War breaks out in the Pacific (1941) 1970 1,232,802 31.4% In 1821 the Mexican War for Independence severed the control that Spain had exercised on its North American territories and the new country of Mexico was formed from much of the lands that had comprised New Spain including Spanish Texas the 1824 Constitution of Mexico joined Texas with Coahuila to form the state of Coahuila y Tejas the Congress did allow Texas the option of forming its own state "as soon as it feels capable of doing so."! Houston Texas Business Directory, Est 2018 2,464,124 17.3% See also: List of colleges and universities in Houston League City (mostly in Galveston County). The Sabine Trinity Neches Angelina and Sulphur Rivers are the major rivers in East Texas but the Brazos River and Red River also flow through the region the Brazos cuts through the southwest portion of the region while the Red River forms its northern border with Oklahoma and a portion of Arkansas in East Texas and the rest of the South small rivers and creeks collect into swamps called "bayous" and merge with the surrounding forest Bald cypress and Spanish moss are the dominant plants in bayous the most famous of these bayous are Cypress Bayou and Buffalo Bayou Cypress Bayou surrounds the Big Little and Black Cypress Rivers around Jefferson They flow east into Caddo Lake and the adjoining wetlands cover the rim and islands of the lake. . 7 Music 3.1 European exploration Northwest Gulf of Mexico which extends from Alabama to the Rio Grande. The following morning March 20 Urrea paraded his men and his newly arrived artillery. Seeing the hopelessness of their situation the Texians with Fannin surrendered Mexican records show that the Texians surrendered at discretion; Texian accounts claim that Urrea promised the Texians would be treated as prisoners-of-war and granted passage to the United States. Two days later a group of Urrea's men surrounded Ward and the last of his group less than 1 mile (1.6 km) from Victoria Over Ward's vehement objections his men voted to surrender later recalling they were told they would be sent back to the United States; ; A page (folio 67) depicting indigenous Mexican warriors in the Codex Mendoza Chronological 1 Geography Houston with a customer base of more than 3 million is AT&T's largest service city the city's telecommunications infrastructure completes more than 70 million Houston telephone connections daily the Texas Public Utilities Commission has certified more than 400 additional local exchange carriers to provide service statewide or specifically within Houston More than 1,600 interexchange carriers have registered with the commission to provide long distance service.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Lyndon B Johnson Space Center (NASA JSC) in Southeast Houston sits as the crown jewel of Texas's aeronautics industry Fort Worth hosts both Lockheed Martin's Aeronautics division and Bell Helicopter Textron. Lockheed builds the F-16 Fighting Falcon the largest Western fighter program and its successor the F-35 Lightning II in Fort Worth, El Paso founded by Spanish settlers in 1659. School Trustee Pct 1 Pos 6 Erica Lee Democratic, Other languages spoken include German (including Texas German) by 0.33% (73,137) Tagalog with 0.29% (64,272) speakers and French (including Cajun French) was spoken by 0.25% (55,773) of Texans. Reportedly Cherokee is the most widely spoken Native American language in Texas, One of Houston's most recent downtown landmarks is Discovery Green a large public park designed by Page Southerland Page with Hargreaves Associates. 10 Healthcare Surface water As of 2018 there are over 60 law enforcement agencies operating in the county. They include: the Harris County Sheriff's Office the Harris County Constable Office the Houston Police Department METRO Police Department other municipal police departments and school district police departments. 14 Notes The diversion of three quarters of the Axis troops and the majority of their air forces from France and the central Mediterranean to the Eastern Front prompted the United Kingdom to reconsider its grand strategy in July the UK and the Soviet Union formed a military alliance against Germany the British and Soviets invaded neutral Iran to secure the Persian Corridor and Iran's oil fields in August the United Kingdom and the United States jointly issued the Atlantic Charter, 15 John Whitmire Democratic 1983 Northwest Houston Bush IAH southern portion of Humble eastern Harris County, I-69 (TX).svgUS 59.svg Interstate 69/U.S Highway 59 a.k.a - Eastex Freeway going NE or Southwest Freeway going SW. By 2005 USA Today referred to Houston as "the dining-out capital of the nation." Houstonians ate out at restaurants more often than residents of other American cities and Houston restaurants have the second lowest average prices of restaurants of major cities. Tex-Mex cuisine and Louisiana Creole cuisine are very popular in Houston Many Mexican cuisine restaurants in Houston have aspects that originate from Texas culture. 2.4 Architecture 7 Disease in the Americas 12.3 Higher education Unlike the rest of the nation most of Texas is on its own alternating current power grid the Texas Interconnection Texas has a deregulated electric service Texas leads the nation in total net electricity production generating 437,236 MWh in 2014 89% more MWh than Florida which ranked second. As an independent nation Texas would rank as the world's eleventh-largest producer of electricity after South Korea and ahead of the United Kingdom. Austin 97/74 36/23 61/45 16/5 The first artist to play the Astrodome was Judy Garland on December 17 1965 where she was paid $43,000 for the one show the Supremes were her opening act and tickets were priced $1.00 to $7.50 the dome seated 48,000 with another 12,000 seats added for this show Garland appeared on stage at 10 p.m and sang for 40 minutes with her set of songs including: "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"; "Just in Time"; "My Kind Of Town Houston Is"/"Houston"; "As Long as He Needs Me"; "Joey Joey Joey"; "Do it Again"; "What Now My Love?"; "By Myself"; "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby"; "San Francisco"; "Chicago"; and "Over the Rainbow." Mort Lindsey conducted, Houston Texas Business Directory, The present Alley Theatre building opened in November 1968 and contains two stages the main stage has 824 seats and is called the "Hubbard"; the more intimate 310-seat stage is the "Neuhaus." Outside there are nine towers and open-air terraces Inside a staircase spirals from the entrance vestibule to the second-floor lobby the theatre was constructed in a large part by a $1.4 million grant from the Ford Foundation to support innovative theater architecture and the prime architect on the project was Ulrich Franzen.
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