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Cockrell Butterfly Area, Houston Museum of Natural Science Space Center Houston is the official visitors’ center of NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.Space Center Houston includes many interactive exhibits—including Moon rocks and a Space Shuttle simulator—in addition to special presentations that tell the story of NASA's crewed space flight program.
The building featured a Performing Arts Theater, a Gallery, an Education Center, and more. It was open to the public on April 14, 2012. With the opening of the Center, Asia Society takes its place as a major educational and cultural institution in the region, the driving force in transforming Houston into an Asia-Pacific city.
LGBTQ culture in Houston (1 C, 25 P) M. Museums in Houston (1 C, 29 P) Music of Houston (3 C, 12 P) O. Opera world premieres at Houston Grand Opera (20 P) P.
The city of Houston has significant populations of Mexican Americans, Mexican immigrants, and Mexican citizen expatriates. Houston residents of Mexican origin make up the oldest Hispanic ethnic group in Houston, and Jessi Elana Aaron and José Esteban Hernández, authors of "Quantitative evidence for contact-induced accommodation: Shifts in /s/ reduction patterns in Salvadoran Spanish in ...
Houston’s scoring 106.6 points-per-100 on putbacks, which is nearly 15 points-per-100 above its overall half-court offensive rating, and a major boost to the bottom line for a team that needs to ...
Houston gained approximately 233,000 African-Americans between 2000 and 2010. [23] Having the largest black population west of the Mississippi River, Houston is known as a center of African-American political power, education, economic prosperity, and culture, often referred to as a black mecca. [2]
Created in 1966 in Southern California by the activist professor Maulana Karenga, Kwanzaa was designed for Pan-African peoples everywhere to “rescue and reconstruct our history and culture.”
Dec. 4—Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a three-part series about Onalaska High School. The first story in 'Smart Ax' — named after a pun on the school's Logger mascot ...