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Franklin Mountains State Park The cattle industry continued to thrive though it gradually became less profitable Cotton and lumber became major industries creating new economic booms in various regions of the state Railroad networks grew rapidly as did the port at Galveston as commerce between Texas and the rest of the U.S (and the rest of the world) expanded As with some other states before the lumber industry quickly decimated the forests of Texas such that by the early 20th century the majority of the forest population in Texas was gone (later conservation efforts restored some of it but never to the level it once was). In 1697 Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville sailed for France and was chosen by the Minister of Marine to lead an expedition to rediscover the mouth of the Mississippi River and to colonize Louisiana which the English coveted Iberville's fleet sailed from Brest on October 24 1698 on January 25 1699 Iberville reached Santa Rosa Island in front of Pensacola founded by the Spanish; he sailed from there to Mobile Bay and explored Massacre Island later renamed Dauphin Island He cast anchor between Cat Island and Ship Island; and on February 13 1699 he went to the mainland Biloxi with his brother Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville on May 1 1699 he completed a fort on the north-east side of the Bay of Biloxi a little to the rear of what is now Ocean Springs Mississippi This fort was known as Fort Maurepas or Old Biloxi a few days later on May 4 Pierre Le Moyne sailed for France leaving his teenage brother Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne as second in command to the French commandant. . The Williams Waterwall is a multi-story sculptural fountain which sits at the south end of Williams Tower in Uptown it and its surrounding park were built as an architectural amenity to the adjacent tower. Both the fountain and tower were designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Philip Johnson. Completed in 1983 the semi-circular fountain is 64-foot (20 m) tall and sits among 118 Texas Live Oak trees Approximately 11,000 gallons of water per minute cascades down vast channeled sheets on both sides from the narrower top rim of the circle to the wider base below. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice operates some correctional facilities in Harris County including: Long oceanic voyages led to larger ships "Nau" was the Portuguese archaic synonym for any large ship primarily merchant ships Due to the piracy that plagued the coasts they began to be used in the navy and were provided with cannon windows which led to the classification of "naus" according to the power of its artillery the carrack or nau was a three- or four-masted ship it had a high rounded stern with large aftcastle forecastle and bowsprit at the stem it was first used by the Portuguese and later by the Spanish They were also adapted to the increasing maritime trade They grew from 200 tons capacity in the 15th century to 500 in the 16th century they usually had two decks stern castles fore and aft two to four masts with overlapping sails in India travels in the sixteenth century used carracks large merchant ships with a high edge and three masts with square sails that reached 2,000 tons. 5 Culture Americans with origins from the Pacific are the smallest minority in Texas According to the survey only 18,000 Texans are Pacific Islanders; 16,400 are of non-Hispanic descent There are roughly 5,400 Native Hawaiians 5,300 Guamanians and 6,400 people from other groups Samoan Americans were scant; only 2,920 people were from this group the city of Euless a suburb of Fort Worth contains a sizable population of Tongan Americans at nearly 900 people over one percent of the city's population Killeen has a sufficient population of Samoans and Guamanian and people of Pacific Islander descent surpass one percent of the city's population, 4.1 Baseball Historically Harris County voted Republican at the presidential level from the mid-20th century until 2008; Barack Obama was the first Democrat to win the county since Texas native Lyndon Johnson in 1964 Democratic strength is found in the city of Houston Suburban areas such as Cypress Spring and Katy in the county's western and northern areas tend to be strongly Republican in 2016 Hillary Clinton won the county by the largest margin for a Democrat since 1964 the Democratic Party performed very strongly in the county during the 2018 elections, Arts and theatre Houston Texas Business Directory Maternal health. ; Main article: Second Sino-Japanese War By the end of April 1942 Japan and its ally Thailand had almost fully conquered Burma Malaya the Dutch East Indies Singapore and Rabaul inflicting severe losses on Allied troops and taking a large number of prisoners. Despite stubborn resistance by Filipino and US forces the Philippine Commonwealth was eventually captured in May 1942 forcing its government into exile on 16 April in Burma 7,000 British soldiers were encircled by the Japanese 33rd Division during the Battle of Yenangyaung and rescued by the Chinese 38th Division. Japanese forces also achieved naval victories in the South China Sea Java Sea and Indian Ocean and bombed the Allied naval base at Darwin Australia in January 1942 the only Allied success against Japan was a Chinese victory at Changsha. These easy victories over unprepared US and European opponents left Japan overconfident as well as overextended.

The exact date of the war's end is also not universally agreed upon it was generally accepted at the time that the war ended with the armistice of 14 August 1945 (V-J Day) rather than the formal surrender of Japan which was on 2 September 1945 that officially ended the war in Asia a peace treaty with Japan was signed in 1951 a treaty regarding Germany's future allowed the reunification of East and West Germany to take place in 1990 and resolved most post-World War II issues. No formal peace treaty between Japan and the Soviet Union was ever signed! During the late 1970s Houston had a population boom as people from the Rust Belt states moved to Texas in large numbers the new residents came for numerous employment opportunities in the petroleum industry created as a result of the Arab oil embargo With the increase in professional jobs Houston has become a destination for many college-educated persons most recently including African Americans in a reverse Great Migration from northern areas. Houston's reputation as a mature center for classical music is the product of more than a century of dedication and community support the Houston Symphony (founded in 1913) is the largest and best-known of the city's professional orchestras but they are hardly the only option Other significant orchestras include Mercury Houston Ars Lyrica and the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra as well as outstanding academic orchestras at the Rice University Shepherd School of Music and the University of Houston Moores School of Music (home to the 800-seat Moores Opera House). ; . Houston's reputation as a mature center for classical music is the product of more than a century of dedication and community support the Houston Symphony (founded in 1913) is the largest and best-known of the city's professional orchestras but they are hardly the only option Other significant orchestras include Mercury Houston Ars Lyrica and the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra as well as outstanding academic orchestras at the Rice University Shepherd School of Music and the University of Houston Moores School of Music (home to the 800-seat Moores Opera House), Kegans Unit located in Downtown Houston is a state jail for men it is in the north of downtown along the north side of the Buffalo Bayou next to the county facilities, Cimarron Hardy Toll Road Texas's second-largest air facility is Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) it served as the largest hub for the former Continental Airlines which was based in Houston; it serves as the largest hub for United Airlines the world's third-largest airline by passenger-miles flown. IAH offers service to the most Mexican destinations of any U.S airport the next five largest airports in the state all serve over 3 million passengers annually; they include Austin-Bergstrom International Airport William P Hobby Airport San Antonio International Airport Dallas Love Field and El Paso International Airport the smallest airport in the state to be designated an international airport is Del Rio International Airport.