Miami FC became the first professional soccer team based in the city to win a national soccer title after winning the 2018 NPSL Championship, (221) 7.11 12.3 Libraries See also: Culture of Florida. FIU's founding president Charles "Chuck" Perry was appointed by the Board of Regents in July 1969 after a nationwide search at 32 years old the new president was the youngest in the history of the State University System and at the time the youngest university president in the country Perry recruited three co-founders Butler Waugh Donald McDowell and Nick Sileo Alvah Chapman Jr former Miami Herald publisher and Knight Ridder chairman used his civic standing and media power to assist the effort in the 1980s Chapman became chair of the FIU Foundation Board of Trustees. European explorers and settlers The area was affected by the Second Seminole War where Major William S Harney led several raids against the Indians Fort Dallas was located on Fitzpatrick's plantation on the north bank of the river Most of the non-Indian population consisted of soldiers stationed at Fort Dallas the Seminole War was the most devastating Indian war in American history,[citation needed] causing almost a total loss of native population in the Miami area the Cape Florida lighthouse was burned by Seminoles in 1836 and was not repaired until 1846. In Florida each county is also a school district Each district is headed by an elected school board a professional superintendent manages the day-to-day operations of each district who is appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the School Board, 1 History Location Downtown Miami Florida 13 External links, Miami-Dade is the only county in Florida that does not have an elected sheriff or a "Sheriff's Office".[citation needed] Instead the county's law enforcement agency is known as the Miami-Dade Police Department and its leader is known as the Metropolitan Sheriff and Director of the Miami-Dade Police Department (Nonetheless Miami-Dade Police badges bear the inscription "Deputy Sheriff Sheriff's Office Dade County Fla.".); Sloughs or free-flowing channels of water develop in between sawgrass prairies Sloughs are about 3 feet (0.91 m) deeper than sawgrass marshes and may stay flooded for at least 11 months out of the year and sometimes multiple years in a row Aquatic animals such as turtles alligators snakes and fish thrive in sloughs; they usually feed on aquatic invertebrates Submerged and floating plants grow here such as bladderwort (Utricularia) waterlily (Nymphaeaceae) and spatterdock (Nuphar lutea) Major sloughs in the Everglades system include the Shark River Slough flowing out to Florida Bay Lostmans River Slough bordering the Big Cypress and Taylor Slough in the eastern Everglades.
On May 2 1995 a second agreement with the Castro government paved the way for the admission to the United States of the Cubans housed at Guantanamo who were counted primarily against the first year of the 20,000 annual admissions committed to by the Clinton Administration it also established a new policy of directly repatriating Cubans interdicted at sea to Cuba in the agreement the Cuban government pledged not to retaliate against those who were repatriated. ; .
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