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93 unusual facts about Houston


16th G7 summit

In addition to their talks about significant international problems, the world leaders set aside some time to dine together in a formal affair which took place in Houston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFAH) (HF.

2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament: qualifying teams

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Alamo Heights SA

After producing a short trailer in 2005 for use as a tool to obtain funding for a pilot, he took the pilot to the NATPE trade show in Las Vegas where he was able to obtain funding from an investment group in Houston to produce a full length pilot in 2006 consisting of 12 mini-episodes for distribution over the internet.

Alexander Fishenko

Born in Kazakhstan, within the USSR, Fishenko immigrated to the United States in 1994, becoming a citizen in 2003, and is currently the CEO of Houston-based Arc Electronics Inc.

Allen Ranch

He arrived at the young town of Harrisburg (modern east Houston) and soon after married into the Thomas family which had come to Texas as part of Stephen F. Austin's original colony.

Alvin Fielder

In 2012, Fielder was awarded the Resounding Vision Award by Nameless Sound in Houston.

Ann-Sofi Sidén

For the residency, she made a journey on horse-back that lasted 25 days, and ended at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

Asoka Handagama

Novel in the form, this minimalist film travelled all around the world, was critically acclaimed at more than 50 international film festivals, and won numerous awards in Singapore, Chonju, Delhi, Houston, Bangkok and Tokyo.

Baikalfinansgrup

On December 15, 2004, Yukos filed for a bankruptcy protection in a Houston court, and obtained a temporary injunction prohibiting Gazprom from participating in the auction.

Barry Whitbread

His son Zak, born in Houston, Texas, while Whitbread was working in the USA, became a professional footballer after developing in the Liverpool academy.

Battleground Texas

Battleground Texas also has a satellite office in Houston.

Beaver Nelson

Nelson got his start in Houston playing various venues and releasing two albums when he was still in high school.

Boutique law firm

Additionally, Alexandria-based IP boutique Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis merged with Pittsburgh-based Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney in 2005, Cushman, Darby & Cushman was absorbed by national firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman (then Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro), Houston-based Arnold, White & Durkee merged with Howrey (then Howrey & Simon), and Los Angeles-based Lyon & Lyon dissolved in 2002.

Chen Chi

Chi's works have been shown extensively throughout the United States including at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1948); the Miami Beach Art Center (1952); the La Jolla Art Center and the Witte Museum (1953); and the Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum in Seattle (1955).

China Sonangol International Airlines

The airline provides thrice-weekly services from Luanda to Houston on a Boeing 747-400 (10 First Class, 143 Business Class and 36 Economy Class seats) operated by Atlas Air.

Christopher Wilkins

As a YOA Orchestra of the Americas residential conductor he have conducted at such cities as Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco and also held performances overseas as well in such countries as New Zealand, Spain, the United Kingdom and in various countries of Latin America.

ConocoPhillips Rodeo Run

While the 5K route remains flat along the downtown streets, the 10K course features a one mile elevation of the route as it travels over the Elysian Viaduct north of downtown.

D. J. Hayden

Hayden committed to University of Houston on June 8, 2010, and enrolled in the university in 2011; thereafter, he played for the Houston Cougars football team in 2011 and 2012.

Daniele Gangemi

In 2009 he is invited to the 42nd Worldfest International Independent Film Festival of Houston in Texas for the world premier of his movie “Una notte blu cobalto” getting the award for the ”Best First Feature”.

Dave Elmendorf

David attended and graduated, in 1967, from Westbury High School in Houston, Texas.

Dawn Okoro

Dawn Okoro (b. 1980, in Houston), is an artist who paints figurative art works inspired by fashion and popular culture.

Dinh Q. Lê

Dinh Q. Lê's artwork has been the theme of solo exhibitions at the Houston Center for Photography, the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies in an exhibition titled The Headless Buddha, which traveled to Portland, Oregon, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Santa Cruz, California.

East Knapton

The gas fields and power station were bought by UK Energy Systems Ltd for $70 million from Viking UK Gas Ltd (owned by Viking Petroleum of Houston) who owned the fields since December 2003 and this company is still based in East Knapton as part of the acquisition.

El presente

At the Latin Grammy Awards in Houston, Texas, after a presentation of various accordions in Latin music that touched it with her song.

Eldridge Dickey

High School and went on to play at Booker T. Washington High School, both in his hometown of Houston, Texas.

Erica Mer

Born in San Antonio, Texas, Mer moved to Houston where she took her first theater performance class at the age of four.

Frank Valenti

He died on September 20, 2008 at a nursing home in Sugar Land outside Houston at the age of 97.

Fred Faour

He is a graduate of the University of Houston with a bachelor of arts degree in communications.

Gaston Lenôtre

As a patriarch, he liked to work with his family members, twelve of them at one time; including the third generation of Lenôtre chefs, amongst which was his son Alain, the founder of the Culinary Institute located in Houston, USA.

George R. Brown

The organization donates to notable institutions such as Rice University, Southwestern University, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Hank Plante

His experience includes reporting and anchoring at TV stations in various cities, including KHJ-TV in Los Angeles, KRIV-TV in Houston, KMSP-TV in Minneapolis and WVEC-TV in Norfolk, Virginia.

Heather Albert

Albert broke her right clavicle and dislocated her thumb in March 2004, when she was brought down in an incident involving Rebecca Quinn during a track race at the Alkek Velodrome, Houston.

Hermenegildo da Costa Paulo Bartolomeu

The player's first game for the Angolan national team was played in Houston, United States, on May 13, 2010, in his country defeat against Mexico 1-0, when he came as a substitute for Minguito.

Himayat Ali Shair

In 2002, Houston based Radio Station Young Tarang released a CD based on Shair's poetry which included songs sung by famous Pakistani singers and recitation by himself.

Hit Video USA

From 1985 to 1993, the station was located on the 35th floor of the Allied Bank Plaza/First Interstate Plaza (now Wells Fargo Plaza), a skyscraper in Downtown Houston.

Houston Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Houston Methodist Episcopal Church, South is a historic church on AR 60 on the southwest side, near the junction with AR 216 in Houston, Arkansas.

Houston, British Columbia

Houston is located in School District 54 Bulkley Valley and has three public schools and one privately run Christian denominational school.

Houston, Minnesota

John J. Sliter, Minnesota legislator, served as a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, was a member of the Houston School Board.

Houston, Ohio

The transmitter site of WHIO-FM (formerly WPTW-FM,WCLR and WDPT respectively and licensed to Piqua) is located south of the community on Aiken Road adjacent to State Route 66.

Houston, We've Got a Problem

Houston, We've Got a Problem is a 1974 television film about the Apollo 13 spaceflight, directed by Lawrence Doheny and starring Ed Nelson in the role of NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz.

The title of the film is a misquotation of the ominous announcement made by Commander Jim Lovell following the explosion of an oxygen tank which tore off the side of the spacecraft service module.

Jim Lovell wrote a letter to TV Guide about the film, saying that the crises in Mission Control were dramatized.

Howard Waldrop

Howard Waldrop (born September 15, 1946, in Houston, Mississippi) is a science fiction author who works primarily in short fiction.

J. D. Kimmel

After completing his undergraduate education at the University of Houston in 1952, Kimmel spent two years in the United States Army.

Jake Childs

Childs’ musical career as a house music producer and DJ started in Houston where he became a fan of a house radio show and began attending weekly house music events.

James Failla

In 1993, the Houston-based Browning-Ferris Industries (BFI), a national trash-hauling corporation, started doing business in New York.

Jason Michael Brescia

The film would premiere at the New Beverly Cinema on October 30, 2010, and would later go on to screen at the Wet Your Pants Comedy Film Festival in Indianapolis, Indiana, the Houston Comedy Film Festival, and Indie Fest USA in Garden Grove, California.

Jessica Zhu

At age 11, she moved with her family to Sugar Land, Texas, near Houston, where she studied piano for six years with John Weems.

John Colyandro

Colyandro graduated from Westfield High School in Houston, Texas in 1982.

John R. Harvey

Dr. Harvey is one of the two founding members (with Jennifer Decker) of the Houston based Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company.

Jonathan Garcia

Jonathan Garcia was born December 14, 1986, and grew up in Katy, Texas, in the Houston metropolitan area.

Jorge and Lorena Gamboa

The Gamboas participate in local TV programs such as: "de pareja a pareja" at Channel 21.2 FAMILIA TV, Bendicion TV 43.4, Familia TV 27.4, Celebration at Daystar and Diles at International Spanish TBN in Houston, Texas.

Justice at the Gate

Patterson was one of the major organizers of "The Response," a prayer meeting organized by Perry and held at Reliant Stadium in Houston.

K. V. K. Raju

After a short stint in American he returned to India and worked for short periods at Caltex Oil Refinery, Orient General Industries and Associated Electrical Industries.

Katherine Center

She received her M.A. in fiction from the University of Houston, where she was the co-editor of the literary fiction magazine, Gulf Coast.

Center graduated from St. John's School in Houston, Texas, and from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Kipp Lynn Academy

KIPP Academy Lynn (often referred to as KIPP Lynn) is modeled after the nationally recognized Knowledge Is Power Program in South Bronx, New York and Houston, Texas.

Kuk Sool Won

Currently the World Kuk Sool Association headquarters is located in Tomball, Texas, which is roughly forty miles northwest of Houston.

Madd Hatta

Madd Hatta (Also Known As "Mista Madd") is the owner of Paid in Full Entertainment and the host of the Houston-based radio talk show Madd Hatta Morning Show on KBXX 97.9 The Box.

Media censorship and disinformation during 2013 protests in Turkey

Yeni Şafak newspaper claimed that Zello application, which was used by protestors to communicate during the protests was served to them by a source in Houston and protestors were taking orders from that source.

Metropolitan-Vickers F.2

Incidentally, Metrovick had recently merged with British Thomson-Houston, another turbine builder who were supporting Whittle's efforts.

Monroe Dunaway Anderson

The Anderson Foundation agreed to match the state funds if the hospital were located in Houston at the Texas Medical Center (another project of the Anderson Foundation), and named after Anderson.

MTL Instruments Group

In 2008, MTL Instruments was purchased by Cooper Industries of Houston, Texas, under that company's Crouse-Hinds division.

Mud Bruneteau

Modere Fernand "Mud" Bruneteau (November 28, 1914 in St. Boniface, Manitoba – April 15, 1992 in Houston, Texas) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League.

Muslim Interscholastic Tournament

In February 2002, Siddiqi and her core team of volunteers at the University of Houston and alumni of the Muslim Students' Association at the University of Texas, Austin, implemented the first MIST with 118 students from Houston, Austin, and Dallas.

The Muslim Inter-Scholastic Tournament (MIST) consists of annual Regional Tournaments for high school students in the United States and Canada that take place in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, DC, Philadelphia, New York City, Florida, Houston, Southern California, and Toronto.

Nahua peoples

Within the last 50 years, Nahua populations have appeared in the USA, particularly in New York, L.A., and Houston.

Nicholas Boothman

In order to demonstrate the validity of his techniques in the book, Boothman visited three locations in Houston, accompanied by a Houston Chronicle reporter.

Nick Cooper

Upon returning to Houston, Cooper began the Houston branch of indymedia with other local activists, and began travelling to work with other indymedias.

Nicky Mondellini

Nicky decided to move with her family to Houston, Texas in 2005 following the kidnapping of two of her actress friends in Mexico City.

O. J. Brigance

Orenthial James Brigance (born September 29, 1969 in Houston, Texas) is a former football player in the Canadian Football League and the National Football League.

Paradip

Paradip has been identified for development as one of the six major petroleum, chemicals and petrochemical investment regions (PCPIRs) in India, along the lines of Pudong in China, Rotterdam in Europe and Houston in North America.

Qatar Bahrain Causeway

On 15 November 2008, the Qatar-Bahrain Causeway Foundation awarded a contract to KBR, an engineering company headquartered in Houston, "to provide design, project and construction management services for the Qatar-Bahrain road and rail marine crossing".

Rashid al-Rifai

There Rashid graduated earned his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering with honors which culminated in yet another scholarship at Rice University in Houston, Texas, this time earning him a Ph.D. in the same subject.

Republican Party presidential primaries, 1992

Incumbent President George H.W. Bush was again selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1992 Republican National Convention held from August 17 to August 20, 1992 in Houston, Texas.

Ruby Kless Sondock

Justice Ruby Kless Sondock (born April 26, 1926 in Houston, Texas) was the first woman to serve on the Texas Supreme Court.

Russell Jacquet

He later played with several small groups in Oakland, California, and in Houston with Arnett Cobb, and on a few dates in New York with his brother.

Sandra Gin

Sandra Gin is a broadcast journalist who served as news anchor/reporter for KHOU-TV in Houston, Texas from 1994 to 2002.

Semir Osmanagić

Semir Osmanagić (born 1 June 1960 in Zenica, SFR Yugoslavia), also known as Sam Osmanagich is the founder and executive director of the Bosnian Pyramids of the Sun Foundation, and owner of a metalworking company in Houston, United States.

Sommer West

Sommer West (born April 24, 1978 in Houston, Texas and raised in Bowmanville, Ontario) was a Canadian Olympic softball player at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Songa Offshore

Songa Offshore SE is a Norwegian-Cypriot offshore drilling contractor founded in 2005 with offices in Cyprus, Stavanger, Oslo, Houston, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.

SS Empire Cromwell

A voyage was made to Houston and back, before Empire Cromwell returned to Houston, departing on 12 February for the Hampton Roads.

Tanzio da Varallo

La fuga in Egitto, oil on canvas, Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Samuel H. Kress Collection.

The Mind of Gil Scott-Heron

#"Jose Campos Torres" – 2:36 (about Jose Campos Torres, a U.S. Army veteran who was arrested and then murdered and tossed into a bayou by two police officers in Houston in 1978, spurring the Moody Park Riot)

Timko sisters

The Timko Sisters of Houston, Pennsylvania became the first girls to win a WPIAL Boys Doubles Tennis Title.

Tokihiro Satō

Sato’s photographs are held throughout the world in public and private museums including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Art Institute of Chicago; the Cleveland Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art (Saitama, Japan); Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo); Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane); and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.

Tony Braunagel

Tony Braunagel is an American drummer, record producer and composer, from Houston, Texas.

Tricky Lofton

Lawrence "Tricky" Lofton (born May 28, 1930, Houston) is an American jazz trombonist.

Urdu Times

Over the years, Urdu Times extended the area of publication and is now being published in New York, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Miami, Detroit, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Mississauga (a suburb of Toronto), Montreal, London, Birmingham and Manchester.

Walter Stanley Mooneyham

Walter Stanley Mooneyham (born 14 January 1926 in Houston, Texas, USA; died 3 June 1991 in Los Angeles, California, USA) was Editor of the Journal United Evangelical Action (1959–1964), Vice President of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (1967–1969) and President of the Christian humanitarian NGO World Vision (1969–1982).

Western Company of North America

In 1939, after working as a Sales Engineer with Reed Roller Bit Company in Houston, Eddie Chiles founded the Western Company of North America.

WHIO-FM

From 2000 until 2006, "The Point" aired classic hits from the late 1970s and 1980s and was briefly simulcast on WDTP, 95.3 in Xenia before reverting to the WZLR calls as classic rock-formatted "The Eagle." Before that it was WCLR at first as "Clear 95" airing easy listening music (as did its predecessor WPTW-FM for many years) when the transmitter was moved from its studios to its present location near the rural community of Houston just north of Piqua in 1986.

Woody Freeman

Freeman’s partners are Phil H. Hout and Jesse Stafford, both then of Jonesboro, and Peter Seale of Houston, Texas.


1995 NBA Playoffs

Game 1 @ Alamodome, San Antonio (May 22): Houston 94, San Antonio 93 (Robert Horry hits the game-winner with 6.5 seconds left)

2008 Open Sabadell Atlántico Barcelona

Among other players were Delray Beach and Houston runner-up James Blake, Costa do Sauípe finalist Carlos Moyá, Tommy Robredo, Andy Murray and Ivo Karlović.

2011 Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas

The 2011 Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas, the sixth edition of the game, was a post-season American college football bowl game, held on December 31, 2011 at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas as part of the 2011–12 NCAA Bowl season.

Ahmed Bukhatir

Bukhatir's first concerts on US soil took place in April 2012, when he appeared at events sponsored by the Al-Furqaan Foundation's Furqaan Academy that were held in Dallas, Houston, and Chicago.

Aldine

Aldine Independent School District, a school district in Houston, Texas, United States

Animal Cops: Houston

The Houston SPCA served as the coordinator of relief efforts for animals trapped in New Orleans, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Baker Hughes

Baker Hughes has its headquarters in the America Tower in the American General Center in Neartown, Houston.

Béla Károlyi

Károlyi required that all national team members attend frequent grueling camps at his New Waverly, Texas gymnastics ranch, north of Houston, and selection procedures for international meets became more arbitrary.

British Columbia Highway 16

At Houston, Highway 16 begins a parallel course along the little Bulkley River, proceeding 81 km (50 mi) east to its junction with Highway 35 at Burns Lake.

Carlomagno Pedro Martínez

In 2006, it appeared at the Texas Gallery in Houston and the Boston Arts Academy.

Carol Alvarado

Her political activism began at the age of 12, when she assisted her godfather's campaign for the Houston City Council District I. Prior to formally entering public life, Alvarado worked in City Hall as a Senior Executive Assistant to Houston Mayor Lee P. Brown.

Da Sky's da Limit

Da Sky's da Limit is the fourth album by Houston rapper Big Pokey.

Dan Kubiak

In 1972, he published a second book, A Monument to a Black Man: The Biography of William Goyens, a study of the African American who served as an aide to Sam Houston and was a negotiator for Indian treaties.

Dan Sandifer

He once played in a tennis exhibition match in Houston, Texas with future president, George H. W. Bush and professionals Tony Roche and John Newcombe.

Dan W. Brown

Dan Brown was born in Solo, Missouri and is a graduate of Houston (Missouri) High School.

Demetrius Comino

After graduating with a first class honours degree in 1924, Comino served a three-year apprenticeship with British Thomson-Houston in Rugby before leaving to establish a printing business, Krisson Printing Ltd, near Oxford Circus in central London ("Krisson" being Greek for 'better').

Dennis Sarfate

On December 12, 2007, Sarfate was traded by the Houston Astros along with Luke Scott, pitchers Matt Albers and Troy Patton, and third baseman Michael Costanzo to the Baltimore Orioles in exchange for shortstop Miguel Tejada.

Di Leo

Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston–Victoria

Drayton McLane, Jr.

The Astros 2005 season was the most successful season on the field for the Houston franchise.

Ernest Wood

The couple took up residence in a small cottage adjacent to the Fellowship property on Wirt Road in the Spring Branch district of Houston.

Ewa Malas-Godlewska

Queen of the Night in Mozart's Magic Flute production by Bob Wilson, Paris Opera, L'Opera Comique, Le Theatre du Chatelet, Le Theatre des Champs Elysees, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers and Parisian Bastille Opera, the Houston Grand Opera in Texas

Grady Gaines

As of January 2013, Gaines continues to perform with his Texas Upsetters for private parties and wedding receptions and for public events, such as the Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club in Houston's Rice Village neighborhood.

Houston and Killellan

Houston and Killellan was served by Houston railway station (formerly 'Crosslee' and 'Crosslee and Houston'; closed 1983) near to Crosslee and the nearby village of Brookfield, and Georgetown railway station (formerly 'Houston'; closed 1959) which, for much of its history, primarily served ROF Bishopton.

Houston Football Stadium

On August 18, 2011, the University of Houston announced that they had received the largest single donation for the stadium when co-CEOs and co-founders of Austin-based Data Foundry, Ron and Carolyn Yokubaitis donated $10 million USD to the project.

Houston Hurricanes FC

Hurricanes FC was established in December 2012 as an NPSL relocated team, when the league announced that team owner Brendan Keyes was moving his Galveston franchise to Houston.

Houston, Minnesota

Everett Bidwell, Wisconsin legislator, served as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and Wisconsin Senate; born in Houston.

Houston, Mississippi

The land on which Houston resides was donated to the city by Judge Joel Pinson on the condition that it would be named for Sam Houston, a childhood friend.

James Houston

Jim Houston (James Edward "Jim" Houston), former American football linebacker

John L. Nau

He also serves as a Board Member for the Center for Houston’s Future, Discovery Green Conservancy in Houston, Friends of the Texas Historical Commission, Friends of Vicksburg National Military Park, Houston Police Foundation, The Admiral Nimitz Foundation, and the Texas State Historical Association.

Joseph Prince

On October 29, 2011, Prince ministered in the US for the first time at Lakewood Church, America's largest church, in Houston, Texas.

KBTX-TV

KBTX serves Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Leon, Madison, Milam, Montgomery, Robertson, Walker and Washington counties, some of which are also in the Houston market, but receive KBTX.

Kevin Cahoon

Cahoon began his performing career at the age of 5 as 'The World's Youngest Rodeo Clown', performing throughout the Texas and Oklahoma Rodeo Circuits, including many consecutive seasons at The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo at Houston's Astrodome and The Texas State High School Finals Rodeo, resulting in a Letter of Citation from then Texas Governor Bill Clements.

Laura Furman

After living in Houston, Galveston, Dallas, and Lockhart she settled in Austin with her husband, Joel Warren Barna, and their son.

Lloyd Robertson

Robertson has outlasted Kirck, the late Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Bob Schieffer, Tom Brokaw, and the late Peter Jennings to become the longest-serving network news anchor in television history; he is also one of the longest-serving news anchors on English-language North American television (network or local) along with KTRK-TV (Houston)'s Dave Ward, WNBC (New York)'s Chuck Scarborough and KING-TV (Seattle)'s Jean Enersen.

Manyc Records

Igor Hansen-Love, the bass player in Milt Opus, was an early mentor to Nikolai Fraiture, who, together with Julian Casablancas, also attended the LFNY, and formed a band called The Strokes in 1998, shortly after Milt Opus played its first gig at The Spiral, an East Houston Street music venue in New York City.

Marshall Formby

The other contestants were sitting Governor Marion Price Daniel, Sr., who sought an unprecedented fourth two-year term; Don Yarborough, a liberal lawyer and supporter of organized labor from Houston; former Attorney General Will Wilson, later a Republican convert, and retired Army General Edwin A. Walker, known for his staunch anti-communism.

Michael Fors Olson

Archbishop Emeritus Joseph Fiorenza of Galveston-Houston, and Bishop Kevin William Vann of Orange, California were the co-consecrators.

NUS Dance Synergy

He was subsequently selected to study choreography under the tutelage of Mr Ben Stevenson, Artistic Director of the Houston Ballet in the United States in 1988, and was engaged as a Guest Choreographer by the Houston Ballet Academy in 1991.

Premiere Cinemas

Flagship megaplex Premiere Cinema locations are operated in Bryan-College Station, El Paso, Houston, and Temple, Texas, Orlando, Florida, Gadsden, Spanish Fort, and Bessemer, Alabama, and Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

Robert D. Bullard

Over the 1980s Bullard widened his study of environmental racism to the whole American South, focusing on communities in Houston, in Dallas, Texas, Alsen, Louisiana, Institute, West Virginia, and Emelle, Alabama.

Sally Mayes

Born in Livingston, Texas, Mayes began her career as a rock and jazz singer in Houston.

Shamrock Basketball Association

Included in these locations are the following Texas cities: Dallas, Fort Worth, Forney, Richardson, Irving, Tyler, Longview, Conroe, College Station, Waco, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Lubbock, Abilene, and Midland.

Texas Patriots PAC

The Texas Patriots PAC has hosted many Tea Party rallies in the Houston area, which have featured such guests as Andrew Breitbart, Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Jim DeMint, Laura Ingraham, Herman Cain, Michael Berry, Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick, and Jim "Mattress Mack" McIngvale.

Touch the Sky

The video features Pamela Anderson, Nia Long, Tracee Ellis Ross, and the Booker T. Washington High School Marching Band of Houston, Texas, which performs with Lupe Fiasco at a pep rally.