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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, Golden Triangle Contents Polish civilians wearing blindfolds photographed just before their execution by German soldiers in Palmiry forest 1940. 9 Education Houston Texas Business Directory For decades the infant mortality rate in Texas was higher than the nationwide rate but that gap has slowly closed in 2017 the infant mortality rate in Texas was identical to the nationwide rate: 5.9 deaths per 1,000 live births. This rate is not identical across the state of Texas and studies have found significant disparities between zip codes for example the 76164 zip code has an infant mortality rate of 12.3 deaths per 1,000 live births while the neighboring 76107 zip code has a rate of 1.8 deaths per 1,000 live births. Additionally Black families in Texas are disproportionately burdened by these rates in 2015 the infant mortality rate for Black babies in Texas was 10.9 deaths per 1,000 births. These disparities can be explained by factors such as socioeconomic status air pollution and access to health care, The Sabine Trinity Neches Angelina and Sulphur Rivers are the major rivers in East Texas but the Brazos River and Red River also flow through the region the Brazos cuts through the southwest portion of the region while the Red River forms its northern border with Oklahoma and a portion of Arkansas in East Texas and the rest of the South small rivers and creeks collect into swamps called "bayous" and merge with the surrounding forest Bald cypress and Spanish moss are the dominant plants in bayous the most famous of these bayous are Cypress Bayou and Buffalo Bayou Cypress Bayou surrounds the Big Little and Black Cypress Rivers around Jefferson They flow east into Caddo Lake and the adjoining wetlands cover the rim and islands of the lake; Thirty-six (36) separate and distinct public universities exist in Texas of which 32 belong to one of the six state university systems. Discovery of minerals on Permanent University Fund land particularly oil has helped fund the rapid growth of the state's two largest university systems: the University of Texas System and the Texas A&M System the four other university systems: the University of Houston System the University of North Texas System the Texas State System and the Texas Tech System are not funded by the Permanent University Fund, 1.2 The Civil War Thomas Jefferson Rusk settled in Nacogdoches Nacogdoches County and was also a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas, 9 Plains All American Pipeline 99 The Houston Airport System a branch of the municipal government oversees the operation of three major public airports in the city Two of these airports George Bush Intercontinental Airport and William P Hobby Airport offer commercial aviation service to a variety of domestic and international destinations and served 55 million passengers in 2016 the third Ellington Airport is home to the Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base the Federal Aviation Administration and the state of Texas selected the Houston Airport System as "Airport of the Year" in 2005 largely due to the implementation of a $3.1 billion airport improvement program for both major airports in Houston. Hispanics and Latinos are the second-largest group in Texas after non-Hispanic European Americans Over 8.5 million people claim Hispanic or Latino ethnicity This group forms over 37 percent of Texas's population People of Mexican descent alone number over 7.9 million and make up 31.6 percent of the population the vast majority of the Hispanic/Latino population in the state is of Mexican descent the next two largest groups are Salvadorans and Puerto Ricans There are over 222,000 Salvadorans and over 130,000 Puerto Ricans in Texas Other groups with large numbers in Texas include Hondurans Guatemalans Nicaraguans and Cubans among others the Hispanics in Texas are more likely than in some other states (such as California) to identify as white; according to the 2010 U.S Census Texas is home to 6,304,207 White Hispanics and 2,594,206 Hispanics of "some other race" (usually mestizo). . Eastern Orthodox 0.5 On 22 June 1941 Germany supported by Italy and Romania invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa with Germany accusing the Soviets of plotting against them They were joined shortly by Finland and Hungary the primary targets of this surprise offensive were the Baltic region Moscow and Ukraine with the ultimate goal of ending the 1941 campaign near the Arkhangelsk-Astrakhan line from the Caspian to the White Seas Hitler's objectives were to eliminate the Soviet Union as a military power exterminate Communism generate Lebensraum ("living space") by dispossessing the native population and guarantee access to the strategic resources needed to defeat Germany's remaining rivals!

. The Bank of America Center is one of the first significant examples of postmodern architecture built in downtown Houston the building completed in 1984 and designed by Philip Johnson and partner John Burgee is reminiscent of the Dutch Gothic architecture of canal houses that were once common in the Netherlands the first section is 21 stories tall while the whole building reaches a height of 56 stories, Native Americans in East Texas began to settle in villages shortly after 500 BC farming and building the first burial mounds They were influenced by the Mississippian culture which had major sites throughout the Mississippi basin in the Trans-Pecos area populations were influenced by Mogollon culture, The Carnegie Foundation classifies three of Texas's universities as Tier One research institutions: the University of Texas at Austin the Texas A&M University and the University of Houston the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University are flagship universities of the state of Texas Both were established by the Texas Constitution and hold stakes in the Permanent University Fund the state has been putting effort to expand the number of flagship universities by elevating some of its seven institutions designated as "emerging research universities" the two expected to emerge first are the University of Houston and Texas Tech University likely in that order according to discussions on the House floor of the 82nd Texas Legislature. 1 Geology 10.6 Medical research Extreme weather Arabic 0.21% Harris was granted a league of land (about 4,428 acres) at Buffalo Bayou He platted the town of Harrisburg in 1826 while he established a trading post and a grist mill there He ran boats transporting goods between New Orleans and Harrisburg until his death in the fall of 1829. Unlike the rest of the nation most of Texas is on its own alternating current power grid the Texas Interconnection Texas has a deregulated electric service Texas leads the nation in total net electricity production generating 437,236 MWh in 2014 89% more MWh than Florida which ranked second. As an independent nation Texas would rank as the world's eleventh-largest producer of electricity after South Korea and ahead of the United Kingdom, Though Houston is the largest city in the United States without formal zoning regulations it has developed similarly to other Sun Belt cities because the city's land use regulations and legal covenants have played a similar role. Regulations include mandatory lot size for single-family houses and requirements that parking be available to tenants and customers Such restrictions have had mixed results Though some have blamed the city's low density urban sprawl and lack of pedestrian-friendliness on these policies the city's land use has also been credited with having significant affordable housing sparing Houston the worst effects of the 2008 real estate crisis the city issued 42,697 building permits in 2008 and was ranked first in the list of healthiest housing markets for 2009, One Shell Plaza and Two Shell Plaza were completed in 1971 One Shell Plaza was the tallest building west of the Mississippi River.