. In July 2015 BP reached an $18.7bn settlement with the US government the states of Alabama Florida Louisiana Mississippi and Texas as well as 400 local authorities to date BP's cost for the clean-up environmental and economic damages and penalties has reached $54bn. 4.1 County facilities Japan planned to rapidly seize European colonies in Asia to create a large defensive perimeter stretching into the Central Pacific the Japanese would then be free to exploit the resources of Southeast Asia while exhausting the over-stretched Allies by fighting a defensive war to prevent American intervention while securing the perimeter it was further planned to neutralise the United States Pacific Fleet and the American military presence in the Philippines from the outset on 7 December 1941 (8 December in Asian time zones) Japan attacked British and American holdings with near-simultaneous offensives against Southeast Asia and the Central Pacific. These included an attack on the American fleets at Pearl Harbor and the Philippines landings in Thailand and Malaya and the Battle of Hong Kong, Developing male cones and needles The Praetorian Building in Dallas completed 1909 was the first skyscraper west of the Mississippi and the tallest in Texas. Establishment of Spanish colony, Houston Texas Business Directory, The Alamo Mission painted 10 years after the battle; Evel Knievel jumped 13 cars two nights in a row drawing over 100,000 spectators to the Astrodome in January 1971 and though there was talk of him making an actual jump over the stadium itself sometime in the future it never happened. Main article: Transportation in Houston 10 Footnotes 11 Hospital services 1870 818,579 35.5% Jersey Village Ben Westhoff author of Dirty South: Outkast Lil Wayne Soulja Boy and the Southern Rappers who Reinvented Hip-Hop said that Houston is geographically isolated from other cities that have rap music traditions so Houston rap music has its own slang and sound which does not "translate" in other regions Many DJs like to severely slow down music and repeat lines several times a style known as "chopped and screwed." the originator of "Chopped and Screwed" style music was the late Dj Screw Screw began making this type of music while under the influence of promethazine with codeine cough syrup the drinking of which is now heavily popularized in hip-hop culture Westhoff says that the style which slurs the speeches of the rappers gives the music an "extraterrestrial quality." Bounce music also became popular in Houston in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. .
San Jacinto Top publicly traded companies 8 Mythic lands. 11.5 World War II Houston Texas Business Directory Minor oil spills Tourism and recreation "Texas-sized" is an expression that can be used in two ways: to describe something that is about the size of the U.S state of Texas or to describe something (usually but not always originating from Texas) that is large compared to other objects of its type. Texas was the largest U.S state until Alaska became a state in 1959 the phrase "everything is bigger in Texas" has been in regular use since at least 1950; and was used as early as 1913. 202 Waste Management 14 Footnotes Texas has a reputation of very harsh criminal punishment for criminal offenses It is one of the 32 states that practice capital punishment and since the US Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976 40% of all US executions have taken place in Texas as of 2008 Texas had the 4th highest incarceration rate in the US. Texas also has strong self defense laws allowing citizens to use lethal force to defend themselves their families or their property. Earl Campbell the "Tyler Rose" played football for John Tyler High in Tyler before playing for the Texas Longhorns and the Houston Oilers Don Meredith who famously played for the Dallas Cowboys played at Mt Vernon Dez Bryant a football player from Lufkin formerly played wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys before signing with the New Orleans Saints (then getting injured three days afterwards) Adrian Peterson a star running back for the Minnesota Vikings played high-school football in Palestine Other high-school sports are popular in East Texas including basketball baseball volleyball softball and track! 1940 528,961 47.2% China appealed to the League of Nations to stop the Japanese invasion of Manchuria Japan withdrew from the League of Nations after being condemned for its incursion into Manchuria the two nations then fought several battles in Shanghai Rehe and Hebei until the Tanggu Truce was signed in 1933 Thereafter Chinese volunteer forces continued the resistance to Japanese aggression in Manchuria and Chahar and Suiyuan. After the 1936 Xi'an Incident the Kuomintang and communist forces agreed on a ceasefire to present a united front to oppose Japan. 23 Apache Corporation 206 3.1 Music 7 Sysco 67, Sleet and freezing rain are more common than snow in the Houston area While accumulating snow events are rare in Houston brief snow flurries occur every winter in the greater Houston area These usually have no impacts on travel as they are light brief and isolated Hail can accumulate but only in small quantities, Harris County ESD #25 Fire Westfield FD .10. General Electric operates an aeroderivative division facility on Jacintoport in unincorporated Harris County. Randall's Food Markets a subsidiary of Safeway Inc has its distribution center in unincorporated Harris County.
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