The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Florida International University primarily at University Park, Miami; coeducational; chartered 1965, opened 1972. A research university, it has 18 colleges and schools and many specialized centers and institutes, including those in biomedical engineering, database research, environmental technology, tropical biology, and hurricane research; the National Hurricane Center is at University Park. The university also has North Miami and Pembroke Pines campuses, and operates the Wolfsonian museum in Miami Beach. Author not available, FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY. , The Columbia...
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American Eras
International Affairs Security and ... collided over the illegal international slave trade. Both had ... Pacific Ocean. Spain and Florida. The United States had a questionable claim to Florida as part of the Louisiana ... further problems, even as Florida become a refuge for ... Gen. Andrew Jackson to ...
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