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4 External links 10.7 Legislative responses National Research Universities (Tier 1) Houston Texas Business Directory History Language People Race and ethnicity Religion. . Low flat-roofed rectangular open marble structure has slender eight-story rectangular columns Visible within is a large circular windowless building During much of the dispute with the United States governance of New Spain was in question in 1808 Napoleon forced the Spanish king to abdicate the throne and appointed Joseph Bonaparte as the new monarch a shadow government operated out of Cadiz during Joseph's reign. Revolutionaries within Mexico and the United States unsuccessfully combined to declare Texas and Mexico independent. . . In 1950 the availability of air conditioning provided impetus for many companies to relocate to Houston where wages were lower than those in the North; this resulted in an economic boom and produced a key shift in the city's economy toward the energy sector.

The 2003 Texas redistricting of Congressional districts led by Republican Tom DeLay was called by the New York Times "an extreme case of partisan gerrymandering" a group of Democratic legislators the "Texas Eleven" fled the state in a quorum-busting effort to prevent the legislature from acting but was unsuccessful the state had already redistricted following the 2000 census Despite these efforts the legislature passed a map heavily in favor of Republicans based on 2000 data and ignoring the estimated nearly one million new residents in the state since that date Career attorneys and analysts at the Department of Justice objected to the plan as diluting the votes of African American and Hispanic voters but political appointees overrode them and approved it. Legal challenges to the redistricting reached the national Supreme Court in the case League of United Latin American Citizens v Perry (2006) but the court ruled in favor of the state (and Republicans), 1.2 Autumn Both the American Heart Association and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center call Dallas home the Southwestern Medical Center ranks "among the top academic medical centers in the world" the institution's medical school employs the most medical school Nobel laureates in the world. . 6 Diplomatic missions 12 Communities Republic of Texas 3 History 25 KBR 242 District Clerk Marilyn Burgess Democratic Spanish 29.21% Geology In Asia the United States led the occupation of Japan and administrated Japan's former islands in the Western Pacific while the Soviets annexed Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. Korea formerly under Japanese rule was divided and occupied by the Soviet Union in the North and the United States in the South between 1945 and 1948 Separate republics emerged on both sides of the 38th parallel in 1948 each claiming to be the legitimate government for all of Korea which led ultimately to the Korean War; . Jehovah's Witnesses 1 Many of the organs of the Harris County government reside in the Harris County Campus in Downtown Houston, 4 Notable events The entire Reliant Park complex was scheduled to be emptied of hurricane evacuees by September 17 2005 Originally the Astrodome was planned to be used to house evacuees until December However the surrounding parking lots were needed for the first Houston Texans home game Arrangements were made to help Katrina evacuees find apartments both in Houston and elsewhere in the United States by September 16 2005 the last of the hurricane evacuees living in the Astrodome had been moved out either to the neighboring Reliant Arena or to permanent housing north of Houston as of September 20 2005 the remaining Katrina evacuees were relocated to Arkansas due to Hurricane Rita, Houston's murder rate ranked 46th of U.S cities with a population over 250,000 in 2005 (per capita rate of 16.3 murders per 100,000 population) in 2010 the city's murder rate (per capita rate of 11.8 murders per 100,000 population) was ranked sixth among U.S cities with a population of over 750,000 (behind New York City Chicago Detroit Dallas and Philadelphia) according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)!