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. In March 1938 Nationalist Chinese forces won their first major victory at Taierzhuang but then the city of Xuzhou was taken by Japanese in May in June 1938 Chinese forces stalled the Japanese advance by flooding the Yellow River; this manoeuvre bought time for the Chinese to prepare their defences at Wuhan but the city was taken by October. Japanese military victories did not bring about the collapse of Chinese resistance that Japan had hoped to achieve; instead the Chinese government relocated inland to Chongqing and continued the war, Pre-Columbian Texas The Toyota Center the arena for the Houston Rockets opened in fall 2003, 2 Closure At the 2000 Census the racial makeup of the city in was 49.3% White 25.3% Black or African American 5.3% Asian 0.7% American Indian 0.1% Pacific Islander 16.5% from some other race and 3.1% from two or more races in addition Hispanics made up 37.4% of Houston's population in 2000 while non-Hispanic whites made up 30.8% the proportion of non-Hispanic whites in Houston has decreased significantly since 1970 when it was 62.4%. . . .

. . 1 Arts and theatre JFK assassination Native Americans determined the fate of European explorers and settlers depending on whether a tribe was kind or warlike. Friendly tribes taught newcomers how to grow indigenous crops prepare foods and hunting methods for the wild game Warlike tribes made life difficult and dangerous for explorers and settlers through their attacks and resistance to European conquest. Many Native Americans died of new infectious diseases which caused high fatalities and disrupted their cultures in the early years of colonization in the 19th century they resisted European and American expansion and there was frequent warfare After the American Civil War the United States Army was used to suppress resistance in the Indian Wars, Contents The early isolation of the region and its links to the Deep South have resulted in its well-known pine woods being described as a 'curtain' that demarcates a certain cultural enclave or bubble that distinguishes East Texas from the rest of the state Former residents describe leaving behind the 'Pine Curtain' as a form of escape, Katy ISD George Tyler Wood second governor of Texas settled near Point Blank in Liberty County and San Jacinto County. . ! . By topic In 2000 1,961,993 residents of Harris County spoke English only the five largest foreign languages in the county were Spanish or Spanish Creole (1,106,883 speakers) Vietnamese (53,311 speakers) Chinese (33,003 speakers) French including Cajun and Patois (33,003 speakers) and Urdu (14,595 speakers) Among those who spoke other languages 46% of Spanish speakers 37% of Vietnamese speakers 50% of Chinese speakers 85% of French speakers and 72% of Urdu speakers said that they spoke English at least "very well", In 2013 Allen Turner of the Houston Chronicle said that residents of Harris County were "consistently conservative in elections" and that they were according to a Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research opinion poll "surprisingly liberal on topics such as immigration gun control and equal matrimonial rights for same-sex couples". Harris is regarded as a moderate or swing county in Texas and has been a bellwether in Presidential elections voting for winners of every Presidential election from 2000 through 2012 (both Barack Obama and Texas resident George W Bush have won the county).