. . . . Houston Texas Business Directory, Marshall (23,523) District Name Party First Elected Area(s) of Harris County Represented; Houston Texas Business Directory, The Comanche used their military power to obtain supplies and labor from the Americans Mexicans and Indians through thievery looting and killing tribute and kidnappings There was much violence committed by and against Comanche before and after the European settlement of Texas Although they made a living partially through raiding and violence along with hunting/gathering especially buffalo hunting the Comanche empire also supported a commercial network with long-distance trade Dealing with subordinate Indians the Comanche spread their language and culture across the region in terms of governance the Comanche were nearly independent but allied bands with a loosely hierarchical social organization within bands, The Gulf Coastal Plains region wraps around the Gulf of Mexico on the southeast section of the state Vegetation in this region consists of thick piney woods the Interior Lowlands region consists of gently rolling to hilly forested land and is part of a larger pine-hardwood forest. The normal annual precipitation measures 49.77 inches (1,264 mm) Occasional severe weather of Houston mostly takes the form of flooding which happens a lot during between May to October which is the city's wet season Supercell thunderstorms sometimes bring tornadoes to the area most commonly during spring Houston sometimes experiences tropical cyclones during the Atlantic hurricane season which can bring heavy rain and significant damage to the city the last hurricane to hit was Hurricane Harvey in 2017, Within the Republican Party the Lily-white movement emerged a movement to wrest control of the party by whites and eliminate black influence altogether the movement had its origins in Texas but spread across the nation This in addition to wider efforts to restrict the influence of non-whites rapidly reversed the fortunes of the black population, Motorsports Northeast Gulf of Mexico which extends from a point east of the Mississippi River Delta near Biloxi to the eastern side of Apalachee Bay.
European conquistadors in the Americas made extensive use of crossbows with firearms becoming widespread only from the 1570s a scarcity of firearms did not prevent conquistadors to pioneer the use mounted arquebusiers an early form of dragoon in the 1540s Francisco de Carvajal's use of firearms in the Spanish civil war in Peru prefigured the volley fire technique that developed in Europe many decades after. Houston has hosted several major sports events: the 1968 1986 and 2004 Major League Baseball All-Star Games; the 1989 2006 and 2013 NBA All-Star Games; Super Bowl VIII Super Bowl XXXVIII and Super Bowl LI as well as hosting the 1981 1986 1994 and 1995 NBA Finals winning the latter two and co-hosting the 2005 World Series and 2017 World Series winning the latter NRG Stadium hosted Super Bowl LI on February 5 2017, Hispanics and Latinos are the second-largest group in Texas after non-Hispanic European Americans Over 8.5 million people claim Hispanic or Latino ethnicity This group forms over 37 percent of Texas's population People of Mexican descent alone number over 7.9 million and make up 31.6 percent of the population the vast majority of the Hispanic/Latino population in the state is of Mexican descent the next two largest groups are Salvadorans and Puerto Ricans There are over 222,000 Salvadorans and over 130,000 Puerto Ricans in Texas Other groups with large numbers in Texas include Hondurans Guatemalans Nicaraguans and Cubans among others the Hispanics in Texas are more likely than in some other states (such as California) to identify as white; according to the 2010 U.S Census Texas is home to 6,304,207 White Hispanics and 2,594,206 Hispanics of "some other race" (usually mestizo), 1860 4,845 102.2% Arts Harris County ESD #8 EMS Northwest EMS .10 The conquistadors found new animal species but reports confused these with monsters such as giants dragons or ghosts. Stories about castaways on mysterious islands were common. ! By the early 20th century the Democratic Party in Texas started using a "white primary." Restricting the Democratic primary to white voters was another way of closing minorities out of politics as the primary was the only competitive contest for office in the one-party state by 1906 the number of black voters had dropped from more than 100,000 in the 1890s to 5,000 the state also passed a law for white primaries in 1896 86.6% of all voters in Texas voted in the presidential election; following disenfranchisement voter turnout in 1904 was 29.2% and in 1920 was 21.6%. Houston has the largest number of bike commuters in Texas with over 160 miles of dedicated bikeways the city is currently in the process of expanding its on and off street bikeway network.[when?] in 2015 Downtown Houston added a cycle track on Lamar Street running from Sam Houston Park to Discovery Green in August 2017 Houston City Council approved spending for construction of 13 additional miles of bike trails.
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