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Police services Baseball Houston Texas Business Directory Houston is one of few United States cities with permanent professional resident companies in all major performing arts disciplines: opera (Houston Grand Opera) ballet (Houston Ballet) music (Houston Symphony Orchestra) and theater (The Alley Theatre Theatre Under the Stars). Houston is also home to folk artists art groups and various small progressive arts organizations. According to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center 73% of the population of the Houston area identified themselves as Christians about 50% of whom claimed Protestant affiliations and about 19% claimed Roman Catholic affiliations Nationwide about 71% of respondents identified as Christians About 20% of Houston-area residents claimed no religious affiliation compared to about 23% nationwide the same study says that area residents identifying with other religions (including Judaism Buddhism Islam and Hinduism) collectively made up about 7% of the area population, Alief (Partially annexed by Houston partially unincorporated) Harris County elected officials. . Establishment of Spanish colony 48 El Paso Energy 481 When Francisco Coronado and the Spaniards first explored the Rio Grande Valley in 1540 in modern New Mexico some of the chieftains complained of new diseases that affected their tribes Cabeza de Vaca reported that in 1528 when the Spanish landed in Texas "half the natives died from a disease of the bowels and blamed us." When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in the Incan empire a large portion of the population had already died in a smallpox epidemic the first epidemic was recorded in 1529 and killed the emperor Huayna Capac the father of Atahualpa Further epidemics of smallpox broke out in 1533 1535 1558 and 1565 as well as typhus in 1546 influenza in 1558 diphtheria in 1614 and measles in 1618.:133. 4 Spanish exploration In June 2001 Tropical Storm Allison dumped up to 40 inches (1,000 mm) of rain on parts of Houston causing what was then the worst flooding in the city's history the storm cost billions of dollars in damage and killed 20 people in Texas by December of the same year Houston-based energy company Enron collapsed into the largest U.S bankruptcy (at that time) a result of being investigated for off-the-books partnerships which were allegedly used to hide debt and inflate profits the company lost no less than $70 billion. 7.1 Classical For several decades official British policy was to maintain strong ties with Mexico in the hopes that the country could stop the United States from expanding further. When the Texas Revolution erupted Great Britain had declined to become involved officially expressing confidence that Mexico could handle its own affairs in 1840 after years in which the Republic of Texas was neither annexed by the United States nor reabsorbed into Mexico Britain signed a treaty to recognize the nation and act as a mediator to help Texas gain recognition from Mexico.

Petty bickering between Smith and the Council members increased dramatically and on January 9 1836 Smith threatened to dismiss the Council unless they agreed to revoke their approval of the Matamoros Expedition. Two days later the Council voted to impeach Smith and named James W Robinson the Acting Governor it was unclear whether either side actually had the authority to dismiss the other by this point Texas was essentially in anarchy, Bronze figure of a Portuguese soldier made by Benin culture in West Africa around 1600, In the East the intended gains of Lebensraum were never attained as fluctuating front-lines and Soviet scorched earth policies denied resources to the German invaders. Unlike in the West the Nazi racial policy encouraged extreme brutality against what it considered to be the "inferior people" of Slavic descent; most German advances were thus followed by mass executions. Although resistance groups formed in most occupied territories they did not significantly hamper German operations in either the East or the West until late 1943. . 1900 Galveston, From 1630 to 1654 the Dutch set up more permanently in the Nordeste and controlled a long stretch of the coast most accessible to Europe without however penetrating the interior But the colonists of the Dutch West India Company in Brazil were in a constant state of siege in spite of the presence in Recife of John Maurice of Nassau as governor After several years of open warfare the Dutch formally withdrew in 1661, Black or African American 25.7% 25.3% 28.1% 25.7%; . In 2000 1,961,993 residents of Harris County spoke English only the five largest foreign languages in the county were Spanish or Spanish Creole (1,106,883 speakers) Vietnamese (53,311 speakers) Chinese (33,003 speakers) French including Cajun and Patois (33,003 speakers) and Urdu (14,595 speakers) Among those who spoke other languages 46% of Spanish speakers 37% of Vietnamese speakers 50% of Chinese speakers 85% of French speakers and 72% of Urdu speakers said that they spoke English at least "very well", The vague unrest erupted into armed conflict on October 2 1835 at the Battle of Gonzales when Texans repelled a Mexican attempt to retake a small cannon. This launched the Texas Revolution and over the next three months the Texian Army successfully defeated all Mexican troops in the region. . Ezekiel W Cullen Building at the University of Houston, On November 22 1963 President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, The English pronunciation with /ks/ is unetymological and based in the value of the letter x in historical Spanish orthography Alternative etymologies of the name advanced in the late 19th century connected the Spanish teja "rooftile" the plural tejas being used to designate indigenous Pueblo settlements a 1760s map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin shows a village named Teijas on Trinity River close to the site of modern Crockett. Muslim 1 149 Hubert Vo Democratic 2004 Far west Houston Alief unincorporated portions of Katy area east of Fry Rd Barker Reservoir, Post-war housing constructed throughout Houston reflects many architectural styles Although most houses built for the "baby boomers" reflect designs that had been around for decades a number of homes were designed in the mid-century modern style featuring flat or butterfly roofs open floor plans walls of glass atriums and patios a good example of this style is the William L Thaxton Jr House located in Bunker Hill Village which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1954.