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Florida University System Chancellor & IFAS Founder 1997 Cecil Farris Bryant: Florida's 34th Governor 1961-1965 1994 George A. Smathers: US Senator 1951-1969 1994 Stephen C. O'Connell: Florida Supreme Court Justice 1966-1967 & UF President 1967-1973 1993 B. K. Roberts: Three-Time Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court 1990 Chester Howell ...
Florida State Representative (1999–2007) Lived in Naples Abraham Katz (1926–2013) Diplomat, United States Ambassador to the OECD: Bill Nelson (1942–) Former U.S. senator from Florida (2001–2019), former U.S. congressman from Florida (1979–1991), NASA administrator (2021–) Born in Miami Janet Reno (1938–2016)
Tebeau wrote many books on the history of Florida. Best known is A History of Florida, which was published in 1971 by University of Miami Press. This was the most comprehensive history of Florida published to that time, and became a standard textbook. Described as "among the greatest achievements in the field of Florida historiography", [4] it ...
In 2007, the legislature resurrected, revised, and formalized the program. It has been codified in the Florida Statutes: [3]. 267.0731 Great Floridians Program.--The division (Florida Department of State) shall establish and administer a program, to be entitled the Great Floridians Program, which shall be designed to recognize and record the achievements of Floridians, living and deceased, who ...
The Historic Centre of Macao (Portuguese: Centro Histórico de Macau, Chinese: 澳門歷史城區) is a collection of over twenty locations that witness the unique assimilation and co-existence of Chinese and Portuguese cultures in Macau, a former Portuguese colony. It represents the architectural legacies of the city's cultural heritage ...
The Macanese people (Portuguese: Macaense, Maquista) are a multiracial East Asian ethnic group that originated in Macau in the 16th century, consisting of people of predominantly mixed Cantonese and Portuguese as well as Malay, [7] Japanese, [7] English, [7] Dutch, [8] Sinhalese, [7] and Indian [8] ancestry.
Macau people (Chinese: 澳門人) are people who originate from or live in Macau. Besides their use to refer to Macau residents, these terms may also be used more loosely to refer to those who may not be residents, but have lived in the city for an extensive period of time or have a strong cultural connection with Macau.
The National Historic Landmarks in Florida are representations of a broad sweep of history from Pre-Columbian times, through the Second Seminole War and Civil War, and the Space Age. There are 47 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in Florida , [ 1 ] which are located in twenty-two of the state's sixty-seven counties .