! Texas emits the most greenhouse gases in the U.S the state emits nearly 1.5 trillion pounds (680 billion kg) of carbon dioxide annually As an independent nation Texas would rank as the world's seventh-largest producer of greenhouse gases. Causes of the state's vast greenhouse gas emissions include the state's large number of coal power plants and the state's refining and manufacturing industries in 2010 there were 2,553 "emission events" which poured 44.6 million pounds of contaminants into the Texas sky. . . Texas modernized and expanded its system of higher education through the 1960s the state created a comprehensive plan for higher education funded in large part by oil revenues and a central state apparatus designed to manage state institutions more efficiently These changes helped Texas universities receive federal research funds, Texas has a plural executive branch system limiting the power of the governor which is a weak executive compared to some other states Except for the Secretary of State voters elect executive officers independently; thus candidates are directly answerable to the public not the governor. This election system has led to some executive branches split between parties and reduced the ability of the governor to carry out a program When Republican President George W Bush served as Texas's governor the state had a Democratic lieutenant governor Bob Bullock the executive branch positions consist of the Governor Lieutenant Governor Comptroller of Public Accounts Land Commissioner Attorney General Agriculture Commissioner the three-member Texas Railroad Commission the State Board of Education and the Secretary of State; . Nagasaki in Japan was founded in 1570 by Portuguese explorers, Houston Texas Business Directory, Literature Adolf Hitler at a German National Socialist political rally in Nuremberg August 1933; .
. In May 1870 Houston was the site of the Texas State Fair the fair remained in Houston until 1878, Poverty Harris County ESD #48 Dual HCESD48 FD 1% .089, Historically Houston has been a center of Protestant Christianity being part of the Bible Belt. Other Christian groups including Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Christianity and non-Christian religions did not grow for much of the city's history because immigration was predominantly from Western Europe (which at the time was dominated by Western Christianity and favored by the quotas in federal immigration law) the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 removed the quotas allowing for the growth of other religions. Harris County ESD #5 EMS HCESD5 EMS 1% .02, On 6 June 1944 (known as D-Day) after three years of Soviet pressure the Western Allies invaded northern France After reassigning several Allied divisions from Italy they also attacked southern France. These landings were successful and led to the defeat of the German Army units in France Paris was liberated on 25 August by the local resistance assisted by the Free French Forces both led by General Charles de Gaulle and the Western Allies continued to push back German forces in western Europe during the latter part of the year an attempt to advance into northern Germany spearheaded by a major airborne operation in the Netherlands failed. After that the Western Allies slowly pushed into Germany but failed to cross the Ruhr river in a large offensive in Italy Allied advance also slowed due to the last major German defensive line, On September 10 2006 the U.S Geological Survey National Earthquake Information Center reported that a magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred about 250 miles (400 km) west-southwest of Anna Maria Florida around 10:56 AM EDT the quake was reportedly felt from Louisiana to Florida in the Southeastern United States There were no reports of damage or injuries. Items were knocked from shelves and seiches were observed in swimming pools in parts of Florida the earthquake was described by the USGS as an intraplate earthquake the largest and most widely felt recorded in the past three decades in the region. According to the September 11 2006 issue of the Tampa Tribune earthquake tremors were last felt in Florida in 1952 recorded in Quincy 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Tallahassee. ; . . The United Kingdom France and Italy formed the Stresa Front in April 1935 in order to contain Germany a key step towards military globalization; however that June the United Kingdom made an independent naval agreement with Germany easing prior restrictions the Soviet Union concerned by Germany's goals of capturing vast areas of Eastern Europe drafted a treaty of mutual assistance with France Before taking effect though the Franco-Soviet pact was required to go through the bureaucracy of the League of Nations which rendered it essentially toothless the United States concerned with events in Europe and Asia passed the Neutrality Act in August of the same year.
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