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Pre-Columbian history 1980 1,595,138 29.4% 13 See also, Houston Texas Business Directory 2 Surface water. Speech patterns Arts and theatre Founded in 1892 Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth also called "The Modern" is Texas's oldest art museum Fort Worth also has the Kimbell Art Museum the Amon Carter Museum the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame the Will Rogers Memorial Center and the Bass Performance Hall downtown the Arts District of Downtown Dallas has arts venues such as the Dallas Museum of Art the Morton H Meyerson Symphony Center the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House the Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center, The survivors primarily women and children were questioned by Santa Anna and then released. Susanna Dickinson was sent with Travis's slave Joe to Gonzales where she lived to spread the news of the Texian defeat Santa Anna assumed that knowledge of the disparity in troop numbers and the fate of the Texian soldiers at the Alamo would quell the resistance and that Texian soldiers would quickly leave the territory. 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, (15.8) 69.2 U.S Decennial Census US President Franklin D Roosevelt and British PM Winston Churchill seated at the Casablanca Conference January 1943. Traces Some of Houston's oldest and most distinctive architecture are found in the northern sections of downtown as the city grew around Allen's Landing and the Market Square historic district where several representations of 19th-century urban architecture still stand.

2.1 Theater District Texas emits the most greenhouse gases in the U.S the state emits nearly 1.5 trillion pounds (680 billion kg) of carbon dioxide annually As an independent nation Texas would rank as the world's seventh-largest producer of greenhouse gases. Causes of the state's vast greenhouse gas emissions include the state's large number of coal power plants and the state's refining and manufacturing industries in 2010 there were 2,553 "emission events" which poured 44.6 million pounds of contaminants into the Texas sky. Pre-European era On June 1 1836 Santa Anna boarded a ship to travel back to Mexico For the next two days crowds of Texian soldiers many of whom had arrived that week from the United States gathered to demand his execution Lamar by now promoted to Secretary of War gave a speech insisting that "Mobs must not intimidate the government We want no French Revolution in Texas!" but on June 4 soldiers seized Santa Anna and put him under military arrest. According to Lack "the shock of having its foreign policy overturned by popular rebellion had weakened the interim government irrevocably" a group of soldiers staged an unsuccessful coup in mid-July in response Burnet called for elections to ratify the constitution and elect a Congress the sixth set of leaders for Texas in a twelve-month period. Voters overwhelmingly chose Houston the first president ratified the constitution drawn up by the Convention of 1836 and approved a resolution to request annexation to the United States. Houston issued an executive order sending Santa Anna to Washington D.C and from there he was soon sent home. Snow in Southeast Texas The area contains two of the oldest towns in Texas; Nacogdoches the oldest town in Texas dating from 18th century and San Augustine the oldest "Anglo" settlement in Texas dating from the 1820s People of English Scottish Scots-Irish and to a lesser extent Welsh ancestry predominate in the region which is in contrast to South Central Texas and West Texas where people of German and Hispanic heritage predominate respectively Prior to the Texas War of Independence settlement was generally prohibited by the Spanish and later Mexican governments but neither government was able to exert control or law enforcement in the area As a consequence the "Big Thicket" became a refuge for criminals fleeing the United States and hiding out in a "no man's land" in the pine tree thickets. . .