Main article: Mexican Texas Northgate Forest District 2 Dan Crenshaw Republican 2018 Atascosita Huffman Humble Kingwood Spring, The Houston area is a leading center for building oilfield equipment. Much of its success as a petrochemical complex is due to its busy ship channel the Port of Houston in the United States the port ranks first in international commerce and 10th among the largest ports in the world. Unlike most places high oil and gasoline prices are beneficial for Houston's economy as many of its residents are employed in the energy industry. Houston is the beginning or end point of numerous oil gas and products pipelines. 1980 14,229,191 27.1% The Astrodome History NRG Stadium is the home of the Houston Texans Two more significant tributaries of Buffalo Bayou flow through parts of Houston outside the Interstate 610 loop Greens Bayou which originates in far northwest Houston near Willowbrook flows for 43 miles (69 km) through Greenspoint and undeveloped areas of northeastern Harris County Sims Bayou which has its source near Missouri City southwest of Houston flows for 23 miles (37 km) past Almeda Sunnyside South Park and Manchester. . . In 2010 there were 346,000 millionaires in Texas constituting the second-largest population of millionaires in the nation. Many (estimate of about 1 in 70 (1.4%) being the national average for 1860) of the Anglo-American settlers owned slaves Mexico granted Texas a one-year exemption from the national edict of 1829 outlawing slavery but Mexican president Anastasio Bustamante ordered that all slaves be freed in 1830 to circumvent the law the colonists converted their slaves into indentured servants "for life." by 1836 there were 5,000 enslaved African Americans in Texas. .
East Aldine Tall steel five-sided tower with strong vertical lines broken by rows of horizontal bands on two sides. On 8 September German troops reached the suburbs of Warsaw the Polish counter offensive to the west halted the German advance for several days but it was outflanked and encircled by the Wehrmacht Remnants of the Polish army broke through to besieged Warsaw on 17 September 1939 after signing a cease-fire with Japan the Soviets invaded Eastern Poland under a pretext that the Polish state had ostensibly ceased to exist on 27 September the Warsaw garrison surrendered to the Germans and the last large operational unit of the Polish Army surrendered on 6 October Despite the military defeat Poland never surrendered; instead it formed the Polish government-in-exile and a clandestine state apparatus remained in occupied Poland a significant part of Polish military personnel evacuated to Romania and the Baltic countries; many of them would fight against the Axis in other theatres of the war. . 1.1 Golden Triangle Niger-Congo languages of West Africa (Ibo Kru and Yoruba) 0.15%, The Allies established occupation administrations in Austria and Germany the former became a neutral state non-aligned with any political bloc the latter was divided into western and eastern occupation zones controlled by the Western Allies and the Soviet Union a denazification programme in Germany led to the prosecution of Nazi war criminals in the Nuremberg trials and the removal of ex-Nazis from power although this policy moved towards amnesty and re-integration of ex-Nazis into West German society. Houston Texas Business Directory, 12.2 JFK assassination 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; Forest Whitaker Longview Gregg County Worldwide-acclaimed pianist Van Cliburn a native of nearby Shreveport Louisiana was raised in Kilgore Kilgore College houses the Van Cliburn Auditorium on its home campus. .
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