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7 hours ago · Harris County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas; as of the 2020 census, the population was 4,731,145, making it the most populous county in Texas and the third-most populous county in the United States. Its county seat is Houston, the most populous city in Texas and fourth-most populous city in the United States. The county was ...
7 hours ago · Prior to the 19th century, most cities in the United States did not have formally organized or bureaucratized police departments.“The police” as Americans have come to know them simply did not exist in colonial and early American life. 17 That does not, however, mean that there was no form of policing, even if the forces empowered to carry out law enforcement functions do not look like ...
7 hours ago · Appel, Mason, and Watts divide oil anthropology into four approaches: (a) the resource curse focused on oil money, oil politics of states and the political elite; (b) oil as violence, focused on big oil and big military, and imperial states competing for a diminishing resource; (c) oil as modernity, focused on the relationship between oil and consumerism, modern amenities, carbon emissions and ...
7 hours ago · George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IATA: IAH, ICAO: KIAH, FAA LID: IAH) is an international airport in Houston, Texas, United States, serving the Greater Houston metropolitan area. Initially named Houston Intercontinental Airport upon its opening in 1969, it was renamed in honor of George H. W. Bush , the 41st president of the United States and a resident of Houston, in 1997.
7 hours ago · Baton Rouge (/ ˌ b æ t ən ˈ r uː ʒ / ⓘ BAT-ən ROOZH; French: Baton Rouge or Bâton-Rouge, pronounced [bɑtɔ̃ ʁuʒ]) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana.Located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, it had a population of 227,470 as of 2020; it is the seat of Louisiana's most populous parish (county-equivalent), East Baton Rouge Parish, and the center of ...
7 hours ago · There were 8,936 Black officeholders in the United States in 2000, showing a net increase of 7,467 since 1970. In 2001, there were 484 Black mayors. In 2005, the number of Africans immigrating to the United States, in a single year, surpassed the peak number who were involuntarily brought to the United States during the Atlantic Slave Trade.
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1 day ago · Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.With roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits as of 2020, Los Angeles is the second-most populous city in the United States, behind only New York City; it is also the commercial, financial and cultural center of Southern California.
