Do you know what this is?
Yep! It’s the National Debt.
Staggering, isn’t it?
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(Podcast)
Houston is a LARGE city by anyone's estimate ... well, maybe not on a world wide basis, (although it DOES rank 94th in size, if you're curious) ... but it's certainly considered large in the United States.
To grow as large and diverse as it has in only 170 years, is incredible.
It all started in 1836, when two brothers - Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen - had a vision for a city.
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08:16 minutes
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