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In northern Florida, there are many horse breeding and riding farms, and the area around Ocala is one of the centers of thoroughbred horse breeding in the world. Florida culture is also influenced by tourism, an important industry in the state. Florida is home to the largest number of cruise ships in the world, and many people work in the ...
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Portuguese-Americans and Contemporary Civic Culture in Massachusetts. Cardozo, Manoel da Silviera Soares (1976). The Portuguese in America, 590 B.C.–1974: A Chronology & Fact Book; Hoffman, Frederic L. (1899). "The Portuguese Population in the United States". Publications of the American Statistical Association. 6 (47): 327–336.
In the late 19th century, many Portuguese, mainly from the islands of Azores and Madeira, migrated to the United States and established communities in cities such as Fall River, Massachusetts, New Bedford, Massachusetts; and San Jose, California.
The 1920s were a prosperous time for much of the nation, including Florida. The state's new railroads opened up large areas to development, spurring the Florida land boom of the 1920s. Investors of all kinds, many from outside Florida, raced to buy and sell rapidly appreciating land in newly platted communities such as Miami and Palm Beach.
The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (Portuguese: Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa; abbr. : CPLP), also known as the Lusophone Community (Portuguese: Comunidade Lusófona), [1] [2] is an international organization and political association of Lusophone nations across five continents, where Portuguese is an official language.
Hawaiian culture, and by extension Polynesian culture, began to penetrate the European-dominated mainland of the United States during the 1960s. This was partly due to the rise of Tiki, [135] as well as Hollywood films. [136] That decade, it became common for white Californian parents to send their children to Hawaii for the summer. [137]
The Honorary Consulate of Portugal in Palm Coast was an ad honorem diplomatic mission of Portugal in Florida, United States. [1] Based in Palm Coast, the honorary consulate had jurisdiction over the State of Florida. [2] The first and only honorary consul was Caesar DePaço, from 2014 to 2020. [3]