. 4.2 North America colonization, 95 ConocoPhilips 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. . Houston is located in the Gulf Coastal Plain biome and its vegetation is classified as temperate grassland Much of the city was built on marshes forested land swamp or prairie all of which can still be seen in surrounding areas! . Northcliffe More than 235 establishments in the Houston metro area manufacture plastic and rubber products. Houston dominates the U.S production of three major resins: polyethylene (38.7% of U.S capacity); polyvinyl chloride (35.9% of U.S capacity) and polypropylene (48.4% of U.S capacity), The 1492 discovery of the New World by Spain rendered desirable a delimitation of the Spanish and Portuguese spheres of exploration Thus dividing the world into two exploration and colonizing areas seemed appropriate This was accomplished by the Treaty of Tordesillas (7 June 1494) which modified the delimitation authorized by Pope Alexander VI in two bulls issued on 4 May 1493 the treaty gave to Portugal all lands which might be discovered east of a meridian drawn from the Arctic Pole to the Antarctic at a distance of 370 leagues (1,800 km) west of Cape Verde Spain received the lands west of this line, Laredo 100/77 37/25 67/46 19/7 The Spanish introduced European livestock including cattle horses and mules to Texas as early as the 1690s. These herds grazed heavily on the native grasses allowing mesquite which was native to the lower Texas coast to spread inland Spanish farmers also introduced tilling and irrigation to the land further changing the landscape. The Astrodome was designed by architects Hermon Lloyd & W B Morgan and Wilson Morris Crain and Anderson (Morris Architects) Structural engineering and structural design was performed by Walter P Moore Engineers and Consultants of Houston Credit for the design work on the dome roof structural goes to Dr G.R Kiewitt and Mr Louis O Bass of Roof Structures Inc it was constructed by H A Lott Inc for Harris County it stands 18 stories tall covering 9.5 acres (3.8 ha) the dome is 710 feet (220 m) in diameter and the ceiling is 208 feet (63 m) above the playing surface which itself sits 25 feet (7.6 m) below street level.
; 3.1 2015 Texas Population Estimate Program, 6 Notes See also: List of hospitals in Texas School Trustee At-Large Pos 7 Don Sumner Republican. 4.3 Republic 147 Garnet Coleman Democratic 1990 Downtown Houston inner southeastern portions of Houston (mainly west of I-45) Eastern Montrose Midtown Third Ward, Toledo Bend Reservoir on the Louisiana and Texas border, Houston Jersey Village Western view of the Downtown Houston skyline in 2010. .
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