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. Houston hosted Super Bowl VIII in 1974 Super Bowl XXXVIII 30 years later in 2004 and Super Bowl LI in 2017 (making it the only Texas city to host the Super Bowl three times) the 1989 NBA All-Star Game the 1981 1986 1994 and 1995 NBA Finals (The hometown Houston Rockets winning the latter 2) 2004 Major League Baseball All-Star Game Super Bowl XXXVIII in 2004 2005 World Series the 2005 Big 12 Conference championship game the 2006 NBA All-Star Game and the Tennis Masters Cup in 2003 and 2004 and the annual Shell Houston Open.[citation needed] the city hosts the NCAA College Baseball Minute Maid Classic every February Houston formerly hosted the NCAA football's Houston Bowl in December but now hosts the Texas Bowl in January, African Americans are the largest racial minority in Texas Their proportion of population has declined since the early 20th century after many left the state in the Great Migration Blacks of both Hispanic and non-Hispanic origin make up 11.5 percent of the population; blacks of non-Hispanic origin form 11.3 percent of the populace African Americans of both Hispanic and non-Hispanic origin number at roughly 2.7 million individuals. 140 Armando Walle Democratic 2008 North Houston and Aldine east of I-45 See also: List of shopping malls in Texas Ezekiel W Cullen Building at the University of Houston. East Aldine Places adjacent to Gulf of Mexico Stephen F Austin the "Father of Texas." Human infections gained worldwide transmission vectors for the first time: from Africa and Eurasia to the Americas and vice versa the spread of old-world diseases including smallpox flu and typhus led to the deaths of many indigenous inhabitants of the New World. . Sister cities West University Place To test what effect the enclosed air-conditioned environment might have on the delivery of breaking balls Satchel Paige in full Astros uniform threw the first pitches at the Astrodome on February 7 1965. He later concluded that it was a "pitcher's paradise" as the lack of wind allowed for sensitive pitches to maneuver more easily. 3.2 Religion 8 Employment Autumn 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, In 2006 the Houston metropolitan area ranked first in Texas and third in the U.S within the category of "Best Places for Business and Careers" by Forbes magazine. Ninety-one foreign governments have established consular offices in Houston's metropolitan area the third-highest in the nation. Forty foreign governments maintain trade and commercial offices here with 23 active foreign chambers of commerce and trade associations. Twenty-five foreign banks representing 13 nations operate in Houston providing financial assistance to the international community, Military Gerald D Hines Waterwall Park in Uptown.

The National Museum of Funeral History is located in Houston near the George Bush Intercontinental Airport the museum houses the original Popemobile used by Pope John Paul II in the 1980s along with numerous hearses embalming displays and information on famous funerals, Obesity has quickly become a major health issue in Texas in 2017 33.6% of Texas adults were obese as compared to 29.9% of U.S adults in 2000 21.7% of adults were obese and in 1990 only 10.7% of adults were obese in 2016 33% of 10-17 year olds in Texas were obese. When separated out by gender 34.6% of Texas females and 32.8% of Texas males were obese. When separated out by race 31% of White adults 41.7% of Black adults and 37.8% of Hispanic adults were obese in Texas in 2016. Research shows that an increase in household income is correlated with a decrease in obesity rates in 2014 Comptroller Susan Combs found that there are educational achievement patterns as well - 39% of the Texas population with less than a high school education was obese while only 23% of college graduates were obese. Living in a rural area in Texas is also correlated with higher obesity rates. Others follow the British historian A.J.P Taylor who held that the Sino-Japanese War and war in Europe and its colonies occurred simultaneously and the two wars merged in 1941 This article uses the conventional dating Other starting dates sometimes used for World War II include the Italian invasion of Abyssinia on 3 October 1935 the British historian Antony Beevor views the beginning of World War II as the Battles of Khalkhin Gol fought between Japan and the forces of Mongolia and the Soviet Union from May to September 1939, Houston received the official nickname of "Space City" in 1967 because it is the location of NASA's Lyndon B Johnson Space Center Other nicknames often used by locals include "Bayou City" "Clutch City" "Crush City" "Magnolia City" "H-Town" and "Culinary Capital of the South".[citation needed]. . Main articles: German-occupied Europe Resistance during World War II Collaboration with the Axis Powers and Nazi plunder, In September 1944 Soviet troops advanced into Yugoslavia and forced the rapid withdrawal of German Army Groups E and F in Greece Albania and Yugoslavia to rescue them from being cut off by this point the Communist-led Partisans under Marshal Josip Broz Tito who had led an increasingly successful guerrilla campaign against the occupation since 1941 controlled much of the territory of Yugoslavia and engaged in delaying efforts against German forces further south in northern Serbia the Soviet Red Army with limited support from Bulgarian forces assisted the Partisans in a joint liberation of the capital city of Belgrade on 20 October a few days later the Soviets launched a massive assault against German-occupied Hungary that lasted until the fall of Budapest in February 1945. Unlike impressive Soviet victories in the Balkans bitter Finnish resistance to the Soviet offensive in the Karelian Isthmus denied the Soviets occupation of Finland and led to a Soviet-Finnish armistice on relatively mild conditions although Finland was forced to fight their former ally Germany. In 2008 the facility was cited for numerous code violations Since then only maintenance workers and security guards have been allowed to enter the stadium while it is brought up to code the city council rejected demolition plans on environmental grounds over concerns that demolition of the Dome might damage the dense development that today closely surrounds it.