. In the late 1720s the viceroy of New Spain closed the presidio in East Texas and reduced the size of the garrisons at the remaining presidios leaving only 144 soldiers in the entire province With no soldiers to protect them the East Texas missions relocated to San Antonio, The Houston City Hall building constructed in 1938-1939 is an example of Works Progress Administration architecture the simply designed structure featured many construction details that have helped to make this building an architectural classic the design on the lobby floor depicts the protective role of government the doors feature historical figures including Thomas Jefferson Julius Caesar and Moses. Above the lobby entrance is a stone sculpture depicting two men taming a wild horse the sculpture meant to symbolize a community coming together to form a government to tame the world around them the plaster cast for this sculpture and twenty-seven casts for friezes around the building were done by Beaumont artist Herring Coe and co-designer Raoul Jassett, The University Interscholastic League (UIL) organizes most primary and secondary school competitions Events organized by UIL include contests in athletics (the most popular being high school football) as well as artistic and academic subjects. . ! West Houston Airport is a general aviation airport located in unincorporated western Harris County west of the Houston city limits 149 Hubert Vo Democratic 2004 Far west Houston Alief unincorporated portions of Katy area east of Fry Rd Barker Reservoir. .
. . In 2010 Site Selection Magazine ranked Texas as the most business-friendly state in the nation in part because of the state's three-billion-dollar Texas Enterprise Fund. Texas has the joint-highest number of Fortune 500 company headquarters in the United States along with California. Texas in its Wild West days attracted men who could shoot straight and possessed the zest for adventure "for masculine renown patriotic service martial glory and meaningful deaths.". ; Gregg County (121,730) In Asia the United States led the occupation of Japan and administrated Japan's former islands in the Western Pacific while the Soviets annexed Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. Korea formerly under Japanese rule was divided and occupied by the Soviet Union in the North and the United States in the South between 1945 and 1948 Separate republics emerged on both sides of the 38th parallel in 1948 each claiming to be the legitimate government for all of Korea which led ultimately to the Korean War, Stephen F Austin was the first American empresario given permission to operate a colony within Mexican Texas. Astrolite the Astrodome's scoreboard during a 1969 Astros game it was the world's first animated scoreboard.
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