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The Dutch and English enclaves at Amboyna (top) and Banda-Neira (bottom). 1655 engraving. The Amboyna massacre [1] (also known as the Amboyna trial) [2] was the 1623 torture and execution on Ambon Island (present-day Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia) of twenty-one men, including ten in the service of the English East India Company, as well as Japanese and Portuguese traders and a Portuguese man, [3 ...
One Shell Plaza (OSP) is a 50-story, 218 m (715 ft) skyscraper at 910 Louisiana Street in Downtown Houston, Texas. Perched atop the building is an antenna that brings the pinnacle height of the building to 304.8 m (1,000 ft). At its completion in 1971, the tower was the tallest in the city.
Marathon Oil Tower is a skyscraper in Uptown Houston.The building rises 562 feet (171 m) in height. [1] It contains 41 floors, and was completed in 1983 and construction only took 22 months. [2]
The neighborhood is within the Houston Police Department's Central Patrol Division, [20] headquartered at 61 Riesner. [21] The Civic Club contracts with an organization of off-duty Houston Police Department officers to patrol the neighborhood. [22] Afton Oaks is served by the Houston City Council District G and is in Texas's 7th congressional ...
The ExxonMobil Building (also known as Exxon Tower, and formerly as Humble Oil Building) at 800 Bell Street in Houston, Texas is a 45-story, 1,200,000 sq ft (110,000 m 2) skyscraper built in 1963, designed by Welton Becket & Associates. [1]
Garden Oaks is a neighborhood in Houston, Texas . The neighborhood, located north of Houston Heights, was established in 1937 by Edward L. Crain. [1] Garden Oaks has many oak, pecan, and pine trees in and around the neighborhood. [2] Several types of houses, including ranch-style houses and bungalows, are in the neighborhood. [citation needed]
The Houston Press dubbed the Old Sixth Ward the 2006 "Best Hidden Neighborhood." [7] Author and Houston's first poet laureate Gwendolyn Zepeda grew up in the Old Sixth Ward. [8] On August 1, 2007, the city of Houston approved an ordinance protecting the Old Sixth Ward and thereby prevented the demolition of over 200 buildings. [9]
Sharp donated a 300-foot-wide strip of land through the development to the state of Texas for construction of the Southwest Freeway (Interstate 69/U.S. Highway 59).This routing ensured easy access from Downtown Houston to homes in the neighborhood, as well as to PlazAmericas (formerly Sharpstown Mall and Sharpstown Center) (1961), Houston's first air-conditioned, enclosed shopping mall.