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43 unusual facts about Miami


1983 in art

Completion of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude environmental artwork, Surrounded Islands, involving eleven islands in Biscayne Bay off Miami being surrounded by 6,500,000 square feet (600,000 m²) of pink fabric.

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon

The game takes place over a number of locations, including: Miami, East Africa, Dubai and the Middle East, Russia (Derbent, the Black Sea, Caucasus, and Moscow specifically), and Washington, D.C. Fictional towns and cities were also used, including Mogadiyu, Carruth, and Belyi Base (believed to be based on Belaya).

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In the trailer the US Air Force is engaged in dogfighting with Russian fighters over Miami.

Alhambra Orchestra

For over 20 years, the orchestra has promoted classical music throughout Miami-Dade County by presenting residents with free concerts throughout the local area.

Augustus N. Allen

It still owns and manages a broad portfolio of properties in the New York and Miami metro areas.

Baby Gramps

Baby Gramps is a guitar performer, who, though born in Miami, Florida, has been based in the Northwest U.S. for at least the last 40 years.

Chef Jeremiah

Chef Jeremiah, also known as Chef Jeremiah Bullfrog, is a celebrity chef and food truck owner based in Miami, Florida.

Cheyenne McCray

Cheyenne McCray (born 1965 in Miami, Arizona, USA) is an American author of romance novels, including paranormal romance, romantic suspense, and urban fantasy.

China Eastern Airlines Flight 583

The airframe redesignated as N951AR now serves as a cargo freighter for Miami based SkyLease Cargo.

Colin McGinn

He has held teaching posts and professorships at University College London, the University of Oxford, Rutgers University, and the University of Miami.

Dolfan Denny

He was known for cheering on the NFL team for 33 years as a one-man sideline show, often leading Miami crowds in cheers and chants from each corner of the field.

Electoral district of Burleigh

It also includes parts of the Gold Coast suburbs of Miami, Mermaid Beach, Varsity Lakes and Palm Beach.

Elizabeth Ayoub

Elizabeth commutes between New York City, Beirut, and Miami, where she is currently at work promoting her music and taking on new projects.

Enrique Ros

Enrique Ros (born Enrique Emilio Ros y Pérez in Cienfuegos, Cuba, died April 10, 2013 in Miami, Florida) was a Miami based Cuban-American businessman and activist opposed to Cuban president Fidel Castro.

Gabe Serbian

Serbian also played live drums for Miami IDM/breakcore artist Otto von Schirach on a European tour and also when von Schirach played/toured with The Locust.

Gangstar: Crime City

The Miami-like part of Crime City includes an "Ocean Drive" area, complete with an "Ocean View" hotel.

J. Fife Symington Jr.

During the Depression, he borrowed and traveled on Pan American to Miami, San Juan, Trinidad and South America.

Jim McFadden

Born in Belfast, United Kingdom and raised in Miami, Manitoba.

Joe Coto

Joe Coto (born Miami, Arizona, United States) is an American educator, city councilmember, and a Democratic politician.

Joseph A. Boyd, Jr.

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

Kifah Jayyousi

Jayyousi was released from the Federal Detention Center at Miami, Florida where he spent a year in solitary confinement.

Miami-Dade County Courthouse

Engineers consulted with an architect from Mexico City, whom had encountered a similar problem while building the city's opera house.

Miami-Dade County Legislative Delegation

Representative Carlos Lopez-Cantera serves as the Chairman of the Delegation and Senator Anitere Flores serves as the Vice-Chair.

Miami-Hollywood Motorsports Park

Opened in March 1966, it was located east of the Hollywood Sportatorium near the corner of 172nd Avenue and what was then Hollywood Boulevard (now Pines Boulevard).

Miami, Manitoba

Miami was used in a controversial prank contest by Winnipeg radio station Classic Rock 97.5 FM (CJKR) morning man Scruff Connors in 1995.

Miami, My Amy

"Miami, My Amy" is a song written by Dean Dillon, Hank Cochran and Royce Porter, and recorded by American country music artist Keith Whitley.

Michael Haysman

He lived in Miami for nearly three years working with Allen Stanford's Caribbean Twenty 20 as commentator and analyst but moved to Los Angeles after Stanford's demise.

Neyraudia reynaudiana

In southern Florida, in Miami-Dade County, including Everglades National Park, it is a serious threat to the globally imperiled pine rocklands community whose pine canopy was largely destroyed in 1992 by Hurricane Andrew.

Ottawa County, Oklahoma

In 1831, the Federal Government reacquired part of what would eventually become Ottawa County to resettle some smaller tribes, These included two tribes of Seneca, Shawnee, Quapaw, Peoria, Kaskaskias, Miami, Ottawa and Wyandotte.

Patrick Ntsoelengoe

An idol in his own country, Ace spent only one season with Miami, missed the 1974 season but returned to the NASL in 1975 to play for the Denver Dynamos.

Ralph Royce

He died of leukemia on 7 August 1965 at the Homestead Air Force Base Hospital in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Richard Wade

The success of recent exports such as Cameron Wake (Miami) and Stefan Logan (Pittsburgh) -- both former B.C. Lions—has shown that CFL players can thrive in the NFL.

Robert Earl Sawyer

He starred, produced and directed his own plays as well as the plays of other writers in New York City, Miami, Washington D.C., Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

Romana Acosta Bañuelos

Acosta, daughter of poor Mexican immigrants, was born in the tiny mining town of Miami, Arizona, on March 20, 1925.

Salim Damji

Salim Damji claims to have met extortionists in Miami, who threatened to kill him and his family if they did not comply with his demands.

Scarface: Money. Power. Respect.

Through turn based showdowns and real time combat each player will manage production and distribution of drugs, build up enough cartel strength to overpower adversaries, conquer turf and rule the Miami drug scene.

South Florida Educational Federal Credit Union

In 2000, Miami-Dade County Public Schools and Miami-Dade College students became eligible for membership, and the credit union again changed its name to reflect this.

Straight Tail Meaurroway Opessa

1677: Leads his people to present-day Illinois and Miami to join up with other bands of Shawnee and various tribes.

TACA Flight 390

TACA Flight 390 was a scheduled flight on May 30, 2008, by TACA Airlines from San Salvador, El Salvador, to Miami, Florida, United States, with intermediate stops at Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula in Honduras.

The Underdog Project

The biggest dance radio station in New York City, WKTU, also expressed support for the record and added it to their playlist, as well as market leader Power 96 in Miami.

Thug Matrimony: Married to the Streets

Thug Matrimony: Married to the Streets is the sixth studio album (and first #1 album) by Miami rapper Trick Daddy.

Thug World Order

Tomica and the group met in Miami to record the album, as well as get on better terms.

Valley National Bank of Arizona

Within a year after coming to Arizona, Valley Bank was the first in Arizona to become a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and it was one of the first to provide government-guaranteed home loans; in 1936, one Miami, Arizona furniture company credited the government's FHA programs and Valley National Bank for a 60% increase in business.


2006 Miami Dolphins season

After a scoreless first quarter, Miami got on the board first with kicker Olindo Mare getting a 52-yard field goal, but the Texans got a field goal for themselves, as kicker Kris Brown got one from 32 yards out.

2009 Sony Ericsson Open

The 2009 Sony Ericsson Open was the 25th edition of the Miami Masters tournament and was held at Tennis Center at Crandon Park, Key Biscayne near Miami, Florida.

2010–11 Kent State Golden Flashes men's basketball team

Greene won the award by three votes over Julian Muvunga of Miami and D. J. Cooper of Ohio.

2Be3

Hugely popular in France, despite attempts to break the American and British markets (via an English-language single, Excuse My French, produced in Miami by Desmond Child), their only significant chart success occurred in their home nation.

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There were also protests in Argentine embassies and consulates in cities such as New York, Miami, Madrid, Sydney, Bogotá, Santiago de Chile, Naples, Zurich and Barcelona, among others.

Ace Ventura

His eccentricities makes him a laughing stock to the Miami-Dade Police Department in the early part of the first movie, but eventually earned their respect after his rescue of Dan Marino and the dolphin, Snowflake.

Aeronca Sedan

(The accompanying support aircraft, also a Sedan, was called the Lady’s Maid.) Departing from the Fullerton, California, Municipal Airport on March 15, the flight crossed the United States to Miami, Florida, where bad weather forced the pilots to circle for 14 days before making the return trip to Fullerton.

Alejandra Gutierrez Oraa

In 2008, Oraa was chosen for a new style of "Reality Morning Show" at one of Miami's most popular Hispanic radio stations, Romance 106.7 FM.

Alex Bogusky

He attended North Miami Elementary School and graduated from North Miami Senior High School in 1981.

Anthony Carfano

At this time, mob associate and Florida gambling operator Meyer Lansky persuaded the Mafia Commission that both Miami and Miami Beach should be considered "open cities", places in which any crime family in the country could set up operation.

Are You...?

He works as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department.

Arthur F. Gorham

Gorham left Miami when he received the principal Congressional appointment to West Point from Rep. William L. Fiesinger.

Aserca Airlines

Aserca's operations were centred around Valencia, but it managed to develop Caracas as a hub after 1994 which made it experience a significant growth in its market share, expanding its network to Bogotá, Lima and Miami (no longer in service) via Aruba.

Birds Do It

Producer Ivan Tors filmed the comedy at his Miami studios with cameos provided by Dean Martin (Columbia's Matt Helm), Flipper, director Andrew Marton as himself, and a Cary Grant impersonator played by Ray Anthony.

Bob Hitchens

Many of Hitchens records at Miami University were later broken by Travis Prentice, including Hitchens school record of 15 touchdowns in a season.

Camilo Daza International Airport

In March 2008, was the epicenter for the arrival of direct international flights from Madrid, Miami, San Jose, Quito and Caracas on the grounds of the Peace Without Borders concert held in Cúcuta.

Cathy Cahlin Ryan

A native of Miami, Florida, Ryan has also appeared in numerous television productions, including Numb3rs, Judging Amy, Family Matters, Monk, The Unit, Severence Pay, Roseanne: Portrait of a Domestic Goddess, Lie to Me (Season 2, Episode 19), The Chicago Code and Justified.

Commonasm

CommoNasm is a mashup album produced and mixed by Miami-based producer and sound engineer TenDJiz.

Conchita Espinosa

During her extensive career, Espinosa received many honors including the Richard and Dorothy Lear Memorial “Distinguished Educator Award” (March 1994) and the “Legacy of Excellence Award” presented by General Motors during the 1999 Miami Hispanic Heritage Festival.

Dadeland

Dadeland is served by the Metrorail at Dadeland North and Dadeland South stations, directly connecting one of the largest suburban communities in southern Florida with Downtown Miami and Miami International Airport.

Diego Bowie

Performed at Zones Contemporary Art Fair, parallel to the Art Basel Fair in Miami, December 2013.

Distorted Reality

Distorted Reality is the synthpop band formed in 1997 by a collaboration between Martha M. Arce from Miami, USA and Christian Kobusch from Bielefeld, Germany.

Doug Swift

Swift's blitz late in the second quarter of Super Bowl VII forced Washington Redskins quarterback Billy Kilmer to make a hurried throw, which Nick Buoniconti intercepted and returned into Washington territory to set up the Dolphins' second touchdown in a 14-7 victory, cementing Miami's 17-0 season.

Eddie Lovett

A native of Miami, Florida, Lovett attended Palm Beach Lakes Community High School in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he also was a highly touted football prospect, playing wide receiver and defensive back.

Electronic News

The paper eventually grew to have a staff of three dozen full time journalists, working out of headquarters staffed by full time journalists in New York and bureaus in Boston, Washington DC, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis and Tokyo.

Florida Cup

Miami won the first three Florida Cups awarded, having played Florida in the 2002 and 2003 regular seasons and the 2004 Peach Bowl.

Gad Elbaz

Elbaz has performed at the Samuel Scheck Hillel Community Day School; an Orthodox Jewish school in Miami, Florida and at a public high school in Queens, New York.

HG Capital

H.I.G. Capital - a $7.5 billion private equity firm based in Miami

Howard Engle

In the 1960s, he was chief of pediatrics at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach.

Israel Gutierrez

While Gutierrez's column was labeled as "commentary," it received criticism from readers in Miami and throughout the U.S. The column even attracted a rebuke from his own newspaper’s ombudsman, Edward Schumacher-Matos, who wrote that the piece should never have been published.

Jacques Gravier

In 1696 Gravier was named to found the Illinois mission among the Illinois, Miami, Kaskaskia and others of the Illiniwek confederacy situated in the Mississippi River and Illinois River valleys.

Joel Casique

He has exhibited his work in galleries and museums in Venezuela, the United States, and Aruba; he has also participated in national and international fairs, including the sixteenth and seventeenth Ferias Iberoamericanas de Arte (FIA) in Caracas; the 2007 Latin American Art Fair in Miami; and the 2006 Feria Internacional de Arte de Bogotá (ARTBO) in Bogotá, Colombia.

John Joseph Davye

He held degrees from the University of Miami (FL) 1952 and Ithaca College (NY) 1965 where he studied composition with Warren Benson.

Juaquin Gallardo

In February 2007, Gallardo upset Lenin Arroyo to win the WBC Latino Light Welterweight Championship, the bout was held at the Miccosukee Indian Gaming Resort in Miami, Florida.

Look Afraid

Look Afraid also collaborated with legendary poster artist Jeff Gaither, who has designed images for the Misfits, Van Halen and Guns N' Roses, on two poster designs for a series of Halloween shows, one of which was featured on the cover of Miami University's Amusement Magazine.

Manny Díaz, Jr.

Díaz then began working as a teacher and a coach at Miami Springs High School and Hialeah-Miami Lakes High School, and then became an assistant princiapl at Hialeah-Miami Lakes.

Miami Ice

Miami Ice is the third full-length album by experimental rock group Icy Demons.

Miami Township, Montgomery County, Ohio

Miami Township is home to the American offices of LexisNexis information systems, a regional office of MetLife insurance, and the world headquarters of Teradata.

Miami-Erie Canal Site Historic District

Miami-Erie Canal Site Historic District is a registered historic district near West Chester, Ohio, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on 1978-12-18.

Nick Rimando

When the Fusion were contracted after the 2001 season, Rimando was selected third overall by D.C. United (his coach at Miami, Ray Hudson, was the new United boss) in the subsequent Allocation Draft.

Pastiglia

In 2002, the Lowe Art Museum in Coral Gables, Miami held an exhibition of Pastiglia Boxes: Hidden Treasures of the Italian Renaissance from the collection of the Galleria Nazionale d'arte antica in Rome, and an 80 page exhibition catalogue was published in English and Italian.

Paul Helliwell

Helliwell continued to work as a lawyer in Miami and served as legal counsel to a Panamanian holding company that controlled a Bahamian gambling casino connected with Meyer Lansky.

Roberto Madrazo

Shortly after Gordillo's denunciation, the Mexico City newspaper Reforma published an article that condemned Madrazo as the owner of a luxury penthouse in a prestigious highrise tower in Miami worth eight million pesos ($800,000 U.S. dollars) and three luxury apartments in Mexico City with the alleged value of seven million pesos.

Sarah Spiegel

She subsequently graduated from The New World School of the Arts in Miami, and has also received a “Bachelor of Fine Arts” diploma from the University of Florida.

St. Clair Entertainment Group

It also has corporate offices and representation in Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, Miami, Minneapolis, Montreal, New York, Seattle, Toronto and Vancouver.

Switchboard

Switchboard of Miami, a nonprofit organization offering hotline, informational and referral services in Miami, Florida.

Vensecar Internacional

Vensecar Internacional operates freight services to the following international scheduled destinations (at January 2005): Aruba, Barbados, Bogotá, Curaçao, Miami, Panama City, Port of Spain, and Santo Domingo.

Young Stribling

Although he lost his championship bid in the fight against future world champion Jack Sharkey at Miami Beach in 1929, "Strib" at 23 had fought more professional rounds than any other fighter in history, had knocked out more opponents, and had compiled other records as well.

Youth council

Many cities, including Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Seattle, and San Jose, California, have active youth councils that inform city government decision-making.