Finnish machine gun nest aimed at Soviet Red Army positions during the Winter War February 1940, Contents Houston Texas Business Directory Cityscape. . ; Major highways 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. . During the revolution Texian soldiers gained a reputation for courage and militance. Lack points out that fewer than five percent of the Texian population enrolled in the army during the war a fairly low rate of participation. Texian soldiers recognized that the Mexican cavalry was far superior to their own Over the next decade the Texas Rangers borrowed Mexican cavalry tactics and adopted the Spanish saddle and spurs the riata and the bandana, 4 Notable events In 1821 the Mexican War for Independence severed the control that Spain had exercised on its North American territories and the new country of Mexico was formed from much of the lands that had comprised New Spain including Spanish Texas the 1824 Constitution of Mexico joined Texas with Coahuila to form the state of Coahuila y Tejas the Congress did allow Texas the option of forming its own state "as soon as it feels capable of doing so.". .
The Carnegie Foundation classifies three of Texas's universities as Tier One research institutions: the University of Texas at Austin the Texas A&M University and the University of Houston the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University are flagship universities of the state of Texas Both were established by the Texas Constitution and hold stakes in the Permanent University Fund the state has been putting effort to expand the number of flagship universities by elevating some of its seven institutions designated as "emerging research universities" the two expected to emerge first are the University of Houston and Texas Tech University likely in that order according to discussions on the House floor of the 82nd Texas Legislature. Besides coastal exploration Portuguese ships also made trips further out to gather meteorological and oceanographic information These voyages revealed the archipelagos of Bissagos Islands where the Portuguese were defeated by native people in 1535 Madeira the Azores Cape Verde Sao Tome Trindade and Martim Vaz Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago Fernando de Noronha Corisco Elobey Grande Elobey Chico Annobon Island Ascension Island Bioko Island Falkland Islands Principe Island Saint Helena Island Tristan da Cunha Island and Sargasso Sea. . 1970 1,741,912 40.1% Economy Deer Park Welcome to Praha Texas "Czech Capital of Texas" Communities. . In June 1979 the Ixtoc I oil platform in the Bay of Campeche suffered a blowout leading to a catastrophic explosion which resulted in a massive oil spill that continued for nine months before the well was finally capped This was ranked as the largest oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico until the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.
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