6 Notes Buddhist 1 138 Dwayne Bohac Republican 2002 Northwest Houston and parts of the Memorial/Spring Branch area north of I-10 Addicks Reservoir Tropical Storm Allison devastated many neighborhoods as well as interrupted all services within the Texas medical center for several months with flooding in June 2001 at least 17 people were killed around the Houston area when the rainfall from Allison that fell on June 8 and 9 caused the city's bayous to rise over their banks! . Harris County ESD #10 Fire Eastex Fire Department 1% .10, 7 Government and politics Schutzstaffel (SS) female camp guards removing prisoners' bodies from lorries and carrying them to a mass grave inside the German Bergen-Belsen concentration camp 1945. Flag of Texas.svg Texas portal Main articles: Military production during World War II and Home front during World War II, European occupations and agreements Harris County ESD #1 EMS Harris County Emergency Corps .10. The start of the war in Europe is generally held to be 1 September 1939 beginning with the German invasion of Poland; the United Kingdom and France declared war on Germany two days later the dates for the beginning of war in the Pacific include the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War on 7 July 1937 or even the Japanese invasion of Manchuria on 19 September 1931. ! . 6.2 Republic of Texas 5 Economy Waller (northwest) Two freshwater aquifers the Chicot and Evangeline underlie the Greater Houston area These aquifers are composed mostly of sand and clay the Chicot is located above the Evangeline and a confining layer separates them from the Jasper aquifer below which is mostly saltwater a majority of drinking water supply wells in Houston are drilled to depths between 1,000 feet (300 m) and 2,000 feet (610 m).
. . ! The knowledge of wind patterns and currents the trade winds and the oceanic gyres in the Atlantic and the determination of latitude led to the discovery of the best ocean route back from Africa: crossing the Central Atlantic to the Azores using the winds and currents that spin clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere because of atmospheric circulation and the effect of Coriolis facilitating the way to Lisbon and thus enabling the Portuguese to venture farther from shore a manoeuvre that became known as the "volta do mar" (return of the sea) in 1565 the application of this principle in the Pacific Ocean led the Spanish discovering the Manila Galleon trade route, Texas plays host to several species of wasps Texas is one of the regions that has the highest abundance of Polistes exclamans. Additionally Texas has provided an important ground for the study of Polistes annularis, Southeast Texas via NASA's Landsat 7 satellite. 148 Jessica Farrar Democratic 1994 North and Northwest Houston mainly within Loop 610 (including Houston Heights), Publicly owned Harris County ESD #5 EMS HCESD5 EMS 1% .02. . 146 Shawn Thierry Democratic 2016 Inner portions of Houston's South Side The Comanche agreed to a peace treaty in 1785 the Comanche were willing to fight the enemies of their new friends and soon attacked the Karankawa Over the next several years the Comanche killed many of the Karankawa in the area and drove the others into Mexico.
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