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Soldiers of the Polish Army during the defence of Poland September 1939 Est 2018 28,701,845 14.1% Hindi 0.23% Main articles: Genocide the Holocaust Nazi concentration camps Extermination camp Forced labour under German rule during World War II Kidnapping of children by Nazi Germany and Nazi human experimentation. . . By 1913 twelve oil companies had located themselves in Houston most notably Humble Oil Company which is now ExxonMobil Howard Hughes was born in Humble Texas where the oil company started President Woodrow Wilson opened the Port of Houston in 1914 74 years after the digging started Service started with the Satilla a ship that ran from Houston to New York New York World War I put the gasoline-combustible automobile into widespread use causing oil to become a precious commodity However the war caused the amount of tonnage arriving in the Port to drop After the war the rice business fell flat causing many Japanese-Americans to find other work or to move out of Texas, 8 External links Friendswood (mostly in Galveston County) According to a survey of Division I-A coaches the rivalry between the University of Oklahoma and the University of Texas at Austin the Red River Shootout ranks the third best in the nation the TCU Horned Frogs and SMU Mustangs also share a rivalry and compete annually in the Battle for the Iron Skillet a fierce rivalry the Lone Star Showdown also exists between the state's two largest universities Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin the athletics portion of the Lone Star Showdown rivalry has been put on hold after the Texas A&M Aggies joined the Southeastern Conference. Asian: 3.8 percent (1.0 percent Indian 0.8 percent Vietnamese 0.6 percent Chinese 0.4 percent Filipino 0.3 percent Korean 0.1 percent Japanese 0.6 percent other Asian), Rank Name County Pop. The Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research a think tank has described Greater Houston as "one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse metropolitan areas in the country". Houston's diversity fueled by large waves of immigrants has been attributed to its relatively low cost of living strong job market proximity to Latin America and role as a hub for refugee resettlement a 2012 Kinder Institute report found that based on the evenness of population distribution between the four major racial groups in the United States (non-Hispanic white non-Hispanic black Hispanic or Latino and Asian) Greater Houston was the most ethnically diverse metropolitan area in the United States ahead of New York City in 2017 according to the U.S Census Bureau non-Hispanic whites made up 24.9% of the population of Houston proper Hispanics or Latinos 44.5% Blacks or African Americans 22.9% and Asians 6.7%. . Protestant 50 West Houston Airport is a general aviation airport located in unincorporated western Harris County west of the Houston city limits. .

. The major environmental threats to the Gulf are agricultural runoff and oil drilling Missouri City 10.1 Healthcare Katy (partly in Fort Bend and Waller counties). 1970 11,196,730 16.9% When Francisco Coronado and the Spaniards first explored the Rio Grande Valley in 1540 in modern New Mexico some of the chieftains complained of new diseases that affected their tribes Cabeza de Vaca reported that in 1528 when the Spanish landed in Texas "half the natives died from a disease of the bowels and blamed us." When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in the Incan empire a large portion of the population had already died in a smallpox epidemic the first epidemic was recorded in 1529 and killed the emperor Huayna Capac the father of Atahualpa Further epidemics of smallpox broke out in 1533 1535 1558 and 1565 as well as typhus in 1546 influenza in 1558 diphtheria in 1614 and measles in 1618.:133. ; Infant health Although all of Germany's stated demands had been satisfied by the agreement privately Hitler was furious that British interference had prevented him from seizing all of Czechoslovakia in one operation in subsequent speeches Hitler attacked British and Jewish "war-mongers" and in January 1939 secretly ordered a major build-up of the German navy to challenge British naval supremacy in March 1939 Germany invaded the remainder of Czechoslovakia and subsequently split it into the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and a pro-German client state the Slovak Republic. Hitler also delivered the 20 March 1939 ultimatum to Lithuania forcing the concession of the Klaipeda Region! .