10.5.1 Rates of infant mortality 6 Sports Mitsubishi A6M2 "Zero" fighters on the Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Shokaku just before the attack on Pearl Harbor Financing and governance. After receiving notice from Juan de Grijalva of gold in the area of what is now Tabasco the governor of Cuba Diego de Velasquez sent a larger force than had previously sailed and appointed Cortes as Captain-General of the Armada Cortes then applied all of his funds mortgaged his estates and borrowed from merchants and friends to outfit his ships Velasquez may have contributed to the effort but the government of Spain offered no financial support. Taxation Stafford City and county government Globe Life Park in Arlington home of the Texas Rangers, According to Children at Risk a local nonprofit research organization 21% of the Harris County children live in poverty 6.5 per 1,000 die before age one and 38% drop out of high school! Houston Astros MLB Baseball Minute Maid Park 2000 42,060 (29.6) 91.2 Thousands of enslaved African-Americans lived near the city before the Civil War Many of them near the city worked on sugar and cotton plantations while most of those in the city limits had domestic and artisan jobs in 1860 forty-nine percent of the city's population was enslaved Frost Town a nearby settlement south of the Buffalo Bayou was swallowed by Houston.[citation needed], The city has hosted several major professional and college sporting events including the annual Houston Open golf tournament Houston hosts the annual Houston College Classic baseball tournament every February and the Texas Kickoff and Bowl in September and December respectively. . 5 Fort Worth Tarrant 854,113 Portuguese North America (in present-day Canada); Vaz Dourado c.1576. Conquest The surrender of Granada in 1492 the last Moorish sultan of Granada Muhammad XII before Ferdinand and Isabella.
. Aerial view of central Houston showing Downtown and surrounding neighborhoods March 2018 4.4 County government. ; . Texas 146.svg State Highway 146, Houston Texas Business Directory, The coffee companies of Houston formed the Greater Houston Coffee Association in fall 2000 the industry then tried to make Houston a major coffee shipping port Coffee sold through futures contracts may only be shipped to a New York Board of Trade-certified port and Texas's ad valorem tax on warehouse inventories made it impossible for Houston to get such a certification the tax was written into the Constitution of Texas so the Greater Houston Coffee Association asked State Representative Joe E Moreno and State Senator Mario Gallegos to present a constitutional amendment bill to exempt cocoa and coffee stored in Harris County warehouses from the tax Voters approved the amendment in 2001 Since then Houston's role as a coffee port increased After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans much of the traffic switched to Houston. History Houston is one of few United States cities with permanent professional resident companies in all major performing arts disciplines: opera (Houston Grand Opera) ballet (Houston Ballet) music (Houston Symphony Orchestra) and theater (The Alley Theatre Theatre Under the Stars). Houston is also home to folk artists art groups and various small progressive arts organizations.
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