<p>All you were saying was that Mexicans are fatter on average because they're poorer on average.
New York has plenty to brag about. Their baseball team is awesome (but I'm not a fan of them), so is their football team (but I'm a Patriots fan), their greatest city is a helluva lot better than anything Texas has, they have the Statue of Liberty (what the hell does Texas have that can beat that?), they have Madison Square Garden and Times Square and Rockefeller Center, they have AMAZING prep schools there, and... it was part of the original thirteen colonies, which was America. Texas wasn't. And seriously, as a country, Texas lasted for about, I don't know, NINE years. Where it then annexed to the United States, starting a war that killed Davy Crockett and others. And I could go on...</p>
<p>The cowboys are AMERICAS team (too bad I'm not a football fan) we have had more history we have been part of six countries and we have the alamo</p>
<p>How so are they America's team? They are the team of their fans, but not AMERICA.
And being part of six countries makes you have more history and better? Than what? Boston? Philadelphia? Williamsburg? Harvard has more history than Texas does.</p>
<p>Texas has a LOT of history we have to take Texas history 3 times its been pretty much pounded into us that texas has a lot of history look heres texas: History</a> of Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and heres new york and pennsylvania: History</a> of New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
History</a> of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Which ones the longest?
And the cowboys are americas team America's</a> Team - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Plus if you google americas team what comes up? the Cowboys plus they're building a billion dollar stadium with the worlds largest HD LED displays its gonna go from the 20 yard line to the 20 yard line
Dallas</a> Cowboys New Stadium</p>
<p>You are using the length of a Wikipedia article to reinforce your point... Tell us what historic has happened in Texas other than the war after Texas annexed to the US.
And America's Team is just a nickname. Believe it or not. And why does the fact that they're building a massive stadium make them better as a whole?</p>
<p>Section 1: Early Exploration and Development
Before 1500 -- Prior to the arrival of the first European explorers, numerous tribes of the Indians of Texas occupied the region between the Rio Grande to the south and the Red River to the north. </p>
<p>Mid-1519 -- Sailing from a base in Jamaica, Alonso Alvarez de Pineda, a Spanish adventurer, was the first known European to explore and map the Texas coastline. </p>
<p>November 1528 -- Cabeza de Vaca shipwrecked on what is believed today to be Galveston Island. After trading in the region for some six years, he later explored the Texas interior on his way to Mexico. </p>
<p>1540-1542 -- In search of the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado lead an expedition into the present southwestern United States and across northern Texas. </p>
<p>18 February 1685 -- Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle established Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay, and thus formed the basis for France's claim to Texas. Two years later, LaSalle was murdered by his own men. </p>
<p>22 April 1689 -- Mexican explorer Alonso de Leon reached Fort St. Louis, and found it abandoned, during an expedition planned to reestablish Spanish presence in Texas. </p>
<p>1716-1789 -- Throughout the 18th century, Spain established Catholic missions in Texas, and along with the missions, the towns of San Antonio, Goliad and Nacogdoches. </p>
<p>8 August 1812 -- About 130-men strong, the Gutierrez-Magee Expedition crossed the Sabine from Louisiana in a rebel movement against Spanish rule in Texas. </p>
<p>1817-1820 -- Jean Laffite occupied Galveston Island and used it as a base for his smuggling and privateering operation. </p>
<p>3 January 1823 -- Stephen F. Austin received a grant from the Mexican government and began colonization in the region of the Brazos River. </p>
<p>Mid-1824 -- The Constitution of 1824 gave Mexico a republican form of government. It failed, however, to define the rights of the states within the republic, including Texas. </p>
<p>6 April 1830--Relations between the Texans and Mexico reached a new low when Mexico forbid further emigration into Texas by settlers from the United States. </p>
<p>26 June 1832--The Battle of Velasco resulted in the first casualties in Texas' relations with Mexico. After several days of fighting, the Mexicans under Domingo de Ugartechea were forced to surrender for lack of ammunition. </p>
<p>1832-1833 -- The Convention of 1832 and the Convention of 1833 in Texas were triggered by growing dissatisfaction among the settlements with the policies of the government in Mexico City. </p>
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Section 3: Statehood and Beyond
References and Bibliography </p>
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<p>Section 2: Revolution and the Republic
2 October 1835 -- Texans repulsed a detachment of Mexican cavalry at the Battle of Gonzales. The revolution began. </p>
<p>9 October 1835 -- The Goliad Campaign of 1835 ended when George Collingsworth, Ben Milam, and forty-nine other Texans stormed the presidio at Goliad and a small detachment of Mexican defenders. </p>
<p>28 October 1835 -- Jim Bowie, James Fannin and 90 Texans defeated 450 Mexicans at the Battle of Concepcion, near San Antonio. </p>
<p>3 November 1835 -- The Consultation met to consider options for more autonomous rule for Texas. A document known as the Organic Law outlined the organization and functions of a new Provisional Government. </p>
<p>8 November 1835 -- The Grass Fight near San Antonio was won by the Texans under Jim Bowie and Ed Burleson. Instead of silver, however, the Texans gained a worthless bounty of grass. </p>
<p>11 December 1835 -- Mexicans under Gen. Cos surrendered San Antonio to the Texans following the Siege of Bexar. Ben Milam was killed during the extended siege. </p>
<p>2 March 1836 -- The Texas Declaration of Independence was signed by members of the Convention of 1836. An ad interim government was formed for the newly created Republic of Texas. </p>
<p>6 March 1836 -- Texans under Col. William B. Travis were overwhelmed by the Mexican army after a two-week siege at the Battle of the Alamo in San Antonio. The Runaway Scrape began. </p>
<p>10 March 1836 -- Sam Houston abandoned Gonzales in a general retreat eastward to avoid the invading Mexican army. </p>
<p>27 March 1836 -- James Fannin and nearly 400 Texans were executed by the Mexicans at the Goliad Massacre, under order of Santa Anna. </p>
<p>21 April 1836 -- Texans under Sam Houston routed the Mexican forces of Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto. Thus, independence was won in one of the most decisive battles in history. </p>
<p>November 1839 -- The Texas Congress first met in Austin, the frontier site selected for the capital of the Republic. </p>
<p>11 August 1840 -- The Battle of Plum Creek, near present-day Lockhart, ended the boldest and most penetrating Comanche challenge to the Texas Republic. </p>
<p>June 1841 -- The Texan Santa Fe Expedition set out for New Mexico. Near Sante Fe, they were intercepted by Mexican forces and marched 2000 miles to prison in Mexico City. </p>
<p>5 March 1842 --A Mexican force of over 500 men under Rafael Vasquez invaded Texas for the first time since the revolution. They briefly occupied San Antonio, but soon headed back to the Rio Grande. </p>
<p>11 September 1842 -- San Antonio was again captured, this time by 1400 Mexican troops under Adrian Woll. Again the Mexicans retreated, but this time with prisoners. </p>
<p>Fall 1842 -- Sam Houston authorized Alexander Somervell to lead a retaliatory raid into Mexico. The resulting Somervell Expedition dissolved, however, after briefly taking the border towns of Laredo and Guerreo. </p>
<p>20 December 1842 -- Some 300 members of the Somervell force set out to continue raids into Mexico. Ten days and 20 miles later, the ill-fated Mier Expedition surrendered at the Mexican town of Mier. </p>
<p>29 December 1842 -- Under orders of Sam Houston, officials arrived in Austin to remove the records of the Republic of Texas to the city of Houston, touching off the bloodless Archives War. </p>
<p>25 March 1843 -- Seventeen Texans were executed in what became known as the Black Bean Episode, which resulted from the Mier Expedition, one of several raids by the Texans into Mexico. </p>
<p>27 May 1843 -- The Texan's Snively Expedition reached the Santa Fe Trail, expecting to capture Mexican wagons crossing territory claimed by Texas. The campaign stalled, however, when American troops intervened. </p>
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<p>Top of Page (Section 1)
Section 2: Revolution and the Republic
References and Bibliography </p>
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<p>Section 3: Statehood and Beyond
29 December 1845 -- U. S. President James Polk followed through on a campaign platform promising to annex Texas, and signed legislation making Texas the 28th state of the United States. </p>
<p>25 April 1846 -- The Mexican-American War ignited as a result of disputes over claims to Texas boundaries. The outcome of the war fixed Texas' southern boundary at the Rio Grande River. </p>
<p>25 November 1850 -- In a plan to settle boundary disputes and pay her public debt, Texas relinquished about one-third of her territory in the Compromise of 1850, in exchange for $10,000,000 from the United States. </p>
<p>May 1852 -- The first Lone Star State Fair in Corpus Christi symbolized a period of relative prosperity in Texas during the 1850's. Organizer Henry L. Kinney persuaded Dr. Ashbel Smith to be the fair's manager. </p>
<p>29 April 1856 -- Backed by the US military, a shipment of 32 camels arrived at the port of Indianola. The resulting Texas Camel Experiment used the animals to transport supplies over the "Great American Desert." </p>
<p>1 February 1861 -- Texas seceded from the Federal Union following a 171 to 6 vote by the Secession Convention. Governor Sam Houston was one of a small minority opposed to secession. </p>
<p>22 October 1861 -- Advance units of the newly formed Brigade of General H. H. Sibley marched westward from San Antonio to claim New Mexico and the American southwest for the Confederacy. </p>
<p>1 January 1863 -- After several weeks of Federal occupation of Texas' most important seaport, the Battle of Galveston restored the island to Texas control for remainder of Civil War. </p>
<p>13 May 1865 -- The last land engagement of the Civil War was fought at the Battle of Palmito Ranch in far south Texas, more than a month after Gen. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, VA. </p>
<p>1866 -- The abundance of longhorn cattle in south Texas and the return of Confederate soldiers to a poor reconstruction economy marked the beginning of the era of Texas trail drives to northern markets. </p>
<p>30 March 1870 -- The United States Congress readmitted Texas into the Union. Reconstruction continued, however, for another four years. </p>
<p>17 January 1874 -- Coke-Davis Dispute ended peacefully in Austin as E. J. Davis relinquished the governor's office. Richard Coke began a democratic party dynasty in Texas that continued unbroken for over 100 years. </p>
<p>4 October 1876 -- The opening of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas marked the state's first venture into public higher education. Tuition totaled $10 per semester. </p>
<p>15 September 1883 -- The University of Texas opened its doors in Austin for its inaugural session. First courses were offered in the Academic Department and a Law Department. </p>
<p>16 May 1888 -- The dedication of the present state capitol in Austin ended seven years of planning and construction. The building was funded with 3,000,000 acres of land in north Texas. </p>
<p>20 January 1891 -- Based on a campaign platform calling for the regulation of railroads and big business, James Hogg took office as the first native-born governor of Texas. </p>
<p>10 January 1901 -- The discovery of "black gold" at the Spindletop oil field near Beaumont launched Texas into a century of oil exploration, electronics, and manned space travel.</p>
<p>Wow, that's, um, pretty damn historic. Nothing of that sort ever happened in other places, nosiree. I mean, wow! Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle established Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay. No one's ever established a fort over here... And... alright. I'll stop arguing.</p>
<p>And plus the state fair is amazingness BigTex.com[/url</a>]
And the food their is (unhealthy) GREATNESS have you ever had deep fried jelly beans or deep fried smores or deep fried Snowballs [url=<a href="http://www.bigtex.com/foodlocator/%5DBigTex.com:">http://www.bigtex.com/foodlocator/]BigTex.com:</a> food locator</p>
<p>Lol neither of you know about sports so don't argue for the sports teams lol.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Yankees haven't won in 8 years</p></li>
<li><p>Cowboys aren't even in the playoffs this year, thye lost first round the 2 years before...</p></li>
<li><p>They were known as Americas team becuase thats what they called themselves...and that was with 3 hall of famers with Troy, Emmit and Michael</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Jus sayin.</p>
<p>Yeah, you're right I don't know anything about sports. Parents never watched, I never watched, etc. I do like the Red Sox, though, but I know absolute jackshi** about them. And baseball in general.</p>
<p>Its jessica simpson's fault</p>
<p>And I love the mavericks even though they aren't doing good this year</p>
<p>And the cowboys are the second most valuable sports team in the world after manchester united
The</a> most valuable teams in sports - Yahoo! Sports</p>
<p>Hmmm.
I'm going to butt into this conversation with a few facts about Texas (and my opinion that North Carolina is the best state in the USA)</p>
<p>Texas is:
1st in percentage of uninsured children
49th in percentage of women who vote
1st in air pollution emissions
50th in percentage of population over 25 with high school diploma
1st in cancer-causing carcinogens released into air
1st in number of executions</p>
<p>Oh, and deep fried jelly beans sounds utterly disgusting.</p>
<p>Ok. Thank you. Where did you get these stats from? But personally, I don't like North Carolina. Ok, no, that's a lie actually. I only said that to this kid that was VERY obnoxious and mean to everyone at summer camp in 6th grade (that NC sucked). I was a jerk back then, though.</p>
<p>And deep friend jelly beans do sound disgusting.</p>
<p>Wow Jasmyn, the fact that you can copy and paste a list of important dates in Texan history is really impressive. Weren't you the one that compared Texas to Great Britain? England has at least 10 times more history.</p>
<p>Texas is a STATE not a COUNTRY countries are supposed to have more history than states and plus british history goes back thousands of years farther</p>
<p>The best place to live(globally) is Vancouver.
BBC</a> NEWS | Business | Vancouver is 'best place to live'</p>
<p>Lets argue about that? You guys are argueing about more then states... CULTURES. Which culture is better... And you guys probably have ties to either or. SO WHY ARGUE?</p>
<p>AHAHA, I LIVE IN VANCOUVER AND I CAN TELL YOU, IT IS IN NO WAY THE BEST PLACE TO LIVE.</p>
<p>over-inflated house prices, non-reliable public transit system, mediocre (at best) schools with over crowding, & soon to be debt from Olympic Village crap. it's plastered all over the newspapers around BC and people have started to panic, lool.</p>
<p>oh, not to mention that if get any more than 1mm of snow, the whole city will shut down. like, electricity, public transit, schools, bridges, roads ..
this is just my opinion though. hehe.
but there are always up-sides! like.. for example.. we have.. um, good.. skating rinks! :D</p>
<p>i like how this thread started with twilight and then branched into completely different topics.haha:)
i really like it.lol. :]</p>