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Sugar Land, Texas

Index Sugar Land, Texas

Sugar Land is a city in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, within the southeast metropolitan area. [1]

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Administrative divisions of Texas

Texas has a total of 254 counties, many cities, and numerous special districts, the most common of which is the independent school district.

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Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.

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Allison Tolman

Allison Cara Tolman (born November 18, 1981) is an American actress known for her portrayal of police officer Molly Solverson in the first season of the FX television series Fargo, earning Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.

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American City Business Journals

"." Houston Business Journal.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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American Hockey League

The American Hockey League (AHL) is a 31-team professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental league for the National Hockey League (NHL).

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Annexation

Annexation (Latin ad, to, and nexus, joining) is the administrative action and concept in international law relating to the forcible transition of one state's territory by another state.

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Area codes 713, 281, 346, and 832

North American telephone area codes 281, 346, 713, and 832 serve Houston, Texas, and its environs.

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Associate degree

An associate degree (or associate's degree) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study intended to usually last two years or more.

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AT&T U-verse

AT&T U-verse, commonly called U-verse, was an AT&T brand of triple-play telecommunications services, although the brand is now only used in reference to the IPTV service.

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At-large

At-large is a designation for members of a governing body who are elected or appointed to represent the whole membership of the body (for example, a city, state or province, nation, club or association), rather than a subset of that membership.

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Atlantic League of Professional Baseball

The Atlantic League of Professional Baseball is a professional, independent baseball league located primarily in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States, especially the greater metropolitan areas of the Northeast megalopolis, with one team located in Texas.

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Austin American-Statesman

The Austin American-Statesman is the major daily newspaper for Austin, the capital city of Texas.

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Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble, Inc., a Fortune 500 company, is the bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States, and a retailer of content, digital media, and educational products.

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Bill (law)

A bill is proposed legislation under consideration by a legislature.

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Biome

A biome is a community of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in.

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Black school

Black schools originated under legal segregation in the southern United States after the American Civil War and Reconstruction era, in southern states' public policy to keep races separated and maintain white supremacy.

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Blue-collar worker

In the United States and (at least some) other English-speaking countries, a blue-collar worker is a working class person who performs manual labor.

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BMC Software

BMC Software, Inc. is an American technology company.

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Brazoria County, Texas

Brazoria County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Brazos River

The Brazos River, called the Rio de los Brazos de Dios (translated as "The River of the Arms of God") by early Spanish explorers, is the 11th-longest river in the United States of America at from its headwater source at the head of Blackwater Draw, Curry County, New Mexico to its mouth at the Gulf of Mexico with a drainage basin.

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Brittney Karbowski

Brittney Marie Karbowski (born June 26, 1986) is an American voice actress who has voiced in a number of English-language versions of Japanese anime films and television series for ADV Films, Funimation, and Sentai Filmworks, most notably Black Star from Soul Eater which aired on Adult Swim.

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Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, known for his work with the E Street Band.

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Cable television

Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to paying subscribers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fiber-optic cables.

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Carlos Correa

Carlos Javier Correa Oppenheimer (born September 22, 1994) is a Puerto Rican professional baseball shortstop for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB).

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Carol Vance Unit

Carol S. Vance Unit (J2, previously the Harlem II Unit and the Jester II Unit) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prison located in unincorporated central Fort Bend County, Texas.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.

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Central Time Zone

The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, some Caribbean Islands, and part of the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

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Central Unit

The Central Unit (C, previously the Imperial State Prison Farm and the Central State Prison Farm) was a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) men's prison in Sugar Land, Texas.

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China Airlines

China Airlines (CAL) is the largest airline of Taiwan.

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City council

A city council, town council, town board, or board of aldermen is the legislative body that governs a city, town, municipality, or local government area.

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City limits

The terms city limit and city boundary refer to the defined boundary or border of a city.

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City manager

A city manager is an official appointed as the administrative manager of a city, in a council–manager form of city government.

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Classical education movement

The Classical education movement advocates a form of education based in the traditions of Western culture, with a particular focus on education as understood and taught in Classical antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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Clay

Clay is a finely-grained natural rock or soil material that combines one or more clay minerals with possible traces of quartz (SiO2), metal oxides (Al2O3, MgO etc.) and organic matter.

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Clements High School

William P. Clements High School, more commonly known as Clements High School, is a public high school in First Colony and in Sugar Land within the U.S. state of Texas that is named after former Texas governor Bill Clements, and is a part of the Fort Bend Independent School District.

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Comcast

Comcast Corporation (formerly registered as Comcast Holdings)Before the AT&T merger in 2001, the parent company was Comcast Holdings Corporation.

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Community college

A community college is a type of educational institution.

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Company town

A company town is a place where practically all stores and housing are owned by the one company that is also the main employer.

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Conquest Airlines

Conquest Airlines was an American regional airline initially headquartered in Jefferson County, Texas, and later headquartered in Austin, Texas.

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Constellation Field

Constellation Field is a baseball park located in Sugar Land, Texas.

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Convict lease

Convict leasing was a system of penal labor practiced in the Southern United States.

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Cornerback

A cornerback (CB), also referred to as a corner, is a member of the defensive backfield or secondary in American and Canadian football.

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Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.

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Council–manager government

The council–manager government form is one of two predominant forms of local government in the United States and Ireland, the other being the mayor–council government form.

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Country club

A country club is a privately owned club, often with a membership quota and admittance by invitation or sponsorship, that generally offers both a variety of recreational sports and facilities for dining and entertaining.

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Darul Arqam Schools

The Darul Arqam Islamic School District (DAISD), also known as Darul Arqam Schools is a network of Islamic schools in Greater Houston, Texas, United States.

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David G. Wallace

David Gordon Wallace is an American businessman, politician, and author from the state of Texas.

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Dean A. Hrbacek

Dean A. Hrbacek, CPA is an American attorney and Republican politician who served as the mayor of Sugar Land, Texas from 1996 to 2002.

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Derek Carr

Derek Dallas Carr (born March 28, 1991) is an American football quarterback for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL).

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Derrick Frazier

Derrick Lothair Frazier (born April 29, 1970) is a former American football cornerback in the National Football League.

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Diana López

Diana López (born January 7, 1984) is an American Olympic Taekwondo competitor from Sugar Land, Texas.

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Dillard's

Dillard's Inc. is an American department store chain with approximately 292 stores in 29 states and headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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Dulles High School (Sugar Land, Texas)

John Foster Dulles High School is a high school in Sugar Land, Texas.

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Earthquake

An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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Eddie Griffin (basketball)

Eddie Jamaal Griffin (May 30, 1982 – August 17, 2007) was an American professional basketball player from Philadelphia.

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Employment

Employment is a relationship between two parties, usually based on a contract where work is paid for, where one party, which may be a corporation, for profit, not-for-profit organization, co-operative or other entity is the employer and the other is the employee.

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Extraterritorial jurisdiction

Extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) is the legal ability of a government to exercise authority beyond its normal boundaries.

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Fault (geology)

In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock, across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movement.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are publicly announced standards developed by the United States federal government for use in computer systems by non-military government agencies and government contractors.

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First Colony

First Colony is a master-planned community in Fort Bend County, Texas.

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First Colony Mall

First Colony Mall is a regional shopping mall in Sugar Land, Texas, located about southwest of Houston.

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First Data

First Data Corporation (NYSE: FDC) is a financial services company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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Fluor Corporation

Fluor Corporation is a multinational engineering and construction firm headquartered in Irving, Texas.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Fort Bend Christian Academy

Fort Bend Christian Academy (FBCA) is a private PK-12 Christian school with two campuses in Sugar Land, Texas in the Houston metropolitan area.

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Fort Bend County Libraries

Fort Bend County Libraries is a public library system serving the county of Fort Bend, Texas.

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Fort Bend County, Texas

Fort Bend County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Fort Bend Herald and Texas Coaster

The Fort Bend Herald and Texas Coaster is a newspaper based in Rosenberg, Texas, covering the Fort Bend County area of Texas.

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Fort Bend Independent School District

The Fort Bend Independent School District, also known as Fort Bend ISD or FBISD, is a school district system in the U.S. state of Texas based in the city of Sugar Land.

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Fort Bend Star

The Fort Bend Star is a weekly newspaperGeorge, Cindy.

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Fortune 500

The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks 500 of the largest United States corporations by total revenue for their respective fiscal years.

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Galveston, Texas

Galveston is a coastal resort city on Galveston Island and Pelican Island in the U.S. state of Texas.

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General aviation

General aviation (GA) is all civil aviation operations other than scheduled air services and non-scheduled air transport operations for remuneration or hire.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout the United States of America and its territories.

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Geology

Geology (from the Ancient Greek γῆ, gē, i.e. "earth" and -λoγία, -logia, i.e. "study of, discourse") is an earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time.

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George Bush Intercontinental Airport

George Bush Intercontinental Airport is an international airport in Houston, Texas, United States, under class B airspace, serving the Greater Houston metropolitan area.

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George Iloka

George Arinze Iloka (born March 31, 1990) is an American football safety for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League (NFL).

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George Ranch High School

George Ranch High School is a secondary school located in unincorporated Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, south of Richmond.

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Gerald D. Hines

Gerald D. Hines (born 1925) is the founder and chairman of Hines, a privately held real estate firm with its U.S. headquarters located in Houston, Texas, and its European headquarters located in London.

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Glenn Hegar

Glenn Allen Hegar Jr. (born 25 November 1970),, Texas Tribune is an American attorney who serves as Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts.

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Golf course

A golf course is the grounds where the game of golf is played.

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Grassland

Grasslands are areas where the vegetation is dominated by grasses (Poaceae); however, sedge (Cyperaceae) and rush (Juncaceae) families can also be found along with variable proportions of legumes, like clover, and other herbs.

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Greater Houston

Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land is the fifth most populous metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the United States, encompassing nine counties along the Gulf Coast in southeastern Texas.

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Greatwood, Sugar Land, Texas

Greatwood is a master-planned community within the city of Sugar Land, Texas, United States.

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Green belt

A green belt or greenbelt is a policy and land use designation used in land use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural land surrounding or neighbouring urban areas.

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Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent.

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Hakeem Olajuwon

Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon (born January 21, 1963), formerly known as Akeem Olajuwon, is a Nigerian-American former professional basketball player.

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Halite

Halite, commonly known as rock salt, is a type of salt, the mineral (natural) form of sodium chloride (NaCl).

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Harmony Public Schools

Harmony Public Schools is the largest charter management organization in Texas with forty-eight campuses serving students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

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Harris County, Texas

Harris County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Higher education

Higher education (also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education) is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after completion of secondary education.

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Home rule

Home rule is government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated 2017 population of 2.312 million within a land area of.

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Houston Aeros (1994–2013)

The Houston Aeros were a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League.

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Houston Astros

The Houston Astros are an American professional baseball team based in Houston, Texas.

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Houston Chronicle

The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States.

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Houston Methodist Hospital

Houston Methodist Hospital is the flagship hospital of Houston Methodist.

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Houston Press

The Houston Press is an online newspaper published in Houston, Texas, United States.

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Houston Rockets

The Houston Rockets are an American professional basketball team based in Houston, Texas.

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Humid subtropical climate

A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and mild to cool winters.

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Imperial Sugar

Imperial Sugar is a major U.S. sugar producer and marketer based in Sugar Land, Texas, with sugar refinery operations in California, Georgia, and Louisiana.

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Indian Americans

Indian Americans or Indo-Americans are Americans whose ancestry belongs to any of the many ethnic groups of the Republic of India.

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Interstate 45

Interstate 45 (I-45) is an interstate highway located entirely within the U.S. state of Texas.

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Interstate 69 in Texas

Interstate 69 (I-69) in the U.S. state of Texas is an extension of that existing Interstate Highway that will pass through the eastern part of the state and along the Gulf Coast to Victoria, where it will split into multiple segments with I-69E terminating in Brownsville, I-69C terminating in Pharr, and I-69W terminating in Laredo.

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Interstate Highway System

The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, is a network of controlled-access highways that forms part of the National Highway System in the United States.

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Isaac Herbert Kempner

Isaac Herbert Kempner (January 14, 1873 – August 1, 1967) was the founder of the Imperial Sugar Corporation and mayor of Galveston, Texas.

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Ismaili Jamatkhana

Ismaili Jamatkhana is a place of congregational worship for Shia Ismaili Muslims.

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J. C. Penney

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James A. Thompson

James A. Thompson is an American politician from the state of Texas.

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Jennifer Love Hewitt

Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, producer and director.

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Jerry Hughes

Jerry Ray Hughes Jr. (born August 13, 1988) is an American football defensive end for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL).

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Jester I Unit

The Beauford H. Jester I Unit (J1) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice substance abuse felony punishment facility (SAFPF) located in unincorporated Fort Bend County, Texas.

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Jester III Unit

The Beauford H. Jester III Unit (J3) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prison farm located in unincorporated Fort Bend County, Texas, United States.

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Jester IV Unit

The Beauford H. Jester IV Unit (J4) is a psychiatric facility of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice located in unincorporated Fort Bend County, Texas, east of Richmond.

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Jester State Prison Farm

The Jester State Prison Farm refers to a complex of Texas Department of Criminal Justice prisons for men in unincorporated Fort Bend County, Texas.

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Joan Huffman

Joan J. Huffman (born 1956) is a Republican member of the Texas Senate who represents District 17, which includes a portion of populous Harris County.

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John Cornyn

John Cornyn III (born February 2, 1952) is an American politician and lawyer serving as the senior United States Senator from Texas since 2002.

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José Altuve

José Carlos Altuve (born May 6, 1990) is a Venezuelan professional baseball second baseman for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB).

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Katie Armiger

Kaitlyn Michelle "Katie" Armiger (born June 23, 1991) is a country artist from Sugar Land, Texas.

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Katy, Texas

Katy is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, within the Houston–Katy-Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area.

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Kempner High School

I.H. Kempner High School, better known simply as Kempner High School, is a public high school in Sugar Land, Texas and a part of the Fort Bend Independent School District.

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KevJumba

Kevin Wu (born June 12, 1990) is an American blogger, activist and humanitarian.

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Lamar Consolidated High School

Lamar Consolidated High School is a grades 9–12 school located in Rosenberg, Texas, United States.

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Lamar Consolidated Independent School District

Lamar Consolidated Independent School District, also Lamar Consolidated ISD, Lamar CISD or LCISD, is a public school district in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Metropolitan Area.

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Land grant

A land grant is a gift of real estate – land or its use privileges – made by a government or other authority as an incentive, means of enabling works, or as a reward for services to an individual, especially in return for military service.

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Lead Belly

Huddie William Ledbetter (January 20, 1888 – December 6, 1949) was an American folk and blues musician notable for his strong vocals, virtuosity on the twelve-string guitar, and the folk standards he introduced.

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List of counties in Texas

The U.S. state of Texas is divided into 254 counties, more than any other U.S. state.

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List of oilfield service companies

This is a list of oilfield service companies – companies which provide services to the petroleum exploration and production industry but do not typically produce petroleum themselves.

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List of sovereign states

This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Loggia

A loggia is an architectural feature which is a covered exterior gallery or corridor usually on an upper level, or sometimes ground level.

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Lois Kolkhorst

Lois Winkelmann Kolkhorst (born November 4, 1964) is an American businesswoman and politician.

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LPGA

The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female professional golfers.

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M. R. Wood Alternative Education Center

M.

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Macy's

Macy's (originally R. H. Macy & Co.) (stylized macy*s) is an American department store chain founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy.

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Maddie & Tae

Maddie & Tae are an American female country music duo composed of Madison Marlow and Taylor Dye, both of whom are singers, songwriters, and guitarists.

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Maize

Maize (Zea mays subsp. mays, from maíz after Taíno mahiz), also known as corn, is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago.

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Mark López

Mark López Mendieta is an American taekwondo practictioner.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage).

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Marriott International

Marriott International is an American multinational diversified hospitality company that manages and franchises a broad portfolio of hotels and related lodging facilities.

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Mathcounts

Mathcounts, stylized as MATHCOUNTS, is a nationwide middle school mathematics competition held in various places in the United States.

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Mathcounts historical results

This is a list of historical results in all areas of the National Mathcounts competition.

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Matt Carpenter (baseball)

Matthew Martin Lee Carpenter (born November 26, 1985) is an American professional baseball infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB).

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor (from the Latin maior, meaning "bigger") is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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Mayor–council government

The mayor–council government system is a system of organization of local government.

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Meadows Place, Texas

Meadows Place is a city located in Fort Bend County in the U.S. state of Texas within the metropolitan area.

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Memorial Hermann Health System

Memorial Hermann Health System is the largest not-for-profit health system in southeast Texas and consists of 16 hospitals, 8 Cancer Centers, 3 Heart & Vascular Institutes, and 27 sports medicine and rehabilitation centers, in addition to other outpatient and rehabilitation centers.

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Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County

The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (often referred to as METRO) is a major public transportation agency based in Houston, Texas, United States.

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METRORail

METRORail is the light rail system in Houston, Texas (USA).

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Midnight Special (song)

"Midnight Special" is a traditional folk song thought to have originated among prisoners in the American South.

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Minute Maid

Minute Maid is a product line of beverages, usually associated with lemonade or orange juice, but which now extends to soft drinks of many kinds, including Hi-C. Minute Maid is sold under Cappy brand in Central Europe and under Fruitopia in Norway.

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Missouri City, Texas

Missouri City is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, within the metropolitan area.

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Municipal corporation

A municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs.

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Municipality

A municipality is usually a single urban or administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and state laws to which it is subordinate.

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Nalco Champion

Nalco Champion is a global oilfield chemical company.

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Natural gas

Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly including varying amounts of other higher alkanes, and sometimes a small percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, or helium.

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New Territory, Sugar Land, Texas

New Territory is a master-planned community within the city of Sugar Land, Texas, United States.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is an American weekly magazine founded in 1933.

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Noble Corporation

Noble Corporation plc is an offshore drilling contractor organized in London, United Kingdom.

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Northeast megalopolis

The Northeast megalopolis (also Boston–Washington corridor or Bos-Wash corridor), the most populous megalopolis in the Western Hemisphere with over 50 million residents, is the most heavily urbanized region of the United States.

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Oyster Creek (Texas)

For the community in Brazoria County, Texas see: Oyster Creek, Texas. Oyster Creek (Texas) is a river in Texas that rises north of Richmond in Fort Bend County and originally flowed southeast to the Gulf of Mexico in Brazoria County.

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Per capita income

Per capita income or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Pete Olson

Peter Graham Olson (born December 9, 1962) is the U.S. Representative for, serving since 2009.

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Petroleum

Petroleum is a naturally occurring, yellow-to-black liquid found in geological formations beneath the Earth's surface.

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Phil Stephenson (Texas politician)

Phillip Wayne Stephenson, known as Phil Stephenson (born February 5, 1945), is a Certified Public Accountant from Wharton, Texas, who is a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 85 based in Wharton, Fort Bend, and Jackson counties in the southeastern portion of the state.

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Phonoscope Communications

Phonoscope Communications is a broadband and cable television provider with corporate headquarters in Houston, Texas.

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Plantation

A plantation is a large-scale farm that specializes in cash crops.

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Plantations in the American South

Plantations were an important aspect of the history of the American South, particularly the antebellum (pre-American Civil War) era.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit or poverty line is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Private school

Private schools, also known to many as independent schools, non-governmental, privately funded, or non-state schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments.

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Public transport

Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, or mass transit) is transport of passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that charge a posted fee for each trip.

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Public-access television

Public-access television is traditionally a form of non-commercial mass media where the general public can create content television programming which is narrowcast through cable TV specialty channels.

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Quercus falcata

Quercus falcata, commonly known as the southern red oak or Spanish oak, is a tree in the red oak section (Lobatae) of the genus Quercus native to the eastern and south-central United States.

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Quercus nigra

Quercus nigra, the water oak, is an oak in the red oak group (Quercus sect. Lobatae), native to the eastern and south-central United States, found in all the coastal states from New Jersey to Texas, and inland as far as Oklahoma, Kentucky, and southern Missouri.

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Quercus phellos

Quercus phellos (willow oak) is a North American species of a deciduous tree in the red oak group of oaks.

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Quercus stellata

Quercus stellata (post oak, iron oak) is a North American species of oak in the white oak section.

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Quercus virginiana

Quercus virginiana, also known as the southern live oak, is an evergreen oak tree native to the southeastern United States.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States Census

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, defined by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin (the only categories for ethnicity).

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Real estate

Real estate is "property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more generally) buildings or housing in general.

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Regional rail

Regional rail, also known as local trains and stopping trains, are passenger rail services that operate between towns and cities.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

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Rick Miller (Texas politician)

Dana Fontaine Miller, known as Rick Miller (born March 19, 1945), is a retired military officer and a businessman from Sugar Land in suburban Houston, Texas, who has been since 2013 a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 26, based in Fort Bend County.

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Riverstone, Texas

Riverstone is a upscale master-planned residential community in Fort Bend County, Texas.

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Robert Horry

Robert Keith Horry (born August 25, 1970) is an American retired basketball player and current sports commentator.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston–Houston

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston–Houston (Latin: Archidioecesis Galvestoniensis–Houstoniensis) encompasses of ten counties in the southeastern area of Texas: Galveston, Harris, Austin, Brazoria, Fort Bend, Grimes, Montgomery, San Jacinto, Walker and Waller.

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Ron Paul

Ronald Ernest Paul (born August 20, 1935) is an American author, physician and retired politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1976 to 1977 and again from 1979 to 1985, and for Texas's 14th congressional district from 1997 to 2013.

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Ron Reynolds (Texas politician)

Ron Reynolds (born 1973) is an American lawyer and politician who is a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives representing state District 27.

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Round Rock, Texas

Round Rock is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, in Williamson County (with a small part in Travis), which is a part of the Greater Austin, Texas metropolitan area.

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Saint John XXIII High School

Saint John XXIII College Preparatory, formerly Pope John XXIII High School, is a Catholic independent, non-profit, coeducational, private day school in unincorporated Harris County, Texas, United States, near Katy.

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San Diego Padres

The San Diego Padres are an American professional baseball franchise based in San Diego, California.

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Sand

Sand is a naturally occurring granular material composed of finely divided rock and mineral particles.

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Schlumberger

Schlumberger Limited is the world's largest oilfield services company.

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Sean Patrick Flanery

Sean Patrick Flanery (born October 11, 1965) is an American actor, author, and martial artist, known for playing Connor MacManus in The Boondock Saints, Greg Stillson in The Dead Zone, Jeremy "Powder" Reed in Powder, Indiana Jones in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, as well as Bobby Dagen in Saw: The Final Chapter.

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Sediment

Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice, and/or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.

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Shale

Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock composed of mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.

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Shopping mall

A shopping mall is a modern, chiefly North American, term for a form of shopping precinct or shopping center, in which one or more buildings form a complex of shops representing merchandisers with interconnecting walkways that enable customers to walk from unit to unit.

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Simone Manuel

Simone Ashley Manuel (born August 2, 1996) is an American competition swimmer specializing in sprint freestyle.

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Single-member district

A single-member district or single-member constituency is an electoral district that returns one officeholder to a body with multiple members such as a legislature.

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Sixth grade

Sixth grade (equivalent to P7 in Scotland, Year 7 elsewhere in the UK, and Year 6 in Australia) is a year of education.

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Slate (magazine)

Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States from a liberal perspective.

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Slavery in the United States

Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel enslavement, primarily of Africans and African Americans, that existed in the United States of America in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Smart Financial Centre

The Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land is a concert hall located off U.S. Highway 59 in Sugar Land, Texas, southwest of Houston.

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St. Louis Cardinals

The St.

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Stafford, Texas

Stafford is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, within the metropolitan area.

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Stephen F. Austin

Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793 – December 27, 1836) was an American empresario.

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Stephen F. Austin High School (Fort Bend County, Texas)

Stephen F. Austin High School is a secondary school located in unincorporated Fort Bend County, Texas and is named after Stephen F. Austin, who helped lead American settlement of Texas, and who is widely regarded as "The Father of Texas." The school happens to be only miles from Austin's original colony in present-day Fort Bend County.

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Steven López

Steven López (born November 9, 1978) is a 2000 and 2004 Olympic gold medalist (in the -60 and -80 kg divisions respectively) and a 2008 Olympic bronze medalist (again in the -80 kg division) and 4th Dan in taekwondo.

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Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.

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Stuart Holden

Stuart Alistair Holden (born August 1, 1985) is an American retired professional soccer player who played as a midfielder, and is currently a the lead TV game analyst for Fox Sports 1.

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Stucco

Stucco or render is a material made of aggregates, a binder and water.

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Subdivision (land)

Subdivision is the act of dividing land into pieces that are easier to sell or otherwise develop, usually via a plat.

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Sugar Land High School

Sugar Land High School was a senior high school in Sugar Land, Texas and a part of the Sugar Land Independent School District.

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Sugar Land Independent School District

Sugar Land Independent School District #17 was a school district headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas.

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Sugar Land Regional Airport

Sugar Land Regional Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located in Sugar Land, Texas (USA), southwest of the central business district of Houston.

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Sugar Land Skeeters

The Sugar Land Skeeters are an American professional baseball team located in Sugar Land, Texas.

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Sugar Land Town Square

Sugar Land Town Square is a, office and shopping complex in Sugar Land, Texas, United States.

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Sugar refinery

A sugar refinery is a refinery which processes raw sugar into white refined sugar or that processes sugar beet to refined sugar.

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Sugarcane

Sugarcane, or sugar cane, are several species of tall perennial true grasses of the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae, native to the warm temperate to tropical regions of South and Southeast Asia, Polynesia and Melanesia, and used for sugar production.

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Sugarland

Sugarland is an American country music duo consisting of singer-songwriters Jennifer Nettles (lead vocals) and Kristian Bush (vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin).

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Taipei

Taipei, officially known as Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of Taiwan (officially known as the Republic of China, "ROC").

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.

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Tara Lipinski

Tara Kristen Lipinski (born June 10, 1982) is an American figure skater, actress, and sports commentator.

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Telfair, Sugar Land

Telfair is a master planned community located in Sugar Land, Texas.

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Tenant farmer

A tenant farmer is one who resides on land owned by a landlord.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts

The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts is an executive branch position created by the Texas Constitution.

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Texas Department of Criminal Justice

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is a department of the government of the U.S. state of Texas.

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Texas Education Agency

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) is a branch of the state government of Texas in the United States responsible for public education.

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Texas House of Representatives

The Texas House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Texas Legislature.

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Texas Legislature

The Legislature of the state of Texas is the state legislature of Texas.

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Texas Monthly

Texas Monthly is a monthly American magazine headquartered in Downtown Austin, Texas.

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Texas Ranger Division

The Texas Ranger Division, commonly called the Texas Rangers, is a law enforcement agency with statewide jurisdiction in Texas, based in the capital city of Austin.

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Texas Senate

The Texas Senate is the upper house of the Texas State Legislature.

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Texas Senate, District 17

District 17 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves portions of Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris and Jefferson counties in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Texas Senate, District 18

District 18 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves all of Aransas, Austin, Bastrop, Burleson, Calhoun, Colorado, DeWitt, Fayette, Goliad, Gonzales, Jackson, Lavaca, Lee, Matagorda, Refugio, Victoria, Waller, Washington and Wharton counties, western portions of Fort Bend and Harris counties, and an eastern precinct of Nueces County in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Texas State Highway 6

State Highway 6 (SH 6) runs from the Red River, the Texas–Oklahoma boundary, to northwest of Galveston, where it is known as the Old Galveston Highway.

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Texas State Highway 99

State Highway 99, also known as the Grand Parkway, is a highway in Texas, United States that opened its first section in 1994.

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Texas's 22nd congressional district

Texas's 22nd congressional district of the United States House of Representatives covers a largely suburban south-central portion of the metropolitan area.

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The Amazing Race

The Amazing Race is a reality television game show in which teams of two people race around the world in competition with other teams.

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The Client List (TV series)

The Client List is an American television drama series based on the 2010 television film of the same name, which aired on the Lifetime network.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Sugarland Express

The Sugarland Express is a 1974 American crime drama film co-written and directed by Steven Spielberg in his theatrical feature directorial debut.

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Tom DeLay

Thomas Dale DeLay (born April 8, 1947) is a former member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1985 until 2006.

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Tracy McGrady

Tracy Lamar McGrady Jr. (born May 24, 1979) is an American retired professional basketball player who is best known for his career in the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he played as both a shooting guard and small forward.

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Tramontina

Tramontina is a Brazilian company that manufactures cookware, cutlery and home appliances headquartered in the city of Carlos Barbosa, Rio Grande do Sul.

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U.S. Route 59 in Texas

U.S. Highway 59 (US 59) in the U.S. state of Texas is named the Lloyd Bentsen Highway, after Lloyd Bentsen, former U.S. senator from Texas.

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U.S. Route 90 Alternate (Texas)

U.S. Highway 90 Alternate is an alternate route to U.S. Highway 90 in the U.S. state of Texas, running from west of Seguin east via Seguin, Gonzales, Hallettsville, Eagle Lake, Rosenberg and Sugar Land to northeastern Houston.

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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Unincorporated area

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Census

The United States Census is a decennial census mandated by Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution, which states: "Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States...

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB; officially the Bureau of the Census, as defined in Title) is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.

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United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

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United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS; also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service) is an independent agency of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, including its insular areas and associated states.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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UnitedHealth Group

UnitedHealth Group Inc. is an American for-profit managed health care company based in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

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University of Houston

The University of Houston (UH) is a state research university and the flagship institution of the University of Houston System.

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Unocal Corporation

Union Oil Company of California, dba Unocal is a company that was a major petroleum explorer and marketer in the late 19th century, through the 20th century, and into the early 21st century.

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WABC-TV

WABC-TV, channel 7, is the flagship station of the ABC television network, licensed to New York City.

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WarnerMedia

Warner Media, LLC (formerly Time Warner Inc.), doing business as WarnerMedia, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered in New York City and owned by AT&T.

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Westchase, Houston

For the community near Tampa, see Westchase, Florida. Westchase is a business district and neighborhood in western Houston, Texas, bounded by Westheimer Road on the north, Gessner Road on the east, Houston Center Boulevard on the west, and Westpark Tollway on the south.

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Wharton County Junior College

Wharton County Junior College (abbreviated as WCJC) is a two-year college based in Wharton, Texas which is home to its main campus.

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White-collar worker

In many countries (such as Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and United States), a white-collar worker is a person who performs professional, managerial, or administrative work.

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William P. Hobby Airport

William P. Hobby Airport is an international airport in Houston, Texas, from downtown Houston.

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Willowridge High School (Houston)

Willowridge High School is a public high school in Houston, Texas, United States and part of the Fort Bend Independent School District.

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Winter storm

A winter storm is an event in which varieties of precipitation are formed that only occur at low temperatures, such as snow or sleet, or a rainstorm where ground temperatures are low enough to allow ice to form (i.e. freezing rain).

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Woody Williams

Gregory Scott "Woody" Williams (born August 19, 1966) is an American former professional baseball pitcher.

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Xfinity

Xfinity is a trade name of Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, a subsidiary of the Comcast Corporation, used to market consumer cable television, internet, telephone, and wireless services provided by the company.

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Ygnition

Ygnition is an American private cable operator (PCO) and broadband Internet services company headquartered in Seattle, Washington focused on the MDU market.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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ZIP Code

ZIP Codes are a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS) since 1963.

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2000 St. James Place

2000 St.

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2004 Christmas Eve United States winter storm

The 2004 Christmas Eve United States winter storm was a rare weather event that took place in Louisiana and Texas in the United States on December 24, 2004, before the storm moved northeast to affect the coastal sections of the Mid-Atlantic states and New England in the succeeding few days.

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2010 United States Census

The 2010 United States Census (commonly referred to as the 2010 Census) is the twenty-third and most recent United States national census.

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66th Primetime Emmy Awards

The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards honored the best in U.S. prime time television programming from June 1, 2013 until May 31, 2014, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Land,_Texas

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