"Brit-Am Now"-858 1. Stephen Ray Hale: Thistles in Texas 2.
Notes on Red Hair 3. Brit-Am Articles on Messiah son of Joseph
4. Stephen Spykerman:  The British Liberation of the Holy Land
5. British Versus Latins 6. The Unicorn 7. Interesting articles
on National Symbols  1. Stephen Ray Hale: Thistles in Texas
From: Stephen Ray Hale <Filiramin@cox.net> Subject: RE: "Brit-Am
Now"-857  Concerning the thistles as being discussed so far,
Texas must also be considered.  When I came to Texas I heard
that in Texas "everything either sticks, stinks or stings." And
talk about the major thistle, it is the Russian Thistle that we
call, "tumbleweed."  Apparently our gift from Russia came to us
from Russian explorers in California and all that West coast of
the United States.  The seeds were, apparently, carried along in
the cuffs of their trousers.  We also have other type of sticky
things called the yucca plant. In one form of this plant a
rather stout stick shoots forth to bear the flowers at the point
of death of the en