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. Sediment in the Gulf of Mexico The Williams Waterwall is a multi-story sculptural fountain which sits at the south end of Williams Tower in Uptown it and its surrounding park were built as an architectural amenity to the adjacent tower. Both the fountain and tower were designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Philip Johnson. Completed in 1983 the semi-circular fountain is 64-foot (20 m) tall and sits among 118 Texas Live Oak trees Approximately 11,000 gallons of water per minute cascades down vast channeled sheets on both sides from the narrower top rim of the circle to the wider base below. 14 Further reading The city of Houston was founded by land speculators on August 30 1836 at the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou (a point now known as Allen's Landing) and incorporated as a city on June 5 1837 the city is named after former General Sam Houston who was president of the Republic of Texas and had won Texas' independence from Mexico at the Battle of San Jacinto 25 miles (40 km) east of Allen's Landing. After briefly serving as the capital of the Texas Republic in the late 1830s Houston grew steadily into a regional trading center for the remainder of the 19th century. Previously a largely rural area East Texas became more urban as workers were recruited for the oil shipbuilding and aircraft industries East Texans made many contributions to the war effort both at home and in the armed forces High schools had patriotic programs as well but so many teachers and older students left for the military or for defense jobs that budgets were cut programs dropped and the curriculum had to be scaled down Hospitals reported a shortage of supplies and medical personnel as many doctors and most of the younger nurses joined the services, 5.2.1 Political history The gold brought home from Guinea stimulated the commercial energy of the Portuguese and its European neighbours especially Spain Apart from their religious and scientific aspects these voyages of discovery were highly profitable.

Texas has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world and the rate by which Texas women died from pregnancy related complications doubled from 2010 to 2014 to 23.8 per 100,000 a rate unmatched in any other U.S state or economically developed country. See Maternal healthcare in Texas. . Surrender of the Axis armies 131 Alma Allen Democratic 2004 far Southwest Houston and far South Side The Niels Esperson Building stood as the tallest building in Houston from 1927 to 1929. . Paul Knight of the Houston Press in a 2009 article said "some say natural gas has surpassed crude as king in East Texas.". . They had benefited from Guinea's connections with neighbouring Iberians and north African Muslim states Due to these connections mathematicians and experts in naval technology appeared in Portugal Portuguese and foreign experts made several breakthroughs in the fields of mathematics cartography and naval technology. .