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The area from Orlando to the tip of the Florida peninsula was at one point a single drainage unit When rainfall exceeded the capacity of Lake Okeechobee and the Kissimmee River floodplain it spilled over and flowed in a southwestern direction to empty into Florida Bay Prior to urban and agricultural development in Florida the Everglades began at the southern edge of Lake Okeechobee and flowed for approximately 100 miles (160 km) emptying into the Gulf of Mexico the limestone shelf is wide and slightly angled instead of having a narrow deep channel characteristic of most rivers the vertical gradient from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay is about 2 inches (5.1 cm) per mile creating an almost 60-mile (97 km) wide expanse of river that travels about half a mile (0.8 km) a day This slow movement of a broad shallow river is known as sheetflow and gives the Everglades its nickname River of Grass Water leaving Lake Okeechobee may require months or years to reach its final destination Florida Bay the sheetflow travels so slowly that water is typically stored from one wet season to the next in the porous limestone substrate the ebb and flow of water has shaped the land and every ecosystem in South Florida throughout the Everglades' estimated 5,000 years of existence the motion of water defines plant communities and how animals adapt to their habitats and food sources. Miami Florida Business directory The South Florida recording industry started in Miami in the 1950s with Criteria Studios recording top selling albums such as Rumours by Fleetwood Mac and Hotel California by the Eagles Local music entrepreneur Henry Stone and his label TK Records created the local indie scene in the 1970s T K Records produced the R&B group KC and the Sunshine Band along with soul singers Betty Wright George McCrae and Jimmy "Bo" Horne as well as a number of minor soul and disco hits many influenced by Caribbean music Tom Dowd an innovator in music engineering worked out of Miami for many years and worked with a plethora of artists including Aretha Franklin Ray Charles Eric Clapton Lynyrd Skynyrd Tom Petty also came out of South Florida. On September 8 2017 FIU faced up against willing opponent the Alcorn State Braves in Birmingham AL an event known globally as 'the most lunch pail carrying low pad level football guys guys tailgate of all time' in reference to the display of pregaming that happened prior to the game, FIU also has international campuses in Asia and Europe the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum has a regional facility in Nervi Italy the School of Architecture has facilities in Genoa Italy for FIU's upper-division and graduate Architecture students and the Florida International University Tianjin Center in China from which a branch of the School of Hospitality & Tourism Management operates the Tianjin Center was constructed as a cooperative venture with the local municipal government and was opened in the Summer of 2006 FIU has also exchanged agreements with the American University in Dubai so that FIU students can now take a semester abroad in Dubai. . .