Samuel "Sam" Houston (March 2, 1793–July 26, 1863), was a nineteenth-century American statesman, politician, and soldier. He was born in Timber Ridge in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, of Scots-Irish descent. Houston became a key figure in the history of Texas and was elected as the first and third President of the Republic of Texas, U.S. Senator for Texas after it joined the United States, and finally as a governor of the state. He refused to swear loyalty to the Confederacy when Texas seceded from the Union in 1861 with the outbreak of the American Civil War, and was removed from office. To avoid bloodshed, he refused an offer of a Union army to put down the Confederate rebellion. Instead, he retired to Huntsville, Texas, where he died before the end of the Civil War.
His earlier life included migration to Tennessee from Virginia, time spent with the Cherokee Nation (into which he later was adopted as a citizen and took a wife), military service in the War of 1812, and successful participation in Tennessee politics. Houston is the only person in U.S. history to have been the governor of two different states (although other men had served as governors of more than one American territory).
Houston ( /ˈhjuːstən/) (Alibamu: Yosti ) is the largest city in the state of Texas, and the fourth-largest city in the United States. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of 656.3 square miles (1,700 km2). Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown, which is the fifth-largest metropolitan area in the United States, with 6.08 million people as of July 1st, 2011.
Houston was founded in 1836 on land near the banks of Buffalo Bayou. It was incorporated as a city on June 5, 1837, and named after then-President of the Republic of Texas—former General Sam Houston—who had commanded at the Battle of San Jacinto, which took place 25 miles (40 km) east of where the city was established. The burgeoning port and railroad industry, combined with oil discovery in 1901, has induced continual surges in the city's population. In the mid-twentieth century, Houston became the home of the Texas Medical Center—the world's largest concentration of healthcare and research institutions—and NASA's Johnson Space Center, where the Mission Control Center is located.
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A unique perspective to the history of Texas and Mexico. Susannah Dickinson was an amazing woman. There is actually a city in Texas named for her. Dickinson was captured by Santa Anna at the Alamo and was taken to Mexico. When she refused Santa Anna's proposals to be her lover and raise her child, she was released and sent back to Texas with a letter for the Texas Army warning them to surrender or die.
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In the beginning of the 19th Century many Anglosaxons are settling in the Mexican province of Texas. As the years go by, political conflicts between the settlers and the Mexican government are escalating which would lead to war and Texan independence.
Keywords: alamo, ambush, archive-footage, bare-breasts, based-on-novel, battle, battlefield, bayonet, blood, blood-spatter
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Jomy Mark Shin is a seemingly ordinary boy on Earth, but fate has shown him something different. The authorities learn that he is a Mu, a member of race of psionic humans that are marked for death by the Central computer called Mother Eliza. He is rescued by a rebel group of Mu's lead by Soldier Blue, who shows him that he is of artificial birth in a space colony. Now, Jomy must be the successor to Soldier Blue and fight for the survival of his people and the right to return to Earth. However, the human forces lead by the elite officer, Keith Anyan, are a formidable and deadly threat.
Keywords: anime, based-on-comic, based-on-manga, future, human-versus-computer, mutant, passion, psionic-power, space, space-colony
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That's Carry on is a 'best of the carry on's' movie with Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor introducing clips from all the Carry On movies (from Carry on Sergeant to Carry on Behind). The two regulars converse at the Rank Film building to host the film, with their own running gags involving Barbara's "assets" and Kenneth's desperate need of a toilet!!!
Keywords: carry-on, independent-film, sequel
Everyone who's anyone is in it .. right in it!!! The best gags from the Carry On series
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Stodge City is in the grip of the Rumpo Kid and his gang. Mistaken identity again takes a hand as a "sanitary engineer" (plumber) by the name of Marshal P. Knutt is mistaken for a law marshal! Being the conscientious sort, Marshal tries to help the town get rid of Rumpo, and a showdown is inevitable. Marshal has two aids - revenge-seeking Annie Oakley and his sanitary expertise...
Keywords: carry-on, female-gunfighter, independent-film, sequel, street-shootout, western-spoof
THE STAMPEDE IS ON . . . and the Carry On Gang is wanted all over the west for leaving a trail of their brand of laughter!
How the west was hilariously lost!! [Australia]
How the west was lost!!
Sam: I never did get to know exactly what she'd done that was so wrong.::Judge Burke: Old Ben was a friend of mine Sam, and she killed him.::Doc: It was his own fault. He was ninety-two. I warned him not to marry her!
Big Heap: This is my squaw, Kitikata. I bought her for two buffalo skins.::Charlie: How.::Johnny Finger: Never mind how, where!
Johnny Finger: [addressing the Indian chief] How! Me-um heap big paleface chief from-um Stodge City. Me-um salute-um big chief. Me-um want-um pow-wow.::Big Heap: [speaking perfect English] I say, you do talk funny. You must be foreigners.
Belle Armitage: [admiring his gun] My, but you got a big one!::Johnny Finger: I'm from Texas, ma'am. We all got big ones down there.
Johnny Finger: [the opening scene after he shoots the three men] I wonder what they wanted?
Johnny Finger: What's the matter? What have I done wrong?::Sheriff Albert Earp: You just killed three men, mister.::Johnny Finger: I know that, but what have I done wrong?
Perkins: It's another telegram from Stodge City, sir. Judge Burke. He's the mayor there, you know.::Commissioner: Burke? Oh yeah, I remember him in law school. He's a bum.::Perkins: I didn't know you studied at law school, sir.::Commissioner: I didn't. I was the janitor.
Commissioner: Send him a Marshall. Anything for peace.::Perkins: That's just the trouble, sir. We haven't any available.::Commissioner: Nobody? What about that big head who's always hanging around here looking for work? What's his name? Dillon. What's he doing?::Perkins: Six months.
Johnny Finger: I once talked peace with a Sioux, but you can't trust them. One moment it was peace on, the next it was peace off.
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While Sam Houston in in the nation's capital trying to get Texas into the Union, his aide is trying to impose a self-serving tax on the use of the Santa Fe trail. The lady owner of a wagon train is using the trail, and a Texas Ranger comes to her assistance.
Keywords: horse
A roaring Texas Ranger and an untamed girl...sweethearts of the dangerous young West!
Adventurer Beyond Daring! (original poster)
SAM HOUSTON - the Man Who Created an Empire of Freedom DYNAMITES INTO REALITY! (original poster)