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The Texas State Capitol at night In the early 1990s many older office buildings throughout Houston remained unoccupied At the same time newer office buildings for major corporations opened. 1913 cotton harvest in East Texas, In 1973 the United States Environmental Protection Agency prohibited the dumping of undiluted chemical waste by manufacturing interests into the Gulf and the military confessed to similar behavior in waters off Horn Island, Thousands of enslaved African-Americans lived near the city before the Civil War Many of them near the city worked on sugar and cotton plantations while most of those in the city limits had domestic and artisan jobs in 1860 forty-nine percent of the city's population was enslaved Frost Town a nearby settlement south of the Buffalo Bayou was swallowed by Houston.[citation needed]. 336 Calpine Texas eventually adopted much of the Anglo-American legal system but some Spanish legal practices were retained including homestead exemption community property and adoption! Houston Texas Business Directory, 2000 20,851,820 22.8% Cities (multiple counties), hexavalent chromium - cancer Large building with three segmented tower setbacks each with a steeply pitched roof line topped with a series of spires.

. . 6 Sports The war in Europe concluded with an invasion of Germany by the Western Allies and the Soviet Union culminating in the capture of Berlin by Soviet troops the suicide of Adolf Hitler and the German unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945 Following the Potsdam Declaration by the Allies on 26 July 1945 and the refusal of Japan to surrender under its terms the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August respectively With an invasion of the Japanese archipelago imminent the possibility of additional atomic bombings the Soviet entry into the war against Japan and its invasion of Manchuria Japan announced its intention to surrender on 15 August 1945 cementing total victory in Asia for the Allies Tribunals were set up by the Allies and war crimes trials were conducted in the wake of the war both against the Germans and the Japanese.