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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 ...
Numbering plan areas and area codes of Texas with numbering plan area 281/346/713/832 highlighted. Area codes 713, 281, 832, 346 and 621 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) forming an overlay complex for Houston, Texas and its environs. 713 is one of the original four area codes established for Texas in 1947.
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]
A sign indicating Sunnyside's location A sign indicating Sunnyside's location. Sunnyside is a community in southern Houston, Texas, United States, south of Downtown Houston. Sunnyside is outside the 610 Loop and inside Beltway 8 off State Highway 288 south of Downtown Houston and is predominantly African American. The community's slogan is ...
The studio for KTRK-TV ABC 13, the ABC station for the Houston area, is located at 3310 Bissonnet Street. [3] [9] Solvay America has its headquarters in the district. [3] [10] cPanel has its office in Upper Kirby. [11] [12] Restaurants Acquisition I, L.L.C., the operator of Black-eyed Pea restaurants in Texas, [13] [14] is headquartered in ...
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]
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places in downtown Houston, Texas. It is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the Downtown Houston neighborhood, defined as the area enclosed by Interstate 10 , Interstate 45 , and Interstate 69 .
The building, located at 1201 Louisiana, opened in 1971. [9] The building was the headquarters of Entex. [10] In 1975, Mercure Co. N.Y., a Dutch company, bought the Entex Building for US$40 million. [11]