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Texans took advantage of the lack of oversight to agitate for more political freedom resulting in the Convention of 1832 Among other issues the convention demanded that U.S citizens be allowed to immigrate into Texas and requested independent statehood for the area the following year Texians reiterated their demands at the Convention of 1833 After presenting their petition courier Stephen F Austin was jailed for the next two years in Mexico City on suspicion of treason. Although Mexico implemented several measures to appease the colonists President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna's measures to transform Mexico from a federalist to a centralist state provided an excuse for the Texan colonists to revolt, The Gulf contains a hypoxic dead zone that runs by east-west along the Texas-Louisiana coastline in July 2008 researchers reported that between 1985 and 2008 the area roughly doubled in size and now stretches from near Galveston Texas to near Venice Louisiana It is now about 8,000 square miles (21,000 km2) nearly the record. Poor agricultural practices in the northern portion of the Gulf of Mexico have led to a tremendous increase of nitrogen and phosphorus in neighboring marine ecosystems which has resulted in algae blooms and a lack of available oxygen Occurrences of masculinization and estrogen suppression were observed as a result an October 2007 study of the Atlantic croaker found a disproportioned sex ratio of 61% males to 39% females in hypoxic Gulf sites This was compared with a 52% to 48% male-female ratio found in reference sites showing an impairment of reproductive output for fish populations inhabiting hypoxic coastal zones, 4 Notable events 10 Healthcare. Geography Arts and theater The Williams Tower is the tallest building in the US outside a central business district Minor oil spills 1860 4,845 102.2% The University of Texas at Austin. Main article: Religion in Houston, 7 Pollution Houston has not had very much success when it comes to its sports teams at least not lately the Houston Rockets won 2 consecutive championships in 1994 and 1995 and the Houston Dynamo also won 2 consecutive championships in 2006 and 2007 the Houston Oilers won 2 back-to-back AFL championships in 1960 and 1961 but never competed in the Super Bowl since the NFL-AFL merger (After the move to Nashville as the Tennessee Titans they finally played in Super Bowl XXXIV and lost.) the Astros have two World Series appearances 2005 and 2017 - the 2017 World Series was the first time the Houston Astros won the World Series - a first for a Major League Baseball team based in Texas.

. . Baseball Historically Texas culture comes from a blend of Southern (Dixie) Western (frontier) and Southwestern (Mexican/Anglo fusion) influences varying in degrees of such from one intrastate region to another Texas is placed in the Southern United States by the United States Census Bureau a popular food item the breakfast burrito draws from all three having a soft flour tortilla wrapped around bacon and scrambled eggs or other hot cooked fillings Adding to Texas's traditional culture established in the 18th and 19th centuries immigration has made Texas a melting pot of cultures from around the world. . The Texas Medical Center in Houston holds the world's largest concentration of research and healthcare institutions with 47 member institutions. Texas Medical Center performs the most heart transplants in the world the University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center in Houston is a highly regarded academic institution that centers around cancer patient care research education and prevention. La Salle's colonization expedition left France on July 24 1684 and soon lost one of its supply ships to Spanish privateers a combination of inaccurate maps La Salle's previous miscalculation of the latitude of the mouth of the Mississippi River and overcorrecting for the Gulf currents led the ships to be unable to find the Mississippi. Instead they landed at Matagorda Bay in early 1685 400 miles (644 km) west of the Mississippi in February the colonists constructed Fort Saint Louis.