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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]
First/given/forename, middle, and last/family/surname with John Fitzgerald Kennedy as example. This shows a structure typical for Anglophonic cultures (and some others). Other cultures use other structures for full names. A surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family.
By the 1970s and 1980s, it had become common within the culture to invent new names, although many of the invented names took elements from popular existing names. Prefixes such as La/Le, Da/De, Ra/Re, or Ja/Je and suffixes such as -ique/iqua, -isha, and -aun/-awn are common, as well as inventive spellings for common names.
Le Roy (named after Le Roy, New York) [176] Le Sueur (named after Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer) [177] Leech Lake (originally lac sangsue, "leech lake", a translation from the Ojibwe Ozagaskwaajimekaag-zaaga'igan "Lake abundant with leeches") Little Fork River (originally Rivière Petite Fourche)
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 oldest state fair is that of The Fredericksburg Agricultural Fair, established in 1738, and is the oldest fair in Virginia and the United States. [1] The first U.S. state fair was the New York, held in 1841 in Syracuse, and has been held annually since. [2] The second state fair was in Detroit, Michigan, which ran from 1849 [3] to 2009. [4] [5]
A History of New York State. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801401183. LCCN 67020587.. Fox, Dixon Ryan. The decline of aristocracy in the politics of New York (1918) online. Ingalls, Robert P. Herbert H. Lehman and New York's Little New Deal (1975) on 1930s online; Kammen, Michael (1996) [1975]. Colonial New York: a ...
The Whitney family is a prominent American family descended from non-Norman English immigrant John Whitney (1592–1673), who left London in 1635 and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts.