. . 1.6 Hurricane Katrina The combined yearly sum spent by these agencies circa 2018 was $1.6 billion That year the Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research released a report advocating for consolidating several of these agencies as a way of saving taxpayer money! . The size and unique history of Texas make its regional affiliation debatable; it can be fairly considered a Southern or a Southwestern state or both the vast geographic economic and cultural diversity within the state itself prohibits easy categorization of the whole state into a recognized region of the United States Notable extremes range from East Texas which is often considered an extension of the Deep South to Far West Texas which is generally acknowledged to be part of the interior Southwest, Sponsors included governments the king viceroys and local governors backed by rich men the contribution of each individual conditioned the subsequent division of the booty receiving a portion the pawn (lancero piquero alabardero rodelero) and twice a man on horseback (caballero) owner of a horse.[clarification needed] Sometimes part of the booty consisted of women and/or slaves Even the dogs important weapons of war in their own right were in some cases rewarded the division of the booty produced conflicts such as the one between Pizarro and Almagro, 2.1 The Early 1900s (16) 63 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 (June 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message).
Compared with its metropolitan area the city of Houston's population has a higher proportion of minorities in 2010 whites made up 51% of the city of Houston's population; 26% of the total population was non-Hispanic whites. Blacks or African Americans made up 25% of Houston's population American Indians made up 0.7% of the population Asians made up 6% (1.7% Vietnamese 1.3% Chinese 1.3% Indian 0.9% Pakistani 0.4% Filipino 0.3% Korean 0.1% Japanese) and Pacific Islanders made up 0.1% Individuals from some other race made up 15.2% of the city's population of which 0.2% were non-Hispanic.[citation needed] Individuals from two or more races made up 3.3% of the city! The Bank of America Center 5 Government and politics! Geologists and other Earth scientists agree in general that the present Gulf of Mexico basin originated in Late Triassic time as the result of rifting within Pangea the rifting was associated with zones of weakness within Pangea including sutures where the Laurentia South American and African plates collided to create it First there was a Late Triassic-Early Jurassic phase of rifting during which rift valleys formed and filled with continental red beds Second as rifting progressed through Early and Middle Jurassic time continental crust was stretched and thinned This thinning created a broad zone of transitional crust which displays modest and uneven thinning with block faulting and a broad zone of uniformly thinned transitional crust which is half the typical 40 kilometer thickness of normal continental crust it was at this time that rifting first created a connection to the Pacific Ocean across central Mexico and later eastward to the Atlantic Ocean This flooded the opening basin to create the Gulf of Mexico as an enclosed marginal sea While the Gulf of Mexico was a restricted basin the subsiding transitional crust was blanketed by the widespread deposition of Louann Salt and associated anhydrite evaporites During the Late Jurassic continued rifting widened the Gulf of Mexico and progressed to the point that sea-floor spreading and formation of oceanic crust occurred at this point sufficient circulation with the Atlantic Ocean was established that the deposition of Louann Salt ceased. Seafloor spreading stopped at the end of Jurassic time about 145-150 million years ago. Houston has an international flavor and is home to several multicultural arts organizations including: MECA (Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts) Kuumba House Dance Theatre and Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say; . On 10 June Italy invaded France declaring war on both France and the United Kingdom the Germans turned south against the weakened French army and Paris fell to them on 14 June Eight days later France signed an armistice with Germany; it was divided into German and Italian occupation zones and an unoccupied rump state under the Vichy Regime which though officially neutral was generally aligned with Germany France kept its fleet which the United Kingdom attacked on 3 July in an attempt to prevent its seizure by Germany! Houston 94/75 34/24 63/54 17/12 Stadia Fountain of the Downtown Aquarium Houston in 2012.
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