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Flag. The Lone Star Flag [1] June 30, 1839. National seal. Seal of the Republic of Texas. January 25, 1839. State seal. Seal of Texas. December 29, 1845.
Designed by. Unknown [2] The flag of Texas is the official flag of the U.S. state of Texas. It is well known for its prominent single white star which gives the flag its commonly-used name: " Lone Star Flag ". This lone star, in turn, gives rise to the state's nickname: "The Lone Star State".
v. t. e. Detail of a mural in the museum at Gonzales, Texas, featuring a conjectured Come and Take It flag. " Come and take it " an expression of defiance first used in 1778 at Fort Morris in Georgia during the American Revolution, and also in 1835 at the Battle of Gonzales during the Texas Revolution as well as the American Civil War .
Texas Constitution. Salary. $150,000 (2013) [1] Website. gov .texas .gov. The governor of Texas is the head of government of the U.S. state of Texas. The incumbent, Greg Abbott, is the forty-eighth governor to serve in the office since Texas' statehood in 1845. When compared to those of other states, the governorship of Texas has been described ...
Texas Tech University ( Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU) is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas. Established on October 2, 1923, and called Texas Technological College until 1969, it is the flagship institution of the five-institution Texas Tech University System. As of Fall 2023, the university enrolled 40,944 students, [8] making it the ...
This flag was raised by Texas settlers at the Battle of Gonzales in October 1835 after Mexico attempted to retrieve a cannon which had been granted to the town of Gonzales for protection against raids by native tribes. Español: La bandera "Come and Take It" - El texto dice "Come and Take It!" ("Venga y tome!")
The flags on the seal are the "six flags over Texas", of the six nations that have had sovereignty over some or all of the current territory of Texas. The original seal pictured in the 1961 act represented the C.S.A. with an Army of Tennessee Confederate battle flag; the 1991 law replaced this with the first C.S.A. flag, known as the "Stars and ...
Location of Texas. Texas is a state in the South Central region of the United States. The region's second-quarter 2018 gross state product was 8.6% of the GDP of the country at $1.755 trillion, with significant growth in mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction.