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3.1 2013 referendum and aftermath European conquistadors in the Americas made extensive use of crossbows with firearms becoming widespread only from the 1570s a scarcity of firearms did not prevent conquistadors to pioneer the use mounted arquebusiers an early form of dragoon in the 1540s Francisco de Carvajal's use of firearms in the Spanish civil war in Peru prefigured the volley fire technique that developed in Europe many decades after; Adolf Hitler after an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government in 1923 eventually became the Chancellor of Germany in 1933 He abolished democracy espousing a radical racially motivated revision of the world order and soon began a massive rearmament campaign. Meanwhile France to secure its alliance allowed Italy a free hand in Ethiopia which Italy desired as a colonial possession the situation was aggravated in early 1935 when the Territory of the Saar Basin was legally reunited with Germany and Hitler repudiated the Treaty of Versailles accelerated his rearmament programme and introduced conscription. Also in the Museum District is the non-denominational Rothko Chapel founded by John and Dominique de Menil designed by Mark Rothko and Philip Johnson and completed in 1971 the interior serves not only as a chapel but also as a major work of modern art on its walls are 14 black but color-hued paintings by Mark Rothko who greatly influenced the shape and design of the chapel Rothko was given creative control and he clashed with Philip Johnson over the plans Rothko continued to work first with Howard Barnstone and then with Eugene Aubry but he did not live to see the chapel's completion in September 2000 the Rothko Chapel was placed on the National Register of Historic Places, The outlying areas of Houston the airports and the city's suburbs and enclaves are outside the Loop Another ring road Beltway 8 (also known simply as the "Beltway" or as the "Sam Houston Tollway") encircles the city another 5 miles (8 km) farther out Parts of Beltway 8 are toll roads but for most of the route motorists can drive in the adjacent "feeder" or service roads at no charge.[citation needed] Farm to Market Road 1960 (FM 1960) forms a semicircle in northern Houston and is another dividing line the third ring road State Highway 99 (also known as the Grand Parkway) is under construction.[citation needed] Long stated that most of the wealthier Houston suburbs are west and north of the central city while to the southeast the Clear Lake/NASA "[represents] another burgeoning concentration of largely aerospace-related prosperity". 13 Gallery February 12 1960: 4.4 inches (11 cm) of snow. Houston has also been the site of numerous industrial disasters and construction accidents in 2019 OSHA found that Texas was the leading state in the nation for crane accidents in Houston a 2008 crane collapse at a refinery killed 4 people and injured 6 the crane that collapsed was one of the largest cranes in the nation possessing a 400-foot boom that can lift more than a million pounds.

Houston Texas Business Directory Some other race: 10.5 percent, The 1492 discovery of the New World by Spain rendered desirable a delimitation of the Spanish and Portuguese spheres of exploration Thus dividing the world into two exploration and colonizing areas seemed appropriate This was accomplished by the Treaty of Tordesillas (7 June 1494) which modified the delimitation authorized by Pope Alexander VI in two bulls issued on 4 May 1493 the treaty gave to Portugal all lands which might be discovered east of a meridian drawn from the Arctic Pole to the Antarctic at a distance of 370 leagues (1,800 km) west of Cape Verde Spain received the lands west of this line. ! !