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From Texas Standard.It’s time once again for what they call the most exciting two minutes in sports. The 144th running of the Kentucky Derby will happen…
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From Texas Standard.This is the third story in a three-part series about HemisFair ’68. For part one, click here. For part two, click here.Today, if you…
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From Texas Standard.Many of us have a cabinet or a closet at home with a stack of homemade VHS tapes – or those little tapes that went into newer-model…
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From Texas Standard.There’s a saying that every Texan has two hometowns: their own, and San Antonio. Historically, culturally and personally – somehow all…
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From Texas Standard.In 1978, the CBS TV network took a chance on broadcasting a five-episode miniseries about the schemes and struggles of a Texas family.…
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From Texas Standard.A gas explosion in Dallas last month killed a 12-year old girl and brought new attention to an aging infrastructure. The natural gas…
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From Texas Standard.The other day, scrolling through Twitter, we came across a picture of two cannons from the Alamo laid out in the bed of a pickup…
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From Texas Standard.One hundred years ago Sunday, a posse made up of Texas Rangers and the U.S. military raided the border village of Porvenir in the…
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From Texas Standard:In the early 1950s, the threat of nuclear war and Communism cast shadows over much of the western hemisphere. And for a brief time,…
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From Texas Standard:The document that sealed Texas' entry into the United States is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Mexican officials were forced to sign…