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In 1853 the first execution in Houston took place in public at Founder's Cemetery in the Fourth Ward; initially the cemetery was the execution site but post-1868 executions took place in the jail facilities, 7 Legacy The Offshore Technology Conference held yearly in Houston presents the latest exploration and development technology in the energy industry to more than 50,000 attendees. 7.2 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill Houston's bicycle sharing system started service with nineteen stations in May 2012 Houston Bcycle (also known as B-Cycle) a local non-profit runs the subscription program supplying bicycles and docking stations while partnering with other companies to maintain the system the network expanded to 29 stations and 225 bicycles in 2014 registering over 43,000 checkouts of equipment during the first half of the same year in 2017 Bcycle logged over 142,000 check outs while expanding to 56 docking stations. 1990 1,630,553 2.2% Mission Concepcion is one of the San Antonio missions which is part of a National Historic Landmark, Although no new fighting techniques were introduced during the Texas Revolution casualty figures were quite unusual for the time Generally in 19th-century warfare the number of wounded outnumbered those killed by a factor of two or three From October 1835 through April 1836 approximately 1,000 Mexican and 700 Texian soldiers died while the wounded numbered 500 Mexican and 100 Texian the deviation from the norm was due to Santa Anna's decision to label Texian rebels as traitors and to the Texian desire for revenge!

Highways 2.1 Rivers, When civil war broke out in Spain Hitler and Mussolini lent military support to the Nationalist rebels led by General Francisco Franco Italy supported the Nationalists to a greater extent than the Nazis did: altogether Mussolini sent to Spain more than 70,000 ground troops and 6,000 aviation personnel as well as about 720 aircraft the Soviet Union supported the existing government the Spanish Republic Over 30,000 foreign volunteers known as the International Brigades also fought against the Nationalists Both Germany and the Soviet Union used this proxy war as an opportunity to test in combat their most advanced weapons and tactics the Nationalists won the civil war in April 1939; Franco now dictator remained officially neutral during World War II but generally favoured the Axis. His greatest collaboration with Germany was the sending of volunteers to fight on the Eastern Front, In the early 1990s many older office buildings throughout Houston remained unoccupied At the same time newer office buildings for major corporations opened. Ross S Sterling born in Anahuac Chambers County Determined to control politics in the state reduce competition from Republicans and Populists and close blacks out of politics in 1901 the Democrat-dominated state legislature passed a poll tax as a requirement for voting Given the economic difficulties of the times the poll tax caused participation by African Americans poor whites and Mexican Americans to drop sharply effectively disenfranchising more than one-third of the population of the state. United States presidential election in Texas 2016 Casualties and war crimes, 140 Armando Walle Democratic 2008 North Houston and Aldine east of I-45. .