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. Houston is one of few United States cities with permanent professional resident companies in all major performing arts disciplines: opera (Houston Grand Opera) ballet (Houston Ballet) music (Houston Symphony Orchestra) and theater (The Alley Theatre Theatre Under the Stars). Houston is also home to folk artists art groups and various small progressive arts organizations, 2.2 Gulf Coast campaign, The University of St Thomas located in Neartown is a private Catholic liberal arts college; The city of Houston has a strong mayoral form of municipal government. Houston is a home rule city and all municipal elections in the Texas are nonpartisan the city's elected officials are the mayor city controller and 16 members of the Houston City Council the current mayor of Houston is Sylvester Turner a Democrat elected on a nonpartisan ballot Houston's mayor serves as the city's chief administrator executive officer and official representative and is responsible for the general management of the city and for seeing that all laws and ordinances are enforced, The Astrodome was designed by architects Hermon Lloyd & W B Morgan and Wilson Morris Crain and Anderson (Morris Architects) Structural engineering and structural design was performed by Walter P Moore Engineers and Consultants of Houston Credit for the design work on the dome roof structural goes to Dr G.R Kiewitt and Mr Louis O Bass of Roof Structures Inc it was constructed by H A Lott Inc for Harris County it stands 18 stories tall covering 9.5 acres (3.8 ha) the dome is 710 feet (220 m) in diameter and the ceiling is 208 feet (63 m) above the playing surface which itself sits 25 feet (7.6 m) below street level; ; The current Texas Constitution was adopted in 1876 Like many states it explicitly provides for a separation of powers the state's Bill of Rights is much larger than its federal counterpart and has provisions unique to Texas, Long oceanic voyages led to larger ships "Nau" was the Portuguese archaic synonym for any large ship primarily merchant ships Due to the piracy that plagued the coasts they began to be used in the navy and were provided with cannon windows which led to the classification of "naus" according to the power of its artillery the carrack or nau was a three- or four-masted ship it had a high rounded stern with large aftcastle forecastle and bowsprit at the stem it was first used by the Portuguese and later by the Spanish They were also adapted to the increasing maritime trade They grew from 200 tons capacity in the 15th century to 500 in the 16th century they usually had two decks stern castles fore and aft two to four masts with overlapping sails in India travels in the sixteenth century used carracks large merchant ships with a high edge and three masts with square sails that reached 2,000 tons, Texas leads the nation in the production of cattle horses sheep goats wool mohair and hay the state also leads the nation in production of cotton which is the number one crop grown in the state in terms of value the state grows significant amounts of cereal crops and produce. Texas has a large commercial fishing industry With mineral resources Texas leads in creating cement crushed stone lime salt sand and gravel; 4 Shipwrecks In the Pacific US forces continued to press back the Japanese perimeter in mid-June 1944 they began their offensive against the Mariana and Palau islands and decisively defeated Japanese forces in the Battle of the Philippine Sea These defeats led to the resignation of the Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and provided the United States with air bases to launch intensive heavy bomber attacks on the Japanese home islands in late October American forces invaded the Filipino island of Leyte; soon after Allied naval forces scored another large victory in the Battle of Leyte Gulf one of the largest naval battles in history.

The scoreboard eventually known as the "Astrolite" was designed by Fair Play Scoreboards of Des Moines Iowa. Having designed the scoreboard for Dodger Stadium several years prior team owner Roy Hofheinz was not impressed with the initial proposal for a much more generic type of scoreboard Project designer Jack Foster teamed up with a creative professional based in Kansas City to create the first animated scoreboard Its reported cost was $2.1 million. Houston is home to 337 parks including Hermann Park Terry Hershey Park Lake Houston Park Memorial Park Tranquility Park Sesquicentennial Park Discovery Green Buffalo Bayou Park and Sam Houston Park Within Hermann Park are the Houston Zoo and the Houston Museum of Natural Science Sam Houston Park contains restored and reconstructed homes which were originally built between 1823 and 1905 a proposal has been made to open the city's first botanic garden at Herman Brown Park. Houston Texas Business Directory French 0.25% Economy Native Americans are a smaller minority in the state Native Americans make up 0.5 percent of Texas's population and number over 118,000 individuals Native Americans of non-Hispanic origin make up 0.3 percent of the population and number over 75,000 individuals Cherokee made up 0.1 percent of the population and numbered over 19,400 members in contrast only 583 identified as Chippewa. . . In the 2000s the Baylor College of Medicine was annually considered within the top ten medical schools in the nation; likewise the MD Anderson Cancer Center had been consistently ranked as one of the top two U.S hospitals specializing in cancer care by U.S News & World Report since 1990 the Menninger Clinic a psychiatric treatment center is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine and the Houston Methodist Hospital System. With hospital locations nationwide and headquarters in Houston the Triumph Healthcare hospital system was the third largest long term acute care provider nationally in 2005. Taxation 3 Demographics Energy Although the missionaries had been unable to convert the Hasinai tribe of East Texas they did become friendly with the natives the Hasinai were bitter enemies of the Lipan Apache who transferred their enmity to Spain and began raiding San Antonio and other Spanish areas a temporary peace was finally negotiated with the Apache in 1749 and at the request of the Indians a mission was established along the San Saba River northwest of San Antonio the Apaches shunned the mission but the fact that Spaniards now appeared to be friends of the Apache angered the Apache enemies primarily the Comanche Tonkawa and Hasinai tribes who promptly destroyed the mission. Alcohol policy Transportation Racial composition 1970 1990 2000 2010 Cotton ranching and farming dominated the economy with railroad construction after 1870 a major factor in the development of new cities away from rivers and waterways Toward the end of the 19th century timber became an important industry in Texas as well in 1901 a petroleum discovery at Spindletop Hill near Beaumont was developed as the most productive oil well the world had ever seen the wave of oil speculation and discovery that followed came to be known as the "Oil Boom" permanently transforming and enriching the economy of Texas Agriculture and ranching gave way to a service-oriented society after the boom years of World War II Segregation ended in the 1960s due to federal legislation Politically Texas changed from the virtually one-party Democratic state achieved following disenfranchisement to a highly contested political scene until 2000 when it was solidly Republican the economy of Texas has continued to grow rapidly becoming the second-largest state in population in 1994 and became economically highly diversified with a growing base in new technology.