Estimated numbers of Calusa at the beginning of the Spanish occupation ranged from 4,000 to 7,000 the society declined in power and population; by 1697 their number was estimated to be about 1,000 in the early 18th century the Calusa came under attack from the Yamasee to the north They asked the Spanish for refuge in Cuba where almost 200 died of illness Soon they were relocated again to the Florida Keys. In 1497 John Cabot became the first Western European since the Vikings to explore mainland North America and one of his major discoveries was the abundant resources of Atlantic cod off Newfoundland Referred to as "Newfoundland Currency" this discovery yielded some 200 million tons of fish over five centuries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries new fisheries started to exploit haddock mackerel and lobster From the 1950s to the 1970s the introduction of European and Asian distant-water fleets in the area dramatically increased the fishing capacity and number of exploited species it also expanded the exploited areas from near-shore to the open sea and to great depths to include deep-water species such as redfish Greenland halibut witch flounder and grenadiers Overfishing in the area was recognised as early as the 1960s but because this was occurring on international waters it took until the late 1970s before any attempts to regulate was made in the early 1990s this finally resulted in the collapse of the Atlantic northwest cod fishery the population of a number of deep-sea fishes also collapsed in the process including American plaice redfish and Greenland halibut together with flounder and grenadier. Functions: marketing global manufacturing and supply chain management accounting finance human resources, 1990 358,548 3.4% American Airlines Arena home of the Miami Heat, Mammals: Florida panther northern river otter mink eastern cottontail rabbit marsh rabbit raccoon striped skunk squirrel white-tailed deer Key deer bobcats red fox gray fox coyote wild boar Florida black bear nine-banded armadillos Virginia opossum. Toll Florida 878.svg State Road 878 (Snapper Creek Expressway) WBRY is Barry University's student-run campus radio station and is broadcast on 1640 AM Student DJs play "all kinds of music from hip hop to classic rock classical music to inner city blues." Other programming includes sports shows talk shows and daily news. . The Historic Call-Collins House the Grove is an antebellum plantation house built in the 1840s in Tallahassee Florida! 3.1.2 Main University Park buildings Lighthouse Point 6 Further reading, Major expressways Together the entire FIU university-wide Library holdings include over 2,097,207 volumes 52,511 current serials 3,587,663 microform units and 163,715 audio visual units; 4.2 Rock In 1922 a historic moment in cartography and oceanography occurred the USS Stewart used a Navy Sonic Depth Finder to draw a continuous map across the bed of the Atlantic This involved little guesswork because the idea of sonar is straight forward with pulses being sent from the vessel which bounce off the ocean floor then return to the vessel the deep ocean floor is thought to be fairly flat with occasional deeps abyssal plains trenches seamounts basins plateaus canyons and some guyots Various shelves along the margins of the continents constitute about 11% of the bottom topography with few deep channels cut across the continental rise, Nova Southeastern University (private) The first post-Reconstruction era Republican elected to Congress from Florida was William C Cramer in 1954 from Pinellas County on the Gulf Coast where demographic changes were underway in this period African Americans were still disenfranchised by the state's constitution and discriminatory practices; in the 19th century they had made up most of the Republican Party Cramer built a different Republican Party in Florida attracting local white conservatives and transplants from northern and midwestern states in 1966 Claude R Kirk Jr was elected as the first post-Reconstruction Republican governor in an upset election in 1968 Edward J Gurney also a white conservative was elected as the state's first post-reconstruction Republican US senator in 1970 Democrats took the governorship and the open US Senate seat and maintained dominance for years.
! The first edition was published September 15 1903 as the Miami Evening Record After the recession of 1907 the newspaper had severe financial difficulties Its largest creditor was Henry Flagler Through a loan from Henry Flagler Frank B Shutts who was also the founder of the law firm Shutts & Bowen acquired the paper and renamed it the Miami Herald on December 1 1910 Although it is the longest continuously published newspaper in Miami the earliest newspaper in the region was the Tropical Sun established in 1891 the Miami Metropolis which later became the Miami News was founded in 1896 and was the Herald's oldest competitor until 1988 when it went out of business.[citation needed]. Further information: Florida mangroves and List of invasive plant species in Florida; 3.1 2010 U.S Census, Miami bass South Miami Heights, When a driver passes through a toll plaza without paying the proper toll a digital image of the car's license tag is recorded Under Florida Law this image can be used by the Authority to issue a toll violation. Everglades restoration received $96 million of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 As a result of the stimulus package a mile-long (1.6 km) bridge to replace the Tamiami Trail a road that borders Everglades National Park to the north and has blocked water from reaching the southern Everglades was begun by the Army Corps of Engineers in December 2009 the next month work began to reconstruct the C-111 canal east of the park that historically diverted water into Florida Bay Governor Charlie Crist announced the same month that $50 million of state funds would be earmarked for Everglades restoration in May 2010 5.5 miles (8.9 km) of bridges were proposed to be added to the Tamiami Trail, 5.4 Cypress In February 1942 the Gulf Sea Frontier was established to help guard the waters around Florida by June of that year more attacks forced military leaders in Washington D.C to increase the numbers of ships and men of the army group They also moved the headquarters from Key West to the DuPont building in Miami taking advantage of its location at the southeastern corner of the U.S..[citation needed] As the war against the U-boats grew stronger more military bases sprang up in the Miami area the U.S Navy took control of Miami's docks and established air stations at the Opa-locka Airport and in Dinner Key the Air Force also set up bases in the local airports in the Miami area, 6.1 To/from Metrorail Downtown and South Beach.
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