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Around 1,150 seaports dot Texas's coast with over 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of channels. Ports employ nearly one-million people and handle an average of 317 million metric tons. Texas ports connect with the rest of the U.S Atlantic seaboard with the Gulf section of the Intracoastal Waterway the Port of Houston today is the busiest port in the United States in foreign tonnage second in overall tonnage and tenth worldwide in tonnage the Houston Ship Channel spans 530 feet (160 m) wide by 45 feet (14 m) deep by 50 miles (80 km) long. . . Theater District The city controller is elected independently of the mayor and council the controller's duties are to certify available funds prior to committing such funds and processing disbursements the city's fiscal year begins on July 1 and ends on June 30 Chris Brown is the city controller serving his first term as of January 2016.

Francisco Pizarro, The USS Arizona was a total loss in the Japanese surprise air attack on the American Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor Sunday 7 December 1941, 16.3 Ethnicity and minorities 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). (-5) 14 See also: List of hospitals in Texas The Texas Revolution has been the subject of poetry and of many books plays and films Most English-language treatments reflect the perspectives of the Anglos and are centered primarily on the battle of the Alamo. From the first novel depicting events of the revolution 1838's Mexico versus Texas through the mid-20th century most works contained themes of anticlericalism and racism depicting the battle as a fight for freedom between good (Anglo Texian) and evil (Mexican) in both English- and Spanish-language literature the Alamo is often compared to the battle of Thermopylae the 1950s Disney miniseries Davy Crockett which was largely based on myth created a worldwide craze for everything Alamo-related. Within several years John Wayne directed and starred in one of the best-known and perhaps least historically accurate film versions the Alamo (1960).[Note 18] Notably this version made the first attempt to leave behind racial stereotypes; it was still banned in Mexico in the late 1970s works about the Alamo began to explore Tejano perspectives which had been all but extinguished even from textbooks about the revolution and to explore the revolution's links to slavery; In June 1940 the Soviet Union forcibly annexed Estonia Latvia and Lithuania and the disputed Romanian regions of Bessarabia Northern Bukovina and Hertza Meanwhile Nazi-Soviet political rapprochement and economic co-operation gradually stalled and both states began preparations for war, 3 Extreme weather Seabrook (some water surface in Chambers County), Pop Sam Houston!