Elizabeth Ross-Jones

In Houston for 2018 The 1992 Republican National Convention was held at the Astrodome in August of that year the Astros accommodated the convention by taking a month-long road trip, The Astrodome was designed by architects Hermon Lloyd & W B Morgan and Wilson Morris Crain and Anderson (Morris Architects) Structural engineering and structural design was performed by Walter P Moore Engineers and Consultants of Houston Credit for the design work on the dome roof structural goes to Dr G.R Kiewitt and Mr Louis O Bass of Roof Structures Inc it was constructed by H A Lott Inc for Harris County it stands 18 stories tall covering 9.5 acres (3.8 ha) the dome is 710 feet (220 m) in diameter and the ceiling is 208 feet (63 m) above the playing surface which itself sits 25 feet (7.6 m) below street level. 17 External links 1 Real estate and corporate location (8) 61. ; Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Houston Branch 2 Closure Christopher Columbus's first landing in the Americas in 1492.

. In 1534 the explorer French Jacques Cartier described and mapped the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River Energy Southeast Texas includes part of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and most of the Texas portion of the Intracoastal Waterway the area is also crossed by numerous rivers and streams the largest three being the Sabine River the Neches River and the Trinity River in Southeast Texas and the rest of the South small rivers and creeks collect into swamps called "bayous" and merge with the surrounding forest the only large bodies of water in Southeast Texas are Galveston Bay and Sabine Lake but the large reservoirs of East Texas are just to the North the southeastern portion of Texas also is geographically and culturally attached to Southwest Louisiana. Notes The Astrodome was the setting for the filming of an exhibition game with the fictional Houston Toros in the 1977 movie the Bad News Bears in Breaking Training, 7 Music Contents The great majority of slaves in Texas came with their owners from the older slave states Sizable numbers however came through the domestic slave trade New Orleans was the center of this trade in the Deep South but slave dealers were in Houston Thousands of enslaved blacks lived near the city before the American Civil War Many of them near the city worked on sugar and cotton plantations while most of those in the city limits had domestic and artisan jobs, Located centrally in North America the state is an important transportation hub From the Dallas/Fort Worth area trucks can reach 93 percent of the nation's population within 48 hours and 37 percent within 24 hours. Texas has 33 foreign trade zones (FTZ) the most in the nation in 2004 a combined total of $298 billion of goods passed through Texas FTZs. .