2.2 Climate This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed (June 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message). The Theater District a 17-block area in the heart of downtown Houston is home to Bayou Place Entertainment Complex restaurants movies plazas and parks Bayou Place is a large multilevel building that is home to restaurants bars live music billiards theatres and art house films the Houston Verizon Wireless Theatre stages a variety of live concerts and the Angelika Theatre presents the latest in art foreign and independent films, As with other parts of Texas high school football is king in East Texas Residents of East Texas towns and rural communities fill high-school stadiums in support of their local teams cheerleaders bands etc Many East Texas high-school teams have won Texas state championships and have produced collegiate and professional football players, Crosby George Tyler Wood second governor of Texas settled near Point Blank in Liberty County and San Jacinto County. Texas Hill Country (20.7) 74.8 8 Transportation 9 Further reading, High rise brick flat-roofed hotel with three wings of equal size resting on the base provided by the first two floors. The land comprising Mexican Texas between the Red Sabine and Nueces Rivers is shaded yellow the land between this boundary and the Rio Grande on the south and the Arkansas River on the north is shaded green and marked as "claimed territory". 2 Geography 1939 1940 1941 1942 Nagasaki in Japan was founded in 1570 by Portuguese explorers. . . Contents 2013 referendum and aftermath 1.1 Conception In 1874 Houston's first permanent public transit system began to be operated by the Houston City Street Railway Company. From 1874 until 1891 all of the transit service was operated using mule-driven streetcars when electric streetcars began to be implemented in their place the conversion to electric streetcars was completed in 1892.
140 Armando Walle Democratic 2008 North Houston and Aldine east of I-45; . Retail See also: List of events in Houston and List of people raised in Houston, Texas Hill Country 9 Notes, Harris County ESD #7 Fire Spring VFD 1% .06545. . . The state is a leader in renewable energy commercialization; it produces the most wind power in the nation in 2014 10.6% of the electricity consumed in Texas came from wind turbines the Roscoe Wind Farm in Roscoe Texas is one of the world's largest wind farms with a 781.5 megawatt (MW) capacity the Energy Information Administration states the state's large agriculture and forestry industries could give Texas an enormous amount biomass for use in biofuels the state also has the highest solar power potential for development in the nation, District 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 1994 Downtown Houston Bush IAH northwest and northeast Houston inner portions of Houston's Southside, Bowie County (92,565) Asian: 3.8 percent (1.0 percent Indian 0.8 percent Vietnamese 0.6 percent Chinese 0.4 percent Filipino 0.3 percent Korean 0.1 percent Japanese 0.6 percent other Asian). Consequences of obesity Waller (partly in Waller County) Main articles: Ixtoc I and Ixtoc I oil spill County governments serve as agents of the state with responsibilities defined in the Texas Constitution Counties are governed by the commissioners' court Each Texas county has four precinct commissioners and a county judge Although this body is called a court it conducts the general business of the county and oversees financial matters the commissioners court may hire personnel to run major departments such as health and human services. In the summer of 1860 a slave panic erupted in North and East Texas amid rumors of arson by slaves and abolitionists Called the "Texas Troubles" between 30 and 100 blacks and whites were lynched by vigilantes the events were used to arouse support for secession, In 1762 France finally relinquished their claim to Texas by ceding all of Louisiana west of the Mississippi River to Spain as part of the treaty to end the Seven Years' War. Spain saw no need to continue to maintain settlements near French outposts and ordered the closure of Los Adaes making San Antonio the new provincial capital the residents of Los Adaes were relocated in 1773 After several attempts to settle in other parts of the province the residents returned to East Texas without authorization and founded Nacogdoches, Harris County 1910 Courthouse Restored According to U.S News and World Report many hospitals in Houston consistently rank among the nation's top healthcare institutions.
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