W Edward Porter IV Attorney at Law

. Spanish Formosa was established in Taiwan first by Portugal in 1544 and later renamed and repositioned by Spain in Keelung it became a natural defence site for the Iberian Union the colony was designed to protect Spanish and Portuguese trade from interference by the Dutch base in the south of Taiwan the Spanish colony was short-lived due to the unwillingness of Spanish colonial authorities in Manila to defend it.

Some of the most destructive hurricanes in U.S history have impacted Texas a hurricane in 1875 killed about 400 people in Indianola followed by another hurricane in 1886 that destroyed the town These events allowed Galveston to take over as the chief port city the 1900 Galveston hurricane subsequently devastated that city killing about 8,000 people or possibly as many as 12,000 This makes it the deadliest natural disaster in U.S history in 2017 Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Rockport as a Category 4 Hurricane causing significant damage there the storm stalled over land for a very long time allowing it to drop unprecedented amounts of rain over the Greater Houston area and surrounding counties the result was widespread and catastrophic flooding that inundated hundreds of thousands of homes Harvey ultimately became the costliest hurricane worldwide causing an estimated $198.6 billion in damage surpassing the cost of Hurricane Katrina. ; . On December 13 2007 Mexico submitted information to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) regarding the extension of Mexico's continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles. Mexico sought an extension of its continental shelf in the Western Polygon based on international law UNCLOS and bilateral treaties with the United States in accordance with Mexico's domestic legislation on March 13 2009 the CLCS accepted Mexico's arguments for extending its continental shelf up to 350 NM into the Western Polygon Since this would extend Mexico's continental shelf well into territory claimed by the United States however Mexico and the U.S would need to enter a bilateral agreement based on international law that delimits their respective claims. 10.6 Medical research Harris County ESD #2 EMS South Lake Houston EMS 1% .0280120, 7.2 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill The state's two most widely recognized flagship universities are the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University ranked as the 52nd and 69th best universities in the nation according to the 2014 edition of U.S News & World Report's "Best Colleges" respectively Some observers also include the University of Houston and Texas Tech University as tier one flagships alongside UT Austin and A&M the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) ranks the state's public universities into three distinct tiers:! Because the Houston Independent School District was slow to desegregate public schools on June 1 1970 the Federal officials struck the HISD plan down and forced it to adopt zoning laws This was 16 years after the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Brown v Board of Education which determined that segregated schools were inherently unequal Racial tensions over integration of the schools continued Some Hispanic Americans felt they were being discriminated against when they were being put with only African-Americans as part of the desegregation plan so many took their children out of the schools and put them in huelgas or protest schools until a ruling in 1973 satisfied their demands, During its recent history Houston has flooded several times from heavy rainfall which has been becoming increasingly common. This has been exacerbated by a lack of zoning laws which allowed unregulated building of residential homes and other structures in flood-prone areas. During the floods in 2015 and 2016 each of which dropped at least a foot of rain parts of the city were covered in several inches of water. Even worse flooding happened in late August 2017 when Hurricane Harvey stalled over southeastern Texas much like Tropical Storm Allison did sixteen years earlier causing severe flooding in the Houston area with some areas receiving over 50 inches (1,300 mm) of rain the rainfall exceeded 50 inches in several areas locally breaking the national record for rainfall the damage for the Houston area is estimated at up to $125 billion U.S dollars and it is considered to be one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States with the death toll exceeding 70 people on January 31 2018 the Houston City Council agreed to forgive large water bills thousands of households faced in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey as Houston Public Works found 6,362 homeowners' water utility bills had at least doubled, The Early 1900s 1930 5,824,715 24.9%. In 2004 Houston unveiled the first Mahatma Gandhi statue in the state of Texas at Hermann Park Houston's Indian American Community were cheerful after 10 years in 2010 when the Hillcroft and Harwin area were renamed Mahatma Gandhi District in honor of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi as that area is the center of Indian commerce.