W Edward Porter IV Attorney at Law

The French flag of the Bourbons This area holds the annual South Texas State Fair in Beaumont. 2 Precipitation Asian 0.2% 1.9% 2.7% 3.8% Harris County ESD #80 Fire Crosby FD 1% .04178 ESD Type Provider Sales Tax Rate (2015) Property Tax Rate per $100 Valuation (2015); Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim founder of Pilgrim's Pride Chicken Pittsburg Camp County, 4.2 Basketball 5 Marathon Oil 29 The Ladies Reading Group of Houston was a significant founder of the public library system in Houston Elizabeth Long the author of the 2003 book Book Clubs: Women and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life wrote that Houston's "literary scene" contributes and draws upon the overall literary culture of Texas the University of Houston creative writing program opened in 1979 Long wrote that this program "has achieved a national reputation" in subsequent decades in 1985 the Ladies Reading Club had a 100th anniversary celebration. .

William B Travis famous commander at the Alamo settled in Anahuac Chambers County The new international Terminal E at George Bush Intercontinental Airport opened with 30 gates in 2003. Houston has introduced many programs since the 2000 federal order to reduce air pollution in the city.[citation needed] the most notable project was the METRORail light rail system constructed in 2004 the light rail system was designed to encourage Houstonians to utilize public transportation instead of their automobiles. In early May 1942 Japan initiated operations to capture Port Moresby by amphibious assault and thus sever communications and supply lines between the United States and Australia the planned invasion was thwarted when an Allied task force centred on two American fleet carriers fought Japanese naval forces to a draw in the Battle of the Coral Sea. Japan's next plan motivated by the earlier Doolittle Raid was to seize Midway Atoll and lure American carriers into battle to be eliminated; as a diversion Japan would also send forces to occupy the Aleutian Islands in Alaska in mid-May Japan started the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign in China with the goal of inflicting retribution on the Chinese who aided the surviving American airmen in the Doolittle Raid by destroying air bases and fighting against the Chinese 23rd and 32nd Army Groups in early June Japan put its operations into action but the Americans having broken Japanese naval codes in late May were fully aware of the plans and order of battle and used this knowledge to achieve a decisive victory at Midway over the Imperial Japanese Navy.