Houston is the largest city in
Texas.
As of 2005, it had an estimated population of 2,016,582.
Furthermore, the city of Houston lies within, and is part of,
the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area, which is the 6th
most populous metropolitan area in the United States,
and is home to about 5 million people.
Houston was originally founded in 1836, and incorporated in 1837, by brothers,
Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen. The city is named after
Sam Houston, who, at the time, was the President of the Republic of Texas.
Sam Houston had previously commanded at the Battle of San Jacinto,
in 1836 during the Texas revolution, the battle having taken place
25 miles (40 kilometers) to the East of the city's location.
Of all the cities in the United States, only New York City is home to more Fortune 500 headquarters than Houston. Some of the major companies with their headquarters in Houston include ConocoPhillips, Continental Airlines, Halliburton, Lyondell Chemical, Marathon Oil and Sysco.
The principal airport serving Houston is George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Perhaps the best known educational institution in Houston is William Marsh Rice University, which is a private comprehensive research university that is particularly known for its strength in applied sciences.
Professional sports teams in Houston include the ice hockey team, the Houston Aeros, the Major League Baseball team, the Houston Astros, the NBA basketball team, the Houston Rockets, the NFL American football team, the Houston Texans, and the soccer team, Houston Dynamo.
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Moon Spotlight Houston & the Texas Gulf Coast is a 100-page compact guide covering Houston, East Texas, and the Gulf Coast of Texas. Journalist Andy Rhodes offers his seasoned advice on must-see attractions, and includes maps with sightseeing highlights so you can make the most of your time. This lightweight guide is packed with recommendations on entertainment, shopping, recreations, accommodations, food, and transportation, making navigating this interesting region of the Lone Star State uncomplicated and enjoyable.
Product Description: From an in-depth Texas barbecue chapter to the inside scoop on the Austin music scene, this guide gets travelers deep in the heart of Texas.
60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Houston uncovers hikes around Houston that previously had gone unnoticed. This is the essential guide to this area, from the Big Thicket of east Texas to the coast of Galveston Island. Explore most of the 138-mile Lone Star Trail with over a dozen hikes breaking up the trail into manageable segments. Hikes lead to old native homesteads, native prairies, deep forests, riparian woodlands, urban byways, wildlife preserves along the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail, wetlands, and numerous bayous and waterways. Each chapter serves as both a navigational aide and an interpretive guide to familiarize hikers with wondrous destinations in and around The Bayou City.
Product Description: Who needs Hawaii or the Caribbean you are holding Houston in your hands. Let Karen Foulk show you 147 fun things to do right here, right now. You can entertain guests, build family memories, impress a date or dazzle your friends with all the fun places you know using this guide.
Product Description: The Texas coast offers rich avian treasures for expert birders and beginners alike, if only they know where to look. For those familiar with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's maps to the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail, this book on the Upper Texas Coast offers more--more information, more convenient and detailed maps, more pictures, more finding tips, and more birding advice from one of the trail's creators, Ted Lee Eubanks Jr., and trail experts Robert A. Behrstock and Seth Davidson. For those new to the trail, the book is the perfect companion for learning where to find and how to bird the very best venues on this part of the Texas coast.
In an opening tutorial on habitat and seasonal strategies for birding the Upper Texas Coast, the authors include tips on how to take advantage of the famous (but elusive) fallouts of birds that happen here. They then briefly discuss the basics of birding by ear and the rewards of passive birding before turning to the trail itself and each of more than 120 birding sites from the Louisiana-Texas border, through Galveston and Houston, to just south of Freeport.
In an attractive, durable, and user-friendly format, the book includes:
Maps to each of 15 trail loops, with birding sites clearly marked Text directions to each site Site rating recommendations for prioritizing trips Site descriptions that feature birds likely to be found Advice on finding bird groups
While not intended as a field identification guide, the book contains more than 175 color photographs of birds and their coastal habitat, giving readers an excellent feel for the trail's diversity and abundance. Whether you are making your annual spring pilgrimage to Texas, leisurely traveling with the family along the coast, or wondering what to do during a layover in Houston, using this book as your guide to the trail will greatly enhance your birding experience.
Product Description: "Wallpaper* City Guides" not only suggest where to stay, eat, and drink, but what the tourist passionate about design might want to see, whether he/she has a week or 24 hours in the city. Featured are up and coming areas, landmark buildings in an 'Architour', design centers, and the best shops to buy items unique to that city. "Wallpaper* City Guides" present travelers with a fast-track ticket to the chosen location. The edited guides offer the best, most exciting, and the most beautiful of that particular city. As well as looking beautiful, the guides are expertly designed with function as a priority, and have tabbed sections so that the tourist can easily find what they are looking for. There are maps, rate and currency cards, color-coded parts of the city, and an easy navigational tool. They are the ultimate combination of form and function.
Product Description: Take a chilling journey into South Texas, post Hurricane Ike, from The Woodlands to Galveston, where the long departed are waiting to tell you their stories. Spend a frightening vacation moving from one haunted place to the next, taking in haunted hotels, mansions, and depots. Legends of haunted graveyards, phantom dogs, and other eerie phenomena will intrigue you.
Product Description: Here's a photo portfolio of a city whose "can-do" attitude has propelled it into the global arena, and beyond into outer space. A splendid collection of images that reflect Houston's unique blend of big city bustle and small town values.
Product Description: The Fearless Critic is the definitive restaurant guide to the Houston area. Acclaimed critic Robin Goldstein has teamed with a secret panel of brutally honest undercover chefs to create a 528-page blockbuster of a book, fiercely independent, relentlessly opinionated, and exhaustively comprehensive. The critics dine incognito, accepting no free meals and no ads from restaurants. Prepare to be shocked by the results: this is a new breed of food writing.
The book includes more than 400 cheeky reviews, rigorous letter grades from A+ to D- (with no grade inflation), and helpful cross-referenced lists that cover every corner of Houston's vast dining scene, from the power steakhouses to the Tamale Man. It's an essential reference for anyone who eats out in the Houston area, from River Oaks to the Woodlands, Downtown to Chinatown.
Previous praise for Robin Goldstein's restaurant guides: "Pulls no punches...even icons get goosed" -Austin American-Statesman
"Talent for turning out zingers" -Boston Globe
"Scathing and scintillating" -New Haven Register
"Written with panache...compelling" -Jane and Michael Stern, columnists, Gourmet Magazine
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