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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 1982 (when the state resumed executions) to 1989. All of the 33 people during this period were convicted of murder and have been executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas .
Rosa Ramirez Guerrero (born November 14, 1934) [1] is a Mexican American educator, artist and historian from El Paso, Texas. She was the founder of the International Folklorico Dance Group. She was the founder of the International Folklorico Dance Group.
It is the second historic neighborhood of El Paso, the first being Barrio Chihuahuita. [9] The railroad arrived in El Paso in 1881, and afterwards, the population of El Paso grew quickly. [9] The first resident of Segundo Barrio was a campesino, or farm worker, named Santiago Alvarado, who received a Mexican land grant to farm the area in 1834. [2]
Juan de Oñate, born in present-day Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico, was the first explorer to arrive at the Rio Grande near El Paso (near the current small town of San Elizario, which is about 30 miles (48 km) downstream of El Paso), where he ordered his expedition party to rest and where the official act of possession, La Toma, was executed and celebrated, on April 30, 1598.
The Plaza, El Paso, Texas (postcard, circa 1902) J. Fisher Satterwaite , El Paso Parks and Streets Commissioner, contracted with Fisher Satterthwaite to create beauty out of this desert patch. By 1883, the park was surrounded by a fence, a walled pond was created, a gazebo was erected and 75 Chinese Elm trees were planted.
Inspections are routine for El Paso's establishments, ranging from schools to restaurants. Stay updated on latest the scores. El Paso restaurant inspection scores includes Golden Corral, Rosa's ...
The Popular Dry Goods Company (known as The Popular and by its large Spanish-speaking clientele as La Popular) was a local chain of department stores in El Paso, Texas.It carried national brands of clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, electronics, and housewares.
The El Paso Balloonfest is an annual event celebrated on Memorial Day weekend and is self described as "3 days of hot air balloons filling the El Paso skies, 3 afternoons of concerts and fun in the sun at Wet N' Wild Waterworld in Anthony, Texas." Over 60 balloons take to the air annually from TFCU launch field which is adjacent to the water park.