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Further information: List of tallest buildings in Houston The late Paleozoic mountains collapsed as rifting in the Jurassic period began to open the Gulf of Mexico Pangea began to break up in the Triassic but seafloor spreading to form the Gulf of Mexico occurred only in the mid and late Jurassic the shoreline shifted again to the eastern margin of the state and the Gulf of Mexico passive margin began to form Today 9 to 12 miles (14 to 19 km) of sediments are buried beneath the Texas continental shelf and a large proportion of remaining US oil reserves are here At the start of its formation the incipient Gulf of Mexico basin was restricted and seawater often evaporated completely to form thick evaporite deposits of Jurassic age These salt deposits formed salt dome diapirs and are found in East Texas along the Gulf coast. On April 1 2001 the WWE (then known as the WWF) hosted WrestleMania X-Seven which set an all-time record attendance for the Astrodome of 67,925 the main event of the card saw Texas native "Stone Cold" Steve Austin challenge and defeat WWF Champion the Rock in a No Disqualification Match for the Rock's Championship the card also featured the first of Houston native the Undertaker's three WrestleMania victories over Triple H and the second Tables Ladders and Chairs Match between Edge & Christian the Dudley Boyz and the Hardy Boyz the card is perceived by many fans and wrestling historians to be the greatest WrestleMania ever, Map of Japanese military advances through mid-1942, 2 Early Spanish exploration Another popular somewhat simpler definition defines East Texas as the region between the Trinity River north and east of Houston (or sometimes Interstate 45 when defining generously) as the western border the Louisiana border as the eastern border the Gulf of Mexico as the southern border the Oklahoma border as the northern border Arkansas as the northeastern border and extending as far south as Orange Texas the East Texas regions includes Tyler Longview Lufkin Marshall Palestine Jacksonville Mount Pleasant and Nacogdoches. ; . Texas has the seventh highest birth rate in the United States with nearly 400,000 babies born each year. Over half of all Texas births are paid by Medicaid totaling over $2.2 billion per year in birth and delivery-related services for mothers and infants. Studies have found that infant mortality is usually caused by birth defects pre-term birth low birth weight Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and pregnancy complications the average amount spent in the first year of life for a preterm birth with major complications (excluding extreme prematurity) is $19,059 and $4,019 for a preterm birth without major complications compared to $410 for an uncomplicated term birth. . 2.4 1940s Houston has had a troubled past with pollution of many types This is due to the fact that Houston has been the home for the oil and gas industry since its inception in the early 1900s when there was little environmental regulation Harris County where the bulk of the city has been historically located is home to 15 Environmental Protection Agency Superfund sites more than any other area in Texas the list contains numerous companies streets and waterways that have been considered hazardous to humans in various ways.

One of the primary motivations for annexation was the Texas government's huge debts the United States agreed to assume many of these upon annexation However the former Republic never fully paid off its debt until the Compromise of 1850 in return for $10 million a large portion of Texas-claimed territory now parts of Colorado Kansas Oklahoma New Mexico and Wyoming was ceded to the Federal government; 2 Climate 11.3 Equipment and animals 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. Est 2018 2,464,124 17.3% (16) 63 Features In traditional cultures of the Stone Age Bronze Age and hunter-gatherer societies the warfare was mostly 'endemic' long duration low intensity usually evolving into almost a ritualized form by contrast Europe had moved to 'sporadic' warfare in the Middle Ages due to the availability of professionally mercenary armies.[citation needed] When Italy was ransacked by French and Spanish Armies in the early 1500s most Italian states were easily defeated by armies practicing sporadic-warfare Aztec and other native peoples practiced an endemic system of warfare as well and so were easily defeated by Spanish and Portuguese sporadic-warfare armies in the early 1500s. 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, 2 ConocoPhillips 4 4.4 County government 4 Notable events Largest city in Texas by year. JFK assassination Geology Although Texas was essentially a one-party state during this time and the Democratic primary was viewed as "the real election," the Democratic Party had conservative and liberal factions which became more pronounced after the New Deal. Additionally several factions of the party briefly split during the 1930s and 1940s, Stafford MSD Houston Baptist University located in Sharpstown is a private Baptist university.