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Fiber cement is a composite material made of cement reinforced with cellulose fibers. Originally, asbestos was used as the reinforcing material but, due to safety concerns, that was replaced by cellulose in the 1980s. [1] Fiber cement board may come pre-painted or pre-stained or can be done so after its installation. [2]
The Cloyce Box Ranch was the site of the original Southfork ranch location, where the initial five episodes of Dallas were filmed. [1] The series left the location at the end of the first season in 1978 at the request of property owner, Cloyce K. Box , who was unhappy with the negative portrayal of the Texas oil industry by the show.
In 1843, the first doctor arrived in Dallas; in 1845, the first lawyer made his home there. In 1845, the first election was held in Dallas over Texas' annexation into the United States. Of the 32 citizens eligible to vote, 29 voted for annexation and 3 voted against it.
The Caddo inhabited the Dallas area before it was settled by Europeans. All of Texas became part of the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Spain in the 16th century. The area was also claimed by the French, but in 1819 the Adams-Onís Treaty officially placed Dallas well within Spanish territory by making the Red River the northern boundary of New Spain.
2010 – Population: city 1,197,816; megaregion 19,728,244. [16]2014 – September 7 – Dallas became home of the first case of the Ebola Virus in the United States.; 2016 – July 7 – A mass shooting targeting police officers during a protest occurred in downtown Dallas, resulting in the deaths of five officers along with the shooter, and the injuries of nine other officers and two civilians.
Robert Sylvester Munger (July 24, 1854 – April 20, 1923) and his wife Mary Collett Munger (1857–1924) invented the "system cotton gin". After that achievement, Munger started and ran some of the largest gin manufacturing companies in the United States. He also developed real estate in Dallas, Texas.
IRVING, TX - DECEMBER 11, 2024: Roger Goodell, commissioner of the National Football League (NFL), left, speaks at a press conference at the Ritz-Carlton Dallas, Las Colinas in Irving, Texas on ...
In 1958 a version of the integrated circuit was invented in Dallas by Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments; this event punctuated the Dallas area's development as a center for high-technology manufacturing (though the technology Mr. Kilby developed was soon usurped by a competing technology simultaneously developed in the "Silicon Valley" in California by engineers who would go on to form Intel ...