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See also: List of people from Texas and List of Texas symbols, 4.4 Statehood With 10 climatic regions 14 soil regions and 11 distinct ecological regions regional classification becomes problematic with differences in soils topography geology rainfall and plant and animal communities. One classification system divides Texas in order from southeast to west into the following: Gulf Coastal Plains Interior Lowlands Great Plains and Basin and Range Province. World War II had a dramatic impact on Texas as federal money poured in to build military bases munitions factories POW detention camps and Army hospitals; 750,000 young men left for service; the cities exploded with new industry; the colleges took on new roles; and hundreds of thousands of poor farmers left the fields for much better paying war jobs never to return to agriculture. Texas manufactured 3.1 percent of total United States military armaments produced during World War II ranking eleventh among the 48 states, Austin 97/74 36/23 61/45 16/5 The University of St Thomas located in Neartown is a private Catholic liberal arts college. . The master-planned community of Kingwood was forcibly annexed in 1996 angering many of its residents the annexation put Kingwood in the jurisdiction of Houston's fire and police services but it did not alter school district boundaries nor did it change postal addresses and postal services, 1.2 Big Thicket Voters rejected efforts to have separate residential and commercial land-use districts in 1948 1962 and 1993 Consequently rather than a single central business district as the center of the city's employment multiple districts have grown throughout the city in addition to Downtown which include Uptown the Texas Medical Center Midtown Greenway Plaza Memorial City the Energy Corridor Westchase and Greenspoint. Health care and biomedical The area along Buffalo Bayou had many thick oak groves separated by marshes This type of terrain was familiar to the Texians and quite alien to the Mexican soldiers. Houston's army comprising 900 men reached Lynch's Ferry mid-morning on April 20; Santa Anna's 700-man force arrived a few hours later the Texians made camp in a wooded area along the bank of Buffalo Bayou; while the location provided good cover and helped hide their full strength it also left the Texians no room for retreat. Over the protests of several of his officers Santa Anna chose to make camp in a vulnerable location a plain near the San Jacinto River bordered by woods on one side marsh and lake on another the two camps were approximately 500 yards (460 m) apart separated by a grassy area with a slight rise in the middle. Colonel Pedro Delgado later wrote that "the camping ground of His Excellency's selection was in all respects against military rules Any youngster would have done better.".

The Astrodome was the setting for the filming of an exhibition game with the fictional Houston Toros in the 1977 movie the Bad News Bears in Breaking Training. Two brass plates depicting a bearded Portuguese soldier before 1500 on top and Benin warriors at the bottom. Horace Chilton born near Tyler Smith County 1.1 Native Americans and early Europeans In 1939 the United States had renounced its trade treaty with Japan and beginning with an aviation gasoline ban in July 1940 Japan became subject to increasing economic pressure. During this time Japan launched its first attack against Changsha a strategically important Chinese city but was repulsed by late September. Despite several offensives by both sides the war between China and Japan was stalemated by 1940 to increase pressure on China by blocking supply routes and to better position Japanese forces in the event of a war with the Western powers Japan invaded and occupied northern Indochina. Afterwards the United States embargoed iron steel and mechanical parts against Japan.