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  2. Texas - Wikipedia

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    Texas is the second-largest U.S. state by area, after Alaska, and the largest state within the contiguous United States, at 268,820 square miles (696,200 km 2). If it were an independent country, Texas would be the 39th-largest. [148] It ranks 26th worldwide amongst country subdivisions by size. Texas is in the south central part of the United ...

  3. Culture of Texas - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Folklife Festival is an annual event sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antonio's Institute of Texan Cultures celebrating the many ethnicities represented in the population of the state of Texas. Thousands attend the three-day event each year, which features food, crafts, music, and dances from ethnic groups that immigrated ...

  4. Children's Museum of Houston - Wikipedia

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    Children's Museum Houston (CMH) is a nonprofit children's museum in the Museum District of Houston, Texas. Founded in 1980 and designed by Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi, it offers exhibits and bilingual learning programs for children aged 0–12. It is one of 190 children's museums in the United States and 15 children's museums in Texas ...

  5. Texas’ foster care crisis is improving. Here’s how lawmakers ...

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    Here’s how lawmakers can help kids even more | Opinion. Katie Olse. January 26, 2023 at 2:36 PM. ... Katie Olse is CEO of the Texas Alliance of Child and Family Services, a statewide network of ...

  6. Texas lawmakers can close the summer hunger gap for kids ...

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    Unfortunately, Texas is not among the states offering Summer EBT this year, leaving 3.8 million eligible Texas kids out of this program. In this June 13, 2019 photo, Emeterio Cruz, 5, drinks milk ...

  7. List of Texas state symbols - Wikipedia

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    Coat of arms of the Republic of Texas January 25, 1839 State coat of arms: Coat of arms of Texas: 1993 National guard crest Crest of the Texas National Guard: February 18, 1924 Flower: Bluebonnets (Lupinus spp., namely Texas bluebonnet, L. texensis and sandy land bluebonnet L. subcarnosus) [1] March 1901 [3] Tree: Pecan (Carya illinoinensis ...

  8. History of Texas - Wikipedia

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    The City in Texas: A History (University of Texas Press, 2015) 342 pp. Mendoza, Alexander, and Charles David Grear, eds. Texans and War: New Interpretations of the State's Military History 2012 excerpt; Scott, Robert (2000). After the Alamo. Plano, TX: Republic of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-585-22788-7.

  9. Texas House committee talks child care policy ahead of ...

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    The Texas House Committee on International Relations and Economic Development held an interim hearing on Tuesday to hear testimony from child ... “It’s $1 million for every 100 additional kids ...