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  Florida (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Florida is the 27th constituent state of the United States.
Florida Street, a pedestrian street in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Florida Evans was the lead character on the television series Good Times.
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 Wikipedia: Florida
The area of Florida diminished with the establishment of British colonies to the north and French colonies to the west.
Florida is one of the nine states which does not impose personal income tax (list of others).
Florida consists of a panhandle extending along the northern Gulf of Mexico and a large peninsula with the Atlantic Ocean as its eastern border and the Gulf of Mexico as its western border.
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 Florida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Florida is situated mostly on a large peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Straits of Florida.
Florida seceded from the Union on January 10, 1861 at the outbreak of the Civil War and became one of the founding members of the Confederate States of America ten days later.
Florida's large and diverse Hispanic community consists particularly of Cubans in Miami and Tampa; large Puerto Rican populations are present in Tampa and Orlando; and Central American migrant workers are largely present in inland West-Central and South Florida.
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 Orlando, Florida - Simple English Wikipedia
Orlando is a large city in the center of the U.S. state of Florida.
It is number six among cities in Florida by number of people.
Florida's Turnpike also meets Interstate 4 southwest of the city.
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 Jacksonville, Florida - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Its population is also the largest among Florida cities and 12th amongst cities in the United States, surpassing Indianapolis in 2006.
Florida became a territory of the United States in 1821, and Cow Ford soon acquired the name "Jacksonville" after territorial governor and future US President Andrew Jackson.
The beautiful Florida Theatre, opened in 1927, is located in downtown Jacksonville and is one of only four remaining high-style movie palaces built in Florida during the Mediterranean Revival architectural boom of the 1920s.
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 Top20Florida.com - Your Top20 Guide to Florida!
Florida was also the site of the second most costly single weather disaster in U.S. history, Hurricane Andrew, which caused more than twenty-five billion dollars ($25,000,000,000) in damage when it struck on August 12, 1992.
Florida's large and diverse Hispanic community consists particularly of Cubans in Miami and Tampa, Puerto Ricans in Tampa and Orlando, and Mexican migrant workers in inland West-Central and South Florida.
People whose race is identified as "Hispanic" in Florida are mostly of Cuban descent, as opposed to Mexican descent (who live largely in the southwest of the U.S.) or Puerto Rican descent (who live largely in the northeast of the U.S. Florida's fast-growing Hispanic population is heaviest in Miami, Central Florida, and the Gulf Coast.
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 Miami, Florida
The area was a concentration of water because the Miami River[?] is essentially a funnel for water from the Everglades to the Atlantic Ocean.
Miami is the host city for sports teams such as the Miami Dolphins, the Miami Heat, the Miami Sol, the Florida Panthers, the Miami Fusion and the Florida Marlins.
The University of Miami and Florida International University[?] are in the Miami metropolitan area.
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 Florida - Unipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Florida seceded from the Union on January 10, 1861 and was one of the founding members of the Confederate States of America (CSA, also known as the Confederacy).
The seasons in Florida often called "Hot and Hotter" are actually determined more by precipitation than by temperature with warm, relatively dry winters and autumns (the dry season) and hot, wet springs and especially the summers (the wet season).
Florida has more lightning strikes than any other state and also leads the nation in tornadoes per square mile(although the tornadoes in Florida do not get as large as those in the Midwest or Great Plains.
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 Jacksonville, Florida
It is also the largest city in Florida in terms of population in the city proper (ultimately ranking 14th in the country).
Florida Governor William S. Jennings declared a state of martial law in Jacksonville and dispatched several state militia units to Jacksonville.
Interstate Highways 10 and 95 intersect in Jacksonville.
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 Florida Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.com (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Florida is a U.S. It was named by Juan Ponce de León, who landed on the coast on April 2, 1513, during Pascua Florida (Spanish for "Flowery Easter", referring to the Easter season).
Highways">U.S. Highways are maintained by the Florida Department of Transportation.
This category is for the State of Florida in the United States.
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 Tampa, Florida -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A peace treaty was conducted with the local Indians and a short-lived Spanish outpost was established, but this was abandoned when it became clear that there was no gold in the area, and that the local Indians were not interested in converting to Catholicism and were too skilled as warriors to easily conquer.
The University of South Florida was established in 1956, sparking development in northern Tampa and nearby Temple Terrace.
HARTline has signed transit deals with both the University of South Florida and the University of Tampa, allowing HARTline buses to transfer students from the two campuses to other areas of Tampa free of charge as long as proof of affiliation with the school is presented.
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 Miami, Florida
Miami is a major city located in southeast Florida in Miami-Dade County on the Miami River, between the Florida Everglades and the Atlantic Ocean, in the United States.
The area is part of the Greater South Florida metropolitan area, which is comprised of Miami-Dade County, Broward County, and Palm Beach County.
Because of where it is located in Florida, Miami is statistically one of the most likely places for a hurricane strike in the United States, although it did avoid much of the 2004 hurricane onslaught which impacted the rest of the state.
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Much of the interior of Florida, typically 25 miles (40 km) or more away from the coastline, features rolling hills with elevations ranging from 100 to 250 feet (30–76 m) in many locations.
The Gulf Stream has a moderating effect on Florida climate, and although it is common for much of Florida to see a high summer temperature over 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 °C), it is not common for the mercury to go above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (39 °C) in Florida.
Florida's interstate highway system contains 1,473 miles (2,371 km) of highway, and there are 9,934 miles (15,987 km) of non-interstate highway in the state, such as Florida state highways and U.S. Highways.
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 Florida   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Florida, Straits of also Florida Strait A sea passage between Cuba and the Florida Keys, linking the Gulf of Mexico with the Atlantic Ocean.
Following is a list of counties in Florida Florida is a southern state in the United States.
It was one of the counties at the center of the 2000 U.S. Presidential election recount controversy.
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 Florida   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Outside of liberal Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm BeachCounties, the Florida Democratic Party tends to be socially conservative and heavily associated with the good ol' boy network.
Most of Florida has a humid subtropical climate; the climate of far South Florida and the Keys verges on tropical.
Religiously, Florida is mostly Protestant, but with a growing Roman Catholic community due to Hispanic immigration.
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 Tampa, FL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
As part of efforts to firmly establish United States control over southern Florida, then a vast swampy wilderness with sparse Seminole Indian population, a military outpost ("Cantonment Brooke") was established at what is now the Tampa Convention Center in downtown Tampa in 1823 by Colonels George Mercer Brooke and James Gadsden.
Florida Aquarium is located in the Channel District near downtown.
HARTline has signed transit deals with both the University of South Florida and the University of Tampa, allowing HARTline buses to transfer students and faculty from the two campuses to other areas of Tampa free of charge as long as proof of affiliation with the school is presented.
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 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Although the Republicans control the governorship and most other statewide elected offices, both houses of the state legislature, and 18 of the state's 25 seats in the US House, Democrats control the state's two Senate seats, and the presidential contest in Florida in 2000 was extremely close.
Warm weather most of the year and many miles of pristine beaches provide a thriving vacation spot for travelers from around the world.
Governor Jeb Bush has been criticized by many Florida educators for a program that penalizes underperforming schools (as indicated by standardized tests) with fewer funding dollars.
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Florida College is a small, accredited, coeducational Christian college located in Temple Terrace, Florida, in the Tampa metropolitan area.
Florida Marlins National League AAA Albuquerque Isotopes AA Carolina Mudcats A Jupiter Hammerheads Greensboro Grasshoppers Jamestown Jammers R...
Florida State University is a public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, known for its programs in fine arts, education, public administration & policy, informa...
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 Gator - TheBestLinks.com - Florida, Spyware, The Simpsons, TheBestLinks.com:Disambiguation, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This apocopation of the word is especially associated with Florida, and the sports teams of the University of Florida at Gainsville are known as Florida Gators (although that term is most commonly used to refer to the University's football team).
In a Simpsons episode in which the family visits the state and must escape after they are accused of killing an alligator, they are charged with the crime of "gatorcide".
This is a disambiguation page, i.e., a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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 SearchBug Web Search for Florida
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Florida's official vacation guide to Florida experiences, destinations, planning vacations, finding vacation deals and more.
While Marathon is in the middle Florida Keys, it is by no means middle of the road.
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 Florida Birth Certificate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
State of Florida (Flag of Florida) (Seal of Florida) State nickname : Everglade State, Sunshine State Other U.S.States Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville, the largest metropolitan area is Miami.
Birth is the process in mammals by which a fetus is expelled from the body of its mother.
Its an annual event based eitheron the anniversary of a person's date of birth, or on astrological birthtimecalculations.
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 Search: Florida - FOX News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Florida Marlins Account Manager lets you manage your season tickets quickly and easily...
Florida fans are some of the most loyal fans around.
Florida near Disney with private pools for daily, weekly and monthly rentals.
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 Search: Florida - FOX News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Florida and Islands of Adventure theme parks, and your kids' accommodation, admission, and meals are free.
Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
Florida State Symbols Capital Constitution Flags Maps Song
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 FL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
FL may stand for:Liechtenstein (country code for vehicles)Florida (US postal abbreviations)This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.
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 Florida - OneLook Dictionary Search
Florida, florida : UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
Phrases that include Florida: florida keys, cornus florida, florida selaginella, florida smoothhound, florida yew, more...
Words similar to Florida: everglade state, sunshine state, more...
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 Florida College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Florida Association of Christian Colleges and Schools - Listing of colleges and private schools, newsletters, legislation, and employment oopportunities.
District of Columbia George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences Georgetown University School of Medicine Howard University College of Medicine Florida Florida State University College of Medicine University of Florida College of Medicine University of...
It is Florida's smallest state-run college, with 60 faculty and 650 students.
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 Florida Atlantic University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
American Samoa 4 Arizona 5 Arkansas 6 California 7 Colorado 8 Connecticut 9 Delaware 10 District of Columbia 11 Florida 12 Georgia 13 Guam 14 Hawaii 15 Idaho 16 Illinois 17 Indiana 18 Iowa 19 Kansas 20 Kentucky...
Elevation  -Highest  -Mean  -Lowest 260 km 800 km   105 meters 30 meters 0 meters ISO 3166-2: US-FL Florida is a southern state in the United States.
Aerial view of Miami An aerial view of Miami, Florida It is the county seat and largest city in Miami-Dade County (est.
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 Florida Pest Control   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The primary meaning of pest is an animal which hascharacteristics which people regard as being injurious or harmful.
CONTROL is a fictional secret U.S. Government spy agency in the television series Get Smart.
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