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Gainesville is the county seat of Alachua County, Florida, United States, and the most populous city in North Central Florida, with a population of 145,212 in 2022. [7] It is the principal city of the Gainesville metropolitan area with a population of 350,903 in 2022.
In Hart's first professional Top Fuel race, he won the 2021 NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, Florida. [16] At the NHRA Carolina Nationals in September 2021, he captured his second win of the season. [17] He finished the 2021 season 11th in points. [18] After a successful rookie season, Hart made crew chief, Ron Douglas, a partner in the race ...
Danny Harold Rolling (May 26, 1954 – October 25, 2006), known as The Gainesville Ripper, was an American serial killer who murdered five college students in Gainesville, Florida over four days in August 1990.
Gainesville was a major shipping point for cotton until the industry was devastated by the boll weevil infestation in 1916–18, after which cotton was abandoned as a crop in the area. Truck farming had become important in north central Florida, with large shipments of vegetables and melons from Gainesville to markets in the northern US.
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Maxwell held the NBA's record for most 3-pointers made in a season from 1991 to 1993. [5] In January 1991, he became the fourth player to score 30 points in a quarter when he scored 30 of his career high 51 points in the fourth quarter of the Rockets 103–97 win against the Cleveland Cavaliers. [6]
The Kanapaha Botanical Gardens (62 acres, 25 hectares) is a botanical garden in Gainesville, Florida, operated by the North Florida Botanical Society. The name for the garden comes from the nearby 250-acre Lake Kanapaha. "Kanapaha" originating from two Timucua words for "palmetto leaves" and "house". [1]
Five Point Someone: What not to do at IIT is a 2004 novel written by Indian author Chetan Bhagat. The book has sold over a million copies worldwide. [ 1 ] It was adapted into a play by the theatre company Evam.