(22.7) 63.4 Pollution (16) 63 East Texans also enjoy collegiate athletic competition Most residents support collegiate teams located in other regions of the state; the Texas A&M Aggies Texas Longhorns Texas Tech Red Raiders Baylor Bears TCU Horned Frogs etc Due to proximity to neighboring states East Texas has a substantial number of fans of the LSU Tigers Arkansas Razorbacks Oklahoma State Cowboys and Oklahoma Sooners the Battle of the Piney Woods is a fiercely contested sports rivalry between the Bearkats of Sam Houston State University in Huntsville and the Lumberjacks of Stephen F Austin State University in Nacogdoches Both compete in the FCS level of NCAA athletic competition as members of the Southland Conference the Cardinals of Lamar University in Beaumont also compete with Stephen F Austin and Sam Houston State in the Southland Conference. The Lyric Centre sits in the heart of the Theater District just across the street from the Wortham Center and adjacent to the Alley Theatre the black-and-white striped office building houses dozens of law firms but the block on which the tower sits is perhaps best known for the giant cellist playing outside. It is the work of sculptor David Addickes who also created the statue of Sam Houston outside Huntsville Texas, Governor Lawrence Sullivan Ross had to personally intervene to resolve the Jaybird-Woodpecker War (1888-1889) among factions of Democrats in Fort Bend County; at bottom it was a racial conflict the majority population was black by a large margin and had been electing county officers for 20 years But the white elite Democrats wanted their own people in power Conflict became violent and the Jaybirds ordered several blacks out of town Tensions increased and a total of seven people were killed in the fall of 1889 the Democratic Party created "white-only pre-primary elections," which in practice were the only competitive contests in the county and thus disenfranchised the blacks This situation lasted until the US Supreme Court ruling in Terry v Adams (1953) declared it unconstitutional in the last of the white primary cases, 5.1 Arts and theater 11.4 Airports The annual Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo held inside the NRG Stadium. . . !
Houston TranStar Center, Texas Southern University located in the Third Ward is the first public institution of higher education in Houston and the largest HBCU in Texas. North America colonization Three community college districts exist with campuses in and around Harris County the Houston Community College System serves most of Houston the northwestern through northeastern parts of the county are served by various campuses of the Lone Star College System while the southeastern portion of the county is served by San Jacinto College the Houston Community College and Lone Star College systems are within the 10 largest institutions of higher learning in the United States, Main article: Mexican Texas, Academy Sports and Outdoors a sporting goods retailer has its corporate offices and product distribution center in unincorporated western Harris County. Hewlett-Packard operates its United States region office in a complex northwest unincorporated Harris County; the complex formerly belonged to Compaq prior to Compaq's merger with HP. Smith International has its headquarters in the Greenspoint district and in an unincorporated area in Harris County. BJ Services Company has its headquarters in the Spring Branch district and in unincorporated Harris County. Cybersoft Technologies has its headquarters in an unincorporated area in 2012 Noble Energy announced that it was consolidating its headquarters and two other Greater Houston offices into a 10-story building on the former Compaq headquarters property in unincorporated Harris County. Goya Foods previously had its Texas offices in an unincorporated area in the county; . . . . The Smithsonian Institution Gulf of Mexico holdings are expected to provide an important baseline of understanding for future scientific studies on the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Congressional testimony Dr Jonathan Coddington Associate Director of Research and Collections at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History provides a detailed overview of the Gulf collections and their sources which Museum staff have made available on an online map the samples were collected for years by the former Minerals Management Service (renamed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Regulation and Enforcement) to help predict the potential impacts of future oil/gas explorations Since 1979 the specimens have been deposited in the national collections of the National Museum of Natural History.
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