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Parent topics
- United States of America [r]: A country of North America, north of Mexico, south of Canada. [e]
- Confederate States of America [r]: Government formed by eleven southern states of the United States between 1861 and 1865, during the American Civil War. [e]
Subtopics
Principal cities
- Cape Coral [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Clearwater [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Coral Springs [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Daytona Beach [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fort Lauderdale [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fort Myers [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gainesville [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hialeah [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hollywood [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jacksonville [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Key West [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lakeland [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Melbourne [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Miami [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Miami Gardens [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Miramar [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Orlando [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Palm Bay [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pembroke Pines [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pensacola [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pompano Beach [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Port St. Lucie [r]: Add brief definition or description
- St. Augustine [r]: Capital of Spanish Florida, oldest continuously occupied, European founded city in the United States (outside of Puerto Rico). [e]
- St. Petersburg [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tallahassee [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tampa [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Titusville [r]: Add brief definition or description
Politics and government
State government
U.S. Senate
- George LeMieux [r]: U.S. Senator (R-Florida); Senate Armed Services Committee [e]
- Bill Nelson [r]: Senator, D-Florida, Senate Committee on Finance; Senate Select Committee on Intelligence;Moderate Dems Working Group [e]
U.S. House of Representatives
- Gus M. Bilirakis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Allen Boyd [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Corrine Brown [r]: U.S. Representative (D-Florida); House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee; House Veterans Affairs Committee; 0% "true liberal" 2008 rating from American Conservative Union; Congressional Progressive Caucus; Out of Iraq Caucus; Congressional Black Caucus [e]
- Virginia Brown-Waite [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vern Buchanan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ander Crenshaw [r]: U.S. Representative (R-Florida); Congressional Caucus on Bosnia [e]
- Kathy Castor [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lincoln Diaz-Balart [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mario Diaz-Balart [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alcee L. Hastings [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alan Grayson [r]: Vice Chair, Congressional Progressive Caucus; U.S House of Representatives (D-FL-08) [e]
- Ron Klein [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Suzanne M. Kosmas [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Connie Mack [r]: Retired Republican Senator from Florida; Senate Republican Conference chairman; advisory board, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs; banker before Senate terms, Republican Study Committee [e]
- Kendrick Meek [r]: Member, New Democrat Coalition; Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, (D-Florida) [e]
- John Mica [r]: U.S. Representative (R-Florida); U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform; 100% American Conservative Union rating, 2008 [e]
- Jeff Miller [r]: U.S. House of Representatives (R-Florida), member, U.S. House Armed Services Committee, Tactical and Technical Intelligence Subcommittee, ranking minority member of the Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee; Republican Study Committee; 100% rating from American Conservative Union, 2008 [e]
- Bill Posey [r]: U.S. Representative, (R-Florida) House Financial Services Committee; Republican Study Committee [e]
- Adam Putnam [r]: U.S. Representative, (R-Florida) House Financial Services Committee [e]
- Tom Rooney [r]: First-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Florida); member of the House Armed Services Committee and its Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee, Military Personnel Subcommittee, Seapower and Expeditionary Forces Subcommittee; House Committee on the Judiciary; former Army Judge Advocate General Corps legal officer who taught law at the United States Military Academy as well as being a military and civilian prosecutor before returing to private practice [e]
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen [r]: U.S. Representative (R-Florida); Ranking minority member, House Foreign Affairs Committee [e]
- Cliff Stearns [r]: U.S. Representative (R-Florida); Republican Study Committee; Congressional Singapore Caucus; 100% American Conservative Union rating, 2008 [e]
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz [r]: U.S. Representative (D-Florida), Chief Deputy Majority Whip, Appropriations and Judiciary Committees; vice chair, Democratic National Committee; member, New Democrat Coalition [e]
- Robert Wexler [r]: U.S. Representative (D-Florida); Congressional Caucus on Bosnia [e]
- C.W. Bill Young [r]: Add brief definition or description
Social, cultural, and educational
State University System
- Florida A&M University [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Florida Atlantic University [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Florida Gulf Coast University [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Florida International University [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Florida State University [r]: Add brief definition or description
- New College of Florida [r]: Add brief definition or description
- University of Central Florida [r]: Add brief definition or description
- University of Florida [r]: Add brief definition or description
- University of North Florida [r]: Add brief definition or description
- University of South Florida [r]: Add brief definition or description
- University of West Florida [r]: Add brief definition or description
Private universities and colleges
- Barry University [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bethune-Cookman University [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Eckerd College [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Edward Waters College [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Flagler College [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Florida College [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Florida Institute of Technology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Florida Memorial University [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Florida Southern College [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jacksonville University [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lynn University [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nova Southeastern University [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Palm Beach Atlantic University [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rollins College [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Saint Leo University [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Saint Thomas University [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Southeastern University [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Stetson University [r]: Add brief definition or description
- University of Miami [r]: Add brief definition or description
- University of Tampa [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Warner University [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Webber International University [r]: Add brief definition or description
Cuisine
- Caribbean cuisine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cuisine of the Southern United States [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Latin American cuisine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Stone crab [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Is there a name for coconut patties with chocolate on one side?
- Cuban sandwich [r]: A distinctive sandwich, properly made only with lard-containing Cuban bread although French or Italian is a poor substitute, containing layers of roast pork, pickle, ham and cheesed, and then hot-pressed; served hot or cold [e]
Industry and agriculture
- Avocado [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Orange [r]: Citrus fruit, from the subtropical tree Citrus sinensis, cultivated for commercial production, and a source of vitamin C and dietary fibre. [e]
Geographical and geological features
- Atlantic Ocean [r]: Second largest ocean in the world; separates the Americas from Europe and Africa. [e]
- Gulf of Mexico [r]: Add brief definition or description
Noteworthy places
- Examples: Hoover Dam
People
- Jeb Bush [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bob Graham [r]: Chairman, Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism; Graham Center for Public Service, University of Florida and University of Miami; former Senator and Governor, (D-Florida) [e]
Federal
U.S. Military
- Eglin Air Force Base [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Naval Air Station Jacksonville [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Naval Station Mayport [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Patrick Air Force Base [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tyndall Air Force Base [r]: Add brief definition or description
Federal facilities
- John F. Kennedy Space Center [r]: On the Florida coast at Cape Canaveral, the primary launch site for U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and military satellites whose orbits benefit from an eastern starting point (i.e., principally those not in polar or Moliyna orbit; supported by Patrick Air Force Base [e]
Federal lands
- Biscayne National Park [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dry Tortugas National Park [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Everglades National Park [r]: A national park located in the U.S. state of Florida, preserving the southern portion of the Everglades. [e]
- Apalachicola National Forest [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ocala National Forest [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Osceola National Forest [r]: Add brief definition or description
Florida state history
- Adams-Onís Treaty [r]: A 1819 treaty between Spain and the United States which ceded the Spanish territory of Florida to the US and settled the boundary between the United States and the Spanish territory of Mexico. [e]
- Spanish Florida [r]: Spanish colony, originally a large, unbounded area in what is now the United States, much reduced in size by time the United States acquired it. [e]
- Second Seminole War [r]: A conflict from 1835 to 1842 in Florida between the United States and various groups of Native Americans collectively known as Seminoles. [e]
- Seminole Wars [r]: conflicts between British colonies and then later the United States and Indians in Florida known as Seminoles, and in particular the First, Second and Third Seminole Wars [e]
Other related topics
Associated U.S. states
- E.g., in the same region (New England) or contiguous, or CSA states, etc
Native American
- Tribes, reservations, etc

