. 5.2.1 Political history Houston Texas Business Directory In 2012 the city was ranked number one for paycheck worth by Forbes and in late May 2013 Houston was identified as America's top city for employment creation. . ! Cuba and United States: Maritime boundary agreement between the United States of America and the Republic of Cuba of December 16 1977, Texas has known petroleum deposits of about 5 billion barrels (790,000,000 m3) which makes up about one-fourth of the known U.S reserves the state's refineries can process 4.6 million barrels (730,000 m3) of oil a day the Port Arthur Refinery in Southeast Texas is the largest refinery in the U.S. Texas also leads in natural gas production producing one-fourth of the nation's supply. Several petroleum companies are based in Texas such as: Occidental Petroleum ConocoPhillips ExxonMobil Halliburton Marathon Oil Tesoro Valero Energy and Western Refining. Hexavalent chromium - cancer Houston Rockets NBA Basketball Toyota Center 2003 18,023.
. Spindletop the first major oil gusher. When Mexican authorities received word of Santa Anna's defeat at San Jacinto flags across the country were lowered to half staff and draped in mourning. Denouncing any agreements signed by Santa Anna a prisoner of war the Mexican authorities refused to recognize the Republic of Texas. Filisola was derided for leading the retreat and quickly replaced by Urrea Within months Urrea gathered 6,000 troops in Matamoros poised to reconquer Texas However the renewed Mexican invasion of Texas never materialized as Urrea's army was redirected to address continued federalist rebellions in other state regions in Mexico, Obesity causes several chronic diseases including heart disease and diabetes the three leading causes of death in Texas - heart disease stroke and cancer - are all linked to obesity. Additionally obesity can cause type 2 diabetes arteriosclerosis and hypertension in 2010 Texas saw 1,261,654 cases of heart disease and is predicted to see 5,688,482 cases in 2030 in 2010 Texas saw 1,962,059 cases of diabetes and is predicted to see 2,851,697 cases in 2030 in 2010 Texas saw 4,300,252 cases of hypertension and is predicted to see 5,689,509 cases in 2030 in 2010 Texas saw 328,379 cases of obesity-related cancer and is predicted to see 810,806 cases in 2030, Closure Ike (2008) In 2013 Allen Turner of the Houston Chronicle said that residents of Harris County were "consistently conservative in elections" and that they were according to a Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research opinion poll "surprisingly liberal on topics such as immigration gun control and equal matrimonial rights for same-sex couples". Harris is regarded as a moderate or swing county in Texas and has been a bellwether in Presidential elections voting for winners of every Presidential election from 2000 through 2012 (both Barack Obama and Texas resident George W Bush have won the county). . Ninfa's a new style Tex-Mex restaurant, 1970 11,196,730 16.9% German SS soldiers from the Dirlewanger Brigade tasked with suppressing the Warsaw Uprising against Nazi occupation August 1944, Tactics 4.3 Asia and Oceania colonization and the Pacific exploration. 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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