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Frédéric Dard ( Frédéric Charles Antoine Dard; 29 June 1921, in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère, France – 6 June 2000, in Bonnefontaine, Fribourg, Switzerland) [ 1] was a French crime writer. He wrote more than three hundred novels, plays and screenplays, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms, including the San-Antonio book series.
October 1, 1975. Designated RTHL. 1991. The Majestic Theatre is San Antonio 's oldest and largest atmospheric theatre. The theatre seats 2,264 people and was designed by architect John Eberson, for Karl Hoblitzelle 's Interstate Theatres in 1929.
San Antonio Sporting District. The Sporting District was a red-light district in the U.S. city of San Antonio, Texas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was established by the city council to manage prostitution in the city. For a time it was one of the nation's largest vice districts with venues ranging from brothels to gambling halls.
Lucado was born in San Angelo, Texas, the youngest of four children to Jack and Thelma Lucado. He grew up in Andrews, Texas. His father, of Italian ancestry, was an oil field worker, while his mother served as a nurse. [citation needed] Lucado attended Abilene Christian University where he received an undergraduate degree in Mass Communication.
San Antonio, Texas. Genre. children's literature. Carmen Tafolla (born 29 July 1951) [1] is an internationally acclaimed [2] Chicana writer from San Antonio, Texas, and a professor emerita of bicultural bilingual studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Tafolla served as the poet laureate of San Antonio from 2012 to 2014, and was ...
The San Antonio Police Department's organization includes a chief of police a command and executive staff, [11] and the use of community crime mapping. [ 12 ] As of November 2018, the department had 2,358 officers of which 1,204 were Hispanic (51.1%), 1,003 were white (42.5%), 119 were Black (5.0%), and 32 other (1.4%).
The Alamo. / 29.42583°N 98.48611°W / 29.42583; -98.48611. The Alamo is a historic Spanish mission and fortress compound founded in the 18th century by Roman Catholic missionaries in what is now San Antonio, Texas, United States. It was the site of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836, a pivotal event of the Texas Revolution in which ...
Samuel Maverick. Samuel Augustus Maverick (July 23, 1803 – September 2, 1870) was a Texas lawyer, politician, land baron and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. His name is the source of the term "maverick", first attested in 1867. [1] He was the grandfather of Texas politician Maury Maverick, who coined the term gobbledygook (1944).