Asian Civilisations Museum

The district is managed by the School Board of Miami-Dade County which appoints a superintendent to head the administrative portions of the district Alberto Carvalho has been Superintendent since September 12 2008! (70) 2.56 2 Superintendent of schools Florida has the largest collection of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne buildings in both the United States and the entire world most of which are located in the Miami metropolitan area especially Miami Beach's Art Deco District constructed as the city was becoming a resort destination a unique architectural design found only in Florida is the post-World War II Miami Modern which can be seen in areas such as Miami's MiMo Historic District. Added to NRHP 1988 and 2005, Franklin Park School of Accounting, See also: Mariel boatlift Albizu University San Juan Campus. Florida is host to many types of wildlife including: 12.3 Libraries Main article: Barry Buccaneers As of 2016 a total of 73% of Miami's population age five and over spoke a language other than English at home Of this 73% 64.5% of the population only spoke Spanish at home while 21.1% of the population spoke English at home About 7% spoke other Indo-European languages at home while about 0.9% spoke Asian languages or Pacific Islander languages/Oceanic languages at home the remaining 0.7% of the population spoke other languages at home. ? 2.1 Communities CR 913 Crandon Boulevard Rickenbacker Causeway extension of SR 913 The influence of Cuban culture and music history on the music of South Florida is undeniable the 1997 hit album Buena Vista Social Club was performed by a group featuring former stars of the Havana nightclub scene it won a Grammy became a hit and was listed in 2003 by Rolling Stone magazine as #260 in the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time; Main article: Sports in Florida, The Glenn Hubert Library previously named the 'Biscayne Bay Library' is the library for the Biscayne Bay Campus Although a smaller structure three stories the Hubert Library is nonetheless important to the research and information needs of the BBC Campus students and faculty All services at the Green Library are available in the Hubert Library. Zoo Miami Miami (178) 4.02 See also: Mariel boatlift Academics Areas with between 10,000 and 100,000 inhabitants.

On November 13 1997 voters changed the name of the county from Dade to Miami-Dade to acknowledge the international name recognition of Miami Voters were acting pursuant to home rule powers granted to Dade County including the ability to change the name of the county without the consent of the Florida Legislature the change in name also addressed a source of public dissatisfaction with the name "Dade" which was chosen to honor Francis L Dade who had been killed in the Dade Massacre in the 1830s the massacre did not occur in South Florida but in the west central part of the state in present-day Sumter County near Bushnell There is also a Dade City which is closer to the site of the massacre. . .