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Area codes Miami Florida Business directory, In September 1972 5,667 students entered the new state university the largest opening day enrollment at the time Previously Miami had been the largest city in the country lacking a public baccalaureate-granting institution Eighty percent of the student body had just graduated from Dade County Junior College (now Miami-Dade College) a typical student entering FIU was 25 years old and attending school full-time while holding down a full-time job Forty-three percent were married Negotiations with the University of Miami and Dade County Junior College led FIU to open as an upper-division only school it would be nine years before lower-division classes were added, Traveling to Work: 79% of Miami area workers drove to work alone in 2005 10% carpooled 4% took public transportation and 4% used other means the remaining 3% worked at home Among those who commuted to work it took them on average 28.5 minutes to get to work. . University of Miami (private), 3.5 Study abroad In addition many military schools supply stations and communications facilities were established in the area Rather than building large army bases to train the men needed to fight the war the Army and Navy came to South Florida and converted hotels to barracks movie theaters to classrooms and local beaches and golf courses to training grounds Overall over five hundred thousand enlisted men and fifty thousand officers were trained in South Florida After the end of the war many servicemen and women returned to Miami causing the population to rise to nearly half a million by 1950, Main article: Sports in Florida Intercity rail. (53) 1.38 6.2 Major airports, 4.1 Miami dialect In 1766 Samuel Touchett received a land grant from the British government of 20,000 acres (81 km2) in the Miami area the grant was surveyed by Bernard Romans in 1772 a condition for making the grant permanent was that at least one white settler had to live on the grant for every 100 acres (0.4 km2) of land While Touchett wanted to place a plantation on the grant he was having financial problems and was never able to develop it, See also: Culture of Florida - Economists ($91,000)*. Also in 1933 the Miami City Commission asked the Miami Women's Club to create a city flag design the flag was designed by Charles L Gmeinder on their behalf and adopted by City Commission in November 1933 It is unknown why the orange and green colors were selected for the flag One theory is that the colors were inspired by the orange tree although the University of Miami was already using the colors of orange and green for their sports teams since 1926. Since late 2001 Downtown Miami has seen a large construction boom in skyscrapers retail and has experienced gentrification[citation needed], On November 13 1997 voters changed the name of the county from Dade to Miami-Dade to acknowledge the international name recognition of Miami Voters were acting pursuant to home rule powers granted to Dade County including the ability to change the name of the county without the consent of the Florida Legislature the change in name also addressed a source of public dissatisfaction with the name "Dade" which was chosen to honor Francis L Dade who had been killed in the Dade Massacre in the 1830s the massacre did not occur in South Florida but in the west central part of the state in present-day Sumter County near Bushnell There is also a Dade City which is closer to the site of the massacre, Miami-Dade County holds the majority of sports arenas stadiums and complexes in South Florida Some of these sports facilities are:.

5.2 Tropical hardwood hammock, Cape Florida Lighthouse the oldest-standing structure in Miami built in 1825, Southside Park Brickell Calder Race Course 34.8% Outside of the U.S. 2.1 Electronic dance music Student Advisor to the School Board. ?SF ?F? F?S ??? Tri-Rail fare zone boundary, As of the 2005 American Community Survey 5,334,685 people lived in the metropolis At the same time mercury was found in local fish at such high levels that consumption warnings were posted for fishermen a Florida panther was found dead with levels of mercury high enough to kill a human Scientists found that power plants and incinerators using fossil fuels were expelling mercury into the atmosphere and it fell as rain or dust during droughts the naturally occurring bacteria that reduce sulfur in the Everglades ecosystem were transforming the mercury into methylmercury and it was bioaccumulating through the food chain Stricter emissions standards helped lower mercury coming from power plants and incinerators which in turn lowered mercury levels found in animals though they continue to be a concern. The North Terminal construction merged the four piers into a single linear concourse designated Concourse D This configuration was adopted in order to increase the number of aircraft that can simultaneously arrive and depart from the terminal allowing each gate to handle approximately twice as many operations per day the construction process started with the extension of the original a and D concourses in the late 1990s By the mid-2000s the gates on the east side of Concourse D were closed in order to make room for new gates being constructed as part of the North Terminal Development project in 2004 a new extension to the west was opened consisting of Gates D39 through D51 Concourse B was demolished in 2005; in summer 2009 Gates D21 to D25 opened where Concourse B once stood Concourse C was demolished in 2009; in August 2013 Gates D26 D27 and D28 opened where Concourse C once stood and were the final North Terminal gates to open Concourse a closed in November 2007 and re-opened in July 2010 as a 14-gate eastern extension of Concourse D in August 2010 a further extension for American Eagle flights was opened designated as Gate D60. French American Chamber of Commerce Wertheim Conservatory 1991 (20.3) 70.8 Politics 5.1 Top destinations Main article: History of Florida.