The table below consists of averages for August (generally the warmest month) and January (generally the coldest) in selected cities in various regions of the state El Paso and Amarillo are exceptions with July and December respectively being the warmest and coldest months respectively but with August and January only being narrowly different. Homes in the Heights have varied architectural styles including Victorian Craftsman and Colonial Revival the neighborhood is composed of several large homes and many smaller cottages and bungalows many built in the late 19th and early 20th century. After 1905 Victorian cottages tended to be replaced by bungalows. ; Economy 3 History Historically Texas culture comes from a blend of Southern (Dixie) Western (frontier) and Southwestern (Mexican/Anglo fusion) influences varying in degrees of such from one intrastate region to another Texas is placed in the Southern United States by the United States Census Bureau a popular food item the breakfast burrito draws from all three having a soft flour tortilla wrapped around bacon and scrambled eggs or other hot cooked fillings Adding to Texas's traditional culture established in the 18th and 19th centuries immigration has made Texas a melting pot of cultures from around the world. . 1920 138,276 75.5% The Dome was completed in November 1964 six months ahead of schedule. Many engineering changes were required during construction including the modest flattening of the supposed "hemispherical roof" to cope with environmentally induced structural deformation and the use of a new paving process called "lime stabilization" to cope with changes in the chemistry of the soil the air conditioning system was designed by Houston mechanical engineers Israel A Naman and Jack Boyd Buckley of I A Naman + Associates, Tall symmetrical glass skyscraper with triangular peak and setbacks that narrow the building as it rises a chevron design under the top seems to be pushed upward by a long thin arrow. .
; . . Other former governors of Texas:, Nazi Germany was responsible for the Holocaust (killing approximately 6 million Jews) as well as for killing 2.7 million ethnic Poles and 4 million others who were deemed "unworthy of life" (including the disabled and mentally ill Soviet prisoners of war Romani homosexuals Freemasons and Jehovah's Witnesses) as part of a programme of deliberate extermination in effect becoming a "genocidal state". Soviet POWs were kept in especially unbearable conditions and 3.6 million Soviet POWs out of 5.7 died in Nazi camps during the war in addition to concentration camps death camps were created in Nazi Germany to exterminate people at an industrial scale Nazi Germany extensively used forced labourers; about 12 million Europeans from German occupied countries were abducted and used as a slave work force in German industry agriculture and war economy. Galena Park (20.7) 74.8 The city of Houston was founded by land speculators on August 30 1836 at the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou (a point now known as Allen's Landing) and incorporated as a city on June 5 1837 the city is named after former General Sam Houston who was president of the Republic of Texas and had won Texas' independence from Mexico at the Battle of San Jacinto 25 miles (40 km) east of Allen's Landing. After briefly serving as the capital of the Texas Republic in the late 1830s Houston grew steadily into a regional trading center for the remainder of the 19th century. . .
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