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    The Bender Hotel was a ten-story building in Downtown Houston on Main Street at the corner of Walker. It was later known as the San Jacinto Hotel, and...
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    into Fort Bend and Montgomery counties, bordering other principal communities of Greater Houston such as Sugar Land and The Woodlands. Houston was founded...
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  • University of Houston (UH, UofH, or Houston) is a public research university in Houston, Texas. It was established in 1927 as Houston Junior College...
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    Sugar Land, Texas (category Greater Houston)
    Sugarland) is the largest city in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, located in the southwestern part of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan...
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    simply Houston. Houston's nickname was suggested by early physical education instructor of the university and former head football coach, John R. Bender after...
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    Fulshear, Texas (category Greater Houston)
    FUUL-shər) is a city in northwestern Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, and is located on the western edge of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan...
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    some of the largest hotels in the city. Civic Center – Contains the core of Houston's government, including City Hall – the Houston Public Library Central...
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    Katy, Texas (category Greater Houston)
    three-border junction of Harris, Fort Bend, and Waller counties, along Interstate 10, 29 miles (47 km) west of downtown Houston and 22 miles (35 km) east of Sealy...
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    Rossonian apartments, the Savoy flats, and the Hotel Bender. Under construction in 1912 was the Rice Hotel. In early 1917 the U.S. War Department ordered...
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    Stafford, Texas (category Greater Houston)
    the U.S. state of Texas, in the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. The city is mostly in Fort Bend County, with a small part in Harris...
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    The geographic areas of Houston are generally classified as either being inside or outside Interstate 610, colloquially called "the Loop". The Loop generally...
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  • The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (category Films set in Houston)
    his mother nine years prior. After being discovered in a hotel without a chaperone by the Houston Police, Leak recruits his father as the new coach. Feeling...
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    Simonton, Texas (category Greater Houston)
    Simonton is a city in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. Simonton is located at the intersection...
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  • police after damaging a hotel room, incurring $1,800 in damages. He entered rehab for cocaine addiction that year. A judge in Fort Bend County, Texas granted...
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    The JW Marriott Downtown Houston is a hotel located at 806 Main Street in Downtown Houston, which opened in 2014. It had been previously known as the...
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    management district in Harris County and Fort Bend County, Texas. Most of the district is within the city of Houston, while a portion lies within an unincorporated...
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    Texas State Hotel was built in 1926 from a design by architect Joseph Finger, who also created the plans for Houston's City Hall. The hotel has Spanish...
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    The Memorial area of Houston, Texas is located west of Downtown, northwest of Uptown, and south of Spring Branch. The Memorial Super Neighborhood, as...
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  • Timeline of historical events of Houston, Texas, United States: August 26, 1836 - Elizabeth and T. F. L. Parrott sell the southern half of the eastern...
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  • Tru by Hilton (category Hilton Hotels & Resorts hotels)
    Tru by Hilton is an American chain of hotels owned by Hilton Worldwide. The hotel brand was announced in January 2016 at the Americas Lodging Investment...
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  • KUHT (redirect from Houston PBS)
    campus of the University of Houston. KUHT's transmitter is located near Missouri City, in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County. In addition, the...
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    a prominent bend of the river in the Downtown area (between present-day Houston Street and Villita Parkway), then to pave over the bend, and create a...
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    damage, primarily from catastrophic rainfall-triggered flooding in the Houston metropolitan area and Southeast Texas; this made the storm the costliest...
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    The economy of Houston is based primarily on the energy industry, particularly oil. However, health care, biomedical research, and aerospace also constitute...
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    Southwest Inn fire (category Hotel fires in the United States)
    The Southwest Inn fire in Houston, Texas on May 31, 2013 was a fire in an Indian restaurant that spread to an adjoining hotel. The fire claimed the biggest...
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    Archived from the original on August 2, 2010. Retrieved December 10, 2011. Bender, Bill (December 13, 2018). "Alabama's Tua Tagovailoa heads 2018 consensus...
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    Commission 2005, p. 3. "Americana Hotel". Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved September 14, 2013. Bender, Marylin (February 18, 1973)....
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    95.3998°W / 29.7101; -95.3998 HMH Houston Methodist Hospital is the flagship quaternary care hospital of Houston Methodist academic medical center. Located...
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    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,...
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  • responsible for a number of bank robberies in the Portland, Oregon and Houston, Texas areas. After the death of his wife, Catt was facing financial difficulties...
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