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The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo began in 1932.

Both the rider and the horse are scored on a scale of 1-50 during Bareback Riding.

The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is the city’s largest annual event, stretching across almost three weeks in March.

DiverseWorks relocated to Midtown in 2012, near the Museum District. Although not as striking as the Station Museum of Contemporary Art, it continues to show thought-provoking work.

The burque is not worn by many Muslim sects. It is fairly limited to Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and adjacent areas of Pakistan.

DiverseWorks was founded in Houston in 1982.

The Breakfast Klub is Houston’s most popular restaurant. The chicken wings and waffles are sweet; the catfish, with a mound of grits swimming in butter, is decadent; and the hostess will melt your heart.

The Houston Fire Museum is housed in Fire Station No. 7, built in 1895.

There are currently 94 City of Houston fire stations, staffed by over 4,000 firefighters.

Houston began paying its fire fighters in 1895.

The Houston Fire Department was organized as Protection Company No. 1, an all-volunteer force, in 1838 - two years after the founding of the city.

The male coupling is inserted into the female coupling.

Michael D’Antuono produced the ad campaign Fixodent and Forget It.  You gotta make money somehow.

In G.O.D. We Trust, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung, 2009 at Station Museum of Contemporary Art. Cool video here.

Eugenio Moreno, Always Bush, 2014, from the exhibit “Corpocracy. It’s the unnatural thing” at Station Museum of Contemporary Art.

Azaleas are a type of Rhododendron.

The University of Houston was founded in 1927.  There are a few (two) cool Art Deco buildings on the campus, but most of the buildings are mid-century disasters of concrete, steel and glass.