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Houston Texas Business Directory 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). 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. In 2004 Houston unveiled the first Mahatma Gandhi statue in the state of Texas at Hermann Park Houston's Indian American Community were cheerful after 10 years in 2010 when the Hillcroft and Harwin area were renamed Mahatma Gandhi District in honor of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi as that area is the center of Indian commerce. . The scoreboard eventually known as the "Astrolite" was designed by Fair Play Scoreboards of Des Moines Iowa. Having designed the scoreboard for Dodger Stadium several years prior team owner Roy Hofheinz was not impressed with the initial proposal for a much more generic type of scoreboard Project designer Jack Foster teamed up with a creative professional based in Kansas City to create the first animated scoreboard Its reported cost was $2.1 million, Texas has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world and the rate by which Texas women died from pregnancy related complications doubled from 2010 to 2014 to 23.8 per 100,000 a rate unmatched in any other U.S state or economically developed country. See Maternal healthcare in Texas, Fifty-floor rectangular skyscraper with rows of identical windows and minimal ornamentation. Texas A&M University 7.3.1 Brutus oil spill Soviet partisans hanged by the German army the Russian Academy of Sciences reported in 1995 civilian victims in the Soviet Union at German hands totalled 13.7 million dead twenty percent of the 68 million persons in the occupied Soviet Union. Nazi Germany was responsible for the Holocaust (killing approximately 6 million Jews) as well as for killing 2.7 million ethnic Poles and 4 million others who were deemed "unworthy of life" (including the disabled and mentally ill Soviet prisoners of war Romani homosexuals Freemasons and Jehovah's Witnesses) as part of a programme of deliberate extermination in effect becoming a "genocidal state". Soviet POWs were kept in especially unbearable conditions and 3.6 million Soviet POWs out of 5.7 died in Nazi camps during the war in addition to concentration camps death camps were created in Nazi Germany to exterminate people at an industrial scale Nazi Germany extensively used forced labourers; about 12 million Europeans from German occupied countries were abducted and used as a slave work force in German industry agriculture and war economy. Houston Texas Business Directory Gulf of Mexico basin which contains the Sigsbee Deep and can be further divided into the continental rise the Sigsbee Abyssal Plain and the Mississippi Cone.

Texas's second-largest air facility is Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) it served as the largest hub for the former Continental Airlines which was based in Houston; it serves as the largest hub for United Airlines the world's third-largest airline by passenger-miles flown. IAH offers service to the most Mexican destinations of any U.S airport the next five largest airports in the state all serve over 3 million passengers annually; they include Austin-Bergstrom International Airport William P Hobby Airport San Antonio International Airport Dallas Love Field and El Paso International Airport the smallest airport in the state to be designated an international airport is Del Rio International Airport. Architecture Art Dance Fashion Literature Comics Poetry Music Sculpture Theater, The League of Nations assembly held in Geneva Switzerland 1930 Highways French 0.25%. .