under the Misty Mountains, with doors on both the western and the eastern sides of the mountain range.
The most readily identified symbol of Texas Tech is the Double T logo. The logo, generally attributed to Texas Tech's first football coach, E. Y. Freeland, was first used as decoration on the sweaters for the football players. [30] The Double T existed in its original form as an official logo from 1963 to 1999 and was updated in 2000.
In cryptography, KHAZAD / x ɑː ˈ z ɑː d / is a block cipher designed by Paulo S. L. M. Barreto together with Vincent Rijmen, one of the designers of the Advanced Encryption Standard . KHAZAD is named after Khazad-dûm , the fictional dwarven realm in the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien (see also Khazad ).
Texas Tech's athletic teams are known as the Red Raiders with the exception of the women's basketball team, which is known as the Lady Raiders. Texas Tech competes in NCAA Division I FBS (formerly Division I-A) and is a member of the Big 12 Conference. From 1932 until 1956, the university belonged to the Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association.
The J. T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual & Performing Arts is a college at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. Prior to 2002, the college's departments existed within the College of Arts & Sciences. In 2016, the college was renamed to honor the nearly $70 million in donations to the university by the J.T. and Margaret Talkington ...
While Texas A&M owned and operated the Junction campus, the site was used for summer training of the Aggie football team under coach Paul "Bear" Bryant.The Junction campus is still known to the Aggies and to college football fans in general as the site of the famous 1954 10-day camp that produced the so-called "Junction Boys", including the core of their 1956 undefeated team.
Historian of the American West, formerly at Texas Tech, later with the University of Montana: Sankar Chatterjee: Paleontologist: F. Alton Wade: Scientist, leader of the Texas Tech Shackleton Glacier Expedition and namesake of Mount Wade in Antarctica [3] Stephen Graham Jones: Blackfeet author, former associate professor at Texas Tech Burwell B ...
PuroSlam is a poetry slam operating in San Antonio, Texas. [1] Started in 1999 by Benjamin Ortiz, PuroSlam has earned a national reputation as one of the "toughest, roughest, rowdiest" poetry slams in the United States, bringing the exciting world of performance poetry to South Texas on a weekly basis. [2]