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2 Geography and climate Houston Not-For-Profit News is a subsidiary of World Internet News Cooperative It is one of Houston's few non-profit news sources which receives no money from advertising it totes itself as being unbiased with the ability to be more objective than the commercial news media due to the fact that it is not tied to advertisers.[citation needed] Stories covered by the cooperative range from consumer rights to corporate welfare to working-class issues Their work has also been nominated for a Robert F Kennedy Memorial journalism award.[citation needed]. . Houston's reputation as a mature center for classical music is the product of more than a century of dedication and community support the Houston Symphony (founded in 1913) is the largest and best-known of the city's professional orchestras but they are hardly the only option Other significant orchestras include Mercury Houston Ars Lyrica and the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra as well as outstanding academic orchestras at the Rice University Shepherd School of Music and the University of Houston Moores School of Music (home to the 800-seat Moores Opera House), Governor Lawrence Sullivan Ross had to personally intervene to resolve the Jaybird-Woodpecker War (1888-1889) among factions of Democrats in Fort Bend County; at bottom it was a racial conflict the majority population was black by a large margin and had been electing county officers for 20 years But the white elite Democrats wanted their own people in power Conflict became violent and the Jaybirds ordered several blacks out of town Tensions increased and a total of seven people were killed in the fall of 1889 the Democratic Party created "white-only pre-primary elections," which in practice were the only competitive contests in the county and thus disenfranchised the blacks This situation lasted until the US Supreme Court ruling in Terry v Adams (1953) declared it unconstitutional in the last of the white primary cases, Japanese invasion of China (1937). 7 See also At the 2000 Census the racial makeup of the city in was 49.3% White 25.3% Black or African American 5.3% Asian 0.7% American Indian 0.1% Pacific Islander 16.5% from some other race and 3.1% from two or more races in addition Hispanics made up 37.4% of Houston's population in 2000 while non-Hispanic whites made up 30.8% the proportion of non-Hispanic whites in Houston has decreased significantly since 1970 when it was 62.4%.

On 6 June 1944 (known as D-Day) after three years of Soviet pressure the Western Allies invaded northern France After reassigning several Allied divisions from Italy they also attacked southern France. These landings were successful and led to the defeat of the German Army units in France Paris was liberated on 25 August by the local resistance assisted by the Free French Forces both led by General Charles de Gaulle and the Western Allies continued to push back German forces in western Europe during the latter part of the year an attempt to advance into northern Germany spearheaded by a major airborne operation in the Netherlands failed. After that the Western Allies slowly pushed into Germany but failed to cross the Ruhr river in a large offensive in Italy Allied advance also slowed due to the last major German defensive line. The department of education of the county operates the Highpoint Schools, Cartography 8.2 Arts 9 Media According to U.S News and World Report many hospitals in Houston consistently rank among the nation's top healthcare institutions, Houston ISD Libertarian Gary Johnson William Weld 283,492 3.16% 0. 1.2 The Civil War, Cuba and United States: Maritime boundary agreement between the United States of America and the Republic of Cuba of December 16 1977, The Gulf contains a hypoxic dead zone that runs by east-west along the Texas-Louisiana coastline in July 2008 researchers reported that between 1985 and 2008 the area roughly doubled in size and now stretches from near Galveston Texas to near Venice Louisiana It is now about 8,000 square miles (21,000 km2) nearly the record. Poor agricultural practices in the northern portion of the Gulf of Mexico have led to a tremendous increase of nitrogen and phosphorus in neighboring marine ecosystems which has resulted in algae blooms and a lack of available oxygen Occurrences of masculinization and estrogen suppression were observed as a result an October 2007 study of the Atlantic croaker found a disproportioned sex ratio of 61% males to 39% females in hypoxic Gulf sites This was compared with a 52% to 48% male-female ratio found in reference sites showing an impairment of reproductive output for fish populations inhabiting hypoxic coastal zones. 2 Background Climate Americans with origins from the Pacific are the smallest minority in Texas According to the survey only 18,000 Texans are Pacific Islanders; 16,400 are of non-Hispanic descent There are roughly 5,400 Native Hawaiians 5,300 Guamanians and 6,400 people from other groups Samoan Americans were scant; only 2,920 people were from this group the city of Euless a suburb of Fort Worth contains a sizable population of Tongan Americans at nearly 900 people over one percent of the city's population Killeen has a sufficient population of Samoans and Guamanian and people of Pacific Islander descent surpass one percent of the city's population. 1 Conquest Memorial Day storms in 2015 brought flash flooding to the city as some areas received 11 inches or more of rain overnight exacerbated by already full bayous at least three people died and more than 1,000 cars were stranded on highways and overpasses. According to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center 73% of the population of the Houston area identified themselves as Christians about 50% of whom claimed Protestant affiliations and about 19% claimed Roman Catholic affiliations Nationwide about 71% of respondents identified as Christians About 20% of Houston-area residents claimed no religious affiliation compared to about 23% nationwide the same study says that area residents identifying with other religions (including Judaism Buddhism Islam and Hinduism) collectively made up about 7% of the area population.