Houston is highly regarded for its diverse food and restaurant culture Several major publications have consistently named Houston as one of "America's Best Food Cities" East Texas is a distinct cultural geographic and ecological area in the U.S state of Texas; The present Alley Theatre building opened in November 1968 and contains two stages the main stage has 824 seats and is called the "Hubbard"; the more intimate 310-seat stage is the "Neuhaus." Outside there are nine towers and open-air terraces Inside a staircase spirals from the entrance vestibule to the second-floor lobby the theatre was constructed in a large part by a $1.4 million grant from the Ford Foundation to support innovative theater architecture and the prime architect on the project was Ulrich Franzen, When the United States purchased Louisiana from France in 1803 American authorities insisted the agreement also included Texas the boundary between New Spain and the United States was finally set at the Sabine River in 1819 at what is now the border between Texas and Louisiana. Eager for new land many United States settlers refused to recognize the agreement Several filibusters raised armies to invade the area west of the Sabine River in 1821 the Mexican War of Independence included the Texas territory which became part of Mexico. Due to its low population Mexico made the area part of the state of Coahuila y Tejas! The Texas State Capitol at night, Germany lost a quarter of its pre-war (1937) territory Among the eastern territories Silesia Neumark and most of Pomerania were taken over by Poland and East Prussia was divided between Poland and the Soviet Union followed by the expulsion to Germany of the nine million Germans from these provinces as well as three million Germans from the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia By the 1950s one-fifth of West Germans were refugees from the east the Soviet Union also took over the Polish provinces east of the Curzon line from which 2 million Poles were expelled; north-east Romania parts of eastern Finland and the three Baltic states were incorporated into the Soviet Union, Asian 0.2% 1.9% 2.7% 3.8% This section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed! . The situation reached a general crisis in late August as German troops continued to mobilise against the Polish border in August 23 when tripartite negotiations about a military alliance between France the United Kingdom and Soviet Union stalled the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact with Germany. This pact had a secret protocol that defined German and Soviet "spheres of influence" (western Poland and Lithuania for Germany; eastern Poland Finland Estonia Latvia and Bessarabia for the Soviet Union) and raised the question of continuing Polish independence the pact neutralized the possibility of Soviet opposition to a campaign against Poland and assured that Germany would not have to face the prospect of a two-front war as it had in World War I Immediately after that Hitler ordered the attack to proceed on 26 August but upon hearing that the United Kingdom had concluded a formal mutual assistance pact with Poland and that Italy would maintain neutrality he decided to delay it. Cypress-Fairbanks ISD The Sharpstown scandal which concerned government bribes involving real estate developer Frank Sharp (neighborhood of Sharpstown is named after him) occurred in 1970 and 1971, In 1945 the M.D Anderson Foundation formed the Texas Medical Center After the war Houston's economy reverted to being primarily port-driven in 1948 the city annexed several unincorporated areas more than doubling its size Houston proper began to spread across the region. . McNair Houston Texans NFL Football Reliant Stadium 2002 71,054 (39) 106 The city's major sports teams were using outdated stadiums and threatened to leave Eventually the Houston Oilers did so after several threats the city built Enron Field now Minute Maid Park for the Houston Astros Reliant Stadium now NRG Stadium was erected for the NFL expansion team Houston Texans.[citation needed].
. David Ben-Gurion proclaiming the Israeli Declaration of Independence at the Independence Hall 14 May 1948; Cypress 2.2 Asia As of 2015 the largest grocers in the Houston market by the number of locations were Kroger with 107 stores and 5 planned stores; H-E-B with 90 stores and 8 planned stores; Walmart with 78 stores and one planned store; Target with 35 stores; Fiesta Mart with 34 stores; Lewis Food Town with 32 stores; Randalls Food Markets with 30 stores; Aldi with 21 stores; Sam's Club with 20 stores; Sellers Bros with 11 stores; Foodarama and Whole Foods Market with 10 stores each; Costco Wholesale and Sprouts Farmers Market with six stores each; and the Fresh Market and Trader Joe's with four stores each as of 2007 the largest grocers in the Houston market were Wal-Mart Kroger H-E-B Safeway Inc (as Randalls Food Markets) Grocers Supply Company (as Fiesta Mart) Target Lewis Food Town Gerlands Food Fair Brookshire Brothers and Sellers Bros. Francisco Pizarro Native Americans are a smaller minority in the state Native Americans make up 0.5 percent of Texas's population and number over 118,000 individuals Native Americans of non-Hispanic origin make up 0.3 percent of the population and number over 75,000 individuals Cherokee made up 0.1 percent of the population and numbered over 19,400 members in contrast only 583 identified as Chippewa, Mexico in 1824 Coahuila y Tejas is the northeastern-most state, Stafford (mostly in Fort Bend County).
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