While he initially sought annexation by the U. S., Houston dropped that goal during his first term.

Houston was initially included because of the proximity to the US Army's San Jacinto Ordnance Depot located on the Houston Ship Channel, and two nearby universities: the University of Houston and Rice University.

Adams was initially a hero in Houston for making the city a major-league town, but his popularity tailed off during the Oilers ' early NFL years.

The world's first girls ' Military Drill Squad, initially the Black Battalion, but now called the Tigerettes, originated at Houston High School.

Cannon first sought the Tennessee governorship in 1827 in a field that initially included Sam Houston, former governor Willie Blount, Felix Grundy, and aging frontiersman John Rhea.

Iris initially set out to visit her grown son Dennis ( Jim Poyner ), who had relocated from Bay City to Houston.

They initially thought the light was an airplane approaching Houston Intercontinental Airport ( about 35 miles away ) and gave it little notice.

After Boesch sold his Houston territory to the WWF, Prichard would move there, initially as a color commentator for televised WWF events from the Houston area.

The Five quiz One to Win was a half-hour show whose format was effectively based on the latter three rounds of Going for Gold, repackaged and with a different host ( initially, Paul Roseby, then later, Robin Houston, better known as the ' voice of the computer ' on another Five quiz show, 100 %.).

Harrisburg was initially the major shipping power on the bayou but the destruction wrought by the Texas Revolution and the American Civil War eroded its influence allowing Houston to become the river's dominant commercial center.

Keeland initially attended Texas A & M University and later enrolled at the University of Houston where he received a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1950.

The b-side of the single includes four songs: " Dancin ' on the Smooth Edge ", which was initially included as the b-side to " All the Man That I Need " ( 1991 ), " Moment of Truth ", " Do You Hear What I Hear ", which Houston recorded for the compilation A Very Special Christmas album ( 1987 ), and her duet with Aretha Franklin, " It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be " ( 1989 ).

The remainder of his major league career would be spent working in tandem with Richards, initially as a coach with the Chicago White Sox ( 1951 – 54 ), Baltimore Orioles ( 1955 – 61 ), and Houston Colt. 45s ( 1962 – 64 ).

The governor initially supported the plan, and asked Houston to organize the expedition ; Houston appointed James Bowie to lead the expedition, but Bowie did not receive his orders for several weeks.

The network initially refused to air the program with Brown as the sole star and only greenlighted it when Houston agreed to be included in the regular cast.

While taking a business trip, Max Klein ( Jeff Bridges ) survives a crash of a flight headed from San Francisco to Houston.

* 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.

He then moved to the ranks of professional football, where he headed the NFL's Los Angeles Rams ( 1955 – 1959 ), the American Football League's Los Angeles and San Diego Chargers ( 1960 – 1969 ), and the NFL's Chargers ( 1971 ), and Houston Oilers ( 1973 – 1974 ), amassing a career record of 123 – 104 – 7 in the National Football League and the American Football League.

They headed a force of four transport ships ( Houston, Río Escondido, Caribe and Atlántico ) carrying about 1, 400 Cuban exile ground troops of Brigade 2506, plus tanks and other vehicles in the landing craft.

W. S. Farish Co., today is headed by grandson Will III, and still operates in Houston.

After a final NBA season with the Houston Rockets in 1983, Bryant headed to Europe, playing seven seasons in Italy with clubs of the Italian A1 League and the Italian A2 League.

In 2003 ( incidentally, the Chinese zodiac's Year of the Goat ), a group of Cubs fans headed to Houston with a billy goat named " Virgil Homer " and attempted to gain entrance to Minute Maid Park, home of their division rivals the Astros.

Robert Mosbacher, Jr., is a Houston businessman and a former Republican politician who headed the Overseas Private Investment Corporation in the administration of President George W. Bush.

Mayor Lanier also headed the corporation that oversaw construction of the city's new Hilton Americas – Houston, the city ’ s first convention center hotel – a project that started during his administration.

The NAACP's legal department, headed by Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall, undertook a campaign spanning several decades to bring about the reversal of the " separate but equal " doctrine announced by the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson.

An group headed by former Houston Rockets president Gavin Maloof was revealed as owners of the Birmingham franchise in November 1990.

Hurricane Rita headed towards Houston, with its outer bands bringing rain to the New Orleans area.

Meanwhile, Ray, Fantasia, and Pluto are headed to Houston.

As the New South snowballs toward further urbanization, it becomes more and more homogeneous with the North -- a tendency which Willard Thorp terms `` Yankeefication '', as evidenced in such cities as Charlotte, Birmingham, and Houston.

It was at this time in which Houston turned toward Harrisburg to the southeast at the famed " fork in the road.

The general trend toward urbanization of the entire area is reflected by the fact that in 1965 Liberty County was added to the Houston Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area.

However, Houston soon turned to southeast toward Harrisburg.

On April 20, he then countermarched toward Lynch ’ s Ferry, where Houston ’ s army had, earlier that morning, established a position in the woods along the confluence of the San Jacinto River and Buffalo Bayou.

Almost immediately, Armstrong reported back, " Hey, Houston, I'm looking north up toward Aristarchus now, and there's an area that is considerably more illuminated than the surrounding area.

Tanox, a biotech company based in Houston, Texas, proposed in 1987 that by targeting membrane-bound IgE ( mIgE ) on B lymphoblast and memory B cells, those cells can be lysed or down-regulated, thus achieving the inhibition of the production of antigen-specific IgE and hence a shift of immune balance toward non-IgE mechanisms.

* In an NBA game on December 9, 1977, Kermit Washington of the Los Angeles Lakers was already fighting with Kevin Kunnert of the Houston Rockets when Rudy Tomjanovich of the Rockets came running toward them.

They inhabited the Gulf Coast of Texas from Galveston Bay in the present-day Greater Houston area, then south toward Corpus Christi Bay.

The district will include Kingwood, Humble, and Atascocita in northeastern Harris County, then loop around northern and western Houston, before moving toward the center of the city roughly following Interstate 10.

View toward North from Park Towers ( Houston ) | Park Towers South

During the opening credits, shots of the downtown Houston skyline ( with the One Shell Plaza building under construction ) zoom toward the Houston Astrodome and Astrohall, with the emerging Texas Medical Center in the background.

Quality Courts began its efforts toward national coverage in 1966 when it opened a motel in St. Louis, Missouri and two in Texas at Houston and Arlington.