1 History Texas Tech University The Toyota Center the arena for the Houston Rockets opened in fall 2003 2 Tourism and recreation 12.5 Shift to the Republican Party. . . . Arts and literature Robert Altman's 1970 comedy film Brewster McCloud is set at the Astrodome: the eponymous hero is an eccentric young man who lives at the stadium, White Oak Bayou a major tributary of the Buffalo has its source in Jersey Village and travels 25 miles (40 km) southeast through Inwood Forest Oak Forest and the Houston Heights Brays Bayou another major tributary to the south originates near Mission Bend and travels 31 miles (50 km) through Alief Sharpstown Meyerland Braeswood Place the Texas Medical Center Riverside Terrace and the East End before meeting Buffalo Bayou at Harrisburg. Monument to Cabeza de Vaca in Houston Texas The 2003 Texas redistricting of Congressional districts led by Republican Tom DeLay was called by the New York Times "an extreme case of partisan gerrymandering" a group of Democratic legislators the "Texas Eleven" fled the state in a quorum-busting effort to prevent the legislature from acting but was unsuccessful the state had already redistricted following the 2000 census Despite these efforts the legislature passed a map heavily in favor of Republicans based on 2000 data and ignoring the estimated nearly one million new residents in the state since that date Career attorneys and analysts at the Department of Justice objected to the plan as diluting the votes of African American and Hispanic voters but political appointees overrode them and approved it. Legal challenges to the redistricting reached the national Supreme Court in the case League of United Latin American Citizens v Perry (2006) but the court ruled in favor of the state (and Republicans), A full season of operas is performed in the downtown Theatre District by Houston Grand Opera while a smaller community-based opera company (Opera in the Heights) performs in Lambert Hall Operas are also performed each spring and fall at both the Shepherd School of Music and the Moores School of Music Houston Grand Opera performs at least one free show each summer at the Miller Outdoor Theatre!
Agriculture and mining 14 People in the service of Portugal Fort Bend Toll Road The Consulate-General of Pakistan in Houston in an unincorporated area of Harris County German soldiers during the invasion of the Soviet Union by the Axis powers 1941! The League of Nations assembly held in Geneva Switzerland 1930 Clear Lake which gives the aforementioned community its name is a tidal lake with brackish water located on the western side of Galveston Bay Covering about 2,000 acres (810 hectares) the lake is fed by Clear Creek and inflow from the bay. Ultimately the Clear Creek watershed covers an area of 250 square miles (650 km2) encompassing seventeen tributaries. .
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