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9. Yes, there is so much more than my mere memory could hold.

And yet, I forgot one community college that's rather extensive locally and where I earned my first degree: San Jacinto College. Got my degree in drafting there, and later learned baking and pastry arts

Ellington Field was decommissioned as an Air Force Base in the 1970s, but has since become a joint commercial and government field. UPS uses it as does Continental, for shipping. It's a base for Customs and Coast Guard as well as the Texas Air National Guard, and for astronaut training (The Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory pool is located there.) NASA also uses it to fly one of their U2s from there, and I have seen the Super Guppy taking off from there, too (that plane is used for hauling equipment that's too large for a C-130!)