Private schools Some of the most popular tourist destinations in Miami include South Beach Lincoln Road Bayside Marketplace and Downtown Miami the Art Deco District in Miami Beach is reputed as one of the most glamorous in the world for its nightclubs beaches historical buildings and shopping Annual events such as the Miami Open Art Basel the Winter Music Conference the South Beach Wine and Food Festival and Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Miami attract millions to the metropolis every year, Basketball: Miami Floridians (ABA) Miami Sol (WNBA) Miami Tropics (ABA), The Downtown Miami Historic District is the city's largest historic district with buildings ranging from 1896 to 1939 in the heart of Downtown. 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, 2.1 Central business district ("downtown") Twentieth century The Green Library is FIU's main library is the largest building on campus and one of the largest library buildings in the Southeastern United States Originally designed by Architect David M Harper in 1973 the Green Library was expanded by the architecture firm M C Harry & Associates Inc in the early 1990s to its current eight floors with a capacity to expand to a total of 15 floors if necessary the eight-floor structure was built over through and around the original three-story library while it was still in use. 6.1 Pulitzer Prizes 5.1 Personal income, Miami Children's Museum School. Barry University is a private Catholic university founded in 1940 by the Adrian Dominican Sisters Located in Miami Shores Florida a suburb north of Downtown Miami it is one of the largest Catholic universities in the Southeast and is within the territory of the Archdiocese of Miami.
(15.8) 63.1 1 History School of Computing and Information Sciences, Arts & Entertainment District Brickell Coconut Grove Coral Way Downtown Miami Edgewater Midtown Miami Park West and the Upper Eastside. Law Library Population % Place of Birth, The land seemed to inspire extreme reactions of both wonder or hatred During the Second Seminole War an army surgeon wrote "It is in fact a most hideous region to live in a perfect paradise for Indians alligators serpents frogs and every other kind of loathsome reptile." in 1897 explorer Hugh Willoughby spent eight days canoeing with a party from the mouth of the Harney River to the Miami River He sent his observations to the New Orleans Times-Democrat Willoughby described the water as healthy and wholesome with numerous springs and 10,000 alligators "more or less" in Lake Okeechobee the party encountered thousands of birds near the Shark River "killing hundreds but they continued to return" Willoughby pointed out that much of the rest of the country had been explored and mapped except for this part of Florida writing "(w)e have a tract of land one hundred and thirty miles long and seventy miles wide that is as much unknown to the white man as the heart of Africa.", Another celebrated event is the Miami International Film Festival taking place every year for 10 days around the first week of March during which independent international and American films are screened across the city Miami has over a half dozen independent film theaters. . . The Stephen P Clark Government Center in Downtown Miami is the headquarters of the Miami-Dade County government, (17.3) 67.7 World 14,639,041,733.88 14,748,663,389.75 100.00 100.00 Other faith 6.1 Central Atlantic International Hurricane Research Center. The FIU College of Law was ranked 5th in 2014 in bar passing rates in the state of Florida and 1st in the MPRE. . The Miami skyline La Florida In 2008 the North Lauderdale City Commission passed a resolution calling for a new state of South Florida to be formed from Palm Beach Broward Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties, Concourse B was built in 1975 for Eastern Air Lines as part of the airport's ambitious "Program 70's" initiative and first opened in 1983 During the 1980s the existing concourse was rebuilt and expanded and a new immigration and customs hall was built in the Concourse B section of the terminal allowing the concourse to process international arrivals Along with Concourse C and most of Concourse D it served as Eastern Air Lines' historical base of operations.
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