6 9174 Palm Beach International Airport PBI Palm Beach Large Hub. Miami Florida Business directory, Miami-influenced Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine hit the popular music scene with their Cuban-oriented sound and had hits in the 1980s with "Conga" and "Bad Boys". ; Engineering and Computer Sciences Building 1990, North Florida The Homestead-Miami Speedway oval has hosted NASCAR Cup Series and IndyCar Series events Temporary street circuits at Museum Park hosted several CART IMSA GT and American Le Mans Series races between from 1986-1995 as well as a Formula E race in 2015 the Palm Beach International Raceway is a minor road course, Miami's port as seen from Miami Beach Florida in December 2007 with seven cruise ships docked. Miami Florida Business directory, 2.3% German 5.1 Top private employers, Common career paths (with approximate median annual salary) - Chief executives ($167,000)*.
The School Board of Miami-Dade County first met in Miami on June 27 1885 Those present at the first Board of Education meeting were Superintendent C.H Lumm and members of the board W.H Benest Joseph F Frow and Adam C Richards the main order of business consisted of dividing the district which at the time spanned from the current-day Florida Keys to Martin County Superintendent and members divided Dade County into four districts Lake Worth was declared District #1 while Miami became known as District #2 Coconut Grove fell within the boundaries of District #3 with Elliott's Key and all other islands or keys comprising District #4. 3 Terminals and concourses Miami Florida Business directory, 5.5 Mangrove and Coastal prairie British surveyor John Gerard de Brahm who mapped the coast of Florida in 1773 called the area "River Glades" Both Marjory Stoneman Douglas and linguist Wallace McMullen suggest that cartographers substituted "Ever" for "River".[clarification needed] the name "Everglades" first appeared on a map in 1823 although it was also spelled as "Ever Glades" as late as 1851 the Seminole call it Pahokee meaning "Grassy Water." the region was labeled "Pa-hai-okee" on a U.S military map from 1839 although it had earlier been called "Ever Glades" throughout the Second Seminole War. . Cuban and Latino influences, During Maidique's tenure the university added 22 new doctoral programs Research expenditures grew from about $6 million to nearly $110 million as defined by the National Science Foundation in 2000 FIU attained the highest ranking in the Carnegie Foundation classification system that of "Doctoral/Research University-Extensive." FIU's faculty has engaged in research and holds far-reaching expertise in reducing morbidity and mortality from cancer HIV/AIDS substance abuse diabetes and other diseases and change the approaches to the delivery of health care by medical public health nursing and other healthcare professionals hurricane mitigation climate change nano-technologies forensic sciences and the development of biomedical devices, This section needs expansion You can help by adding to it (July 2011). Five geologic formations form the surface of the southern portion of Florida: the Tamiami Formation Caloosahatchee Formation Anastasia Formation Miami Limestone and the Fort Thompson Formation the Tamiami Formation is a compression of highly permeable light colored fossiliferous sands and pockets of quartz 150 feet (46 m) thick It is named for the Tamiami Trail that follows the upper bedrock of the Big Cypress Swamp and underlies the southern portion of the Everglades Between the Tamiami Formation and Lake Okeechobee is the Caloosahatchee Formation named for the river over it Much less permeable this formation is highly calcitic and is composed of sandy shell marl clay and sand Water underneath the Caloosahatchee Formation is typically very mineralized Both the Tamiami and Caloosahatchee Formations developed during the Pliocene Epoch, In 1925 the Seaboard Air Line broke the FEC's southeast Florida monopoly and extended its freight and passenger service to West Palm Beach; two years later it extended passenger service to Miami! 1900s to 1930s: the Magic City, European explorers and settlers, The Shul of Downtown and Brickell At 345 feet (105 m) above mean sea level Britton Hill is the highest point in Florida and the lowest highpoint of any U.S state Much of the state south of Orlando lies at a lower elevation than northern Florida and is fairly level Much of the state is at or near sea level However some places such as Clearwater have promontories that rise 50 to 100 ft (15 to 30 m) above the water Much of Central and North Florida typically 25 mi (40 km) or more away from the coastline have rolling hills with elevations ranging from 100 to 250 ft (30 to 76 m) the highest point in peninsular Florida (east and south of the Suwannee River) Sugarloaf Mountain is a 312-foot (95 m) peak in Lake County on average Florida is the flattest state in the United States. 9 Media 2004 47.1% 3,583,544 52.1% 3,964,522 6.1 Central Atlantic Early settlement. Miami is featured in numerous films and television shows and video games including Miami Vice Burn Notice Jane the Virgin Scarface the Birdcage Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
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