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Caddo Lake Two kinds of people travel around these plains with the cows; one is called Querechos and the others Teyas; they are very well built and painted and are enemies of each other They have no other settlement or location than comes from traveling around with the cows They kill all of these they wish and tan the hides with which they clothe themselves and make their tents and they eat the flesh sometimes even raw and they also even drink the blood when thirsty the tents they make are like field tents and they set them up over some poles they have made for this purpose which come together and are tied at the top and when they go from one place to another they carry them on some dogs they have of which they have many and they load them with the tents and poles and other things for the country is so level as I said that they can make use of these because they carry the poles dragging along on the ground the sun is what they worship most, The University of Houston System's annual impact on the Houston-area's economy equates to that of a major corporation: $1.1 billion in new funds attracted annually to the Houston area $3.13 billion in total economic benefit and 24,000 local jobs generated. This is in addition to the 12,500 new graduates the UH System produces every year who enter the workforce in Houston and throughout Texas These degree-holders tend to stay in Houston After five years 80.5 percent of graduates are still living and working in the region, The revolution began in October 1835 after a decade of political and cultural clashes between the Mexican government and the increasingly large population of American settlers in Texas the Mexican government had become increasingly centralized and the rights of its citizens had become increasingly curtailed particularly regarding immigration from the United States Colonists and Tejanos disagreed on whether the ultimate goal was independence or a return to the Mexican Constitution of 1824 While delegates at the Consultation (provisional government) debated the war's motives Texians and a flood of volunteers from the United States defeated the small garrisons of Mexican soldiers by mid-December 1835 the Consultation declined to declare independence and installed an interim government whose infighting led to political paralysis and a dearth of effective governance in Texas an ill-conceived proposal to invade Matamoros siphoned much-needed volunteers and provisions from the fledgling Texian Army in March 1836 a second political convention declared independence and appointed leadership for the new Republic of Texas. . Main article: Culture of Texas This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed (February 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message). 12.1 1950s Texas drought 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 2006 the Houston metropolitan area ranked first in Texas and third in the U.S within the category of "Best Places for Business and Careers" by Forbes magazine. Ninety-one foreign governments have established consular offices in Houston's metropolitan area the third-highest in the nation. Forty foreign governments maintain trade and commercial offices here with 23 active foreign chambers of commerce and trade associations. Twenty-five foreign banks representing 13 nations operate in Houston providing financial assistance to the international community, Contents Main article: Golden Triangle (Texas). (31) 93 Designed by Fort Worth architect Wyatt C Hedrick the Shamrock Hotel was an 18-story building constructed between 1946 and 1949 with a green tile pitched roof and 1,100 rooms the hotel was conceived by wildcatter Glenn McCarthy as a city-sized hotel scaled for conventions with a resort atmosphere the Shamrock was located in a suburban area three miles (5 km) southwest of downtown Houston on the fringes of countryside and was meant to be the first phase of a much larger indoor shopping and entertainment complex called McCarthy Center anchored alongside the planned Texas Medical Center At the hotel's north side was a five-story building containing a 1,000-car garage and 25,000-square-foot (2,300 m2) exhibition hall to the south was the hotel's lavishly landscaped garden designed by Ralph Ellis Gunn a terrace and an immense swimming pool measuring 165 by 142 feet (43 m) described as the world's biggest outdoor pool which accommodated exhibition waterskiing and featured a three-story-high diving platform with an open spiral staircase. Despite protests by local preservationists the Shamrock was demolished June 1 1987 the Institute of Biosciences and Technology now stands in its former location. .