Toronto is a prominent centre for music,[32] theatre,[33] motion picture production,[34] and television production,[35] and is home to the headquarters of Canada's major national broadcast networks and media outlets.[36] Its varied cultural institutions,[37] which include numerous museums and ...
Haggard completed his first single, "Skid Row," on Bakersfield's Tally label. In 1965, he went on to sign with Capitol Records.[95] Most of Haggard's early songs reflect his time spent in prison, farming, and working blue collar jobs in Southern California, including Bakersfield.[95] ...
Maybe it’s the connection human beings have with each other, rushing in to help when it’s needed. And maybe playing together as a team became instinctual because each knew what to do. Or maybe it’s both. Maybe, deep inside, we all know that we are on the same team....
Texas: Pflugerville High School stadium Much of the action of “Friday Night Lights” takes place on a Texas high school football field. Pflugerville High School’s own football stadium, which is north of Austin, stood in for the show’s Dillon Panthers’ own field in the pilot episode. Uta...
Houston (/ˈ h juː s t ən / ( listen ) ; HEW -stən) is the most populous city in Texas, fourth-most populous city in the United States, most populous city in the Southern United States, as well as the sixth-most populous in North America, with a population of 2,304,...
Dallas and nearby Fort Worth were initially developed due to the construction of major railroad lines through the area allowing access to cotton, cattle and later oil in North and East Texas. The construction of the Interstate Highway System reinforced Dallas's prominence as a transportation hub,...
Edison's assistant in the invention of the lamp, supervised the installation.[65] In September 2010, a sculpture of three giant light bulbs was erected in Brno, in front of the theatre.[66] The first Edison light bulbs in the Nordic countries were installed at the weaving hall of the Fin...
[80] National Grid, Texas Instruments and Carlsberg.[81] In 1974, Princess Benedikte of Denmark opened Northampton's Carlsberg brewery, the first outside Denmark.[82] The University of Northampton is also a major employer, as is St Andrew's Healthcare, a national mental health charity. St ...
and Texas, as well as Missouri and Tennessee. Henry J. Kaiser's representatives recruited sharecroppers and tenant farmers from rural areas to work in his shipyards. African Americans were part of the Great Migration by which five million persons left the South, mostly for the West, from 1940...