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. Around 1,150 seaports dot Texas's coast with over 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of channels. Ports employ nearly one-million people and handle an average of 317 million metric tons. Texas ports connect with the rest of the U.S Atlantic seaboard with the Gulf section of the Intracoastal Waterway the Port of Houston today is the busiest port in the United States in foreign tonnage second in overall tonnage and tenth worldwide in tonnage the Houston Ship Channel spans 530 feet (160 m) wide by 45 feet (14 m) deep by 50 miles (80 km) long, 270 EOG Resources As of 2015 the largest grocers in the Houston market by the number of locations were Kroger with 107 stores and 5 planned stores; H-E-B with 90 stores and 8 planned stores; Walmart with 78 stores and one planned store; Target with 35 stores; Fiesta Mart with 34 stores; Lewis Food Town with 32 stores; Randalls Food Markets with 30 stores; Aldi with 21 stores; Sam's Club with 20 stores; Sellers Bros with 11 stores; Foodarama and Whole Foods Market with 10 stores each; Costco Wholesale and Sprouts Farmers Market with six stores each; and the Fresh Market and Trader Joe's with four stores each as of 2007 the largest grocers in the Houston market were Wal-Mart Kroger H-E-B Safeway Inc (as Randalls Food Markets) Grocers Supply Company (as Fiesta Mart) Target Lewis Food Town Gerlands Food Fair Brookshire Brothers and Sellers Bros. Railroad map of Texas east of the 100th meridian (circa 1884) 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! . . In 2017 the Texas Historical Commission designated the dome as a State Antiquities Landmark In 1939 the United States had renounced its trade treaty with Japan and beginning with an aviation gasoline ban in July 1940 Japan became subject to increasing economic pressure. During this time Japan launched its first attack against Changsha a strategically important Chinese city but was repulsed by late September. Despite several offensives by both sides the war between China and Japan was stalemated by 1940 to increase pressure on China by blocking supply routes and to better position Japanese forces in the event of a war with the Western powers Japan invaded and occupied northern Indochina. Afterwards the United States embargoed iron steel and mechanical parts against Japan.

. Post-war border changes in Central Europe and creation of the Eastern Bloc, Within Mexico tensions continued between federalists and centralists in early 1835 wary Texians formed Committees of Correspondence and Safety the unrest erupted into armed conflict in late 1835 at the Battle of Gonzales. This launched the Texas Revolution and over the next two months the Texians defeated all Mexican troops in the region. Texians elected delegates to the Consultation which created a provisional government the provisional government soon collapsed from infighting and Texas was without clear governance for the first two months of 1836, Tagalog 0.29% Texas has the seventh highest birth rate in the United States with nearly 400,000 babies born each year. Over half of all Texas births are paid by Medicaid totaling over $2.2 billion per year in birth and delivery-related services for mothers and infants. Studies have found that infant mortality is usually caused by birth defects pre-term birth low birth weight Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and pregnancy complications the average amount spent in the first year of life for a preterm birth with major complications (excluding extreme prematurity) is $19,059 and $4,019 for a preterm birth without major complications compared to $410 for an uncomplicated term birth; French 0.25% Main article: Texas Revolution 4 Economy Cities towns and metropolitan areas Main article: List of ports in the United States The current Houston Chronicle headquarters formerly the Houston Post headquarters. (21.8) 63.0 Notwithstanding the concentration of elite medical centers in the state the Commonwealth Fund ranks the Texas healthcare system the third worst in the nation. Texas ranks close to last in access to healthcare quality of care avoidable hospital spending and equity among various groups. Causes of the state's poor rankings include politics a high poverty rate and the highest rate of illegal immigration in the nation in May 2006 Texas initiated the program "code red" in response to the report the state had 25.1 percent of the population without health insurance the largest proportion in the nation. Research shows that adolescents who see alcohol use in advertisements television shows and movies are more likely to start drinking alcohol at a younger age Drinking at a young age is correlated with long-term alcohol abuse, The Ladies Reading Group of Houston was a significant founder of the public library system in Houston Elizabeth Long the author of the 2003 book Book Clubs: Women and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life wrote that Houston's "literary scene" contributes and draws upon the overall literary culture of Texas the University of Houston creative writing program opened in 1979 Long wrote that this program "has achieved a national reputation" in subsequent decades in 1985 the Ladies Reading Club had a 100th anniversary celebration. Architecture Art Dance Fashion Literature Comics Poetry Music Sculpture Theater. Wikisource has original text related to this article:, Nuclear Gadget being raised to the top of the detonation "shot tower" at Alamogordo Bombing Range; Trinity nuclear test New Mexico July 1945, An additional obvious legacy is that of Roman Catholicism At the end of Spain's reign over Texas virtually all inhabitants practiced the Catholic religion and it is still practiced in Texas by a large number of people the Spanish missions built in San Antonio to convert Indians to Catholicism have been restored and are a National Historic Landmark. . Two more significant tributaries of Buffalo Bayou flow through parts of Houston outside the Interstate 610 loop Greens Bayou which originates in far northwest Houston near Willowbrook flows for 43 miles (69 km) through Greenspoint and undeveloped areas of northeastern Harris County Sims Bayou which has its source near Missouri City southwest of Houston flows for 23 miles (37 km) past Almeda Sunnyside South Park and Manchester, Agriculture and mining 10 Footnotes Texas self-perception, US 90.svg U.S Highway 90 Alternate.