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I feel bad deleting all this, but we got to due to the

. I did save all this hard work. maybe we can make some new pages out of it. a Pop culture and texas page maybe? who knows?

Arts and entertainment

• A Texas Trilogy an award winning set of three plays
• Little Texas (band) an American country music band
• Miss Texas, a Miss America state pageant
• Texas Bowl a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Division I FBS college football bowl game*Texas Bowl a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Division I FBS college football bowl game
• Texas Country
  or "Texas music" is a sub-genre of country music
• Texas Cyclone (film) a 1932 American western film
• Texas Derby, or El Capitan Clasico, is a soccer rivalry (derby) between Texas's two Major League Soccer teams Houston Dynamo and FC Dallas
• Texas Flood an electric blues album by the band Double Trouble
• Texas John Slaughter (TV series) was a television series run from 1958 to 1961 as part of the Wonderful World of Disney
• Texas hold 'em, a popular form of poker
• Texas League is a minor league baseball league
• Texas Relays or The Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays are an annual track and field competition held at Mike A. Myers Stadium
• The Texas Trail a 1925 Western film featuring Harry Carey
• Texas Tom
  a 1950 cartoon
• Texas Twister is a fictional comic book superhero
• Texas Blues
  is a subgenre of the blues
• Texas Motor Speedway, a superspeedway in Justin, Texas near Dallas

Historical

• Operation Texas, an undercover operation to relocate European Jews to Texas, away from Nazi persecution.
• Texas Brigade, a Confederate States Army brigade during the American Civil War
• Texas Road, a major trade and emigrant route across Indian Territory

Objects

• Texas Cyclone, a roller coaster at Six Flags Astroworld
• Texas Giant
  , a wooden roller coaster located at Six Flags Over Texas
• Texas Interconnection, one of the three minor alternating current (AC) power grids in North America.
• Texas Pete, a retail brand name for a Louisiana-style hot sauce
• Texas Red, or sulforhodamine 101 acid chloride is a red fluorescent dye
• Texas Roadhouse, a national restaurant franchise
• Texas Star, the largest Ferris wheel in North America
• Texas toast, thicker variation of pre-sliced packaged bread
• Texas Towers a set of off-shore radar facilities used by the United States Air Force during the Cold War
• Texas Tower (lighthouse), a structure, similar to an off-shore oil platform, used as a platform for a lighthouse
• Texas Wiener
  , a type of hot dog
• Texas Zephyr, a historical passenger train that was operated by the Fort Worth and Denver Railway

Organizations

• Texas College, a historically black four-year college located in Tyler, Texas
• Texas Comics, a short lived independent comics company set up in 1983
• Texas Homecare, a defunct DIY store in the United Kingdom
• Texas Industries
  a publicly traded construction materials company
• Texas Instruments, manufacturer of semiconductors
• Texas Utilities, a former name of
  Energy Future Holdings Corporation

Places

• Texas Canyon located in Cochise County, Arizona

Roads

• Texas T, or T-ramp, is a T-shaped highway ramp
• Texas U-turn, or Texas turnaround: lane allowing cars traveling on one side of a one-way frontage road to U-turn into the opposite frontage road

Species

• Babesia, a parasite that causes Texas cattle fever
• Fraxinus texensis
  (Texas Ash or Mountain Ash) is a species of Fraxinus
• Senecio ampullaceus also known as Texas ragwort, Texas squaw-weed, Texas groundsel, and Texas butterweed, a species of Senecio
• Texas Antelope Squirrel
  (Ammospermophilus interpres) a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family
• Texas Brown Snake
  (Storeria dekayi texana) is a non-venomous snake
• Texas cichlid (Herichthys cyanoguttatus, formerly Cichlasoma cyanoguttatum) is a freshwater fish of the cichlid family
• Texas Honey locust
  (Gleditsia × texana) is a tree native to America
• Texas longhorn
  is a breed of cattle
• Texas Mescalbean
  (Calia secundiflora, formerly Sophora secundiflora), also known as the Frijolito or, confusingly, as Texas Mountain Laurel, is a slow-growing, common shrub or small tree
• Texas Pinyon
  or Papershell Pinyon (Pinus remota) is a pine in the pinyon pine group
• Texas root rot, or cotton root rot, a plant pathogen
• Texas Sage
  (Leucophyllum frutescens) is an evergreen shrub
• Texas Spiny Lizard
  (Sceloporus olivaceus) is a species of phrynosomatid lizard native to the south central United States
• Quercus fusiformis, commonly known as Texas Live Oak, an evergreen or nearly evergreen tree

Buildings

• Texas Hall, a combination theater and special events center on the campus of the University of Texas at Arlington
• Texas High School, a public school in Texarkana, Texas
• Texas Theatre, a performing arts theatre in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, Texas

Terminology

• Texas heart shot a euphemism used in hunting referring to a shot fired at the base of the tail of an animal facing directly away from the shooter.
• Texas Rig
  a technique used for fishing soft plastic lures.