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Texas's 12th congressional district Texas District 12 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves the area west of Fort Worth in the state of Texas. The current Representative from District 12 is Kay Granger.
Texas's 13th congressional district Texas District 13 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves the most nortwestern portion of the state of Texas. The current Representative from District 13 is Mac Thornberry.
Texas's 14th congressional district Texas District 14 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that covers the area south and southwest of the Greater Houston region, including Galveston, in the state of Texas. The current representative from District 14 is Ron Paul.
Texas's 15th congressional district Texas District 15 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves a thin section in the far south of the state of Texas. The current Representative from District 15 is Rubén Hinojosa.
Texas's 16th congressional district Texas District 16 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves El Paso and the surrounding area in the state of Texas. The current Representative from District 16 is Silvestre Reyes.
Texas's 17th congressional district Texas District 17 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves a strip of central Texas stretching from south of Tarrant to Brazos County, including George W Bush's official residence. The current Representative from District 17 is Chet Edwards.
Texas's 18th congressional district Texas District 18 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves much of inner city Houston and the surrounding area. The current Representative from District 18 is Sheila Jackson Lee.
Texas's 19th congressional district Texas District 19 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves the upper midwestern portion of the state of Texas. The current Representative from District 19 is Randy Neugebauer.
Texas's 1st congressional district Texas's First congressional district in the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves the northeastern portion of the state of Texas. As of the 2000 census, the First District represents 651,619 people.
Texas's 20th congressional district Texas District 20 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves much of inner city San Antonio, which is heavily Hispanic, and the surrounding area. The current Representative from District 20 is Charlie Gonzalez.
Texas's 21st congressional district Texas District 21 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves the area northeast of San Antonio in the state of Texas. The current Representative from District 21 is Lamar S.
Texas's 22nd congressional district Texas District 22 of the United States House of Representatives is the congressional district that covers a south-central portion of the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown metropolitan area. It includes the cities of Rosenberg and La Marque as well as portions of Missouri City and Pearland, in Fort Bend, Harris, Galveston, and Brazoria counties.
Texas's 23rd congressional district Texas's 23rd congressional district is the largest of Texas's congressional districts, covering the southwestern portion of the state. It is a Latino-majority district and its current Representative is Democrat Ciro Rodriguez.
Texas's 24th congressional district Texas District 24 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves a suburban area in between Fort Worth and Dallas in the state of Texas. The district centers along the Dallas-Tarrant county line, and includes the southeastern corner of Denton County as well.
Texas's 25th congressional district Texas District 25 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves several counties in the Central Texas area. For the 2004 elections, it had an elongated shape stretching from deep south Texas at the U.
Texas's 26th congressional district Texas District 26 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district in the state of Texas that serves an area in the northern portion of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex centering around Denton County. The current Representative is Michael C.
Texas's 27th congressional district Texas District 27 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves a strip in deep south Texas on the Gulf Coast consisting of Corpus Christi and Brownsville. The current Representative from District 27 is Solomon Ortiz.
Texas's 29th congressional district Texas District 29 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves the eastern portion of the Greater Houston area in the state of Texas. The current Representative from District 29 is Gene Green.
Texas's 30th congressional district Texas District 30 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves much of inner city Dallas and the surrounding area. The current Representative from District 30 is Democrat Eddie Bernice Johnson, who has represented the district since its creation in 1993.
Texas's 31st congressional district Texas District 31 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves a strip of central Texas north of Austin up to Stephenville. The district includes most of the fast-growing northern suburbs of Austin as well as the gigantic Fort Hood military base.
Texas's 32nd congressional district Texas District 32 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves a suburban area of northwestern Dallas in the state of Texas. The current Representative from District 32 is Pete Sessions.
Texas's 3rd congressional district Texas District 3 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves an area north and northeast of Dallas. It encompasses a large portion of Collin County including McKinney, Plano and parts of Dallas County including parts of Richardson, Garland and Dallas.
Texas's 4th congressional district Texas District 4 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves an area that includes some counties along the Red River north of Dallas, including all of Collin County outside of the area around Plano. It then snakes down east of Dallas to include some counties in East Texas like Van Zandt and portions of Kaufman.
Texas's 5th congressional district Texas District 5 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves an area that includes the southeast portion of Dallas County including Mesquite plus a number of smaller counties south and east of Dallas including Anderson, Freestone, Henderson and Limestone counties. As of the 2000 census, District 5 represents 651,620 people.
Texas's 6th congressional district Texas District 6 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves an area including four counties to the south of the Dallas/Fort Worth area plus the southeast corner of Tarrant County. As of the 2000 census, District 6 represents 651,620 people.
Texas's 8th congressional district Texas District 8 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that stretches from the northern part of Harris County and much of Montgomery County to the Louisiana border. It includes much of the outlying areas of metro Houston and Beaumont.
Texas's 9th congressional district Texas District 9 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves the southwestern portion of the Greater Houston area in the state of Texas. The current Representative from District 9 is Al Green.
Texas-Oklahoma wildfires of 2005-06 The Texas-Oklahoma wildfires of 2005-06 are a series of wildfires primarily in the states of Texas and Oklahoma that began November 27, 2005, and continue into April 2006. Surrounding states have also been affected to a lesser extent.
Texcoco (Aztec site) Texcoco was a major site and city-state in the central Mexican plateau region of Mesoamerica during the Late Postclassic period of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican chronology. It was situated on the eastern bank of Lake Texcoco in the Valley of Mexico, to the northeast of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan.
Texcoco, MĂ©xico Texcoco is a municipio (municipality) of MĂ©xico State, located in the Valley of Mexico to the east of the national capital, Mexico City. The municipality's main settlement, the city officially known as Texcoco de Mora, is also commonly referred to as "Texcoco".
TexCare TexCare is a program developed by the State of Texas to raise awareness of the children’s health insurance options available, and to help Texas families obtain and utilize affordable coverage for their uninsured children (ages 0-19).
Texel Texel is a municipality and an island in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is the biggest and most populated of the Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea and also the westernmost of this archipelago, which extends to Denmark.
Texel (graphics) A texel, or texture element (also texture pixel) is the fundamental unit of texture spaceAndrew Glassner, An Introduction to Ray Tracing, San Francisco: Morgan–Kaufmann, 1989, used in computer graphics. Textures are represented by arrays of texels, just as pictures are represented by arrays of pixels.
Texican Style: Live from Austin (Los Lonely Boys DVD) Texican Style: Live from Austin was recorded in March, 2004 at Auditorium Shores in downtown Austin, Texas. It is estimated that more than 25,000 people filled the park that night to hear Henry, Jojo and Ringo perform live.
Teximbank Teximbank is the oldest operating private bank in Bulgaria. It was created by Georgi Naydenov, a famous Bulgarian businessman and a kind of "national hero", who brought economic prosperity to Bulgaria by creating the state-owned economic group Texim in the 60s and 70s.
Texinfo GNU Texinfo is a free computer program for generating documentation in multiple formats from one set of source code. "Texinfo" also refers to the syntax of the language and any source file used as input for the application.
Texistepec Popoluca Sierra Popoluca also called Texistepec Zoque is a Mixe-Zoquean language of the Zoquean branch spoken by around 400 indigenous Popoluca people in and around the town of Texistepec in Southern Vera Cruz, Mexico.
Texize Texize Chemical Company, Texize Household Cleaner, or simply Texize, was a chemical company incorporated in the 1940's which sold industrial cleaners to textile plants, hence the name "Texize." It was also one of the first accounts of Henderson Advertising Agency, founded by James M.
Texoma Texoma, a portmanteau of the words Texas and Oklahoma, is used to describe the area on either side of the border between these two states along the Red River valley, in particular the area around Lake Texoma, a popular recreation area.
TexSys TexSys is a web based application serving as a Texas Expert System for the selection of Hot-Mix Asphalt (HMA). TexSys is the product of a Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) study, TxDOT Project 0-4824: Guidelines for Selecting Asphalt Mixtures.
Text and rubrics of the Roman Canon Before the 1970 revision of the Roman Missal, the Mass had, in the Roman Rite, only one Anaphora or Eucharistic Prayer, which was referred to as the Canon of the Mass, and which, in the present text of the Roman Missal, is called Eucharistic Prayer I or the Roman Canon.
Text box A text box, text field or text entry box is a common element of graphical user interface of computer programs, as well as the corresponding type of widget used when programming GUIs. A text box's purpose is to allow the user to input text information to be used by the program.
Text corpus In linguistics, a corpus (plural corpora) or text corpus is a large and structured set of texts (now usually electronically stored and processed). They are used to do statistical analysis, checking occurrences or validating linguistic rules on specific universe.
Text Creation Partnership The Text Creation Partnership (TCP) is a not-for-profit organization based in the library of the University of Michigan since 2000. Its purpose is to produce large-scale full-text electronic resources (especially in the humanities) on behalf of both member institutions (particularly academic libraries) and scholarly publishers, under an arrangement calculated to serve the needs of both, and in so doing to demonstrate the value of a business model that sees corporate and non-profit information-providers as potentially amicable collaborators rather than as antagonistic vendors and customers respectively.
Text editor A text editor is software application used for editing plain text. It is distinguished from a word processor in that it does not manage document formatting or other features commonly used in desktop publishing.
Text Editor and Corrector TECO (pronounced /tee'koh/; originally an acronym for [paper] Tape Editor and COrrector, but later Text Editor and COrrector) is a text editor originally developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the 1960s and was modified by 'just about everybody'. With all the dialects included, TECO may have been the most prolific editor in use before the vi editor (later included with the UNIX operating system), and before the Emacs editor, to which TECO was directly ancestral ('Emacs' originally stood for Editing MACroS running on TECO).
Text Encoding Initiative The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a consortium of institutions and research projects which collectively maintains and develops a standard for the representation of texts in digital form. Originally sponsored by three scholarly societies, the TEI is now an independent membership consortium, hosted by academic institutions in the US and in Europe.
Text figures Text figures (also known as old-style, ranging, non-lining, or medieval figures or numerals) are numerals typeset with varying heights in a fashion that resembles a typical line of running text, hence the name. This stands in contrast to lined figures, which are all of consistent height.
Text file A text file (or plain text file) is a computer file which contains only ordinary textual characters with essentially no formatting. The term 'text file' is typically used in contrast with the term 'binary file', even though any file is fundamentally a sequence of arbitrary bits, and many computer components (for example, all hard disk circuitry and most system software) make no distinction between file types.
Text game A text game is a type of computer game that uses text characters instead of bitmapped or vector graphics. Text games are typically much easier to write and require much less processing power than graphical games, and thus were more common from 1970 to 1990.
Text mining Text mining, sometimes alternately referred to as text data mining, refers generally to the process of deriving high quality information from text. High quality information is typically derived through the divining of patterns and trends through means such as statistical pattern learning.
Text mode Text mode is a kind of computer display mode in which the content of the screen is internally represented in terms of textual characters rather than individual pixels. Typically, the screen consists of a uniform grid of character cells, each of which contains one of the characters of the character set.
Text Mode Demo Contest Text Mode Demo Contest (TMDC) is a semi-annual text mode demo competition organized by tAAt ry and held over the internet. The inherent limitations of text mode graphics create unique challenges for demosceners.
Text normalization Text normalization is a process by which text is transformed in some way to make it consistent in a way which it may not have been before. Text normalization is often performed before a text is processed in some way, such as generating synthesized speech, automated language translation, storage in a database, or comparison.
Text Of Festival (Hawkwind album) Text Of Festival is an archive album by Hawkwind consisting of BBC sessions and live performances between 1970 and 1971. It was originally released in 1983 after the band had exited their Active Records contract, and has continuously been repackaged and retitled ever since.
Text replacement Text replacement, Replace as you type or AutoCorrect is a software function commonly found in word processors such as Microsoft Word. Its principal purpose is to correct common spelling or typing errors, saving time for the user.
Text Retrieval Conference The Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) is an on-going series of workshops focusing on a list of different information retrieval (IR) research areas, or tracks. It is co-sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA) center of the U.
Text segmentation Written text segmentation is the process of dividing written text into words or other similar meaningful units. The term applies to mental processes used by humans when reading text, and to artificial processes implemented in computers, which are the subject natural language processing.
Text Simplification In natural language processing, text simplification is an important task due to the fact that much of the english language is in complex compound sentences that are not easily processible for information tasks.
Text user interface TUI short for: Text User Interface or Textual User Interface (and sometimes Terminal User Interface), is a retronym that was coined sometime after the invention of graphical user interfaces, to distinguish them from text based user interfaces. TUIs are different from command-line interfaces in that, like GUIs, they use the entire screen area and do not necessarily provide line-by-line output.
Text-based Usually used in reference to a computer application, especially a computer game, a text-based application is one whose primary input and output are based on text rather than graphics. This does not mean that text-based applications do not have graphics, just that the graphics are secondary to the text.
TextAmerica TextAmerica (or TA for short)is an online photo album or moblog site that allows you to take pictures from your digital camera or camera phone (or just PhotoShop jobs on other people's pictures) and post them to your site. Some of the moblogs are famous, such as Morgan Webb's, Cat Schwartz's, Sarah Lane's, Kevin Pereira's, et cetera.
Textcee A textcee, derivative of the word emcee, refers to one who shares his or her rap lyrics on hip hop Web sites and chat rooms as a way to improve and/or receive feedback for rap lyrics he or she may intend to record. Textcees sometimes purchase recording equipment and record their songs, at which point they are called netcees.
TextEdit TextEdit is a simple word processor and text editor, first featured in NeXT's NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP. It is now distributed with Mac OS X since Apple Computer's acquisition of NeXT and available as a GNUstep application for other unix-compatible operating systems such as Linux.
Textil MandiyĂş Textil MandiyĂş are an Argentina Football club, their home town is Corrientes, in the Province of Corrientes in North East Argentina. They currently play in Zone F of the regionalised 4th level of Argentinian football Torneo Argentino B.
Textile A textile is a flexible material comprised of a network of natural or artificial fibres often referred to as thread or yarn. Textiles are formed by weaving, knitting, crocheting, knotting, or pressing fibres together.
Textile (markup language) Textile is a lightweight markup language originally developed by Dean Allen and billed as a "humane Web text generator". Textile converts its marked-up text input to valid, well-formed XHTML and also inserts character entity references for apostrophes, opening and closing single and double quotation marks, ellipses and em dashes.
Textile engineering Textile engineering (TE) or textile technology deals with the application of scientific and engineering principles to the design and control of all aspects of fibre, textile, and apparel processes, products, and machinery. These include natural and man-made materials, interaction of materials with machines, safety and health, energy conservation, and waste and pollution control.
Textile industry The Textile industry (also known in the United Kingdom and Australia as the Rag Trade) is a term used for industries primarily concerned with the design or manufacture of clothing as well as the distribution and use of textiles .
Textile Institute of Pakistan Textile Institute of Pakistan is a textile university located in Karachi, Pakistan. It is a non-profit degree awarding university and was established by the 'All Pakistan Textile Manufacturers Association' (APTMA) in 1994.
Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution With the establishment of overseas colonies, the British Empire at the end of the 17th century/beginning of the 18th century had a vast source of raw materials and a vast market for goods. The manufacture of goods was performed on a limited scale by individual workers – usually on their own premises (such as weavers' cottages) – and was transported around the country by horse and cart, or by river boat.
Textile Museum of Canada The Textile Museum of Canada (TMC), located in the middle of downtown Toronto, Ontario, is the only museum in Canada dedicated to the collection, exhibition, and documentation of textiles from around the world. Founded in 1975, by textile enthusiasts Max Allen and Simon Waegemaekers the TMC has a mission to engage the public by fostering knowledge, creativity, and awareness.
Textile printing Textile printing is a general name for all woven fabrics and the art of ornamenting such fabrics by printing on designs or patterns in color is very ancient, probably originating in the East. This sort of printing had practically disappeared in the west, as it was unsuitable for manufacture on a large scale.
Textile workers strike (1934) The textile workers' strike of 1934 was the largest strike in United States history at the time, involving 400,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and all over the southeastern United States and lasted twenty-two days. The strike's ultimate failure and the union's defeat left the southeastern portion of the United States an unorganized and anti-union region for the next 50 years.
Textile Workers Union of America The Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) was an industrial union of textile workers established through the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1939 and merged with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America to become the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) in 1976. It waged a decades-long campaign to organize J.
TextMate TextMate is a general-purpose text editor for Mac OS X, which tries to combine the power and flexibility of UNIX text editors such as Vim and Emacs with the simplicity and elegance of a Macintosh program. Its users are mostly programmers,See this poll at the TextMate wiki for most commonly used languages: http://macromates.
Textpattern Textpattern is an open source content management system originally developed by Dean Allen. While it is often listed among weblogging tools, its aim is to be a high-quality general-purpose CMS suitable for deployment in many contexts.
Textron Founded in 1923 as the Special Yarns Company by Royal Little, Textron , today is a multi-industry company with a portfolio of familiar brands such as Bell Helicopter, E-Z-GO, Cessna Aircraft, and Greenlee, among others. With total revenues of $10 billion, and more than 37,000 employees in nearly 33 countries, Textron is headquartered at the Textron Tower in downtown Providence, RI, USA, and currently ranked 190th on the Fortune 500 list of largest companies
TextTwist TextTwist (commonly misspelled as Text Twist) is a browser-based puzzle game in which the player is given a set of six letters and must form as many words as possible with those letters. If the player is able to guess the six letter word or words before the time limit expires, that player will move on to the next round.
Textual criticism Textual criticism or lower criticism is a branch of philology or bibliography that is concerned with the identification and removal of errors from texts. Normally, the product of textual criticism is an edited text that the editor believes comes as close as possible to a lost original (called the archetype), or some other version of a text as it existed – or was intended to exist – in the past.
Textual efficiency Textual efficiency refers to the measure of time or resource used for a task (in this case, the text of a language). Some languages have more efficient text than others, although, comparing long texts of two languages is more reliable than a short text, in determining the textual efficiency.
Textualism Textualism is a formalist theory of statutory interpretation which holds that a statute's ordinary meaning should govern its interpretation, as opposed to inquiries into non-textual sources such as the intention of the legislature in passing the law, the problem it was intended to remedy, or substantive questions of the justice and rectitude of the law. It should not be confused with the "plain meaning" approach, a simpler theory first used prominently in the early Burger Court in cases such as Tennessee Valley Authority v.
Textulariida The Textulariida are a group of common foraminiferans that produce agglutinated shells, composed of foreign particles in an organic or calcareous cement. Previously they were taken to include all such species, but genetic studies have shown that they are not all closely related, and several superfamilies have been moved to the order Allogromiida.
Texture (geology) Texture in geology refers to the physical appearance or character of a rock, such as grain size, shape, and arrangement, at both the megascopic or microscopic surface feature level. This includes the geometric aspects and relations amongst the component particles or crystals which is called the crystallographic texture or preferred orientation.
Texture (music) In music texture is the overall quality of sound of a piece, most often indicated by the number of voices in the music and to the relationship between these voices (see below). A piece's texture may be further described using terms such as "thick" and "light", "rough" or "smooth".
Texture artist A texture artist is an individual that develops textures for digital media, usually for Video/Computer games and Films/TV shows. Texture Artists can be employed by video game developers and film companies to help create video/computer games or films.
Texture filtering In computer graphics, texture filtering is the method used to determine the texture color for a texture mapped pixel, using the colors of nearby texels (pixels of the texture). In short it blends the texture pixels together by breaking them up into tinier pixels.
Texture memory Texture memory is a type of digital storage that makes texture data readily available to video rendering processors (also known as GPUs), typically 3D graphics hardware. It is most often (but not always) implemented as specialized RAM that is designed for rapid reading and writing, enabling the graphics hardware increased performance in rendering 3D imagery.
Texture splatting In computer graphics, Texture splatting is a method for combining different textures. The method works by applying an alphamap to the higher levels, revealing the layers underneath where the alphamap is partially or completely transparent.
Texture synthesis Texture synthesis is the process of algorithmically constructing a large digital image from a small digital sample image by taking advantage of its structural content. It is object of research to computer graphics and is used in many fields, amongst others digital image editing, 3D computer graphics and post-production of films.
Textured vegetable protein Textured or Texturized Vegetable Protein (TVP), also known as Textured Soy Protein (TSP) is a meat substitute made from defatted soy flour, a by-product of making soybean oil. It is quick to cook, high in protein, and low in fat.
Textus Receptus Textus Receptus (Latin: "received text") is the name given to the first Greek-language text of the New Testament to be printed on a printing press. It was compiled by Dutch Catholic scholar and humanist Desiderius Erasmus in 1516 for his translation of the Bible into Greek, and later used as the basis for the translation of the New Testament by William Tyndale, for the original Luther Bible, and for most other Reformation-era translations throughout Western and Central Europe.
Textus Roffensis The Textus Roffensis was a collection of legal documents that detailed the laws of King William I of England and recorded ownership of land, like Domesday Book. The documents were in part or whole of Anglo-Saxon literature origin.
Texvc texvc (TeX validator and converter) is a program which validates (AMS) LaTeX mathematical expressions and converts them to HTML, MathML, or PNG graphics. It was written by Tomasz Wegrzanowski and is integrated into MediaWiki.
Texxas Jam The Texxas Jam was the informal nickname of an annual summer arena rock concert called the Texxas World Music Festival (1978-1988). It was held at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas and in Houston, Texas at either the Astrodome or Rice Stadium on the campus of Rice University.
TeX TeX (IPA: as in Greek, often in English; written with a lowercase 'e' in imitation of the logo) is a typesetting system created by Donald Knuth. Together with the METAFONT language for font description and the Computer Modern typeface, it was designed with two main goals in mind: first, to allow anybody to produce high-quality books using a reasonable amount of effort, and, second, to provide a system that would give the exact same results on all computers, now and in the future.
TeX font metric TeX font metric, or TFM, is a font file format used by the TeX typesetting system. It is a font metric format, not an outline font format like TrueType, because it provides only the information necessary to typeset the font such as each character's width, height and depth.
TeX Users Group TeX Users Group (TUG), founded in 1980 for educational and scientific purposes, provides an organization for those who have an interest in typography and font design, and are users of the TeX typesetting system invented by Donald Knuth. TUG is run by and for its members and represents the interests of TeX users worldwide.
Teye Teye (born 1957) is a Dutch guitarist / guitar builder / music teacher, best known for his flamenco guitar work with the Joe Ely band between 1994 and 2000, and for his flamenco ensembles 'Teye & Viva el Flamenco' and 'Teye & Belen'.
Teymur Bakhtiar Teymur Bakhtiar (تیمور بختیار in Persian) (1914 - August 12 , 1970) was an Iranian general and the founder and head of SAVAK from 1958 to 1961, when he was dismissed by the Shah. In 1970, SAVAK agents assassinated him in Iraq.

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