Two brass plates depicting a bearded Portuguese soldier before 1500 on top and Benin warriors at the bottom 1980 14,229,191 27.1%. . Toyota Center is home of the Houston Rockets, South Houston Texas also permits the creation of "special districts" which provide limited services the most common is the school district but can also include hospital districts community college districts and utility districts (one utility district near Austin was the plaintiff in a landmark Supreme Court case involving the Voting Rights Act). The late Paleozoic mountains collapsed as rifting in the Jurassic period began to open the Gulf of Mexico Pangea began to break up in the Triassic but seafloor spreading to form the Gulf of Mexico occurred only in the mid and late Jurassic the shoreline shifted again to the eastern margin of the state and the Gulf of Mexico passive margin began to form Today 9 to 12 miles (14 to 19 km) of sediments are buried beneath the Texas continental shelf and a large proportion of remaining US oil reserves are here At the start of its formation the incipient Gulf of Mexico basin was restricted and seawater often evaporated completely to form thick evaporite deposits of Jurassic age These salt deposits formed salt dome diapirs and are found in East Texas along the Gulf coast, The original city council line-up of 14 members (nine district-based and five at-large positions) was based on a U.S Justice Department mandate which took effect in 1979. At-large council members represent the entire city. Under the city charter once the population in the city limits exceeded 2.1 million residents two additional districts were to be added the city of Houston's official 2010 census count was 600 shy of the required number; however as the city was expected to grow beyond 2.1 million shortly thereafter the two additional districts were added for and the positions filled during the August 2011 elections. !
Higher education The Mississippi River Watershed is the largest drainage basin of the Gulf of Mexico Watershed. . At the beginning of the 1980 play off series between the Astros and the Phillies KILT AM radio announced that the Astros number one fan "Astroman" would live on top of the Domed stadium and would not come down until the Astros won the World Series Over the next 10 days Astroman played by KILT salesman Denver Griffith lived on top of the Astrodome in a six-man tent on top of the Astrodome was also a telephone hot line back to KILT radio where Griffith as Astroman would give interviews throughout the day Astroman was completely cut off and could only get food and drink by lowering a rope with a basket the 18 stories from the top of the Astrodome to the center of the playing field at one point Griffith got so desperate for food and drink that his mother had to intervene and interrupt an Oilers practice so that the needed supplies could be delivered Every night a local TV station would sign off with a shot of Astroman on top of the Astrodome waving to a circling news chopper, Skyline in 1971 after completion of One Shell Plaza. "Texas-sized" is an expression that can be used in two ways: to describe something that is about the size of the U.S state of Texas or to describe something (usually but not always originating from Texas) that is large compared to other objects of its type. Texas was the largest U.S state until Alaska became a state in 1959 the phrase "everything is bigger in Texas" has been in regular use since at least 1950; and was used as early as 1913; The current Houston Chronicle headquarters formerly the Houston Post headquarters Satellite image of Downtown Houston. Houston Texas Business Directory Earlier 20th century In the 1870s white Democrats wrested power back in the state legislature from the biracial coalition at the end of Reconstruction in the early 20th century the legislature passed bills to impose poll taxes followed by white primaries; these measures effectively disfranchised most blacks poor whites and Mexican Americans in the 1890s 100,000 blacks voted in the state; by 1906 only 5,000 could vote. As a result the Democratic Party dominated Texas politics from the turn of the century imposing racial segregation and white supremacy it held power until after passage in the mid-1960s of national civil rights legislation enforcing constitutional rights of all citizens. .
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