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Happy Birthday, “Babe” Didrickson Zaharias!

The Didricksons of Port Arthur, Texas named their new baby girl Mildred Ella, but...

Paul Neal “Red” Adair was born June 18, 1915 and lived to be 89...

Two well-known Texas philanthropists were born one day apart in the same year–Paul J....

You might say Willie Nelson was a boy who was born in the middle...

In the depths of the Great Depression on April 26, 1933, a baby girl was...

When Roy Kelton Orbison entered his small corner of the world in Vernon Texas...

I talk a lot about “learning as a lifestyle for a lifetime.” I practice...

For a quiet man, Erastus “Deaf” Smith‘s name sure pops up a lot! I’ve...

On April 9, 1895 a son was born to an ex-slave father and his...

John Arthur “Jack” Johnson was born in Galveston, Texas to Henry and Tina Johnson,...