In 2006 the Houston metropolitan area ranked first in Texas and third in the U.S within the category of "Best Places for Business and Careers" by Forbes magazine. Ninety-one foreign governments have established consular offices in Houston's metropolitan area the third-highest in the nation. Forty foreign governments maintain trade and commercial offices here with 23 active foreign chambers of commerce and trade associations. Twenty-five foreign banks representing 13 nations operate in Houston providing financial assistance to the international community! Main article: Portuguese colonization of the Americas, 1900 63,786 71.2% Texas has known petroleum deposits of about 5 billion barrels (790,000,000 m3) which makes up about one-fourth of the known U.S reserves the state's refineries can process 4.6 million barrels (730,000 m3) of oil a day the Port Arthur Refinery in Southeast Texas is the largest refinery in the U.S. Texas also leads in natural gas production producing one-fourth of the nation's supply. Several petroleum companies are based in Texas such as: Occidental Petroleum ConocoPhillips ExxonMobil Halliburton Marathon Oil Tesoro Valero Energy and Western Refining, 4 Austin Travis 947,890 10.5.1.2 Low birth weight. Many of the organs of the Harris County government reside in the Harris County Campus in Downtown Houston World War II deaths Music With 10 climatic regions 14 soil regions and 11 distinct ecological regions regional classification becomes problematic with differences in soils topography geology rainfall and plant and animal communities. One classification system divides Texas in order from southeast to west into the following: Gulf Coastal Plains Interior Lowlands Great Plains and Basin and Range Province! .
Texas has a plural executive branch system limiting the power of the governor which is a weak executive compared to some other states Except for the Secretary of State voters elect executive officers independently; thus candidates are directly answerable to the public not the governor. This election system has led to some executive branches split between parties and reduced the ability of the governor to carry out a program When Republican President George W Bush served as Texas's governor the state had a Democratic lieutenant governor Bob Bullock the executive branch positions consist of the Governor Lieutenant Governor Comptroller of Public Accounts Land Commissioner Attorney General Agriculture Commissioner the three-member Texas Railroad Commission the State Board of Education and the Secretary of State, Houston Dynamo MLS Soccer BBVA Compass Stadium 2012 22,039 10 Healthcare 3 Climate 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 of the 2015 Texas Population Estimate Program the population of the county was 4,530,268 non-Hispanic whites 1,323,437 (29.2%) Black Americans 817,096 (18.0%) Other non-Hispanic 395,206 (8.7%) Hispanics and Latinos (of any race) 1,994,529 (44.0%), Because the Houston Independent School District was slow to desegregate public schools on June 1 1970 the Federal officials struck the HISD plan down and forced it to adopt zoning laws This was 16 years after the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Brown v Board of Education which determined that segregated schools were inherently unequal Racial tensions over integration of the schools continued Some Hispanic Americans felt they were being discriminated against when they were being put with only African-Americans as part of the desegregation plan so many took their children out of the schools and put them in huelgas or protest schools until a ruling in 1973 satisfied their demands, William P Hobby Airport (HOU) known as Houston International Airport until 1967 operates primarily short- to medium-haul domestic and international flights to 60 destinations the four-runway 1,304-acre (528-hectare) facility is located approximately 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Downtown Houston in 2015 Southwest Airlines launched service from a new international terminal at Hobby to several destinations in Mexico Central America and the Caribbean These were the first international flights flown from Hobby since the opening of Bush Intercontinental in 1969. Houston's aviation history is showcased in the 1940 Air Terminal Museum located in the old terminal building on the west side of the airport in 2009 Hobby Airport was recognized with two awards for being one of the top five performing airports globally and for customer service by Airports Council International. . Protestant 50 A large stone complex several stories high Two crosses top the structures in the foreground, Beginning around the mid-20th century Texas began to transform from a rural and agricultural state to one urban and industrialized the state's population grew quickly during this period with large levels of migration from outside the state. As a part of the Sun Belt Texas experienced strong economic growth particularly during the 1970s and early 1980s. Texas's economy diversified lessening its reliance on the petroleum industry by 1990 Hispanics overtook blacks to become the largest minority group in the state, Religion A page (folio 67) depicting indigenous Mexican warriors in the Codex Mendoza. . . .
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