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  2. Nicknames of Houston - Wikipedia

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    The skyline of the city of Houston. There are many nicknames for the city of Houston, the largest city in Texas and fourth-largest city in the United States. The city's nicknames reflect its geography, economy, multicultural population, and popular culture, including sports and music. They are often used by the media and in popular culture to ...

  3. Independence Heights, Houston - Wikipedia

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    Independence Heights is a community in Houston, Texas, bordered by 40th Street east of N. Main and 40th Street west of N. Main to the north, Yale Street to the west, the 610 Loop to the south, and Airline Drive to the east. [1] The Super Neighborhood boundary created by the City of Houston is bordered by Tidwell to the north, Shepherd Drive to ...

  4. File:Flag of Houston, Texas.svg - Wikipedia

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    File:Flag of Houston, Texas.svg. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 800 × 533 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 213 pixels | 640 × 427 pixels | 1,024 × 682 pixels | 1,280 × 853 pixels | 2,560 × 1,706 pixels. This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below.

  5. Spring, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Spring, Texas. /  30.05417°N 95.38694°W  / 30.05417; -95.38694. Spring is a census-designated place (CDP) within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston in Harris County, Texas, United States, part of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. [3] The population was 62,559 at the 2020 census. [4]

  6. Church of the Redeemer (Houston, Texas) - Wikipedia

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    The Church of the Redeemer, Episcopal in Houston, Texas is an Episcopal inner city church. During the late 1960s, under Rector Graham Pulkingham and for several decades, it was a center for liturgically based worship and charismatic revival.

  7. History of Houston - Wikipedia

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    The city of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas was founded in 1837 after Augustus and John Allen had acquired land to establish a new town at the junction of Buffalo and White Oak bayous in 1836. Houston served as the temporary capital of the Republic of Texas. Meanwhile, the town developed as a regional transportation and commercial hub.

  8. Holocaust Museum Houston - Wikipedia

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    Holocaust Museum Houston. Red Line. The Holocaust Museum Houston is located in Houston 's Museum District, in Texas. It is the fourth largest holocaust museum in the U.S. It was opened in 1996. [1] The Boniuk Center houses Holocaust Museum Houston's Education Department, including four classrooms, staff offices, storage rooms, and a library.

  9. Geography of Houston - Wikipedia

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    Houston, the most populous city in the Southern United States, is located along the upper Texas Gulf Coast, approximately 50 miles (80 km) northwest of the Gulf of Mexico at Galveston. The city, which is the ninth-largest in the United States by area , covers 601.7 square miles (1,558 km 2 ), of which 579.4 square miles (1,501 km 2 ), or 96.3% ...