Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Today pigs are used during all phases in the life of a pipeline for many different reasons. Fig. 1 Cleaning pig in a pipeline Fig. 2 Classification of pipeline pigs. Pigs used today can be divided into three categories (Fig. 2): Utility Pigs, are used to perform functions such as cleaning, separating, or dewatering.
Pigs are used in lube oil or paint blending to clean the pipes to avoid cross-contamination, and to empty the pipes into the product tanks (or sometimes to send a component back to its tank). Usually pigging is done at the beginning and at the end of each batch, but sometimes it is done in the midst of a batch, such as when producing a premix ...
The Texas–Indian wars were a series of conflicts between settlers in Texas and the Southern Plains Indians during the 19th-century. Conflict between the Plains Indians and the Spanish began before other European and Anglo-American settlers were encouraged—first by Spain and then by the newly Independent Mexican government—to colonize Texas in order to provide a protective-settlement ...
Mexico declared war against the U.S. on July 7. Throughout the official hostilities, the United States maintained two fronts—one in the Mexican interior south of the Rio Grande, and one in California. There was no further fighting in Texas. Texas Rangers were also used as scouts and guerilla fighters. [8]
His early life was one far from the concerns of the Texas frontier and the politics of Mexico - landing in Georgia and West Point. Part 1: James Fannin built business, had fighting spirit ahead of ...
The Spanish initially had friendly contacts with the Apache in the Texas Panhandle. [3] Three factors led to a growing importance of warfare in Plains Indian culture. First, was the Spanish colonization of New Mexico which stimulated raids and counter-raids by Spaniards and Indians for goods and slaves.
"Comanche" on the History Channel (August 26, 2005) Dunnegan, Ted. Ted's Arrowheads and Artifacts from the Comancheria (August 19, 2005) Fehrenbach, Theodore Reed The Comanches: The Destruction of a People. New York: Knopf, 1974, ISBN 0-394-48856-3. Later (2003) republished under the title The Comanches: The History of a People; Foster, Morris.
In effect, Texas law allows two people to fight and injure each other.” To a certain point. Infliction of serious bodily injury nullifies the exemption, and no weapons are allowed.