Red mangrove trees bordering a tidal estuary in the Everglades, 12.2 Theatres and performance arts Museums and visual arts; Florida International University, 2 Superintendent of schools, Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre (NW 8th Street and 1st Avenue); Miami Main Library Airports Historical Museum of Southern Florida In 2008 7% of FIU students were international students Of those the most popular countries of origin were: China (20%) India (13%) Jamaica (10%) Venezuela (6%) Colombia (5%) and Trinidad and Tobago (4%).
Founded in 1925 the University of Miami in nearby Coral Gables is the oldest college in Florida south of Winter Park, FIU MUN also hosts an annual high school conference: Florida International Model United Nations (FIMUN) the conference traditionally hosts over 400 high school students from 20 or more high schools from Miami-Dade Broward and Palm Beach Counties. Miami bass is a booming bass-heavy style of hip hop that developed in the mid-1980s in Miami the distinctive sound evolved from electro hop including sounds from Luther Campbell and his group 2 Live Crew the Miami bass scene that 2 Live Crew typified is simply one form of southern rap and Miami bass' club-oriented sound garnered little respect from hip hop fans But the 2 Live crew is not the only music artist in Miami This city also holds Trick Daddy DJ Uncle Al Rick Ross Trina Jacki-O Pitbull Cool & Dre DJ Khaled Smitty Pretty Ricky BlackMask and many more Miami rapper Trick Daddy also grew up in the Liberty Square of the Liberty City section of Miami one of the city's and America's roughest areas the city of Miami is also home to the label Slip "N" Slide Records. . 10 External links Jetport proposition Bal Harbour Shops, 1950 495,084 84.9% 4.1.1 Notes In December 1979 police officers pursued motorcyclist Arthur McDuffie in a high-speed chase after McDuffie made a provocative gesture towards a police officer the officers claimed that the chase ended when McDuffie crashed his motorcycle and died but the coroner's report concluded otherwise One of the officers testified that McDuffie fell off of his bike on an Interstate 95 on-ramp When the police reached him he was injured but okay the officers removed his helmet beat him to death with their batons put his helmet back on and called an ambulance claiming there had been a motorcycle accident Eula McDuffie the victim's mother said to the Miami Herald a few days later "They beat my son like a dog They beat him just because he was riding a motorcycle and because he was black." a jury acquitted the officers after a brief deliberation. Miami Florida Business directory Types of operations Lakeside Green; .
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