Houston Texas Business Directory 11.2 Tactics In early May 1942 Japan initiated operations to capture Port Moresby by amphibious assault and thus sever communications and supply lines between the United States and Australia the planned invasion was thwarted when an Allied task force centred on two American fleet carriers fought Japanese naval forces to a draw in the Battle of the Coral Sea. Japan's next plan motivated by the earlier Doolittle Raid was to seize Midway Atoll and lure American carriers into battle to be eliminated; as a diversion Japan would also send forces to occupy the Aleutian Islands in Alaska in mid-May Japan started the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign in China with the goal of inflicting retribution on the Chinese who aided the surviving American airmen in the Doolittle Raid by destroying air bases and fighting against the Chinese 23rd and 32nd Army Groups in early June Japan put its operations into action but the Americans having broken Japanese naval codes in late May were fully aware of the plans and order of battle and used this knowledge to achieve a decisive victory at Midway over the Imperial Japanese Navy; According to a survey of Division I-A coaches the rivalry between the University of Oklahoma and the University of Texas at Austin the Red River Shootout ranks the third best in the nation the TCU Horned Frogs and SMU Mustangs also share a rivalry and compete annually in the Battle for the Iron Skillet a fierce rivalry the Lone Star Showdown also exists between the state's two largest universities Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin the athletics portion of the Lone Star Showdown rivalry has been put on hold after the Texas A&M Aggies joined the Southeastern Conference. 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, 2 Background Mauritius was visited by the Portuguese between 1507 (by Diogo Fernandes Pereira) and 1513 the Portuguese took no interest in the isolated Mascarene islands Their main African base was in Mozambique and therefore the Portuguese navigators preferred to use the Mozambique Channel to go to India the Comoros at the north proved to be a more practical port of call, 3.4 Poverty U.S Decennial Census "Surrender of Santa Anna" by William Henry Huddle shows the Mexican president and general surrendering to a wounded Sam Houston battle of San Jacinto. . 2.3 1930s Hispanics and Latinos are the second-largest group in Texas after non-Hispanic European Americans Over 8.5 million people claim Hispanic or Latino ethnicity This group forms over 37 percent of Texas's population People of Mexican descent alone number over 7.9 million and make up 31.6 percent of the population the vast majority of the Hispanic/Latino population in the state is of Mexican descent the next two largest groups are Salvadorans and Puerto Ricans There are over 222,000 Salvadorans and over 130,000 Puerto Ricans in Texas Other groups with large numbers in Texas include Hondurans Guatemalans Nicaraguans and Cubans among others the Hispanics in Texas are more likely than in some other states (such as California) to identify as white; according to the 2010 U.S Census Texas is home to 6,304,207 White Hispanics and 2,594,206 Hispanics of "some other race" (usually mestizo). .
Barrett Marker in Downtown Houston commemorating the foundation of Houston by the Allen Brothers Main article: Demographics of Texas Green Jill Stein Ajamu Baraka 71,558 0.80% 0 In total 34.2% (7,660,406) of Texas's population aged five and older spoke a language at home other than English. Francisco de Villagra, Texas also permits the creation of "special districts" which provide limited services the most common is the school district but can also include hospital districts community college districts and utility districts (one utility district near Austin was the plaintiff in a landmark Supreme Court case involving the Voting Rights Act), 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. . Houston Texas Business Directory Early Portuguese period 8 Corpus Christi Nueces 325,733 Adrian Peterson Palestine Anderson county.
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