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3.1 Hurricanes and tropical storms Houston Texas Business Directory Many free blacks were able to become businessmen and leaders Through the young Republican Party blacks rapidly gained political power Indeed blacks comprised 90% of the Texas Republican Party during the 1880s. Norris Wright Cuney an African American from Galveston rose to the chairmanship of the Texas Republican Party and even the national committeeman, At least five million Chinese civilians from northern China and Manchukuo were enslaved between 1935 and 1941 by the East Asia Development Board or Koain for work in mines and war industries After 1942 the number reached 10 million in Java between 4 and 10 million romusha (Japanese: "manual labourers") were forced to work by the Japanese military About 270,000 of these Javanese labourers were sent to other Japanese-held areas in South East Asia and only 52,000 were repatriated to Java. . . Higher education In 1997 Houstonians elected Lee P Brown as the city's first African American mayor The city controller is elected independently of the mayor and council the controller's duties are to certify available funds prior to committing such funds and processing disbursements the city's fiscal year begins on July 1 and ends on June 30 Chris Brown is the city controller serving his first term as of January 2016! 2.2 Water bodies Aftermath, Prevailing winds are from the south and southeast during most of the year which bring heat and moisture from the nearby Gulf of Mexico and Galveston Bay.

Houston has more than 1,000 computer-related companies. Since its inception in 1999 Houston Technology Center has become the center of technology entrepreneurship in Houston the center has helped more than 150 emerging technology companies raise more than $400 million in capital and create about 1,000 new jobs Information technology developed in Houston affects many entities including the region's traffic and emergency response efforts at Houston TranStar a centralized transportation management and regional emergency management center, Vasco da Gama KHOU-TV's investigative team "The 11 News Defenders" began an investigation into the failure of Firestone Wilderness at tires on several vehicles (including the Ford Explorer) These reports garnered the station and the team of Anna Werner investigative producer David Raziq and investigative photojournalist/editor Chris Henao several national awards including the Edward R Murrow George Foster Peabody and Columbia University DuPont Award.[citation needed] Among the journalists who have worked for KHOU the best known are former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather Linda Ellerbee and Jessica Savitch. 218 Kinder Morgan Stafford MSD 9 Emergency Services Main article: 1950s Texas drought. Culture Greater Houston possesses a hub-and-spoke limited-access highway system in which a number of freeways radiate outward from Downtown with ring roads providing connections between these radial highways at intermediate distances from the city center the city is crossed by three Interstate highways Interstate 10 Interstate 45 and Interstate 69 (commonly known as U.S Route 59) as well as a number of other United States routes and state highways Major freeways in Greater Houston are often referred to by either the cardinal direction or geographic location they travel towards Highways that follow the cardinal convention include U.S Route 290 (Northwest Freeway) Interstate 45 north of Downtown (North Freeway) Interstate 10 east of Downtown (East Freeway) Texas State Highway 288 (South Freeway) and Interstate 69 south of Downtown (Southwest Freeway) Highways that follow the location convention include Interstate 10 west of Downtown (Katy Freeway) Interstate 69 north of Downtown (Eastex Freeway) Interstate 45 south of Downtown (Gulf Freeway) and Texas State Highway 225 (La Porte or Pasadena Freeway). ; Culture of the United States of America, Italian defeats prompted Germany to deploy an expeditionary force to North Africa and at the end of March 1941 Rommel's Afrika Korps launched an offensive which drove back the Commonwealth forces in under a month Axis forces advanced to western Egypt and besieged the port of Tobruk, 4.4.2 County services 5.1 2006 earthquake! Democratic Hillary Clinton Tim Kaine 3,877,868 43.24% 0 2000 1,953,631 19.8% Located centrally in North America the state is an important transportation hub From the Dallas/Fort Worth area trucks can reach 93 percent of the nation's population within 48 hours and 37 percent within 24 hours. Texas has 33 foreign trade zones (FTZ) the most in the nation in 2004 a combined total of $298 billion of goods passed through Texas FTZs.