A flight originating in Florida picked up guests on the East Coast and Midwest and a plane left from Seattle taking on passengers at West Coast points.

* Conch Republic Independence Celebration ( Key West, Florida ) – April 23

Most recently the OSCE sponsored a round of negotiations between the Presidents in Key West, Florida.

* Independence Day ( Conch Republic, Key West, Florida )

For the next ten years, the team would winter at NAS Key West, Florida.

Chic's was formed by Nile Rodgers a self described " street hippie " from late 1960s New York and Martin Dow DJ at from Key West, Florida who pioneered the NYC sound across that state.

The base was also an important intermediate distribution point for World War II merchant shipping convoys from New York City and Key West, Florida, to the Panama Canal and the islands of Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and Trinidad & Tobago.

Not to be forgotten are the 56 % of the people who claim Irish ancestry who are Protestant and populate large areas of the southeastern United States especially in Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, West Virginia Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Arkansas and Virginia

The group initially included future Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Jacksonville developer Tom Petway, and came to be led by shoe magnate Wayne Weaver, founder of Nine West.

The United States claimed Louisiana included the entire western portion of the Mississippi River drainage basin to the crest of the Rocky Mountains and land extending southeast to the Rio Grande and West Florida.

In early 1804, Congress passed the Mobile Act which recognized West Florida as being part of the United States.

* There is a painting depicting Christ and the Virgin by this painter in the Norton Art Museum in West Palm Beach, Florida.

* Norton Museum of Art West Palm Beach, Florida.

The West Indian manatee migrates into Florida rivers, such as the Crystal, the Homosassa, and the Chassahowitzka Rivers.

During November to March, approximately 400 West Indian manatees ( according to the National Wildlife Refuge ) congregate in the rivers in Citrus County, Florida.

* 1810 – United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.

About June 1984, the Key West Police Department located in the County of Monroe, Florida, was declared a criminal enterprise under the federal RICO statutes after a lengthy United States Department of Justice investigation.

Its borders currently encompass the entirety of Alabama ; almost all of Georgia ; all of Middle and East Tennessee, plus a substantial portion of West Tennessee ; a bit of the panhandle of Florida ; and small portion of Kentucky.

Sondheim had an additional " conversation with " Sean Patrick Flahaven ( associate editor of The Sondheim Review ) at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, on February 4, 2009, during which he spoke of many of his songs and shows.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers ( often shortened as the Bucs ) are a professional American football franchise based in Tampa, Florida, U. S. They are currently members of the Southern Division of the National Football Conference ( NFC ) in the National Football League ( NFL ) – they are the only team in the division not to come from the old NFC West.

** In the southeast of the state, South Florida, consisting of the anchor cities of Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach.

In hundreds of admiralty court cases heard in Key West, Florida, no captain of a wrecked ship ever charged that he had been led astray by a false light.

Those in the British West Indies, Newfoundland, the Province of Quebec, Nova Scotia and East Florida remained loyal to the crown throughout the war, although there was a degree of sympathy with the Patriot cause in several of them.

* April 23 – Dennis Wardlow, mayor of Key West, Florida, declares the independent " Conch Republic " for a day.

First, in 1810, the Republic of West Florida declared its independence from Spain, and was quickly annexed by the United States.

-- The flavor of Baltimore's Florida Grapefruit League news ripened considerably late today when the Orioles were advised that Ron Hansen has fulfilled his obligations under the Army's military training program and is ready for belated spring training.

Miss Eileen Grant is spending several weeks visiting in Florida.

Marinas are less plush than the Florida type but service is good and Creole cooking better.

It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west.

* 1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León first sights land in what is now Florida.

In early 1945, the U. S. army ran tests of various 2, 4-D and 2, 4, 5-T mixtures at the Bushnell Army Airfield in Florida, which is now listed as a Formerly Used Defense Site ( FUDS ).

This wardrobe is on display at the Costume World Broadway Collection in Pompano Beach, Florida.

Pop singer Pat Boone appeared on one episode as himself, with the premise that he hailed from the same area of the country as the Clampetts, though Boone is a native of Jacksonville, Florida.

It is also a heavily flown route for commercial and private aircraft heading towards Florida, the Caribbean, and South America from points north.

The Gulf Stream is a deep ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and then flows through the Straits of Florida into the North Atlantic.

Bacardi created Havana Club rum based on the original recipe from the Arechebala ’ s, and the product is crafted in Puerto Rico and currently sold in Florida.

He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its " People in America " radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how " his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.

In Florida, the toad is a regarded as a threat to both native species and to pets, so much so, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission recommends residents euthanize them.

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.

AmeriCheer InterNational Championship competition is held every March at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida.

He is currently a coach for a soccer academy in Clearwater, Florida.

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 ".

An important element of the relationship between the two countries is the fact that more than 1 million individuals of Dominican origin reside in the United States, most of them in the metropolitan Northeast and some in Florida.

The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Montreal ’ s La Presse, The Gazette, the Florida Times Union, the Indianapolis Star, the Providence Journal, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Brisbane Courier-Mail, the Windsor Star, The Economic Times and San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications, run the comic in their business section rather than in the regular comics section, similar to the way in which Doonesbury is often carried in the editorial section due to its pointed commentary.

* 1965 – Gemini program: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida.

* 1947 – The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.

The argument that school vouchers increases quality and efficiencies in schools forced to compete is supported by studies such as " When Schools Compete: The Effects of Vouchers on Florida Public School Achievement " ( Manhattan Institute for Policy Research's, 2003 ), which concluded that public schools located near private schools that were eligible to accept voucher students made significantly more improvements than did similar schools not located near eligible private schools.

Designed by the Indigenous People ’ s Technology and Education Center ( I-TEC ) of Florida, a Christian ministry, the 1100-pound ' Maverick ' vehicle is powered by a engine that can also drive a five-bladed pusher propeller.

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.