Miami Seaquarium

. 5 Headquarters 1.2 18th to 19th centuries: Early non-Spanish settlement 7.3 New World Map of Caribbean showing seven approximately parallel westward-pointing arrows that extend from east of the Virgin Islands to Cuba the southern arrows bend northward just east of the Dominican Republic before straightening out again. In 1937 the local Ku Klux Klan raided La Paloma an LGBT nightclub After the non-lethal raid the nightclub became a site of a more solidified LGBT community and resistance against conservative sexual laws, Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike (SR 821): Florida's Turnpike mainline (SR 91)/Miami Gardens to U.S Route 1/Florida City, The story of Florida International University's founding began in 1943 when state Senator Ernest 'Cap' Graham (father of future Florida governor and U.S senator Bob Graham) presented the state legislature with the initial proposal for the establishment of a public university in South Florida While his bill did not pass Graham persisted in presenting his proposal to colleagues advising them of Miami's need for a state university He felt the establishment of a public university was necessary to serve the city's growing population. School of Arts and Sciences, 1 Geography Downtown is South Florida's main hub for finance commerce and international business Brickell Avenue has the largest concentration of international banks in the U.S. Southern Rap Other species endemic to the Sargasso Sea include the sargassum fish a predator with algae-like appendages which hovers motionless among the Sargassum Fossils of similar fishes have been found in fossil bays of the former Tethys Ocean in what is now the Carpathian region that were similar to the Sargasso Sea It is possible that the population in the Sargasso Sea migrated to the Atlantic as the Tethys closed at the end of the Miocene around 17 Ma the origin of the Sargasso fauna and flora remained enigmatic for centuries the fossils found in the Carpathians in the mid-20th century often called the "quasi-Sargasso assemblage" finally showed that this assemblage originated in the Carpathian Basin from where it migrated over Sicily to the Central Atlantic where it evolved into modern species of the Sargasso Sea. ! . This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it; Downtown is served by the Miami Metrorail at Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre Government Center and Brickell stations accessible from Broward and Palm Beach counties via Tri-Rail transfer station the Metro connects to the Downtown Metromover which encompasses 22 stations on the clockwise Inner (or Downtown) loop and counterclockwise Brickell and Omni branch loops Government Center station is Downtown's main station and allows for transfers to all Metromover loops Metrorail trains and Metrobus lines at the Stephen P Clark Government Center, 2.1 Central business district ("downtown"), The shelves of the Atlantic hosts one of the world's richest fishing resources the most productive areas include the Grand Banks of Newfoundland the Scotian Shelf Georges Bank off Cape Cod the Bahama Banks the waters around Iceland the Irish Sea the Bay of Fundy the Dogger Bank of the North Sea and the Falkland Banks Fisheries have however undergone significant changes since the 1950s and global catches can now be divided into three groups of which only two are observed in the Atlantic: fisheries in the Eastern Central and South-West Atlantic oscillate around a globally stable value the rest of the Atlantic is in overall decline following historical peaks the third group "continuously increasing trend since 1950" is only found in the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific.

. ; The geology of South Florida together with a warm wet subtropical climate provides conditions well-suited for a large marshland ecosystem Layers of porous and permeable limestone create water-bearing rock and soil that affect the climate weather and hydrology of South Florida the properties of the rock underneath the Everglades can be explained by the geologic history of the state the crust underneath Florida was at one point part of the African region of the supercontinent Gondwana About 300 million years ago North America merged with Africa connecting Florida with North America Volcanic activity centered on the eastern side of Florida covered the prevalent sedimentary rock with igneous rock Continental rifting began to separate North America from Gondwana about 180 million years ago When Florida was part of Africa it was initially above water but during the cooler Jurassic Period the Florida Platform became a shallow marine environment in which sedimentary rocks were deposited Through the Cretaceous Period most of Florida remained a tropical sea floor of varying depths the peninsula has been covered by seawater at least seven times since the bedrock formed; 2004 47.1% 3,583,544 52.1% 3,964,522, Cuban men playing dominoes in Miami's Little Havana in 2010 Cubans made up 34.4% of Miami's population and 6.5% of Florida's. At least three airplanes have crashed in the Everglades including: Northwest Airlines Flight 705 (in 1963) Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (1972) and ValuJet Flight 592 (1996), Whisper Walk There were 776,774 households out of which 33.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them 47.7% were married couples living together 17.2% had a female householder with no husband present and 29.4% were non-families 23.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older the average household size was 2.84 and the average family size was 3.35, Florida's close proximity to the ocean influences many aspects of Florida culture and daily life Florida is a reflection of influences and multiple inheritance; African European indigenous and Latino heritages can be found in the architecture and cuisine Florida has attracted many writers such as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams and continues to attract celebrities and athletes It is internationally known for golf tennis auto racing and water sports Several beaches in Florida have turquoise and emerald-colored coastal waters. FIU Stadium 1995 The Miami Intermodal Center is a massive transportation hub servicing Metrorail Amtrak Tri-Rail Metrobus Greyhound Lines taxis rental cars MIA Mover private automobiles bicycles and pedestrians adjacent to Miami International Airport Miami Intermodal Center was completed in 2010 and is serving about 150,000 commuters and travelers in the Miami area Phase I of Miami Central Station was completed in 2012 and the Tri-Rail part of Phase II was completed in 2015 but the construction of the Amtrak part remains delayed. Since 1986 the university established its School of Architecture College of Law and College of Medicine (named the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine in 1999 after Herbert Wertheim donated $20 million to the college which was matched by state funds and is the largest donation in the university's history) and acquired the historic Wolfsonian-FIU Museum in Miami Beach. .