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Hugh Glass (c. 1783 – 1833) [1] [2] [3] was an American frontiersman, fur trapper, trader, hunter and explorer. He is best known for his story of survival and forgiveness after being left for dead by companions when he was mauled by a grizzly bear .
Operation Texas was an alleged undercover operation to relocate European Jews to Texas, USA, away from Nazi persecution, first reported in a 1989 Ph.D. dissertation by Louis Stanislaus Gomolak at the University of Texas at Austin titled Prologue: LBJ's foreign-affairs background, 1908-1948. [1] The following are some of the key arguments of the ...
This list of cemeteries in Texas includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery is a multi-faith cemetery located at 7405 West Northwest Highway in North Dallas, Texas, United States. It is owned by Service Corporation International. Among the notable persons interred here are: Mary Kay Ash (1918–2001), businesswoman; Harry W. Bass Jr. (1927–1998), businessman
Inscriptions from all grave markers were recorded for Fort Worth's centennial in 1948, and updated in 1976. [3] A Texas Historical Marker honoring Edward H. Tarrant was dedicated in 1987. [13] All grave plots in Pioneers Rest had been sold by the 1920s, but the last burial did not take place until 1993.
The cemetery will provide a final resting place for the more than 21,000 veterans and eligible family members in the area, according to the city. Construction begins on West Texas State Veterans ...
Gulf Prairie Cemetery (also known as Gulph Prairie Cemetery, Gulf Prairie Presbyterian Cemetery, and Peach Point Cemetery) [1] is located in Jones Creek, Texas, United States, off State Highway 36 and County Road 304 [2] and was the original resting place of Stephen F. Austin.
Bush's casket traveled by train from Houston to College Station, Texas, and then carried to the gravesite behind his library by a military honor guard, in a ceremony overseen by his son and former ...