. . The Jesse H Jones Hall for the Performing Arts commonly known as Jones Hall is a performance venue in Houston and the permanent home of the Houston Symphony Orchestra and the Houston Society for the Performing Arts Completed in October 1966 at the cost of $7.4 million it was designed by the Houston-based architectural firm Caudill Rowlett Scott the hall which takes up a city block has a white Italian marble exterior with eight-story tall columns the lobby is dominated by a 60-foot (18 m) high ceiling with a massive hanging bronze sculpture by Richard Lippold entitled "Gemini II." the ceiling of the concert hall consists of 800 hexagonal segments that can be raised or lowered to change the acoustics of the hall the building won the 1967 American Institute of Architects' Honor Award which is bestowed on only one building annually. Northeast Gulf of Mexico which extends from a point east of the Mississippi River Delta near Biloxi to the eastern side of Apalachee Bay.
Mexico launched two small expeditions into Texas in 1842 the town of San Antonio was captured twice and Texans were defeated in battle in the Dawson massacre Despite these successes Mexico did not keep an occupying force in Texas and the republic survived the republic's inability to defend itself added momentum to Texas's eventual annexation into the United States, National Research Universities (Tier 1)! 1.5 Recent history See also: Tex-Mex cuisine in Houston, James W Flanagan settled in Henderson Rusk County. . 3 Sports 8 Enterprise Products Partners 80 Other languages spoken include German (including Texas German) by 0.33% (73,137) Tagalog with 0.29% (64,272) speakers and French (including Cajun French) was spoken by 0.25% (55,773) of Texans. Reportedly Cherokee is the most widely spoken Native American language in Texas, Temperature wise the city (and much of Southeast Texas) has four distinct seasons (Summer Spring Fall Winter) but weather wise the city has only two seasons (rainy and dry) the wet season lasts from April/May to September/October the dry season lasts from November/December to March/April However during El Nino or La Nina years the wet and dry season can often either last longer than usual or be delayed.
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