. There are 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells beneath the Gulf These have generally not been checked for potential environmental problems, In 2010 there were 346,000 millionaires in Texas constituting the second-largest population of millionaires in the nation. It should be noted however that pollution rankings from the EPA and ALA are administered in terms of peak-based standards focusing strictly on the worst days of the year; on average ozone levels in Houston are lower than those seen in many other cities of the country due to dominant winds off the Gulf that ensure clean marine air. . Proposals of 1850 for Texas northwestern boundary, Richard Mount and Thomas Page's 1700 map of the Gulf of Mexico a Chart of the Bay of Mexico, [icon] 13 Borris Miles Democratic 2016 Downtown Houston Texas Medical Center southwest and northeast Houston Houston's Southside. Airline German advance into Belgium and Northern France 10 May-4 June 1940 swept past the Maginot Line (shown in dark red)! The Museum of Fine Arts Schutzstaffel (SS) female camp guards removing prisoners' bodies from lorries and carrying them to a mass grave inside the German Bergen-Belsen concentration camp 1945. .
2.7 1970s and integration Automobiles of all kinds have had enormous influence on Houston culture largely a result of the urban sprawl and sparse public transportation that has followed the dismantling of the city's former trolley system Many of the Houston's business districts such as Uptown and Greenspoint began their development as edge cities Furthermore many notable neighborhoods began as streetcar suburbs including the Heights and Sharpstown. ! Notable events vte Colonization 17 Further reading As of 2013 37% of non-Hispanic Whites in Harris County had college or postgraduate degrees and 36% of them had annual incomes over $75,000 As of 2013 19% of Blacks in Harris County had college or postgraduate degrees as did 13% of U.S.-born Latinos and 7% of Latino immigrants. The Spanish discovery of what they thought at that time was India and the constant competition of Portugal and Spain led to a desire for secrecy about every trade route and every colony As a consequence many documents that could reach other European countries included fake dates and faked facts to mislead any other nation's possible efforts for example the Island of California refers to a famous cartographic error propagated on many maps during the 17th and 18th centuries despite contradictory evidence from various explorers the legend was initially infused with the idea that California was a terrestrial paradise peopled by black women Amazons. . The San Jacinto Monument is a memorial to the men who died during the Texas Revolution.
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