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. . Chinese civilians being buried alive by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Nanking Massacre December 1937 Harris County ESD #19 Fire Sheldon VFD .03 7 Government and politics All of East Texas also lies within the Gulf Coastal Plain but with less uniformity than the climate with rolling hills in the north and flat coastal plains in the south Local vegetation also varies from north to south with the lower third consisting of the temperate grassland extending from South Texas to South Louisiana the northern two-thirds of the region is dominated by temperate forest known as the Piney Woods which extends over 23,500 square miles (61,000 km2) the Piney Woods are part of a much larger region of pine-hardwood forest that extends into Louisiana Arkansas and Oklahoma the Piney Woods area thins out as it nears the Gulf of Mexico West of the Piney Woods are the ranchlands and remnant oak forests of the East Central Texas forests ecoregion. . Members of the oil and gas industry are representatives of most of the boards of Houston's arts bodies charities and museums the energy companies spent funds in order to make Houston a more attractive community for their employees to live in. 1.1 Houston's turbulent beginning, Main article: Second Italo-Ethiopian War, School Trustee At-Large Pos 5 Michael Wolfe Republican As of April 2013 the state's unemployment rate is 6.4 percent. ! Using newly captured French ports the German Navy enjoyed success against an over-extended Royal Navy using U-boats against British shipping in the Atlantic the British Home Fleet scored a significant victory on 27 May 1941 by sinking the German battleship Bismarck, After the fort was constructed one of the ships returned to France and the other two were soon destroyed in storms stranding the settlers La Salle and his men searched overland for the Mississippi River traveling as far west as the Rio Grande and as far east as the Trinity River. Disease and hardship laid waste to the colony and by early January 1687 fewer than 45 people remained That month a third expedition launched a final attempt to find the Mississippi the expedition experienced much infighting and La Salle was ambushed and killed somewhere in East Texas, Friendswood (mostly in Galveston County).

Other black conquistadors include Pedro Fulupo Juan Bardales Antonio Perez and Juan Portugues Pedro Fulupo was a black slave that fought in Costa Rica Juan Bardales was an African slave that fought in Honduras and Panama for his service he was granted manumission and a pension of 50-pesos Antonio Perez was from North Africa and a free black He joined the conquest in Venezuela and was made a captain Juan Portugues fought in the conquests in Venezuela. .