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    Lubbock (/ˈlʌbək/ LUB-ək) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Lubbock County. With a population of 266,878 in 2023, the city is the 10th-most...
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    Lubbock County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 census placed the population at 310,639. Its county seat and largest city is Lubbock...
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    Portions of Lubbock, Texas, were struck by a powerful multiple-vortex tornado after nightfall on May 11, 1970, resulting in 26 fatalities and an estimated...
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  • mayors of Lubbock, Texas. Mayoral elections in Lubbock Timeline of Lubbock, Texas Rush, George P (1934). The Formative Years of Lubbock, Texas, 1909–1917...
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    season. Home games are played at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. Texas Tech (then known as Texas Technological College) fielded its first intercollegiate...
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  • Texas Tech University (Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU) is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas. Established on October 2, 1923, and called Texas Technological...
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    Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport (IATA: LBB, ICAO: KLBB, FAA LID: LBB) is five miles north of Lubbock, in Lubbock County, Texas, United States...
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    service as the Texas State Treasurer. He was the brother of Thomas Saltus Lubbock, for whom both Lubbock County and the city of Lubbock are named. Francis...
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  • The Lubbock Lights were an unusual formation of lights seen over the city of Lubbock, Texas in August and September 1951. The Lubbock Lights incident...
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    The Lubbock metropolitan area is a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the South Plains region of West Texas, United States, that covers three counties...
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    The Red Raiders will play their home games at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas, and will compete as members of the Big 12 Conference. They are expected...
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  • Lubbock Christian University (LCU) is a private Christian university associated with the Churches of Christ and located in Lubbock, Texas. Chartered originally...
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    people and their raw and wondrous land. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 176 pp. Webb, W.P. 1935. The Texas Rangers: a century of frontier defense...
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    Saltus Lubbock (November 29, 1817 – January 9, 1862) was a figure in Texas and the Confederacy. Born in South Carolina, he relocated to Texas and became...
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    in Lubbock, Texas to elect the city's mayor. Currently, such elections are regularly scheduled to elect mayors to two-year terms. The 2006 Lubbock mayoral...
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  • Rosendo Rodriguez (category People convicted of murder by Texas)
    sentenced to death and executed in Texas for the September 2005 rape and murder of 29-year-old Summer Baldwin in Lubbock, Texas. Rodriguez, a Marine reservist...
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    The Lubbock Texas Temple is the 109th operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The Lubbock Texas Temple joins...
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    2008-07-04. George Watson. "Larry Hays ends 22-year love affair with Texas Tech baseball". Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. Archived from the original on 2012-03-03...
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    (I-27) is an Interstate Highway, entirely in the US state of Texas, running north from Lubbock to I-40 in Amarillo. These two cities are the only control...
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  • System is a public university system in Texas with five member universities. Headquartered in Lubbock, Texas, the Texas Tech University System is a nearly...
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    Buddy Holly (category Musicians from Lubbock, Texas)
    figure of mid-1950s rock and roll. He was born to a musical family in Lubbock, Texas, during the Great Depression, and learned to play guitar and sing alongside...
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    6666 Ranch (category Ranches in Texas)
    Published by the Texas State Historical Association. Chappell, Henry and Wyman Meinzer. 2004. 6666: Portrait of a Texas Ranch. Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University...
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    The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) is a public medical school based in Lubbock, Texas, with additional campuses in Abilene, Amarillo...
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    Lubbock High School is a 5A high school serving grades nine to twelve in Lubbock, Texas, as part of the Lubbock Independent School District, The school...
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    The Texas Tech Red Raiders and Lady Raiders are the athletic teams that represent Texas Tech University, located in Lubbock, Texas. The women's basketball...
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  • Lubbock Matadors SC is an American soccer club in Lubbock, Texas. It currently competes in the Lonestar Conference of the National Premier Soccer League...
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    Barry Corbin (category Monterey High School (Lubbock, Texas) alumni)
    graduated from Monterey High School in Lubbock, Texas. Corbin studied theatre arts at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. At 21, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps...
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    Jones AT&T Stadium (category Sports venues in Lubbock, Texas)
    campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. Built in the style of Spanish Renaissance architecture, it is the home field of the Texas Tech Red Raiders...
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  • Less than two months later, the couple married on August 15, 1958, in Lubbock, Texas. On February 3, 1959, Buddy Holly died in a plane crash along with fellow...
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  • Lubbock, Texas, USA. 1876 - Lubbock County established; named after Thomas Saltus Lubbock. 1890 - Lubbock settlement formed by merger of Old Lubbock and...
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