Lake Park 6.3 South Atlantic Golden Glades Tri-Rail Greyhound Lines, (24.8) 78.9 (17.3) 67.7 Psychology 148 Class of 2004. . University Park history School of Computing and Information Sciences, Parkland Freedom Tower Masters Doctorate In 2010 Miami was ranked as the 44th-most bike-friendly city in the US according to Bicycling Magazine.
Miami is split roughly into north south west and Downtown areas the heart of the city is Downtown Miami which is on the eastern side and includes the neighborhoods of Brickell Virginia Key Watson Island as well as PortMiami Downtown Miami is Florida's largest and most influential central business district with many major banks courthouses financial headquarters cultural and tourist attractions schools parks and a large residential population Brickell Avenue has the largest concentration of international banks in the United States Just northwest of Downtown is the Health District which is Miami's center for hospitals research institutes and biotechnology with hospitals such as Jackson Memorial Hospital and the University of Miami's Leonard M Miller School of Medicine, Until the mid-20th century Florida was the least populous state in the southern United States in 1900 its population was only 528,542 of whom nearly 44% were African American the same proportion as before the Civil War the boll weevil devastated cotton crops. . Faculty of the PhD program in social welfare rank 4th in the United States in their scholarly accomplishment according to Academic Analytics FIU faculty were the only social work faculty in Florida to rank in the Top 10 (December 2007), Agriculture and fishing In 1830 Richard Fitzpatrick bought land on the Miami River from Bahamian James Egan He built a plantation with slave labor where he cultivated sugarcane bananas maize and tropical fruit in January 1836 shortly after the beginning of the Second Seminole War Fitzpatrick removed his slaves and closed his plantation. The area from Orlando to the tip of the Florida peninsula was at one point a single drainage unit When rainfall exceeded the capacity of Lake Okeechobee and the Kissimmee River floodplain it spilled over and flowed in a southwestern direction to empty into Florida Bay Prior to urban and agricultural development in Florida the Everglades began at the southern edge of Lake Okeechobee and flowed for approximately 100 miles (160 km) emptying into the Gulf of Mexico the limestone shelf is wide and slightly angled instead of having a narrow deep channel characteristic of most rivers the vertical gradient from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay is about 2 inches (5.1 cm) per mile creating an almost 60-mile (97 km) wide expanse of river that travels about half a mile (0.8 km) a day This slow movement of a broad shallow river is known as sheetflow and gives the Everglades its nickname River of Grass Water leaving Lake Okeechobee may require months or years to reach its final destination Florida Bay the sheetflow travels so slowly that water is typically stored from one wet season to the next in the porous limestone substrate the ebb and flow of water has shaped the land and every ecosystem in South Florida throughout the Everglades' estimated 5,000 years of existence the motion of water defines plant communities and how animals adapt to their habitats and food sources, Class of 2000 British surveyor John Gerard de Brahm who mapped the coast of Florida in 1773 called the area "River Glades" Both Marjory Stoneman Douglas and linguist Wallace McMullen suggest that cartographers substituted "Ever" for "River".[clarification needed] the name "Everglades" first appeared on a map in 1823 although it was also spelled as "Ever Glades" as late as 1851 the Seminole call it Pahokee meaning "Grassy Water." the region was labeled "Pa-hai-okee" on a U.S military map from 1839 although it had earlier been called "Ever Glades" throughout the Second Seminole War. . . ! The Law Library opened in 2002 and has three floors with all three holding the library's general collection the third floor has a two-story quiet reading room as well as numerous study lounges Although the Law Library is restricted to Law students other students may use the library for research purposes.
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