Mass transit Harris County Annex M has the headquarters of the Harris County Transit agency. . 14 References Recent history 4.4 Stadia In 1999 the Houston-based Enron Corporation began construction of a 40-floor skyscraper Designed by Cesar Pelli & Associates and Kendall/Heaton Associates and completed in 2002 the building was originally known as the Enron Center the company collapsed in a well-publicized manner in 2001 and the building became officially known by its address 1500 Louisiana Street, 7.2 Colleges and universities Harris County ESD #24 Fire Aldine Fire & Rescue .10. Two or more races: 2.7 percent. .
2 Geology Houston hosted Super Bowl VIII in 1974 Super Bowl XXXVIII 30 years later in 2004 and Super Bowl LI in 2017 (making it the only Texas city to host the Super Bowl three times) the 1989 NBA All-Star Game the 1981 1986 1994 and 1995 NBA Finals (The hometown Houston Rockets winning the latter 2) 2004 Major League Baseball All-Star Game Super Bowl XXXVIII in 2004 2005 World Series the 2005 Big 12 Conference championship game the 2006 NBA All-Star Game and the Tennis Masters Cup in 2003 and 2004 and the annual Shell Houston Open.[citation needed] the city hosts the NCAA College Baseball Minute Maid Classic every February Houston formerly hosted the NCAA football's Houston Bowl in December but now hosts the Texas Bowl in January. For several decades official British policy was to maintain strong ties with Mexico in the hopes that the country could stop the United States from expanding further. When the Texas Revolution erupted Great Britain had declined to become involved officially expressing confidence that Mexico could handle its own affairs in 1840 after years in which the Republic of Texas was neither annexed by the United States nor reabsorbed into Mexico Britain signed a treaty to recognize the nation and act as a mediator to help Texas gain recognition from Mexico, 7 Government and politics The cattle industry continued to thrive though it gradually became less profitable Cotton and lumber became major industries creating new economic booms in various regions of the state Railroad networks grew rapidly as did the port at Galveston as commerce between Texas and the rest of the U.S (and the rest of the world) expanded As with some other states before the lumber industry quickly decimated the forests of Texas such that by the early 20th century the majority of the forest population in Texas was gone (later conservation efforts restored some of it but never to the level it once was); 3.1 Italian invasion of Ethiopia (1935), The following year the War of the Quadruple Alliance pitted Spain against France which immediately moved to take over Spanish interests in North America in June 1719 seven Frenchmen from Natchitoches took control of the mission San Miguel de los Adaes from its sole defender who did not know that the countries were at war the French soldiers explained that 100 additional soldiers were coming and the Spanish colonists missionaries and remaining soldiers fled to San Antonio, Texas also permits the creation of "special districts" which provide limited services the most common is the school district but can also include hospital districts community college districts and utility districts (one utility district near Austin was the plaintiff in a landmark Supreme Court case involving the Voting Rights Act). General aviation airports for fixed-wing aircraft outside of Houston include:; . Many notable music artists have East Texas roots including: George Jones (Saratoga) Miranda Lambert (Lindale) Kacey Musgraves (Mineola) Neal McCoy (Longview and Jacksonville) Lee Ann Womack (Jacksonville) Janis Joplin (Port Arthur) Don Henley (Linden) Ray Price (Perryville) Johnny Horton (Rusk) Johnny Mathis (Gilmer) Tex Ritter (Panola County) Jim Reeves (Panola County) Mark Chesnutt (Beaumont) Tracy Byrd (Vidor) Clay Walker (Beaumont) Chris Tomlin (Grand Saline) and Michelle Shocked (Gilmer) among many others.
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