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The Mardi Gras shipwreck around the early-19th century about 35 miles off the coast of Louisiana in 4,000 feet (1220 meters) of water She is believed to have been a privateer or trader the shipwreck whose real identity remains a mystery lay forgotten at the bottom of the sea until it was discovered in 2002 by an oilfield inspection crew working for the Okeanos Gas Gathering Company (OGGC) in May 2007 an expedition led by Texas A&M University and funded by OGGC under an agreement with the Minerals Management Service (now BOEM) was launched to undertake the deepest scientific archaeological excavation ever attempted at that time to study the site on the seafloor and recover artifacts for eventual public display in the Louisiana State Museum As part of the project educational outreach Nautilus Productions in partnership with BOEM Texas A&M University the Florida Public Archaeology Network and Veolia Environmental produced a one-hour HD documentary about the project short videos for public viewing and provided video updates during the expedition Video footage from the ROV was an integral part of this outreach and used extensively in the Mystery Mardi Gras Shipwreck documentary. In Asia and the Pacific between 3 million and more than 10 million civilians mostly Chinese (estimated at 7.5 million) were killed by the Japanese occupation forces the most infamous Japanese atrocity was the Nanking Massacre in which fifty to three hundred thousand Chinese civilians were raped and murdered. Mitsuyoshi Himeta reported that 2.7 million casualties occurred during the Sanko Sakusen General Yasuji Okamura implemented the policy in Heipei and Shantung. 3 Sports South Florida Continental Shelf and Slope which extends along the coast from Apalachee Bay to the Straits of Florida and includes the Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas; . . .

Houston Texas Business Directory, 4 Government and politics White 86.8% 75.2% 71.0% 70.4% Collegiate athletics have deep significance in Texas culture especially football the state has twelve Division I-FBS schools the most in the nation Four of the state's universities the Baylor Bears Texas Longhorns TCU Horned Frogs and Texas Tech Red Raiders compete in the Big 12 Conference the Texas A&M Aggies left the Big 12 and joined the Southeastern Conference in 2012 which led the Big 12 to invite TCU to join; TCU was previously in the Mountain West Conference the Houston Cougars and the SMU Mustangs compete in the American Athletic Conference the Texas State Bobcats and the UT Arlington Mavericks compete in the Sun Belt Conference Four of the state's schools claim at least one national championship in football: the Texas Longhorns the Texas A&M Aggies the TCU Horned Frogs and the SMU Mustangs. According to the 2010 United States census the racial composition of Texas was the following: 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. Japanese invasion of China (1937) Big Thicket As of the colonial period Texas was largely divided between 6 culture groups the Caddoan peoples occupied the area surrounding the entire length of the Red River Upon contact with Europeans they formed four collective confederacies known as the Natchitoches the Hasinai the Wichita & the Kadohadocho (Caddo) All four of them held some land in what is now Texas. Along the Gulf Coast region were the Atakapa tribes with at least one Coahuiltecan tribe (a culture group primarily from Northeast Mexico) a little further west on the Rio Grande Largely between the Rio Grande & Peco River were the Puebloan peoples part of an extensive civilization of tribes that lived in what are now the states of Texas New Mexico Colorado & Utah While the northern-most groups faced a cultural collapse due to a drought many of the southern tribes survive to the present North of the Pueblos were the Apachean tribes Although commonly referred to as one single nation they are actually a culture group. North of the Apacheans in the Northern Panhandle region were the Comanches.