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! Heritage Plaza building as seen from the Theater District 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. Whites (Non-Hispanic) 25.6% 30.8% 40.6% 62.4% 4.6 Law enforcement In 1869 the Ship Channel Company was formed to deepen Buffalo Bayou and improve Houston as a shipping port Despite the postwar social unrest migrants flocked to Texas for new opportunities Texas businessmen joined together to expand the railroad network which contributed to Houston's primacy in the state and the development of Dallas Fort Worth San Antonio and El Paso. ! .

16.2 Geography and environment Rice University located near the Museum District and Texas Medical Center is a private tier-one research university and the most selective institution of higher education in Texas, Carla (1961) In 1980 a year of strong economic activity and robust competition in the grocery market prices in Houston's grocery stores were below the national average prices in grocery stores Houston's grocery price index averaged at 85.6 below the national average of 88.4 This means that for the 1982-1984 base period Houstonians paid $88.40 for an amount of food that would cost $100 according to the national average During the oil bust and the economic decline Houston's prices stayed even with the national average in 1983 Houston's grocery index increased from 96.8 to 99.4 and matched the national average of 99.1 As the city began to recover the prices began to edge upward When a recession in the U.S began and while Houston's economic growth slowed and continued the national price index fell below Houston's price index As of 1992 prices in Houston's grocery stores were higher than the national average; Houston's index averaged to be 137.3 and the national average was 132.3. Around 2006 Taiwanese people became owners of several independent and small chain hotels in the Houston area in December 2006 C.Y Ling the director of the commercial division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Houston said that Taiwanese owned more hotels than any other ethnic group except for the Indians.