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Houston Baptist University located in Sharpstown is a private Baptist university Main article: Sports in Houston; The University of Texas at Austin During World War II the main universities like University of Texas and Texas A&M University gained a new national role the wartime financing of university research curricular change campus trainee programs and postwar veteran enrollments changed the tenor and allowed Texas schools to gain national stature, Seasonal observation Houston Texas Business Directory. By the end of April 1942 Japan and its ally Thailand had almost fully conquered Burma Malaya the Dutch East Indies Singapore and Rabaul inflicting severe losses on Allied troops and taking a large number of prisoners. Despite stubborn resistance by Filipino and US forces the Philippine Commonwealth was eventually captured in May 1942 forcing its government into exile on 16 April in Burma 7,000 British soldiers were encircled by the Japanese 33rd Division during the Battle of Yenangyaung and rescued by the Chinese 38th Division. Japanese forces also achieved naval victories in the South China Sea Java Sea and Indian Ocean and bombed the Allied naval base at Darwin Australia in January 1942 the only Allied success against Japan was a Chinese victory at Changsha. These easy victories over unprepared US and European opponents left Japan overconfident as well as overextended. In December 1940 British Empire forces began counter-offensives against Italian forces in Egypt and Italian East Africa the offensives were highly successful; by early February 1941 Italy had lost control of eastern Libya and large numbers of Italian troops had been taken prisoner the Italian Navy also suffered significant defeats with the Royal Navy putting three Italian battleships out of commission by a carrier attack at Taranto and neutralising several more warships at the Battle of Cape Matapan. .

1930s By 1900 the Dallas population reached 38,000 as banking and insurance became major activities in the increasingly white-collar city which was now the world's leading cotton center it was also the world's center of harness making and leather goods Businessmen took control of civic affairs; with little municipal patronage there was only a small role for the Democratic Party to play the predominantly black Republican Party was essentially closed out of politics by the disenfranchisement in 1901 of most blacks through imposition of a poll tax (see below)! There are 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells beneath the Gulf These have generally not been checked for potential environmental problems, 3.8 Political views Designed by Fort Worth architect Wyatt C Hedrick the Shamrock Hotel was an 18-story building constructed between 1946 and 1949 with a green tile pitched roof and 1,100 rooms the hotel was conceived by wildcatter Glenn McCarthy as a city-sized hotel scaled for conventions with a resort atmosphere the Shamrock was located in a suburban area three miles (5 km) southwest of downtown Houston on the fringes of countryside and was meant to be the first phase of a much larger indoor shopping and entertainment complex called McCarthy Center anchored alongside the planned Texas Medical Center At the hotel's north side was a five-story building containing a 1,000-car garage and 25,000-square-foot (2,300 m2) exhibition hall to the south was the hotel's lavishly landscaped garden designed by Ralph Ellis Gunn a terrace and an immense swimming pool measuring 165 by 142 feet (43 m) described as the world's biggest outdoor pool which accommodated exhibition waterskiing and featured a three-story-high diving platform with an open spiral staircase. Despite protests by local preservationists the Shamrock was demolished June 1 1987 the Institute of Biosciences and Technology now stands in its former location, They had benefited from Guinea's connections with neighbouring Iberians and north African Muslim states Due to these connections mathematicians and experts in naval technology appeared in Portugal Portuguese and foreign experts made several breakthroughs in the fields of mathematics cartography and naval technology. . War breaks out in the Pacific (1941) David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport a general aviation airport is located outside of the Tomball city limits in unincorporated northwest Harris County, Houston also hosts a number of graduate schools in law and healthcare the University of Houston Law Center and Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University are public ABA-accredited law schools while the South Texas College of Law located in Downtown serves as a private independent alternative the Texas Medical Center is home to a high density of health professions schools including two medical schools: McGovern Medical School part of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Baylor College of Medicine a highly selective private institution Prairie View A&M University's nursing school is located in the Texas Medical Center Additionally both Texas Southern University and the University of Houston have pharmacy schools and the University of Houston hosts a college of optometry. . . . Education Brazoria (south) Cedar Bayou, 2 San Antonio Bexar 1,492,510 The tallest structure in Uptown Houston is the 901-foot (275 m) tall Philip Johnson-designed landmark Williams Tower (formerly "Transco Tower") which was constructed in 1983. At the time it was to be the world's tallest skyscraper outside of a city's central business district the building is topped with a rotating spot light that constantly searches the horizon. Williams Tower was named "Skyscraper of the Century" in the December 1999 issue of Texas Monthly magazine, 1930 292,352 111.4% El Lago Contents June 15 1976 "The Rainout".