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15 Texas Landmarks: Natural, Manmade, and Historic

Top of Page Source: iStockTexas is huge. In fact, it’s the largest state by area at 695km2 and home to Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas which all make the top 10 most populated cities in the USA.…

Playoff Tiebreakers

Divisional Championship—NFC: Carolina (12-4) qualified over San Francisco (12-4) by winning both regular season games; Dallas (10-6) over Philadelphia (10-6) with a better record (7-4 vs. 6-…

Barney the Dinosaur

A six-foot chubby purple dinosaur, Barney was the star of the long-running children's TV show Barney and Friends. Barney the dinosaur got his start in 1987 in direct-sale videos created by Dallas…

Dennis Rodman

A fierce rebounder, Dennis Rodman played alongside Michael Jordan on three championship Chicago Bulls teams in the 1990s. Yet he was better known for his eccentric and attention-hunting behavior,…

The History of the ATM

The Question: Can you tell me who invented the ATM and when? The Answer: Don Wetzel is credited with inventing the Automated Teller Machine in the late 1960's,…

Clyde Barrow

Clyde Barrow was part of the crime duo Bonnie and Clyde, Depression-era outlaws whose folk-hero status ended in a storm of bullets when they were fatally shot on 23 May 1934. His criminal career…

Abraham Zapruder

Abraham Zapruder is the bystander who filmed the motorcade of President John F. Kennedy at the moment that Kennedy was shot and killed on 22 November 1963. It happened in Dallas, Texas; Abraham…

Judge Sarah T. Hughes

The Question: Who swore in Lyndon Johnson? The Answer: On Nov. 22, 1963, after President Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Vice President…

Conrad Hilton

Name at birth: Conrad Nicholson HiltonConrad Hilton founded the international chain of business hotels which bear his name. He bought his first hotel in 1919, and founded the first so-named Hilton…

T.D. Jakes

Name at birth: Thomas Dexter Jakes T.D. Jakes, named "America's Best Preacher" in a 2001 Time magazine cover story, started as a part-time storefront minister in West Virginia in 1979. By 1996 he had…