Betty Blackwell

The Germans who settled Texas were diverse in many ways They included peasant farmers and intellectuals; Protestants Catholics Jews and atheists; Prussians Saxons Hessians and Alsatians; abolitionists and slaveholders; farmers and townsfolk; frugal honest folk and ax murderers They differed in dialect customs and physical features a majority had been farmers in Germany and most arrived seeking economic opportunities a few dissident intellectuals fleeing the 1848 revolutions in Germany sought political freedom but few save perhaps the Wends went for religious freedom the German settlements in Texas reflected their diversity Even in the confined area of the Hill Country each valley offered a different kind of German the Llano valley had stern teetotaling German Methodists who renounced dancing and fraternal organizations; the Pedernales valley had fun-loving hardworking Lutherans and Catholics who enjoyed drinking and dancing; and the Guadalupe valley had atheist Germans descended from intellectual political refugees the scattered German ethnic islands were also diverse These small enclaves included Lindsay in Cooke County largely Westphalian Catholic; Waka in Ochiltree County Midwestern Mennonite; Hurnville in Clay County Russian German Baptist; and Lockett in Wilbarger County Wendish Lutheran. Main article: Sports in Houston, Timber Meadows 12 LGBT Houston Not-For-Profit News is a subsidiary of World Internet News Cooperative It is one of Houston's few non-profit news sources which receives no money from advertising it totes itself as being unbiased with the ability to be more objective than the commercial news media due to the fact that it is not tied to advertisers.[citation needed] Stories covered by the cooperative range from consumer rights to corporate welfare to working-class issues Their work has also been nominated for a Robert F Kennedy Memorial journalism award.[citation needed]! 2.1 Geology acrylonitrile - cancer Houston Texas Business Directory, Spanish galleons travelled across the Pacific Ocean between Acapulco in Mexico and Manila. Contents Per the 2010 US Census records the five most populous counties are:. ! The University of Texas at Austin One Shell Plaza Blues Movie theaters 7 Arlington Tarrant 392,772 7 External links 1950s Many of the organs of the Harris County government reside in the Harris County Campus in Downtown Houston!

By topic On Palm Sunday March 27 Fannin Ward Westover and their men were marched out of the presidio and shot Mexican cavalry were stationed nearby to chase down any who tried to escape. Approximately 342 Texians died and 27 either escaped or were spared by Mexican troops. Several weeks after the Goliad massacre the Mexican Congress granted an official reprieve to any Texas prisoners who had incurred capital punishment, Healthcare The University of Texas at San Antonio, According to US Census records from 2010 the population of East Texas counties is 65.93% White non-Hispanic 17.44% African American 14.29% Hispanic or Latino origin and 2.34% Other (including Native American and Asian) East Texas' most ethnically and racially diverse county is Jefferson County East Texas' largest county which includes the city of Beaumont with 44.1% White non-Hispanic 34.1% African American 17.7% Hispanic or Latino origin and 4.1% other (including Native American and Asian) Unlike Texas' total state racial demographics only two counties in East Texas have a majority minority Jefferson County in the Golden Triangle and Titus County having a 40.6% Hispanic or Latino origin population East Texas and Southeast Texas have a significant African-American population ranging to nearly 20% in some counties. . . Houston Texas Business Directory Don't know/refused answer 0.5 Others follow the British historian A.J.P Taylor who held that the Sino-Japanese War and war in Europe and its colonies occurred simultaneously and the two wars merged in 1941 This article uses the conventional dating Other starting dates sometimes used for World War II include the Italian invasion of Abyssinia on 3 October 1935 the British historian Antony Beevor views the beginning of World War II as the Battles of Khalkhin Gol fought between Japan and the forces of Mongolia and the Soviet Union from May to September 1939; Joe R Lansdale award-winning author and martial arts expert born in Gladewater Gregg County, Nazi Germany was responsible for the Holocaust (killing approximately 6 million Jews) as well as for killing 2.7 million ethnic Poles and 4 million others who were deemed "unworthy of life" (including the disabled and mentally ill Soviet prisoners of war Romani homosexuals Freemasons and Jehovah's Witnesses) as part of a programme of deliberate extermination in effect becoming a "genocidal state". Soviet POWs were kept in especially unbearable conditions and 3.6 million Soviet POWs out of 5.7 died in Nazi camps during the war in addition to concentration camps death camps were created in Nazi Germany to exterminate people at an industrial scale Nazi Germany extensively used forced labourers; about 12 million Europeans from German occupied countries were abducted and used as a slave work force in German industry agriculture and war economy, James Pinckney Henderson first governor of Texas practiced law in San Augustine San Augustine County! . !