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The Key West Literary Seminar began in 1983, and the Miami Book Fair in 1984. The Florida Book Awards for "best Florida literature" began in 2006, administered by Florida State University Libraries; recent nonfiction awardees include Susan Cerulean, Jack E. Davis, Gilbert King, Henry Knight, William McKeen, and Margaret Ross Tolbert. [8]
Ornamental surnames (also known as artificial surnames [37] [38]) are not specific to any attribute (place, parentage, occupation, caste) of the first person to acquire the name, and stem from the middle class's desire for their own hereditary names like the nobles. They were generally acquired later in history and generally when those without ...
Cracker Country – a living-history village at the Florida State Fair; Florida cracker (disambiguation) – lists things named after the Florida crackers (architecture, trail, cattle and horse breeds, etc.) Florida Western – a film and novel genre set in 19th-century Florida; Georgia cracker – the related subculture of the U.S. state of ...
This year’s 40th Miami Book Fair takes on more relevance under the censorious book politics of Gov. Ron DeSantis, says columnist Fabiola Santiago.
While they both were more likely to choose unusual names, high SES college-educated liberals had different naming strategies than low SES families. Low SES families tended to choose invented names or invented spellings, while high SES liberals chose established names that are simply culturally obscure like "Finnegan" or "Archimedes."
On March 3, 1845, Florida became the 27th state of the United States of America. Its first governor was William Dunn Moseley. [60] Almost half the state's population were enslaved African Americans working on large cotton and sugar plantations, between the Apalachicola and Suwannee rivers in the north central part of the state.
Washington state's World's fairs were the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) and the 1962 Century 21 Exposition in Seattle, and Expo '74 in Spokane. Dodds, Gordon B. (1986). The American Northwest : a history of Oregon and Washington. Arlington Heights, Ill.: Forum Press. ISBN 978-0-88273-238-1. OCLC 12669464 – via Internet Archive.
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