On 8 September German troops reached the suburbs of Warsaw the Polish counter offensive to the west halted the German advance for several days but it was outflanked and encircled by the Wehrmacht Remnants of the Polish army broke through to besieged Warsaw on 17 September 1939 after signing a cease-fire with Japan the Soviets invaded Eastern Poland under a pretext that the Polish state had ostensibly ceased to exist on 27 September the Warsaw garrison surrendered to the Germans and the last large operational unit of the Polish Army surrendered on 6 October Despite the military defeat Poland never surrendered; instead it formed the Polish government-in-exile and a clandestine state apparatus remained in occupied Poland a significant part of Polish military personnel evacuated to Romania and the Baltic countries; many of them would fight against the Axis in other theatres of the war! . . ! Pollution Religious affiliation in Texas (2014) Automobiles of all kinds have had enormous influence on Houston culture largely a result of the urban sprawl and sparse public transportation that has followed the dismantling of the city's former trolley system Many of the Houston's business districts such as Uptown and Greenspoint began their development as edge cities Furthermore many notable neighborhoods began as streetcar suburbs including the Heights and Sharpstown; . Harris-Fort Bend ESD #100 Dual Community FD 1% .07951 Farmers and ranchers were especially hard hit as prices for cotton and livestock fell sharply Beginning in 1934 and lasting until 1939 the Dust Bowl an ecological disaster of severe wind and drought caused an exodus from Texas and the surrounding plains in which over 500,000 Americans were homeless hungry and jobless. Thousands left the region forever to seek economic opportunities in California For the majority of farmers who remained the New Deal's Agricultural Adjustment Act was a crash program started in 1933 that in two weeks signed up cotton growers even as agents and committeemen faced poor roads bureaucratic delays inadequate supplies balking mules and language barriers it brought recovery by the mid-1930s raising cotton prices by controls on how much farmers could plant, Robert Altman's 1970 comedy film Brewster McCloud is set at the Astrodome: the eponymous hero is an eccentric young man who lives at the stadium.
. ! . Nazi Germany was responsible for the Holocaust (killing approximately 6 million Jews) as well as for killing 2.7 million ethnic Poles and 4 million others who were deemed "unworthy of life" (including the disabled and mentally ill Soviet prisoners of war Romani homosexuals Freemasons and Jehovah's Witnesses) as part of a programme of deliberate extermination in effect becoming a "genocidal state". Soviet POWs were kept in especially unbearable conditions and 3.6 million Soviet POWs out of 5.7 died in Nazi camps during the war in addition to concentration camps death camps were created in Nazi Germany to exterminate people at an industrial scale Nazi Germany extensively used forced labourers; about 12 million Europeans from German occupied countries were abducted and used as a slave work force in German industry agriculture and war economy, East Texas lacks the strong influence of late 19th and early 20th-century European immigrants from Germany and Central Europe Similarly the new waves of immigrants since the late 20th century primarily from India other Asian nations and Latin America and their influences have been less prevalent in East Texas. (4) 47 Houston Texas Business Directory, Muslim 1 During its recent history Houston has flooded several times from heavy rainfall which has been becoming increasingly common. This has been exacerbated by a lack of zoning laws which allowed unregulated building of residential homes and other structures in flood-prone areas. During the floods in 2015 and 2016 each of which dropped at least a foot of rain parts of the city were covered in several inches of water. Even worse flooding happened in late August 2017 when Hurricane Harvey stalled over southeastern Texas much like Tropical Storm Allison did sixteen years earlier causing severe flooding in the Houston area with some areas receiving over 50 inches (1,300 mm) of rain the rainfall exceeded 50 inches in several areas locally breaking the national record for rainfall the damage for the Houston area is estimated at up to $125 billion U.S dollars and it is considered to be one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States with the death toll exceeding 70 people on January 31 2018 the Houston City Council agreed to forgive large water bills thousands of households faced in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey as Houston Public Works found 6,362 homeowners' water utility bills had at least doubled, The Texas Veterans Association composed solely of revolutionary veterans living in Texas was active from 1873 through 1901 and played a key role in convincing the legislature to create a monument to honor the San Jacinto veterans in the late 19th century the Texas Legislature purchased the San Jacinto battlesite which is now home to the San Jacinto Monument the tallest stone column monument in the world in the early 20th century the Texas Legislature purchased the Alamo Mission now an official state shrine in front of the church in the center of Alamo Plaza stands a cenotaph designed by Pompeo Coppini which commemorates the defenders who died during the battle. More than 2.5 million people visit the Alamo every year. .
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