Houston is America`s Center of Energy, Aeronautics, Health Care and Education

Houston is America`s Center of Energy, Aeronautics, Health Care and Education Once upon a time being the deepest frontier territory, Houston has disrupted American history numerous times during its eventful history. The disruptions being the war with Mexico, the first oil gush at Spindletop salt dome, and the landing on the moon by Apollo astronauts. Amidst these stark events, transportation, health care, and education have grown steadily rendering Houston Americas capital of energy, health care and museums. The city is named after the general and president of the Republic of Texas Sam Houston. General Houston gained fame when he defeated the Mexican army under General de Santa Ana who had earlier taken the Alamo fortress in San Antonio, Texas. Despite being outnumber, short on rations, marching through heavy rain, Houston defeated the Mexican army in the battle of San Jacinto when he surprised Santa Ana during the afternoon siesta. Two New York real estate entrepreneurs founded the city in 1837 utilizing the PR potential of General Houstons household name. The city quickly merged as a railroad hub and shipping port for the export of cotton. In 1901 oil was discovered at Spindletop field near Beaumont. This event resulted in the creation of the Gulf Oil and Texaco corporations, now a part of Chevron. Today, the Spindletop-Gladys City has become a museum governed by Lamar University. In 1945 another economic watershed event took place when the M.D. Anderson Foundation formed the Texas Medical Center, which has evolved into the worlds largest research and health care institutions. More open heart surgeries are performed at the Texas Medical Center than anywhere else in the world. While primarily caring for patents the center also includes two medical schools, four nursing schools, a psychiatric treatment center, dentistry and pharmacies. The Texas Medical Center includes some of the finest academic institution, such as the MD Anderson Cancer Center, UT Health Science Center, Texas Childrens Hospital and the University of Houston College of Pharmacy. Houston is home to Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, NASAs center for human spaceflight. It became the heart of the large aeronautical scientific and engineering communities. The Apollo program to put a man on the Moon was chiefly conducted from here. On July 20, 1969 the Johnson Space Center achieve its greatest triumph when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin where the first men to set foot on the moon. This event is beautiful depicted with life-size models and mock-ups at the Space Center in Houston a visitor center for   students, space buffs and the entire family. This museum also includes an actual Saturn V rocket the booster system that carried the Apollo astronauts and their space crafts into space. Or sit in Apollo 17s original command module. This exhibit was actually in space and brought the 3 astronauts Cenran, Evans and Schmitt safely back to Earth. More than 7 million visitors come every year to Houstons Museum District which is an association of 20 museums, galleries and community organizations dedicated to promoting art, science and history. Parents who want to create a sense of scientific awe and excitement should go with their kids to the Houston Museum of Natural Science. The skeleton of a fossil meat-eating dinosaur, a Foucault pendulum demonstrating the Earths rotation and an interactive periodic table of elements can be found there. Anyone who appreciates the beautify of art probably find the museum of Fine Art the place to be. The museums collections spans more than 6,000 years of history and 64,000 exhibits from six continents. A treat for parents and children alike. The Rice University Art Gallery is the only university museum devoted to site-specific installation art. Rice Gallery invites artists, architects and designers to create room-sized works of art that transform the gallery space. The gallery presents temporary, large-scale environments that visitors can enter and explore. The 112 campuses of the Houston Independent School Districts serve as vanguard schools, specializing in such disciplines as health professions, visual and performing arts, and the sciences. Houston-Galveston is also home of the Ron Paul Curriculum, a K-12 liberty and free market centered education, developed by former presidential candidate Ron Paul. The University of Houston is a nationally recognized Tier One research university and has nearly 40,000 students on its 667 acre campus in southeast Houston. Located in the historic community of Third Ward is Texas Southern University, one of the largest historically black colleges and universities in the United States. Several private institutions of higher learningâ€"ranging from liberal arts colleges to Rice University, the nationally recognized research universityâ€"are located within the city. Rice, with a total enrollment of slightly more than 6,000 students, is widely recognized as one of the top twenty universities in the nation, and it has a number of distinguished graduate programs and research institutes such as the James A. Baker Institute for public policy. Congruent with these many academic disciplines, Houston is home to qualified medical care tutors, pharmacology  tutors, geology tutors, environmental engineering tutors, mechanical engineering tutors, history tutor and science tutors. Having been given the name of a national hero, undergone periods of boom and taking   center stage of Americas landing on the moon, Houston today is the center of energy, aeronautics, health care and education. Truly a lone star among US cites.