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3.1 2013 referendum and aftermath Houston includes Christian Jewish Muslim Hindu Buddhist Zoroastrian and other religious groups, In October 2001 Enron a Houston-based energy company got caught in accounting scandals ultimately leading to collapse of the company and its accounting firm Arthur Andersen and the arrest and imprisonment of several executives. .

. . The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Lyndon B Johnson Space Center (NASA JSC) in Southeast Houston sits as the crown jewel of Texas's aeronautics industry Fort Worth hosts both Lockheed Martin's Aeronautics division and Bell Helicopter Textron. Lockheed builds the F-16 Fighting Falcon the largest Western fighter program and its successor the F-35 Lightning II in Fort Worth. The 1200 Jail the headquarters of the Harris County Sheriff's Office Animals Although Christopher Columbus was credited with the discovery of the Americas by Europeans the ships in his four voyages never reached the Gulf of Mexico Instead Columbus sailed into the Caribbean around Cuba and Hispaniola the first European exploration of the Gulf of Mexico was by Amerigo Vespucci in 1497 He followed the coastal land mass of Central America before returning to the Atlantic Ocean via the Straits of Florida between Florida and Cuba in his letters Vespucci described this trip and once Juan de la Cosa returned to Spain a famous world map depicting Cuba as an island was produced. . . .