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100 unusual facts about Florida


2005 FCSL season

In the championship game, played for the first time at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, Zephyrhills defeated Sanford 2-1 to capture the franchise's first FCSL title.

Akerman LLP

Some early clients of the firm included Orange County, Florida, the Gentile Brothers Company, A. Duda & Sons, and the Dr. P. Phillips Company.

Al Burt

He lived for many years in the picturesque historic town of Melrose, Florida, until declining health dictated a move to the larger city of Jacksonville not long before his death.

Al Rosas

Nicknamed and trademarked as The Organic Chef, he runs the Rosas Farms in Marion County, which produces and sells all grass-fed and organic foods.

Barend du Plessis

He also ran as the NP candidate in Florida in the same year and snatched the seat from the United Party.

Black Helen Handicap

The Black Helen Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Hialeah Park Race Track in Hialeah, Florida from 1941 through 2001.

Blue Rock Partners

Holdings include 6,400 units in the Tampa Bay area and Orlando, including approximately 2,300 units in Brandon, Florida.

Bobby Gates

After leading the Buchholz golf team in scoring average during his senior year, Gates was named Scholar Athlete of the Year for Alachua County, Florida.

Bowman Foster Ashe

The University of Miami's administration building, the Bowman Foster Ashe Administration Building, and Bowman Foster Ashe Elementary School (located in West Kendall, Florida) are both named in his honor.

Caladium

Every July(the last week-end), a festival is held in Lake Placid, Florida, home to a majority of the world's caladium fields.

Callbox

U.S. highways with callboxes include most of the major highways in California, Florida's Turnpike and Interstate 185 in Georgia.

Carl Barger

Additionally, the Marlins designated the practice areas and fields next to Space Coast Stadium in Viera, Florida, as the Carl F. Barger Baseball Complex.

Carl Zimmermann

Carl Zimmermann (born February 24, 1951) is a Democratic member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 65th District, which includes northern Pinellas County, since 2012.

Charles DeChant

DeChant also plays with several local bands in his home town, Orlando, Florida.

Chauliodes pectinicornis

pectinicornis has a wide distribution in the eastern United States, from Maine in the north-east to Alachua, Liberty and Santa Rosa counties in Florida to the south-east, and as far west as Kansas.

Clark G. Reynolds

Reynolds received the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature from the Naval Order of the United States, and the Admiral Arthur W. Radford Award for Excellence in Naval Aviation History and Literature from the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation in Pensacola, Florida.

Climate of the United States

Florida also reports many tornadoes but these are rarely very strong.

Coton Colors

Coton Colors is a pottery and giftware design and manufacturing company based in Tallahasee, Florida.

Crouse-Hinds Company

Not long after, Cooper sold the traffic products division to Traffic Control Technologies of Liverpool, New York, who then sold the division to Peek Traffic Transit of Tallahassee, Florida.

CSS Spray

In 1850, Daniel Ladd, a Newport, Florida cotton and general mercantile businessman, purchased the Spray for $15,000.

Dick Briefer

At the time of his death, Briefer was living in the Hollywood / Pembroke Pines area of Broward County, Florida.

Drew Bundini Brown

Brown, who was born in Midway, Florida, and raised in nearby Sanford, Florida, dropped out of junior high school after the eighth grade.

Dust Tracks on a Road

It begins with Hurston's childhood in the black community of Eatonville, Florida, then covers her education at Howard University where she began as a fiction writer, having two stories published under the guidance of Charles S. Johnson.

Edward Walton Wilcox

Originally from West Palm Beach, Florida, Wilcox earned a BFA in Painting with high honors from the University of Florida, where he also received the Presidential Award for Excellence in the Arts.

Elizabeth Gregg Patterson

In 1983, Patterson suffered a debilitating stroke and soon after, her son, J. David Patterson, relocated Elizabeth to Key West, Florida, where he and his wife owned a sportfishing charter business.

Enhanced Avionics System

On October 2008, Dassault announced the launch of EASy phase II program at the annual NBAA meeting in Orlando.

Experimental Skeleton

These flowering locations, such as Ybor City, simultaneously became attractive to developers.

F. aurea

Ficus aurea, the Florida strangler fig, golden fig or higuerón, a tree species native to Florida, the northern and western Caribbean, southern Mexico and Central America south to Panama

FL1

Florida's 1st congressional district, a congressional district in the U.S. state of Florida

Florida Keys Council of the Arts

Projects currently underway include the Freeman Justice Center in Key West; Fire Stations in Key Largo, Big Pine and Conch Key; the Key West International Airport and the Murray Nelson Government Building in Key Largo.

Florida State Road 590

Along Northeast Coachman Road, SR 590 runs northeast as it intersects another major county road known as CR 501 (Belcher Road), which runs from Gulfport to Tarpon Springs.

Florida State Road 814

Afterward, SR 816 borders the former CDP of Ramblewood East.

Florida, Missouri

Brigadier General Thomas A. Harris of the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard had established his headquarters at Florida in June, and by early July he had nearly five hundred troops in the immediate vicinity under his command.

Geek Squad

Best Buy terminated its partnership with Office Depot in Orlando, Florida, where Geek Squad precincts were located in 10 Office Depot locations.

George W. Jenkins

He was transferred to the company's largest store in Winter Haven, which he managed for four years.

Gerardo Pelusso

Gerardo Cono Pelusso Boyrie (born February 25, 1954 in Florida), is a Uruguayan football manager.

Gibsonia

Gibsonia, Florida, a census-designated place in Polk County, Florida

Godfrey Darbishire

It was while living in Polk County that Darbishire died on 29 October 1889, after becoming ill from exposure while on a small boat in the sea off Key West; he was 36 years of age.

GP16

The first GP16 emerged from SCL's Uceta (Tampa) shop in June 1979 while the last was placed into service during November 1982.

Gus C. Henderson

Born near Lake City in Columbia County, Florida, Gus C. Henderson would remain in his home town for twenty years.

Halleck Tustenuggee

Halleck was severely wounded by U.S. troops at a skirmish at Fort King (in present day Ocala) in April 1840 against Capt. Gabriel J. Rains (a future Civil War Confederate General).

Hamilton University

CBS News reported in 2004 that Hamilton was operated by Rudy Marn of Key West, Florida.

Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer

Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer (born November 18, 1886 Manchester, Connecticut - 1948 Sarasota, Florida) was an American poet and magazine editor.

Henry A. Wiley

Admiral Wiley retired once more 2 January 1943 and died 20 May 1943 at Palm Beach, Florida.

Henry James Thomas

Henry “Hank” James Thomas was born on August 29, 1941 in Jacksonville, Florida.

Hey Monday discography

This following is a comprehensive listing of official releases by Hey Monday, a four-piece American pop punk band, formed in 2008 in West Palm Beach, Florida.

History of Hispanic and Latino Americans

French Huguenots founded Fort Caroline in modern-day Jacksonville in 1564, but this fort was conquered by forces from the new Spanish colony of St. Augustine the following year.

Horatio Wright

He was sent to Florida in 1846, where he spent ten years working on the harbor of St. Augustine and the defenses of Key West.

Howard Thurman House

The Howard Thurman House is the historic home of Howard Thurman in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States.

Hurricane Wilma

In other areas of Central Florida, schools were closed in Flagler, Lake, Orange, and Volusia counties.

Internet Explorer 5

First released to developers at the 2000 Professional Developers Conference in Orlando, Florida, then made available for download, version 5.5 focused on improved print preview capabilities, CSS and HTML standards support, and developer APIs; this version was bundled with Windows Me.

Introspection Rundown

Church parishioner Lisa McPherson had a car accident in Clearwater, Florida on 18 November 1995, while studying at Scientology headquarters.

Jacob Summerlin

He used his wealth to purchase large tracts of land sprawling from Fort Meade to Fort Myers.

Jaguarundi

Their presence in Florida is said to have been the work of a writer who at some point imported the animals from their native habitat and released them near his hometown of Chiefland and in other locations across the state.

Jake Raburn

In 2012, following the reconfiguration of the Florida House of Representatives districts, Raburn ran in the newly created 57th District, which was based in the rural, eastern parts of Hillsborough County.

Janet Cruz

Janet Cruz (born July 7, 1956) is a Democratic member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 62nd District, which includes northwestern Hillsborough County, namely Town 'n' Country, since 2012.

John O. Simonds

Pelican Bay, located in Naples, Florida, became one of Simonds' great large-scale projects.

John W. Holland

Holland assumed senior status on July 1, 1955, and remained on the court until his death in Coral Gables in 1969.

Joseph A. Boyd, Jr.

He served as chairman of the commission and vice mayor of Dade County.

Joseph Urban

Most of Urban's architectural work in the United States has been demolished, with the exceptions of Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida and The New School and the base of The Hearst Tower in New York City.

Kilcrease Light Artillery

Headed by Captain Patrick Houston and Captain Frederick L. Villepigue, it was formed in Leon County, Florida in the spring of 1863 upon the dividing of the Leon Light Artillery.

Larry Nixon

Lawrence "Larry" Nixon (born September 3, 1950 - Bee Branch, Arkansas) is a professional fisherman whose career started at the 1977 Florida Invitational in Welaka, Florida.

Leiocephalus carinatus armouri

It was originally found only on Grand Bahama Island and the Abacos, but was released intentionally in Palm Beach, Florida in the 1940s.

Leonard John Brass

He was associated with the Archbold Biological Station at Lake Placid, Florida, for which he helped to formulate the organizational structure it has today, and also where he lived between expeditions.

Lippincott Mansion

The Lippincott Mansion (also known as the Melrose Hall) is a historic site in Ormond Beach, Florida, United States.

Lucien Lagrange Architects

The firm has been selected as architects of the St. Regis Resort & Residences, Bal Harbour in Bal Harbour, Florida for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide.

Maikon Bonani

When 11 years old, he moved from Brazil to the U.S. and lived in Lake Wales, in Polk County, Florida.

Marvin Karlins

Dr. Karlins is currently Professor of Management in the College of Business at the University of South Florida and lives in Riverview, Florida with his wife, Edyth, and daughter, Amber Nicole.

Marvis Martin

Martin was born in Tallahassee, Florida but grew up in Miami, and was singing professionally by the age of five.

Mod Mobilian

In 2012, it was the official interview crew for Deluna Fest in Pensacola, Florida.

MV John Hamilton Gray

The vessel was overhauled at a shipyard in Les Méchins, Quebec, and departed for West Palm Beach, Florida, in November, no longer a ferry but a casino cruise ship.

National Pedal Sport Association

At one time the NPSA complained to the Orlando, Florida Parks Department about the National Bicycle League (NBL) making the jumps, in its view, too large at a track they shared with the NBL.

Nebahat Çehre

She also represented Turkey in the Miss Universe 1965 beauty pageant which took place on 24 July 1965 at the Miami Beach Auditorium in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.

Nova Southeastern Sharks men's basketball

The NSU Sharks Men's Basketball team represents Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Florida.

Paul Lapinski

Lapinski is married, father of 1 (stepfather of 7), and resides in Fleming Island, FL.

Paul Reinman

Reinman's sister Alice and her husband Alex Leopold moved to Boca Raton, Florida, in Palm Beach County, and Reinman, following the death of wife Dora in 1967 and his leaving comics in the mid-1970s, settled nearby with his second wife, Celia.

PBA Flight 1039

PBA Flight 1039 was an Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante that was operated by Provincetown-Boston Airline on a scheduled passenger flight from Jacksonville International Airport in Jacksonville, Florida, to Tampa International Airport in Tampa, Florida.

Ray Pilon

In 2010, when incumbent Democratic State Representative Keith Fitzgerald ran for a third term in the House, Pilon returned from political retirement to challenge him in the 69th District, which included a few precincts in southern Manatee County and northwestern Sarasota County.

Ricky Samaratana

Samaratana started his professional boxing career in Miami Beach, Florida.

Scientology holidays

Celebrates the opening of the Flag Land Base in Clearwater, Florida in 1975.

SENSOR-Pesticides

In February 2005, three infants were born with birth defects to migrant farmworkers within eight weeks of each other in Collier County, Florida.

Seth McKeel

McKeel opted to run in the 63rd District, which included much of western Polk County and southeastern Hillsborough County and won the Republican primary unopposed.

South Beaches

The cities and towns include: South Patrick Shores, Satellite Beach, Indian Harbour Beach, Indialantic and Melbourne Beach, and the city of Melbourne.

St. Elizabeth Seton School Naples Florida

Elizabeth Seton Catholic School (often abbreviated to SES) is a co-educational parish private, Roman Catholic elementary and middle school in Naples, Florida.

Statutory college

Starting in 2004, the Miller School began offering instruction on the campus of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida.

Tarragona Tower

The Tarragona Tower (also known as the Tarragona Arch) is a structure composed of a tower and arch built of coquina stone in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States.

Tex Maule

Hamilton Prieleaux Bee Maule, commonly known as Tex Maule (May 19, 1915 in Ojus, Florida — May 16, 1981) was the lead American football writer for Sports Illustrated in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

The Edwardians

Through her own novel Orlando, the protagonist of which is wholly based on Vita, she inspired her to write a novel about Knole House and her childhood experiences there herself.

The Lady in the Bottle

He says goodbye, and heads for home; but he doesn't see that the girl, smoking inside her bottle, rolls it into his duffel bag and returns to Cocoa Beach, Florida with him.

Torbert

Graftwood was given to the University of Miami's Experimental Farm in Perrine, Florida as well as to individuals in the area, and several trees were planted in home gardens around Miami-Dade County.

Tour de Turtles

After departing from some of the most important nesting sites in the Western Hemisphere, typically Vero Beach, Florida and Melbourne Beach, Florida, sea turtles will be monitored using Platform Terminal Transmitter (PTT) that send signals via satellite to record their locations and the distances traveled.

Troy Gentile

Gentile was born in Boca Raton, Florida, the son of Debbie Gentile, who once worked at the advertising department of the Boca Raton News, He moved to Los Angeles with his family when he was four.

Twenty-Four Hours A Day

In 1952, while looking for educational materials for alcoholics, Hazelden President Pat Butler came across a small volume titled Twenty-Four Hours A Day. The author, Richmond Walker of Daytona Beach, Florida, was publishing, selling, and distributing the volume himself.

U.S. Route 1 in New York

U.S. Route 1 (US 1) is a part of the U.S. Highway System that runs from Key West, Florida, to the Canada–United States border at Fort Kent, Maine.

Valeri Bure

Following his retirement, Bure's wife, Candace, announced on her website that the couple would be opening a restaurant, "The Milk and Honey Café", in Pembroke Pines, Florida in April 2007; the restaurant later closed.

Walter Gassire

Born in Florida, Gassire began playing football with the youth teams of C.A. Peñarol.

WCTH

Licensed to Plantation Key, Florida, USA, the station serves the Florida Keys area.

WGCT

WTBT-LD, a low-power television station (channel 45) licensed to serve Tampa, Florida, which held the call sign WGCT-LP or WGCT-LD from 2007 to 2012

William Lundy

He moved his family to Laurel Hill in 1890, where he and wife, Mary Jane Lassiter, raised ten children.

William R. Royal

He moved to Manatee County, Florida during the Great Depression and operated a passenger airplane service in the Bahamas and Cuba in the late 1930s.


Aging with Dignity

Founding advisory board members include former Florida Governors Lawton Chiles, Jeb Bush, and Bob Graham, Assistant Secretary on Aging Josefina Carbonell and US Senator Bill Nelson among others.

Aguinaldo Filho

2 years later the station went bankrupt, and Naldo and Rosa decided to go into business for themselves, and bought a TCBY franchise at Hollywood Beach in Florida.

Austin M. Knight

Born in Ware, Massachusetts to future American Civil War veteran Charles Sanford Knight and Cordelia Cutter Knight, Austin Melvin Knight was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy from Florida on June 30, 1869, graduating in 1873.

Bear Swamp Hydroelectric Power Station

Bear Swamp Generating Station is a pumped-storage hydroelectric underground power station that straddles the Deerfield River in Rowe and Florida, Massachusetts.

Bold Alligator

Bold Alligator 2012 was held ashore and afloat, in and off the coasts of Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida, and it culminated in three large-scale operations - an amphibious assault at Camp Lejeune; an aerial assault from the sea into Fort Pickett; and an amphibious raid on Joint Expeditionary Base East.

Bronson-Mulholland House

Judge Isaac H. Bronson probably first considered moving to Palatka, Florida in 1852 when the "Palatka Tract" of about 1,220 acres was conveyed in trust to him by three prominent Palatka families - the Reids, the Carrs, and the Burts.

Citrus Hill

The launch of Citrus Hill occurred when P&G acquired Florida-based Ben Hill Griffin Inc. and created a brand to sell its juice products under, with national distribution.

Claire Roche

Roche has performed as an opening artist for The Chieftains and The Fureys and has performed at venues including The Florida Folk Festival in White Springs, Florida, and at Stephen Foster Memorial Park, on the banks of the Suwannee River in the Southern United States and at Old Government House, Parramatta in Australia.

Delfín Gallo

On September 1, 1889, during the run-up to the Revolution of the Park, Gallo spoke at the great meeting of the Jardín Florida, which gave rise to the Civic Youth Union.

Dinero

Don Dinero, an American-born Cuban Rap mobster music artist living in Miami, Florida.

Explosive Ordnance Disposal Badge

The "crab", as it is commonly known, is the only joint service badge and can only be earned upon successful completion of the 38 week course at the Naval School of Explosive Ordnance Disposal located at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.

First Coast Outer Beltway

The beltway when finished will contain 13 interchanges and a new bridge across the St. Johns River near Green Cove Springs, Florida (currently known as the Shands Bridge).

Fivay High School

Fivay High School was designed by Florida-based architecture firm Harvard Jolly.

Florida State Capitol

On the northeast corner of the Capitol Complex is the Florida Sri Chinmoy Peace State Marker.

Ford Amphitheatre

MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre, in Tampa, Florida, an outdoor concert venue whose original name was Ford Amphitheatre

Gainesville Airport

Gainesville Regional Airport in Gainesville, Florida, United States (IATA/FAA: GNV)

Garcinia prainiana

The fruit is cultivated in Southeast Asia, by a few backyard growers in South Florida, and at the Whitman Rare Fruit Pavilion of Florida's Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden.

Jacksonville Landing

The Landing hosts more than 300 events each year including Florida/Georgia Weekend Celebrations, the annual Christmas Tree Lighting, New Year’s Eve and Gator Bowl Celebrations, St. Patrick’s Day, the Jacksonville Jazz Festival and July 4th fireworks.

James Alderman

On the afternoon of August 7, 1927, Alderman and his associate Robert Weech were intercepted by a Coast Guard cutter in the waters between Florida and Bimini.

Jeanette Núñez

She began her career as Chief of Staff for Florida State Senator Alex Díaz de la Portilla, where she was involved in legislative policy and constituent service.

John Cohn

Cohn frequently takes his traveling "Jolts and Volts" electricity show to schools, community groups, universities and museums across the US including such diverse venues as the New York Hall of Science, The National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. and frequent shows at Disney's Epcot Center in Florida.

Jones/Ginzel

Current and recent major works include the Visual Arts Complex at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Hoboken Ferry Terminal in New Jersey, the Tiber River in Rome, and public buildings in Florida and Utah.

Least Bittern

A dark rufous morph, "neoxenus", termed "Cory's Bittern" or "Cory's Least Bittern" was originally described by Cory as a separate species in 1885, from a specimen collected on or near the Caloosahatchee River, near Lake Okeechobee, in southwest Florida; Cory stated that the specimen was "without doubt perfectly distinct from any other known species".

M. Athalie Range

Athalie Range (Born Mary Athalie Wilkinson on November 7, 1915 in Key West, Florida- November 14, 2006 in Miami, Florida) was a civil rights activist and politician who was the first African-American to serve on the Miami, Florida City Commission, and the first African-American since Reconstruction and the first woman to head a Florida state agency, the Department of Community Affairs.

Manatee County courthouses

Old Manatee County Courthouse, 1104 Manatee Avenue, East, Bradenton, Florida, the first courthouse

Marlins Television Network

From 1993 to 2005, the Marlins Television Network aired games to homes not only in South Florida but to other parts of Florida.

Missouri Route 107

No towns are on the route, but the Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site is less than a mile to the east in Florida.

MV Freedom Star

As well as recovering the Space Shuttle SRB's Freedom Star has since 1998 been used to tow the Space Shuttle external fuel tanks from their assembly plant at Michoud Assembly Facility near New Orleans, Louisiana, to the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Ochrotrichia apalachicola

It is only known from a single adult male collected from a cold spring-fed stream in the Apalachicola National Forest, Florida.

Paul C. Donnelly

Gilruth sent Donnelly to Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1959, where he served as a capsule (spacecraft) test conductor for all Project Mercury and Gemini launches.

Phil Spitalny

Phil Spitalny (November 7, 1890, Tetiev, Ukraine (territory of Russian Empire) – October 11, 1970, Miami Beach, Florida) was a musician, music critic, composer and bandleader heard often on radio during the 1930s and 1940s.

Rembert W. Patrick

Rembert Wallace Patrick (1909–1967) was a historian, longtime University of Florida history professor, and prolific author of works on Florida's history, particularly the Reconstruction Era.

Rick Doblin

In the early 1980s, Doblin owned and operated a company called Abraxas Construction, located in the Sarasota, Florida area, which specialized in relocating houses.

Rokni Haerizadeh

Haerizadeh is in a number of notable collections globally, namely the Tate Modern, London, UK, Rosenblum Collection, Paris, France, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran, Charles Saatchi Collection, London, UK, JP Morgan Collection, NY, USA, Devi Art Foundation, Delhi, India, British Museum, London, UK, Francois Pinault Collection, Paris, France, Rubell Family Collection, Florida, USA, UCCA, Beijing.

Salsa d'Haïti

Additionally, jet-powered aircraft were to be added in 2011 to serve international destinations in Kingston, Jamaica and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Sherwood C. Spring

His technical assignments have included software verification at the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory and Flight Simulation Laboratory; vehicle and satellite integration at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, for STS-5, 6, 7, 8, and 9; Astronaut Office EVA (Extra-vehicular activity) expert; and Space Station construction, EVA maintenance, and design.

Statewide opinion polling for the Republican Party presidential primaries, April 2012

Haley Barbour of Mississippi, Jeb Bush of Florida, Chris Christie of New Jersey, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and John Thune of South Dakota all succeeded in leading polls in their home states at some point in 2011, although only Pawlenty actually launched a campaign.

Thalassia testudinum

Turtle grass is found growing in meadows in calm shallow waters throughout the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico and as far north as Cape Canaveral in Florida.

Twisted Issues

Twisted Issues is a 1988 splatter film billed as a 'psycho-punk splatter-comedy,' It featured Gainesville, Florida punk bands such as Psychic Violents, Young Pioneers, Mutley Chix, Doldrums, Just Demi-gods, Cindy Brady's Lisp, Officer Friendly, and the Smegmas, as well as local speed metal band Hellwitch avante gard incidental music by The Bill Perry Orchestra.

United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 1880

The Democrats had gained complete control of Florida's congressional delegation in 1878, although the results of the election in the 2nd district were successfully challenged, so that a single Republican represented Florida in the House for the last two months of the 46th Congress.

Villa Aujourd’hui

She named this villa, Today, after her home in Palm Beach, Florida.

WBEC

WBEC-TV, a television station (channel 63) licensed to Boca Raton, Florida, United States

Werf

WERF-LP, a low-power radio station (95.7 FM) licensed to Gainesville, Florida, United States

West Indian manatee

While this is a regularly occurring species along coastal southern Florida, during summer, this large mammal has even been found as far north as Dennis, Massachusetts and as far west as Texas.

William V. Chappell, Jr.

The Port Orange Causeway, spanning the Halifax River, in Port Orange, Florida, was named the Congressman William V. Chappell Jr. Memorial Bridge by the Florida Legislature in 1989.

Williford

Williford, Florida, an unincorporated community in Gilchrist County, Florida

Wilson Creek Bridge

The bridge was designed by Florida-based Figg Engineering Group and built by PCL Civil Constructors Inc., a subsidiary of PCL Constructors Inc. at a cost of US$17.4 million.

Yossi Gestetner

In early 2010, Gestetner led a PR effort in a campaign asking then-Florida Governor Charlie Crist to grant a 60-day clemency to Martin Grossman to make times for a court appeal.

Zach Azzanni

He was also the wide receivers coach at the University of Florida under former Florida coach, Urban Meyer.