The Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 has been studied at length by military minds and academics for decades. The naval officer in charge of the Pacific Fleet in the months before the attack was a Texas native, Admiral James Otto Richardson.
The enormous mass public demonstrations in Iran could bring a change in regime. The fundamentalist Islamic rulers of the nation must be worried. A large number of cities across the country are experiencing the ongoing protests, though estimates of just how many vary.
February 2021’s winter storm Uri marked a severe weather event unlike any most Texans have ever faced, leaving millions without power in freezing conditions. As outages persisted, pipes froze, and millions faced water disruptions due to water main breaks, mechanical failures, and frozen or broken water lines. Many were without water for multiple days in various water utility service areas across the state, Texas Water Utilities included.
Grandparents Day has been around since the Carter Administration, but I’m not sure I realized this was a thing until a few years ago. That’s when I became a grandparent myself, and the realization hit home while attending several birthday parties, joining campus PTAs, and going to annual Grandparents Day school lunches.
I, as well as most others who string words together, will never be confused with Robert Frost, the poetry genius from whose pen flowed marvelous words about his beloved New England. One of his best--published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1915-was “The Road Not Taken.” Actually, it was intended as a joke to a writer friend.
Across the state, Texans are keeping a closer eye on their government. They’re asking questions and demanding information.
To say that Texas continues to boom is an understatement. Between 2010 and 2020, Texas added nearly 4 million people – roughly the entire population of Oklahoma.
Do you ever feel stressed? Is stress a regular component of your lifestyle? What exactly is stress? What causes it and what can you do to manage and reduce it? What you experience as stress is the result of your reaction to the events, circumstances, and people you encounter. The more you feel frustrated, a victim, helpless, a target, or picked on, the more you feel stressed.
It was a cool morning in Gainesville on October 4, 1862. A hushed silence fell as witnesses gazed at the man a lonely tree.
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, lies along the Dnieper River in southeastern Ukraine. After Russian forces brutally invaded Ukraine six months ago, they gained control of the nuclear facility early in the fighting. They based soldiers and heavy equipment there and have been using the plant as a defensive shield, lobbing shells from there and hoping Ukrainians would not risk hitting one of the six power units by counterattacking.