-- 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.

The Florida scene was the most well-known, featuring bands like Death, Morbid Angel, Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, Malevolent Creation, Obituary and many others.

Raising a flag, the slaves proceeded south toward Spanish Florida, a well-known refuge for escapees.

Juliana Catlin is a well-known interior designer based in Jacksonville, Florida.

One typical and well-known area of extensive saw-grass growth is the Florida Everglades ; sawgrass is the plant referred to by the descriptor, " River of Grass ".

His maternal grandfather was William Cotter " Billy " Gaither, Jr., a well-known Florida trial lawyer, and his maternal grandmother later remarried to Episcopal bishop James Duncan.

The game ships with a single " world " closely modeled on the real one, including details as small as the Florida Keys and most well-known rivers.

He beat the well-known former governor Richard Keith Call, becoming the first governor of the state of Florida.

They soon relocated to Gainesville, Florida to be the house band of Dub's, a well-known topless bar on the outskirts of town.

Based in Jacksonville, Florida, Molly Hatchet shared influences and inspiration with the most well-known act in the Southern rock genre, Lynyrd Skynyrd as well as another up-and-coming Southern rock act,. 38 Special, who referred them to manager Pat Armstrong.

Small was an early botanist explorer of Florida, documenting many things for the first time, although the flora and fauna were well-known to the local Seminole Indians.

He was involved in two well-known angles, both in Florida, during this era.

The expressway is named for James Turner Butler, a well-known Jacksonville attorney and Florida legislator who was instrumental in advancing various transportation projects in the region and the establishment of the Jacksonville Expressway Authority.

It began when four well-known Charismatic teachers, Bob Mumford, Derek Prince, Charles Simpson, and Don Basham, responded to a moral failure in a charismatic ministry in South Florida.

The chief was a well-known figure in the Florida Panhandle and was highly respected by whites, who migrated to the area in ever-increasing numbers following the acquisition of Florida by the United States from Spain in 1821.

For example, effective mine barriers from Florida to Cuba and across the Yucatan Channel from Cuba to Mexico would remove all requirements for harbor defense, inshore patrol, convoy escort, shipping control, and mine defense for the entire Gulf of Mexico.

In the Major Leagues, the most recent example of a swing at an intentional ball resulting in a hit occurred during a June 22, 2006 game between the Florida Marlins and the Baltimore Orioles.

For example a group at MIT concluded that the planet Mesklin in Hal Clement's 1953 novel Mission of Gravity would have had a sharp edge at the equator, and a Florida high-school class calculated that in Larry Niven's 1970 novel Ringworld the topsoil would have slid into the seas in a few thousand years.

An example of involuntary commitment procedures is the Baker Act used in Florida.

Another contemporary example involves the municipalities of Lake Buena Vista and Bay Lake, Florida.

For example, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission provides an up-to-date status report on the red tide in Florida.

Miami-Dade in south Florida is a unique example of the merger of some functionality resulting in a two tier arrangement of governmental authority and administrative responsibility.

In San Diego, for example, the number of divorce filings involving at least one self-representing litigant rose from 46 % in 1992 to 77 % in 2000, and in Florida from 66 % in 1999 to 73 % in 2001.

An example is the flatwoods citrus-growing region of 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.

The carambola tree flowers throughout the year, with main fruiting seasons from April to June and October to December in Malaysia, for example, but fruiting also occurs at other times in some other locales, such as South Florida.

The Red-whiskered Bulbuls and Red-vented Bulbuls have been captured for the pet trade in great numbers and, has been widely introduced to tropical and subtropical areas, for example southern Florida, Fiji, Australia and Hawaii.

An example of this is the Brevard and Florida Avenue's intersection in Rockledge, Florida, If a road has a curb that sticks out, it is not classified as a fork.

However, some could say that Disney's Celebration, Florida, as an example of a private company responding to the market for urban-oriented development.

By that time Creole was already an identifiable regional cuisine recognized outside Louisiana: for example, an 1882 Florida hotel menu now in the New York Public Library's collection offered " Chicken Saute, á la Creole.

Many of Xanth's other geographical features are puns on those of Florida ( for example, Lake Ogre-Chobee and the Kiss-Mee River ).

For example, the eastward boost provided by the Earth's rotation is about at the Guiana Space Centre versus about at the United States east coast Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center spaceports which are at 28 ° 27 ′ N latitude in Florida.

For example, the State of Florida uses the term full cost accounting for its solid waste management.

For example, in Payne v. Stalley, a lawyer relied on the official text of the Uniform Probate Code and failed to check the relevant Florida statute.