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. . Bowie County (92,565) The Trust for America's Health ranked Texas 15th highest in adult obesity with 27.2 percent of the state's population measured as obese the 2008 Men's Health obesity survey ranked four Texas cities among the top 25 fattest cities in America; Houston ranked 6th Dallas 7th El Paso 8th and Arlington 14th. Texas had only one city Austin ranked 21st in the top 25 among the "fittest cities" in America the same survey has evaluated the state's obesity initiatives favorably with a "B+" the state is ranked forty-second in the percentage of residents who engage in regular exercise, (-2) 39 Lakewood Church in Houston led by Pastor Joel Osteen is the largest church in the United States a megachurch it had 44,800 weekly attendees in 2010 up from 11,000 weekly in 2000. Since 2005 it has occupied the former Compaq Center sports stadium in September 2010 Outreach Magazine published a list of the 100 largest Christian churches in the United States and inside the list were the following Houston-area churches: Lakewood Second Baptist Church Houston Woodlands Church Church Without Walls and First Baptist Church. According to the list Houston and Dallas were tied as the second most popular city for megachurches. . . Houston Texas Business Directory, 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, Thousands of enslaved African-Americans lived near the city before the Civil War Many of them near the city worked on sugar and cotton plantations while most of those in the city limits had domestic and artisan jobs in 1860 forty-nine percent of the city's population was enslaved Frost Town a nearby settlement south of the Buffalo Bayou was swallowed by Houston.[citation needed]! With Texas and U.S ranks Spring Valley Village In Europe occupation came under two forms in Western Northern and Central Europe (France Norway Denmark the Low Countries and the annexed portions of Czechoslovakia) Germany established economic policies through which it collected roughly 69.5 billion reichmarks (27.8 billion US dollars) by the end of the war; this figure does not include the sizeable plunder of industrial products military equipment raw materials and other goods. Thus the income from occupied nations was over 40 per cent of the income Germany collected from taxation a figure which increased to nearly 40 per cent of total German income as the war went on; !

Texas Corporation US Religious affiliation in Texas (2014), Constable Precinct 7 May Walker Democratic Beginning around the mid-20th century Texas began to transform from a rural and agricultural state to one that was urban and industrialized the state's population grew quickly during this period with large levels of migration from outside the state. As a part of the Sun Belt Texas experienced strong economic growth particularly during the 1970s and early 1980s. Texas's economy diversified lessening its reliance on the petroleum industry by 1990 Hispanics overtook blacks to become the largest minority group in the state. San Jacinto As early as 1837 the Republic made several attempts to negotiate annexation with the United States. Opposition within the republic from the nationalist faction along with strong abolitionist opposition within the United States slowed Texas's admission into the Union Texas was finally annexed when the expansionist James K Polk won the election of 1844 on December 29 1845 Congress admitted Texas to the U.S as a constituent state of the Union, Emergency Services Districts 220 Occidental Petroleum, Hispanic or Latino (of any race) 43.7% 37.4% 27.6% 11.3%. Ephemeris by Abraham Zacuto in Almanach Perpetuum 1496, Alief (Partially annexed by Houston partially unincorporated), The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Lyndon B Johnson Space Center (NASA JSC) in Southeast Houston sits as the crown jewel of Texas's aeronautics industry Fort Worth hosts both Lockheed Martin's Aeronautics division and Bell Helicopter Textron. Lockheed builds the F-16 Fighting Falcon the largest Western fighter program and its successor the F-35 Lightning II in Fort Worth.