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Amarillo, Texas

Index Amarillo, Texas

Amarillo is the 14th-most populous city in the state of Texas, United States. [1]

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Airport

An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport.

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Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument

Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument is a U.S. National Monument in the State of Texas.

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Alternative school

An alternative school is an educational establishment with a curriculum and methods that are nontraditional.

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Amarillo (Better Call Saul)

"Amarillo" is the third episode of the second season of the AMC television series Better Call Saul, the spinoff series of Breaking Bad.

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Amarillo Ballpark

Amarillo Ballpark is the working name for a baseball park that is under construction in downtown Amarillo, Texas.

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Amarillo Bulls

The Amarillo Bulls are a Tier II junior ice hockey team based in Amarillo, Texas.

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Amarillo by Morning (song)

"Amarillo by Morning" is a country music song written by Terry Stafford and Paul Fraser, and recorded by Stafford in 1973.

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Amarillo Challengers

The Amarillo Challengers were a soccer club based in Amarillo, Texas that competed in the SISL and USISL.

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Amarillo City Transit

Amarillo City Transit, marketed under the moniker of ACT, is the primary provider of mass transportation in Amarillo, Texas.

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Amarillo Civic Center

The Amarillo Civic Center is a multi-purpose convention center in Amarillo, Texas.

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Amarillo College

Amarillo College (AC) is a two-year community college in Amarillo, Texas with over 10,000 students that was established in 1929 as Amarillo Junior College.

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Amarillo Globe-News

The Amarillo Globe-News is a newspaper in Amarillo, Texas, owned by GateHouse Media.

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Amarillo Gold Sox

The Amarillo Gold Sox was the name of an American minor league baseball franchise that represented the city of Amarillo, Texas, in the Class D West Texas–New Mexico League, the Class A Western League and the Double-A Texas League at various times between 1939 and 1982.

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Amarillo Independent School District

Amarillo Independent School District is a school district that is based in the city of Amarillo, Texas, United States.

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Amarillo metropolitan area

The Amarillo Metropolitan Statistical Area is a metropolitan area in the Texas Panhandle that covers five counties: Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall, and Oldham.

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Amarillo Museum of Art

The Amarillo Museum of Art is located at 2200 S. Van Buren Street on the grounds of Amarillo College in the city of Amarillo, in the county of Potter, in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Amarillo National Bank

Amarillo National Bank (ANB) is the largest, 100 percent family-owned bank in the United States, providing commercial banking and personal banking in Amarillo, Texas, and the Texas Panhandle.

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Amarillo National Center

The Amarillo National Center is a 10,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Amarillo, Texas.

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Amarillo Sky (song)

"Amarillo Sky" is a song written by Big Kenny and John Rich (of Big & Rich), along with Rodney Clawson and Bart Pursley.

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Amarillo Slim

Thomas Austin Preston Jr. (December 31, 1928 – April 29, 2012), known as Amarillo Slim, was an American professional gambler known for his poker skills and proposition bets.

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Amarillo Texas League team

The Amarillo Texas League team is a yet-to-be-named Minor League Baseball team that will begin play as a member of the Texas League in Amarillo, Texas, in 2019.

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Amarillo Thunderheads

The Amarillo Thunderheads, formerly known as the Amarillo Sox, were a professional minor league baseball team based in Amarillo, Texas.

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Amarillo Venom

The Amarillo Venom are a professional indoor football team in the Champions Indoor Football league.

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Amarillo, Texas

Amarillo is the 14th-most populous city in the state of Texas, United States.

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AMC (TV channel)

AMC is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by it namesake AMC Networks.

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American Airlines

American Airlines, Inc. (AA) is a major United States airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, within the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.

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American Association of Independent Professional Baseball

The American Association of Independent Professional Baseball is an independent professional baseball league founded in 2005.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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American Idol

American Idol is an American singing competition television series created by Simon Fuller, produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment, and distributed by FremantleMedia North America.

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American Quarter Horse

The American Quarter Horse, or Quarter Horse, is an American breed of horse that excels at sprinting short distances.

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American Quarter Horse Association

The American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA), based in Amarillo, Texas, is an international organization dedicated to the preservation, improvement and record-keeping of the American Quarter Horse.

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American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame

The American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame and Museum was created by the American Quarter Horse Association, based in Amarillo, Texas.

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Amphitheatre

An amphitheatre or amphitheater is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and sports.

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Ann Doran

Ann Lee Doran (July 28, 1911 – September 19, 2000) was an American character actress, possibly best known as the mother of Jim Stark (James Dean) in Rebel Without a Cause.

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Arbuckle Mountains

The Arbuckle Mountains are an ancient mountain range in south-central Oklahoma in the United States.

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Area code 806

North American area code 806 is a state of Texas telephone area code for numbers in the Texas Panhandle and South Plains, including the cities of Amarillo and Lubbock.

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Arkansas

Arkansas is a state in the southeastern region of the United States, home to over 3 million people as of 2017.

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Armstrong County, Texas

Armstrong County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Asarco

ASARCO LLC (American Smelting and Refining Company) is a mining, smelting, and refining company based in Tucson, Arizona, which mines and processes primarily copper.

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Asphalt

Asphalt, also known as bitumen, is a sticky, black, and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum.

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AT&T

AT&T Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas.

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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the larger railroads in the United States.

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Atmos Energy

Atmos Energy Corporation, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is one of the United States' largest natural-gas-only distributors, serving over three million natural gas distribution customers in over 1,400 communities in nine states from the Blue Ridge Mountains in the East to the Rocky Mountains in the West.

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Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.

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Auto racing

Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing, or automobile racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition.

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Bachelor's degree

A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin baccalaureus) or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin baccalaureatus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to seven years (depending on institution and academic discipline).

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Bascom N. Timmons

Bascom Nolley Timmons (March 31, 1890 – June 8, 1987) was an American newspaperman based in Washington, D.C., in a career that spanned all or parts of six decades.

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Beau Boulter

Eldon Beau Boulter (born February 23, 1942) is a Washington, D.C.-based lobbyist who was a Republican U.S. representative from Texas between 1985 and 1989.

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Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey

The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey is an American multi-mission, tiltrotor military aircraft with both vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL), and short takeoff and landing (STOL) capabilities.

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Bell Helicopter

Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. is an American aerospace manufacturer headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Better Call Saul

Better Call Saul is an American television crime drama series created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould.

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Biographical novel

The biographical novel is a genre of novel which provides a fictional account of a contemporary or historical person's life.

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Bison

Bison are large, even-toed ungulates in the genus Bison within the subfamily Bovinae.

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Blizzard

A blizzard is a severe snowstorm characterized by strong sustained winds of at least and lasting for a prolonged period of time—typically three hours or more.

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BNSF Railway

The BNSF Railway Company is the largest freight railroad network in North America, followed by the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) in second place, its primary competitor for Western U.S. freight.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Boeing B-52 Stratofortress

The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an American long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber.

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Borger, Texas

Borger is the largest city in Hutchinson County, Texas, United States.

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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy and fatal neurodegenerative disease in cattle that may be passed to humans who have eaten infected flesh.

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Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad is an American neo-Western crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan.

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Brick

A brick is building material used to make walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction.

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Briscoe County, Texas

Briscoe County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Brownsville Girl

"Brownsville Girl" is a song from Bob Dylan's 1986 album, Knocked Out Loaded, recorded in May of that year.

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Buddy Knox

Buddy Wayne Knox (July 20, 1933 – February 14, 1999) was an American singer and songwriter, best known for his 1957 rock hit song, "Party Doll".

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Buffalo Airport (Texas)

Buffalo Airport is a privately owned, public use airport in Randall County, Texas, United States.

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Bushland Independent School District

Bushland Independent School District is a public school district based in the community of Bushland, Texas (USA).

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BWX Technologies

BWX Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Lynchburg, Virginia is an American technology i.e. power generation company.

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Cadillac

Cadillac, formally the Cadillac Motor Car Division, is a division of the U.S.-based General Motors (GM) that markets luxury vehicles worldwide.

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Cadillac Ranch

Cadillac Ranch is a public art installation and sculpture in Amarillo, Texas, USA.

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Campus radio

Campus radio (also known as college radio, university radio or student radio) is a type of radio station that is run by the students of a college, university or other educational institution.

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Canadian River

The Canadian River is the longest tributary of the Arkansas River in the United States.

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Canyon Independent School District

Canyon Independent School District is a school district based in Canyon, Texas, U.S.A..

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Canyon, Texas

Canyon is a city in, and the county seat of, Randall County, Texas, United States.

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Caprock Canyons State Park and Trailway

Caprock Canyons State Park and Trailway is a Texas state park located along the eastern edge of the Llano Estacado in Briscoe County, Texas, United States, approximately southeast of Amarillo.

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Caprock Chief

The Caprock Chief or Caprock Xpress was a proposed Amtrak inter-city rail service which would run from Fort Worth, Texas to Denver, Colorado, passing through the Texas Panhandle, which currently does not have passenger rail service of any kind.

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Cargo

In economics, cargo or freight are goods or produce being conveyed – generally for commercial gain – by water, air or land.

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Carolyn Jones

Carolyn Sue Jones (April 28, 1930 – August 3, 1983) was an American actress of television and film.

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Carpet

A carpet is a textile floor covering typically consisting of an upper layer of pile attached to a backing.

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Carson County, Texas

Carson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Cattle

Cattle—colloquially cows—are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.

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Cause célèbre

A cause célèbre (famous case; plural causes célèbres) is an issue or incident arousing widespread controversy, outside campaigning, and heated public debate.

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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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Central business district

A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city.

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Central Time Zone

The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, some Caribbean Islands, and part of the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

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Charles Goodnight

Charles Goodnight (March 5, 1836 – December 12, 1929), also known as Charlie Goodnight, was an American cattle rancher in the American West, perhaps the best known rancher in Texas.

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Chase Tower (Amarillo)

Chase Tower is a 374-foot, 31-story building located in Amarillo, Texas, United States.

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Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad

The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P RW, sometimes called Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway) was a Class I railroad in the United States.

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City

A city is a large human settlement.

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City council

A city council, town council, town board, or board of aldermen is the legislative body that governs a city, town, municipality, or local government area.

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City manager

A city manager is an official appointed as the administrative manager of a city, in a council–manager form of city government.

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Clarendon, Texas

Clarendon is a city in Donley County, Texas, United States.

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Clements Unit

The William P. "Bill" Clements Unit (BC) is a state prison of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) located in unincorporated Potter County, Texas, United States, east of the City of Amarillo.

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Clergy

Clergy are some of the main and important formal leaders within certain religions.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).

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College basketball

College basketball today is governed by collegiate athletic bodies including the United States' National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA), the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA), and the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA).

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Collingsworth County, Texas

Collingsworth County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Colorado City, Texas

Colorado City is a city in and the county seat of Mitchell County, Texas, United States.

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Comic Relief

Comic Relief is an operating British charity, and an independent sister organization of the United States-based Comic Relief Inc. It was founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Lenny Henry in response to famine in Ethiopia.

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Community college

A community college is a type of educational institution.

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Community theatre

Community theatre refers to theatrical performance made in relation to particular communities—its usage includes theatre made by, with, and for a community.

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Cornelia Adair

Cornelia Wadsworth Ritchie Adair (April 6, 1837 – September 22, 1921) was the matriarch of Glenveagh Castle in County Donegal, Ireland, now an Irish national park, and the large JA Ranch southeast of Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle, a still-active cattle ranch.

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Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.

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Council–manager government

The council–manager government form is one of two predominant forms of local government in the United States and Ireland, the other being the mayor–council government form.

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County seat

A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish.

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Cowboy

A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks.

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Cyd Charisse

Tula Ellice Charisse (née Finklea; March 8, 1922 – June 17, 2008), known professionally as Cyd Charisse, was an American dancer and actress.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Dallas Observer

The Dallas Observer is a free alternative weekly newspaper distributed in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and headquartered in Dallas.

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Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn (born 23 March 1968) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, composer and record producer.

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David Swinford

David Anthony Swinford (born June 28, 1941) is an agricultural consultant and lobbyist who served as a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1991 until his resignation on August 31, 2010.

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Death of Brian Deneke

On December 12, 1997, 19-year-old punk musician Brian Theodore Deneke (March 9, 1978 – December 12, 1997) was killed in a deliberate hit and run attack in Amarillo, Texas, by 17-year-old jock Dustin Camp.

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Denver

Denver, officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Dick Bivins Stadium

Dick Bivins Stadium is a stadium in Amarillo, Texas, USA, located at 800 S Marrs Street on the city's east side.

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District attorney

In the United States, a district attorney (DA) is the chief prosecutor for a local government area, typically a county.

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Diurnal temperature variation

In meteorology, diurnal temperature variation is the variation between a high temperature and a low temperature that occurs during the same day.

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Doc Sarpolis

Karl Sarpolis (August 31, 1897 – May 28, 1967) was a professional wrestler and wrestling promoter in Texas.

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Don Harrington Discovery Center

Don Harrington Discovery Center is a nonprofit interactive science center and planetarium in Amarillo, Texas, U.S.A. The Don Harrington Discovery Center and Space Theater makes science exciting, relevant and interesting to all types of learners by providing interactive exhibits and programs that actively engage children, adolescents and their families.

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Dory Funk

Dorrance Wilhelm "Dory" Funk (May 4, 1919 – June 3, 1973) was an American professional wrestler.

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Dory Funk Jr.

Dorrance Earnest "Dory" Funk Jr. (born February 3, 1941) is an American professional wrestler and wrestling trainer.

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Double-A (baseball)

Double-A (or Class AA) is the second highest level of play in Minor League Baseball (MiLB) in the United States after Triple-A. There are thirty Double-A teams in three leagues at this classification: Eastern League, Southern League, and the Texas League.

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Dr. Phil (talk show)

Dr.

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Drinking water

Drinking water, also known as potable water, is water that is safe to drink or to use for food preparation.

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Dry lake

A dry lake is either a basin or depression that formerly contained a standing surface water body, which disappeared when evaporation processes exceeded recharge.

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Dumas, Texas

Dumas is a city in Moore County, Texas, United States.

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Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon.

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E!

E! (originally an initialism of Entertainment Television) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group division of NBCUniversal, all owned by Comcast.

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Elementary school

Elementary school is a school for students in their first school years, where they get primary education before they enter secondary education.

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Emeritus

Emeritus, in its current usage, is an adjective used to designate a retired professor, pastor, bishop, pope, director, president, prime minister, or other person.

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Equestrianism

Equestrianism (from Latin equester, equestr-, equus, horseman, horse), more often known as riding, horse riding (British English) or horseback riding (American English), refers to the skill of riding, driving, steeplechasing or vaulting with horses.

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Ernest O. Thompson

Ernest Othmer Thompson (March 24, 1892– June 28, 1966) was a general in the United States Army during World War I, a mayor of Amarillo, Texas, an attorney, a businessman (hotels, office buildings, and oil), and a 32-year member of the Texas Railroad Commission.

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Evan Tanner

Evan Loyd Tanner (February 11, 1971 – September 8, 2008) was an American professional mixed martial arts fighter, writer, traveler, and adventurer.

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Farm-to-market road

In the United States, a farm-to-market road or ranch-to-market road (sometimes farm road or ranch road for short) is a state road or county road that connects rural or agricultural areas to market towns.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are publicly announced standards developed by the United States federal government for use in computer systems by non-military government agencies and government contractors.

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Flint

Flint is a hard, sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as a variety of chert.

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Fort Worth and Denver Railway

The Fort Worth and Denver Railway, nicknamed "the Denver Road," was a Class I American railroad company that operated in the northern part of Texas from 1881 to 1982, and had a profound influence on the early settlement and economic development of the region.

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Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth is the 15th-largest city in the United States and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas.

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Four Price

Walter Thomas Price, IV, known as Four Price (born October 8, 1967) is a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 87, which includes Carson, Hutchinson, Moore, Potter, and Sherman counties in the Texas Panhandle.

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Fox Broadcasting Company

The Fox Broadcasting Company (often shortened to Fox and stylized as FOX) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox.

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General aviation

General aviation (GA) is all civil aviation operations other than scheduled air services and non-scheduled air transport operations for remuneration or hire.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout the United States of America and its territories.

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Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts

Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts facility in downtown Amarillo, Texas, U.S.A..

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Gorillaz

Gorillaz are a British virtual band created in 1998 by musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett.

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Grady Hazlewood

Grady Hazlewood (August 18, 1902 – April 1, 1989) was a Democratic member of the Texas State Senate from 1941 to 1971, having represented the Amarillo-based District 31 in the Panhandle.

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Grain elevator

A grain elevator is an agrarian facility complex designed to stockpile or store grain.

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Grand Canyon

The Grand Canyon (Hopi: Ongtupqa; Wi:kaʼi:la, Navajo: Tsékooh Hatsoh, Spanish: Gran Cañón) is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States.

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Gray County, Texas

Gray County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Great Blizzard of 1899

The Great Blizzard of 1899 also known as the Great Arctic Outbreak of 1899 and the St.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Grid plan

The grid plan, grid street plan, or gridiron plan is a type of city plan in which streets run at right angles to each other, forming a grid.

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Grover Cleveland

Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was an American politician and lawyer who was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, the only president in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office (1885–1889 and 1893–1897).

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Hardiness zone

A hardiness zone is a geographic area defined to encompass a certain range of climatic conditions relevant to plant growth and survival.

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Harold Dow Bugbee

Harold Dow Bugbee (August 15, 1900 – March 27, 1963) was an American Western artist, illustrator, painter, and curator of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas.

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Harry Northup

Harry Northup (born September 2, 1940) is an American actor and poet.

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Hartley County, Texas

Hartley County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Hay

Hay is grass, legumes, or other herbaceous plants that have been cut, dried, and stored for use as animal fodder, particularly for grazing animals such as cattle, horses, goats, and sheep.

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Heath Herring

Heath Herring (born March 2, 1978) is an American professional mixed martial artist currently competing in the Heavyweight division of Rizin.

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Helicopter

A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by rotors.

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Helipad

A helipad is a landing area or platform for helicopters and powered lift aircraft.

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Helium

Helium (from lit) is a chemical element with symbol He and atomic number 2.

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Henry B. Sanborn

Henry B. Sanborn (September 10, 1845 – May 19, 1912) was an American businessman, rancher, hotelier, horse breeder and philanthropist.

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Hereford, Texas

Hereford is a city in and county seat of Deaf Smith County, Texas, United States.

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High Plains (United States)

The High Plains are a subregion of the Great Plains mostly in the Western United States, but also partly in the Midwest states of Nebraska, Kansas, and South Dakota, generally encompassing the western part of the Great Plains before the region reaches the Rocky Mountains.

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High school (North America)

High school is a term primarily used in the United States to describe the level of education students receive from approximately 14 to 18 years old, although there is some variation.

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Highland Park Independent School District (Potter County, Texas)

Highland Park Independent School District is a public school district based in Amarillo, Texas (USA).

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Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanic Americans and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos) are people in the United States who are descendants of people from countries of Latin America and Spain.

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Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past, and is regarded as an authority on it.

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Holy Cross Catholic Academy (Amarillo, Texas)

Holy Cross Catholic Academy is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Amarillo, Texas.

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Hoodoo (geology)

A hoodoo (also called a tent rock, fairy chimney or earth pyramid) is a tall, thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of an arid drainage basin or badland.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated 2017 population of 2.312 million within a land area of.

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Howard Greenfield

Howard Greenfield (March 15, 1936 – March 4, 1986) was an American lyricist and songwriter, who for several years in the 1960s worked out of the famous Brill Building.

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Hutchinson County, Texas

Hutchinson County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, from a story co-written by executive producer George Lucas.

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Interstate 27

Interstate 27 (I-27) is an Interstate Highway, entirely in the U.S. state of Texas, running north from Lubbock to Interstate 40 in Amarillo.

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Interstate 40

Interstate 40 (I-40) is a major east-west Interstate Highway running through the south-central portion of the United States generally north of Interstate 10 and Interstate 20 but south of Interstate 70.

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Interstate 40 in Texas

In the U.S. state of Texas, Interstate 40 (abbreviated I-40) runs west–east through the panhandle in the northwest part of the state.

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Interstate Highway System

The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, is a network of controlled-access highways that forms part of the National Highway System in the United States.

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J. D. Souther

John David Souther (born November 2, 1945) is an American singer and songwriter.

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J. L. "Dusty" Rhoades

James Lewis Rhoades, usually known as J. L. "Dusty" Rhoades (January 8, 1899 - February 3, 1978), was one of the founders of the American Quarter Horse Association, based in Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle.

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JA Ranch

The JA Ranch, jointly founded by John George Adair and Charles Goodnight, is the oldest privately owned cattle ranch in the Palo Duro Canyon section of the Texas Panhandle southeast of Amarillo.

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Jason Aldean

Jason Aldine Williams (born February 28, 1977), known professionally as Jason Aldean, is an American country music singer.

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John Adams

John Adams (October 30 [O.S. October 19] 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman and Founding Father who served as the first Vice President (1789–1797) and second President of the United States (1797–1801).

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John George Adair

John George Adair (March 3, 1823 – May 4, 1885), sometimes known as Jack Adair, was an Irish businessman and landowner, who provided the seed capital for the large JA Ranch in the Palo Duro Canyon of the Texas Panhandle, a region of Texas.

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John Marvin Jones

Judge John Marvin Jones (February 26, 1882 – March 4, 1976) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas and Chief Judge of the federal Court of Claims.

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John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman who served as a diplomat, minister and ambassador to foreign nations, and treaty negotiator, United States Senator, U.S. Representative (Congressman) from Massachusetts, and the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829.

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John T. Smithee

John True Smithee (born September 7, 1951) is an Amarillo attorney who has been the Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 86 in the Texas Panhandle since January 1985.

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Joseph Glidden

Joseph Glidden (January 18, 1813 – October 9, 1906) was an American businessman.

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Junior ice hockey

Junior hockey is ice hockey competition generally for players between 16 and 21 years of age.

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Junior League

The Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc. (AJLI) is a non-profit organization of 291 Junior Leagues in Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom and the United States.

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KACV-FM

KACV-FM (89.9 FM, "FM90") is a college radio station in Amarillo, Texas, United States.

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KACV-TV

KACV-TV, virtual channel 2 (digital channel 8), is a PBS member public television station in Amarillo, Texas.

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KAMR-TV

KAMR-TV, virtual channel 4 (UHF digital channel 19), is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Amarillo, Texas, United States.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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KCIT

KCIT, virtual channel 14 (UHF digital channel 15), is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Amarillo, Texas, United States.

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KCPN-LP

KCPN-LP, UHF analog channel 33, is a low-powered MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station licensed to Amarillo, Texas, United States.

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Kel Seliger

Kelton Gray Seliger, known as Kel Seliger (born June 16, 1953), is a Republican member of the Texas State Senate representing District 31, which stretches from the Panhandle south to the Permian Basin.

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KFDA-TV

KFDA-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 10, is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Amarillo, Texas, United States.

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KGNC

KGNC is a radio broadcast service in Amarillo, Texas, United States.

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Kidnapping

In criminal law, kidnapping is the unlawful carrying away (asportation) and confinement of a person against his or her will.

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Kimbrough Memorial Stadium

Kimbrough Memorial Stadium is a stadium in Canyon, Texas.

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KQIZ-FM

KQIZ-FM is a Rhythmic Top 40 music formatted radio station in Amarillo, Texas, United States.

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KVII-TV

KVII-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 7, is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Amarillo, Texas, United States.

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KWTS

KWTS is a radio broadcast service in Canyon, Texas, United States, and is operated by the West Texas A&M University.

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KXGL

KXGL is a commercial radio station located in Amarillo, Texas, broadcasting on 100.9 FM.

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KXSS-FM

KXSS-FM (96.9 FM, "96.9 KISS-FM") is a Top 40 (CHR) formatted radio station serving the Amarillo, Texas, market.

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KZRK-FM

KZRK-FM (107.9 FM, "Rock 108") is a radio station serving the Amarillo, Texas area with an active rock format.

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Lacey Brown

Lacey Elizabeth Brown (born August 13, 1985) is an American singer-songwriter and artist from Amarillo, Texas, who was the twelfth place finalist on the ninth season of American Idol.

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Lake Meredith

Lake Meredith is a reservoir formed by Sanford Dam on the Canadian River at Sanford, Texas.

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Landfill

A landfill site (also known as a tip, dump, rubbish dump, garbage dump or dumping ground and historically as a midden) is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial.

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Laos

Laos (ລາວ,, Lāo; Laos), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao; République démocratique populaire lao), commonly referred to by its colloquial name of Muang Lao (Lao: ເມືອງລາວ, Muang Lao), is a landlocked country in the heart of the Indochinese peninsula of Mainland Southeast Asia, bordered by Myanmar (Burma) and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southwest and Thailand to the west and southwest.

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Las Vegas

Las Vegas (Spanish for "The Meadows"), officially the City of Las Vegas and often known simply as Vegas, is the 28th-most populated city in the United States, the most populated city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County.

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Laura Vernon Hamner

Laura Vernon Hamner (July 17, 1871 – September 20, 1968) was an American author, ranch historian, radio commentator, educator, and public official from the Texas Panhandle who was known informally in her later years as "Miss Amarillo", a reference to her adopted city of Amarillo, Texas.

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Legislature

A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country or city.

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List of cities in Texas by population

The following is a list of the most populous incorporated cities, towns, and unincorporated census-designated places (CDPs) in the U.S. state of Texas.

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List of city nicknames in Texas

This partial list of city nicknames in Texas compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities in Texas are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to locals, outsiders or their tourism boards.

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List of counties in Texas

The U.S. state of Texas is divided into 254 counties, more than any other U.S. state.

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List of metropolitan statistical areas

The United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has defined 383 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) for the United States and seven for Puerto Rico.

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List of museums in the Texas Panhandle

This article was split from List of museums in Texas The list of museums in the Texas Panhandle encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.

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List of people from Amarillo, Texas

This is a List of Amarilloans, notable current and former citizens of Amarillo, Texas.

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Llano Estacado

Llano Estacado, often translated as Staked Plains, is a region in the Southwestern United States that encompasses parts of eastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas.

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Lone Star Football League

The Lone Star Football League (LSFL) was a regional professional indoor football league that played three seasons from 2012 to 2014.

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Lubbock, Texas

Lubbock is a city in and the county seat of Lubbock County, Texas, United States.

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Mac Thornberry

William McClellan "Mac" Thornberry (born July 15, 1958) is the U.S. Representative from the Texas Panhandle.

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Magazine

A magazine is a publication, usually a periodical publication, which is printed or electronically published (sometimes referred to as an online magazine).

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Maize

Maize (Zea mays subsp. mays, from maíz after Taíno mahiz), also known as corn, is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago.

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Marine One

Marine One is the call sign of any United States Marine Corps aircraft carrying the President of the United States.

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Mark E. Neely Jr.

Mark E. Neely Jr. (born November 10, 1944 in Amarillo, Texas) is an American historian best known as an authority on the U.S. Civil War in general and Abraham Lincoln in particular.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage).

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Master's degree

A master's degree (from Latin magister) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

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Max Sherman

Max Ray Sherman (born January 19, 1935) is a former member of the Texas State Senate from Amarillo, Texas.

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May Peterson Thompson

May Esther Peterson Thompson (October 7, 1880 – October 8, 1952) was an opera singer for the Metropolitan Opera Company.

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Meat packing industry

The meat packing industry handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock.

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Medal of Honor

The Medal of Honor is the United States of America's highest and most prestigious personal military decoration that may be awarded to recognize U.S. military service members who distinguished themselves by acts of valor.

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Media market

A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area (DMA), television market area, or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same (or similar) television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media including newspapers and Internet content.

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Memorial Day

Memorial Day or Decoration Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering the people who died while serving in the country's armed forces.

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

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Middle school

A middle school (also known as intermediate school or junior high school) is an educational stage which exists in some countries, providing education between primary school and secondary school.

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Minor League Baseball

Minor League Baseball is a hierarchy of professional baseball leagues in the Americas that compete at levels below Major League Baseball (MLB) and provide opportunities for player development and a way to prepare for the major leagues.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.

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Moore County, Texas

Moore County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Morris Communications

Morris Communications, headquartered in Augusta, Georgia, is a privately held media company with diversified holdings that include magazine publishing, outdoor advertising, book publishing and distribution, visitor publications, and online services.

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Mural

A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other permanent surface.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia.

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MyNetworkTV

MyNetworkTV (unofficially abbreviated as MyTV, MyNet, MNT or MNTV), is an American television network/syndication service that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group division of 21st Century Fox, operated by its Fox Television Stations division, and distributed through the syndication structure of 20th Television.

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NAACP

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by a group, including, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.

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Nat King Cole

Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American jazz pianist and vocalist.

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National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a non-profit organization which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions and conferences.

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National Helium Reserve

The National Helium Reserve, also known as the Federal Helium Reserve, is a strategic reserve of the United States holding over 1 billion cubic meters (109 m3) of helium gas.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.

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National Weather Service Amarillo, Texas

The National Weather Service Amarillo, Texas is a weather forecast office that serves 23 counties in the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles by providing weather forecasts for the many communities it serves as well as airports in Guymon, Dalhart, and Amarillo.

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National Women's Invitational Tournament

The National Women's Invitational Tournament (NWIT) was a post-season tournament for women's intercollegiate basketball programs that was contested from 1969 to 1996.

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National Wrestling Alliance

The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) is an American professional wrestling organization.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.

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Natural gas

Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly including varying amounts of other higher alkanes, and sometimes a small percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, or helium.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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NCAA Division II

Division II is an intermediate-level division of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

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Neil Sedaka

Neil Sedaka (born March 13, 1939) is an American pop singer, pianist, composer and record producer.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo México, Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern Region of the United States of America.

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Nielsen Audio

Nielsen Audio (formerly Arbitron) is a consumer research company in the United States that collects listener data on radio broadcasting audiences.

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Nielsen Media Research

Nielsen Media Research (NMR) is an American firm that measures media audiences, including television, radio, theatre films (via the AMC Theatres MAP program) and newspapers.

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Non-Hispanic whites

Non-Hispanic whites or whites not of Hispanic or Latino origin (commonly referred to as Anglo-Americans)Mish, Frederic C., Editor in Chief Webster's Tenth New Collegiate Dictionary Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.A.:1994--Merriam-Webster See original definition (definition #1) of Anglo in English: It is defined as a synonym for Anglo-American--Page 86 are European Americans who are not of Hispanic or Latino origin/ethnicity, as defined by the United States Census Bureau.

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North American Hockey League

The North American Hockey League (NAHL) is one of the top junior hockey leagues in the United States and is in its 43rd season of operation in 2018–19.

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Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb).

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Odessa, Texas

Odessa is a city in and the county seat of Ector County, Texas, United States.

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Ogallala Aquifer

The Ogallala Aquifer is a shallow water table aquifer surrounded by sand, silt, clay and gravel located beneath the Great Plains in the United States.

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Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City, often shortened to OKC, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.

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Ouachita Mountains

The Ouachita Mountains, simply referred to as the Ouachitas, are a mountain range in western Arkansas and southeastern Oklahoma.

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Ounce

The ounce (abbreviated oz; apothecary symbol: ℥) is a unit of mass, weight, or volume used in most British derived customary systems of measurement.

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Owens Corning

Owens Corning is a global company that develops and produces insulation, roofing, and fiberglass composites.

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Palo Duro Canyon

Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment located in the Texas Panhandle near the cities of Amarillo and Canyon.

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Pampa, Texas

Pampa is a city in Gray County, Texas, United States.

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Panhandle–Plains Historical Museum

Panhandle–Plains Historical Museum is a history museum on the campus of West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas, U.S.A., a small city south of Amarillo.

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Pantex Plant

The Pantex Plant is the primary United States nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility that aims to maintain the safety, security and reliability of the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile.

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Paratransit

Paratransit is recognized in North America as special transportation services for people with disabilities, often provided as a supplement to fixed-route bus and rail systems by public transit agencies.

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Paul Green (playwright)

Paul Eliot Green (March 17, 1894 – May 4, 1981) was an American playwright best known for his historical dramas of life in North Carolina during the first decades of the twentieth century.

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Paul H. Carlson

Paul Howard Carlson (born August 30, 1940), an historian of Texas, the American West, and Native Americans, is a professor emeritus at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.

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Paul Harpole

Paul Harpole (born 1950) is an American politician and businessman who served as the Mayor of Amarillo, Texas, the largest city in the Texas Panhandle, from May 2011 to May 2017.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Per capita income

Per capita income or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Peter Kay

Peter John Kay (born 2 July 1973) is an English comedian and actor.

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Petroleum

Petroleum is a naturally occurring, yellow-to-black liquid found in geological formations beneath the Earth's surface.

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Phil McGraw

Phillip Calvin McGraw (born September 1, 1950), known as Dr.

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Phoenix Nights

Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights is a British sitcom about The Phoenix Club, a working men's club in the northern English town of Bolton, Greater Manchester.

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Picnic

A picnic is a meal taken outdoors (''al fresco'') as part of an excursion – ideally in scenic surroundings, such as a park, lakeside, or other place affording an interesting view, or else in conjunction with a public event such as preceding an open-air theatre performance, and usually in summer.

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Pipe organ

The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air (called wind) through organ pipes selected via a keyboard.

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Plainview, Texas

Plainview is a city in and the county seat of Hale County, Texas, United States.

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Potter County Memorial Stadium

Potter County Memorial Stadium is a baseball-only stadium in Amarillo, Texas.

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Potter County, Texas

Potter County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit or poverty line is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Primary education

Primary education and elementary education is typically the first stage of formal education, coming after preschool and before secondary education (The first two grades of primary school, Grades 1 and 2, are also part of early childhood education).

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Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling (often shortened to pro wrestling or simply wrestling) is a form of sports entertainment which combines athletics with theatrical performance.

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Radio

Radio is the technology of using radio waves to carry information, such as sound, by systematically modulating properties of electromagnetic energy waves transmitted through space, such as their amplitude, frequency, phase, or pulse width.

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Radio station

A radio station is a set of equipment necessary to carry on communication via radio waves.

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Rail transport

Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.

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Railroad Commission of Texas

The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC; also sometimes called the Texas Railroad Commission, TRC) is the state agency that regulates the oil and gas industry, gas utilities, pipeline safety, safety in the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) industry, and surface coal and uranium mining.

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Randall County, Texas

Randall County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Randall High School (Amarillo, Texas)

Randall High School is a public high school located in the city limits of Amarillo, Texas (USA).

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

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Republican Party of Texas

The Republican Party of Texas (RPT) is one of the two major political parties in the U.S. State of Texas.

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Rick Husband

Rick Douglas Husband (July 12, 1957 – February 1, 2003) (Colonel, USAF) was an American astronaut and fighter pilot.

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Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport

Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport is a public airport six miles (10 km) east of downtown Amarillo, in Potter and Randall Counties, Texas, United States.

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River Road Independent School District

River Road Independent School District is a public school district based in rural north central Potter County, Texas (USA).

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Rob Zombie

Rob Zombie (born Robert Bartleh Cummings; January 12, 1965) is an American musician, filmmaker and screenwriter.

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Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938 – July 20, 1973) was an American artist who used photography in relation to sculpture and land art.

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Rodeo

Rodeo is a competitive sport that arose out of the working practices of cattle herding in Spain, Mexico, and later Central America, South America, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

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Route 66 (song)

"(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" is a popular rhythm and blues standard, composed in 1946 by American songwriter Bobby Troup.

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Roy Whittenburg

Roy Robert Whittenburg, Sr. (January 11, 1913 – December 29, 1980), was a landowner, oilman, rancher, banker, and newspaper publisher from Amarillo, Texas, who was the Republican nominee in 1958 for the U.S. Senate against the Democratic incumbent, Ralph W. Yarborough.

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San Antonio Missions

The San Antonio Missions are a Minor League Baseball team of the Texas League and are the Double-A affiliate of the San Diego Padres.

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Santa Fe Building (Amarillo)

The Santa Fe Building is one of the oldest buildings in downtown Amarillo, Texas, U.S.A..

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Santa Fe, New Mexico

Santa Fe (or; Tewa: Ogha Po'oge, Yootó) is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico.

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Saul Goodman

James Morgan "Jimmy" McGill, also known as Saul Goodman and Gene, is a fictional character who appears in the television series Breaking Bad and serves as the title character of its spin-off prequel series Better Call Saul.

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School district

A school district is a special-purpose district that operates local public primary and secondary schools in various nations.

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Secondary education

Secondary education covers two phases on the International Standard Classification of Education scale.

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Semi-arid climate

A semi-arid climate or steppe climate is the climate of a region that receives precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate.

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Silage

Silage is fermented, high-moisture stored fodder which can be fed to cattle, sheep and other such ruminants (cud-chewing animals) or used as a biofuel feedstock for anaerobic digesters.

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Skatepark

A skatepark, or skate park, is a purpose-built recreational environment made for skateboarding, BMX, scooter, wheelchair, and aggressive inline skating.

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Sorghum

Sorghum is a genus of flowering plants in the grass family Poaceae.

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South by Southwest

South by Southwest (abbreviated as SXSW and colloquially referred to as South By) is an annual conglomerate of film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States.

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Soybean

The soybean (Glycine max), or soya bean, is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible bean, which has numerous uses.

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Space Shuttle Columbia

Space Shuttle Columbia (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-102) was the first space-rated orbiter in NASA's Space Shuttle fleet.

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Space Shuttle Columbia disaster

On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' disintegrated upon reentering Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven crew members.

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St. Andrew's Episcopal School (Amarillo, Texas)

St.

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Stanley Marsh 3

Stanley Marsh 3 (January 31, 1938 – June 17, 2014), was an American artist, businessman, philanthropist, and prankster from Amarillo, Texas.

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Steven Berk

Steven Lee Berk (born 1949) is a specialty physician and academic dean of medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, Texas, who in 2011 wrote a book, Anatomy of a Kidnapping: A Doctor's Story, about his experiences six years earlier as a victim of kidnapping from his then residence off Interstate 27 in the Randall County portion of Amarillo, the major city of the Texas Panhandle.

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Strategic Air Command

Strategic Air Command (SAC) was both a Department of Defense Specified Command and a United States Air Force (USAF) Major Command (MAJCOM), responsible for Cold War command and control of two of the three components of the U.S. military's strategic nuclear strike forces, the so-called "nuclear triad," with SAC having control of land-based strategic bomber aircraft and intercontinental ballistic missiles or ICBMs (the third leg of the triad being submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) of the U.S. Navy).

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STS-107

STS-107 was the 113th flight of the Space Shuttle program, and the final flight of Space Shuttle ''Columbia''.

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Suddenlink Communications

Suddenlink Communications is an American telecommunications subsidiary of Altice USA which specializes in cable television, high-speed internet, broadband phone, home security and advertising.

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T. Boone Pickens

Thomas Boone Pickens Jr. (born May 22, 1928), known as T. Boone Pickens, is an American business magnate and financier. Pickens chairs the hedge fund BP Capital Management. He was a well-known takeover operator and corporate raider during the 1980s. As of November 2016, Pickens has a net worth of $500 million.

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T. Cullen Davis

Thomas Cullen Davis (born September 22, 1933, Fort Worth, Texas) is an American oil heir and member of a prominent family.

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Telephone numbering plan

A telephone numbering plan is a type of numbering scheme used in telecommunication to assign telephone numbers to subscriber telephones or other telephony endpoints.

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Television station

A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity, such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's surface to a receiver on earth.

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Terry Funk

Terrence Funk (born June 30, 1944) is an American semi-retired professional wrestler and actor.

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Terry Stafford

Terry LaVerne Stafford (November 22, 1941 – March 17, 1996) was an American singer and songwriter, best known for his 1964 U.S. Top 10 hit, "Suspicion", and the 1973 country music hit, "Amarillo by Morning".

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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Texas Air & Space Museum

The Texas Air & Space Museum is an aviation museum located near Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport in Amarillo, Texas.

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Texas Courts of Appeals

The Texas Courts of Appeals are part of the Texas judicial system.

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Texas Department of Criminal Justice

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is a department of the government of the U.S. state of Texas.

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Texas League

The Texas League is a Minor League Baseball league which operates in the South Central United States.

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Texas Legislature

The Legislature of the state of Texas is the state legislature of Texas.

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Texas Panhandle

The Texas Panhandle is a region of the U.S. state of Texas consisting of the northernmost 26 counties in the state.

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Texas Senate

The Texas Senate is the upper house of the Texas State Legislature.

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Texas Tech University

Texas Tech University, often referred to as Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU, is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas.

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Texas Tech University at Amarillo

Texas Tech University at Amarillo, located in Amarillo, Texas, is an official off campus teaching site of Lubbock-based Texas Tech University.

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Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) is a multi-campus institution based in Lubbock, Texas with additional campuses located in Abilene, Amarillo, Dallas, El Paso and the Permian Basin.

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Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at Amarillo

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at Amarillo (TTUHSC Amarillo) is a branch campus of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) located in Amarillo, Texas.

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Texas's 13th congressional district

Texas District 13 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional District of the U.S. state of Texas that includes most of the Texas Panhandle, parts of Texoma and northeastern parts of North Texas.

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The Big Texan Steak Ranch

The Big Texan Steak Ranch is a steakhouse restaurant and motel located in Amarillo, Texas, United States which opened on the previous U.S. Route 66 in the 4500 block of East Amarillo Boulevard in 1960.

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The Fall (Gorillaz album)

The Fall is the fourth studio album by British virtual band Gorillaz.

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The Oprah Winfrey Show

The Oprah Winfrey Show, often referred to simply Oprah, is an American syndicated talk show that aired nationally for 25 seasons from September 8, 1986 to May 25, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Theatrical producer

A theatrical producer is a person who oversees all aspects of mounting a theatre production.

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Thomas E. Creek

Thomas Elbert Creek (April 7, 1950 – February 13, 1969) was a United States Marine who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for heroism during February 1969 in Vietnam.

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Tom Blasingame

Thomas Everett Blasingame, known as Tom Blasingame (February 12, 1898 – December 27, 1989), was a Texas cowboy for seventy-three years.

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Tom Mechler

Thomas Richard Mechler (born November 1956), a petroleum and natural gas consultant from Amarillo, Texas, is the immediate past chairman of the Republican Party of Texas.

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Tony Christie

Tony Christie (born 25 April 1943) is an English musician, singer and actor.

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Tornado Alley

Tornado Alley is a colloquial term for the area of the United States (or by some definitions extending into Canada) where tornadoes are most frequent.

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Tradewind Airport

Tradewind Airport is a privately owned public use airport in Randall County, Texas, United States.

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Traffic sign

Traffic signs or road signs are signs erected at the side of or above roads to give instructions or provide information to road users.

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Trent Sisemore

Trent Sisemore (born September 5, 1961) is the former Mayor of Amarillo, Texas.

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TruTV

TruTV (stylized as truTV) is an American pay television channel owned by the Turner Broadcasting division of WarnerMedia.

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Tulia, Texas

Tulia is a city in, and county seat of, Swisher County, Texas, United States.

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Tyson Foods

Tyson Foods, Inc., also known by the public as Tyson Corporation, is an American multinational corporation based in Springdale, Arkansas, that operates in the food industry.

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U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report is an American media company that publishes news, opinion, consumer advice, rankings, and analysis.

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U.S. Route 287 in Texas

U.S. Highway 287 (US 287) in the U.S. state of Texas is a major U.S. Highway that begins on the Gulf Coast in Port Arthur and heads north through Fort Worth, northwest to Childress, Clarendon, and Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle and into Oklahoma near Kerrick.

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U.S. Route 60 in Texas

The portion of U.S. Highway 60 in Texas is a highway that runs southwest to northeast through the Texas Panhandle.

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U.S. Route 66 in Texas

U.S. Route 66 (US 66, Route 66) in the state of Texas extended across the Texas Panhandle from its designation in 1926 to its decommissioning in 1985.

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U.S. Route 87 in Texas

In the U.S. state of Texas, U.S. Highway 87 (US 87) is a north–south U.S. Highway that begins near the Gulf Coast in Port Lavaca, Texas and heads north through San Antonio, Lubbock, and Amarillo to the New Mexico border near Texline.

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Ultimate Fighting Championship

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is an American mixed martial arts organization based in Las Vegas, Nevada, that is owned and operated by parent company William Morris Endeavor.

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Unincorporated area

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country.

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Union Pacific Railroad

The Union Pacific Railroad (or Union Pacific Railroad Company and simply Union Pacific) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans.

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United Soccer Leagues

The United Soccer Leagues (USL) is the organizer of several soccer leagues with teams in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB; officially the Bureau of the Census, as defined in Title) is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber.

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United States Numbered Highway System

The United States Numbered Highway System (often called U.S. Routes or U.S. Highways) is an integrated network of roads and highways numbered within a nationwide grid in the contiguous United States.

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United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS; also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service) is an independent agency of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, including its insular areas and associated states.

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United Supermarkets

United Supermarkets is a North American supermarket grocery store chain.

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Vietnam

Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia.

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W. D. Twichell

Willis Day Twichell (March 24, 1864 – September 23, 1959) was a Texas surveyor and civil engineer, based primarily in Amarillo and later Austin, who surveyed 165 of the state's 254 counties.

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W. Winfred Moore

William Winfred Moore (February 15, 1920 – May 8, 2015), the retired pastor of the First Baptist Church of Amarillo, Texas, served as the president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas and was a prominent figure in the Southern Baptist Convention during the second half of the 20th century.

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Wayland Baptist University

Wayland Baptist University (WBU) is private, coeducational Baptist university based in Plainview, Texas.

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West Texas A&M University

West Texas A&M University, also known as WTAMU, WT, and formerly West Texas State, part of the Texas A&M University System, is a public university located in Canyon, Texas, a city of 13,303 approximately 13 miles south of Amarillo, a city of 190,695.

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Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various arts which tell stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West, often centering on the life of a nomadic cowboy or gunfighter armed with a revolver and a rifle who rides a horse.

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Western United States

The Western United States, commonly referred to as the American West, the Far West, or simply the West, traditionally refers to the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States.

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Weyerhaeuser

Weyerhaeuser (pronounced "Warehouser") Company, is one of the world's largest private owners of timberlands, owning or controlling nearly 12.4 million acres of timberlands in the U.S. and managing additional 14.0 million acres timberlands under long-term licenses in Canada.

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Wheat

Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain which is a worldwide staple food.

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Wheeler County, Texas

Wheeler County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Wonderland Park (Texas)

Wonderland Park is an amusement park located in Thompson Memorial Park, Amarillo, Texas.

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Working Ranch Cowboys Association

The Working Ranch Cowboys Association (WRCA) was established in 1995 in Amarillo, Texas as a professional association for ranch owners, foremen, and cowboys.

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Xcel Energy

Xcel Energy Inc. is a utility holding company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, serving more than 3.3 million electric customers and 1.8 million natural gas customers in Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, Texas and New Mexico.

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XIT Ranch

The XIT Ranch was a cattle ranch in the Texas Panhandle which operated from 1885 to 1912.

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ZIP Code

ZIP Codes are a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS) since 1963.

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Zoo

A zoo (short for zoological garden or zoological park and also called an animal park or menagerie) is a facility in which all animals are housed within enclosures, displayed to the public, and in which they may also breed.

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(Is This the Way to) Amarillo

"(Is This The Way To) Amarillo" is a song written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarillo,_Texas

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