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Later They Were Enslaved For A Few Years By Various Native American Tribes Of The Upper Gulf Coast They Continued Through Coahuila And Nueva Vizcaya; Then Down The Gulf Of California Coast To What Is Now Sinaloa Mexico Over A Period Of Roughly Eight Years They Spent Years Enslaved By The Ananarivo Of The Louisiana Gulf Islands Later They Were Enslaved By The Hans The Capoques And Others In 1534 They Escaped Into The American Interior Contacting Other Native American Tribes Along The Way Only Four Men Cabeza De Vaca Andr�s Dorantes De Carranza Alonso Del Castillo Maldonado And An Enslaved Moroccan Berber Named Estevanico Survived And Escaped To Reach Mexico City In 1539 Estevanico Was One Of Four Men Who Accompanied Marcos De Niza As A Guide In Search Of The Fabled Seven Cities Of Cibola Preceding Coronado When The Others Were Struck Ill Estevanico Continued Alone Opening Up What Is Now New Mexico And Arizona He Was Killed At The Zuni Village Of Hawikuh In Present-day New Mexico.[citation Needed]
The major environmental threats to the Gulf are agricultural runoff and oil drilling. . Houston's third municipal airport is Ellington Airport used by the military government (including NASA) and general aviation sectors, 1990 2,818,199 17.0% 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. . Treaties When World War II started tonnage levels at the port decreased and shipping activities were suspended; however the war did provide economic benefits for the city Petrochemical refineries and manufacturing plants were constructed along the ship channel because of the demand for petroleum and synthetic rubber products by the defense industry during the war. Ellington Field initially built during World War I was revitalized as an advanced training center for bombardiers and navigators the Brown Shipbuilding Company was founded in 1942 to build ships for the U.S Navy during World War II Due to the boom in defense jobs thousands of new workers migrated to the city both blacks and whites competing for the higher-paying jobs President Roosevelt had established a policy of nondiscrimination for defense contractors and blacks gained some opportunities especially in shipbuilding although not without resistance from whites and increasing social tensions that erupted into occasional violence Economic gains of blacks who entered defense industries continued in the postwar years, 7 Arlington Tarrant 392,772 Airline In 2008 the facility was cited for numerous code violations Since then only maintenance workers and security guards have been allowed to enter the stadium while it is brought up to code the city council rejected demolition plans on environmental grounds over concerns that demolition of the Dome might damage the dense development that today closely surrounds it, 5.3 South America See also: List of Houston rappers. .
; Thirty-six (36) separate and distinct public universities exist in Texas of which 32 belong to one of the six state university systems. Discovery of minerals on Permanent University Fund land particularly oil has helped fund the rapid growth of the state's two largest university systems: the University of Texas System and the Texas A&M System the four other university systems: the University of Houston System the University of North Texas System the Texas State System and the Texas Tech System are not funded by the Permanent University Fund! . ! This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed, The Theater District a 17-block area in the heart of downtown Houston is home to Bayou Place Entertainment Complex restaurants movies plazas and parks Bayou Place is a large multilevel building that is home to restaurants bars live music billiards theatres and art house films the Houston Verizon Wireless Theatre stages a variety of live concerts and the Angelika Theatre presents the latest in art foreign and independent films, Fort Bend (southwest) Texas has 730 airports second-most of any state in the nation Largest in Texas by size and passengers served Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) is the second-largest by area in the United States and fourth in the world with 18,076 acres (73.15 km2) in traffic DFW airport is the busiest in the state the fourth busiest in the United States and sixth worldwide. American Airlines Group's American / American Eagle the world's largest airline in total passengers-miles transported and passenger fleet size uses DFW as its largest and main hub it ranks as the largest airline in the United States by number of passengers carried domestically per year and the largest airline in the world by number of passengers carried.Southwest Airlines headquartered in Dallas has its operations at Dallas Love Field. Politics Throughout East Texas black family growth and dissolution came more rapidly than in peacetime; blacks were more mobile as an adjustment to employment opportunities There was a more rapid shift to factory labor higher economic returns and a willingness of whites to tolerate the change in black economic status so long as the traditional "Jim Crow" social relations were maintained. . Presidential elections results, The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO) provides public transportation in the form of buses light rail high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes and paratransit to fifteen municipalities throughout the Greater Houston area and parts of unincorporated Harris County METRO's service area covers 1,303 square miles (3,370 km2) containing a population of 3.6 million, 48 El Paso Energy 481 3.1 2015 Texas Population Estimate Program.
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