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10.5.1.1 Preterm birth 7.5 Hip-Hop 12.2 Ship design. ; . Memorial Bend is made up of 1950s and early 1960s homes built in the modern (contemporary) ranch and traditional styles the neighborhood is considered to have the highest concentration of mid-century modern homes in Houston. Architects who designed homes in this neighborhood include William Norman Floyd William R Jenkins William F Wortham and Lars Bang Many of the homes in Memorial Bend were featured in national architecture and design magazines like American Builder House & Home Practical Builder Better Homes & Gardens and House Beautiful. Nowhere were the wartime effects greater than in Houston which in 1940 was a city of 400,000 population dependent on shipping and oil the war dramatically expanded the city's economic base thanks to massive federal spending Energetic entrepreneurs most notably George Brown James Elkins and James Abercrombie landed hundreds of millions of dollars in federal wartime investment in technologically complex facilities Houston oil companies moved from being refiners and became sophisticated producers of petrochemicals Especially important were synthetic rubber and high octane fuel which retained their importance after the war the war moved the natural gas industry from a minor factor to a major energy source; Houston became a major hub when a local firm purchased the federally-financed Inch pipelines Other major growth industries included steel munitions and shipbuilding, Environmental issues 3.3 Astrodome Revitalization Project Universities in Texas host three presidential libraries: George Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M University the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum at the University of Texas at Austin and the George W Bush Presidential Library at Southern Methodist University. 2000 20,851,820 22.8% (25.6) 85.2 Horace Chilton born near Tyler Smith County Tourist attractions in the Houston area include Space Center Houston and the original La Casida and Ninfa's Previous attractions included tours of the Houston Astrodome and Gilley's the Houston Bay Area and Galveston also have many other tourist attractions including a Schlitterbahn Water Park Kemah Boardwalk Moody Gardens beaches fishing pleasure boats and many local seafood restaurants the Houston Museum District Houston Theater District in Downtown and the Galleria are also heavily visited tourist attractions.[citation needed]. . .

Yalta Conference held in February 1945 with Winston Churchill Franklin D Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, A variety of Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches can be found in Houston Immigrants from Eastern Europe the Middle East Ethiopia India and other areas have added to Houston's Eastern and Oriental Orthodox population As of 2011 in the entire State of Texas there were 32,000 people who actively attend Orthodox churches in 2013 Father John Whiteford the pastor of St Jonah Orthodox Church near Spring stated that there were about 6,000-9,000 Eastern Orthodox Christians in Houston. Comprehensive Universities (Tier 3) Largest city in Texas by year The gold brought home from Guinea stimulated the commercial energy of the Portuguese and its European neighbours especially Spain Apart from their religious and scientific aspects these voyages of discovery were highly profitable, This area holds the annual South Texas State Fair in Beaumont. . . .