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Reagan County is a county on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census,its population was 3,385. The county seat is Big Lake. The county is named after John Henninger Reagan (1818-1905),who was the postmaster general of the Confederate States and also a U.S. senator,U.S. representative,and first chairman of the Railroad Commission of Texas.
The Portland Fire were a professional basketball team in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) based in Portland,Oregon that joined the league in 2000 as the counterpart to the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers. They played their games at the Rose Garden. The team folded after the 2002 season,after just three seasons in the league. They were the only WNBA team that had never made the playoffs.
Julia O'Hara Stiles is an American actress. Born and raised in New York City,Stiles began acting at the age of 11 as part of New York's La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. Her film debut was a small role in ILove You,I Love You Not (1996),followed by a lead role in Wicked (1998) for which she received the Karlovy Vary Film Festival Award for Best Actress. She rose to prominence with leading roles in teen films such as 10 Things I Hate About You (1999),Down to You (2000),and Save the Last Dance (2001). Her accolades include an NBR Award,a CFCA Award,a Gold Derby Award,a Teen Choice Award and two MTV Movie Awards,as well as Satellite Award,Gotham Award,Golden Globe Award,and Emmy Award nominations.
Jackie Marie Stiles is an American college basketball coach who was formerly an assistant coach for the University of Oklahoma women's basketball team and at Missouri State University. Stiles set several scoring records while playing shooting guard in college and was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016.
Norbert Peter Stiles was an English footballer and manager. He played for England for five years,winning 28 caps and scoring one goal. He played every minute of England's victorious 1966 FIFA World Cup campaign. In the semi-final of that tournament against Portugal,he was given the job of marking the prolific Eusébio. His tough performance resulted in Eusébio being practically nullified for the entire game. Stiles also played in the final,which England won 4–2 against West Germany. His post-match dance on the Wembley pitch,holding the World Cup trophy in one hand and his false teeth in the other,was widely broadcast.
Ezra Stiles College is one of the fourteen residential colleges at Yale University,built in 1961 and designed by Eero Saarinen. It is often simply called "Stiles," despite an early-1990s crusade by then-master Traugott Lawler to preserve the use of the full name in everyday speech. The College is named after Ezra Stiles,the seventh President of Yale. Architecturally,it is known for its lack of right angles between walls in the living areas. It sits next to Morse College.
The Street with No Name is a 1948 film noir directed by William Keighley. A follow-up to The House on 92nd Street (1945),it tells the story of an undercover FBI agent,Gene Cordell,who infiltrates a deadly crime gang. Cordell's superior,FBI Inspector George A. Briggs,also appears in The House on 92nd Street. The film,shot in a semidocumentary style,takes place in the Skid Row section of fictional "Center City."
Leander Independent School District is a school district based in Leander,Texas (USA) and covering a total of 200 square miles (520 km2) in Leander,Cedar Park,Georgetown,Jonestown,Round Rock in Williamson County and northwest Austin in Travis County. In 2015,the school district was rated "Met Standards" by the Texas Education Agency.
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Grady Franklin Stiles Jr. was an American freak show performer and murderer. His deformity was the genetic condition ectrodactyly,in which the fingers and toes are fused together to form claw-like extremities. Because of this,Stiles performed under the stage name "Lobster Boy".
Stiles is a ghost town in Reagan County,Texas,United States,about 18 mi (29 km) north of Big Lake. As the only town in the area when Reagan County was established in 1903,Stiles was made the county seat. Bypassed by the railroad and eclipsed when oil was discovered near Big Lake,Stiles was replaced with Big Lake as the county seat in 1925.
The Texas Tribune is an online newspaper headquartered in Austin,Texas. It aims to promote civic engagement through original,explanatory journalism and public events.
The Baytown Sun,is a newspaper published in Baytown,Texas,United States. It was first published 1919 as the Goose Creek Gasser. The paper is owned by Southern Newspapers Inc.,a news-media company based in Houston,Texas.
Jesse Woodson James was an American outlaw,bank and train robber,guerrilla and leader of the James–Younger Gang. Raised in the "Little Dixie" area of Western Missouri,James and his family maintained strong Southern sympathies. He and his brother Frank James joined pro-Confederate guerrillas known as "bushwhackers" operating in Missouri and Kansas during the American Civil War. As followers of William Quantrill and "Bloody Bill" Anderson,they were accused of committing atrocities against Union soldiers and civilian abolitionists,including the Centralia Massacre in 1864.
Mark W. Stiles Unit is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice men's prison located in an unincorporated area of Jefferson County,Texas,near Beaumont. The unit,located along Farm to Market Road 3514,is 4 miles (6.4 km) southeast of downtown Beaumont. The approximately 776 acres (314 ha) unit is co-located with the Gist Unit and the LeBlanc Unit.
The H. H. Coffield Unit (CO) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison for men in unincorporated Anderson County,Texas. The prison,near Tennessee Colony,is along Farm to Market Road 2054. The unit,on a 20,518 acres (8,303 ha) plot of land,is co-located with Beto,Gurney,Michael,and Powledge units. With a capacity of 4,139 inmates,Coffield is the TDCJ's largest prison. Coffield opened in June 1965.
Hillary Jane Ashton Stiles is an American Christian musician,who primarily plays a Christian R&B,Christian hip hop,and a Christian pop style of music. She has released two extended plays,Stix and Stones and Stix and Stones Unplugged,both in 2014,with Infiltrate Music.
Marit Stiles is a Canadian politician who has represented Davenport in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since June 7,2018. A member of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP),Stiles is presumed to be the next party leader,pending a confirmation vote from NDP members scheduled in 2023.
Bill Downing a.k.a. William F. Downing was a notorious outlaw during the Wild West era in Arizona. Downing had fled from the Texas Rangers posse who was after him when he came to Arizona. In Arizona,he was involved in the killing of William S. “Slim”Traynor and in various train robberies including the robbery of the Train Depot in the town of Cochise. Downing was so unpopular that even members of his gang couldn't stand him.
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