2.2 1940s: World War II Student Advisor to the School Board, Popular music Tampa: Tampa and its surrounding area use the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority system ("HART") in addition downtown Tampa has continuous trolley services in the form of a heritage trolley powered by Tampa Electric Company Pinellas County and St Petersburg provide similar services through the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority or "PSTA" the beaches of Pinellas County also have a continuous trolley bus Downtown St Petersburg has a trolley system; Climate is influenced by the temperatures of the surface waters and water currents as well as winds Because of the ocean's great capacity to store and release heat maritime climates are more moderate and have less extreme seasonal variations than inland climates Precipitation can be approximated from coastal weather data and air temperature from water temperatures.
City of Miami Cemetery The Florida Department of Education is required by law to train educators in teaching English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), Fort Dallas built in 1836 Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Miami. In the early 1970s the Miami disco sound came to life with TK Records featuring the music of KC and the Sunshine Band with such hits as "Get Down Tonight" "(Shake Shake Shake) Shake Your Booty" and "That's the Way (I Like It)"; and the Latin-American disco group Foxy with their hit singles "Get Off" and "Hot Number" They were on the very same South Florida label that released the first disco song to become a #1 hit on the pop music charts "Rock Your Baby" by Miami area native George McCrae in 1974 Other artists from that local label include Foxy Peter Brown Jimmy "Bo" Horne Gwen McCrae T-Connection and Anita Ward Miami native Teri DeSario was also a popular artist during the disco era the Bee Gees moved to Miami in 1975 and have lived here ever since then. Main article: Geography and ecology of the Everglades, 1.4 Hurricanes West Palm Beach 99,919 82,103 Palm Beach, Miami, officially the City of Miami is an American city that is the seat of Miami-Dade County and is the cultural economic and financial center of South Florida the city covers an area of about 56 square miles (150 km2) between the Everglades to the west and Biscayne Bay to the east Miami is the sixth most densely populated major city in the United States with an estimated 2018 population of 470,914 the Miami metropolitan area is home to 6.1 million people the second-most populous in the southeastern United States and the seventh-largest in the nation the city has the third tallest skyline in the U.S with over 300 high-rises 55 of which exceed 490 ft (149 m). ! . ! All streets and avenues in Miami-Dade County follow the Miami grid with a few exceptions most notably in Coral Gables Hialeah Coconut Grove and Miami Beach One neighborhood the Roads is named as such because its streets run off the Miami grid at a 45-degree angle and therefore are all named roads, 11 References Miami Florida Business directory, (24.1) 71.8 Greater Orlando. In the 1980s Miami became one of the United States' largest transshipment point for cocaine from Colombia Bolivia and Peru the drug industry brought billions of dollars into Miami which were quickly funneled through front organizations into the local economy Luxury car dealerships five-star hotels condominium developments swanky nightclubs major commercial developments and other signs of prosperity began rising all over the city As the money arrived so did a violent crime wave that lasted through the early 1990s the popular television program Miami Vice which dealt with counter-narcotics agents in an idyllic upper-class rendition of Miami spread the city's image as one of America's most glamorous subtropical paradises, Brickell Avenue and Biscayne Boulevard are the main north-south roads and Flagler Street is the main east-west road the neighborhood is defined by the Miami Downtown Development Authority (DDA) as the 3.8-square-mile (9.8 km2)-area east of Interstate 95 between the Rickenbacker Causeway to the south and Julia Tuttle Causeway to the north.
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