. Ferdinand incorporated the American territories into his domain and then withdrew the authority granted to governor Christopher Columbus and the first conquistadors He established direct royal control with the Council of the Indies the most important administrative organ of the Spanish Empire both in the Americas and in Asia After unifying Castile Ferdinand introduced to Castile many laws regulations and institutions such as the Inquisition that were typical in Aragon These laws were later used in the new lands. . 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. 16.3 Ethnicity and minorities 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. A large stone complex several stories high Two crosses top the structures in the foreground, In December 1940 British Empire forces began counter-offensives against Italian forces in Egypt and Italian East Africa the offensives were highly successful; by early February 1941 Italy had lost control of eastern Libya and large numbers of Italian troops had been taken prisoner the Italian Navy also suffered significant defeats with the Royal Navy putting three Italian battleships out of commission by a carrier attack at Taranto and neutralising several more warships at the Battle of Cape Matapan, The ship that truly launched the first phase of the discoveries along the African coast was the Portuguese caravel Iberians quickly adopted it for their merchant navy it was a development based on African fishing boats They were agile and easier to navigate with a tonnage of 50 to 160 tons and one to three masts with lateen triangular sails allowing luffing the caravel particularly benefited from a greater capacity to tack the limited capacity for cargo and crew were their main drawbacks but have not hindered its success Limited crew and cargo space was acceptable initially because as exploratory ships their "cargo" was what was in the explorer's discoveries about a new territory which only took up the space of one person. Among the famous caravels are Berrio and Caravela Annunciation Columbus also used them in his travels.
Treasurer Dylan Osborne Democratic, Top publicly traded companies, Fort Bend (southwest) In 2010 Site Selection Magazine ranked Texas as the most business-friendly state in the nation in part because of the state's three-billion-dollar Texas Enterprise Fund. Texas has the joint-highest number of Fortune 500 company headquarters in the United States along with California. 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]. .
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