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December 24 snowstorm shown on satellite, 16.7 Pre-1865 Infrastructure Statehood, The Big Thicket is an area of dense forest located in the area just north and northwest of the city of Beaumont There are many small towns in this area including Woodville and Kountze. . . (28) 87 Throughout East Texas black family growth and dissolution came more rapidly than in peacetime; blacks were more mobile as an adjustment to employment opportunities There was a more rapid shift to factory labor higher economic returns and a willingness of whites to tolerate the change in black economic status so long as the traditional "Jim Crow" social relations were maintained; . Houston Texas Business Directory, The Jesse H Jones Hall for the Performing Arts commonly known as Jones Hall is a performance venue in Houston and the permanent home of the Houston Symphony Orchestra and the Houston Society for the Performing Arts Completed in October 1966 at the cost of $7.4 million it was designed by the Houston-based architectural firm Caudill Rowlett Scott the hall which takes up a city block has a white Italian marble exterior with eight-story tall columns the lobby is dominated by a 60-foot (18 m) high ceiling with a massive hanging bronze sculpture by Richard Lippold entitled "Gemini II." the ceiling of the concert hall consists of 800 hexagonal segments that can be raised or lowered to change the acoustics of the hall the building won the 1967 American Institute of Architects' Honor Award which is bestowed on only one building annually, 6.3 Foreign relations When Francisco Coronado and the Spaniards first explored the Rio Grande Valley in 1540 in modern New Mexico some of the chieftains complained of new diseases that affected their tribes Cabeza de Vaca reported that in 1528 when the Spanish landed in Texas "half the natives died from a disease of the bowels and blamed us." When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in the Incan empire a large portion of the population had already died in a smallpox epidemic the first epidemic was recorded in 1529 and killed the emperor Huayna Capac the father of Atahualpa Further epidemics of smallpox broke out in 1533 1535 1558 and 1565 as well as typhus in 1546 influenza in 1558 diphtheria in 1614 and measles in 1618.:133.

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