. Media A tall stone column which widens as it meets the base a large rectangular building with no windows, Houston Texas Business Directory The diversion of three quarters of the Axis troops and the majority of their air forces from France and the central Mediterranean to the Eastern Front prompted the United Kingdom to reconsider its grand strategy in July the UK and the Soviet Union formed a military alliance against Germany the British and Soviets invaded neutral Iran to secure the Persian Corridor and Iran's oil fields in August the United Kingdom and the United States jointly issued the Atlantic Charter. Historically Houston has been a center of Protestant Christianity being part of the Bible Belt. Other Christian groups including Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Christianity and non-Christian religions did not grow for much of the city's history because immigration was predominantly from Western Europe (which at the time was dominated by Western Christianity and favored by the quotas in federal immigration law) the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 removed the quotas allowing for the growth of other religions. Finnish machine gun nest aimed at Soviet Red Army positions during the Winter War February 1940.
Houston Baptist University located in Sharpstown is a private Baptist university. Atheist 2 Williams Tower, Under Jim Hogg the state turned its attention toward corporations violating the state monopoly laws in 1894 Texas filed a lawsuit against John D Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company and its Texas subsidiary the Waters-Pierce Oil Company of Missouri Hogg and his attorney-general argued that the companies were engaged in rebates price fixing consolidation and other tactics prohibited by the state's 1889 antitrust act the investigation resulted in a number of indictments including one for Rockefeller Hogg requested that Rockefeller be extradited from New York but the New York governor refused as Rockefeller had not fled from Texas Rockefeller was never tried but other employees of the company were found guilty, The chief administrative officer of a Texas County as set up in the Texas Constitution is the County Judge who sits as the chair of the county's Commissioners' Court (the equivalent of a Board of Supervisors in some other states) Since 2007 this position in Harris County is held by Judge Ed Emmett the county is split into 4 geographical divisions called Precincts Each precinct elects a Commissioner to sit as a representative of their precinct on the commissioners court and also for the oversight of county functions in their area. Other devastating Texas hurricanes include the 1915 Galveston hurricane Hurricane Audrey in 1957 which killed over 600 people Hurricane Carla in 1961 Hurricane Beulah in 1967 Hurricane Alicia in 1983 Hurricane Rita in 2005 and Hurricane Ike in 2008 Tropical storms have also caused their share of damage: Allison in 1989 and again during 2001 and Claudette in 1979 among them.
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