Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Texas Blues
When you think of the mainstream Blues revival in the 1980’s, that charge was led by the manic Texas Blues guitar of Stevie Ray Vaughan.
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Microsoft and the NSA and the Texas Cryptology Center
Total Information Awareness is now possible thanks to Microsoft and the NSA’s new Texas Cryptology Center in San Antonio, Texas:
“No longer able to store all the intercepted phone calls and e-mail in its secret city, the agency has now built a new data warehouse in San Antonio, Texas,” writes author James Bamford in the Shadow Factory, his third book about the NSA. “Costing, with renovations, upwards of $130 million, the 470,000-square-foot facility will be almost the size of the Alamodome. Considering how much data can now be squeezed onto a small flash drive, the new NSA building may eventually be able to hold all the information in the world.” …
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The East Village Euro, the Texas Peso and the Border Town Loonie
A single Euro is currently worth 1.4728 U.S. Dollars — is it any wonder that some Manhattan stores in New York are accepting Euros as payment for goods and services?
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Texas High School Football: The Wrongful Elevation of Childhood Ego
I was raised in Nebraska where American college football rules Saturday afternoons for three months a year.
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The Fightin' Texas Aggie Band
by Evan Stair
In more ways than one it was homecoming in Stillwater. Last weekend my wife and I were visited by some cousins from Texas. My cousin’s husband attended Texas A & M. My wife’s cousin, who attends Texas A & M, and Uncle drove up from Texas. I was born in Bryan. My sister-in-law, my wife, my wife’s uncle and I attended Oklahoma State University. Not to mention that last Saturday was homecoming at Oklahoma State. However this is not the real point of the story.
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