. In 1912 the Rice Institute (now Rice University) opened in the West University area, As Houston and the rest of the country recovered from the Great Depression art-deco style theaters of the late 1930s were built in many residential neighborhoods across the city in addition to the River Oaks neighborhood movie theaters like the Alabama Tower Capitan and Ritz-Majestic Metro were several of the venues where Houstonians sought entertainment the Alabama serves as a prime example of adaptive reuse the repurposing of architecture considered obsolete in terms of modern usage Opening as a Bookstop bookstore in 1984 after the original theater closed the building was later converted into Houston's first Trader Joe's specialty grocery store in 2012 the grocer took pains to preserve much of the building's original architectural splendor including its original terrazzo-tile front entrance as well as its second-floor balcony, Frustrated at the lack of progress and feeling the pinch of the American-British-Dutch sanctions Japan prepared for war on 20 November a new government under Hideki Tojo presented an interim proposal as its final offer it called for the end of American aid to China and for lifting the embargo on the supply of oil and other resources to Japan in exchange Japan promised not to launch any attacks in Southeast Asia and to withdraw its forces from southern Indochina the American counter-proposal of 26 November required that Japan evacuate all of China without conditions and conclude non-aggression pacts with all Pacific powers. That meant Japan was essentially forced to choose between abandoning its ambitions in China or seizing the natural resources it needed in the Dutch East Indies by force; the Japanese military did not consider the former an option and many officers considered the oil embargo an unspoken declaration of war!
5.2.1 Political history, Houston has the fifth-tallest skyline in North America (after New York City Chicago Toronto and Miami) and 36th-tallest in the world in 2015 a seven-mile (11 km) system of tunnels and skywalks links Downtown buildings containing shops and restaurants enabling pedestrians to avoid summer heat and rain while walking between buildings, 4 Government and politics As of 2004 the state had 3.5 million foreign-born residents (15.6 percent of the state population) of which an estimated 1.2 million are illegal immigrants Texas from 2000 to 2006 had the fastest growing illegal immigration rate in the nation in 2010 illegal immigrants constituted an estimated 6.0 percent of the population This was the fifth highest percentage of any state in the country in 2015 the population of illegal immigrants living in Texas was around 800,000. The Early 1900s Nacogdoches (32,996) Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim founder of Pilgrim's Pride Chicken Pittsburg Camp County; Houston Texas Business Directory Two or more races: 2.7 percent.
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