The River Oaks Theatre 5 Portuguese exploration Texas's controversial alternative affirmative action plan Texas House Bill 588 guarantees Texas students who graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school class automatic admission to state-funded universities the bill encourages demographic diversity while avoiding problems stemming from the Hopwood v Texas (1996) case. . 7.2 Pop Texas lies at the juncture of two major cultural spheres of Pre-Columbian North America the Southwestern and the Plains areas the area now covered by Texas was occupied by three major indigenous cultures which had reached their developmental peak before the arrival of European explorers and are known from archaeology These are:. Port of Houston along the Houston Ship Channel The University of Houston System's annual impact on the Houston area's economy equates to that of a major corporation: $1.1 billion in new funds attracted annually to the Houston area $3.13 billion in total economic benefit and 24,000 local jobs generated. This is in addition to the 12,500 new graduates the U.H System produces every year who enter the workforce in Houston and throughout Texas These degree-holders tend to stay in Houston After five years 80.5% of graduates are still living and working in the region. 1950s In July 1937 Japan captured the former Chinese imperial capital of Peking after instigating the Marco Polo Bridge Incident which culminated in the Japanese campaign to invade all of China the Soviets quickly signed a non-aggression pact with China to lend materiel support effectively ending China's prior co-operation with Germany From September to November the Japanese attacked Taiyuan engaged the Kuomintang Army around Xinkou and fought Communist forces in Pingxingguan. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek deployed his best army to defend Shanghai but after three months of fighting Shanghai fell the Japanese continued to push the Chinese forces back capturing the capital Nanking in December 1937 After the fall of Nanking tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants were murdered by the Japanese, Houston's plan to host the 2012 Summer Olympics included renovating the Astrodome for use as a main stadium. Houston became one of the USOC's bid finalists but the organization chose New York City as its candidate city and the Games were ultimately awarded to London by the IOC. Casualties and war crimes Urrea reached Matamoros on January 31 a committed federalist himself he soon convinced other federalists in the area that the Texians' ultimate goal was secession and their attempt to spark a federalist revolt in Matamoros was just a method of diverting attention from themselves. Mexican double agents continued to assure Johnson and Grant that they would be able to take Matamoros easily. While Johnson waited in San Patricio with a small group of men Grant and between 26 and 53 others roamed the area between the Nueces River and Matamoros. Although they were ostensibly searching for more horses it is likely Grant was also attempting to contact his sources in Matamoros to further coordinate an attack. 147 Garnet Coleman Democratic 1990 Downtown Houston inner southeastern portions of Houston (mainly west of I-45) Eastern Montrose Midtown Third Ward 8 Corpus Christi Nueces 325,733.
. ! 1880 1,591,749 94.5% Ixtoc I explosion and oil spill Flag of America 19 10.svg. Ferdinand incorporated the American territories into his domain and then withdrew the authority granted to governor Christopher Columbus and the first conquistadors He established direct royal control with the Council of the Indies the most important administrative organ of the Spanish Empire both in the Americas and in Asia After unifying Castile Ferdinand introduced to Castile many laws regulations and institutions such as the Inquisition that were typical in Aragon These laws were later used in the new lands! . William B Travis famous commander at the Alamo settled in Anahuac Chambers County The Niels and Mellie Esperson buildings are examples of Italian Renaissance architecture in downtown Houston. Designed by John Eberson the two buildings were built in 1927 and 1941 respectively. They are detailed with massive columns great urns terraces and a grand tempietto at the top similar to one built in the courtyard of San Pietro in Rome in 1502. Mellie Esperson had the first building constructed for her husband Niels a real estate and oil tycoon. His name is carved on the side of the building in large letters at street level the name "Mellie Esperson" is carved on the accompanying structure known as the Mellie Esperson building although it is really just a 19-story annex to the original building. Greenhouse gases, Green Jill Stein Ajamu Baraka 71,558 0.80% 0 Main articles: Military production during World War II and Home front during World War II, Mark White born in Henderson Rusk County The Ladies Reading Group of Houston was a significant founder of the public library system in Houston Elizabeth Long the author of the 2003 book Book Clubs: Women and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life wrote that Houston's "literary scene" contributes and draws upon the overall literary culture of Texas the University of Houston creative writing program opened in 1979 Long wrote that this program "has achieved a national reputation" in subsequent decades in 1985 the Ladies Reading Club had a 100th anniversary celebration.
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