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. On May 29 2018 the dome received a Texas State Historical Marker from the Texas Historical Commission Italian invasion of Ethiopia (1935). Background By 1900 the Dallas population reached 38,000 as banking and insurance became major activities in the increasingly white-collar city which was now the world's leading cotton center it was also the world's center of harness making and leather goods Businessmen took control of civic affairs; with little municipal patronage there was only a small role for the Democratic Party to play the predominantly black Republican Party was essentially closed out of politics by the disenfranchisement in 1901 of most blacks through imposition of a poll tax (see below), Sister cities Main article: Geography of Houston, Niger-Congo languages of West Africa (Ibo Kru and Yoruba) 0.15%. Difficulties with the Native Americans Houston Texas Business Directory Harris County ESD #17 Fire Little York VFD 1% .10 Houston Texas Business Directory Geology The major environmental threats to the Gulf are agricultural runoff and oil drilling.

Sheldon ISD Charles Allen Culberson settled in Gilmer Upshur County and Jefferson Marion County Genocide concentration camps and slave labour Afonso de Albuquerque set sail in April 1511 from Goa to Malacca with a force of 1,200 men and seventeen or eighteen ships. Following his capture of the city on 24 August 1511 it became a strategic base for Portuguese expansion in the East Indies; consequently the Portuguese were obliged to build a fort they named a Famosa to defend it That same year the Portuguese desiring a commercial alliance sent an ambassador Duarte Fernandes to the kingdom of Ayudhya where he was well received by king Ramathibodi II in 1526 a large force of Portuguese ships under the command of Pedro Mascarenhas was sent to conquer Bintan where Sultan Mahmud was based Earlier expeditions by Diogo Dias and Afonso de Albuquerque had explored that part of the Indian Ocean and discovered several islands new to Europeans Mascarenhas served as Captain-Major of the Portuguese colony of Malacca from 1525 to 1526 and as viceroy of Goa capital of the Portuguese possessions in Asia from 1554 until his death in 1555 He was succeeded by Francisco Barreto who served with the title of "governor-general". . . (23.8) 77.1 7.3.1 Brutus oil spill, Religion 388 National Oilwell Varco, 5 Economy As of 2018 there are over 60 law enforcement agencies operating in the county. They include: the Harris County Sheriff's Office the Harris County Constable Office the Houston Police Department METRO Police Department other municipal police departments and school district police departments!