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Spanish 29.21% See also: List of colleges and universities in Houston The major environmental threats to the Gulf are agricultural runoff and oil drilling. In June 1979 the Ixtoc I oil platform in the Bay of Campeche suffered a blowout leading to a catastrophic explosion which resulted in a massive oil spill that continued for nine months before the well was finally capped This was ranked as the largest oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico until the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, French 0.25% Jim Hogg born in Rusk Cherokee County, 8 References 8.2 Mass transit. . Lakewood Church in Houston led by Pastor Joel Osteen is the largest church in the United States a megachurch it had 44,800 weekly attendees in 2010 up from 11,000 weekly in 2000. Since 2005 it has occupied the former Compaq Center sports stadium in September 2010 Outreach Magazine published a list of the 100 largest Christian churches in the United States and inside the list were the following Houston-area churches: Lakewood Second Baptist Church Houston Woodlands Church Church Without Walls and First Baptist Church. According to the list Houston and Dallas were tied as the second most popular city for megachurches. The 18-story Prudential Building designed by Kenneth Franzheim was constructed in 1952 in the Texas Medical Center the ground level walls of the Prudential Building were clad with deep red polished Texas granite; the upper floors on the northwest and northeast sides were clad in Texas limestone the southwest and southeast sides though were faced with full-height aluminum arrangements to "utilize solar rays and air circulation to effect economies in air conditioning." the building was the first local corporate high rise office building in Houston to be located outside of the central business district the Prudential Building was demolished January 8 2012, Two brass plates depicting a bearded Portuguese soldier before 1500 on top and Benin warriors at the bottom. .

Cities Main article: Republic of Texas Starting in the late twentieth century many traditional homes townhomes and high-rise condominiums were constructed (or converted) for residents wishing to live in the downtown and inner-loop area spurred by a focused revitalization effort after years of suburban exodus These emerging urban dwellings can be found in an eclectic array of styles. There were 943,183 housing units in 2017 and 838,950 households. 43.3% of Houstonians owned housing units with an average of 2.66 persons per household the median monthly owner costs with a mortgage were $1,533 and $511 without a mortgage Houston's median gross rent from 2013-2017 was $940 the median household income in 2017 was $49,399 and 21.2% of Houstonians lived below the poverty line. Houston Texas Business Directory, vte 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!