The Niels and Mellie Esperson buildings are examples of Italian Renaissance architecture in downtown Houston. Designed by John Eberson the two buildings were built in 1927 and 1941 respectively. They are detailed with massive columns great urns terraces and a grand tempietto at the top similar to one built in the courtyard of San Pietro in Rome in 1502. Mellie Esperson had the first building constructed for her husband Niels a real estate and oil tycoon. His name is carved on the side of the building in large letters at street level the name "Mellie Esperson" is carved on the accompanying structure known as the Mellie Esperson building although it is really just a 19-story annex to the original building. Tye Sheridan Elkhart Anderson County German trek on its way to New Braunfels. . The 2003 Texas redistricting of Congressional districts led by Republican Tom DeLay was called by the New York Times "an extreme case of partisan gerrymandering" a group of Democratic legislators the "Texas Eleven" fled the state in a quorum-busting effort to prevent the legislature from acting but was unsuccessful the state had already redistricted following the 2000 census Despite these efforts the legislature passed a map heavily in favor of Republicans based on 2000 data and ignoring the estimated nearly one million new residents in the state since that date Career attorneys and analysts at the Department of Justice objected to the plan as diluting the votes of African American and Hispanic voters but political appointees overrode them and approved it. Legal challenges to the redistricting reached the national Supreme Court in the case League of United Latin American Citizens v Perry (2006) but the court ruled in favor of the state (and Republicans), the civilizations of Mesoamerica centered south of Texas the influence of Teotihuacan in northern Mexico peaked around AD 500 and declined over the 8th to 10th centuries.
Per the 2010 US census records the ten most populous East Texas cities are:. . . Skyline in 1971 after completion of One Shell Plaza (12.0) 60.4 As of 2010 65.8% (14,740,304) of Texas residents age 5 and older spoke only English at home while 29.2% (6,543,702) spoke Spanish 0.75 percent (168,886) Vietnamese and Chinese (which includes Cantonese and Mandarin) was spoken by 0.56% (122,921) of the population over the age of five! Evel Knievel jumped 13 cars two nights in a row drawing over 100,000 spectators to the Astrodome in January 1971 and though there was talk of him making an actual jump over the stadium itself sometime in the future it never happened. .
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