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  2. Clear Lake Shores, Texas - Wikipedia

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    281. FIPS code. 48-15328 [ 2] GNIS feature ID. 1332954 [ 3] Website. www .clearlakeshores-tx .gov. Clear Lake Shores is a city in Galveston County, Texas, United States, located within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 1,258.

  3. Clear Lake (region) - Wikipedia

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    Clear Lake, or the Clear Lake Area, is a region in parts of Harris and Galveston County in Texas, United States. It is part of the Galveston Bay Area, which itself is a section of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. [2][3] The area is geographically characterized by the bodies of water in it and around it, including ...

  4. Heads and Tales (book) - Wikipedia

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    Heads and Tales. Heads and Tales is a book by Malvina Hoffman first published in 1936. [1] The book chronicles Hoffman's travels and efforts to create a series of sculptures for the Field Museum of Natural History 's Races of Mankind exhibit, after being appointed to sculpt it in 1929. [2]: 21 The parameters of the project were spelled out by ...

  5. Kemah Boardwalk - Wikipedia

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    The Kemah Boardwalk is a 60-acre Texas Gulf Coast theme park in Kemah, Texas, approximately 30 miles southeast of Downtown Houston, Texas. The Boardwalk is built entirely along the shores of Galveston Bay and Clear Lake. The complex is owned and operated by Landry's, Inc ., and has restaurants, rides, midway games, a boutique hotel, a charter ...

  6. Clear Lake (Galveston Bay) - Wikipedia

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    Clear Lake is a brackish harbor located near Houston, Texas, U.S., in Harris County. The lake feeds Galveston Bay. It is bordered by Houston (Clear Lake City), Pasadena, League City, Clear Lake Shores, Taylor Lake Village, Seabrook and El Lago, Texas. NASA 's Johnson Space Center lies near its shores. The lake is a major recreation center and ...

  7. Ouzo - Wikipedia

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    Ouzo is a clear liquid. However, when water or ice is added, ouzo turns a milky-white colour. This is because anethole, the essential oil of anise, is completely soluble in alcohol at approximately 38% ABV and above, but not in water. Diluting the spirit causes it to separate, creating an emulsion whose fine droplets scatter the light.

  8. Coin flipping - Wikipedia

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    Tossing a coin. Coin flipping, coin tossing, or heads or tails is the practice of throwing a coin in the air and checking which side is showing when it lands, in order to randomly choose between two alternatives. It is a form of sortition which inherently has two possible outcomes. The party who calls the side that is facing up when the coin ...

  9. Bay Knoll, Houston - Wikipedia

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    Coordinates: 29.576°N 95.146°W. Bay Knoll is a neighborhood located within the master-planned community of Clear Lake City in Houston, Texas, USA. The neighborhood was developed in the mid-1980 and borders the neighborhoods of Bay Glen, Bay Pointe, Bay Oaks, Meadowgreen, and Oak Brook West. Bay Knoll, along with Bay Glen, is a member of the ...