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Without failure, there would be no success. Anonymous … [Read more...] about Thought for the Day:

1808. The Red River meteorite was obtained from Indians in Texas by the explorer Anthony Glass. … [Read more...] about Texas History – Do You Know When the First Meteorite Was Found in Texas?

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. Raymond Lindquist … [Read more...] about Thought for the Day:

The Alamo was San Antonio’s first hospital, from 1806 to 1812. … [Read more...] about Texas History – Do You Know What was the First Hospital in San Antonio?

There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action. Henry Miller … [Read more...] about Thought for the Day:

Philip Nolan, a native of Ireland, traveled west from his home in Natchez, Mississippi with a party of 28 heavily armed men to establish a camp in the northwestern Hill Country, near what is now Blum, Texas. He and his men captured wild horses and sold them to Spanish military garrisons in Louisiana. On March 21, 1801, a company of 120 Spanish soldiers made a surprise attack on Nolan’s camp. The skirmish stopped when a cannonball killed Nolan with a blow to the head and his men surrendered. As a … [Read more...] about Texas History – Do You Know Which Explorer Lost His Ears After His Death?

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? Frank Scully … [Read more...] about Thought for the Day:

Le Champ d’Asile. This settlement was founded in the Spring of 1818 by General Charles Lallemand, and approximately 400 French exiles who fled post-Napoleonic France desiring a permanent location on the American frontier. In July 1818, the colonists learned that a Spanish military force was marching from San Antonio to dislodge them from Spanish Texas as hostile intruders. General Lallemand and his followers fled to Galveston Island before the soldiers arrived. The Spanish troops destroyed the … [Read more...] about Texas History – Do You Know What Was the Only French Settlement in Texas?

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. Charles Dickens … [Read more...] about Thought for the Day:

Coins were a rarity in early Texas, so colonists used the Spanish silver dollar known as "pieces of eight." These were minted in Mexico City in 1535 and in the 1730's. The coin could actually be cut into eight pie-shaped pieces called "bits." Each bit was worth twelve and a half cents in U.S. currency. When the U.S. coined the quarter, it was worth twenty-five cents, or two bits. The half dollar was worth four bits, etc. The word peso is actually an abbreviation for the phrase, peso del ocho, … [Read more...] about Texas History – Do You Know How the Expression “Two Bits” Came About?