; . ! Martinaire Class of 1981, U.S National Register of Historic Places, The military penetration of southern Florida offered the opportunity to map a poorly understood and largely unknown part of the country an 1840 expedition into the Everglades offered the first printed account for the general public to read about the Everglades the anonymous writer described the terrain the party was crossing:. The South Terminal building and Concourse J opened on August 29 2007 the new addition is seven stories tall and has 15 international-capable gates and a total floor area of 1.3 million square feet (120,000 m2) including two airline lounges and several offices Concourse H primarily serves Delta and its partners in the SkyTeam alliance (such as Aeromexico Air France and KLM) while Concourse J serves several Star Alliance carriers (including Air Canada Avianca and Lufthansa) as well as oneworld carrier LATAM Airlines and Delta affiliate Virgin Atlantic Prior to 2004 when United Airlines eliminated its Latin America hub at MIA the South Terminal was intended to house United and its partners in the Star Alliance; the airport spent $1 billion on construction before United withdrew its hub, La Florida Black or African American 19.2% 22.3% 27.4% 25.1% 22.7% 22.4% 16.2% 21.4% 22.7% 31.3% 41.3%, Beginning April 26 2004 under then new superintendent Dr Rudy Crew the school year was begun three weeks earlier in order to synchronize the school district with the rest of the state Until this point Miami-Dade County Schools was the only district whose students began school the last week of August rather than the first This measure was also implemented to allow schools more time to ready themselves for the state's FCAT exam. Water mass Temperature Salinity As of 2010 28.07% of the population spoke only English at home while 63.77% of the population spoke Spanish 4.22% spoke French Creole (mainly Haitian Creole) 0.64% French and 0.55% Portuguese 52% of the county residents were born outside the United States while 71.93% of the population spoke a language other than English at home. Data is from the CIA World Factbook compiled in 2017: 6 Family Brickell The aftermath of Hurricane Andrew in the Miami area.
Class of 2004 4 Student life, As of 2010 those of African ancestry accounted for 16.0% of Florida's population which includes African Americans Out of the 16.0% 4.0% (741,879) were West Indian or Afro-Caribbean American During the early 1900s black people made up nearly half of the state's population in response to segregation disfranchisement and agricultural depression many African Americans migrated from Florida to northern cities in the Great Migration in waves from 1910 to 1940 and again starting in the later 1940s They moved for jobs better education for their children and the chance to vote and participate in society by 1960 the proportion of African Americans in the state had declined to 18% Conversely large numbers of northern whites moved to the state.[citation needed] Today large concentrations of black residents can be found in northern and central Florida Aside from blacks descended from African slaves brought to the southern U.S. there are also large numbers of blacks of West Indian recent African and Afro-Latino immigrant origins especially in the Miami/South Florida area, The Miami metropolitan area is served by five interstate highways operated by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) in conjunction with local agencies Interstate 95 (I-95) runs north to south along the coast ending just south of Downtown Miami at South Dixie Highway (US 1) I-75 runs east to west turning south in western Broward County and connecting suburban north Miami-Dade to Naples on the Southwest Coast via Alligator Alley which transverses the Florida Everglades before turning north I-595 connects the Broward coast and downtown Fort Lauderdale to I-75 and Alligator Alley in Miami I-195 and I-395 relay the main I-95 route east to Biscayne Boulevard (US 1) and Miami Beach across Biscayne Bay via the Julia Tuttle and MacArthur causeways! Including its marginal seas the Atlantic covers an area of 106,460,000 km2 (41,100,000 sq mi) or 23.5% of the global ocean and has a volume of 310,410,900 km3 (74,471,500 cu mi) or 23.3% of the total volume of the earth's oceans Excluding its marginal seas the Atlantic covers 81,760,000 km2 (31,570,000 sq mi) and has a volume of 305,811,900 km3 (73,368,200 cu mi) the North Atlantic covers 41,490,000 km2 (16,020,000 sq mi) (11.5%) and the South Atlantic 40,270,000 km2 (15,550,000 sq mi) (11.1%) the average depth is 3,646 m (11,962 ft) and the maximum depth the Milwaukee Deep in the Puerto Rico Trench is 8,486 m (27,841 ft), Central Baptist Church (Built in 1925), Main article: PortMiami The Arts & Entertainment District is an urban neighborhood with numerous hotels and high-rise residential buildings the neighborhood's former name Omni comes from the Omni International Mall on Biscayne Boulevard the district borders Biscayne Bay the east NE 2nd Ave to the west NE 21st St to the north and I-395 to the south Pace Park Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts and the (former) Miami Herald headquarters are located within the district the Arts & Entertainment District is served by the Miami Metrorail at: Government Center Station and by two Metromover stations on the Omni Loop. One of the Cape Canaveral launch sites during the launch of SpaceX CRS-13 in 2017, Florida International University Grade 8: 26,654, Southside Elementary School 8 Area codes West Palm Beach PBI Palm Beach International Airport Medium Hub 3,110,450. Miami Florida Business directory Ocean Drive Handicapped/disabled access All stations are accessible Hamilton Disston's land sale notice. Main University Park buildings A storm over the Shark River in the Everglades 1966 Warnings are placed in Everglades National Park to dissuade people from eating fish due to high mercury content.
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