Monday, March 1, 2021

usa southern states

 Alabama

- Mobile (/moʊˈbiːl/ moh-BEEL, French: [mɔbil] is the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States. Alabama's only saltwater port, Mobile is located on the Mobile River at the head of the Mobile Bay and the north-central Gulf Coast.[9] The Port of Mobile has always played a key role in the economic health of the city, beginning with the settlement as an important trading center between the French colonists and Native Americans, Mobile was founded in 1702 by the Frenchas the first capital of Louisiana. During its first 100 years, Mobile was a colony of France, then Britain, and lastly Spain. Mobile became a part of the United States in 1813, with the annexation by President James Madison of West Florida from Spain.[15] The city surrendered to Federal forces on April 12, 1865,[16] after Unionvictories at two forts protecting the city. Mobile is known for having the oldest organized Carnival or Mardi Gras celebrations in the United States. Its French Catholic colonial settlers celebrated this festival from the first decade of the 18th century. Beginning in 1830, Mobile was host to the first formally organized Carnival mystic society to celebrate with a parade in the United States. (In New Orleans, such a group is called a krewe.)The city gained its name from the Mobile tribe that the French colonists encountered living in the area of Mobile Bay.[21] Although debated by Alabama historians, they may have been descendants of the Native American tribe whose small fortress town, Mabila, was used to conceal several thousand native warriors before an attack in 1540 on the expedition of Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto.[22] About seven years after the founding of the French Mobile settlement, the Mobile tribe, along with the Tohomé, gained permission from the colonists to settle near the fort.
-The capital of La Louisiane was moved in 1720 to Biloxi,[28] leaving Mobile to serve as a regional military and trading center. In 1723 the construction of a new brick fort with a stone foundation began[28] and it was renamed Fort Condé in honor of Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon and prince of Condé.In 1763, the Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Seven Years' War, which Britain won, defeating France. By this treaty, France ceded its territories east of the Mississippi River to Britain. This area was made a part of the expanded British West Florida colony.[30] The British changed the name of Fort Condé to Fort Charlotte, after Queen Charlotte, consort of King George III.[
- Nickname(s): 
"The Port City," "Azalea City," "The City of Six Flags"
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Mobile apparaît dans diverses œuvres de la culture populaire. Au cinéma, Mobile apparaît dans les films Rencontres du troisième type (1977) de Steven Spielberg[225], Miss Daisy et son chauffeur (1989) de Bruce Beresford[226], Love Liza (2002) de Todd Louiso[227] et dans la mini-série The Pacific (2010)[228]. En 2014, le centre-ville est le lieu principal où se déroule l'intrigue du film Rage[229]. Mobile est également citée dans des œuvres littéraires comme Forrest Gump où Mobile est la ville d'origine du héros[230]. Mobile apparaît aussi dans les chansons Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again de Bob Dylan et Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves de Cher.
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Arizona
- Nogales is a city in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States. Known in O'odham as Nowa:l,[citation needed] (which translates as "prickly pear cactus" or the Spanish "nopal") the name Nogales means "black walnuts" in Spanish, and the walnut trees which once grew abundantly in the mountain pass between the cities of Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, can still be found around the town.Nogales was at the beginning of the 1775–1776 Juan Bautista de Anza Expedition as it entered the present day U.S. from New Spain, and the town is now on the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail. On the second floor of the 1904 Nogales Courthouse is a small room dedicated to the 1775–1776 Anza Expedition. In 1841, a land grant from the Mexican government to the Elías family established Los Nogales de Elías. Following the Gadsden purchase in 1853, Nogales became a part of the United States of America. On August 27, 1918, a battle between United States Army forces and Mexican militia - mostly civilian in composition - took place. Culminating as the result of a decade's worth of tensions originating from the Mexican Revolution and earlier battles in Nogales along the border in 1913 and 1915, the main consequence of the 1918 violence saw the building of the first permanent border wall between Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, along the previously unobstructed boundary line on International Street.
- yuma county尤馬郡成立於1864年11月8日，是該州原來的四個郡之一，郡名紀念尤馬人。

- Olive City, or Olivia, was a short-lived town, steamboat landing, and ferry crossing on the Colorado River in what was then Yuma County, Arizona Territory, from 1863 to 1866. In 1866, a new landing was established between Olive City and Mineral City, with the support of two steamboat captains of the George A. Johnson Company. Mineral City became the name of this larger settlement, resulting in the abandonment of Olive City and by 1870 La Paz also after the placer mines gave out. In 1870 Mineral City was renamed Ehrenburg.
- The Silver Economy: Downsizers transform US housing landscape
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7cc9d5f8-10ea-11e4-b116-00144feabdc0.html
- http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/6e02096a-a3d7-11e5-873f-68411a84f346.html US-Mexico border: Arizona's open door

Arkansas
- Little Rock is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The city derives its name from a rock formation along the river, named the "Little Rock" (French: La Petite Roche) by the French explorer Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe in the 1720s. The capital of the Arkansas Territorywas moved to Little Rock from Arkansas Post in 1821.Little Rock is a cultural, economic, government, and transportation center within Arkansas and the South.Though there was an effort to officially name the city "Arkopolis" upon its founding in the 1820s, and that name did appear on a few maps made by the US Geological Survey, the name Little Rock is eventually what stuck. 

  • headquarters of heifer international
  • bill clinton lived there, birthplace of his daughter chelsea
- china
  • Hefei Risever Machinery Co Ltd, headquartered in Hefei, Anhui province, has chosen Jonesboro, Arkansas as the site for its first facility in the US. The move comes after years of concerted effort by the Arkansas Economic Development Commission and Governor Asa Hutchinson, according to the governor's office.http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2017-10/27/content_33762603.htm


 比洛克西  Biloxi (/bɪˈlʌksi/; French: [bilusi]) is a city and one of two county seats of Harrison County, Mississippi, United States. In 1699 French colonists formed the first permanent European settlement in French Louisiana, at Fort Maurepas, now in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, and referred to as "Old Biloxi". They were under the direction of Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville. La Louisiane was separated from Spanish Florida at the Perdido River near Pensacola (this was founded by the Spanish 1559 and again in 1698). The name of Biloxi in French was Bilocci, a transliteration of the term for the local Native American tribe in their language. Labeled along with "Fort Maurepas"[6] on maps dated circa year 1710/1725, the name was sometimes used in English as "Fort Bilocci".[7][8]In 1720, the administrative capital of French Louisiana was moved to Biloxi (or Bilocci) from Mobile (or La Mobile). French Louisiana, part of New France, was known in French as La Louisiane in colonial times. In modern times it is called La Louisiane française to distinguish it from the modern state of Louisiana.[6]Due to fears of tides and hurricanes, colonial governor Bienville moved the capital of French Louisiana in 1722 from Biloxi to a new inland harbor town named La Nouvelle-Orléans (New Orleans), built for this purpose in 1718–1720.In 1763, following Britain's victory in the Seven Years' War/French and Indian War, France had to cede their colonies east of the Mississippi River, except for New Orleans, to Great Britain, as part of the Treaty of Paris. At the same time, the French colony west of the Mississippi, plus New Orleans, was ceded to Spain as part of the Treaty of Fontainebleau.

Florida
- Melbourne is a principal city of the Palm Bay – Melbourne – Titusville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. In 1969 the city was expanded by merging with nearby Eau Gallie.After the Civil War, pioneer families arrived, and Melbourne was founded in 1867. The first settlers arrived after 1877. They included Richard W. Goode, his father John Goode, Cornthwaite John Hector, Captain Peter Wright, Balaam Allen, Wright Brothers, and Thomas Mason. Three of these men, Wright, Allen, and Brothers were black freedmen. The city, formerly called "Crane Creek", was named Melbourne in honor of its first postmaster, Cornthwaite John Hector, an Englishman who had spent much of his life in Melbourne, Australia. He is buried in the Melbourne Cemetery, along with many early residents in the area. The first school in Melbourne was built in 1883 and is on permanent exhibit on the campus of Florida Institute of Technology. By 1885, the town had 70 people. The Greater Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in 1885 and is still active.
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  • http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2017-04/10/content_28863220.htm Founded as a resort escape for the elites back in the late 1800s, the island saw a growing convergence of wealthy people in the 1910s and 1920s due to its warm winter. "This started the historical development of Palm Beach being the wealthiest community in United States," says Rick Rose, a local historian who lives in Palm Beach County. At that time, only the wealthy, or at least upper-class Americans, could afford to travel. They built boutique hotels, golf courses, and mansions. Their way of life continues to this day. During peak seasons, there are extravagant balls almost every night. When Starbucks wanted to open a store there, says Rose, the company was not allowed to have their classic green sign put up on the avenue. The Everglades Club is known for being the most restrictive, in terms of its entry and enrollment. To this day, the club does not have a website. Entry is out of the question if you are not a member.

- enterprise florida
- http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21644190-florida-blames-georgia-plummeting-shellfish-harvests-lawns-v-oysters Since 1990 Georgia, Florida and Alabama have battled over the water from two river basins: the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa and the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint. To complicate matters, the federal Army Corps of Engineers runs dams and on the rivers. Georgia’s farms, Alabama’s factories and Florida’s shellfish all depend on their water. Atlanta alone draws in 360m gallons a day; by 2035 the city could suck up twice that.
- china

  • http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2014-12/26/content_19170607.htm The United States lobster trade with China is growing rapidly, especially for a species called the spiny lobster that is harvested in the Florida Keys. "China has upended the supply chain for lobster," said John Sackton, editor and publisher of US-based SeafoodNews. "The Chinese prefer the spiny lobster over its better-known brethren, the North American or Maine lobster. Part of the reason is cultural. The Chinese think of a spiny lobster as similar to a dragon prawn and the dragon is a very powerful symbol in China."
  • http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-13/sun-sand-and-stir-fry-miami-woos-chinese-investors-cities The developer from the city of Linyi in China’s wintry northeast aims to make Florida’s most-populous metropolitan area, with its clean beaches and tropical climate, a destination for Chinese property investors. “We are focused on bringing to Miami the new wave of Chinese who are wealthy and educated,” Li said in a phone interview via a translator. “The environment in Miami makes for a very suitable lifestyle. Playing golf and going to the beach are huge attractions.”

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  • business incubators, vc firms, largest public and private companies Florida Trend (http://www.floridatrend.com/business-florida)

- SCMP http://www.scmp.com/business/economy/article/1457254/floridas-key-position-attracts-investors hanshih.toh@scmp.com 
26 March, 2014 Florida's strategic position as a gateway to Latin America is one of the factors attracting mainland Chinese and Hong Kong investors to buy real estate in the southeastern US state. 
"Investors from around the world, including China, consider Miami's relationship with Latin America as a significant catalyst for growth. This, combined with the fact that property prices are 40 per cent below their peak, is the main reason why investors are buying property in Florida," said Charlie Rosier, a director of Blackfish, a consultancy which helps Asian clients invest in US property. 
Rosier said Florida was a gateway to Latin America in the same way as Hong Kong was for mainland China. "As such, it is the third-largest wealth management centre in the world after New York and London." 
Chinese investment in Miami, Florida's biggest city, accounted for 3.7 per cent of the city's property sales, he said. 
This was the same as Brazil in 2010, which more than doubled its property investment in Florida in 2011, he said. 
"We expect similar increase from Chinese investment in 2014 and 2015," Rosier said. 
"Miami has been described as the Hong Kong of Latin America. South Florida has a huge advantage for Chinese businesses looking to locate their headquarters for Latin America," said Gray Swoope, the chief executive of Enterprise Florida, the state's economic development organisation. 
There were more than 1,000 corporate headquarters and logistics facilities serving Latin America in south Florida, including Miami, said Manuel Mencia, a senior vice-president of Enterprise Florida. 
Florida handled 40 per cent of US trade with Latin America and the Caribbean, said Bill Johnson, a director of Miami Port, in a report by Blackfish. 
Miami had more flights to Latin America than all the other US cities combined, Swoope said. 
Florida has 15 deepwater ports, while Miami airport is the largest international airfreight hub in the US. 
"It's natural for us to trade with China," said Swoope, who is also the state's commerce secretary. 
China is the third-largest trading partner of Florida, after Brazil and Colombia. Last year, China's trade with Florida grew 7.9 per cent to US$9.65 billion, close to Colombia's US$9.95 billion but far behind Brazil's US$20.5 billion, according to official US data. 
China was Florida's largest import source, accounting for most of the trade worth US$9.65 billion between the two sides, Mencia said. 
Florida's exports to Hong Kong surged 41 per cent to US$1.3 billion last year, making the city the top Asian destination for the US state, according to Enterprise Florida. 
Swire Properties is one of the biggest developers in Florida and is constructing the tallest building in the region, the 80-storey One Brickell City Centre. 
The US$1.05 billion mixed-use development in Miami has a gross floor area of 5.4 million square feet and will house office, residential, hotel, shops and entertainment facilities. The project is scheduled to be completed next year. 
Fortune International Realty, property firm in Florida, has sold 25 properties in the state since November last year. 
Six were sold to mainland Chinese and two to Hong Kong buyers, said Fernando De Nunez, the company's international vice-president, in the Blackfish report. 



houston侯斯頓的官方綽號為「太空城（Space City）」，因為它是林頓·約翰遜太空中心的所在地，任務監控中心也設在這裏（因此，「侯斯頓」是在月球上說的第一個詞）。許多當地人喜愛稱作「牛沼城」。其他綽號還有「H鎮」、「腳爪城」或「蒙古城」。 ジョンソン宇宙センターの存在から、ヒューストンには1967年にSpace City（宇宙の街）という公式な別名がつけられた[6]。地元住民はこのほか、Bayou City（バイユーの街）、Magnolia City（マグノリアの街）、H-Townなどと呼ぶこともある。 


louisiana
- Creole is an unincorporated community in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, United States.
  • 美國路易斯安那州克西奧萊巿（Creole）3間黑人教堂，去年遭一名男子縱火焚毀。美國司法部周一以違反《教會防止縱火法案》，判處該名男子25年監禁，並須向損毀教堂賠償合共266萬美元（約2,062萬港元），出獄後仍需接受3年監視。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20201105/00180_003.html
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  • https://www.quora.com/Is-French-language-spoken-frequently-in-Lousiana-If-so-what-parts 

missouri
- Independence is known as the "Queen City of the Trails" because it was a point of departure for the California, Oregon, and Santa Fe Trails. Independence was also the hometown of U.S. President Harry S. Truman; the Truman Presidential Library and Museum is located in the city, as are the gravesites of Truman and First Lady Bess Truman. The city is also sacred to many Latter Day Saints, as the home of Joseph Smith's 1831 Temple Lot, and the headquarters of several Latter Day Saint factions.  
Named after the Declaration of Independence, Independence was founded on March 29, 1827,[10] and quickly became an important frontier town. 

mexico
- Sugar Land is a city in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, located in the southwestern part of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. 
Beginning in the 19th century, the present-day Sugar Land area was home to a large sugar plantation situated in the fertile floodplain of the Brazos River. Following the consolidation of local plantations into Imperial Sugar Company in 1908, Sugar Land grew steadily as a company townand incorporated as a city in 1959. Since then, Sugar Land has grown rapidly alongside other edge cities around Houston, with large-scale development of master-planned communities contributing to population swells since the 1980s.Sugar Land is home to the headquarters of Imperial Sugar; the company's main sugar refinery and distribution center were once located in the city. The Imperial Sugar crown logo is featured in the city seal and logo.Prior to the founding of Texas, the Atakapapeople lived in the area that would later become Sugar Land.Sugar Land has roots in the original Mexican land grant made to Anglo-American Stephen F. Austin. One of the first settlers of the land, Samuel M. Williams, called this area "Oakland Plantation" because of the many different varieties of oak trees on the land.[citation needed] Williams' brother, Nathaniel, purchased the land from Austin in 1838.[6] They developed the plantationby growing cotton, corn, and sugarcane. During these early years, the plantation was the center of social life along the Brazos River. In 1853, Benjamin Terry and William J. Kyle purchased the Oakland Plantation from the Williams family. Terry is known for organizing a division of Texas Rangers during the Civil War and for naming the town. Upon the deaths of Terry and Kyle, Colonel E. H. Cunningham bought the 12,500-acre (5,100 ha) plantation soon after the Civil War. He had a sugar-refining plant built here, and developed the town around it in 1879, platting the land and attracting settlers during the post-Reconstruction era.

new orleans
- Congo Square (French: Place Congo) is an open space, now within Louis Armstrong Park, which is located in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, just across Rampart Street north of the French Quarter. The Tremé neighborhood is famous for its history of African American music.In Louisiana's French and Spanish colonial era of the 18th century, enslaved Africans were commonly allowed Sundays off from their work. Although Code Noir was implemented in 1724, giving enslaved Africans the day off on Sundays, there were no laws in place giving them the right to congregate. Despite constant threat to these congregations, they often gathered in remote and public places such as along levees, in public squares, in backyards, and anywhere they could find. On Bayou St. John at a clearing called "la place congo" the various ethnic or cultural groups of Colonial Louisiana traded and socialized.[2] It was not until 1817 that the mayor of New Orleans issued a city ordinance that restricted any kind of gathering of enslaved Africans to the one location of Congo Square. They were allowed to gather in the "Place des Nègres", "Place Publique", later "Circus Square" or informally "Place Congo" [3] at the "back of town" (across Rampart Street from the French Quarter), where the enslaved would set up a market, sing, dance, and play music. This singing, dancing and playing started as a byproduct of the original market during the French reign. At the time the enslaved could purchase their freedom and could freely buy and sell goods in the square in order to raise money to escape slavery.The tradition continued after the city became part of the United States with the Louisiana Purchase. As African music had been suppressed in the Protestant colonies and states, the weekly gatherings at Congo Square became a famous site for visitors from elsewhere in the U.S. In addition, because of the immigration of refugees (some bringing enslaved Africans) from the Haitian Revolution, New Orleans received thousands of additional Africans and Creoles in the early years of the 19th century. They reinforced African traditions in the city, in music as in other areas. Many visitors were amazed at the African-style dancing and music. Observers heard the beat of the bamboulas and wail of the banzas, and saw the multitude of African dances that had survived through the years. There were a variety of dances that could be seen in Congo Square including the Bamboula, Calinda, Congo, Carabine and Juba. The rhythms played at Congo square can still be heard today in New Orleans jazz funerals, second lines and Mardi Gras Indians parades.

Shreveport (/ˈʃriːvpɔːrt/ SHREEV-port) is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the most populous city in the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area, and ranks third in population in Louisiana after Baton Rouge and New Orleans. The bulk of Shreveport is in Caddo Parish, of which it is the parish seat.[5] Shreveport extends along the west bank of the Red River(most notably at Wright Island, the Charles and Marie Hamel Memorial Park, and Bagley Island) into neighboring Bossier Parish.
Shreveport was founded in 1836 by the Shreve Town Company, a corporation established to develop a town at the juncture of the newly navigable Red River and the Texas Trail, an overland route into the newly independent Republic of Texas. Prior to Texas becoming independent, this trail entered Mexico.[7] The city grew throughout the 20th century and, after the discovery of oil in Louisiana, became a national center for the oil industry. Standard Oil of Louisiana (absorbed by Standard Oil of New Jersey and now part of ExxonMobil) and United Gas Corporation (now part of Pennzoil) were headquartered in the city until the 1960s and 1980s. 
Shreveport is the educational, commercial and cultural center of the Ark-La-Texregion, where Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas meet. Shreveport was established to create a town at the meeting point of the Brown Bricks and the Texas Trail. The Red River was made navigable by Captain Henry Miller Shreve, who led the United States Army Corps of Engineers efforts to clear the Red River. A 180-mile-long (290 km) natural log jam, the Great Raft, had previously obstructed passage to shipping. Shreve used a specially modified riverboat, the Heliopolis, to remove the log jam. The company and the village of Shreve Town were named in Shreve's honor.[21]

Shreve Town was originally contained within the boundaries of a piece of land sold to the company in 1835 by the indigenous Caddo Indians. In 1838 Caddo Parish was created from the large Natchitoches Parish, and Shreve Town became its parish seat. On March 20, 1839, the town was incorporated as Shreveport. 

- As early as 1924, the citizens of Shreveport became interested in hosting a military flying field. In 1926, Shreveport citizens learned that the 3rd Attack Wing stationed at Fort Crockett, Texas, would be enlarged by 500 percent and would require at least 20,000 acres (81 km2) to support aerial gunnery and a bombing range. The efforts to procure the government's commitment to build the facility in the Greater Shreveport metropolitan area were spearheaded by a committee co-chaired by local civic leaders Andrew Querbes and John D. Ewing, beginning in 1927. It took a great deal of correspondence between the interested parties and the original proposal was rejected. However, in February 1928, a young crop duster, an Air Corps captain named Harold Ross Harris, was hired to fly over the local area in order to find a suitable site for the airfield.

Captain Harris selected what he felt was an adequate location for a military airfield. It was a sprawling section of cotton plantation near Bossier City. The site selection committee, representing the wealthiest taxpayers in the city, unanimously agreed upon the Barksdale Field location. A delegation of citizens traveled to Washington, D.C., to personally present the advantages of the proposed site to the War Department. Following the return of this delegation, a special army board visited Shreveport and reported the location met all requirements of the Air Corps.

The site was selected December 5, 1928, as the location of the airfield. The land in Bossier Parish on which the airfield was built was unincorporated land near Bossier City that was annexed by the city of Shreveport once the site had been selected among 80 candidates. The real estate was purchased from over 800 property owners via a $1,500,000 municipal bondissue approved by Shreveport voters in 1929 in fulfillment of the pledge that the citizens of Shreveport made to the U.S. government. The last of these bonds matured on December 31, 1959. After acquisition, Shreveport then donated the land to the federal government per their agreement, while the federal government assumed all the costs of building construction and equipment installation. Shreveport had originally proposed a site adjacent to Cross Lake, but the United States Department of War deemed this location inappropriate due to the lack of suitable terrain for the facility's future expansion. Subsequent to the establishment of the military installation, Bossier City grew and expanded southward and eastward, eventually enveloping the area surrounding the base. Technically, Barksdale AFB is neither in Bossier City nor Shreveport but, like all military bases, is an autonomous community with its own infrastructure.[30]

In September, 1941, the capture of the city of Shreveport was the objective of a U.S. Army war game, or military exercise, known as the Louisiana Maneuvers. The field exercise's mission was accomplished largely due to General George S. Patton, who commanded the mock "Blue" army's 2nd Armored Division.

-In the mid-1990s, the coming of riverboat gambling to Shreveport attracted numerous new patrons to the downtown and spurred a revitalization of the adjacent riverfront areas. Many downtown streets were given a facelift through the "Streetscape" project. Traditional brick sidewalks and crosswalks were built, and statues, sculptures, and mosaics were added to create a better pedestrian environment. The O.K. Allen Bridge, commonly known as the Texas Street bridge, was lit with neon lights. Residents predictably had a variety of reactions to these changes.[36] Shreveport was named an All-American City in 1953, 1979, and 1999.[37]

During the September 11, 2001 attacks, President George W. Bush was taken to the nearby Barksdale Air Force Base. He also made a visit to speak in the city on March 11, 2005.

texas
- 阿納瓦克Anahuac (/ˈænəwæk/ AN-ə-wak)[5] is a city in the U.S. state of Texas on the coast of Galveston Bay. The population of the city was 2,243 at the 2010 census.[6] Anahuac is the seat of Chambers County[7] and is situated in Southeast Texas. The Texas Legislature designated the city as the "Alligator Capital of Texas" in 1989. Anahuac hosts an annual alligator festival.The Mexican term Anahuac comes from Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs. The name has various meanings, including "center", "world", and "city", but it also means "capital". Anáhuac is the pre-Columbian name of the Valley of Mexico and its former lake basins around Mexico City, often including the Lerma and Pánuco river systems. Despite the name, neither the city of Anahuac, Texas, nor the immediate region were ever part of the Aztec Empire.The first dwellers in this area were the Atakapan people as well as the Caddo. In 1721, Frenchman Jean Baptiste de La Harpe reached this area. In the 19th century the area became known as "Perry's Point", after Colonel Harry Perry, who erected a military post here in 1816.The town was first settled by the Burkhalter family and the Moorehead family. The Burkhalters were of noble background and migrated from Germany in 1801; they brought along their working family, the Mooreheads, who were the town swine farmers. 

tennessee
- Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee. The city is the county seat of Davidson County and is located on the Cumberland River.The town of Nashville was founded by James Robertson, John Donelson, and a party of Overmountain Men in 1779, near the original Cumberland settlement of Fort Nashborough. It was named for Francis Nash, the American Revolutionary War hero.Nashville is home to more than 300 health care companies, including Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), the world's largest private operator of hospitals.[128][129] As of 2012, it is estimated the health care industry contributes US$30 billion per year and 200,000 jobs to the Nashville-area economy.CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America and one of the largest private corrections company in the United States, was founded in Nashville in 1983.[131][132] Vanderbilt University was one of its investors prior to the company's initial public offering.[133] The City of Nashville's pension fund includes "a $921,000 stake" in the company as of 2017.[11] The Nashville Scene notes that, "A drop in CoreCivic stock value, however minor, would have a direct impact on the pension fund that represents nearly 25,000 current and former Metro employees."
It has earned various sobriquets, including:

Texas
- 布拉索斯河The Brazos River (/ˈbræzəs/  BRAZ-əs), called the Río de los Brazos de Dios (translated as "The River of the Arms of God") by early Spanish explorers, In 1822, the lower river valley of the Brazos River became one of the major Anglo-American settlement sites in Texas. This was one of the first English-speaking colonies along the Brazos and was founded by Stephen F. Austin at San Felipe de Austin.[4] In 1836, Texas declared independence from Mexico at Washington-on-the-Brazos, a settlement in now Washington County that is known as "the birthplace of Texas".[7] Brazos River was also the scene of a battle between the Texas Navy and Mexican Navy during the Texas Revolution. Texas Navy ship Independence was defeated by one Mexican vessel.When it was first named by European explorers is unclear, since it was often confused with the Colorado River not far to the south, but it was certainly seen by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. Later Spanish accounts call it Los Brazos de Dios (the arms of God), for which name several different explanations were given, all involving it being the first water to be found by desperately thirsty parties. In 1842, Indian commissioner of Texas, Ethan Stroud established a trading post on this river.
  • Possum Kingdom Lake was originally created from the Morris Sheppard Dam, which was a project of the Brazos River Authority and the Works Progress Administration. Construction was begun in 1936 and completed in 1941.There are several stories about the origin of the name Possum Kingdom for this part of the Brazos River valley. The most accepted version attributes the name to Ike Sablosky who settled in the region in the early twentieth century.[8] Sablosky was a businessman, a Russian Jewish immigrant who came to America at the age of 13. He arrived in Mineral Wells, Texas from Indianapolis in 1905. Sablosky was suffering from stomach trouble and believed he was dying. Mineral Wells was then nationally famous as a health spa and Sablosky offered an employee of one of the spa hotels ten cents a day for ten days to be allowed to drink all of the mineral water he wanted. The employee accepted and Sablosky claimed that within ten days his stomach problems were cured. Sablosky then went into the fur and hide business, dealing in, among other things, possum pelts. His best suppliers of these hunted in the canyon of the Brazos and Sablosky began greeting them by saying, "Here are the boys from the Possum Kingdom." Sablosky went on to be a prominent businessman in Dallas. Before his death he left millions of dollars to charity.The lake is home to the famous Hell's Gate, a sheer break in the cliffs around the lake. The lake's name was the title of a popular 1990s song "Possum Kingdom" by The Toadies.
  • kiv - Brazos Electric Power Cooperative is an electrical generation and transmission cooperative based in Waco, Texas. In March 2021, it filed for bankruptcy protection as a result of losses arising from the February 2021 North American ice storm.In 1967, Brazos sent general manager H. A. Dalton to appear before the 90th United States Congress to give testimony on introduced amendments to the Federal Power Act which were seeking to ensure electrical power service throughout the nation in the event of an emergency.[5][6] During the hearing Brazos' representative would affirm that the legislation would help prevent power loss, as had been seen during a local blackout in November of 1965.
- 1990年代成立的『德州民族運動』（Texas Nationalist Movement）一路以來都在爭取德州獨立，但經歷過這次總統大選後，死灰復燃的被特朗普的挑釁注入了新生命及火氣，現在更成立了『德州民族運動行動委員會』，廣泛籌集資源，支援成員競選公職議席。」邁斯達忙着解釋：「德薩斯是裏奧格蘭大河以北那塊肥沃的土地，17至19世紀跟現在的墨西哥一樣，被西班牙殖民統治。19世紀之初，西班牙在歐洲被法國的拿破崙打得喘不過氣來，墨西哥便乘機把西班牙殖民統治者趕回歐洲，1821年宣布獨立，版圖包括現在的德州。美國看準機會，趁着墨西哥還沒有處理好獨立政府時，亦無暇顧及德州的邊疆土地，便大量的慫恿協助美國中部白種人南移至德州，霸佔土地開發。墨西哥名義上管治了德州15年後，有美國在背後支持下，1836年德州宣布獨立為德薩斯共和國。到1845年美國和墨西哥戰爭時，德州共和國更和美國站在一起打敗墨西哥，隨後便加入美國聯邦為德薩斯州。1860年美國南北內戰時，德州亦嘗試獨立，但被戰火打亂了。之後便是重建家園，直到1901年發現石油才邁向現代化的德州！」我感謝老教授給我上了一課德州的扼要歷史，繼續的問：「今天的德州有條件獨立嗎？有說若德州獨立，便馬上會變成一個三流的國家！可會麼？」邁斯達笑着答：「我們這邊的人不是那麼想的。德州土地比法國，或德國，或日本還要大。人口2千9百萬，40%白種人，40%白種西班牙語裔人，12%非裔黑人，餘下的是東方亞裔，及原土著等。近八成人是天主教和基督教徒。全州生產總值2019年是1.9萬億美元，全美國第二，僅次於加利福利亞州、比巴西、加拿大、俄羅斯、南韓和西班牙還要多！我們的農業，礦產，石油和天然氣的產量更佔全美洲關鍵的地位。歷史淵源上，經濟上，德州都應該有獨立的條件，重要解決的是政治上的問題。」我跟着問：「有這樣的資源條件，一個獨立的德州共和國可以游刃生存在美利堅和墨西哥兩國的夾縫中，但美國法理上可允許德州分裂出去嗎？它不怕其他州份，如加州、阿拉斯加或夏威夷也照樣的脫離美國聯邦嗎？」老朋友會心的一笑，說：「美國憲法有明文的規定，怎樣的程序把一個地區納入美國聯邦成為一個州份，但對州份意欲脫離聯邦，便沒有法則說明！1869年內戰後，最高法庭裁定任何州份，不能單方面脫離美國聯邦系統而宣布獨立。加入了成為了國家的一部分便不能分裂出去。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20201217/00176_093.html
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