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Houston Texans NFL Football Reliant Stadium 2002 71,054 Aerospace Red Army soldiers on the counterattack during the Battle of Stalingrad February 1943 2 Tourism and recreation Waller-Harris ESD #200 Other Multiple Fire/EMS Agencies .0995 Advances were made in nearly every aspect of naval warfare most notably with aircraft carriers and submarines Although aeronautical warfare had relatively little success at the start of the war actions at Taranto Pearl Harbor and the Coral Sea established the carrier as the dominant capital ship in place of the battleship in the Atlantic escort carriers proved to be a vital part of Allied convoys increasing the effective protection radius and helping to close the Mid-Atlantic gap. Carriers were also more economical than battleships because of the relatively low cost of aircraft and their not requiring to be as heavily armoured. Submarines which had proved to be an effective weapon during the First World War were anticipated by all sides to be important in the second the British focused development on anti-submarine weaponry and tactics such as sonar and convoys while Germany focused on improving its offensive capability with designs such as the Type VII submarine and wolfpack tactics. Gradually improving Allied technologies such as the Leigh light hedgehog squid and homing torpedoes proved victorious over the German submarines.[citation needed]. Other Throughout the night Mexican troops worked to fortify their camp creating breastworks out of everything they could find including saddles and brush at 9 a.m on April 21 Cos arrived with 540 reinforcements bringing the Mexican force to 1,200 men which outnumbered the Texians. Cos's men were raw recruits rather than experienced soldiers and they had marched steadily for more than 24 hours with no rest and no food. As the morning wore on with no Texian attack Mexican officers lowered their guard by afternoon Santa Anna had given permission for Cos's men to sleep; his own tired troops also took advantage of the time to rest eat and bathe! 5 Marathon Oil 29 Map of the Houston city limits The multi-purpose stadium designed to facilitate both football and baseball is nearly circular and uses movable lower seating areas it also ushered in the era of other fully domed stadiums such as the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans as well as the now-demolished Pontiac Silverdome near Detroit Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis Kingdome in Seattle and RCA Dome in Indianapolis. 14 Further reading Chamberlain Daladier Hitler Mussolini and Ciano pictured just before signing the Munich Agreement 29 September 1938 Main article: Politics of Houston Historically four major industries shaped the Texas economy prior to World War II: cattle and bison cotton timber and oil. Before and after the U.S Civil War the cattle industry which Texas came to dominate was a major economic driver for the state thus creating the traditional image of the Texas cowboy in the later 19th century cotton and lumber grew to be major industries as the cattle industry became less lucrative it was ultimately though the discovery of major petroleum deposits (Spindletop in particular) that initiated an economic boom which became the driving force behind the economy for much of the 20th century With strong investments in universities Texas developed a diversified economy and high tech industry in the mid-20th century As of 2015 it is second on the list of the most Fortune 500 companies with 54. With a growing base of industry the state leads in many industries including agriculture petrochemicals energy computers and electronics aerospace and biomedical sciences Texas has led the U.S in state export revenue since 2002 and has the second-highest gross state product If Texas were a sovereign state it would be the 10th largest economy in the world. Houston Rockets NBA Basketball Toyota Center 2003 18,023 Revenues for year ending 2010 George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) located 23 miles (37 km) north of Downtown Houston between Interstates 45 and 69 is the eighth busiest commercial airport in the United States (by total passengers and aircraft movements) and forty-third busiest globally the five-terminal five-runway 11,000-acre (4,500-hectare) airport served 40 million passengers in 2016 including 10 million international travelers in 2006 the United States Department of Transportation named IAH the fastest-growing of the top ten airports in the United States the Houston Air Route Traffic Control Center is located at Bush Intercontinental. Constable Precinct 2 Christopher E Diaz Democratic Historically Houston has been a center of Protestant Christianity being part of the Bible Belt. Other Christian groups including Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Christianity and non-Christian religions did not grow for much of the city's history because immigration was predominantly from Western Europe (which at the time was dominated by Western Christianity and favored by the quotas in federal immigration law) the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 removed the quotas allowing for the growth of other religions! Car culture Year(s) City The successive expeditions and experience of the Portuguese pilots led to a rapid evolution of Portuguese nautical science, 16.2 Geography and environment Houston has not had very much success when it comes to its sports teams at least not lately the Houston Rockets won 2 consecutive championships in 1994 and 1995 and the Houston Dynamo also won 2 consecutive championships in 2006 and 2007 the Houston Oilers won 2 back-to-back AFL championships in 1960 and 1961 but never competed in the Super Bowl since the NFL-AFL merger (After the move to Nashville as the Tennessee Titans they finally played in Super Bowl XXXIV and lost.) the Astros have two World Series appearances 2005 and 2017 - the 2017 World Series was the first time the Houston Astros won the World Series - a first for a Major League Baseball team based in Texas, Bunker Hill Village Texas Medical Center became operational in the 1950s the Galveston Freeway and the International Terminal at Houston International Airport (nowadays Hobby Airport) were signs of increasing wealth in the area Millions of dollars were spent replacing aging infrastructure in 1951 the Texas Children's Hospital and the Shriner's Hospital were built Existing hospitals had expansions being completed July 1 1952 was the date of Houston's first network television Later on that same year the University of Houston celebrated its 25th anniversary Another problem Houston had back in the 1950s was the fact that it needed a new water supply They at first relied on ground water but that caused land subsidence They had proposals in the Texas Congress to use the Trinity river Hattie Mae White was elected to the school board in 1959 She was the first African-American to be elected in a major position in Houston in the 20th Century Starting in 1950 Japanese-Americans as a whole were leaving horticulture and going into business in larger cities such as Houston.

; Buddhist 1 Harris County ESD #24 Fire Aldine Fire & Rescue .10 Most major belligerents attempted to solve the problems of complexity and security involved in using large codebooks for cryptography by designing ciphering machines the most well known being the German Enigma machine. Development of SIGINT (signals intelligence) and cryptanalysis enabled the countering process of decryption Notable examples were the Allied decryption of Japanese naval codes and British Ultra a pioneering method for decoding Enigma benefiting from information given to the United Kingdom by the Polish Cipher Bureau which had been decoding early versions of Enigma before the war. Another aspect of military intelligence was the use of deception which the Allies used to great effect such as in operations Mincemeat and Bodyguard. . . 1 Arts and theatre There are 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells beneath the Gulf These have generally not been checked for potential environmental problems Aldine A Portuguese caravel! 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. .