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. Greyhound Bus Lines operates various stations throughout Harris County, German operations in the Atlantic also suffered by May 1943 as Allied counter-measures became increasingly effective the resulting sizeable German submarine losses forced a temporary halt of the German Atlantic naval campaign in November 1943 Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met with Chiang Kai-shek in Cairo and then with Joseph Stalin in Tehran the former conference determined the post-war return of Japanese territory and the military planning for the Burma Campaign while the latter included agreement that the Western Allies would invade Europe in 1944 and that the Soviet Union would declare war on Japan within three months of Germany's defeat. Exterior of Rothko Chapel Geology 15 Further reading Houston Texas Business Directory. . Thousands of enslaved African-Americans lived near the city before the Civil War Many of them near the city worked on sugar and cotton plantations while most of those in the city limits had domestic and artisan jobs in 1860 forty-nine percent of the city's population was enslaved Frost Town a nearby settlement south of the Buffalo Bayou was swallowed by Houston.[citation needed]. ! 4 Spanish exploration In 1853 the first execution in Houston took place in public at Founder's Cemetery in the Fourth Ward; initially the cemetery was the execution site but post-1868 executions took place in the jail facilities, Memorial Day storms in 2015 brought flash flooding to the city as some areas received 11 inches or more of rain overnight exacerbated by already full bayous at least three people died and more than 1,000 cars were stranded on highways and overpasses.

. . . Party Candidate Running mate Votes Percentage Electoral votes, An expedition commanded by Pizarro and his brothers explored south from what is today Panama reaching Inca territory by 1526. After one more expedition in 1529 Pizarro received royal approval to conquer the region and be its viceroy the approval read: "In July 1529 the queen of Spain signed a charter allowing Pizarro to conquer the Incas Pizarro was named governor and captain of all conquests in New Castile" the Viceroyalty of Peru was established in 1542 encompassing all Spanish holdings in South America. . . Houston is home to 337 parks including Hermann Park Terry Hershey Park Lake Houston Park Memorial Park Tranquility Park Sesquicentennial Park Discovery Green Buffalo Bayou Park and Sam Houston Park Within Hermann Park are the Houston Zoo and the Houston Museum of Natural Science Sam Houston Park contains restored and reconstructed homes which were originally built between 1823 and 1905 a proposal has been made to open the city's first botanic garden at Herman Brown Park.