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Houston (⫽ ˈ h juː s t ən ⫽ ⓘ; HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat of Harris County; as well as the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the ...
Buckeye Partners, formerly known as the Buckeye Pipeline Company, is a distributor of petroleum in the East and Midwest areas of the United States. A direct descendant of Standard Oil, the company is considered one of the largest independent oil pipelines in the United States. [3] Its global headquarters is located in Houston 's River Oaks ...
The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center ( JSC) is NASA 's center for human spaceflight in Houston, Texas (originally named the Manned Spacecraft Center ), where human spaceflight training, research, and flight control are conducted. It was renamed in honor of the late US president and Texas native, Lyndon B. Johnson, by an act of the United States ...
Space Center Houston is a science museum that serves as the official visitor center of NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. It was designated a Smithsonian Affiliate museum in 2014. The organization is owned by NASA, and operated under a contract by the nonprofit Manned Spaceflight Education Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) organization.
Harris County Public Infrastructure Department. Website. www .hctra .org. The Harris County Toll Road Authority ( HCTRA, pronounced "HECK-trah") maintains and operates a 103-mile (165.8 km) toll road system in the Greater Houston area of Texas, United States. Its headquarters are located in Houston 's Fairbanks/Northwest Crossing neighborhood.
Yum! Brands, Inc. (sometimes called simply Yum! ), formerly Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc., is an American multinational fast food corporation listed on the Fortune 1000. Yum! operates the brands KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and The Habit Burger Grill, except in China, where the brands are operated by a separate company, Yum China.
In a holiday week shocker, Skydance Media and Shari Redstone’s National Amusements Inc. have quietly renewed acquisition talks and have reached a tentative agreement to acquire Paramount Global.
The TC Energy Center is a highrise that represents one of the first significant examples of postmodern architecture construction in downtown Houston, Texas. The building has been formerly known as the RepublicBank Center, the NCNB Center, the NationsBank Center, and the Bank of America Center. The building was completed in October 1983 and ...