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El Portal is a village in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The name is derived from the Spanish term for "the gate", after two wooden gates that once stood as a gateway to the village. The name is derived from the Spanish term for "the gate", after two wooden gates that once stood as a gateway to the village.
Florida (/ ˈ f l ɒr ɪ d ə / ⓘ FLORR-ih-də; Spanish: [floˈɾiða]) is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.It borders the Gulf of Mexico to the west, Alabama to the northwest, Georgia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Straits of Florida and Cuba to the south.
Business and economics BMW announces the international recall of hundreds of thousands of luxury cars. (BBC) American Bob Dudley succeeds Tony Hayward as the new CEO of BP after the recent controversies over the Oil Spill crisis in the Deepwater Horizon. (AP via Google News) Disasters A massive rainstorm, formed from the combination of the remnants of Tropical Storm Nicole and a second ...
Canada also had the longest wait time for specialist appointments, with 56% of all Canadians waiting for more than four weeks. Canada ranked last in all other wait time categories, including same- or next-day appointments, same-day answers from doctors, and elective surgeries, except for access to after-hour care, where Sweden ranks lower.
Henry Clay Sr. (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.He was the seventh House speaker as well as the ninth secretary of state.
Brett Michael Kavanaugh (/ ˈ k æ v ə n ɔː /; born February 12, 1965) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Central Philippine University (also known as Central or CPU) is a private, Protestant, and research university located in Jaro, Iloilo City, Philippines.Established in 1905 through a grant from the American industrialist and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller as the Jaro Industrial School and Bible School under the supervision of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, [6] [7] it is "the ...
Neil Young [14] was born on November 12, 1945, in Toronto. [15] [16] His father, Scott Alexander Young (1918–2005), was a journalist and sportswriter who also wrote fiction. [17]