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. Contents Coconut Creek Greyhound Lines Greyhound Rafael Diaz-Balart Law Building 2006. Miami Herald's Silver Knight award winners Two catastrophic hurricanes in 1926 and 1928 caused Lake Okeechobee to breach its levees killing thousands of people the government began to focus on the control of floods rather than drainage the Okeechobee Flood Control District was created in 1929 financed by both state and federal funds President Herbert Hoover toured the towns affected by the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane and ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to assist the communities surrounding the lake Between 1930 and 1937 a dike 66 miles (106 km) long was built around the southern edge of the lake Control of the Hoover Dike and the waters of Lake Okeechobee were delegated to federal powers: the United States declared legal limits of the lake to between 14 and 17 feet (4.3 and 5.2 m) a massive canal was also constructed 80 feet (24 m) wide and 6 feet (1.8 m) deep through the Caloosahatchee River; whenever the lake rose too high the excess water left through the canal More than $20 million was spent on the entire project Sugarcane production soared after the dike and canal were built the populations of the small towns surrounding the lake jumped from 3,000 to 9,000 after World War II. Oleta River State Park, Francis X Suarez Mayor of the City of Miami, There is an increasing amount of demand for business people with an education in international business a survey conducted by Thomas Patrick from University of Notre Dame concluded that bachelor's degree and master's degree holders felt that the training received through education were very practical in the working environment Increasingly companies are sourcing their human resource requirement globally for example at Sony Corporation only fifty percent of its employees are Japanese Business people with an education in international business also had a significantly higher chance of being sent abroad to work under the international operations of a firm. The cost of restoring the rail link between the port and the Hialeah Railyard was estimated at $46.9 million $28 million of which was applied for through a federal grant in 2010 Later that year a grant of $22 million was awarded for this project as well as to build an on site intermodal rail yard at the port During the 2000s the percent of Florida East Coast Railway's business has increased from around 60% to around 80% intermodal freight However this was partially due to a decrease in other freight traffic caused by the 2008 recession which reduced the number of trains many carrying rock aggregate used in construction from about 20 to 14 per day; PortMiami boasts the title "cruise capital of the world" and is the busiest cruise/passenger port in the world it accommodates the operations of such major cruise lines as Carnival Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Line It is home to the Symphony of the Seas the largest cruise ship in the world Currently the following ships are based in Miami: Carnival Sensation Carnival Glory Carnival Victory Carnival Splendor Empress of the Seas Navigator of the Seas Norwegian Getaway Norwegian Sky Disney Magic, 1.2 European explorers and settlers, Main article: List of invasive species in the Everglades. Photograph of large group of people on the Virginia Key Beach 1945, 12.6 Festivals and events 6 References An alligator in the Florida Everglades The FIU College of Law was ranked 5th in 2014 in bar passing rates in the state of Florida and 1st in the MPRE.

. Brickell is the fastest-growing neighborhood in Miami and has one of the highest population densities outside of New York City. Student life After the Civil War a state agency called the Internal Improvement Fund (IIF) whose purpose was to improve Florida's roads canals and rail lines was discovered to be deeply in debt the IIF found a Pennsylvania real estate developer named Hamilton Disston interested in implementing plans to drain the land for agriculture Disston purchased 4,000,000 acres (16,000 km2) of land for $1 million in 1881 and he began constructing canals near St Cloud at first the canals seemed to work in lowering the water levels in the wetlands surrounding the rivers They were effective in lowering the groundwater but it became apparent that their capacity was insufficient for the wet season Although Disston's canals did not drain well his purchase primed the economy of Florida it made news and attracted tourists and land buyers Within four years property values doubled and the population increased significantly. . The Battle of Olustee during the American Civil War 1864 Donk (automobile) 1 7860 Carlos Arroyo. On September 8 2017 FIU faced up against willing opponent the Alcorn State Braves in Birmingham AL an event known globally as 'the most lunch pail carrying low pad level football guys guys tailgate of all time' in reference to the display of pregaming that happened prior to the game, The most common languages spoken in Florida as a first language in 2010 are:. .