. Ozone - respiratory and cardiovascular effects Texas flag map.svg 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; The French flag of the Bourbons The Civil War On February 28 1845 the U.S Congress narrowly passed a bill that authorized the United States to annex the Republic of Texas if it so voted the legislation set the date for annexation for December 29 of the same year on October 13 of the same year a majority of voters in Texas approved a proposed constitution that specifically endorsed slavery and the slave trade This constitution was later accepted by the U.S Congress making Texas a U.S state on the same day annexation took effect (therefore bypassing a territorial phase). 10.5.2 Vaccinations 6 Notes Main article: Geography of Houston Exploiting poor American naval command decisions the German navy ravaged Allied shipping off the American Atlantic coast by November 1941 Commonwealth forces had launched a counter-offensive Operation Crusader in North Africa and reclaimed all the gains the Germans and Italians had made in North Africa the Germans launched an offensive in January pushing the British back to positions at the Gazala Line by early February followed by a temporary lull in combat which Germany used to prepare for their upcoming offensives. Concerns the Japanese might use bases in Vichy-held Madagascar caused the British to invade the island in early May 1942 an Axis offensive in Libya forced an Allied retreat deep inside Egypt until Axis forces were stopped at El Alamein on the Continent raids of Allied commandos on strategic targets culminating in the disastrous Dieppe Raid demonstrated the Western Allies' inability to launch an invasion of continental Europe without much better preparation equipment and operational security.[page needed]. The Alamo is one of the most recognized symbols of Texas, 11.1 Highways The Houston City Hall building constructed in 1938-1939 is an example of Works Progress Administration architecture the simply designed structure featured many construction details that have helped to make this building an architectural classic the design on the lobby floor depicts the protective role of government the doors feature historical figures including Thomas Jefferson Julius Caesar and Moses. Above the lobby entrance is a stone sculpture depicting two men taming a wild horse the sculpture meant to symbolize a community coming together to form a government to tame the world around them the plaster cast for this sculpture and twenty-seven casts for friezes around the building were done by Beaumont artist Herring Coe and co-designer Raoul Jassett. 2.1 Europe The Lyric Centre 1990 2,818,199 17.0% In 2011 according to the nonprofit Children at Risk one-third of students at public high schools in Harris County do not graduate, Houston's building boom of the 1970s and 1980s ceased in the mid-1980s due to the 1980s oil glut Building of skyscrapers resumed by 2003 but the new buildings were more modest and not as tall During that year George Lancaster a spokesperson for the Hines company said "I predict the J.P Morgan Chase Tower will be the tallest building in Houston for quite some time.". . .
. . . Houston Texas Business Directory, 7.2 Cities towns and metropolitan areas, Using newly captured French ports the German Navy enjoyed success against an over-extended Royal Navy using U-boats against British shipping in the Atlantic the British Home Fleet scored a significant victory on 27 May 1941 by sinking the German battleship Bismarck. Emergency Services, The Frenchman guided the Spanish to the French fort in late April 1689 the fort and the five crude houses surrounding it were in ruins. Several months before the Karankawa had become angry that the French had taken their canoes without payment and had attacked the settlement sparing only four children, 146 Halliburton Main article: Geography of Texas When Francisco Coronado and the Spaniards first explored the Rio Grande Valley in 1540 in modern New Mexico some of the chieftains complained of new diseases that affected their tribes Cabeza de Vaca reported that in 1528 when the Spanish landed in Texas "half the natives died from a disease of the bowels and blamed us." When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in the Incan empire a large portion of the population had already died in a smallpox epidemic the first epidemic was recorded in 1529 and killed the emperor Huayna Capac the father of Atahualpa Further epidemics of smallpox broke out in 1533 1535 1558 and 1565 as well as typhus in 1546 influenza in 1558 diphtheria in 1614 and measles in 1618.:133. US President Franklin D Roosevelt and British PM Winston Churchill seated at the Casablanca Conference January 1943, Top 10 Non-English languages spoken in Texas, Toledo Bend Reservoir on the Louisiana and Texas border 5 Culture Harris County ESD #11 EMS Cypress Creek EMS .04185.
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