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Will it happen for a second time?

Will a hurricane impact Florida next week? The latest on Invest-98L, Hurricane Fiona FOX 35 Storm Team Chief Meteorologist Jayme King has the forecast. ORLANDO, Fla. – Six years ago, Hurricane Hermine struck Florida as the first hurricane to hit the state in eleven years. On Sept. 2, 2016, Hermine made landfall just east of […]

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1921

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In an effort to pay honor where it is due, West Palm Beach, Florida, City Manager A.E. Parker yesterday paid tribute to two laborers who served throughout the trying period of intern here as volunteer workers. W.A. Watts, he said, worked 18 hours a day making coffins, and M.W. Stark supervised the

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Trinidad and Tobago lie in the Caribbean Sea off the northeast coast of Venezuela. Trinidad, the larger at 1,864 sq mi (4,828 sq km), is mainly flat and rolling, with mountains in the north that reach a height of 3,085 ft (940 m) at Mount Aripo. Tobago, at just 116 sq mi (300 sq km), is heavily

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16

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Demerara Rebellion of 1823

The Demerara Rebellion of 1823 was an uprising involving more than ten thousand enslaved people in the Crown colony of Demerara-Essequibo (now part of Guyana) on the coast of South America. The rebellion took place on August 18, 1823, and lasted two days. No particular incident sparked the

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Aretha Franklin

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Buddy Guy is born.

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Freeing of Slaves

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1862

Florida Freedom Fighters

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25

1951

After the Underground Railroad: Finding the African North Americans who Returned from Canada

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6

1875

(2004) Bill Cosby, “The Pound Cake Speech”

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