Phosphate mining concentrated in the Bone Valley is the state's third-largest industry the state produces about 75% of the phosphate required by farmers in the United States and 25% of the world supply with about 95% used for agriculture (90% for fertilizer and 5% for livestock feed supplements) and 5% used for other products. . Households and families: There were 2,338,450 households the average household size was 2.6 people Families made up 65% of the households in the Miami area This figure includes both married-couple families (45%) and other families (20%) Nonfamily households made up 35% of all households in Miami Most of the nonfamily households were people living alone but some consisted of people living in households in which no one was related to the householder. Aerial view of the Safety Valve from southern end of Key Biscayne (top) to Soldier Key, Although Miami is not really considered a major center of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s it did not escape the change that occurred Miami was a major city in the southern state of Florida and had always had a substantial African American and black Caribbean population, Barry University (private/Catholic) Florida's Turnpike shield.svg Florida's Turnpike including Homestead Extension. . . Miami Florida Business directory The city proper is home to less than one-thirteenth of the population of South Florida Miami is the 42nd-most populous city in the United States the Miami metropolitan area however which includes Miami-Dade Broward and Palm Beach counties had a combined population of more than 5.5 million people ranked seventh largest in the United States and is the largest metropolitan area in the southeastern United States as of 2008 the United Nations estimates that the Miami Urban Agglomeration is the 44th-largest in the world.
5.6 Mining Metrorail: U.S Representative Miami prospered during the 1920s with an increase in population and infrastructure as northerners moved to the city the legacy of Jim Crow was embedded in these developments Miami's chief of police at the time H Leslie Quigg did not hide the fact that he like many other white Miami police officers was a member of the Ku Klux Klan Unsurprisingly these officers enforced social codes far beyond the written law Quigg for example "personally and publicly beat a colored bellboy to death for speaking directly to a white woman".:53. New World School of the Arts arts magnet school, There were three phases of internationalization according to Hymer's work the first phase of Hymer's work was his dissertation in 1960 called the International Operations of National Firms in this thesis the author departs from neoclassical theory and opens up a new area of international production at first Hymer started analyzing neoclassical theory and financial investment where the main reason for capital movement is the difference in interest rates After this analysis Hymer analyzed the characteristics of foreign investment by large companies for production and direct business purposes calling this Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) by analyzing the two types of investments Hymer distinguished financial investment from direct investment the main distinguishing feature was control Portfolio investment is a more passive approach and the main purpose is financial gain whereas in foreign direct investment a firm has control over the operations abroad So the traditional theory of investment based on differential interest rates does not explain the motivations for FDI; 1 7860 The formation of the Central American Isthmus closed the Central American Seaway at the end of the Pliocene 2.8 Ma ago the formation of the isthmus resulted in the migration and extinction of many land-living animals known as the Great American Interchange but the closure of the seaway resulted in a "Great American Schism" as it affected ocean currents salinity and temperatures in both the Atlantic and Pacific Marine organisms on both sides of the isthmus became isolated and either diverged or went extinct. In March 1980 the first black Dade County schools superintendent Dr Johnny L Jones was convicted on grand theft charges linked to gold-plated plumbing His conviction was overturned on appeal and on July 3 1986 the state attorney Janet Reno announced that Jones would not be retried on these charges However in a separate case he was convicted on misdemeanor charges of soliciting perjury and witness tampering and received a two-year jail sentence, The Confederacy received little help from Florida; the 15,000 men it offered were generally sent elsewhere Instead of men and manufactured goods Florida did provide salt and more importantly beef to feed the Confederate armies This was particularly important after 1864 when the Confederacy lost control of the Mississippi River thereby losing access to Texas beef the largest engagements in the state were the Battle of Olustee on February 20 1864 and the Battle of Natural Bridge on March 6 1865 Both were Confederate victories the war ended in 1865, Sports venues Since late 2001 Downtown Miami has seen a large construction boom in skyscrapers retail and has experienced gentrification[citation needed]; . Miami Wind Symphony In the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections Barack Obama carried the state as a northern Democrat attracting high voter turnout especially among the young Independents and minority voters of whom Hispanics comprise an increasingly large proportion 2008 marked the first time since 1944 when Franklin D Roosevelt carried the state for the fourth time that Florida was carried by a Northern Democrat for president. Military Admissions, Miami prospered during the 1920s with an increase in population and infrastructure as northerners moved to the city the legacy of Jim Crow was embedded in these developments Miami's chief of police at the time H Leslie Quigg did not hide the fact that he like many other white Miami police officers was a member of the Ku Klux Klan Unsurprisingly these officers enforced social codes far beyond the written law Quigg for example "personally and publicly beat a colored bellboy to death for speaking directly to a white woman".:53, 4.1 Water See also: Sports teams in Florida.
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