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Costs. Approximately $2.5 billion of liabilities for BP. The Texas City refinery explosion occurred on March 23, 2005, when a flammable hydrocarbon vapor cloud ignited and violently exploded at the isomerization process unit of the BP oil refinery in Texas City, Texas, killing 15 workers, injuring 180 others and severely damaging the refinery.
An abortion-rights protest (2022) in New York City. Within hours of the news of the leak, both pro-abortion rights protesters and pro-life counterprotesters gathered outside the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the U.S. [118] The response to the draft put unusual public pressure on the Court as it made its decision ...
Houston becomes the first (and to date, the only) Texas city to reach the top 5. 6 Detroit: Michigan: 1,203,339: 7 Dallas: Texas: 904,078: 8 San Diego: California: 875,538: First appearance in the top 10. 9 Phoenix: Arizona: 789,704: First appearance in the top 10. First (and to date, the only) city in the Mountain West to reach the top 10. 10 ...
Georgetown is a city in Texas and the county seat of Williamson County, Texas, United States. [ 7] The population was 67,176 at the 2020 census, [ 4] and according to 2023 census estimates, the city is estimated to have a population of 96,312. [ 5] It is 30 miles (48 km) north of Austin and is part of the Austin–Round Rock–San Marcos ...
The 1900 Galveston hurricane, [ 1] also known as the Great Galveston hurricane and the Galveston Flood, and known regionally as the Great Storm of 1900 or the 1900 Storm, [ 2][ 3] is the deadliest natural disaster in United States history. [ 4] The strongest storm of the 1900 Atlantic hurricane season, it left between 6,000 and 12,000 ...
Edinburg (/ ˈ ɛ d ɪ n b ɜːr ɡ / ED-in-burg) is a city in and the county seat of Hidalgo County, Texas, United States. [6] The population was 100,243 at the 2020 census, [3] and in 2022, its estimated population was 104,294, [4] making it the second-largest city in Hidalgo County, and the third-largest city in the larger Rio Grande Valley region.
In the history departments of British universities in 2007, of the 5723 faculty members, 1644 (29%) identified themselves with social history while political history came next with 1425 (25%). [71] The "old" social history before the 1960s was a hodgepodge of topics without a central theme, and it often included political movements, like ...
The Texas County of Brazoria called for voluntary evacuation and Matagorda County called for mandatory evacuation as did the County of Brazoria for zip code 77541 and the city of Lake Jackson. Galveston, parts of southern Houston and areas south of the city and near the Texas coast were under a mandatory evacuation order starting at noon ...