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Ross Perot former U.S presidential candidate born in Texarkana Bowie County, 7.3 Public libraries Houston Texas Business Directory, Houston Texas Business Directory. The JPMorgan Chase Tower is the tallest building in Texas and the tallest 5-sided building in the world, 4.3 Airports In 1860 most Houstonians supported John C Breckinridge an independent Democratic candidate for president However he lost the election to Abraham Lincoln As the Civil War began there was tension between supporters of the Confederacy and the few Union sympathizers the Chamber of Commerce kept the city together during the conflict Galveston was blockaded on October 4 1862 which in turn soured Houston's economy on January 1 1863 John B Magruder's Confederate forces recaptured the city However the war was won by the Union forces in 1865 Texas was governed under a military command during Reconstruction but Federal forces could not control the anarchy and lawlessness that broke out after the war Civilians settled old grudges and several counties were essentially without civilian government; . In 1912 the Rice Institute (now Rice University) opened in the West University area. . Emergency Services Districts Harris County along with other Texas counties has one of the nation's highest property tax rates in 2007 the county was ranked in the top 25 at 22nd in the nation for property taxes as percentage of the homes value on owner-occupied housing the list only includes counties with a population over 65,000 for comparability! 15 References The current Houston Chronicle headquarters formerly the Houston Post headquarters.

Jewish 1 In 1869 the Ship Channel Company was formed to deepen Buffalo Bayou and improve Houston as a shipping port Despite the postwar social unrest migrants flocked to Texas for new opportunities Texas businessmen joined together to expand the railroad network which contributed to Houston's primacy in the state and the development of Dallas Fort Worth San Antonio and El Paso. War breaks out in the Pacific (1941), This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed (July 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)! (8) 61 In Mombasa Dom Vasco da Gama resorted to piracy looting Arab merchant ships which were generally unarmed trading vessels without heavy cannons, Main article: Transportation in Houston, 1.3 Republic of Texas The Niels Esperson Building stood as the tallest building in Houston from 1927 to 1929. Main article: Culture of Houston Main article: Battle of the Alamo The Houston Ship Channel connecting the Port of Houston to the Gulf passes through Galveston Bay Houston is the largest city on the bay while smaller ones include Galveston Pasadena Baytown and Texas City the bay provides nursery and spawning grounds for large amounts of marine life and is important for both commercial and recreational fishing. Mauritius was visited by the Portuguese between 1507 (by Diogo Fernandes Pereira) and 1513 the Portuguese took no interest in the isolated Mascarene islands Their main African base was in Mozambique and therefore the Portuguese navigators preferred to use the Mozambique Channel to go to India the Comoros at the north proved to be a more practical port of call, 15 References Missouri City (mostly in Fort Bend County), Gulf beach near Sabine Pass.