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Mel Martinez (R) Florida is a state in the southeast United States, situated mostly on a large peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Straits of Florida. Florida is a Spanish adjective meaning flowery. The peninsula was named by Juan Ponce de León, who landed on the coast on April 2, 1513, during Pascua Florida, a Spanish term for the Easter season. Pascua Florida Day, April 2, is a legal holiday in Florida.[1] Its U.S. Postal (and most common) abbreviation is FL, though t ...

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Archaeological finds indicate that Florida had been inhabited for many thousands of years prior to any European settlements. Of the many indigenous people, the largest tribes were the Ais (tribe), Calusa, Tequesta, Timucua and the Tocobago tribes. Juan Ponce de León, a Spanish navigator, named this new land in honor of his discovery of the land on April 2, 1513, during Pascua Florida, which is a Spanish term for the Easter season. From that date forward, the land became known as "La Florida." Over the following century, the Spanish and Fren ...

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Florida - Highways. Florida's interstates, state highways and U.S. Highways are maintained by the Florida Department of Transportation. Florida's interstate highways include: I-4, which bisects the state, connecting Tampa, Lakeland, Orlando, and Daytona Beach I-10, which traverses the panhandle, connecting Jacksonville, Lake City, Tallahassee, and Pensacola I-75, which enters the state near Lake City and continues southward through Gainesville, Ocala, and Tampa's eastern subu ...

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Florida's public school revenue per student and spending per $1000 of personal income usually ranks in the bottom 25% of U.S. states. Average teacher salaries rank near the middle of U.S. states. Florida public schools have consistently ranked in the bottom 25% of many national surveys and average test score rankings. It should be noted that many education surveys are not scientific, but do measure prestige. Governor Jeb Bush has been criticized by many Florida educators for a program that penalizes underperforming schools (as indicat ...

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Metropolitan Area Population > 5,000,000 Miami-Ft.Lauderdale-West Palm Beach Metropolitan Area Population > 2,500,000 Tampa-St. Petersburg Metropolitan Area Population > 1,000,000 Jacksonville Orlando Metropolitan Area Population > 400,000 Cape Coral-Fort Myers Daytona Beach Lakeland Melbourne-Titusville Pensacola Port ...

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The gross state product of Florida in 2003 was $550 billion. The per capita personal income was $30,098, ranking 26th in the nation. Florida's economy is heavily based on tourism. About 60 million visitors come to Florida every year. Warm weather most of the year and hundreds of miles of beach provide a thriving vacation spot for travelers from around the world. The large Walt Disney World Resort with four theme parks and over twenty hotels plus countless water parks, shopping centers and other facilities, located in Lake B ...

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The basic structure, duties, function, and operations of the Government of the State of Florida are defined and established by the Florida Constitution, which also establishes the basic law of the state and guarantees various rights and freedoms of the people. The state government consists of three separate branches, the judicial, executive and legislative. The Florida Legislature enacts legislation, such as those in the Florida Statutes, which a ...

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Florida consists of the panhandle extending along the northern Gulf of Mexico and the large peninsula with the Atlantic Ocean as its eastern border and the Gulf of Mexico as its western border. It is bordered on the north by the states of Georgia and Alabama and on the west, at the end of the panhandle, by Alabama. It is near the countries of the Caribbean, particularly the Bahamas and Cuba. At 345 feet (105 metres) above mean sea level, Britton Hill is the highest point in Florida. This is also the lowest highpoint of any U.S. state. ...

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The climate of Florida is tempered somewhat by its proximity to water. Most of the state has a humid subtropical climate with the extreme tip of Florida and the Florida Keys bordering on a true tropical climate. However, Florida averages 300 days of full sunshine a year. The seasons in Florida often called "Hot and Hotter" are actually determined more by precipitation than by temperature with warm, relatively dry winters and autumns (the dry season) and hot, wet springs and especially the summers (the wet season). The Gulf Stream has a moder ...

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As of 2004, the state's population was estimated to be 17,397,161. Florida - Race and ancestry. [3] Over 16 per cent of Florida's population was Hispanic of any race. The largest reported ancestries in the 2000 Census were German (11.8%), Irish (10.3%), English (9.2%), American (8%) and Italian (6.3%). Blacks, who during the cotton and sugar plantation era made up fully 50 percent of the state's population, have a large presence in the deeply southern middle Florida region of North Florida an ...

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