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6 Diplomatic missions Bronze equestrian statue of Francisco Pizarro in Lima Peru, (39) 103 See also: List of films set in Houston, Water pollution of the Houston Ship Channel became notorious in 1972 Work on the Texas Commerce Tower now the JPMorgan Chase Tower began in 1979. After the dissolution of the Iberian Union in 1640 Portugal re-established authority over its lost territories including remaining Dutch controlled areas the other smaller less developed areas were recovered in stages and relieved of Dutch piracy in the next two decades by local resistance and Portuguese expeditions, Disenfranchisement 3 Extreme weather Houston Texas Business Directory The Brazos River straddles some of Houston's extreme western and southwestern suburbs particularly Sugar Land and Rosenberg. 1900 3,048,710 36.4% 4.4 County government Spanish exploration, Marker in Downtown Houston commemorating the foundation of Houston by the Allen Brothers, An aerial view of the Astrodome in 1999 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. Human infections gained worldwide transmission vectors for the first time: from Africa and Eurasia to the Americas and vice versa the spread of old-world diseases including smallpox flu and typhus led to the deaths of many indigenous inhabitants of the New World, 11 Hospital services, This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed (February 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message); The Lyric Centre The Texas First Court of Appeals and the Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals since September 3 2010 are located in the 1910 Harris County courthouse. Previously they were located on the campus of the South Texas College of Law. Adjacent counties Main article: List of ports in the United States Post-war border changes in Central Europe and creation of the Eastern Bloc See also: Tex-Mex cuisine in Houston. Agriculture and mining Hurricanes and tropical storms In March 1938 Nationalist Chinese forces won their first major victory at Taierzhuang but then the city of Xuzhou was taken by Japanese in May in June 1938 Chinese forces stalled the Japanese advance by flooding the Yellow River; this manoeuvre bought time for the Chinese to prepare their defences at Wuhan but the city was taken by October. Japanese military victories did not bring about the collapse of Chinese resistance that Japan had hoped to achieve; instead the Chinese government relocated inland to Chongqing and continued the war. Tourism has not been a highly significant source of economic activity in East Texas although several high-traffic corridors pass through East Texas which have aided economic development along those routes These include: Interstate 30 (from Dallas through Texarkana) Interstate 20 (through Dallas and on through Shreveport) Interstate 10 (through Houston and Beaumont into Louisiana) Interstate 45 (through Houston up to Dallas) and U.S Highway 59 (through Houston and north past Texarkana; in process of being upgraded along most of the route to Interstate 69).

Government and politics Friendswood (mostly in Galveston County) 5.1 Texian retreat: the Runaway Scrape At least five million Chinese civilians from northern China and Manchukuo were enslaved between 1935 and 1941 by the East Asia Development Board or Koain for work in mines and war industries After 1942 the number reached 10 million in Java between 4 and 10 million romusha (Japanese: "manual labourers") were forced to work by the Japanese military About 270,000 of these Javanese labourers were sent to other Japanese-held areas in South East Asia and only 52,000 were repatriated to Java. . Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Houston Branch In January 2010 Annise Parker became the first openly gay mayor of a large American city upon her inauguration as Houston's mayor. . 16.6 Gender and social history 3 Pre-war events Main article: John F Kennedy Assassination German immigrants started arriving in Texas and Houston after the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states Many were educated and arrived with capital to set up businesses or buy farms the port in Houston was getting some shipping business but the shallowness of the water hampered massive shipping During the 1850s the Houstonians decided to build a rail system to connect their port with rail links Eleven companies built 451 miles of track before 1860 Mexicans who were one of the earliest immigrant groups to Houston worked as railroad builders and stayed in the area.[citation needed]. . Houston has many examples of residential architecture of varying styles from the mansions of River Oaks and Memorial to row houses in the several wards a number of Houston's earliest homes are located in what is now Sam Houston Park Homes in the Heights have varied architectural styles including Victorian Craftsman and Colonial Revival Post-war housing constructed throughout Houston reflects many architectural styles, 2 Closure acrolein - respiratory effects, 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. Alcohol use One of Houston's most recent downtown landmarks is Discovery Green a large public park designed by Page Southerland Page with Hargreaves Associates, Education Unaffiliated 18 5.1 After 1500: West and East Africa Asia and the Pacific, 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.