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Carlos Humberto Cascos (September 18, 1952 – June 26, 2024) was an American Certified Public Accountant and politician who was the 110th Secretary of State of Texas.He was appointed by his fellow Republican, Governor Greg Abbott, and was confirmed by the Texas State Senate on February 18, 2015.
Due to the island being next to the ocean, temperatures above 100 °F (37.8 °C) are not common. South Padre Island went down to at least 25 °F (−4 °C) during the 2021 Texas freeze. Due to the fact that South Padre Island is surrounded by water, precipitation is a little higher than cities farther inland in the Rio Grande Valley. In March ...
Choi Sang-yeop, 87, South Korean lawyer and politician, minister of legislation (1990–1992) and justice (1997). [769] La Chunga, 87, French-born Spanish flamenco dancer and painter. [770] Kate Coolahan, 95, Australian-born New Zealand commercial artist, fashion illustrator and printmaker. [771]
South Padre Island was formed when the creation of the Port Mansfield Channel split Padre Island in two. The resort city of South Padre Island, a popular vacation destination, is located on the island. Before the arrival of European settlers in North America, the island was inhabited by native tribes. Western settlement is considered to have ...
Padre Island is the second-largest island by area in the contiguous United States, after Long Island in New York on the Atlantic Coast. It is about 113 miles (182 km) long [2] [3]: 186 and 1.8 miles (3 km) wide, [4] stretching from the city of Corpus Christi, in the north, to the resort community of South Padre Island in the south.
Obituary [ edit ] Rookey O.S.M., Fr. Peter M. Servite Priest - A solemn professed friar and priest of the Order of Friar Servants of Mary (Servites) - United States of America Province, died Wednesday, September 10, 2014, at Our Lady of Sorrows Monastery, Chicago, Illinois.
The scattered remains of the wooden vessel named Santa Maria de Yciar are buried off Padre Island, Texas near Mansfield. This vessel, which wrecked in 1554 when part of a treasure flota, lies within the Padre Island National Seashore. [2] The anchor of the Santa Maria de Yciar was found when the Mansfield Channel was dredged in the late 1950s. [5]
Smith competed in her first major beauty contest in 1994, when she was a semifinalist in the Miss Texas USA pageant, as Miss South East Texas USA. [8] The following year, she competed again as Miss Galveston County USA, and won the title, as well as the Miss Congeniality award. [9]