Nancy Anderson of the College of Education at the University of South Florida defines children's literature as all books written for children, " excluding works such as comic books, joke books, cartoon books, and nonfiction works that are not intended to be read from front to back, such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference material ".

Weldon resides in Indialantic, Florida, with his wife, Nancy, and their two children, Katie and David.

Mattingly ( foreground ) with Henry Hartsfield salutes President Ronald Reagan, next to First Lady Nancy Reagan, after the STS-4 landing on July 4, 1982. Mattingly was named to command STS-4, the fourth and final orbital test flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia, launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on June 27, 1982 with Henry W. Hartsfield, Jr., as the pilot.

She graduated from Winter Haven ( Florida ) High School in 1958 under her real name of Nancy Brooke.

* On October 12, 2002, 3-year-old Rosita Gonzalez of Hollywood, Florida died of water intoxication when her babysitter Nancy Gayoso punished her by forcing her to drink three quarts ( 2. 8 liters ) of water in a four-hour period.

They include: " In Florida ", about the 2000 election ; " Without DeLay ", a song about the former congressman ; " Bobbitt ", about John and Lorena Bobbitt ; " Little Bitty Gun ", which lampoons Nancy Reagan ; " I'm Changing My Name to Chrysler ", about the federal loan guarantee to Chrysler in 1979 ( which was rewritten in 2008 as " I Am Changing My Name to Fannie Mae " about the 700 billion dollar " bailout of the U. S. financial system "); " The Ballad of Spiro Agnew ", and " Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation " ( which became " George W. Told the Nation " in 2007 ).

Ironically, Hastings was later elected to the U. S. Congress from Florida, and was in line to chair the House Select Committee on Intelligence, but was passed over by Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Founded by Florida businessmen Mel Sembler and Joseph Zappala, the program was praised by prominent figures such as President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Nancy Reagan, but was also subject to multiple accusations of abusive practices.

First Lady Nancy Reagan visited a Straight facility in Florida in 1982.

Allen Lee Davis ( July 20, 1944 – July 8, 1999 ) was a murderer executed for the May 11, 1982 Jacksonville, Florida murder of Nancy Weiler, who was three months pregnant at the time.

The Act was designed to protect DOMA by prohibiting federal courts from hearing cases like that of Nancy Wilson, who sued to have her relationship with Paula Schoenwether treated as marriage in Florida because it had been treated as marriage in Massachusetts.

He was survived by his wife, Amelia Lyons de Alfaro ; three sons, Dr. Victor Ricardo of Washington, Ivan Jose of Lima, Peru, and Rogelio Edwin of Panama City ; two daughters, Mrs. Frank H. Weller ( née Amelia or Amelita Victoria ) of Potomac, Maryland, and Mrs. H. Cabell Maddux ( née Yolanda Maria ) of McLean, Virginia ; and many grandchildren and greatgrandchildren, among them the singer Nancy Ames, and attorney and TV personality Elbert Alfaro in Miami Lakes, Florida.

* Nancy Creek ( Florida )

* Nancy Dick, State of Florida, 1998

Assistant Principal Richard Allen was killed, Assistant Principal Nancy Blackwelder and Joseph Bloznalis, an assistant physical education teacher who was interning from the University of South Florida, were injured.

The Act creating the county of Marion of the Territory of Florida was signed on March 14, 1844, by the territorial governor, R. K. Call.

Their operation had the all-important landing rights for Havana, having acquired American International Airways, a small airline established in 1926 by John K. Montgomery and Richard B. Bevier as a seaplane service from Key West, Florida, to Havana.

T. K. Wetherell served for many years in the Florida Legislature and was Speaker of the House from 1990-1992.

Other aircraft assigned to Sawyer over the years included H-43B and HH-1H rescue helicopters of the 48th and 39th Air Rescue and Recovery Wings at Eglin AFB, Florida at the K. I. Sawyer Helicopter ( later re-designated Training ) Annex, 14 Mar 1975-1 Oct 1977.

Since the US Navy reserved " N " codes and the Federal Communications Commission has reserved rights for " W " and " K ", certain U. S. cities which begin with these letters had to adopt ' irregular ' airport codes: EWR for Newark, ORF for Norfolk, Virginia, EYW for Key West, Florida, and APC for Napa, California.

* Bullen, Adelaide K. ( 1965 ) " Florida Indians of Past and Present ", in Carson, Ruby Leach and Tebeau, Charlton, Eds.

He attended Marshall Academy, a K – 12 private school in Holly Springs, but completed his senior year of high school in Florida, where he, his mother, and brother moved after his parents separated.

In May 1890, four companies proceeded to new posts in the Department of the East: A and G Companies moved to Mount Vernon Barracks, Alabama ; D Company to Fort Barrancas, Florida ; and K Company to Jackson Barracks, Louisiana.

Since then, other stadiums including Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas, the current Yankee Stadium in The Bronx and a horse track in Tokyo have installed larger boards.

* John K. Mahon, The War of 1812, ( University of Florida Press 1972 ) ISBN 0-8130-0318-0

A jointly funded project announced March 19, 2010, BGI will collaborate with Sidney K. Pierce of University of South Florida and Charles Delwiche of the University of Maryland at College Park to sequence the genomes of the sea slug, Elysia chlorotica, and its algal food Vaucheria litorea.

* The firm was awarded the “ Michael K. Reese Quality of Life Award ” by The Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division in honor of the firm ’ s demonstrated commitment to supporting personal work-life choices, its pro bono activities, domestic partner benefits, career and professional development practices, favorable leave policies for both men and women, and community service.

The president of the Florida Senate, Abraham K. Allison, was sworn in as governor of Florida later that day.

A 2007 study of Florida's regions by Ary Lamme and Raymond K. Oldakowski found that Floridians surveyed identified " South Florida " as comprising the southernmost sections of peninsular Florida.

There are several streets in Florida named after Richard K. Call.

On March 2, 1847, President James K. Polk nominated him to the newly created United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, to the seat created by 9 Stat.

In 1932, he married Mary Call Darby, great-granddaughter of Richard K. Call, twice territorial governor of Florida.

* 1971 – Tillie K. Fowler, who later became U. S. Representative from Florida ( 1993 – 2001 )

These include " Lifelong Democrat Retired Palm Beach Jews for Buchanan " ( referencing the butterfly ballot fracas that brought about the 2000 recount in Florida ), " I cast my five slaves ' three votes for James K. Polk " and " Undecided Voters for Candidate ".

A 2007 study of Florida's regions by geographers Ary Lamme and Raymond K. Oldakowski found that Floridians surveyed identified Central Florida as comprising a large swath of peninsular Florida.

In 1904, Willie K Vanderbilt set a new Land Speed Record of in a Mercedes at the Daytona Beach Road Course at Ormond Beach, Florida.

Once he was in the U. S., he settled in Florida and helped plan out how the attacks would take place.

Orlando, Florida: Harcourt, Inc., 2004.

In late September 2006, a team of ornithologists from Auburn University and the University of Windsor published reports of their own sightings of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers along the Choctawhatchee River in northwest Florida, beginning in 2005 ( Hill et al., 2006 ).

Despite these high-profile reports from Arkansas and Florida and sporadic reports elsewhere in the historic range of the species since the 1940s, there is no conclusive evidence for the continued existence of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker ; i. e., there are no unambiguous photographs, videos, specimens or DNA samples from feathers or feces of the Ivory-billed.

In March 2008, the New York Times reported that in the past 12 months, the main supplier of munitions to Afghanistan's army and police forces was an AEY, Inc., a company headed by a 22-year old Efraim E. Diveroli, an Israeli-American from Florida whose vice president was a licensed masseur.

The first settlers to arrive to the islands, almost 3, 000 years B. C., were a pre-agricultural, pre-ceramic people, who migrated down the archipelago from Florida.

* 1935 – Arland D. Williams, Jr., American passenger on Air Florida Flight 90 ( d. 1982 )

* Smith, Joshua M., Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783 – 1820 ( Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 2006 ).

During his stay in the U. S., he quietly settled in Florida, planning out how the attacks would commence and training on flight simulators.

* The most prominent natural disasters of the decade include: Hurricane Andrew striking South Florida in August 1992, the crippling super storm of March 1993 along the Eastern Seaboard, the devastating 1994 Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles, the Great Hanshin earthquake in Kobe, Japan in January 1995, the Blizzard of 1996 in the eastern U. S., the US drought of 1999, the deadly Hurricane Mitch which struck Central America in October 1998, and the destructive Oklahoma tornado outbreak in May 1999, the August 1999 İzmit earthquake in Turkey, and the September 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake in Taiwan.

In April 1916, Wallis met Earl Winfield Spencer, Jr., a U. S. Navy aviator, at Pensacola, Florida, while visiting her cousin Corinne Mustin.

* Decatur Street, NW, Washington, D. C., a one-way street stretching eastward from Massachusetts Avenue, NW to Florida Avenue, NW

Chocolate World in Hershey Pa., Disneyland in California, and Disney World in Florida are among many other locations that have used variations of the Carveyor concept.

* A Cerberus-led group of investors, ( who included Kimco Realty Corporation, Schottenstein Stores Corp., Lubert-Adler Partners, and Klaff Realty ) purchased the Albertsons stores in northern California, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, Arizona, and New Mexico forming a new corporation called Albertsons LLC.

first of 1 million Cuban exiles go to U. S., concentrating in Miami, Florida

On June 8, 1939, contracts were let to the Fogal Boat Yard, Inc., later known as the Miami Shipbuilding Co., of Miami, Florida, for PT-1 and-2 " Crash Boats ", and to the Fisher Boat Works, Detroit, Michigan, for PT-3 and-4.

Stone ’ s eldest son, the late Edward Durell Stone, Jr., was the founder and chairman of EDSA, a planning, landscape architecture and urban design firm based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

* Neotermes spp., Florida dampwood termites

* Director, Secretary, Assistant Secretary: Richard L. Adams Jr., Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

For example, in Florida, a court will not grant a petition for a change of name if it finds that ( i ) the petitioner has ulterior or illegal motives in seeking the name change, ( ii ) the petitioner's civil rights are suspended, or ( iii ) granting the name change will invade the property rights ( e. g., intellectual property rights ) of others.

* University of Florida B. S., M. S., and Ph. D.

Note that the occurrence of brown recluses in a single building ( such as a warehouse ) outside of the native range is not considered a successful colonization ; such single-building populations can occur ( e. g., several such cases in Florida ), but do not spread, and can be easily eradicated.

On August 7, 1942, Allied forces, predominantly American, landed on the islands of Guadalcanal, Tulagi, and Florida in the southern Solomon Islands with the objective of denying their use by the Japanese to threaten the supply and communication routes between the U. S., Australia, and New Zealand.