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Houston Texas Business Directory, The present Alley Theatre building opened in November 1968 and contains two stages the main stage has 824 seats and is called the "Hubbard"; the more intimate 310-seat stage is the "Neuhaus." Outside there are nine towers and open-air terraces Inside a staircase spirals from the entrance vestibule to the second-floor lobby the theatre was constructed in a large part by a $1.4 million grant from the Ford Foundation to support innovative theater architecture and the prime architect on the project was Ulrich Franzen. . In July 1937 Japan captured the former Chinese imperial capital of Peking after instigating the Marco Polo Bridge Incident which culminated in the Japanese campaign to invade all of China the Soviets quickly signed a non-aggression pact with China to lend materiel support effectively ending China's prior co-operation with Germany From September to November the Japanese attacked Taiyuan engaged the Kuomintang Army around Xinkou and fought Communist forces in Pingxingguan. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek deployed his best army to defend Shanghai but after three months of fighting Shanghai fell the Japanese continued to push the Chinese forces back capturing the capital Nanking in December 1937 After the fall of Nanking tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants were murdered by the Japanese, As of April 2013 the state's unemployment rate is 6.4 percent In 2001 the wreck of U-166 was found in 5,000 feet (1,500 m) of water less than two miles from where it had attacked the Robert E Lee an archaeological survey of the seafloor before construction of a natural gas pipeline led to the discoveries by C & C Marine archaeologists Robert A Church and Daniel J Warren the sonar contacts consisted of two large sections lying approximately 500 feet apart at either end of a debris field that indicated the presence of a U-boat; Main articles: Demographics of Houston and Religion in Houston, Houston has sports teams for every major professional league except the National Hockey League the Houston Astros are a Major League Baseball expansion team formed in 1962 (known as the "Colt .45s" until 1965) that won the World Series in 2017 and previously appeared in 2005 It is the only MLB team to have won pennants in both modern leagues the Houston Rockets are a National Basketball Association franchise based in the city since 1971 They have won two NBA Championships one in 1994 and another in 1995 under star players Hakeem Olajuwon Otis Thorpe Clyde Drexler Vernon Maxwell and Kenny Smith the Houston Texans are a National Football League expansion team formed in 2002 the Houston Dynamo is a Major League Soccer franchise that has been based in Houston since 2006 winning two MLS Cup titles in 2006 and 2007 the Houston Dash team plays in the National Women's Soccer League the Houston SaberCats are a rugby team that plays in Major League Rugby, Sister cities hexavalent chromium - cancer. 145 Carol Alvarado Democratic 2008 Inner southeastern portions of Houston (mainly east of I-45) South Houston (not part of the city of Houston). . In the late 1720s the viceroy of New Spain closed the presidio in East Texas and reduced the size of the garrisons at the remaining presidios leaving only 144 soldiers in the entire province With no soldiers to protect them the East Texas missions relocated to San Antonio. Cabral's voyage to Brazil and India 1500, Two commercial airports George Bush Intercontinental Airport and William P Hobby Airport are located in Houston and in Harris County the Houston Airport System defines Harris County as a part of Bush Intercontinental's service region the city of Houston operates Ellington Field a general aviation and military airport in Harris County, Main article: Texas state highways.

7 Further reading US 90.svg U.S Highway 90 Alternate, Houston is considered to be a politically divided city whose balance of power often sways between Republicans and Democrats Much of the city's wealthier areas vote Republican while the city's working class and minority areas vote Democratic According to the 2005 Houston Area Survey 68 percent of non-Hispanic whites in Harris County are declared or favor Republicans while 89 percent of non-Hispanic blacks in the area are declared or favor Democrats About 62 percent of Hispanics (of any race) in the area are declared or favor Democrats the city has often been known to be the most politically diverse city in Texas a state known for being generally conservative. As a result the city is often a contested area in statewide elections in 2009 Houston became the first U.S city with a population over 1 million citizens to elect a gay mayor by electing Annise Parker. . Spring ISD, the civilizations of Mesoamerica centered south of Texas Influence of Teotihuacan in northern Mexico peaked around AD 500 and declined over the 8th to 10th centuries, Cuba and United States: Maritime boundary agreement between the United States of America and the Republic of Cuba of December 16 1977.