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Houston (/ ˈ h juː s t ən / ⓘ HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat of Harris County, as well as the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the ...
The seediness of the area was featured prominently in such films as Midnight Cowboy [175] (1969), Born to Win [176] (1971), and Taxi Driver (1976). [177] The area was shown in the 1980 film Times Square, which featured a punk rock/new wave soundtrack. [178] It was also depicted in the 2011 movie New Year's Eve. [179]
The region is home to three major cities: San Francisco, Oakland and, the largest by area, San Jose. The Bay Area has been inhabited since antiquity, first by the Ohlone and Miwok peoples, followed by the Spanish, who first arrived in 1769 and established the area's first mission, Mission San Francisco de Asís, in 1776.
The English name of "Singapore" is an anglicisation of the native Malay name for the country, Singapura (Malay pronunciation: ⓘ), which was in turn derived from the Sanskrit word for 'lion city' (Sanskrit: सिंहपुर; romanised: Siṃhapura; Brahmi: 𑀲𑀺𑀁𑀳𑀧𑀼𑀭; literally "lion city"; siṃha means 'lion', pura means 'city' or 'fortress'). [10]
NAS Corpus Christi was commissioned by its first Commanding Officer, CAPT Alva Berhard, on March 12, 1941. The first flight training started on May 5, 1941. US Navy North American SNJ-4s warming up for training at NAS Corpus Christi circa 1943. Aviation Ordnanceman stationed at the Naval Air Station Corpus Christi boarding a PBY Catalina, circa ...
As of 2020, six Texas cities had populations greater than 600,000. Austin, Fort Worth, and El Paso are among the 20 largest U.S. cities. Texas has four metropolitan areas with populations greater than a million: Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington, Houston–Sugar Land–The Woodlands, San Antonio–New Braunfels, and Austin–Round Rock–San ...
In 1969, Don Fisher, a California commercial real estate broker specializing in retail store location, enlisted the help of his friend, Walter Haas Jr., President of Levi Strauss & Co. Fisher was inspired by the sudden success of 'The Tower of Shoes' in an old Quonset hut in a non-retail industrial area of Sacramento, California, [12] [13] that drew crowds by advertising that no matter what ...
Dallas (/ ˈ d æ l ə s / ⓘ) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. [11]