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Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash is a deprecated multimedia software platform used for production of animations, rich Internet applications, desktop applications, mobile applications, mobile games and embedded web browser video players.
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Anthony Francis Lucas
Anthony Francis Lucas (born Antun Lučić; September 9, 1855 – September 67,1921) was an American Croatian-born oil explorer.
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Beaumont, Texas
Beaumont is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, Texas in the United States, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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Blowout (well drilling)
A blowout is the uncontrolled release of crude oil and/or natural gas from an oil well or gas well after pressure control systems have failed.
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Boomtown
A boomtown is a community that undergoes sudden and rapid population and economic growth, or that is started from scratch.
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CBS
CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.
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Chevron Corporation
Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation.
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Cleveland
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the county seat of Cuyahoga County.
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DeForest Kelley
Jackson DeForest Kelley (January 20, 1920 – June 11, 1999), known to colleagues as "De", was an American actor, screenwriter, poet and singer known for his roles in Westerns and as Dr.
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Evaporite
Evaporite is the term for a water-soluble mineral sediment that results from concentration and crystallization by evaporation from an aqueous solution.
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Gulf Oil
Gulf Oil was a major global oil company from 1901 to 1981.
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IMDb
IMDb, also known as Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to world films, television programs, home videos and video games, and internet streams, including cast, production crew and personnel biographies, plot summaries, trivia, and fan reviews and ratings.
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Jean Byron
Jean Byron (born Imogene Audette Burkhart; December 10, 1925February 3, 2006) was an American film, television, and stage actress.
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Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana
Jefferson Davis Parish (Paroisse de Jefferson Davis) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Jurassic
The Jurassic (from Jura Mountains) was a geologic period and system that spanned 56 million years from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period Mya.
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Lamar University
Lamar University, often referred to as Lamar or LU, is a public coeducational doctoral/research university in Beaumont, Texas.
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List of National Historic Landmarks in Texas
This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in Texas and other landmarks of equivalent landmark status in the state.
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Louann Salt
The Louann Salt is a widespread evaporite formation that formed in the Gulf of Mexico during the Callovian in the mid Jurassic.
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Louisiana
Louisiana is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.
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Louisiana Historical Association
The Louisiana Historical Association is an organization of professional historians and interested laypersons dedicated to the preservation, publication, and dissemination of the history of the U.S. state of Louisiana, with particular emphasis at the inception on territorial, statehood, and the American Civil War periods.
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Louisiana State Legislature
The Louisiana State Legislature (Législature d'État de Louisiane) is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Mike Ragan
Mike Ragan, born Hollis "Holly" Alan Bane (February 18, 1918 - August 25, 1995), was an American actor of primarily western films and television—but some dramatic roles, too—from the 1940s until 1968.
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson County, Texas
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson County, Texas.
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Oil
An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is a viscous liquid at ambient temperatures and is both hydrophobic (does not mix with water, literally "water fearing") and lipophilic (mixes with other oils, literally "fat loving").
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Oil field
An "oil field" or "oilfield" is a region with an abundance of oil wells extracting petroleum (crude oil) from below ground.
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Parley Baer
Parley Edward Baer (August 5, 1914 – November 22, 2002) was an American actor in radio and later in television and film.
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Pattillo Higgins
Pattillo Higgins (December 5, 1863 – June 5, 1955) was a businessman as well as a self-taught geologist.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.
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Robert Bray
Robert E. Bray (October 23, 1917 – March 7, 1983) was an American film and television actor probably best remembered for his role as the forest ranger Corey Stuart in the CBS series Lassie.
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Salt dome
A salt dome is a type of structural dome formed when a thick bed of evaporite minerals (mainly salt, or halite) found at depth intrudes vertically into surrounding rock strata, forming a diapir.
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Spindletop Hall
Spindletop Hall, located at 3414 Iron Works Pike in Lexington, KY, is the former home of Pansy Yount, wife of Miles Franklin Yount of the Yount-Lee Oil Company.
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Spring (hydrology)
A spring is any natural situation where water flows from an aquifer to the Earth's surface.
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Standard Oil
Standard Oil Co.
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Sulfur
Sulfur or sulphur is a chemical element with symbol S and atomic number 16.
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Texaco
Texaco, Inc. ("The Texas Company") is an American oil subsidiary of Chevron Corporation.
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Texas oil boom
The Texas oil boom, sometimes called the gusher age, was a period of dramatic change and economic growth in the U.S. state of Texas during the early 20th century that began with the discovery of a large petroleum reserve near Beaumont, Texas.
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Tyler McVey
Tyler McVey (February 14, 1912 – July 4, 2003) was an American character actor of film and television.
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W. Scott Heywood
Walter Scott Heywood, known as W. Scott Heywood (May 21, 1872 – November 28, 1950), was a member of the Louisiana State Senate who earlier headed a family-owned company which struck the first oil well in Louisiana on September 21, 1901 near Jennings in Jeff Davis Parish.
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William Fawcett (actor)
William Fawcett (born William Fawcett Thompson; September 8, 1894 – January 25, 1974) was a character actor in Hollywood B-films and in television.
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You Are There (series)
You Are There was an American historical educational television and radio series broadcast over the CBS Radio and CBS Television networks.
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Yount-Lee Oil Company
The Yount-Lee Oil Company, founded in 1914, was the successor to the Yount-Rothwell Oil Company which had been formed earlier by Miles Franklin Yount and Talbot Frederick Rothwell.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spindletop
