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84 unusual facts about Houston


Alamo Heights SA

After producing a short trailer in 2005 for use as a tool to obtain funding for a pilot, he took the pilot to the NATPE trade show in Las Vegas where he was able to obtain funding from an investment group in Houston to produce a full length pilot in 2006 consisting of 12 mini-episodes for distribution over the internet.

Alexander Fishenko

Born in Kazakhstan, within the USSR, Fishenko immigrated to the United States in 1994, becoming a citizen in 2003, and is currently the CEO of Houston-based Arc Electronics Inc.

Alexi Torres

He has shown his work at several art fairs including the Miami International Art Fair, Scope Art Fair, Arthamptons, Art Southhamptons, Aspen Fine Art Fair, Palm Beach Art Fair, San Francisco Fine Art Fair, Art Palm Springs, and the Houston Fine Art Fair.

Allen Ranch

He arrived at the young town of Harrisburg (modern east Houston) and soon after married into the Thomas family which had come to Texas as part of Stephen F. Austin's original colony.

Ann-Sofi Sidén

For the residency, she made a journey on horse-back that lasted 25 days, and ended at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

Avindra Nath

Nath performed a residency in neurology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Texas.

Baikalfinansgrup

On December 15, 2004, Yukos filed for a bankruptcy protection in a Houston court, and obtained a temporary injunction prohibiting Gazprom from participating in the auction.

Barry Whitbread

His son Zak, born in Houston, Texas, while Whitbread was working in the USA, became a professional footballer after developing in the Liverpool academy.

Chen Chi

Chi's works have been shown extensively throughout the United States including at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1948); the Miami Beach Art Center (1952); the La Jolla Art Center and the Witte Museum (1953); and the Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum in Seattle (1955).

Chinwoke Mbadinuju

Mbadinuju was accused of masterminding the killing although he was in Houston, Texas at the time of the assassination.

Christopher Wilkins

As a YOA Orchestra of the Americas residential conductor he have conducted at such cities as Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco and also held performances overseas as well in such countries as New Zealand, Spain, the United Kingdom and in various countries of Latin America.

D. J. Hayden

Hayden committed to University of Houston on June 8, 2010, and enrolled in the university in 2011; thereafter, he played for the Houston Cougars football team in 2011 and 2012.

Daniele Gangemi

In 2009 he is invited to the 42nd Worldfest International Independent Film Festival of Houston in Texas for the world premier of his movie “Una notte blu cobalto” getting the award for the ”Best First Feature”.

Dawn Okoro

Dawn Okoro (b. 1980, in Houston), is an artist who paints figurative art works inspired by fashion and popular culture.

Dax Norman

Dax Norman (born October 5, 1980 in Houston, Texas) is a contemporary artist who primarily works in painting and animation.

DeBakey High School for Health Professions at Qatar

The school is a branch campus of Michael E. DeBakey High School for Health Professions of Houston, Texas, United States.

Deganit Stern Schocken

Her works are in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, New York, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas.

Drive Slow

"Drive Slow" features Houston rapper Paul Wall and GLC, with back-up vocals provided by singer Tony "Penafire" Williams.

Eldridge Dickey

High School and went on to play at Booker T. Washington High School, both in his hometown of Houston, Texas.

Erica Mer

Born in San Antonio, Texas, Mer moved to Houston where she took her first theater performance class at the age of four.

Fred Faour

He is a graduate of the University of Houston with a bachelor of arts degree in communications.

Gaston Lenôtre

As a patriarch, he liked to work with his family members, twelve of them at one time; including the third generation of Lenôtre chefs, amongst which was his son Alain, the founder of the Culinary Institute located in Houston, USA.

Glenn McGee

On February 13, 2012, it was announced that McGee had accepted a position as President of the Ethics Research Division at Celltex Therapeutics Corporation, a Houston, Texas, stem cell bank.

Hank Plante

His experience includes reporting and anchoring at TV stations in various cities, including KHJ-TV in Los Angeles, KRIV-TV in Houston, KMSP-TV in Minneapolis and WVEC-TV in Norfolk, Virginia.

Hermenegildo da Costa Paulo Bartolomeu

The player's first game for the Angolan national team was played in Houston, United States, on May 13, 2010, in his country defeat against Mexico 1-0, when he came as a substitute for Minguito.

Himayat Ali Shair

In 2002, Houston based Radio Station Young Tarang released a CD based on Shair's poetry which included songs sung by famous Pakistani singers and recitation by himself.

Houston High School

For general information about education in Houston, Texas, see Education in Houston.

Houston, Minnesota

John J. Sliter, Minnesota legislator, served as a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, was a member of the Houston School Board.

Houston, Mississippi

The land on which Houston resides was donated to the city by Judge Joel Pinson on the condition that it would be named for Sam Houston, a childhood friend.

Houston, Ohio

The transmitter site of WHIO-FM (formerly WPTW-FM,WCLR and WDPT respectively and licensed to Piqua) is located south of the community on Aiken Road adjacent to State Route 66.

Houston, We've Got a Problem

Houston, We've Got a Problem is a 1974 television film about the Apollo 13 spaceflight, directed by Lawrence Doheny and starring Ed Nelson in the role of NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz.

Jim Lovell wrote a letter to TV Guide about the film, saying that the crises in Mission Control were dramatized.

Houston: We Have a Drinking Problem

The title alludes to the statement "Houston, we have a problem" somewhat inaccurately attributed to astronaut Jim Lovell aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft when an explosion in the Service Module endangered the crew.

Industrias Alen

Currently, the office for the US market and Caribbean are located in Houston

J. D. Kimmel

After completing his undergraduate education at the University of Houston in 1952, Kimmel spent two years in the United States Army.

James Failla

In 1993, the Houston-based Browning-Ferris Industries (BFI), a national trash-hauling corporation, started doing business in New York.

Jason Michael Brescia

The film would premiere at the New Beverly Cinema on October 30, 2010, and would later go on to screen at the Wet Your Pants Comedy Film Festival in Indianapolis, Indiana, the Houston Comedy Film Festival, and Indie Fest USA in Garden Grove, California.

John Colyandro

Colyandro graduated from Westfield High School in Houston, Texas in 1982.

Jonathan Garcia

Jonathan Garcia was born December 14, 1986, and grew up in Katy, Texas, in the Houston metropolitan area.

Jorge and Lorena Gamboa

The Gamboas participate in local TV programs such as: "de pareja a pareja" at Channel 21.2 FAMILIA TV, Bendicion TV 43.4, Familia TV 27.4, Celebration at Daystar and Diles at International Spanish TBN in Houston, Texas.

Joseph Havel

He lives and works in Houston, Texas and is director of the Glassell School of Art.

K. V. K. Raju

After a short stint in American he returned to India and worked for short periods at Caltex Oil Refinery, Orient General Industries and Associated Electrical Industries.

Kannada American

There are large Kannada American communities in various cities, including New York City, New Jersey, Chicago, Illinois, San Francisco Bay Area, the suburbs of Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, California, Dallas, Texas and Houston, Texas; and in Canada: Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta.

Katherine Center

Center graduated from St. John's School in Houston, Texas, and from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Kipp Lynn Academy

KIPP Academy Lynn (often referred to as KIPP Lynn) is modeled after the nationally recognized Knowledge Is Power Program in South Bronx, New York and Houston, Texas.

Kuk Sool Won

Currently the World Kuk Sool Association headquarters is located in Tomball, Texas, which is roughly forty miles northwest of Houston.

Larry Woods

He currently lives in Houston with his wife, Rose and has two children, a son named LeVar and a daughter named Yoshina.

Madd Hatta

Madd Hatta (Also Known As "Mista Madd") is the owner of Paid in Full Entertainment and the host of the Houston-based radio talk show Madd Hatta Morning Show on KBXX 97.9 The Box.

Metropolitan-Vickers F.2

Incidentally, Metrovick had recently merged with British Thomson-Houston, another turbine builder who were supporting Whittle's efforts.

Monroe Dunaway Anderson

The Anderson Foundation agreed to match the state funds if the hospital were located in Houston at the Texas Medical Center (another project of the Anderson Foundation), and named after Anderson.

Nicholas Boothman

In order to demonstrate the validity of his techniques in the book, Boothman visited three locations in Houston, accompanied by a Houston Chronicle reporter.

Nick Cooper

Upon returning to Houston, Cooper began the Houston branch of indymedia with other local activists, and began travelling to work with other indymedias.

Nicolaus Aloysius Gallagher

He served as Bishop of Galveston from 1892 until his death in 1918.

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O. J. Brigance

Orenthial James Brigance (born September 29, 1969 in Houston, Texas) is a former football player in the Canadian Football League and the National Football League.

Paradip

Paradip has been identified for development as one of the six major petroleum, chemicals and petrochemical investment regions (PCPIRs) in India, along the lines of Pudong in China, Rotterdam in Europe and Houston in North America.

Patricia Martin

In late 2009, Martin was named Author in Residence for the "Creative Economy Houston" study in Houston, TX.

Petrofina

Petrofina's U.S. subsidiary, Fina Inc., announced that it will move its headquarters to Houston from Plano, Texas in 2000.

R. C. Thielemann

Ray Charles Thielemann (born August 12, 1955 in Houston, Texas) is a former American football guard in the National Football League for the Atlanta Falcons and the Washington Redskins.

Regional Transportation Plan

Houston-Galveston Area Council 2035 Regional Transportation Plan

Republican National Convention

Pat Buchanan delivered a speech enthusiastically endorsing the conservative side of the culture war in American society at the 1992 Republican National Convention in Houston.

Rio de Janeiro bid for the 2007 Pan American Games

In the running to host the 2007 Pan American Games, Rio de Janeiro faced off with the city of San Antonio, United States; which previously beat Houston, Miami, and Raleigh to become the American candidate.

Robert L. Bradley, Jr.

He has been a senior research fellow at the University of Houston and is currently senior research fellow (honorary) at the Center for Energy Economics at the University of Texas at Austin.

Robin Utterback

Robin Utterback (born: Robert Franklin Utterback)(1949–2007) was a contemporary artist from Houston, Texas.

Sandra Gin

Sandra Gin is a broadcast journalist who served as news anchor/reporter for KHOU-TV in Houston, Texas from 1994 to 2002.

Sommer West

Sommer West (born April 24, 1978 in Houston, Texas and raised in Bowmanville, Ontario) was a Canadian Olympic softball player at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Songa Offshore

Songa Offshore SE is a Norwegian-Cypriot offshore drilling contractor founded in 2005 with offices in Cyprus, Stavanger, Oslo, Houston, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.

Strangers No Longer

The song's opening line "They say: hey here we are in beautiful Texas", is reported to come from the opening of Game 3 of the 2005 World Series played in Houston Texas.

Tanzio da Varallo

La fuga in Egitto, oil on canvas, Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Samuel H. Kress Collection.

Terrence Kiel

In July 2003, Kiel was shot three times during an alleged attempted carjacking incident at a southwest Houston mall parking lot.

The Art Guys

The Art Guys have worked together since 1983 after meeting while students at the University of Houston.

"The Art Guys: Think Twice," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 1995

The Convention Crasher

The third episode in the series saw Justin travelling to a Clowning Convention in Houston, Texas where he would compete for the prize of Clown of the Year.

The Day After Hell Broke Loose

Allmusic's Jason Birchmeier gave the album three out of a possible five stars and described the album as "sort of a Houston-style Chronic, albeit one that isn't quite as well developed or thought out".

Timko sisters

The Timko Sisters of Houston, Pennsylvania became the first girls to win a WPIAL Boys Doubles Tennis Title.

Tokihiro Satō

Sato’s photographs are held throughout the world in public and private museums including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Art Institute of Chicago; the Cleveland Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art (Saitama, Japan); Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo); Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane); and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.

Unconventional wind turbines

Discovery Tower is an office building in Houston, Texas, that incorporates 10 wind turbines in its architecture.

Vivaaerobus.com

VivaAerobus operated a bus shuttle between Austin-Bergstrom International Airport South Terminal and the Omnibus Mexicanos Bus Terminal in eastern Houston in addition to a bus shuttle between the Austin airport and the Omnibus Mexicanos Bus Terminal in downtown San Antonio for passengers on flights going to and from Cancún and Monterrey.

Walter Stanley Mooneyham

Walter Stanley Mooneyham (born 14 January 1926 in Houston, Texas, USA; died 3 June 1991 in Los Angeles, California, USA) was Editor of the Journal United Evangelical Action (1959–1964), Vice President of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (1967–1969) and President of the Christian humanitarian NGO World Vision (1969–1982).

Wei-Chuan Food Corporation

The Wei-Chuan USA division was founded in 1972 and operates manufacturing and customer service centers in Jersey City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, and Tennessee.

WHIO-FM

From 2000 until 2006, "The Point" aired classic hits from the late 1970s and 1980s and was briefly simulcast on WDTP, 95.3 in Xenia before reverting to the WZLR calls as classic rock-formatted "The Eagle." Before that it was WCLR at first as "Clear 95" airing easy listening music (as did its predecessor WPTW-FM for many years) when the transmitter was moved from its studios to its present location near the rural community of Houston just north of Piqua in 1986.

Why Baby Why

The recording session for "Why Baby Why" took place in Houston, Texas's Gold Star Studios and featured the house lineup of Glenn Barber on lead guitar, Herb Remington on pedal steel guitar, Tony Sepolio on fiddle, and Doc Lewis on piano.

Woody Freeman

Freeman’s partners are Phil H. Hout and Jesse Stafford, both then of Jonesboro, and Peter Seale of Houston, Texas.

Youth council

Many cities, including Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Seattle, and San Jose, California, have active youth councils that inform city government decision-making.


1995 NBA Playoffs

Game 1 @ Alamodome, San Antonio (May 22): Houston 94, San Antonio 93 (Robert Horry hits the game-winner with 6.5 seconds left)

2008 Open Sabadell Atlántico Barcelona

Among other players were Delray Beach and Houston runner-up James Blake, Costa do Sauípe finalist Carlos Moyá, Tommy Robredo, Andy Murray and Ivo Karlović.

2011 Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas

The 2011 Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas, the sixth edition of the game, was a post-season American college football bowl game, held on December 31, 2011 at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas as part of the 2011–12 NCAA Bowl season.

Ahmed Bukhatir

Bukhatir's first concerts on US soil took place in April 2012, when he appeared at events sponsored by the Al-Furqaan Foundation's Furqaan Academy that were held in Dallas, Houston, and Chicago.

Aldine

Aldine Independent School District, a school district in Houston, Texas, United States

American Music Award

The record for the most American Music Awards won in a single year is held by Michael Jackson (in 1984) and Whitney Houston (in 1994), each with 8 awards to their credit (including the Award of Merit, with which both artists were honored in the respective years).

Asoka Handagama

Novel in the form, this minimalist film travelled all around the world, was critically acclaimed at more than 50 international film festivals, and won numerous awards in Singapore, Chonju, Delhi, Houston, Bangkok and Tokyo.

Baker Hughes

Baker Hughes has its headquarters in the America Tower in the American General Center in Neartown, Houston.

Ben Bussey

He worked at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston and the European Space Agency, before joining the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and becoming a senior staff scientist at that facility.

Brownleeite

It was discovered by researchers of the Johnson Space Center in Houston while analyzing the Pi Puppid particle shower of the comet 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup.

Carlomagno Pedro Martínez

In 2006, it appeared at the Texas Gallery in Houston and the Boston Arts Academy.

Chaminade Silverswords

Virginia, which featured Ralph Sampson and Rick Carlisle, was the top-ranked team in NCAA Division I basketball entering the game after posting victories against Georgetown (with Patrick Ewing) and Phi Slama Jama of Houston.

Chuck Dunaway

In 1952, after graduating from high school, Dunaway obtained his first full time on-air radio job at KBST in Big Spring, Texas, at the rate of 65 cents an hour, where he remained for one year before joining KPRC in Houston as a staff announcer in 1953.

Dan Kubiak

In 1972, he published a second book, A Monument to a Black Man: The Biography of William Goyens, a study of the African American who served as an aide to Sam Houston and was a negotiator for Indian treaties.

Dan Sandifer

He once played in a tennis exhibition match in Houston, Texas with future president, George H. W. Bush and professionals Tony Roche and John Newcombe.

Dan W. Brown

Dan Brown was born in Solo, Missouri and is a graduate of Houston (Missouri) High School.

Demetrius Comino

After graduating with a first class honours degree in 1924, Comino served a three-year apprenticeship with British Thomson-Houston in Rugby before leaving to establish a printing business, Krisson Printing Ltd, near Oxford Circus in central London ("Krisson" being Greek for 'better').

Dennis Sarfate

On December 12, 2007, Sarfate was traded by the Houston Astros along with Luke Scott, pitchers Matt Albers and Troy Patton, and third baseman Michael Costanzo to the Baltimore Orioles in exchange for shortstop Miguel Tejada.

Di Leo

Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston–Victoria

Drayton McLane, Jr.

The Astros 2005 season was the most successful season on the field for the Houston franchise.

Eau Gallie, Florida

Houston had been sent to the area by the United States Army to determine how many Native Americans were still living in the area after the Third Seminole War.

El presente

At the Latin Grammy Awards in Houston, Texas, after a presentation of various accordions in Latin music that touched it with her song.

Fellowship Church

FC's pastor is Ed Young (the son of the equally-famous pastor of Second Baptist Church in Houston), who has pastored the church since shortly after its opening.

H. Clyde Wilson Jr.

On May 6, 1926 he was born in Proctor, Texas to Houston Clyde Wilson Sr. and Lena B. Purvis Wilson.

Houston Football Stadium

On February 10, 2010, Houston athletics director Mack Rhoades announced that the University of Houston had hired engineering and architectural design firm AECOM to conduct a feasibility study regarding possible renovations or reconstruction of Houston's Robertson Stadium and Hofheinz Pavilion.

John L. Nau

He also serves as a Board Member for the Center for Houston’s Future, Discovery Green Conservancy in Houston, Friends of the Texas Historical Commission, Friends of Vicksburg National Military Park, Houston Police Foundation, The Admiral Nimitz Foundation, and the Texas State Historical Association.

Joseph Prince

On October 29, 2011, Prince ministered in the US for the first time at Lakewood Church, America's largest church, in Houston, Texas.

Julie Heldman

In 1970, she was a member of the "Houston Nine" who left the United States Tennis Association (USTA) to play in the Virginia Slims tournament in Houston.

KBTX-TV

KBTX serves Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Leon, Madison, Milam, Montgomery, Robertson, Walker and Washington counties, some of which are also in the Houston market, but receive KBTX.

Kevin Cahoon

Cahoon began his performing career at the age of 5 as 'The World's Youngest Rodeo Clown', performing throughout the Texas and Oklahoma Rodeo Circuits, including many consecutive seasons at The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo at Houston's Astrodome and The Texas State High School Finals Rodeo, resulting in a Letter of Citation from then Texas Governor Bill Clements.

Knitta Please

For another large project, the group tagged all 25 trees in the median of Allen Parkway in Houston for the annual Art Car parade in May 2006, wrapping them in blankets measuring two feet tall by two-and-a-half feet long.

Last meal

The abolition followed a complaint by a Texas Senator, John Whitmire (Democrat, of Houston), who called the meal "inappropriate".

Manyc Records

Igor Hansen-Love, the bass player in Milt Opus, was an early mentor to Nikolai Fraiture, who, together with Julian Casablancas, also attended the LFNY, and formed a band called The Strokes in 1998, shortly after Milt Opus played its first gig at The Spiral, an East Houston Street music venue in New York City.

Maria Lourdes Heras-de Leon

She also served as president of the Economic Development Division of the Greater Houston Partnership, where she led inbound investment and recruitment initiatives for Houston, Texas.

Marshall Formby

The other contestants were sitting Governor Marion Price Daniel, Sr., who sought an unprecedented fourth two-year term; Don Yarborough, a liberal lawyer and supporter of organized labor from Houston; former Attorney General Will Wilson, later a Republican convert, and retired Army General Edwin A. Walker, known for his staunch anti-communism.

MTL Instruments Group

In 2008, MTL Instruments was purchased by Cooper Industries of Houston, Texas, under that company's Crouse-Hinds division.

Muslim Interscholastic Tournament

In February 2002, Siddiqi and her core team of volunteers at the University of Houston and alumni of the Muslim Students' Association at the University of Texas, Austin, implemented the first MIST with 118 students from Houston, Austin, and Dallas.

NRG Energy

is a large American energy company, dual-headquartered in West Windsor Township, New Jersey, near Princeton and Houston, Texas.

Orli Shaham

Her appearances with orchestras include the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Detroit and Atlanta Symphonies, Orchestre National de Lyon, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Florida Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, Orchestra of La Scala (Milan), Orchestra della Toscana (Florence), and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra.

Paul Vernon Galloway

He retired in 1972, but then was called to serve as Bishop of the Houston Episcopal Area for three years, and for one additional year in Louisiana.

Republican Party presidential primaries, 1992

Incumbent President George H.W. Bush was again selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1992 Republican National Convention held from August 17 to August 20, 1992 in Houston, Texas.

Sally Mayes

Born in Livingston, Texas, Mayes began her career as a rock and jazz singer in Houston.

Sandy Gbandi

Born near the Firestone rubber plantation, Gbandi and his family fled from his native Liberia to Houston, Texas following the outbreak of the First Liberian Civil War in 1989, when he was just six years old.

Sebastian Vollmer

At Houston, Vollmer's offensive line coach was Joe Gilbert, who had previously worked at the University of Toledo, where he coached another future Patriots lineman, Nick Kaczur.

Shahar Perkiss

In 1982 in Houston he reeled off three upsets in a row, beating world # 27 Ramesh Krishnan, 6–4, 3–6, 6–2, # 37 Terry Moor, 6–7, 6–4, 6–4, and # 36 Mark Dickson, 7–6, 6–0.

Texas Patriots PAC

The Texas Patriots PAC has hosted many Tea Party rallies in the Houston area, which have featured such guests as Andrew Breitbart, Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Jim DeMint, Laura Ingraham, Herman Cain, Michael Berry, Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick, and Jim "Mattress Mack" McIngvale.

The Better Life

A Deluxe Edition with second disc was released in 2007, and featured a live performance recorded at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in Houston, Texas.

Touch the Sky

The video features Pamela Anderson, Nia Long, Tracee Ellis Ross, and the Booker T. Washington High School Marching Band of Houston, Texas, which performs with Lupe Fiasco at a pep rally.

William Stanbery

He was attacking President Andrew Jackson through Houston and accused him of being in league with John Von Fossen and Robert Rose.