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Construction and expansion Key West Historic District Extent and data. Bayside Marketplace Miami Florida Business directory, Cuban refugees arriving in crowded boats during the Mariel Boatlift crisis. . . . Big Bend 6.3 Water and Sewer Department Jupiter Inlet Colony Tri-Rail fare zone boundary; KLM Seasonal: Amsterdam Background and history Haiti Haiti, Southside Elementary School for Brickell children Florida's nickname is the "Sunshine State" but severe weather is a common occurrence in the state Central Florida is known as the lightning capital of the United States as it experiences more lightning strikes than anywhere else in the country Florida has one of the highest average precipitation levels of any state in large part because afternoon thunderstorms are common in much of the state from late spring until early autumn a narrow eastern part of the state including Orlando and Jacksonville receives between 2,400 and 2,800 hours of sunshine annually the rest of the state including Miami receives between 2,800 and 3,200 hours annually. In 2003 the Miami Herald and El Universal of Mexico City created an international joint venture and in 2004 they together launched the Herald Mexico a short-lived English-language newspaper for readers in Mexico Its final issue was published in May 2007, Jungle Island Miami She tried to persuade railroad magnate Henry Flagler to expand his rail line the Florida East Coast Railway southward to the area but he initially declined in December 1894 Florida was struck by a freeze that destroyed virtually the entire citrus crop in the northern half of the state a few months later on the night of February 7 1895 the northern part of Florida was hit by another freeze that wiped out the remaining crops and the new trees Unlike most of the rest of the state the Miami area was unaffected Tuttle wrote to Flagler again asking him to visit the area and to see it for himself Flagler sent James E Ingraham to investigate and he returned with a favorable report and a box of orange blossoms to show that the area had escaped the frost Flagler followed up with his own visit and concluded at the end of his first day that the area was ripe for expansion He made the decision to extend his railroad to Miami and build a resort hotel, 4.2 Politics 7 Footnotes Climate data for Miami (MIA) 1981-2010 normals,[a] extremes 1895-present[b].

Israel Israel (Consulate-General of Israel to Florida & Puerto Rico), Water is the dominant force in the Everglades shaping the land vegetation and animal life in South Florida Starting at the last glacial maximum 21,000 years ago continental ice sheets retreated and sea levels rose This submerged portions of the Florida peninsula and caused the water table to rise Fresh water saturated the limestone that underlies the Everglades eroding some of it away and created springs and sinkholes the abundance of fresh water allowed new vegetation to take root and formed convective thunderstorms over the land through evaporation. . Young Women's Preparatory School all-girls, College of Engineering and Computing, 4.1 Miami accent Miami Florida Business directory See also: List of counties in Florida List of places in Florida List of municipalities in Florida List of islands of Florida and List of Florida state parks. On August 7 and 8 1968 coinciding with the 1968 Republican National Convention rioting broke out in the black Liberty City neighborhood which required the Florida National Guard to restore order Issues were "deplorable housing conditions economic exploitation bleak employment prospects racial discrimination poor police-community relations and economic competition with Cuban refugees.".:iv Overcrowding due to the near-destruction of the black Overtown neighborhood was also a factor. Florida has three NFL teams two MLB teams two NBA teams two NHL teams and one MLS team Florida gained its first permanent major-league professional sports team in 1966 when the American Football League added the Miami Dolphins the state of Florida has given professional sports franchises some subsidies in the form of tax breaks since 1991. . .