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The 70,000-seat Rice Stadium designed in 1950 by Hermon Lloyd & W.B Morgan and Milton McGinty is of reinforced concrete with 30-inch (760 mm) diameter columns supporting the upper decks. Architecturally the stadium is an example of modernism with simple lines and an unadorned functional design the entire lower seating bowl is located below the surrounding ground level Intended solely for football games the stadium has excellent sightlines from almost every seat. 4.8 Allies close in (1944) Astronaut training at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, The knowledge of wind patterns and currents the trade winds and the oceanic gyres in the Atlantic and the determination of latitude led to the discovery of the best ocean route back from Africa: crossing the Central Atlantic to the Azores using the winds and currents that spin clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere because of atmospheric circulation and the effect of Coriolis facilitating the way to Lisbon and thus enabling the Portuguese to venture farther from shore a manoeuvre that became known as the "volta do mar" (return of the sea) in 1565 the application of this principle in the Pacific Ocean led the Spanish discovering the Manila Galleon trade route! Houston Texas Business Directory Houston has not had very much success when it comes to its sports teams at least not lately the Houston Rockets won 2 consecutive championships in 1994 and 1995 and the Houston Dynamo also won 2 consecutive championships in 2006 and 2007 the Houston Oilers won 2 back-to-back AFL championships in 1960 and 1961 but never competed in the Super Bowl since the NFL-AFL merger (After the move to Nashville as the Tennessee Titans they finally played in Super Bowl XXXIV and lost.) the Astros have two World Series appearances 2005 and 2017 - the 2017 World Series was the first time the Houston Astros won the World Series - a first for a Major League Baseball team based in Texas.

Mass transit In 1840 the town was divided into four wards using Main and Commerce streets as axes the city added the Fifth Ward in 1866 and the Sixth Ward in 1877 the wards are no longer political divisions but their names are still used. Digging for a proposed Port of Houston began when Congress approved a move to dig out the Buffalo Bayou on January 9 1842 Funding was awarded which amounted to $2000 Houstonians had mixed opinions over the apparent statehood of their country.[citation needed]. The entire Reliant Park complex was scheduled to be emptied of hurricane evacuees by September 17 2005 Originally the Astrodome was planned to be used to house evacuees until December However the surrounding parking lots were needed for the first Houston Texans home game Arrangements were made to help Katrina evacuees find apartments both in Houston and elsewhere in the United States by September 16 2005 the last of the hurricane evacuees living in the Astrodome had been moved out either to the neighboring Reliant Arena or to permanent housing north of Houston as of September 20 2005 the remaining Katrina evacuees were relocated to Arkansas due to Hurricane Rita. Energy and oil (15 companies) Portuguese North America (in present-day Canada); Vaz Dourado c.1576, Other famous and notable East Texans In 1799 Spain gave Louisiana back to France in exchange for the promise of a throne in central Italy Although the agreement was signed on October 1 1800 it did not go into effect until 1802 the following year Napoleon sold Louisiana to the United States the original agreement between Spain and France had not explicitly specified the borders of Louisiana and the descriptions in the documents were ambiguous and contradictory the United States insisted that its purchase also included most of West Florida and all of Texas. (31) 93 1950s Harris County elected officials 9.1 Unionism Houston has been called the Lightning Capital of Texas as its density of lightning strikes is higher than it is in other parts of the state This area of unusually high lightning activity stretches from Houston eastward into Southwest Louisiana Much of this can be explained by the natural occurrence of thunderstorms in the region which form almost daily during the wet season However the unusual clustering of lightning around the developed areas of Houston the Golden Triangle and Lake Charles Louisiana have led many researchers to believe that some combination of urban heat islands and air pollution are responsible for increasing the number of lightning strikes beyond even the already-high natural levels. ! .