Harris County along with other Texas counties has one of the nation's highest property tax rates in 2007 the county was ranked in the top 25 at 22nd in the nation for property taxes as percentage of the homes value on owner-occupied housing the list only includes counties with a population over 65,000 for comparability. Tactics American troops approaching Omaha Beach during the invasion of Normandy on D-Day 6 June 1944, Urrea urged Filisola to continue the campaign He was confident that he could successfully challenge the Texian troops According to Hardin "Santa Anna had presented Mexico with one military disaster; Filisola did not wish to risk another." Spring rains ruined the ammunition and rendered the roads almost impassable with troops sinking to their knees in mud Mexican troops were soon out of food and began to fall ill from dysentery and other diseases. Their supply lines had completely broken down leaving no hope of further reinforcements. Filisola later wrote that "Had the enemy met us under these cruel circumstances on the only road that was left no alternative remained but to die or surrender at discretion", In 2010 49 percent of all births were Hispanics; 35 percent were non-Hispanic whites; 11.5 percent were non-Hispanic blacks and 4.3 percent were Asians/Pacific Islanders. Based on Census Bureau data released on February 2011 for the first time in recent history Texas's white population is below 50 percent (45 percent) and Hispanics grew to 38 percent Between 2000 and 2010 the total population growth by 20.6 percent but Hispanics growth by 65 percent whereas non-Hispanic whites only grew by 4.2 percent. Texas has the fifth highest rate of teenage births in the nation and a plurality of these are to Hispanics. George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) located 23 miles (37 km) north of Downtown Houston between Interstates 45 and 69 is the eighth busiest commercial airport in the United States (by total passengers and aircraft movements) and forty-third busiest globally the five-terminal five-runway 11,000-acre (4,500-hectare) airport served 40 million passengers in 2016 including 10 million international travelers in 2006 the United States Department of Transportation named IAH the fastest-growing of the top ten airports in the United States the Houston Air Route Traffic Control Center is located at Bush Intercontinental. . Hurricanes Contents benzene - cancer 3.1 2013 referendum and aftermath Constable Precinct 1 Alan Rosen Democratic In 1997 Houstonians elected Lee P Brown as the city's first African American mayor. Black or African American 25.7% 25.3% 28.1% 25.7%, Bowie County (92,565), Houston circa 1873 Mexico in 1824 Coahuila y Tejas is the northeastern-most state.
Alief (Partially annexed by Houston partially unincorporated), 7.3 Languages (12) 36 2.2 Climate Missouri City (mostly in Fort Bend County), South Houston Features Government and politics Harris County ESD #17 Fire Little York VFD 1% .10. . Defendants at the Nuremberg trials where the Allied forces prosecuted prominent members of the political military judicial and economic leadership of Nazi Germany for crimes against humanity, See also: List of people from Texas and List of Texas symbols. Universities in Texas host three presidential libraries: George Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M University the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum at the University of Texas at Austin and the George W Bush Presidential Library at Southern Methodist University; .
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