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List of high schools in Florida - Public High Schools Dade. American Senior High School, Miami Gardens Barbara Goleman Senior High School, Miami Lakes and Hialeah Gardens Booker T. Washington Senior High School, Downtown Miami Coral Gables High School, Coral Gables Dr. Michael M. Krop High School, Aventura Felix Varela High School, Kendall G. Holmes Braddock High School, West Kendall Hialeah High School, Hialeah Hialeah-Miami Lakes Seni ...

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Bush speaks Spanish fluently, in addition to English. He regularly delivers speeches in both English and Spanish due to the large number of Spanish speaking residents of Florida. Jeb Bush - Early campaigns. Bush got his start in Florida politics as the Chairman of the Dade County Republican Party. Dade County played an important role in the 1986 election of Bob Martinez to the Governor's office. In return, Martinez appointed Bush as Florida's Secretary of Commerce. He served in that role in 1987 and 1988, ...

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Coconut Grove is a neighborhood located in the City of Miami, Florida in Miami-Dade County. The area is defined as southeast of US 1, from N. Prospect Ave as the southern border to the intersection of US 1 and Brickell Ave as the northern border. The western border is Le Jeune Rd. and the eastern border is Biscayne Bay. Technically, all of Coconut Grove has a zip code of 33133, which actually extends the area north of US 1 into what is called Silver Bluffs. ...

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Anita Bryant (born March 25, 1940, in Barnsdall, Oklahoma) is an American singer who made a series of television commercials for Florida orange juice. A member of the Southern Baptist church, she is remembered for campaigning to repeal a local ordinance in Miami, Florida that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Singing from the age of two, she became Miss Oklahoma in 1958 and was a 2nd runner-up in the 1959 Miss America beauty pageant. She had three million-selling pop hits: "'Til There Was You" (1959) ...

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List of high schools in Florida - Public High Schools Broward. Blanche Ely High School, Pompano Beach Boyd H. Anderson High School, Lauderdale Lakes Charles W. Flanagan High School, Pembroke Pines Coconut Creek High School, Coconut Creek Cooper City High School, Cooper City Coral Glades High School, Coral Springs Coral Springs High School, Coral Springs Cypress Bay High School, Weston Deerfield Beach High School, Deerfield Beach

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Federal Emergency Management Agency of the United States - Hurricane Andrew - 1992. (see also Hurricane Andrew) In August 1992, Hurricane Andrew struck the Florida and Louisiana coasts with 165 mph (265 km/h) sustained winds. FEMA was widely criticized for the agency’s response to Andrew, summed up by the famous exclamation, "Where in the hell is the cavalry on this one?" by Dade County, Florida, emergency management director Kate Hale. FEMA and the federal government at large were accused of not respond ...

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In the 1850s many from Dade County, Georgia, in the far northwestern corner of the state, threatened to secede from Georgia (and the U.S.) if the state itself did not secede. References: [4], [5] ...

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In England, the police are divided into regional forces based on counties (sometimes amalgamations of two or three counties), which all provide full services throughout their districts. Police forces in Scotland and Wales also used to be organised on a county basis, but are now amalgamated into a number of larger regional forces: eight in Scotland and four in Wales. Ireland has never been policed on a county basis, and Northern Ireland now has a single polic ...

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Reno's father, Henry Reno, immigrated to the United States from Denmark and for forty-three years was a police reporter for the Miami Herald. Jane Wood, Reno's mother, raised her children and then became an investigative reporter for the Miami News. Janet Reno has three younger siblings. She is a cousin of newspaper columnist Robert Reno, and aunt to model, Hunter Reno. Disputes over Reno's own sexual orientation began with her days as county prosecutor in Miami, becoming a major part ...

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Intensity is measured solely by central pressure Andrew was only the third Category 5 hurricane to hit the United States, the previous ones being Hurricane Camille (which hit Mississippi and Louisiana in August 1969) and the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 (which struck the Florida Keys in September 1935). As with most high-intensity storms (Categories 4 and 5), the worst damage from Andrew is thought to have occurred not from straight-line winds but from vortices, or "miniwhirls" (something like embedded torn ...

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Two counties have, in the past, proposed leaving Colorado and joining with New Mexico: the San Luis Valley in the 1950s, and Costilla County in 1973. Also, in ca. 1935, the Walsenburg World-Independent proposed that Huerfano County secede from the state. References: [2], [3] ...

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In 1925, the county of Cook County, Illinois, which contains Chicago, considered seceding from Illinois as a new state named Chicago. References: [6] ...

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