5.1 Top destinations Student Clubs and Organizations (14.6) 60.5 Climate data for Miami (MIA) 1981-2010 normals,[a] extremes 1895-present[b]. Class of 1991 City Commission (24.8) 78.9 1880 269,493 43.5% In 1964 Senate Bill 711 was introduced by Florida Senator Robert M Haverfield it instructed the state Board of Education and the Board of Regents (BOR) to begin planning for the development of a state university in Miami the bill was signed into law by then-governor W Haydon Burns in June 1965 marking FIU's official founding. Presidents SR A1A Area codes Future of the Everglades, Humans arrived in the Florida peninsula approximately 15,000 years ago Paleo-Indians came to Florida probably following large game that included giant sloths saber-toothed cats and spectacled bears They found an arid landscape that supported plants and animals adapted for desert conditions However 6,500 years ago climate changes brought a wetter landscape; large animals became extinct in Florida and the Paleo-Indians slowly adapted and became the Archaic peoples They conformed to the environmental changes and created many tools with the various resources available During the Late Archaic period the climate became wetter again and approximately 3000 BCE the rise of water tables allowed an increase in population and cultural activity Florida Indians developed into three distinct but similar cultures that were named for the bodies of water near where they were located: Okeechobee Caloosahatchee and Glades! . With the construction of canals newly reclaimed Everglades land was promoted throughout the United States Land developers sold 20,000 lots in a few months in 1912 Advertisements promised within eight weeks of arrival a farmer could be making a living although for many it took at least two months to clear the land Some tried burning off the sawgrass or other vegetation only to learn that the peat continued to burn Animals and tractors used for plowing got mired in the muck and were useless When the muck dried it turned to a fine black powder and created dust storms Although initially crops sprouted quickly and lushly they just as quickly wilted and died seemingly without reason.
. . . . 3.2 Education households income and poverty 3.7.1 Green Library As of 2010 80% of people over age 25 were a High School graduate or higher 27.3% of people in Miami had a bachelor's degree or higher. 1 Major league teams, Wet prairies are slightly elevated like sawgrass marshes but with greater plant diversity the surface is covered in water only three to seven months of the year and the water is on average shallow at only 4 inches (10 cm) deep When flooded the marl can support a variety of water plants Solution holes or deep pits where the limestone has worn away may remain flooded even when the prairies are dry and they support aquatic invertebrates such as crayfish and snails and larval amphibians which feed young wading birds These regions tend to border between sloughs and sawgrass marshes, Traditional rivals of the FIU Panthers include Florida Atlantic University and the University of Miami the Panthers football team competes in the annual Shula Bowl a yearly football game played for the Don Shula Award against in-state rival Florida Atlantic University Due to this competition in the Shula Bowl the rivalry between the two schools has grown with the rivalry extending into the men's baseball and basketball teams as well. .
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