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Baseball A lithograph showing the bust of a clean-shaven man He is in military dress uniform with one medal around his neck and several others pinned at his shoulder! . ! 2 Tourism and recreation Boxing & WWE Many high-school bands in East Texas continue the tradition of military-style marching unlike other parts of the state These bands compete in the National Association Of Military Marching Bands. Contents Texas Convention of 1836 2.1 Europe After Texas was readmitted to the Union on April 16 1870 Houston continued its growth Houston became a port of entry on July 16 1870 Its new charter drew up eight wards Many freed slaves opened businesses and worked under contracts the Freedmen's Bureau stopped abuse of the contracts in 1870 Many African Americans at the time were in unskilled labor Many former slaves legalized their marriages after the American Civil War White legislators insisted on segregated schools After white Democrats regained power in the state legislature in the late 1870s they began to pass laws to make voter registration more complicated with the effect of disfranchising African Americans the elections of 1876 were accompanied in many southern states with fraud and violence to suppress black voting As white Democrats secured their power they passed Jim Crow laws to establish and enforce legal segregation across the state.

Besides coastal exploration Portuguese ships also made trips further out to gather meteorological and oceanographic information These voyages revealed the archipelagos of Bissagos Islands where the Portuguese were defeated by native people in 1535 Madeira the Azores Cape Verde Sao Tome Trindade and Martim Vaz Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago Fernando de Noronha Corisco Elobey Grande Elobey Chico Annobon Island Ascension Island Bioko Island Falkland Islands Principe Island Saint Helena Island Tristan da Cunha Island and Sargasso Sea, Muslim 1 Caribbean South America Mexico and Central America colonization. 2 San Antonio Bexar 1,492,510 10 Laredo Webb 257,156 Harris County ESD #21 Dual Rosehill FD 1% .10, Houston generally receives ample rainfall averaging about 49.8 in (1,260 mm) annually based on records between 1981 and 2010 Many parts of the city have a high risk of localized flooding due to flat topography ubiquitous low-permeability clay-silt prairie soils and inadequate infrastructure. During the mid-2010s Greater Houston experienced consecutive major flood events in 2015 ("Memorial Day") 2016 ("Tax Day") and 2017 (Hurricane Harvey). Overall there have been more casualties and property loss from floods in Houston than in any other locality in the United States the majority of rainfall occurs between April and October (the wet season of Southeast Texas) when the moisture from the Gulf of Mexico evaporates extensively over the city, Average precipitation inches (mm) 5.35. Murders fell by 37 percent from January to June 2011 compared with the same period in 2010 Houston's total crime rate including violent and nonviolent crimes decreased by 11 percent the FBI's Uniform Crime Report (UCR) indicates a downward trend of violent crime in Houston over the ten- and twenty-year periods ending in 2016 which is consistent with national trends This trend toward lower rates of violent crime in Houston includes the murder rate though it had seen a four-year uptick that lasted through 2015 Houston's violent crime rate was 8.6% percent higher in 2016 from the previous year However from 2006 to 2016 violent crime was still down 12 percent in Houston, Harris-Fort Bend ESD #100 Dual Community FD 1% .07951 11.1 Disenfranchisement 6.4 Technology 11.2 Dallas growth Sheldon ISD; 8.1 Migration The start of the war in Europe is generally held to be 1 September 1939 beginning with the German invasion of Poland; the United Kingdom and France declared war on Germany two days later the dates for the beginning of war in the Pacific include the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War on 7 July 1937 or even the Japanese invasion of Manchuria on 19 September 1931; In addition 37.6 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino (of any race) (31.6 percent Mexican 0.9 percent Salvadoran 0.5 percent Puerto Rican 0.4 percent Honduran 0.3 percent Guatemalan 0.3 percent Spaniard 0.2 percent Colombian 0.2 percent Cuban). The mass-bombing of cities in Europe and Asia has often been called a war crime although no positive or specific customary international humanitarian law with respect to aerial warfare existed before or during World War II the USAAF firebombed a total of 67 Japanese cities killing 393,000 civilians and destroying 65% of built-up areas, Away from the coast the terrain begins to exhibit the rolling hills of East and Central Texas Toward Central Texas the mixed pine and hardwood forests give way to the East Central Texas forests of post oak and grasslands.