Dr. Wilson C. Grant, of the Veterans' Administration Hospital, Coral Gables, Florida, and the University of Miami School of Medicine, set out to discover if avocados, because of their high content of unsaturated fatty acids, would reduce the cholesterol of the blood in selected patients.

* 2000 – In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives ' home in Miami, Florida.

The AFL instead granted a franchise to Miami, Florida ( the Miami Dolphins ).

On June 8 he arrived in Miami, Florida with fellow hijacker Wail al-Shehri.

The more familiar triangular boundary in most written works has as its points somewhere on the Atlantic coast of Miami ; San Juan, Puerto Rico ; and the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda, with most of the accidents concentrated along the southern boundary around the Bahamas and the Florida Straits.

Category: Geography of Miami, Florida

On 19 December 2005 Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101 from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Bimini, Bahamas, with an unscheduled stop at Watson Island, Miami, Florida, crashed off Miami Beach, Florida.

In 1964 the Company opened its new U. S. headquarters in Miami, Florida.

Canal Estates ( commonly known as bayous ) are a form of subdivision popular in cities like Miami, Florida, Texas City, Texas and the Gold Coast, Queensland ; the Gold Coast has over 700 km of residential canals.

The 1913 Handbook of Indians of Canada ( reprinting 1907 material from the Bureau of American Ethnology ), claims that North American natives practicing cannibalism included "... the Montagnais, and some of the tribes of Maine ; the Algonkin, Armouchiquois, Iroquois, and Micmac ; farther west the Assiniboine, Cree, Foxes, Chippewa, Miami, Ottawa, Kickapoo, Illinois, Sioux, and Winnebago ; in the South the people who built the mounds in Florida, and the Tonkawa, Attacapa, Karankawa, Caddo, and Comanche (?

However, the toad gained a foothold in the state after an accidental release by an importer at Miami International Airport in 1957, and deliberate releases by animal dealers in 1963 and 1964 established the toad in other parts of Florida.

However, in 1991, as part of Major League Baseball's two-team expansion ( they also added the former Florida ( now Miami ) Marlins ), an ownership group representing Denver led by John Antonucci and Michael I. Monus were granted a franchise ; they took the name “ Rockies ” due to Denver's proximity to the Rocky Mountains, which is reflected in their logo.

On July 5, 1991, the National League approved Denver and Miami, Florida, as the sites for two expansion teams to begin play in 1993.

In 1933, Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak was fatally wounded in Miami, Florida during a failed assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Another example is " Meeya Meefla ", the only city to have preserved its name from the pre-atomic era: evidently Miami, Florida, from its abbreviated form ( as on road signs ) " MIAMI FLA ".

* 1948 – The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida.

The family then fled to Miami, Florida, where Desi attended St. Patrick Catholic High School.

* 1972 – An Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 ( a Lockheed Tristar ) crashes on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101.

There are also many smaller film festivals in the United States, such as the Stony Brook Film Festival in Long Island, New York, the Northwest Filmmakers ' Festival, or the Sicilian Film Festival in Miami, Florida, which do not charge entry fees ; however, acceptance of films is usually more limited, and such film festivals do not necessarily attract big names in their audiences like Sundance and Telluride do.

Brickell Avenue is the name given to the stretch of U. S. Route 1 in Miami, Florida just south of the Miami River.

In Miami, " Downtown Miami " refers to the neighborhoods ( such as Brickell and Omni ) within the city center, not just the central business district.

* Brickell, Miami, Florida

Its southern terminus is in the Brickell neighborhood of Downtown Miami at an intersection with Brickell Avenue ( US 1 ).

South Beach, along with a handful of other neighborhoods in Miami ( such as Downtown and Brickell ), is one of the areas where a car-free lifestyle is commonplace.

The service is expected to add more stations in South Beach, as well as expand into Downtown Miami, Omni and Brickell by 2012.

* 1221 Brickell Building in Miami, Florida, is completed.

* 701 Brickell Avenue in Miami, Florida, is completed.

The mouth of the Miami River at Brickell Point ( August 1935 ).

The fable that Julia Tuttle, one of two main landowners in the Miami area along with the Brickell family, sent orange blossoms to Flagler to prove to him that Miami, unlike the rest of the state, was unaffected by the frost is untrue.

" To convince Flagler to continue the railroad to Miami, both Julia Tuttle and William Brickell offered half of their holdings north and south of the Miami River to Mr. Flagler.

Interstate 395 formerly ended at A1A and US 41 when they merged on to the MacArthur Causeway but the eastern terminus of US 41 was moved from Miami Beach to the Brickell section of Miami at Southwest 8th Street ( eastbound ), Southwest 7th Street ( westbound ) and Brickell Avenue ( US 1 ).

Brickell is a Metrorail and Metromover transfer station on the western end of the Brickell neighborhood of Downtown, Miami, Florida.

Financial District is a Metromover station in the Brickell neighborhood of Downtown, Miami, Florida.

The station is located near the intersection of Southeast 14th Street and Brickell Place, just one block east of South Miami Avenue and south of Coral Way.

After a train reaches this final station, the train will return to complete another full loop around the neighborhoods of Brickell and Downtown Miami.

Along the NW 27th Avenue Metro rail corridor, new buildings are being added such as the Jessie Trice Corporate & Community Health Complex and longtime businesses such as the Miami Jewish Health Systems ( Douglas Gardens ) Thrift Store next door and the KFC at 62nd Street have completed major property renovations / remodeling projects to improve and contribute to the revitalization efforts.

The main road through Golden Beach is Collins Avenue, also known as State Road A1A and Beachfront Avenue ; Golden Beach is one of the most notorious speed traps in the Miami area-motorists have been pulled over not only for speeding, but for minor equipment issues at night, which may become fishing expeditions ( seat belts, etc .).

* Miami Lakes Educational Center, located on 57th Avenue ( Red Road ).

The year 1926 also saw the first incoming class of freshmen at the newly chartered University of Miami campus, which abuts the city of South Miami eastern boundary along Red Road ( SW 57th Avenue ).

After a career in retail interior design, his first large commission was the Miami Beach Sans Souci Hotel ( opened 1949, after 1996 called the RIU Florida Beach Hotel ), followed closely by the Nautilus, the Di Lido, the Biltmore Terrace, and the Algiers, all along Collins Avenue, and amounting to the single-handed redesign of an entire district.

His many smaller projects give Miami Beach's Collins Avenue its style, anticipating post-modernism.

Washington Avenue is also home to countless shops, hotels, and such noted architectural features as Temple Emanu-El ( Miami Beach, Florida ).

Madison Avenue won the Best Dance Artist at the International Dance Awards in 2001 in Miami.

Madison Avenue won the Best Dance Artist award at the International Dance Awards in 2001 in Miami.

In 1955, Ben Jaffe, an executive of the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, came to Las Vegas and bought a 40-acre parcel at the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Bond Road ( now Tropicana Avenue ).

* < u > Miami </ u > was " Smelter Avenue "

In the fall of 1956, it moved to 330 South Campus Avenue in Oxford, Ohio ( near Cincinnati and adjacent to the Miami University campus ).

I-195 begins at the eastern end of the I-95 and SR 112 interchange, heading east with interchanges with Miami Avenue and US Highway 1 ( US 1 ) before heading to the Julia Tuttle Causeway, where the interstate crosses Biscayne Bay.

Although the southern terminus of US 441 is US 41 in Miami, the current, temporary terminus has been the Miami River since early 2007, when the Florida Department of Transportation demolished the NW 7th Avenue Bridge over which the highway passed.

* Miami Avenue

This station is located near the intersection of Northeast 15th Avenue and Miami Place, about one block north of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools Administration Building.