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! ; . Impact Houston has occasional severe weather mostly flooding Hurricanes that have the potential to landfall bring severe damage to the area Seven major hurricanes have hit the Galveston and Houston areas in the past 100 years Four have done significant damage to Houston, 2000 1,953,631 19.8% Beginning around the mid-20th century Texas began to transform from a rural and agricultural state to one urban and industrialized the state's population grew quickly during this period with large levels of migration from outside the state. As a part of the Sun Belt Texas experienced strong economic growth particularly during the 1970s and early 1980s. Texas's economy diversified lessening its reliance on the petroleum industry by 1990 Hispanics overtook blacks to become the largest minority group in the state, 6.2 Playing surface In the early 1990s many older office buildings throughout Houston remained unoccupied At the same time newer office buildings for major corporations opened. !

. . Main article: Historiography of World War II, Others follow the British historian A.J.P Taylor who held that the Sino-Japanese War and war in Europe and its colonies occurred simultaneously and the two wars merged in 1941 This article uses the conventional dating Other starting dates sometimes used for World War II include the Italian invasion of Abyssinia on 3 October 1935 the British historian Antony Beevor views the beginning of World War II as the Battles of Khalkhin Gol fought between Japan and the forces of Mongolia and the Soviet Union from May to September 1939, Houston has been called the Lightning Capital of Texas as its density of lightning strikes is higher than it is in other parts of the state This area of unusually high lightning activity stretches from Houston eastward into Southwest Louisiana Much of this can be explained by the natural occurrence of thunderstorms in the region which form almost daily during the wet season However the unusual clustering of lightning around the developed areas of Houston the Golden Triangle and Lake Charles Louisiana have led many researchers to believe that some combination of urban heat islands and air pollution are responsible for increasing the number of lightning strikes beyond even the already-high natural levels. Much of Houston's success as a petrochemical complex is due to its busy man-made ship channel the Port of Houston the port ranks first in the country in international commerce and is the sixth-largest port in the world Amid other U.S ports it is the busiest in foreign tonnage and second in overall tonnage Because of these economic trades many residents have moved to Houston from other U.S states as well as hundreds of countries worldwide. Sponsors included governments the king viceroys and local governors backed by rich men the contribution of each individual conditioned the subsequent division of the booty receiving a portion the pawn (lancero piquero alabardero rodelero) and twice a man on horseback (caballero) owner of a horse.[clarification needed] Sometimes part of the booty consisted of women and/or slaves Even the dogs important weapons of war in their own right were in some cases rewarded the division of the booty produced conflicts such as the one between Pizarro and Almagro.