Further information: Legacy of the Battle of the Alamo See also: List of airports in Texas, 10.5.1.2 Low birth weight 1920 4,663,228 19.7% 9 Further reading. Houston Texas Business Directory Designed by Fort Worth architect Wyatt C Hedrick the Shamrock Hotel was an 18-story building constructed between 1946 and 1949 with a green tile pitched roof and 1,100 rooms the hotel was conceived by wildcatter Glenn McCarthy as a city-sized hotel scaled for conventions with a resort atmosphere the Shamrock was located in a suburban area three miles (5 km) southwest of downtown Houston on the fringes of countryside and was meant to be the first phase of a much larger indoor shopping and entertainment complex called McCarthy Center anchored alongside the planned Texas Medical Center At the hotel's north side was a five-story building containing a 1,000-car garage and 25,000-square-foot (2,300 m2) exhibition hall to the south was the hotel's lavishly landscaped garden designed by Ralph Ellis Gunn a terrace and an immense swimming pool measuring 165 by 142 feet (43 m) described as the world's biggest outdoor pool which accommodated exhibition waterskiing and featured a three-story-high diving platform with an open spiral staircase. Despite protests by local preservationists the Shamrock was demolished June 1 1987 the Institute of Biosciences and Technology now stands in its former location! Human infections gained worldwide transmission vectors for the first time: from Africa and Eurasia to the Americas and vice versa the spread of old-world diseases including smallpox flu and typhus led to the deaths of many indigenous inhabitants of the New World, Obesity also has substantial impacts on the economy in Texas Obesity costs Texas businesses $9.5 billion annually. 41% of this is due to obesity-related healthcare costs 17% is due to absenteeism and 37% is due to presenteeism. 8 See also Prior to the mid-20th century Texas was essentially a one-party state and the Democratic primary was viewed as "the real election" the Democratic Party had conservative and liberal factions which became more pronounced after the New Deal. Additionally several factions of the party briefly split during the 1930s and 40s, Prior to the mid-20th century Texas was essentially a one-party state and the Democratic primary was viewed as "the real election" the Democratic Party had conservative and liberal factions which became more pronounced after the New Deal. Additionally several factions of the party briefly split during the 1930s and 40s. In Asia the United States led the occupation of Japan and administrated Japan's former islands in the Western Pacific while the Soviets annexed Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. Korea formerly under Japanese rule was divided and occupied by the Soviet Union in the North and the United States in the South between 1945 and 1948 Separate republics emerged on both sides of the 38th parallel in 1948 each claiming to be the legitimate government for all of Korea which led ultimately to the Korean War, AT&T Stadium home of the Dallas Cowboys, 7 Trade The Wortham Theater Center 6 Carol Alvarado Democratic 2013 Houston Ship Channel eastern portions of Houston Jacinto City Galena Park northern Pasadena western portion of Baytown; ! .
. . . Since 1980 San Antonio has evolved into "The Tejano Music Capital Of the World" the Tejano Music Awards have provided a forum to create greater awareness and appreciation for Tejano music and culture.
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