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The Astrodome was added to the National Register of Historic Places in January 2014, The Gulf Building now called the JPMorgan Chase building is an Art Deco skyscraper Completed in 1929 it remained the tallest building in Houston until 1963 when the Exxon Building surpassed it in height Designed by architects Alfred C Finn (designer of the San Jacinto Monument) Kenneth Franzheim and J.E.R Carpenter the building is seen as a realization of Eliel Saarinen's acclaimed second-place entry to the Chicago Tribune Tower competition Restoration of the building was started in 1989 in what is still considered one of the largest privately funded preservation projects in American history, In 1973 the Astros installed an all-AstroTurf infield except for dirt cutouts around the bases This "sliding pit" configuration was introduced by Cincinnati with the opening of Riverfront Stadium on June 30 1970 it was then installed in the new stadiums in Philadelphia in 1971 and Kansas City in 1973 the artificial turf fields of Pittsburgh St Louis and San Francisco all installed in 1970 were traditionally configured like the Astrodome and later changed to sliding pits San Francisco converted in 1971 Pittsburgh in 1973 and St Louis in 1978 Rogers Centre in Toronto was the last park in the majors that had sliding pits; it opened in 1989 and switched to a traditional dirt skin infield in 2016. 8 See also, Houston is home to the Johnson Space Center NASA's largest research and development facility employing nearly 3,000 federal civil service workers and more than 14,000 contract personnel. Program offices for Project Constellation Orion and other new space vehicle projects will create new jobs at the center.[needs update] the city's burgeoning aerospace industry heralded its second growth spurt which solidified with the 1973 oil crisis the majority of the contractor work force related to the projects will also be located at the center. Texas Governor Rick Perry recently announced a $7.5 million Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) grant to Lockheed Martin which will bring about 1,000 jobs to the Houston area the grant ensures that Lockheed Martin will create these jobs in the Houston area after they earned a multibillion-dollar contract from NASA to build the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle. Houston is also home to the United Space Alliance which employs well over 10,000 people, Houston Art Car Parade On July 30 1942 the Robert E Lee captained by William C Heath was torpedoed by the German submarine U-166 She was sailing southeast of the entrance to the Mississippi River when the explosion destroyed the #3 hold vented through the B and C decks and damaged the engines the radio compartment and the steering gear After the attack she was under escort by the USS PC-566 captained by LCDR Herbert G Claudius en route to New Orleans the USS PC-566 began dropping depth charges on a sonar contact sinking the U-166 the badly damaged Robert E Lee first listed to port then to starboard and finally sank within about 15 minutes of the attack One officer nine crewmen and 15 passengers were lost Ironically the passengers aboard the Robert E Lee were primarily survivors of previous torpedo attacks by German U-boats the wreck's precise location was discovered during the C & C Marine survey that located the U-166. Language 3 Climate Water pollution of the Houston Ship Channel became notorious in 1972 Work on the Texas Commerce Tower now the JPMorgan Chase Tower began in 1979 Arts and theater Soldiers of the British Commonwealth forces from the Australian Army's 9th Division during the Siege of Tobruk; North African Campaign August 1941. . . As with other parts of Texas high school football is king in East Texas Residents of East Texas towns and rural communities fill high-school stadiums in support of their local teams cheerleaders bands etc Many East Texas high-school teams have won Texas state championships and have produced collegiate and professional football players, Ethnicity Rice University - Sally Port 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.

5 West Texas: Comancheria 7.4 Religion US President Franklin D Roosevelt and British PM Winston Churchill seated at the Casablanca Conference January 1943; . Goliad Campaign, Cypress Creek drains a significant portion of northern Harris County the river flows for 52 miles (84 km) through the suburban areas of Cypress and Spring before joining the San Jacinto River the creek's watershed which covers 310 square miles (800 km2) is one of the largest in the county, On the same day Germany launched an offensive against France to circumvent the strong Maginot Line fortifications on the Franco-German border Germany directed its attack at the neutral nations of Belgium the Netherlands and Luxembourg the Germans carried out a flanking manoeuvre through the Ardennes region which was mistakenly perceived by Allies as an impenetrable natural barrier against armoured vehicles by successfully implementing new blitzkrieg tactics the Wehrmacht rapidly advanced to the Channel and cut off the Allied forces in Belgium trapping the bulk of the Allied armies in a cauldron on the Franco-Belgian border near Lille the United Kingdom was able to evacuate a significant number of Allied troops from the continent by early June although abandoning almost all of their equipment. . Automobiles of all kinds have had enormous influence on Houston culture largely a result of the urban sprawl and sparse public transportation that has followed the dismantling of the city's former trolley system Many of the Houston's business districts such as Uptown and Greenspoint began their development as edge cities Furthermore many notable neighborhoods began as streetcar suburbs including the Heights and Sharpstown. JPMorgan Chase Tower 7.2 Pop, Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Mexico and United States: Treaty to resolve pending boundary differences and maintain the Rio Grande and Colorado River as the international boundary of November 23 1970; Treaty on maritime boundaries between the United States of America and the United Mexican States (Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean) of May 4 1978 and Treaty between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Mexican States on the delimitation of the continental shelf in the Western Gulf of Mexico beyond 200 nautical miles (370 km) of June 9 2000.