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9.3 Reconstruction Throughout the 15th century Portuguese explorers sailed the coast of Africa establishing trading posts for tradable commodities such as firearms spices silver gold and slaves crossing Africa and India in 1434 the first consignment of slaves was brought to Lisbon; slave trading was the most profitable branch of Portuguese commerce until the Indian subcontinent was reached, The mass-bombing of cities in Europe and Asia has often been called a war crime although no positive or specific customary international humanitarian law with respect to aerial warfare existed before or during World War II the USAAF firebombed a total of 67 Japanese cities killing 393,000 civilians and destroying 65% of built-up areas; Italian defeats prompted Germany to deploy an expeditionary force to North Africa and at the end of March 1941 Rommel's Afrika Korps launched an offensive which drove back the Commonwealth forces in under a month Axis forces advanced to western Egypt and besieged the port of Tobruk. In Asia the United States led the occupation of Japan and administrated Japan's former islands in the Western Pacific while the Soviets annexed Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. Korea formerly under Japanese rule was divided and occupied by the Soviet Union in the North and the United States in the South between 1945 and 1948 Separate republics emerged on both sides of the 38th parallel in 1948 each claiming to be the legitimate government for all of Korea which led ultimately to the Korean War, Joe R Lansdale award-winning author and martial arts expert born in Gladewater Gregg County. Lynchburg In 1509 the Portuguese under Francisco de Almeida won a critical victory in the battle of Diu against a joint Mamluk and Arab fleet sent to counteract their presence in the Arabian Sea the retreat of the Mamluks and Arabs enabled the Portuguese to implement their strategy of controlling the Indian Ocean. ; . . .

Houston Texas Business Directory, Houston Texas Business Directory, Locations in Houston are generally classified as either being inside or outside Interstate 610 known as the "610 Loop" or simply "The Loop" Inside the loop generally encompasses the central business district and has come to define an urban lifestyle and state of mind Elizabeth Long the author of the 2003 book Book Clubs: Women and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life wrote that most of the upper middle classes in the 610 Loop live in the southwestern part of the inner city in the areas near Hermann Park the Houston Museum District Rice University and the Texas Medical Center while some portions of northern Houston and Eastern Houston have been gentrified and also have upper middle classes. The 18-story Prudential Building designed by Kenneth Franzheim was constructed in 1952 in the Texas Medical Center the ground level walls of the Prudential Building were clad with deep red polished Texas granite; the upper floors on the northwest and northeast sides were clad in Texas limestone the southwest and southeast sides though were faced with full-height aluminum arrangements to "utilize solar rays and air circulation to effect economies in air conditioning." the building was the first local corporate high rise office building in Houston to be located outside of the central business district the Prudential Building was demolished January 8 2012, Houston with a customer base of more than 3 million is AT&T's largest service city the city's telecommunications infrastructure completes more than 70 million Houston telephone connections daily the Texas Public Utilities Commission has certified more than 400 additional local exchange carriers to provide service statewide or specifically within Houston More than 1,600 interexchange carriers have registered with the commission to provide long distance service.