. The first major skyscraper to be constructed in Houston was the 50-floor 714-foot (218 m) tall One Shell Plaza in 1971 a succession of skyscrapers were built throughout the 1970s culminating with Houston's tallest the 75-floor 1,002-foot (305 m) tall JPMorgan Chase Tower (formerly the Texas Commerce Tower) designed by I M Pei and completed in 1982 As of 2010 it is the tallest man-made structure in Texas the twelfth-tallest building in the United States and the forty-eighth-tallest skyscraper in the world. .
138 Dwayne Bohac Republican 2002 Northwest Houston and parts of the Memorial/Spring Branch area north of I-10 Addicks Reservoir, Main article: Texas Medical Center, Francisco Pizarro meets with the Inca emperor Atahualpa 1532. The Consultation finally convened on November 3 in San Felipe with 58 of the 98 elected delegates. After days of bitter debate the delegates voted to create a provisional government based on the principles of the Constitution of 1824 Although they did not declare independence the delegates insisted they would not rejoin Mexico until federalism had been reinstated the new government would consist of a governor and a General Council with one representative from each municipality Under the assumption that these two branches would cooperate there was no system of checks and balances. Navigation Main article: Culture of Texas, Sports Main article: Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II, History Language People Race and ethnicity Religion. . 16 References Bellaire The Railroad Commission of Texas contrary to its name regulates the state's oil and gas industry gas utilities pipeline safety safety in the liquefied petroleum gas industry and surface coal and uranium mining Until the 1970s the commission controlled the price of petroleum because of its ability to regulate Texas's oil reserves the founders of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) used the Texas agency as one of their models for petroleum price control, Movie theaters In the East the intended gains of Lebensraum were never attained as fluctuating front-lines and Soviet scorched earth policies denied resources to the German invaders. Unlike in the West the Nazi racial policy encouraged extreme brutality against what it considered to be the "inferior people" of Slavic descent; most German advances were thus followed by mass executions. Although resistance groups formed in most occupied territories they did not significantly hamper German operations in either the East or the West until late 1943. .
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