Several private institutions of higher learning are located within the city Rice University the most selective university in Texas and one of the most selective in the United States is a private secular institution with a high level of research activity. Founded in 1912 Rice's historic heavily wooded 300-acre (120-hectare) campus located adjacent to Hermann Park and the Texas Medical Center hosts approximately 4,000 undergraduate and 3,000 post-graduate students to the north in Neartown the University of St Thomas founded in 1947 is Houston's only Catholic university St Thomas provides a liberal arts curriculum for roughly 3,000 students at its historic 19-block campus along Montrose Boulevard in southwest Houston Houston Baptist University (HBU) founded in 1960 offers bachelor's and graduate degrees at its Sharpstown campus the school is affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas and has a student population of approximately 3,000, Thirty-six (36) separate and distinct public universities exist in Texas of which 32 belong to one of the six state university systems. Discovery of minerals on Permanent University Fund land particularly oil has helped fund the rapid growth of the state's two largest university systems: the University of Texas System and the Texas A&M System the four other university systems: the University of Houston System the University of North Texas System the Texas State System and the Texas Tech System are not funded by the Permanent University Fund, Average daily maximum and minimum temperatures for selected cities in Texas. . In 1837 the Racer's Storm passed just to the south of the town raising water levels four feet the Great Hurricane of 1900 destroyed the nearby (and then much bigger) city of Galveston which is situated on a barrier island 50 mi (80 km) southeast of downtown Houston That hurricane weakened to a tropical storm by the time it reached Houston the periphery of Hurricane Carla hit the city in 1961 causing major damage to Houston At the time of landfall Carla was the most powerful tropical system to hit the Texas coast in over 40 years in 1983 the city was struck squarely by Hurricane Alicia causing $1 billion of damage to the city during a down period in the city's economy, Cypress Creek drains a significant portion of northern Harris County the river flows for 52 miles (84 km) through the suburban areas of Cypress and Spring before joining the San Jacinto River the creek's watershed which covers 310 square miles (800 km2) is one of the largest in the county. Houston has excessive ozone levels and is routinely ranked among the most ozone-polluted cities in the United States. Ground-level ozone or smog is Houston's predominant air pollution problem with the American Lung Association rating the metropolitan area's ozone level twelfth on the "Most Polluted Cities by Ozone" in 2017 after major cities such as Los Angeles Phoenix New York City and Denver the industries located along the ship channel are a major cause of the city's air pollution the rankings are in terms of peak-based standards focusing strictly on the worst days of the year; the average ozone levels in Houston are lower than what is seen in most other areas of the country as dominant winds ensure clean marine air from the Gulf. . 3.5 Taxation Houston Dynamo MLS Soccer BBVA Compass Stadium 2012 22,039 the Pueblo from the upper Rio Grande region centered west of Texas.
Author James W Corder wrote in Yonder: Life on the Far Side of Change that he adhered to the said prepositions no matter how far away a place was John Nova Lomax of Texas Monthly stated that he typically did not adhere to the prepositions for more distant cities of about 100 miles (160 km) and/or at least about one to two hours driving distance away especially in regards to east-west travel (for example to the state of Louisiana the city of New Orleans and San Antonio) while he continued to use the prepositions for further-out places to the north and south (such as Corpus Christi Dallas and the Rio Grande Valley). Humble Main article: Second Sino-Japanese War Laredo 100/77 37/25 67/46 19/7 Portolan of Angelino Dulcert (1339) showing Lanzarote island District Name Party First Elected Area(s) of Harris County Represented. As of U.S Census figures current as of 1997 9% of residents in Harris County did not own automobiles This figure does not include people who own cars but do not have enough money to repair the automobiles As of that year while the average income of all residents of the county was $41,000 (equivalent to $64,000 in 2018) the average income of households without cars was $13,000 (equivalent to $20,300 in 2018). Chronological The recorded history of Texas begins with the arrival of the first Spanish conquistadors in the region of North America now known as Texas in 1519 who found the region occupied by numerous Native American tribes the Native Americans' ancestors had been there for more than 10,000 years as evidenced by the discovery of the remains of prehistoric Leanderthal Lady During the period of recorded history from A.D 1519 to 1848 all or parts of Texas were claimed by five countries: France Spain Mexico the Republic of Texas and the United States of America as well as the confederacy during the the civil war! When the Supreme Court ruled in 1923 that white primaries established by political parties were unconstitutional in 1927 the Texas state legislature passed a bill that authorized political parties to establish their internal practices the Democratic Party reinstated the white primary That law survived until 1944 before another Supreme Court case ruled that it was unconstitutional After 1944 the NAACP and other organizations worked to register black voters and participation increased But the major disenfranchisement continued until passage in the mid-1960s of civil rights legislation including the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to provide for federal oversight in areas in which historically minorities did not vote in expected numbers based on population! . . .
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