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Winds and currents 1870 818,579 35.5% Unaffiliated 18 Advances in technology and warfare 11 Transportation Houston Texas Business Directory 3.2 2010 Census; Texas has known petroleum deposits of about 5 billion barrels (790,000,000 m3) which makes up about one-fourth of the known U.S reserves the state's refineries can process 4.6 million barrels (730,000 m3) of oil a day the Port Arthur Refinery in Southeast Texas is the largest refinery in the U.S. Texas also leads in natural gas production producing one-fourth of the nation's supply. Several petroleum companies are based in Texas such as: Occidental Petroleum ConocoPhillips ExxonMobil Halliburton Marathon Oil Tesoro Valero Energy and Western Refining. During the late 1970s Houston had a population boom as people from the Rust Belt states moved to Texas in large numbers the new residents came for numerous employment opportunities in the petroleum industry created as a result of the Arab oil embargo With the increase in professional jobs Houston has become a destination for many college-educated persons most recently including African Americans in a reverse Great Migration from northern areas, Wells Fargo Bank Plaza From 1630 to 1654 the Dutch set up more permanently in the Nordeste and controlled a long stretch of the coast most accessible to Europe without however penetrating the interior But the colonists of the Dutch West India Company in Brazil were in a constant state of siege in spite of the presence in Recife of John Maurice of Nassau as governor After several years of open warfare the Dutch formally withdrew in 1661. ; The Texas Government started to promote colonization of the state the Allen brothers started to promote their town at the same time that the Republic of Texas started promoting settling of Texas They noted plans to build a sawmill and offered lots for sale at moderate prices in the manner of town boomers the Allens exaggerated a bit however, Cycling 16 External links, Blues music developed throughout the Southern United States where several areas developed distinctive regional sounds Houston's distinctive sound grew in the 1920 with early influencers like Lightnin' Hopkins and T-Bone Walker the sound matured over the next 50 years during which it became known as Texas blues the style would gain international notoriety in the modern era when it was adopted by popular regional rockers Stevie Ray Vaughan and ZZ Top among others. 10 Footnotes Port of Houston along the Houston Ship Channel, State of Texas, 1930 359,328 92.5% Thomas Jefferson Rusk settled in Nacogdoches Nacogdoches County and was also a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas. The Spanish discovery of what they thought at that time was India and the constant competition of Portugal and Spain led to a desire for secrecy about every trade route and every colony As a consequence many documents that could reach other European countries included fake dates and faked facts to mislead any other nation's possible efforts for example the Island of California refers to a famous cartographic error propagated on many maps during the 17th and 18th centuries despite contradictory evidence from various explorers the legend was initially infused with the idea that California was a terrestrial paradise peopled by black women Amazons.

In 1540 expeditions under Hernando de Alarcon and Melchior Diaz visited the area of Yuma and immediately saw the natural crossing of the Colorado River from Mexico to California by land as an ideal spot for a city as the Colorado River narrows to slightly under 1000 feet wide in one small point Later military expeditions that crossed the Colorado River at the Yuma Crossing include Juan Bautista de Anza (1774). 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, Houston Texas Business Directory, 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".