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  2. Texas State Police - Wikipedia

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    The Texas State Police was formed during the administration of Governor Davis on July 22, 1870, to combat crime during the Reconstruction Era of the United States. Davis also created the Texas Special Police, State Guard of Texas, and the Texas Reserve Militia, which was the forerunner of the Texas National Guard. [citation needed]

  3. Timeline of music in the United States (1920–1949) - Wikipedia

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    Several popular songs by vaudeville singer Blind Lemon Jefferson kicks off a wave of solo male folk-blues artists recording commercially. [10] Jefferson is believed to become the first to record a slide guitar in this year. [159] The New York city council enacts a set of restrictions on music performance, intending to crack down on cabarets ...

  4. Music of Texas - Wikipedia

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    Texas in the United States. The U.S. state of Texas has long been a center for musical innovation and is the birthplace of many notable musicians. Texans have pioneered developments in Tejano and Conjunto music, Rock 'n Roll, Western swing, jazz, Piano, punk rock, country, hip-hop, electronic music, gothic industrial music, religious music, mariachi, psychedelic rock, zydeco and the blues.

  5. State police (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The Texas State Police was formed during the administration of Texas Governor Edmund J. Davis on July 22, 1870, to combat crime associated with Reconstruction statewide in Texas. It worked primarily against racially based crimes, and included black police officers, which caused howls of protest from former slave owners (and future segregationists).

  6. Collings: Lost Art of Handmade Guitars Still Alive in Texas

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    But in the early 2000s, Paul Reed Smith, an electric guitar company, decided to move into Collings' turf, making acoustic guitars. As Collings jokingly puts it, "Those were fighting words."

  7. List of law enforcement agencies in Texas - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the U.S. state of Texas.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 1,913 law enforcement agencies, the most of any state.

  8. Texas man says he smashed $4,000 guitar signed by Taylor ...

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    There were more splinters than teardrops left on a Taylor Swift-autographed guitar after a Texas man smashed it apart as "a joke" — after he paid thousands for it at auction, the man said ...

  9. Ovation Guitar Company - Wikipedia

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    The model did not become popular, however, and production of the Breadwinner and the Ovation Deacon ceased in 1980. Ovation made several other solid-body models up until the mid-1980s. [model 12] Since that time, the company has focused mainly on acoustic and acoustic-electric guitars.