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Festive feasting: It's always time to celebrate at Edelweiss with flavors of Germany
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'Edelweiss, edelweiss" ... the restaurant, the song. Every time I
walk through the front door of the restaurant I find myself humming
a few bars of that song from "The Sound of Music"). However, faster
than I can sit down, I am awash in one of the tunes from the band
(possibly "The Pickle Picker Polka").
Edelweiss, as far as I can tell, leaves its Christmas decorations
up all year long. It's celebration time any time of the year at
Edelweiss.
Yes, I like this place. I like the atmosphere, and I like the
food. I spent a couple of years in Germany (courtesy of the
military), at which time I ...
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The forced expulsion of the Texas Cherokees: Houston supported them but not Lamar.(INDIAN LIFE)
Magazine article from: Wild West
; In 1838 Texas President Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar wanted nothing less than to make...the Comanche Nation. But now Lamar decided to force out a people...peace--the Texas Cherokees. Lamar, who had formerly been vice president...
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LU lands first edition of namesake's works.
Newspaper article from: Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont, TX)
; ...John B. Stevens Jr., a 1974 Lamar University graduate, donated...first-edition of "The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar," first published in the 1920s...on sale looking for finds. The Mirabeau Lamar papers, which Stevens discovered...
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Tale of the Trail of Tears
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...which Texas hero he has drawn, he says the name: Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar. "No son of mine is going to play-act that devil...governor of the Texas nation, he was succeeded by Mirabeau Lamar, who declared the treaty invalid. In the closing...
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Banking on the Confederate cause.(Saturday)(The Civil War)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...remarkable name, Gazaway Bugg Lamar. (Unusual names seemed to be...tradition: Gazaway had a cousin named Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, who once served as the president...War.) In business affairs, Lamar preferred to use his initials...
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'Father of education' was a leader and visionary.
Newspaper article from: Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont, TX)
; ...thought of as the namesake of Lamar University -- if he is thought of at all. However, Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar was much more than a man who inspired...other Texas revolutionaries, Lamar was not native-born. He had...
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Enjoying spiritual pleasures in a fleshly way
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...have canonized Sam Houston and Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, warriors in the 1836 Battle...of this novel draws the part of Lamar in a 1936 junior high school pageant...tale that recasts Houston and Lamar as devils. New on the mass market...
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Battle Creek: where surveyors fought like soldiers: a Texas surveying party ventured into rich buffalo-hunting grounds, causing a tricky Kickapoo band to kick up a deadly fuss.
Magazine article from: Wild West
; ...Cordova to raid Texas in support of his cause, sparking the so-called Cordova Rebellion. That September, Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar replaced Houston as president of the Republic of Texas and announced his intention to drive all Indians from...
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