The Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association was formed in 1988 as an expansion team They have won three league championships (in 2006 2012 and 2013) and five conference titles, However this boom began to falter due to building construction delays and overload on the transport system caused by an excess of bulky building materials on January 10 1926 the Prinz Valdemar an old Danish warship on its way to becoming a floating hotel ran aground and blocked Miami Harbor for nearly a month Already overloaded the three major railway companies soon declared an embargo on all incoming goods except food the cost of living had skyrocketed and finding an affordable place to live was nearly impossible This economic bubble was already collapsing when the catastrophic Great Miami Hurricane in 1926 swept through ending whatever was left of the boom the Category 4 storm was the 12th most costly and 12th most deadly to strike the United States during the 20th century According to the Red Cross there were 373 fatalities but other estimates vary due to the large number of people listed as "missing" Between 25,000 and 50,000 people were left homeless in the Miami area the Great Depression followed causing more than sixteen thousand people in Miami to become unemployed As a result a Civilian Conservation Corps camp was opened in the area; ; Main article: Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan 1 Biography Licensing and franchising are two additional entry modes that are similar in operation Licensing allows a licensor to grant the rights to an intangible property to the licensee for a specified period of time for a royalty fee Franchising on the other hand is a specialized form of licensing in which the "franchisor" sells the intangible property to the franchisee and also requires the franchisee operate as dictated by the franchisor.
. Recognizing a parallel need for multicultural training in clinical psychology in Southern Florida which has a large Hispanic population Dr Albizu-Miranda opened the Miami Institute of Psychology in Miami Florida in 1980 in January 2000 the two main campuses were merged under the shared name Carlos Albizu University in honor of their founder becoming the first institution in North America to be named after a Hispanic Today they are commonly known as Albizu University and continue the tradition of offering programs both in theory and practice that stay true to addressing and honoring the multicultural heritages found in both Puerto Rico and South Florida. Human habitation in the southern portion of the Florida peninsula dates to 15,000 years ago Before European colonization the region was dominated by the native Calusa and Tequesta tribes With Spanish colonization both tribes declined gradually during the following two centuries the Seminole formed from mostly Creek people who had been warring to the North assimilated other peoples and created a new culture after being forced from northern Florida into the Everglades during the Seminole Wars of the early 19th century After adapting to the region they were able to resist removal by the United States Army, 6 See also 8 See also Miami is home to one of the largest ports in the United States the PortMiami It is the largest cruise ship port in the world and is often called the "Cruise Capital of the World" and the "Cargo Gateway of the Americas" it has retained its status as the number one cruise/passenger port in the world for well over a decade accommodating the largest cruise ships and the major cruise lines in 2017 the port served 5,340,559 cruise passengers Additionally the port is one of the nation's busiest cargo ports importing 9,162,340 tons of cargo in 2017 Among North American ports it ranks second to New Orleans' Port of South Louisiana in terms of cargo tonnage imported from Latin America the port sits on 518 acres (2 km2) and has seven passenger terminals China is the port's number one import country and number one export country Miami has the world's largest amount of cruise line headquarters home to Carnival Cruise Line Celebrity Cruises Norwegian Cruise Line Oceania Cruises and Royal Caribbean International in 2014 the Port of Miami Tunnel was opened connecting the MacArthur Causeway to PortMiami.
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