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; . 6.3 Energy 2 Early Spanish exploration Houston Texas Business Directory The primary network-affiliated television stations are KPRC-TV (NBC) KHOU (CBS) KTRK-TV (ABC) KRIV (Fox) KIAH (The CW) and KTXH (MyNetworkTV) KTRK-TV KRIV and KTXH operate as owned-and-operated stations of their networks. 6.2 Republic of Texas The cattle industry continued to thrive though it gradually became less profitable Cotton and lumber became major industries creating new economic booms in various regions of the state Railroad networks grew rapidly as did the port at Galveston as commerce between Texas and the rest of the U.S (and the rest of the world) expanded As with some other states before the lumber industry quickly decimated the forests of Texas such that by the early 20th century the majority of the forest population in Texas was gone (later conservation efforts restored some of it but never to the level it once was).

. . Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Houston Branch, Alley Theatre Afonso de Albuquerque set sail in April 1511 from Goa to Malacca with a force of 1,200 men and seventeen or eighteen ships. Following his capture of the city on 24 August 1511 it became a strategic base for Portuguese expansion in the East Indies; consequently the Portuguese were obliged to build a fort they named a Famosa to defend it That same year the Portuguese desiring a commercial alliance sent an ambassador Duarte Fernandes to the kingdom of Ayudhya where he was well received by king Ramathibodi II in 1526 a large force of Portuguese ships under the command of Pedro Mascarenhas was sent to conquer Bintan where Sultan Mahmud was based Earlier expeditions by Diogo Dias and Afonso de Albuquerque had explored that part of the Indian Ocean and discovered several islands new to Europeans Mascarenhas served as Captain-Major of the Portuguese colony of Malacca from 1525 to 1526 and as viceroy of Goa capital of the Portuguese possessions in Asia from 1554 until his death in 1555 He was succeeded by Francisco Barreto who served with the title of "governor-general", Society Other Christian 1. West Texas: Comancheria Northcliffe Memorial Village (Bunker Hill Piney Point Hunters Creek) 8.1 Texas self-perception In the Middle East in May Commonwealth forces quashed an uprising in Iraq which had been supported by German aircraft from bases within Vichy-controlled Syria. Between June and July they invaded and occupied the French possessions Syria and Lebanon with the assistance of the Free French.[citation needed]. Around 2006 Taiwanese people became owners of several independent and small chain hotels in the Houston area in December 2006 C.Y Ling the director of the commercial division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Houston said that Taiwanese owned more hotels than any other ethnic group except for the Indians. Environmental issues 8 Mythic lands Texas descended into anarchy for two months between the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia and the assumption of authority by Union General Gordon Granger Violence marked the early months of Reconstruction. Juneteenth commemorates the announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Galveston by General Gordon Granger almost two and a half years after the original announcement. President Johnson in 1866 declared the civilian government restored in Texas. Despite not meeting reconstruction requirements Congress resumed allowing elected Texas representatives into the federal government in 1870 Social volatility continued as the state struggled with agricultural depression and labor issues! Spindletop the first major oil gusher German operations in the Atlantic also suffered by May 1943 as Allied counter-measures became increasingly effective the resulting sizeable German submarine losses forced a temporary halt of the German Atlantic naval campaign in November 1943 Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met with Chiang Kai-shek in Cairo and then with Joseph Stalin in Tehran the former conference determined the post-war return of Japanese territory and the military planning for the Burma Campaign while the latter included agreement that the Western Allies would invade Europe in 1944 and that the Soviet Union would declare war on Japan within three months of Germany's defeat!