! . Buffalo Bayou is the longest and largest of the bayous which flow through Houston following a 53-mile (85 km) route from Katy through Memorial Rice Military Downtown the East End Denver Harbor and Channelview before meeting the San Jacinto River at Galveston Bay the broad eastern stretch of the river known as the Houston Ship Channel plays an essential role in the Port of Houston and is home to one of the largest petrochemical refining complexes in the United States. Buffalo Bayou's environs are also home to significant amounts of parkland including linear parks such as Terry Hershey Park and Buffalo Bayou Park which serve as corridors for walking and bicycling! Main article: List of ports in the United States See also: Former professional sports teams in Houston. . County government 1860 9,070 94.3% An oil well Portuguese sent military expeditions to the Amazon Rainforest and conquered British and Dutch strongholds founding villages and forts from 1669 in 1680 they reached the far south and founded Sacramento on the bank of the Rio de la Plata in the Eastern Strip region (present-day Uruguay). Infant health Comancheria before 1850 East Texas outcrops consist of Cretaceous and Paleogene sediments which contain important deposits of Eocene lignite the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian sediments in the north; Permian sediments in the west; and Cretaceous sediments in the east along the Gulf coast and out on the Texas continental shelf contain oil Oligocene volcanic rocks are found in far west Texas in the Big Bend area a blanket of Miocene sediments known as the Ogallala formation in the western high plains region is an important aquifer. Located far from an active plate tectonic boundary Texas has no volcanoes and few earthquakes; .
. . Tornadoes Economy the Mound Builders of the Mississippi culture which spread throughout the Mississippi Valley and its tributaries; the Caddo nation are considered among its descendants; . Stephen F Austin the "Father of Texas.", 7 See also Academy Sports and Outdoors a sporting goods retailer has its corporate offices and product distribution center in unincorporated western Harris County. Hewlett-Packard operates its United States region office in a complex northwest unincorporated Harris County; the complex formerly belonged to Compaq prior to Compaq's merger with HP. Smith International has its headquarters in the Greenspoint district and in an unincorporated area in Harris County. BJ Services Company has its headquarters in the Spring Branch district and in unincorporated Harris County. Cybersoft Technologies has its headquarters in an unincorporated area in 2012 Noble Energy announced that it was consolidating its headquarters and two other Greater Houston offices into a 10-story building on the former Compaq headquarters property in unincorporated Harris County. Goya Foods previously had its Texas offices in an unincorporated area in the county, Korean and Urdu (tied) 0.24% The diversion of three quarters of the Axis troops and the majority of their air forces from France and the central Mediterranean to the Eastern Front prompted the United Kingdom to reconsider its grand strategy in July the UK and the Soviet Union formed a military alliance against Germany the British and Soviets invaded neutral Iran to secure the Persian Corridor and Iran's oil fields in August the United Kingdom and the United States jointly issued the Atlantic Charter.
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