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In popular culture State of Texas In 1762 France finally relinquished their claim to Texas by ceding all of Louisiana west of the Mississippi River to Spain as part of the treaty to end the Seven Years' War. Spain saw no need to continue to maintain settlements near French outposts and ordered the closure of Los Adaes making San Antonio the new provincial capital the residents of Los Adaes were relocated in 1773 After several attempts to settle in other parts of the province the residents returned to East Texas without authorization and founded Nacogdoches. East Texans are predominantly Protestant Christians expressing their faith as members of many denominations: Baptist (particularly Southern Baptist) Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Pentecostal and others Catholicism continues to have influence particularly with an increased Hispanic population in recent decades Other religions with smaller numbers but with adherents in East Texas include Mormonism and Judaism. . 4 Austin Travis 947,890 State government Houston had 303 homicides in 2015 and 302 homicides in 2016 Officials predicted there would be 323 homicides in 2016 Instead there was no increase in Houston's homicide rate between 2015 and 2016.[discuss], 2 Geography Obesity prevention 3.2 Birth of the Spanish Kingdom, 1920s Mexico launched two small expeditions into Texas in 1842 the town of San Antonio was captured twice and Texans were defeated in battle in the Dawson massacre Despite these successes Mexico did not keep an occupying force in Texas and the republic survived the republic's inability to defend itself added momentum to Texas's eventual annexation into the United States.

Originally the stadium's surface was a Tifway 419 Bermuda grass specifically bred for indoor use the dome's ceiling contained thousands of semitransparent panes made of Lucite. Players quickly complained that glare coming off of the panes made it hard for them to track fly balls; to solve the problem two sections of panes were painted white in April. However within a few months the grass died from lack of sunlight for most of the 1965 season the Astros played on green-painted dirt and dead grass the clear panels also added a problem when combined with the natural grass the grass tended to hold then release moisture often resulting in rain within the structure causing games to be delayed while the grounds crews cleaned up the playing surface. . . Texas Legislature 16.5 Business labor and economics Automobile ownership Tourism and recreation Comancheria before 1850! Flag of Texas.svg Texas portal, The Texas Revolution has been the subject of poetry and of many books plays and films Most English-language treatments reflect the perspectives of the Anglos and are centered primarily on the battle of the Alamo. From the first novel depicting events of the revolution 1838's Mexico versus Texas through the mid-20th century most works contained themes of anticlericalism and racism depicting the battle as a fight for freedom between good (Anglo Texian) and evil (Mexican) in both English- and Spanish-language literature the Alamo is often compared to the battle of Thermopylae the 1950s Disney miniseries Davy Crockett which was largely based on myth created a worldwide craze for everything Alamo-related. Within several years John Wayne directed and starred in one of the best-known and perhaps least historically accurate film versions the Alamo (1960).[Note 18] Notably this version made the first attempt to leave behind racial stereotypes; it was still banned in Mexico in the late 1970s works about the Alamo began to explore Tejano perspectives which had been all but extinguished even from textbooks about the revolution and to explore the revolution's links to slavery, The Astrodome was the setting for the filming of an exhibition game with the fictional Houston Toros in the 1977 movie the Bad News Bears in Breaking Training.