Government
And
Politics
The Uptown District
Is
Home
To
Structures Designed
By
Architects Such
As
I
M
Pei
C�sar Pelli
And
Philip Johnson
Including Saint Martin's Episcopal Church (with Spires
And
Antennae Reaching 188 Feet (57 M) Into
The
Sky)
Which Was Designed
By
Jackson & Ryan Architects
And
Completed
In
2004
St
Martin's Was Featured
On
The
Covers Of Three National Magazines: Civil Engineering (April 2005)
Modern Steel Construction (May 2005)
And
Structure (December 2005)
The
San Jacinto Monument Is
A
570 Foot (173.7 M)-high Column Topped With
A
220-ton Star That Commemorates
The
Site Of
The
Battle Of San Jacinto
The
Decisive Battle Of
The
Texas Revolution
The
Monument
Dedicated
On
April 21
1939
Is
The World's Tallest Monument Tower
And
Masonry Tower
And
Is
Located Along
The
Houston Ship Channel
The
Column Is
An
Octagonal Shaft Faced With Cordova Shellstone
It
Is
The Second Tallest Monument
In
The
United States
The
Monument Was Designated
A
National Historic Landmark
On
December 19
1960
And
Listed
On
The
National Register Of Historic Places
It
Was Also Designated
An
Historic Civil Engineering Landmark
In
1992
The University of Texas
at
San Antonio. .
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German SS soldiers from
the
Dirlewanger Brigade
tasked with suppressing
the
Warsaw Uprising against Nazi occupation
August 1944. . The Allies had mixed success
in
mainland Asia
in
March 1944
the
Japanese launched
the
first of two invasions
an
operation against British positions
in
Assam
India
and
soon besieged Commonwealth positions
at
Imphal
and
Kohima
in
May 1944
British forces mounted
a
counter-offensive that drove Japanese troops back
to
Burma
by
July
and
Chinese forces that had invaded northern Burma
in
late 1943 besieged Japanese troops
in
Myitkyina
the
second Japanese invasion of China aimed
to
destroy China's main fighting forces
secure railways between Japanese-held territory
and
capture Allied airfields
by
June
the
Japanese had conquered
the
province of Henan
and
begun
a
new attack
on
Changsha
in
Hunan province. .
University Of North Texas At Dallas