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. 7 External links After the failed plans of past years the Astrodome Revitalization Project was proposed in September 2016 This plan would turn the dome into a massive underground parking garage Specifically the first step would raise the dome floor and use the space underneath that as parking leaving the floor above for other uses on September 27 2016 the Harris County Commissioners approved the first part of the plan This marked a major turning point for the dome as some feared if the plan wasn't approved the building would be demolished on January 27 2017 the Texas Historical Commission voted unanimously to designate the dome a State Antiquities Landmark. Under the designation the Astrodome may no longer be removed altered damaged salvaged or excavated without a permit from the commission the Harris County Commissioners voted to approve a $105 million renovation plan on February 13 2018 This plan keeps the parking garage from the Revitalization Project Construction is set to start in October 2018 and will be completed sometime in 2020 the construction start date was later moved to early 2019 and is expected to finish in 2020. Urrea urged Filisola to continue the campaign He was confident that he could successfully challenge the Texian troops According to Hardin "Santa Anna had presented Mexico with one military disaster; Filisola did not wish to risk another." Spring rains ruined the ammunition and rendered the roads almost impassable with troops sinking to their knees in mud Mexican troops were soon out of food and began to fall ill from dysentery and other diseases. Their supply lines had completely broken down leaving no hope of further reinforcements. Filisola later wrote that "Had the enemy met us under these cruel circumstances on the only road that was left no alternative remained but to die or surrender at discretion", The Allen brothers first landed in the area where the confluence of White Oak Bayou and Buffalo Bayou served as a natural turning basin now known as Allen's Landing the "city to be" was named after Sam Houston the hero of San Jacinto whom the Allen brothers admired and anticipated to be the first President of the Republic of Texas Gail Borden Jr a publisher and surveyor who would later found Borden Inc exercised foresight when he laid out wide streets for the town.[unreliable source?]. Cabral's voyage to Brazil and India 1500 1.3 Reconstruction through 1900, Intercity buses 7 External links, 7.2 Pop 220 Occidental Petroleum Cuba and Mexico: Exchange of notes constituting an agreement on the delimitation of the exclusive economic zone of Mexico in the sector adjacent to Cuban maritime areas (with map) of July 26 1976.

2 ConocoPhillips 4 The successive expeditions and experience of the Portuguese pilots led to a rapid evolution of Portuguese nautical science Near the coast the land is low and extremely flat and often marshy the Piney Woods extend into the Northern parts of Southeast Texas reaching as far south as the rice paddies and marshlands that lie between Houston and Beaumont the highest point on the coast is at High Island where a salt dome raises the elevation to around 40 feet (12 m). . Both plans started in July but by mid-September the Battle for Guadalcanal took priority for the Japanese and troops in New Guinea were ordered to withdraw from the Port Moresby area to the northern part of the island where they faced Australian and United States troops in the Battle of Buna-Gona. Guadalcanal soon became a focal point for both sides with heavy commitments of troops and ships in the battle for Guadalcanal By the start of 1943 the Japanese were defeated on the island and withdrew their troops in Burma Commonwealth forces mounted two operations the first an offensive into the Arakan region in late 1942 went disastrously forcing a retreat back to India by May 1943 the second was the insertion of irregular forces behind Japanese front-lines in February which by the end of April had achieved mixed results. The call for unconditional surrender was rejected by the Japanese government which believed it would be capable of negotiating for more favourable surrender terms in early August the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Between the two bombings the Soviets pursuant to the Yalta agreement invaded Japanese-held Manchuria and quickly defeated the Kwantung Army which was the largest Japanese fighting force thereby persuading previously adamant Imperial Army leaders to accept surrender terms the Red Army also captured the southern part of Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands on 15 August 1945 Japan surrendered with the surrender documents finally signed at Tokyo Bay on the deck of the American battleship USS Missouri on 2 September 1945 ending the war. Rice University located near the Museum District and Texas Medical Center is a private tier-one research university and the most selective institution of higher education in Texas, Harris County ESD #25 Fire Westfield FD .10, Katy (partly in Fort Bend and Waller counties). . ! METRO's local bus network services approximately 275,000 riders daily with a fleet of over 1,200 buses the agency's 75 local routes contain nearly 8,900 stops and saw nearly 67 million boardings during the 2016 fiscal year a park and ride system provides commuter bus service from 34 transit centers scattered throughout the region's suburban areas; these express buses operate independently of the local bus network and utilize the region's extensive system of HOV lanes. Downtown and the Texas Medical Center have the highest rates of transit use in the region largely due to the park and ride system with nearly 60% of commuters in each district utilizing public transit to get to work.