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  2. Houston Museum of Natural Science - Wikipedia

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    The Houston Museum of Natural Science (abbreviated as HMNS) is a natural history museum located on the northern border of Hermann Park in Houston, Texas, United States.The museum was established in 1909 by the Houston Museum and Scientific Society, an organization whose goals were to provide a free institution for the people of Houston focusing on education and science.

  3. Brazos Bend State Park - Wikipedia

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    The park is also home to the George Observatory (code: 735), a satellite facility of the Houston Museum of Natural Science. This astronomical observatory contains three domed telescopes; the largest is the Gueymard Research Telescope, which has an aperture of 0.91 m (36 in). The facility is primarily focused on public education; it includes the ...

  4. List of astronomical observatories - Wikipedia

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    George Observatory 1989 Brazos Bend State Park, near Houston, Texas, US Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) 1995 Pune, Maharashtra, India Gifford Observatory: 1912 Wellington, New Zealand Girawali Observatory: 2006 Pune, Maharashtra, India Glen D. Riley Observatory: 1973 Naperville, Illinois, US Godlee Observatory: 1902 Manchester, England, UK

  5. Houston tunnel system - Wikipedia

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    The Houston tunnel system is a network of subterranean, climate-controlled, pedestrian walkways that links 95 full city blocks 20 feet (6 m) below Houston's downtown streets. It is approximately six miles (9.7 km) long. [1] There are similar systems in Chicago, Dallas, Oklahoma City, Montreal, and Toronto.

  6. 50 Times People Found Such Strange Things On Google ... - AOL

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    Meanwhile, as of 2020, around a billion people use Google Maps, launched in 2005, every month. #13 Another Crashed Plane, This Time A Bomber From The Second World War I Think. Found Between Russia ...

  7. Transportation in Houston - Wikipedia

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    Map Showing Lines of the Houston Electric Company c 1907 METRORail along the Main Street Corridor in Downtown A METRO bus driving through the University of Houston campus on Cullen Boulevard. The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas, or METRO, provides public transportation in the form of buses, trolleys, and lift vans. [2]

  8. Geography of Houston - Wikipedia

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    A true-color image of Greater Houston. Astronaut photograph of Houston at night. Map of the Houston city limits. 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.

  9. 10 extraordinary images shared by NASA's Earth Observatory

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    Number 10.Roads made on iced over lakes. Getting supplies to the people living in remote northwestern Canada is often done by plane, but heavier items need to be taken by truck.