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* ... that '''[[Capote Falls]]''' is the highest waterfall in Texas, and the only location where '''[[Aquilegia hinckleyana|Hinckley's columbine]]''' occurs in the wild?
* ... that the Chapline columbine is generally considered a distinct species, except in Texas, where it is considered a variety of the golden columbine?
* ... that the '''[[Aquilegia chaplinei|Chapline columbine]]''' is generally considered a distinct species, except in Texas, where it is considered a variety of the '''[[Aquilegia chrysantha|golden columbine]]'''?
* ... that according to '''[[George K. Teulon]]''' all of the presidents and vice-presidents of the [[Republic of Texas]], and four-fifths of its government officials, were [[freemasonry|freemasons]]?
:[[SpaceX]] launches its [[Starship flight test 7|seventh test flight]] of the [[SpaceX Starship|Starship launch vehicle]], with an improved [[SpaceX Starship (spacecraft)|second stage]], at [[SpaceX Starbase|Starbase]] in [[Texas]], [[United States]]. The [[SpaceX Super Heavy|first stage]] is successfully caught by the launch tower but the second stage breaks up shortly before engine shutdown. [https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/16/spacex-launch-starship-flight-seven-starlink-satellite-test.html (CNBC)]
:At least two people are killed in a tornado outbreak across the [[southern United States|southern]] [[United States]], with damage reported near [[Houston]], [[Texas]]. [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/weather/2024/12/28/tornadoes-texas-videos/77292449007/ (''USA Today'')]
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Is there anyone in charge of updating this portal and changing the feature article? I noticed the feature article about Marshall has been up for a while, and wondered how often a new one was picked. –Benjamin (talk) 17:57, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I added a wikitable with state flower, bird etc..., into the intro section, need formating help. Was tryin to make it a full page width table, maybe not enough info for that. But the way it is, there are big ugly gaps in the intro. I tried it on it's own subpage at first, if someone can make this work pretty in any form or fashion, you'll get a Cookie!!!! :) Joe I11:29, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hope you don't mind, but I just moved the State symbols into a separate box in the portal. Though, I'm not entirely sure the table is formatted okay for everyone's browser, screen size, ... As for peer review, one thing is to make sure the selected articles and pictures are archived. See Portal:Politics or other featured portals for examples. Also, if you are going to rotate articles and pictures every month, it's possible to put them on automatic rotation and queue them up in advance. Articles can also be set to rotate weekly (though I'm not sure there are enough articles for Texas to do it that often). Again, take a look at Portal:Politics which has the article rotating weekly, while the picture is on a monthly schedule. One more thing... I don't think a portal shortcut is needed. It's just four more letters to type out "Portal:Texas" than to type "WP:Texas". Let me know if you have any questions or need assistance with any formatting. -Aude (talkcontribs) 02:08, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
At lower resolutions (/bigger font sizes) the table of text in the "State symbols" section was appearing below the pictures, leaving a lot of dead space to the left of the pics. So I moved the pics into the table itself, in a "rowspan=5" cell at the end of the first row, but then I had to remove all the "width" information to make it align correctly with the rest of the page. (At huge font sizes, relative to resolution, the entire page goes wacky, as the browser doesn't have enough room to show the two columns side by side.) Anyway, my latest version looks... okay, but there's still a little weirdness in the vertical spacing in the table. I'm not going to change it anymore, though. Someone else can try if they don't like the look of it. - dcljr (talk) 21:48, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
This portal has selected numerous images which are fair use. Per that policy, these images are prohibited in portalspace, and even under a proposed amendment, they will still not be allowed for selected pictures. As Portal:Texas is featured, all fair use images need to be either replaced with free alternatives or removed entirely, as a matter of urgency. Else, it faces demotion. Thanks,--cj | talk04:40, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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