Galveston Island is a barrier island on the Texas Gulf Coast in the United States, about 50 miles (80.5 km) southeast of Houston. The entire island, with the exception of Jamaica Beach, is within the city limits of the City of Galveston in Galveston County.
Old Town Spring is an old town with over 150 shops, restaurants, and art galleries in Spring, a community in unincorporated Harris County, Texas.
The San Jacinto River runs from Lake Houston in Harris County, Texas, to Galveston Bay. In the past, it was home to the Karankawa and Akokisa tribes. It is named after Saint Hyacinth.
The Atakapa are an indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, who spoke the Atakapa language and historically lived along the Gulf of Mexico. Europeans adopted this name from the competing Choctaw people, whom they first encountered. The Atakapan people, made up of several bands, called themselves the Ishak, pronounced "ee-SHAK", which translates as "The People." Within the tribe, the Ishak identified as "The Sunrise People" or "The Sunset People", two moieties. Although the people were decimated by infectious disease after European contact and declined as a tribe, survivors joined other tribes. Their descendants still live in southern Louisiana and Texas. People identifying as Atakapa-Ishak had a gathering in 2006.
Yakeen is a 2005 Bollywood romantic mystery thriller film directed by Girish Dhamija, starring Arjun Rampal, Priyanka Chopra in the lead roles while Kim Sharma, Sudhanshu Pandey and Saurabh Shukla are the supporting and special appearances respectively. It also has a guest appearance by Ankur Nayyar. The film's screenplay was written by Vikram Bhatt. The film is much inspired by the 1991 Hollywood film Shattered and by the Bollywood film Uljhan. The film's premise centres on a man who recovers from an accident with amnesia, and as he starts to piece together his former life he feels that something is wrong. Yakeen was an above average grosser at the box office.
Darren Roy Mack became the subject of an international manhunt in June 2006 after being charged with the stabbing death of his 39-year-old estranged wife, Charla Mack, in the garage of their Reno, Nevada home. Mack was also suspected of, and later charged with, the sniper shooting of Family Court Judge Chuck Weller, who was handling the couple’s acrimonious divorce. Charla Mack was murdered after 9:00 a.m. on June 12, 2006, and Judge Weller was shot around 11:05 a.m. the same day. Judge Weller spent time recovering, and returned to his courtroom on August 16.
Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe was a French explorer who is credited with the discovery of Little Rock, Arkansas. He was the first known French explorer to set foot in the future state of Oklahoma.
Jee Ayan Nu is a Punjabi feature film, released in 2002.
Galveston Island State Park is a Texas state park located on western Galveston Island in Galveston County, on the western Gulf Coast in Texas.
Grihasti is a family drama produced by Sphere Origins, that aired on STAR Plus. The show premiered on 25 February 2008 and aired until 27 March 2009.
For a period of over 7000 years, humans have inhabited the Galveston Bay Area in what is now the United States. Through their history the communities in the region have been influenced by the once competing sister cities of Houston and Galveston, but still have their own distinct history. Though never truly a single, unified community, the histories of the Bay Area communities have had many common threads.
El Orcoquisac Archeological District is a registered U.S. historic site located near Galveston Bay in present-day Wallisville, Texas. The site preserves an important Spanish presidio and trading center as well as an important settlement for the Akokisa and Bidai tribes that once inhabited the area.
The Deadose were a group of Native Americans in present-day Texas closely associated with the Jumano, Yojuane, Bidai and other groups living in the Rancheria Grande of the Brazos River in eastern Texas in the early 18th century.
The Bidai were a tribe of Atakapa Indians from eastern Texas.
Sasural Simar Ka is an Indian soap opera that was aired on Colors TV. The show premiered on 25 April 2011, produced by Rashmi Sharma Telefilms. It starred Dipika Kakkar, Avika Gor, Shoaib Ibrahim, Dheeraj Dhoopar, Manish Raisinghani, Keerti Gaekwad Kelkar, Vaishali Takkar, Siddharth Shivpuri, Varun Sharma, Nikki Sharma, Monica Sharma, Krissann Barretto, Rohan Mehra and Mazher Sayed. The show ended on 2 March 2018, completing 2,063 episodes.
Lodi was the Venetian Navy brig Giasone, launched in 1795. The French captured her at Corfu in 1797. She took part in a sanguinary and inconclusive single-ship action with a British privateer shortly after her capture. She continued to serve in the Mediterranean carrying dispatches between France and Alexandria and then moved to the West Indies where she supported the French attempt to defeat the Haitian Revolution in Saint Domingue. HMS Racoon captured her on 11 July 1803; her subsequent fate is unknown.
Shoaib Ibrahim is an Indian television and film actor. He is known for playing the role of Prem Bharadwaj in Sasural Simar Ka on Colors TV. He has also played the role of Captain Abhimanyu Singh Rathore in Star Plus's Koi Laut Ke Aaya Hai. Ibrahim is married to his Sasural Simar Ka co-star Dipika Kakkar. In 2018, he played the role of Varun Babbar in Zee TV's Jeet Gayi Toh Piya Morey. He was most recently seen portraying the role of Abhimanyu in Colors TV's Ishq Mein Marjawan.
The Barker-Cypress Archeological Site is a prehistoric preservation area located in Cypress, Harris County, Texas and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Due to restrictions from the Texas Historic Commission, the exact site location cannot be revealed.
