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SIUI develops and manufactures a variety of ultrasound imaging systems and accessories for both human and veterinary use, and NDT equipment including phased-array ultrasonic flaw detector, [3] conventional flaw detector, [4] thickness gauge, probes [5] and accessories. The company is currently organized into three product category divisions ...
February 22: Spain officially cedes Florida (already under American occupation) to United States as part of the Adams–Onís Treaty. March 10: Andrew Jackson is appointed military governor of Florida by James Monroe being the first American governor. July 10: José María Coppinger leaves office as the last governor of East Florida.
Sugarcane cultivation would begin to grow significantly in that area after the United States placed an embargo on Cuban sugar in 1959 [107] (Cuba was the main supplier of sugar to the United States) [108] [better source needed] and repealed the Sugar Act's limits on domestic production. Tourism grew in Florida from 3 million visitors to over 15 ...
Florida (/ ˈ f l ɒr ɪ d ə / ⓘ FLORR-ih-də; Spanish: [floˈɾiða]) is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.It borders the Gulf of Mexico to the west, Alabama to the northwest, Georgia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Straits of Florida and Cuba to the south.
Central Florida is known as the lightning capital of the United States, as it experiences more lightning strikes than anywhere else in the country. [26] Florida has the highest average precipitation of any state, in large part because afternoon thunderstorms are common in most of the state from late spring until early autumn. A fair day may be ...
Marjory Stoneman Douglas Building in Tallahassee, the largest of the agency's headquarters buildings.. By the mid-1960s, when the federal government was becoming increasingly involved in initiatives designed to protect the country's environmental interests, Florida had four agencies involved with environmental protection: the Florida Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund ...
The Florida Department of Environmental Regulation (DER) was the agency which, from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, handled regulation, management, conservation, compliance and enforcement of a wide range of environmental and natural resource activities in the state of Florida, United States.
1994 — The United States hosts the FIFA World Cup, which is won by Brazil. 1995 — Oklahoma City bombing kills 168 and wounds 800. The bombing is the worst domestic terrorist incident in U.S. history, and the investigation results in the arrests of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.