The team also traded relief pitcher Jose Valverde, who led the major leagues in saves in 2007 with 47, to the Houston Astros for reliever Chad Qualls, RHP Juan Gutiérrez and IF / OF Chris Burke.

The Marlins also drafted P Johan Santana from Houston in the Rule 5 Draft but traded him to Minnesota in a prearranged deal for P Jared Camp.

* LaGuardia Place, a street in Greenwich Village which runs from Houston Street to Washington Square, is named for La Guardia ; there is also a statue of the mayor on that street.

The largest population of Guatemalans is in Los Angeles, but there are also established Guatemalan communities in Dallas, Houston, Miami, New York City, San Diego, San Francisco area, and Washington, DC.

The team also has a cheerleading squad simply named the Houston Texans Cheerleaders.

Shortly thereafter, McMullen ( who also owned the NHL's New Jersey Devils ) sold the team to Texas businessman Drayton McLane in 1993, who committed to keeping the team in Houston.

He also delivered remarks on free enterprise zones at the 1992 Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas.

This uniform wasn't worn again until a 40-33 win against the Houston Texans on September 25, 2011 and also on November 6, 2011 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in a 27-16 Saints win.

Eric Harrison of the Houston Chronicle noted that Cruz " goes all out " with her appearance and Patrick Peters of Empire magazine commented that the film's director, who also appears in the film, was able to draw a " sensitive performance " from Cruz.

This was also the first Super Bowl played in a stadium that was not the current home to an NFL or AFL team, as no team had called Rice Stadium home since the Houston Oilers moved into the Astrodome.

This was also only the second of 16 Super Bowls to not take place in one of the three so-called " Big Super Bowl Cities " ( the other was Houston in 1974 ).

While hippies also gathered in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Seattle, Portland, Washington, D. C., Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, New Orleans, Miami, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, and across Europe, San Francisco was the center of the hippie revolution, a melting pot of music, psychoactive drugs, sexual freedom, creative expression, and politics.

The team also wore their white uniforms in home games, as opposed to their time in Houston, when their blue uniforms were worn at home – in the two years as the Tennessee Oilers, the team only wore their colored jerseys twice, for road games against the Miami Dolphins and a Thanksgiving Day game against the Dallas Cowboys.

The IWW also had a presence among waterfront workers in Boston, New York City, New Orleans, Houston, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Eureka, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Vancouver as well as in ports in the Caribbean, Mexico, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and other nations.

The Canadian based company then brought suit against the United States alleging violations under N. A. F. T. A .. Houston based Service Corporation International has also had their share of legal troubles with the operations of both their funeral home and cemetery operations.

Seeing that his only choice was to keep the army together enough to be able to fight on favorable grounds, Houston ordered a retreat towards the U. S. border, and many settlers also fled in the same direction.

There is speculation that one of the possible scenarios Houston envisioned was to actually lead his Texan army into Louisiana ( U. S. territory ), whereupon an invading Mexican army could be attacked not only by the retreating Texan army but also by American forces summoned from garrisons in New Orleans.

The tune has also been heard at Robertson Stadium after Houston Dynamo goals scored by Brian Ching, a native of Hawaii.

A large volume of railroad freight moves through Memphis, because of its two heavy-duty Mississippi River railroad crossings, which carry several major east-west railroad freight lines, and also because of the major north-south railroad lines through Memphis which connect with such major cities as Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Louisville, New Orleans, Dallas, Houston, Mobile, and Birmingham.

Development was also hindered by the construction of the Houston Ship Channel, which brought the Port of Houston into direct competition with the natural harbor of the Port of Galveston for sea traffic.

The American premiere was held on October 12, 1984 at the Houston Grand Opera, where Glass's opera The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 also premiered.

Texaco has also has also been involved in open wheel racing, sponsoring the Texaco Grand Prix of Houston along with sponsoring drivers like Indianapolis 500 winner Mario Andretti and his son Michael.

In 1818 Houston was appointed as the local prosecutor in Nashville, and was also given a command in the state militia.

Austin requested to be relieved of his command of the army, and Sam Houston was named army chief.

Press interest, due to the satellite broadcast and the new center in Houston, proved to be so high that NASA had to lease buildings to accommodate the 1, 100 print and broadcast journalists who requested accreditation.

Santa Anna, in his distrust of civil government, had requested that he be allowed to negotiate a treaty with Houston.

After an initial notice to 34 cities, 10 cities requested the RFP to host the convention: Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Miami, New York and Pittsburgh.

On September 10, 1965, MSC Director Robert R. Gilruth formally requested that the University of Houston give immediate consideration to the establishment of a permanent graduate and undergraduate educational facility in the Clear Lake area.

On December 21, 1835, Houston requested that Neill, now a lieutenant colonel of an artillery company, take command at of the Texian and Tejano garrison stationed at the Alamo Mission in San Antonio de Bexar.

* Attached Support Processor, one of the two early IBM System / 360 programs that replaces the native SPOOL facilities of OS / 360 ; the other was Houston Automatic Spooling Priority ( HASP ).

A duet with Ricky Van Shelton, " Rockin ' Years " ( 1991 ) reached number one but Parton's greatest commercial fortune of the decade came when Whitney Houston recorded " I Will Always Love You " for the soundtrack of the feature film The Bodyguard ( 1992 ); both the single and the album were massively successful.

On February 11, 2012, after the sudden death of Whitney Houston, Dolly Parton stated, " Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston.

Two awards are presented each year, one to a Houston Astro and one to a St. Louis Cardinal, each of whom exemplifies Kile's virtues of being " a good teammate, a great friend, a fine father and a humble man.

Major influences were Friedrich Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler and, most importantly, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, the British-born German writer who was one of the founders of " scientific " anti-Semitism, and whose book The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century ( 1899 ) was one of the standard works of the extreme right in Germany.

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Friedman had an early interest in both music and chess, and was chosen at age 7 as one of 50 local players to challenge U. S. grandmaster Samuel Reshevsky to simultaneous games in Houston.

Sam Houston from Texas was one of the few southern opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

The Giants dropped one game to the Tennessee Titans before going on a five-game winning streak, beating the Chicago Bears, Houston Texans, Detroit Lions, Dallas Cowboys, and Seattle Seahawks.

On September 2 Smith tied a career high by scoring four runs, one of which was a home run, and another on a close play at home plate in the bottom of the 10th inning against division leader Houston.

At Caltech Lipscomb intended to study theoretical quantum mechanics with Prof. W. V. Houston in the Physics Department, but after one semester switched to the Chemistry Department under the

* January 21 – In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 9, 500 pounds ( 4. 75 tons ) of cocaine aboard headed for Houston, Texas.

There was no regular army yet ; Austin ’ s army was all volunteers, so Houston would have to build one.

On May 6, 2004, his wife, Lea Fastow, a former Enron assistant treasurer, pled guilty to a misdemeanor tax charge and was sentenced to one year in a federal prison in Houston, and an additional year of supervised release.

By this time, he was both an antisemite-influenced by Houston Stewart Chamberlain's book The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century ( one of the key proto-Nazi books of racial theory )-and an anti-bolshevik ( as a result of his family's exile ).

Roger Clemens pitched in one game for the Legends in 2006 as part of his preparation to return to the Houston Astros.

In 2007, the Comcast Center surpassed One Liberty Place to become the city's tallest building and make Philadelphia one of only four American cities with two or more buildings over ; the other cities being New York, Houston, and Chicago.

At one point, Sam Houston, president of the newly created Republic of Texas, almost succeeded in reaching a peace treaty with the Comanche.

Late in 2008, the WNBA took over ownership of one of the league's original franchises, the Houston Comets.

Houston is the only person in U. S. history to have been the governor of two different states ( although other men had served as governors of more than one American territory ).