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39 EOG Resources 377 The Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety is a law enforcement agency with statewide jurisdiction Over the years the Texas Rangers have investigated crimes ranging from murder to political corruption They have acted as riot police and as detectives protected the Texas governor tracked down fugitives and functioned as a paramilitary force both for the republic and the state the Texas Rangers were unofficially created by Stephen F Austin in 1823 and formally constituted in 1835 the Rangers were integral to several important events of Texas history and some of the best-known criminal cases in the history of the Old West, 4.4.2 County services The Commerce Towers originally developed as an office building in 1928 by Houston businessman Jesse H Jones has been converted into condominiums in addition many old office buildings and warehouses surrounding downtown have been recently converted to lofts the Humble Towers Lofts built in 1921 was originally the headquarters for Humble Oil the Beaconsfield Lofts are registered with the US Interior Department's National Register of Historic Places. . !

7 Government and politics Spanish galleons travelled across the Pacific Ocean between Acapulco in Mexico and Manila, The Gulf is considered aseismic; however mild tremors have been recorded throughout history (usually 5.0 or less on the Richter magnitude scale) Earthquakes may be caused by interactions between sediment loading on the sea floor and adjustment by the crust, In Asia and the Pacific between 3 million and more than 10 million civilians mostly Chinese (estimated at 7.5 million) were killed by the Japanese occupation forces the most infamous Japanese atrocity was the Nanking Massacre in which fifty to three hundred thousand Chinese civilians were raped and murdered. Mitsuyoshi Himeta reported that 2.7 million casualties occurred during the Sanko Sakusen General Yasuji Okamura implemented the policy in Heipei and Shantung. 316 Quanta Services German SS soldiers from the Dirlewanger Brigade tasked with suppressing the Warsaw Uprising against Nazi occupation August 1944, Texas Consultation and the Matamoros Expedition Although all of Germany's stated demands had been satisfied by the agreement privately Hitler was furious that British interference had prevented him from seizing all of Czechoslovakia in one operation in subsequent speeches Hitler attacked British and Jewish "war-mongers" and in January 1939 secretly ordered a major build-up of the German navy to challenge British naval supremacy in March 1939 Germany invaded the remainder of Czechoslovakia and subsequently split it into the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and a pro-German client state the Slovak Republic. Hitler also delivered the 20 March 1939 ultimatum to Lithuania forcing the concession of the Klaipeda Region. . Texas emits the most greenhouse gases in the U.S the state emits nearly 1.5 trillion pounds (680 billion kg) of carbon dioxide annually As an independent nation Texas would rank as the world's seventh-largest producer of greenhouse gases. Causes of the state's vast greenhouse gas emissions include the state's large number of coal power plants and the state's refining and manufacturing industries in 2010 there were 2,553 "emission events" which poured 44.6 million pounds of contaminants into the Texas sky, Most of the region consists of the Piney Woods ecoregion and East Texas can sometimes be reduced to include only the Piney Woods. At the fringes towards Central Texas the forests expand outward toward sparser trees and eventually into open plains, Year(s) City Astronaut training at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. .