. Coady In the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina disaster about 200,000 New Orleans residents resettled in Houston Soon following Katrina was Hurricane Rita a category 5 hurricane which caused 2.5 million Houstonians to evacuate the city the largest urban evacuation in the history of the U.S, Nicolas de La Fora's 1771 map of the northern frontier of New Spain clearly shows the Provincia de los Tejas. Mythic lands The University Interscholastic League (UIL) organizes most primary and secondary school competitions Events organized by UIL include contests in athletics (the most popular being high school football) as well as artistic and academic subjects. . When the Supreme Court ruled in 1923 that white primaries established by political parties were unconstitutional in 1927 the Texas state legislature passed a bill that authorized political parties to establish their internal practices the Democratic Party reinstated the white primary That law survived until 1944 before another Supreme Court case ruled that it was unconstitutional After 1944 the NAACP and other organizations worked to register black voters and participation increased But the major disenfranchisement continued until passage in the mid-1960s of civil rights legislation including the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to provide for federal oversight in areas in which historically minorities did not vote in expected numbers based on population. In October 2001 Enron a Houston-based energy company got caught in accounting scandals ultimately leading to collapse of the company and its accounting firm Arthur Andersen and the arrest and imprisonment of several executives, In 1983 the Wells Fargo Bank Plaza was completed which became the second-tallest building in Houston and in Texas and the 11th-tallest in the country it was designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill and Lloyd Jones Brewer and Associates and supposedly resembles an abstracted dollar sign in plan From street level the building is 71 stories tall or 972 ft (296 m) tall it also extends four more stories below street level.
. 1930 359,328 92.5% Chevron has its Houston offices at the 1400 Smith Street complex; See also: Timeline of World War II The Bank of America Center by Philip Johnson is an example of postmodern architecture. . . La Porte Texas 249.svg State Highway 249 a.k.a - Tomball Parkway going from Tomball and SE or Tomball Tollway going from Tomball and NW, Surface water In 2004 Houston unveiled the first Mahatma Gandhi statue in the state of Texas at Hermann Park Houston's Indian American Community were cheerful after 10 years in 2010 when the Hillcroft and Harwin area were renamed Mahatma Gandhi District in honor of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi as that area is the center of Indian commerce, Houston's building boom of the 1970s and 1980s ceased in the mid-1980s due to the 1980s oil glut Building of skyscrapers resumed by 2003 but the new buildings were more modest and not as tall During that year George Lancaster a spokesperson for the Hines company said "I predict the J.P Morgan Chase Tower will be the tallest building in Houston for quite some time.". Hunters Creek Village Houston Texas Business Directory Jehovah's Witnesses 1.
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