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02-17-19 (City of Houston) Bellaire Police Chase
Houston Police Chase 14 March 2013 (KHOU)
With Commentary from Mia Gradney and Lily Jang. Houston Police Chase 14 March 2013 (KHOU)
KHOU HOUSTON -- A suspect was arrested Thursday morning after leading police on a high-speed chase from Bellaire to north Houston.
The chase started around 8:30 a.m. and ended about 40 minutes later.
Believe it or not, it was all set in motion 24 hours earlier by a Bellaire man who wishes to remain anonymous.
I was in my house and could see into the garage through the back door and saw a young man come in and take my golf clubs, said the man who lives in the 4400 block of Basswood. I went out the door and caught him peeling out and was able to get the license plate and a description of the vehicle.
The homeowner called a made a criminal report. That suspect's vehicle was spotted by a Bellaire police officer Thursday morning, and a chase ensued.
He did the perfect thing, said Bellaire Police Chief Byron Holloway. He didn't confront the suspect. He got information on it, and he called us. The suspect came back to do some more crime this morning and he got caught. That's the way it works, when it works well.
The chase ended near Little York, when the suspect pulled into the parking lot of Nationwide Trailers in the 8400 block of the North Freeway.
He was just sliding, and he didn't have any traction whatsoever, said employee Morgan White. I thought for sure he was going to hit something around here.
As White snapped photos with her smart phone, she noticed something that seemed kind of odd.
He was smoking a cigarette, and he got down and even when they handcuffed him and put him in the car, he still had that cigarette in his mouth. I thought that was kind of impressive, said White, adding that it would probably be his last cigarette for a very long time.
Houston | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:03:40 1 History
00:14:18 2 Geography
00:16:40 2.1 Geology
00:18:52 2.2 Climate
00:23:49 2.3 Cityscape
00:27:02 2.4 Architecture
00:30:34 3 Demographics
00:35:52 4 Economy
00:42:01 5 Culture
00:43:50 5.1 Arts and theater
00:46:28 5.2 Tourism and recreation
00:49:46 6 Sports
00:53:58 7 Government and politics
00:57:52 7.1 Crime
01:00:18 8 Education
01:01:32 8.1 Colleges and universities
01:05:23 9 Media
01:07:26 10 Infrastructure
01:07:35 10.1 Healthcare
01:09:45 11 Transportation
01:12:19 11.1 Roadways
01:18:13 11.2 Transit
01:21:21 11.3 Cycling
01:22:50 11.4 Airports
01:26:35 12 Sister cities
01:27:13 13 See also
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- Socrates
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Houston ( (listen) HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated population of 2.312 million in 2017. It is the most populous city in the Southern United States and on the Gulf Coast of the United States. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat of Harris County and the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, which is the fifth most populous metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the United States and the second most populous in Texas after the Dallas-Fort Worth MSA. With a total area of 627 square miles (1,620 km2), Houston is the eighth most expansive city in the United States (including consolidated city-counties; it is the largest city in the United States by total area, whose government is similarly not consolidated with that of a county or borough).
Houston was founded by land speculators on August 30, 1836, at the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou (a point now known as Allen's Landing) and incorporated as a city on June 5, 1837. The city is named after former General Sam Houston, who was president of the Republic of Texas and had won Texas' independence from Mexico at the Battle of San Jacinto 25 miles (40 km) east of Allen's Landing. After briefly serving as the capital of the Texas Republic in the late 1830s, Houston grew steadily into a regional trading center for the remainder of the 19th century.The arrival of the 20th century saw a convergence of economic factors which fueled rapid growth in Houston, including a burgeoning port and railroad industry, the decline of Galveston as Texas' primary port following a devastating 1900 hurricane, the subsequent construction of the Houston Ship Channel, and the Texas oil boom. In the mid-20th century, Houston's economy diversified as it became home to the Texas Medical Center—the world's largest concentration of healthcare and research institutions—and NASA's Johnson Space Center, where the Mission Control Center is located.
Houston's economy has a broad industrial base in energy, manufacturing, aeronautics, and transportation. Leading in healthcare sectors and building oilfield equipment, Houston has the second most Fortune 500 headquarters of any U.S. municipality within its city limits (after New York City). The Port of Houston ranks first in the United States in international waterborne tonnage handled and second in total cargo tonnage handled. Nicknamed the Space City, Houston is a global city, with strengths in culture, medicine, and research. The city has a population from various ethnic and religious backgrounds and a large and growing international community. Houston is the most diverse metropolitan area in Texas and has been described as the most racially and ethnically diverse major metropolis in the U.S. It is home to many cultural institutions and exhibits, which attract more than 7 million visitors a year to the Museum District. Houston has an active visual and performing arts scene in the Theater District and offers year-roun ...
Houston | Bay Area Storm Water Flooding Forum: Harvey, Ike and the Future: Panel 1
Panel 1 of the Houston | Bay Area Storm Water Flooding Forum
November 28, 2017
Speakers:
Dr. George Guillen - Welcome and introductions
Dr. Andre Droxler – Global Warming-Climate Change and Hurricane Harvey
Stephen Costello – Hurricane Harvey Impacts
Dr. John Jacob – Planning for Community Resilience
John Branch – Looking For Answers – Exploration Green
Lisa Gonzalez – Planning for Community Resilience
*All content in this video does not necessarily reflect the views/opinions of the Environmental Institute of Houston or the university.
Hard To Pronounce Michigan Places | Pure Michigan
Have you ever wondered how Michigan was named Michigan? Before colonization, the now Great Lakes State was home to at least eight Native American tribes throughout the land, one of which being the Ojibwe Indians. The Ojibwe were the first people to openly interact with the French in Michigan, trading furs and knowledge of the area for guns and goods. Through translation, the state of Michigan was named after the Ojibwe Indian word “Michigama,” which means “great lake” or “land surrounded by water.”
With this in mind, we invite you to take a watch some Michiganders stumble their way through some uniquely-named destinations found across the Great Lakes State. Test yourself and learn the correct pronunciations here:
Houston, Texas | Wikipedia audio article
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Houston, Texas
00:03:14 1 History
00:12:31 2 Geography
00:14:36 2.1 Geology
00:16:32 2.2 Climate
00:20:54 2.3 Cityscape
00:23:45 2.4 Architecture
00:26:51 3 Demographics
00:31:30 4 Economy
00:36:55 5 Culture
00:38:32 5.1 Arts and theater
00:40:51 5.2 Tourism and recreation
00:43:46 6 Sports
00:47:28 7 Government and politics
00:50:53 7.1 Crime
00:53:02 8 Education
00:54:08 8.1 Colleges and universities
00:57:30 9 Media
00:59:20 10 Infrastructure
00:59:29 10.1 Healthcare
01:01:23 11 Transportation
01:03:38 11.1 Roadways
01:08:50 11.2 Transit
01:11:35 11.3 Cycling
01:12:55 11.4 Airports
01:16:13 12 Sister cities
01:16:48 13 See also
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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Houston ( (listen) HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated population of 2.312 million in 2017. It is the most populous city in the Southern United States and on the Gulf Coast of the United States. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat of Harris County and the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, which is the fifth most populous metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the United States and the second most populous in Texas after the Dallas-Fort Worth MSA. With a total area of 627 square miles (1,620 km2), Houston is the eighth most expansive city in the United States (including consolidated city-counties; it is the largest city in the United States by total area, whose government is similarly not consolidated with that of a county or borough).
Houston was founded by land speculators on August 30, 1836, at the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou (a point now known as Allen's Landing) and incorporated as a city on June 5, 1837. The city is named after former General Sam Houston, who was president of the Republic of Texas and had won Texas' independence from Mexico at the Battle of San Jacinto 25 miles (40 km) east of Allen's Landing. After briefly serving as the capital of the Republic in the late 1830s, Houston grew steadily into a regional trading center for the remainder of the 19th century.The arrival of the 20th century saw a convergence of economic factors which fueled rapid growth in Houston, including a burgeoning port and railroad industry, the decline of Galveston as Texas' primary port following a devastating 1900 hurricane, the subsequent construction of the Houston Ship Channel, and the Texas oil boom. In the mid-20th century, Houston's economy diversified as it became home to the Texas Medical Center—the world's largest concentration of healthcare and research institutions—and NASA's Johnson Space Center, where the Mission Control Center is located.
Houston's economy has a broad industrial base in energy, manufacturing, aeronautics, and transportation. Leading in healthcare sectors and building oilfield equipment, Houston has the second most Fortune 500 headquarters of any U.S. municipality within its city limits (after New York City). The Port of Houston ranks first in the United States in international waterborne tonnage handled and second in total cargo tonnage handled. Nicknamed the Space City, Houston is a global city, with strengths in culture, medicine, and research. The city has a population from various ethnic and religious backgrounds and a large and growing international community. Houston is the most diverse metropolitan area in Texas and has been described as the most racially and ethnically diverse major metropolis in the U.S. It is home to many cultural institutions and exhibits, which attract more than 7 million visitors a year to the Museum District. Houston has an active visual and performing arts scene in the Theater District and offers year-round resident companies in all major performing arts.
Words at War: It's Always Tomorrow / Borrowed Night / The Story of a Secret State
Jan Karski (24 April 1914 -- 13 July 2000) was a Polish World War II resistance movement fighter and later professor at Georgetown University. In 1942 and 1943 Karski reported to the Polish government in exile and the Western Allies on the situation in German-occupied Poland, especially the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the secretive German-Nazi extermination camps.
In November 1939, on a train to a POW camp in General Government (a part of Poland which had not been fully incorporated by Nazi Germany into The Third Reich), Karski managed to escape, and found his way to Warsaw. There he joined the ZWZ -- the first resistance movement in occupied Europe and a predecessor of the Home Army (AK). About that time he adopted a nom de guerre of Jan Karski, which later became his legal name. Other noms de guerre used by him during World War II included Piasecki, Kwaśniewski, Znamierowski, Kruszewski, Kucharski, and Witold. In January 1940 Karski began to organize courier missions with dispatches from the Polish underground to the Polish Government in Exile, then based in Paris. As a courier, Karski made several secret trips between France, Britain and Poland. During one such mission in July 1940 he was arrested by the Gestapo in the Tatra mountains in Slovakia. Severely tortured, he was finally transported to a hospital in Nowy Sącz, from where he was smuggled out. After a short period of rehabilitation, he returned to active service in the Information and Propaganda Bureau of the Headquarters of the Polish Home Army.[citation needed]
In 1942 Karski was selected by Cyryl Ratajski, the Polish Government's Delegate at Home, to perform a secret mission to prime minister Władysław Sikorski in London. Karski was to contact Sikorski as well as various other Polish politicians and inform them about Nazi atrocities in occupied Poland. In order to gather evidence, Karski met Bund activist Leon Feiner and was twice smuggled by Jewish underground leaders into the Warsaw Ghetto for the purpose of showing him first hand what was happening to the Polish Jews. Also, disguised as a Ukrainian camp guard, he visited what he thought was Bełżec death camp. In actuality, it seems that Karski only got close enough to witness a Durchgangslager (sorting and transit point) for Bełżec in the town of Izbica Lubelska, located midway between Lublin and Bełżec.[4] Many historians have accepted this theory, as did Karski himself.[5]
From 1942 Karski reported to the Polish, British and U.S. governments on the situation in Poland, especially on the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Holocaust of the Jews. He had also carried out of Poland a microfilm with further information from the underground movement on the extermination of European Jews in German-occupied Poland. The Polish Foreign Minister Count Edward Raczynski provided the Allies on this basis one of the earliest and most accurate accounts of the Holocaust. A note by Foreign Minister Edward Raczynski entitled The mass extermination of Jews in German occupied Poland, addressed to the governments of the United Nations on 10 December 1942, would later be published along with other documents in a widely distributed leaflet.[6]
Karski met with Polish politicians in exile including the Prime Minister, as well as members of political parties such as the Socialist Party, National Party, Labor Party, People's Party, Jewish Bund and Poalei Zion. He also spoke to the British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, giving a detailed statement on what he had seen in Warsaw and Bełżec. In 1943 in London he met the well-known journalist Arthur Koestler, the later author of Darkness at Noon. He then traveled to the United States and reported to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In July 1943 Karski again personally reported to Roosevelt about the situation in Poland.
Karski met with many other government and civic leaders in the United States, including Felix Frankfurter, Cordell Hull, William Joseph Donovan, and Stephen Wise. Frankfurter, skeptical of Karski's report, said later I did not say that he was lying, I said that I could not believe him. There is a difference.[7] Karski presented his report to media, bishops of various denominations (including Cardinal Samuel Stritch), members of the Hollywood film industry and artists, but without result. His warning about the Yalta solution and the plight of stateless peoples became an inspiration for the formation of the Office of High Commissioner for Refugees after the war.[8] In 1944 Karski published Courier from Poland: The Story of a Secret State (with a selection featured in Collier's six weeks before the book's release[9][10]), in which he related his experiences in wartime Poland. The book was a major success (a film of it was planned but never realized) with more than 400,000 copies sold alone in the United States up to the end of World War II.
Fort Worth, Texas | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:03:11 1 History
00:03:20 1.1 Treaty of Bird's Fort
00:04:34 1.2 Mexican–American War
00:07:03 1.3 Town development
00:08:15 1.3.1 Panther City and Hell's Half Acre
00:18:06 1.4 Historic flags of Fort Worth
00:18:17 1.5 Late 20th and early 21st centuries
00:19:58 2 Geography
00:22:35 2.1 Neighborhoods
00:22:44 2.1.1 Stockyards
00:23:28 2.1.2 Upper West Side
00:24:04 2.1.3 Tanglewood
00:25:15 2.2 Architecture
00:26:01 2.3 Climate
00:29:45 3 Demographics
00:35:06 3.1 Religion
00:37:33 4 Economy
00:39:35 5 Culture
00:40:24 5.1 Arts and sciences
00:40:34 5.2 Nature
00:42:01 5.3 Parks
00:43:47 6 Sports
00:45:13 6.1 Amateur sports
00:45:22 6.2 TCU Horned Frogs
00:47:16 6.3 Recreation
00:47:25 6.3.1 Colonial National Invitational Golf Tournament
00:48:05 6.3.2 Motor racing
00:49:05 6.3.3 Cowtown Marathon
00:49:42 7 Government
00:49:51 7.1 City government
00:51:01 7.1.1 City Councilsup[75]/sup
00:51:09 7.1.2 City departments
00:51:41 7.2 State government
00:51:50 7.2.1 State Board of Education memberssup[76]/sup
00:52:01 7.2.2 Texas State Representativessup[76]/sup
00:52:11 7.2.3 Texas State Senatorssup[76]/sup
00:52:20 7.2.4 State Facilities
00:53:01 7.3 Federal government
00:53:11 7.3.1 United States Representativessup[76]/sup
00:53:21 7.3.2 Federal facilities
00:55:48 8 Education
00:55:58 8.1 Public libraries
00:56:13 8.2 Public schools
00:56:57 8.3 Private schools
00:57:12 8.4 Institutes of higher education
00:57:23 9 Media
01:00:47 9.1 Radio stations
01:01:05 9.1.1 AM
01:03:00 9.1.2 FM
01:04:13 9.1.3 Internet radio stations and shows
01:04:53 10 Transportation
01:05:38 10.1 History
01:05:47 10.1.1 Electric streetcars
01:06:47 10.1.2 Electric interurban railways
01:08:00 10.2 Current transport
01:09:27 10.2.1 Roads
01:11:11 10.2.2 Public transportation
01:12:04 10.2.3 Rail transportation
01:12:41 10.2.4 Airports
01:14:25 10.2.5 Walkability
01:14:45 11 Notable people
01:14:54 12 Sister cities
01:16:00 13 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Fort Worth is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the 13th-largest city in the United States and fifth-largest city in Texas. It is the county seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly 350 square miles (910 km2) into three other counties: Denton, Parker, and Wise. According to the 2017 census estimates, Fort Worth's population is 874,168. Fort Worth is the second-largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, which is the 4th most populous metropolitan area in the United States.The city of Fort Worth was established in 1849 as an army outpost on a bluff overlooking the Trinity River. Fort Worth has historically been a center of the longhorn cattle trade. It still embraces its Western heritage and traditional architecture and design. USS Fort Worth (LCS-3) is the first ship of the United States Navy named after the city.Fort Worth is home to the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and several world-class museums designed by internationally known contemporary architects. The Kimbell Art Museum, considered to have one of the best art collections in Texas, is housed in what is widely regarded as one of the outstanding architectural achievements of the modern era. The museum was designed by the American architect Louis Kahn, with an addition designed by world-renowned Italian architect Renzo Piano opening November 2013. Also of note is the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, designed by Tadao Ando. The Amon Carter Museum of American Art, designed by Philip Johnson, houses one of the world's most extensive collections of American art. The Sid Richardson Museum, redesigned by David M. Schwarz, has one of the most focused collections of Western art in the U.S., emphasizing Frederic Remington and Cha ...