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Plantation is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States.It is a part of the South Florida metropolitan area.The city's name comes from the previous part-owner of the land, the Everglades Plantation Company, and their unsuccessful attempts to establish a rice plantation in the area.
One year the plantation made $10,000 (equivalent to $224,976 in 2024), which was an extraordinary income at the time, particularly for sparsely-populated Florida. [8] In 1811, when she turned 18, Kingsley granted Anna legal manumission, which confirmed her high status at the plantation. Most visitors had assumed she was already a free woman.
The Amelia Island Championships was a women's tennis tournament held in Amelia Island Plantation and later Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, United States. The Women's Tennis Association event was an International series tournament played on outdoor green clay courts from 1980 to 2010.
He was born on Long Island, lived in Queens for 17 years, attended community college in Plantation, Florida, and since July 2019 has resided in Manhattan. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] On April 19, 2022, Rainbow published a memoir, Playing With Myself , which tells the story of his personal life and rise to internet fame.
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James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7, 1928 – October 20, 2020) was a Canadian-American stage magician, author, and scientific skeptic who extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. [1]
The Plantation Towne Mall was an enclosed shopping mall in Plantation, Florida, which was destroyed by a fire on September 6, 1996.The shopping mall originally opened in 1968 as an open-air shopping plaza with a Publix Supermarket on its west end, and a Rite Aid Drug Store (vacant space during the fire) and movie theater (called Towne Theatre, but later Art Towne Twin until closing) on its east.
Bass was born into slavery on January 5, 1859, on the Hayden plantation in Boone County, Missouri. [1] [2] His mother, Cornelia Gray, was a slave, [3] and his father, William Bass, was the son of the plantation owner, Eli Bass. [a] He was raised by his maternal grandparents, Presley and Eliza Grey. [1] Bass also had a brother, named Jesse. [3]