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! Foreign relations The Texas Revolution has been the subject of poetry and of many books plays and films Most English-language treatments reflect the perspectives of the Anglos and are centered primarily on the battle of the Alamo. From the first novel depicting events of the revolution 1838's Mexico versus Texas through the mid-20th century most works contained themes of anticlericalism and racism depicting the battle as a fight for freedom between good (Anglo Texian) and evil (Mexican) in both English- and Spanish-language literature the Alamo is often compared to the battle of Thermopylae the 1950s Disney miniseries Davy Crockett which was largely based on myth created a worldwide craze for everything Alamo-related. Within several years John Wayne directed and starred in one of the best-known and perhaps least historically accurate film versions the Alamo (1960).[Note 18] Notably this version made the first attempt to leave behind racial stereotypes; it was still banned in Mexico in the late 1970s works about the Alamo began to explore Tejano perspectives which had been all but extinguished even from textbooks about the revolution and to explore the revolution's links to slavery, The region also contains Sam Houston State University in Huntsville and Stephen F Austin State University in Nacogdoches which help contribute millions of dollars into the Deep East Texas economy Texas A&M University-Texarkana University of Texas at Tyler LeTourneau University and East Texas Baptist University are a few of the smaller universities in East Texas Texas A&M University-Commerce is right outside East Texas and is formerly known as East Texas State University while A&M-Texarkana was a branch campus of ETSU. . Harris County ESD #29 Fire Champions VFD 1% .09032 5.2.1 Political history Houston has been called the Lightning Capital of Texas as its density of lightning strikes is higher than it is in other parts of the state This area of unusually high lightning activity stretches from Houston eastward into Southwest Louisiana Much of this can be explained by the natural occurrence of thunderstorms in the region which form almost daily during the wet season However the unusual clustering of lightning around the developed areas of Houston the Golden Triangle and Lake Charles Louisiana have led many researchers to believe that some combination of urban heat islands and air pollution are responsible for increasing the number of lightning strikes beyond even the already-high natural levels.

Harris County ESD #21 Dual Rosehill FD 1% .10, Further information: Legacy of the Battle of the Alamo, Portuguese Empire The French flag of the Bourbons. Pasadena Evel Knievel jumped 13 cars two nights in a row drawing over 100,000 spectators to the Astrodome in January 1971 and though there was talk of him making an actual jump over the stadium itself sometime in the future it never happened, Nuclear Gadget being raised to the top of the detonation "shot tower" at Alamogordo Bombing Range; Trinity nuclear test New Mexico July 1945, Throughout its history the Astrodome was known as a pitcher's park the power alleys were never shorter than 370 feet (113 m) from the plate; on at least two occasions they were as far as 390 feet (119 m) Over time it gave up fewer home runs than any other park in the National League the Astrodome's reputation as a pitcher's park continued even in the mid-1980s when the fences were moved in closer than the Metrodome which was long reckoned as a hitter's park; . .