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. Flag Great Seal Monuments Motto Anthem Bird World Heritage Sites. Caddo Lake 7.3.1 Brutus oil spill, 10.2.1 Consequences of obesity 9 Plains All American Pipeline 99 The Bank of America Center by Philip Johnson is an example of postmodern architecture! . 7 Disease in the Americas Like other Southern states by the late 1870s white Democrats regained control of the state legislature They passed a new constitution in 1876 that segregated schools and established a poll tax to support them but it was not originally required for voting, Houston and UCLA play against each other in the 1968 Game of the Century at the Astrodome, The 2003 Texas redistricting of Congressional districts led by Republican Tom DeLay was called by the New York Times "an extreme case of partisan gerrymandering" a group of Democratic legislators the "Texas Eleven" fled the state in a quorum-busting effort to prevent the legislature from acting but was unsuccessful the state had already redistricted following the 2000 census Despite these efforts the legislature passed a map heavily in favor of Republicans based on 2000 data and ignoring the estimated nearly one million new residents in the state since that date Career attorneys and analysts at the Department of Justice objected to the plan as diluting the votes of African American and Hispanic voters but political appointees overrode them and approved it. Legal challenges to the redistricting reached the national Supreme Court in the case League of United Latin American Citizens v Perry (2006) but the court ruled in favor of the state (and Republicans). ; 2.2 Museum District Toledo Bend Reservoir on the Louisiana and Texas border In the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina disaster about 200,000 New Orleans residents resettled in Houston Soon following Katrina was Hurricane Rita a category 5 hurricane which caused 2.5 million Houstonians to evacuate the city the largest urban evacuation in the history of the U.S, Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County Texas (METRO) serves several areas within Harris County an agency of the Harris County government Harris County Transit serves communities in Harris County that are not served by METRO. Background Baseball (24.8) 72.8 The Laura the first steamship ever to visit Houston arrived in January 1837 on January 1 1837 the town comprised twelve residents and one log cabin; four months later there were 1,500 people and 100 houses the city was granted incorporation by the state legislature on June 5 1837 and was made as the temporary capital of Texas at this time drunkenness dueling brawling prostitution and profanity began to become a problem in early Houston.

. American Indian: 0.7 percent Museum District, One important reason was the need for alternatives to the expensive eastern trade routes that followed the Silk Road Those routes were dominated first by the republics of Venice and Genoa and then by the Ottoman Empire after the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 the Ottomans barred European access for decades the Spanish Netherlands ports produced more revenue than the colonies since all goods brought from Spain Mediterranean possessions and the colonies were sold directly there to neighbouring European countries: wheat olive oil wine silver spice wool and silk were big businesses.[citation needed]. . . .