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Japanese invasion of China (1937), US Marines during the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific theatre 1942, 6.2 Playing surface Francisco Pizarro meets with the Inca emperor Atahualpa 1532. Clear Lake which gives the aforementioned community its name is a tidal lake with brackish water located on the western side of Galveston Bay Covering about 2,000 acres (810 hectares) the lake is fed by Clear Creek and inflow from the bay. Ultimately the Clear Creek watershed covers an area of 250 square miles (650 km2) encompassing seventeen tributaries, 1.3 Galveston Bay Asia and Oceania colonization and the Pacific exploration The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl dealt a double blow to the state's economy which had significantly improved since the Civil War Migrants abandoned the worst hit sections of Texas during the Dust Bowl years Especially from this period on blacks left Texas in the Great Migration to get work in the Northern United States or California and to escape the oppression of segregation in 1940 Texas was 74 percent Anglo 14.4 percent black and 11.5 percent Hispanic. At least five million Chinese civilians from northern China and Manchukuo were enslaved between 1935 and 1941 by the East Asia Development Board or Koain for work in mines and war industries After 1942 the number reached 10 million in Java between 4 and 10 million romusha (Japanese: "manual labourers") were forced to work by the Japanese military About 270,000 of these Javanese labourers were sent to other Japanese-held areas in South East Asia and only 52,000 were repatriated to Java. A geomap depicting the income by county in Texas as of 2014 The NRG Astrodome also known as the Houston Astrodome or simply the Astrodome is the world's first multi-purpose domed sports stadium located in Houston Texas Construction on the stadium began in 1962 and it officially opened in 1965 it served as home to the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB) from its opening in 1965 until 1999 and the home to the Houston Oilers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1968 until 1996 and also the part-time home of the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1971 until 1975 Additionally the Astrodome was the primary venue of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo from 1966 until 2002 When opened it was named the Harris County Domed Stadium and was nicknamed the "Eighth Wonder of the World"; Emergency Services 1860 9,070 94.3%, Oscar Branch Colquitt newspaper owner in Pittsburg Camp County and in Morris County, Europe Caribbean South America Mexico and Central America colonization Main article: Pacific War; .

Source: Houston Texas Business Directory 2.4 Architecture Economy, At the Casablanca Conference in early 1943 the Allies reiterated the statements issued in the 1942 Declaration and demanded the unconditional surrender of their enemies the British and Americans agreed to continue to press the initiative in the Mediterranean by invading Sicily to fully secure the Mediterranean supply routes. Although the British argued for further operations in the Balkans to bring Turkey into the war in May 1943 the Americans extracted a British commitment to limit Allied operations in the Mediterranean to an invasion of the Italian mainland and to invade France in 1944. . . . 147 Garnet Coleman Democratic 1990 Downtown Houston inner southeastern portions of Houston (mainly west of I-45) Eastern Montrose Midtown Third Ward Deep East Texas is a sub-region of East Texas According to the Deep East Texas Council of Governments the region consists of the following twelve counties: Angelina Houston Jasper Nacogdoches Newton Polk Sabine San Augustine San Jacinto Shelby Trinity and Tyler.