1.1 Houston's turbulent beginning General aviation airports for fixed-wing aircraft outside of Houston include: County services. . Democratic Hillary Clinton Tim Kaine 3,877,868 43.24% 0 1890 2,235,527 40.4% 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. .
Main article: Transportation in Houston The Allen brothers first landed in the area where the confluence of White Oak Bayou and Buffalo Bayou served as a natural turning basin now known as Allen's Landing the "city to be" was named after Sam Houston the hero of San Jacinto whom the Allen brothers admired and anticipated to be the first President of the Republic of Texas Gail Borden Jr a publisher and surveyor who would later found Borden Inc exercised foresight when he laid out wide streets for the town.[unreliable source?], 2.2 Gulf Coast campaign In 2004 the Astrodome was the setting of the 1988 5A Football State Championship in the movie Friday Night Lights between the Permian Panthers and the Carter High Cowboys. . . Houston first started shipping cotton lumber and other manufacturing products Alexander McGowen established the iron industry and Tom Whitmarsh built a cotton warehouse a fire ravaged Houston on March 10 1859 but the city rebuilt itself soon after.[citation needed]. When Europeans arrived in the Texas region there were several races of Native peoples divided into many smaller tribes They were Caddoan Atakapan Athabaskan Coahuiltecan and Uto-Aztecan the Uto-Aztecan Puebloan peoples lived neared the Rio Grande in the western portion of the state the Athabaskan-speaking Apache tribes lived throughout the interior the Caddoans controlled much of the Red River region and the Atakapans were mostly centered along the Gulf Coast at least one tribe of Coahuiltecans the Aranama lived in southern Texas This entire culture group primarily centered in northeastern Mexico is now extinct It is difficult to say who lived in the northwestern region of the state originally By the time the region came to be explored it belonged to the fairly well-known Comanche another Uto-Aztecan people who had transitioned into a powerful horse culture but it is believed that they came later and did not live there during the 16th century it may have been claimed by several different peoples including Uto-Aztecans Athabaskans or even Dhegihan Siouans, According to the Energy Information Administration Texans consume on average the fifth most energy (of all types) in the nation per capita and as a whole following behind Wyoming Alaska Louisiana North Dakota and Iowa, 9 References Geography 6.3 Foreign relations. ; (-8) 29, These Precambrian igneous and metamorphic rocks underlie most of the state and are exposed in three places: Llano uplift Van Horn and the Franklin Mountains near El Paso Sedimentary rocks overlay most of these ancient rocks the oldest sediments were deposited on the flanks of a rifted continental margin or passive margin that developed during Cambrian time, Legacy Houston's bicycle sharing system started service with nineteen stations in May 2012 Houston Bcycle (also known as B-Cycle) a local non-profit runs the subscription program supplying bicycles and docking stations while partnering with other companies to maintain the system the network expanded to 29 stations and 225 bicycles in 2014 registering over 43,000 checkouts of equipment during the first half of the same year in 2017 Bcycle logged over 142,000 check outs while expanding to 56 docking stations!
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