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The Spanish introduced European livestock including cattle horses and mules to Texas as early as the 1690s. These herds grazed heavily on the native grasses allowing mesquite which was native to the lower Texas coast to spread inland Spanish farmers also introduced tilling and irrigation to the land further changing the landscape, 2.1 Gonzales Friendswood (mostly in Galveston County), Houston Texas Business Directory Schutzstaffel (SS) female camp guards removing prisoners' bodies from lorries and carrying them to a mass grave inside the German Bergen-Belsen concentration camp 1945. . Main article: Religion in Houston, 316 Quanta Services 12 Sister cities 1.2 Design and construction Houston Texas Business Directory; Human infections gained worldwide transmission vectors for the first time: from Africa and Eurasia to the Americas and vice versa the spread of old-world diseases including smallpox flu and typhus led to the deaths of many indigenous inhabitants of the New World, 17 External links 8.1 Texas self-perception, Despite considerable losses in early 1942 Germany and its allies stopped a major Soviet offensive in central and southern Russia keeping most territorial gains they had achieved during the previous year in May the Germans defeated Soviet offensives in the Kerch Peninsula and at Kharkov and then launched their main summer offensive against southern Russia in June 1942 to seize the oil fields of the Caucasus and occupy Kuban steppe while maintaining positions on the northern and central areas of the front the Germans split Army Group South into two groups: Army Group a advanced to the lower Don River and struck south-east to the Caucasus while Army Group B headed towards the Volga River the Soviets decided to make their stand at Stalingrad on the Volga; Eastern FrontManhattan Project 1541 founding of Santiago de Chile (1,600) The Allen brothers first landed in the area where the confluence of White Oak Bayou and Buffalo Bayou served as a natural turning basin now known as Allen's Landing the "city to be" was named after Sam Houston the hero of San Jacinto whom the Allen brothers admired and anticipated to be the first President of the Republic of Texas Gail Borden Jr a publisher and surveyor who would later found Borden Inc exercised foresight when he laid out wide streets for the town.[unreliable source?]. Pre-European era, Kleinbrook Memorial Village (Bunker Hill Piney Point Hunters Creek), The state's conservative white voters began to support Republican presidential candidates by the mid-20th century After this period they supported Republicans for local and state offices as well and most whites became Republican Party members the party also attracted some minorities but many have continued to vote for Democratic candidates the shift to the Republican Party is much-attributed to the fact that the Democratic Party became increasingly liberal during the 20th century and thus increasingly out-of-touch with the average Texas voter as Texas was always a conservative state voters switched to the GOP which now more closely reflected their beliefs. Commentators have also attributed the shift to Republican political consultant Karl Rove who managed numerous political campaigns in Texas in the 1980s and 90s. Other stated reasons included court-ordered redistricting and the demographic shift in relation to the Sun Belt that favored the Republican Party and conservatism. One Shell Plaza and Two Shell Plaza were completed in 1971 One Shell Plaza was the tallest building west of the Mississippi River, Pre-European era Main article: Golden Triangle (Texas) Houston Texas Business Directory.

. . . East Texas also contains numerous golf courses and avid golfers as well as NASCAR fans However the region does not host professional events in either of those sports the nearest NASCAR track to East Texas is Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth. Anna Rohleder of Forbes said "Among Houston's wealthy denizens social life centers on charity events and the arts.", Voters rejected efforts to have separate residential and commercial land-use districts in 1948 1962 and 1993 Consequently rather than a single central business district as the center of the city's employment multiple districts have grown throughout the city in addition to Downtown which include Uptown the Texas Medical Center Midtown Greenway Plaza Memorial City the Energy Corridor Westchase and Greenspoint.