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Resort
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A resort is a self-contained commercial establishment that endeavors to provide most of a vacationers wants, such as food, drink, lodging, sports, entertainment, and shopping, on the premises. The term resort may be used for a property that provides an array of amenities, typically including entertainment. A hotel is frequently a central feature of a resort, such as the Grand Hotel at Mackinac Island, some resorts are also timeshare or fractionally owned, or wholly owned condominium complexes. A resort is not always a commercial establishment operated by a single company, commonly these facilities are of higher quality than would be expected if one were to stay at a hotel or eat in a towns restaurants. Closely related to these resorts are convention and large meeting sites, generally these occur in cities where special meeting halls, together with ample accommodations as well as varied dining and entertainment, are provided. An all-inclusive resort charges a price that includes most or all items. At a minimum, most inclusive resorts include lodging, unlimited food, drink, sports activities, all-inclusive resorts are found in the Caribbean, particularly in Dominican Republic, Egypt, and elsewhere. Many also offer sports and other included in the price as well. They are often located in warmer regions, the all-inclusive model originated in the Club Med resorts, which were founded by the Belgian Gérard Blitz. Some all-inclusive resorts are designed for specific vacation interests, for example, certain resorts cater to adults, while even more specialized properties accept couples only. Other all-inclusive resorts are geared toward families, with facilities like craft centers, game rooms, all-inclusive resorts are also very popular locations for destination weddings. A spa resort is a short term residential/lodging facility with the purpose of providing individual services for spa-goers to develop healthy habits. Historically many such spas were developed at the location of natural hot springs or sources of mineral waters, golf resorts are resorts that cater specifically to the sport of golf, and include access to one or more golf course and or clubhouse. Golf resorts typically provide golf packages that provide visitors with all greens and cart fees, range balls, accommodations, in North America a ski resort is generally a destination resort in a ski area. Ski resort is less likely to refer to a town or village, a megaresort is a type of destination resort which is of an exceptionally large size, such as those along the Las Vegas Strip. In Singapore integrated resort is a euphemism for a destination resort. A holiday village is a type of self-contained resort in Europe, a holiday camp in the United Kingdom refers to a resort where the accommodation is in chalets. The term holiday park is used for a resort where the accommodation includes static caravans, there are 1500+ timeshare resorts in the U. S. that are operated by major hospitality, timeshare-specific, or independent companies
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Miami Beach, Florida
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Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. It was incorporated on March 26,1915, the municipality is located on natural and man-made barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter of which separates the Beach from Miami. The neighborhood of South Beach, comprising the southernmost 2.5 square miles of Miami Beach, along with downtown Miami, as of the 2010 census, Miami Beach had a total population of 87,779. It has been one of Americas pre-eminent beach resorts since the early 20th century, in 1979, Miami Beachs Art Deco Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Art Deco District is the largest collection of Art Deco architecture in the world and comprises hundreds of hotels, apartments, mediterranean, Streamline Moderne and Art Deco are all represented in the District. The Historic District is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the East, Lenox Court on the West, 6th Street on the South and Dade Boulevard along the Collins Canal to the North. The movement to preserve the Art Deco Districts architectural heritage was led by interior designer Barbara Capitman. Miami Beach is governed by a mayor and six commissioners. Although the mayor runs commission meetings, the mayor and all commissioners have equal voting power and are elected by popular election. The mayor serves for terms of two years with a limit of three terms and commissioners serve for terms of four years and are limited to two terms. Commissioners are voted for citywide and every two years three commission seats are voted upon, a city manager is responsible for administering governmental operations. An appointed city manager is responsible for administration of the city, the City Clerk and the City Attorney are also appointed officials. In 1870, a father and son, Henry and Charles Lum, the first structure to be built on this uninhabited oceanfront was the Biscayne House of Refuge, constructed in 1876 by the United States Life-Saving Service at approximately 72nd Street. Its purpose was to provide food, water, and a return to civilization for people who were shipwrecked, Collins family members saw the potential in developing the beach as a resort. This effort got underway in the years of the 20th century by the Collins/Pancoast family, the Lummus brothers. Until then, the beach here was only the destination for day-trips by ferry from Miami, there were bath houses and food stands, but no hotel until Browns Hotel was built in 1915. Much of the land mass at that time was a tangled jungle of mangroves. Clearing it, deepening the channels and water bodies, and eliminating native growth almost everywhere in favor of landfill for development, was expensive
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Morris Lapidus
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A Russian immigrant based in New York, Lapidus designed over 1,000 buildings during a career spanning more than 50 years, much of it spent as an outsider to the American architectural establishment. Born in Odessa in the Russian Empire, his Orthodox Jewish family fled Russian pogroms to New York when he was an infant, as a young man, Lapidus toyed with theatrical set design and studied architecture at Columbia University, graduating in 1927. Lapidus worked for the prominent Beaux Arts firm of Warren and Wetmore and he then worked independently for 20 years as a retail architect before being approached to design vacation hotels on Miami Beach. The hotels were a popular success. It was followed the year by the equally successful Eden Roc Hotel. The Sheraton was demolished by implosion shortly after dawn on Sunday, in 1955, Lapidus designed the Ponce de Leon Shopping Center near the plaza in St. Augustine, Florida. The Woolworths door-handles and a Freedom Trail marker memorialize the events and his many smaller projects give Miami Beachs Collins Avenue its style, anticipating post-modernism. Beyond visual style, there is some degree of functionalism at work, the Fontainbleau was built on the site of the Harvey Firestone estate and defined the new Gold Coast of Miami Beach. The hotel provided locations for the 1960 Jerry Lewis film The Bellboy and my whole success is Ive always been designing for people, first because I wanted to sell them merchandise. Then when I got into hotels, I had to rethink, during the period before his death, Lapidus style came back into focus. It began with his designing upbeat restaurants on Miami Beach and the Lincoln Road Mall, Lapidus was also honored by the Society of Architectural Historians at a convention held at the Eden Roc hotel in 1998. In 2000, the Smithsonians Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum honored Lapidus as an American Original for his lifetime of work, Lapidus was quoted saying, I never thought I would live to see the day when, suddenly, magazines are writing about me, newspapers are writing about me. His son, architect Alan Lapidus, who worked with his father for 18 years, said, His theory was if you create the setting and its grand. In 2001, Morris Lapidus died from heart failure at the age of 98 at his Miami Beach apartment, Morris Lapidus wife of 63 years, Beatrice, had died in 1992. Lapidus designed 1,200 buildings, including 250 hotels worldwide, the American architectural establishment regarded Lapidus as an outsider, tried to ignore his work, then characterized it as gaudy kitsch. Ada Louise Huxtable, writing in the New York Times, said of the Americana, a 1970 Architectural League exhibit in New York began the serious appraisal of his work. Lapidus tried to ignore the critical panning, but it had an effect on his career and he burned 50 years worth of his drawings when he retired in 1984 and remained personally bitter about some aspects of his career. He was rediscovered in the post-modernist era, the title of his autobiography Too Much is Never Enough,1996, is an allusion to Ludwig Mies van der Rohes dictum Less is more
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Miami Modern architecture
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Miami Modernist architecture, or MiMo, is a regional style of architecture that developed in South Florida during the post-war period. The style was recognized as a regionalist response to the International Style. It can be seen in most of the larger Miami and Miami Beach resorts built after the Great Depression, the term MiMo has only recently been associated with the style. Popularity of the term is credited to Miami Beach resident Randall C. Robinson, the region successfully transposed its extravagant resort styling to a national audience easily captivated by the area’s relative exoticism. The area along Biscayne Boulevard is now the designated MiMo Biscayne Boulevard Historic District or more uniquely named MiMo on BiBo, MiMo Historic District runs roughly from 50th Street to 77th Street along Biscayne Boulevard, although MiMo can be found in the Design District and Midtown. Many annual festivals are held to promote MiMo architecture, such as Cinco de MiMo a play on Cinco de Mayo in early May. The area is bounded by the Little River to the north, Bay Point Estates to the south, the Florida East Coast Railway to the west, the name is an acronym for Miami Modern Architecture. There are many examples of the architecture within the district, vagabond Motel MiMo Historic District Miami Beach USA Article on MiMO Architecture with photos. Wides-Munoz, Laura, Offbeat Miami, the Miami Modern District or MiMo, on ABC News Travel
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Fontainebleau Miami Beach
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The Fontainebleau Miami Beach is one of the most historically and architecturally significant hotels in Miami Beach, Florida. Opened in 1954 and designed by Morris Lapidus, it was arguably the most luxurious hotel in Miami Beach, in 2007, the Fontainebleau Hotel was ranked ninety-third in the American Institute of Architects list of Americas Favorite Architecture. On April 18,2012, the AIAs Florida Chapter ranked the Fontainebleau first on its list of Florida Architecture,100 Years, the Fontainebleau Miami Beach is situated on oceanfront Collins Avenue in the heart of Millionaires Row and is currently owned by Fontainebleau Resorts. Fronting the Atlantic Ocean, the 1, 504-room resort features two new towers,12 restaurants and bars. Lapidus once wrote, “If you create a stage and it is grand, the hotel was built by hotelier Ben Novack on the Harvey Firestone estate. Novack owned and operated the hotel until its bankruptcy in 1977, the Fontainebleau is famous in judicial circles for its victory in the landmark 1959 Florida District Courts of Appeal decision, Fontainebleau Hotel Corp. v. Forty-Five Twenty-Five, Inc.114 So. The Court rejected the Eden Rocs claim to an easement allowing sunlight and it stated that the ancient lights doctrine has been unanimously repudiated in the United States. In the 1970s a suite in the hotel was used by members of the Black Tuna Gang to run their operations and this is recounted in the 2011 documentary Square Grouper, which follows the burgeoning marijuana-smuggling trade of the mid-to-late 1970s. In 1978, Stephen Muss bought the Fontainebleau Hotel for $27 million rescuing it from bankruptcy and he injected an additional $100 million into the hotel for improvements and hired the Hilton company to manage it. In 2005, the Muss Organization sold the Fontainebleau to Turnberry Associates for $165 million, the hotel closed a large part of its property in 2006, though one building remained open to hotel guests, and the furnishings were available for sale. The expanded hotel and its new condominium buildings re-opened in November 2008, on December 22,2008, the Fontainebleau was added to the U. S. National Register of Historic Places. The swimming pool is shown in the 1959 film A Hole in the Head, tony Manetta attends a party there for businessman and friend Jerry Marks. Miami Mayor Robert King High had a cameo during the gala, the hotel was the setting for Jerry Lewiss 1960 comedy film, The Bellboy. The Fontainebleau is depicted in the 1960-1962 television series, Surfside 6, supporting character Cha Cha OBrien was an entertainer who worked at The Boom Boom Room in the hotel. Only establishing shots of the hotel were used, the series was filmed entirely at Warner Bros. studios in Burbank and it is the hotel where Jill Masterton is murdered by the villainous Oddjob. The Fontainebleau was seen on The Sopranos in the season 4 episode Calling All Cars, the hotel is repeatedly mentioned by Allan Sherman in his 1962 comedy song, The Streets of Miami. The Fontainebleau is the subject of a song written by Neil Young and performed by the Stills-Young Band on their 1976 album Long May You Run. Fontainebleau’s grand re-opening on November 18,2008 marked the end of a two-year, special care was taken to preserve many of the original design elements, including the Staircase to Nowhere
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Albert Warner
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Aaron Albert Warner was a Polish-born Jewish and American film executive who was one of the founders of Warner Bros. He established the studio with his brothers Harry, Sam. He served as the treasurer, until he sold his stock in 1956. He came to Baltimore, Maryland with his mother and siblings in October 1889 on the steamship Hermann from Bremen and their father had preceded them, immigrating to Baltimore in 1888 and following his trade in shoes and shoe repair. He changed the name to Warner, which was used thereafter. As in many Jewish immigrant families, some of the children gradually acquired anglicized versions of their Yiddish-sounding names, abraham and Jacob were late among the children to do so, becoming Albert and Jack after they came of age. In Baltimore, the money Benjamin Warner earned in the repair business was not enough to provide for his growing household. He and Pearl had another daughter, Fannie, not long after they arrived, Benjamin moved the family to Canada, inspired by a friends advice that he could make an excellent living bartering tin wares with trappers in exchange for furs. Sons Jacob and David Warner were born in London, Ontario, after two arduous years in Canada, Benjamin and Pearl Warner returned to Baltimore, bringing along their growing family. Two more children, Sadie and Milton, were added to the household there, in 1896, the family relocated to Youngstown, Ohio, following the lead of Harry Warner, who established a shoe repair shop in the heart of the emerging industrial town. Benjamin worked with his son Harry in the repair shop until he secured a loan to open a meat counter. In the late 1890s, Albert became fascinated by the bicycle craze swept through the USA. The two also tried to open a bowling alley together, but were unsuccessful, Albert Warner stayed in school longer than any his three brothers. In 1900, Warner entered Youngstowns Rayen High School, where he served as quarterback for the football team. Warner eventually dropped out, and eventually got a job in Chicago as a salesman for the soap company Swift, Warners life would soon pursue a new direction after brother Sam was able to purchase Kinetoscope in 1903. In 1905, Harry agreed to join his two business and sold his Youngstown bicycle shop. During this time, the three purchased a building in New Castle, Pennsylvania, with their new building, the brothers established their first theater. The theater was so successful that the brothers were able to purchase a theater in New Castle as well
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Warner Brothers
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Entertainment Inc. – colloquially known as Warner Bros. or Warner Bros. It is one of the Big Six major American film studios, Warner Bros. is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America. The companys name originated from the four founding Warner brothers, Harry, Albert, Sam, Jack, the youngest, was born in London, Ontario. The three elder brothers began in the theater business, having acquired a movie projector with which they showed films in the mining towns of Pennsylvania. In the beginning, Sam and Albert Warner invested $150 to present Life of an American Fireman and they opened their first theater, the Cascade, in New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1903. When the original building was in danger of being demolished, the modern Warner Bros. called the current building owners, the owners noted people across the country had asked them to protect it for its historical significance. In 1904, the Warners founded the Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Amusement & Supply Company, in 1912, Harry Warner hired an auditor named Paul Ashley Chase. By the time of World War I they had begun producing films, in 1918 they opened the first Warner Bros. studio on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Sam and Jack produced the pictures, while Harry and Albert, along with their auditor and now controller Chase, handled finance and distribution in New York City. During World War I their first nationally syndicated film, My Four Years in Germany, on April 4,1923, with help from money loaned to Harry by his banker Motley Flint, they formally incorporated as Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. The first important deal was the acquisition of the rights to Avery Hopwoods 1919 Broadway play, The Gold Diggers, however, Rin Tin Tin, a dog brought from France after World War I by an American soldier, established their reputation. Rin Tin Tin debuted in the feature Where the North Begins, the movie was so successful that Jack signed the dog to star in more films for $1,000 per week. Rin Tin Tin became the top star. Jack nicknamed him The Mortgage Lifter and the success boosted Darryl F. Zanucks career, Zanuck eventually became a top producer and between 1928 and 1933 served as Jacks right-hand man and executive producer, with responsibilities including day-to-day film production. More success came after Ernst Lubitsch was hired as head director, lubitschs film The Marriage Circle was the studios most successful film of 1924, and was on The New York Times best list for that year. Despite the success of Rin Tin Tin and Lubitsch, Warners remained a lesser studio, Sam and Jack decided to offer Broadway actor John Barrymore the lead role in Beau Brummel. The film was so successful that Harry signed Barrymore to a contract, like The Marriage Circle. By the end of 1924, Warner Bros. was arguably Hollywoods most successful independent studio, as the studio prospered, it gained backing from Wall Street, and in 1924 Goldman Sachs arranged a major loan
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Spite house
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A spite house is a building constructed or substantially modified to irritate neighbors or any party with land stakes. Spite houses may create obstructions, such as blocking out light or blocking access to neighboring buildings, because long-term occupation is at best a secondary consideration, spite houses frequently sport strange and impractical structures. Spite houses are more rare than spite fences. In 1716, Thomas Wood, a sailmaker, built a house in Marblehead, Massachusetts, according to one theory, it was inhabited by two brothers who occupied different sections, would not speak to each other, and refused to sell to the other. The Old Spite House is still standing and occupied, upset about his loss, McCobb built a house directly across from the McCobb mansion to spite his stepbrother. The National Park Services Historic American Buildings Survey photographed and documented the 1925 move of the McCobb Spite House by barge from Phippsburg to Deadmans Point in Rockport, the city made plans to extend Record Street south through Tylers land to meet West Patrick Street. In fighting the city, Tyler discovered a law that prevented the building of a road if work was in progress on a substantial building in the path of a proposed road. To spite the city, Tyler immediately had workmen pour a building foundation, in 1830, John Hollensburys home in Alexandria, Virginia, was one of two houses that directly bordered an alley that attracted an annoying amount of horse-drawn wagon traffic and loiterers. The brick walls of the Hollensbury Spite House living room have gouges from wagon-wheel hubs, proffits attempted scam in this passage is to build a spite house and extort his neighbors to pay him to tear it down. The fact in question is indeed the basis of the Eye-Sore trade, of course, we cant afford to take these structures down under a bonus of five hundred per cent upon the prime cost of our lot and plaster. I ask it of business men and it would be irrational to suppose that we can. In 1874, two brothers in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts, got into a dispute, each had previously inherited land from their deceased father. When the soldier returned, he found his inheritance depleted and built a house at 44 Hull St. to spite his brother by blocking the sunlight. The outside of the house spans 10.4 feet and tapers to 9.25 feet in the rear, the Skinny House is still standing and occupied. In 1880, Adam Schilling owned a tract of 80 acres adjoining the town of Hiawatha, Schilling sold three-quarters of an acre of this land, on which a house eventually was built and became owned by James Falloon. Together, the 80 acres were well-suited to add to the town of Hiawatha, the Richardson Spite House in New York City at Lexington Avenue and 82nd Street was built in 1882 and demolished in 1915. It was four stories tall,104 feet wide, and only five feet deep, Joseph Richardson, the owner of the plot, built it after the owner of an adjacent plot, Hyman Sarner, unsuccessfully tried to purchase the land. Sarner considered the plot useless by itself and offered only $1000, after the deal fell through, Richardson had an apartment building constructed on his land
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Hotel du Cap
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The Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc is a resort hotel in Antibes on the French Riviera. Built originally as a mansion, it opened as a hotel in 1870. The founder of Frances Le Figaro newspaper, Hippolyte de Villemessant, in 1887, Italian hotelier Antoine Sella bought the property, and opened the Grand Hôtel du Cap in 1889. In 1914, the Eden Roc pavillon was built 400 yards away from the main hotel, with the Murphys came many writers and artists of the Lost Generation, including F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Fitzgerald immortalized it as the Hôtel des Etrangers in Tender Is the Night, marc Chagall made sketches in one of the shady beachside cabanas after their construction in the 1960s. The Kennedy family summered here in 1938 when John F. Kennedy was 21 years old, guests included Marlene Dietrich, Orson Welles, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Winston Churchill and Charles De Gaulle. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton conducted an affair and honeymooned there, the hotel has traditionally been a particular favourite of film stars, especially during the annual Cannes Film Festival. Rudolf August Oetker, a German industrialist, and his wife Maja von Malaisé first spotted the mansion while sailing on the Côte dAzur in 1964, for many years the hotel did not accept credit cards. Cash only was accepted, though most guests wired money ahead of their stay, in 2006 this policy was dropped. In May 2011, the Hôtel du Cap-Eden Roc was hosting, on its principal driveway to the sea and it also was the scene for designer Karl Lagerfelds short-film The Tale of a Fairy, featuring actors and models such as Anna Mouglalis, Kristen McMenamy or Baptiste Giabiconi. In addition, there are two private villas, the Villa Eleana and the Villa Les Cèdres, owner Maja Oetker decorates the rooms and suites. In 2011, the hotel underwent a $67 million renovation, within the complex there are six clay tennis courts, a spa, fitness center, shopping, hair dresser and nine acres of lush greenery. The swimming pool is a salt water pool, cut into the edge of the cliff in 1914. Thirty-three cabanas are located in the rock facing the sea, the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc belongs to the Oetker Collection. The Oetker Collection is managed by the Oetker family
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Antibes
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Antibes is a Mediterranean resort in the Alpes-Maritimes department of southeastern France, on the Côte dAzur between Cannes and Nice. The town of Juan-les-Pins is in the commune of Antibes and the Sophia Antipolis technology park is northwest of it, traces of occupation dating back to the early Iron Age have been found in the areas of the castle and cathedral. However, most trade was with the Greek world, via the Phocaeans of Marseille, Antipolis was founded by Phocaeans from Massilia. As a Greek colony settlement, it was known as Antipolis from its close to Nice. The exact location of the Greek city is not well known, given Greek colonial practices, it is likely that it was set at the foot of the rock of Antibes in todays old city. Traces of occupation in the Hellenistic period have been identified around the castle, the goods unearthed during these excavations show the dominance of imported products of the Marseilles region, associated with Campanian and indigenous ceramics. Early in the second century BC the Ligurian Deceates and Oxybiens tribes launched repeated attacks against Nikaia, the Greeks of Marseille appealed to Rome as they had already done a few years earlier against the federation of Salyens. In 154 BC the consul Quintus Opimius defeated the Décéates and Oxybiens, Rome gradually increased its hold over the Mediterranean coast. In 43 BC, Antipolis was officially incorporated in the province of Narbonesian Gaul. Antipolis grew into the largest town in the region and an entry point into Gaul. Roman artifacts such as aqueducts, fortified walls. The city was supplied with water by two aqueducts, the Fontvieille aqueduct rises in Biot and eventually joins the coast below the RN7 and the railway track at the Fort Carré. It was discovered and restored in the 18th century by the Chevalier dAguillon for supplying the modern city, the aqueduct called the Bouillide or Clausonnes rises near the town of Valbonne. Monumental remains of aqueduct bridges are located in the neighbourhood of Fugaret, in the forest of Valmasque, like most Roman towns Antipolis possessed these buildings for shows and entertainment. A Roman theatre is attested by the tombstone of the child Septentrion, the inscription says he danced and was popular on the stage of the theatre. The theatre was located, like the amphitheatre, between Rue de la République and Rue de Fersen, near the Porte Royale, the back wall is positioned substantially next to Rue Fourmillère. A radial wall was found on the side of the bus station. A plan of the made in the 16th century is in the Marciana National Library of Venice. The remains of the amphitheatre were still visible at the end of the 17th century during the restructuring of the fortifications of the city, a concentric oval was still visible in many plans of the seventeenth century and in a map of Antibes from the early nineteenth century
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Marriott International
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Marriott International, Inc. is an American multinational diversified hospitality company that manages and franchises a broad portfolio of hotels and related lodging facilities. Founded by J. Willard Marriott, the company is now led by his son, Executive Chairman Bill Marriott and President and Chief Executive Officer Arne Sorenson. Marriott was founded by John Willard Marriott in 1927 when he and his wife, Alice Sheets Marriott, opened a beer stand in Washington. As a Mormon missionary in the summers in Washington, D. C. The Marriotts later expanded their enterprise into a chain of restaurants and they opened their first hotel, the Twin Bridges Marriott Motor Hotel, in Arlington, Virginia, in 1957. Their son, J. W. Marriott, Jr. led the company to spectacular worldwide growth during his more than 50-year career, in March 2012, at age 80, he turned the CEO responsibilities over to Arne Sorenson, while he assumed the title of Executive Chairman. Marriott International was formed in 1993 when Marriott Corporation split into two companies, Marriott International and Host Marriott Corporation, in 1995, Marriott was the first hotel company worldwide to offer guests the option to book reservations online, via the companys implementation of MARSHA. In April 1995, Marriott International acquired a 49% interest in Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company LLC, the cost to Marriott was estimated to have be about $200 million in cash and assumed debt. There were other benefits for Ritz-Carlton flowing from its relationship with Marriott, such as being able to take advantage of the parent companys reservation system, the partnership was solidified in 1998 when Marriott acquired a majority ownership of The Ritz-Carlton. Today, there are 81 Ritz-Carlton properties around the world, the Marriott World Trade Center was destroyed during the September 11,2001 attacks. The changes were completed in 2003, Marriott International owned Ramada International Hotels & Resorts until its sale on September 15,2004 to Cendant. On July 19,2006, Marriott announced that all lodging buildings it operated in the United States, the new policy includes all guest rooms, restaurants, lounges, meeting rooms, public space and employee work areas. There were bombings at the Islamabad Marriott in 2008 and at the Jakarta Marriott in 2009, on November 11,2010, Marriott announced plans to add over 600 hotel properties by 2015. The bulk of the additions will be in emerging markets, India, where it plans to have 100 hotel properties, China, and Southeast Asia. On January 21,2011, Marriott said that pornography would not be included in the entertainment offered at new hotels, which will use an internet-based video on demand system. On December 13,2011, J. W. Marriott, Jr. announced he would be stepping down as CEO of the company and it was announced that Arne Sorenson would be taking over as CEO as of March 2012. His had released 2010 tax returns showed earnings in 2010 of $113,881 in directors fees from Marriott. S, in December 2012, Guinness World Records recognized the five-star JW Marriott Marquis Hotel Dubai as the worlds tallest hotel. The scheme disrupted operation of mobile telephone hotspots by sending fraudulent Wi-fi de-authentication packets
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Steely Dan
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Steely Dan is an American jazz rock band whose music also blends elements of crossover jazz, latin music, blue-eyed soul, R&B, boogie, and pop. Founded by core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen in 1972, Rolling Stone has called them the perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies. Steely Dan reunited in 1993 and has toured ever since. Recorded with a revolving cast of musicians, Steely Dans music is characterized by complex jazz-influenced structures and harmonies. Becker and Fagen are whimsical, often sarcastic lyricists, having written cerebral, wry and eccentric songs about drugs, love affairs, gambling. Steely Dan toured from 1972 to 1974 before retiring from live performances, after the group disbanded in 1981, Becker and Fagen were less active throughout most of the next decade, though a cult following remained devoted to the group. Since reuniting in 1993 Steely Dan has released two albums of new material, the first of which, Two Against Nature, earned a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. They have sold more than 40 million albums worldwide and were inducted into the Rock, Steely Dan was listed as one of the 100 greatest musical artists of all time according to VH1. Becker and Fagen met in 1968 at Bard College, in Annandale-on-Hudson, as Fagen passed by a café, The Red Balloon, he heard Becker practicing the electric guitar. In an interview, Fagen recounted the experience, I hear this guy practicing and it sounded like, you know, like a black person, really. He introduced himself to Becker and asked, Do you want to be in a band, discovering that they enjoyed similar music, the two began writing songs together. Becker and Fagen began playing in local groups, one such group, known as the Don Fagen Jazz Trio, the Bad Rock Group and later the Leather Canary, included future comedy star Chevy Chase on drums. They played covers of songs by the Rolling Stones, Moby Grape, terence Boylan, another Bard musician, remembered that Fagen took readily to the beatnik life while attending college, They never came out of their room, they stayed up all night. They looked like ghosts — black turtlenecks and skin so white that it looked like yogurt, absolutely no activity, chain-smoking Lucky Strikes and dope. Fagen himself would later remember it as probably the time in my life that I actually had friends. After Fagen graduated in 1969, the two moved to Brooklyn and tried to peddle their tunes in the Brill Building in midtown Manhattan, Becker later said bluntly, We did it for the money. A series of demos from 1968 to 1971 are available in bootleg form and this collection features approximately 25 tracks and is notable for its sparse arrangements and lo-fi production, a contrast with Steely Dans later work. Although some of songs were re-recorded for Steely Dan albums
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Can't Buy a Thrill
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Cant Buy a Thrill is the debut studio album by the American rock band Steely Dan, released in November 1972 by ABC Records. It was produced by Gary Katz and written by band members Donald Fagen, the album was recorded at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles. The album was released in two-channel stereo and also in a special four-channel quadraphonic mix. There are some significant musical differences between the two mixes, such as lead guitar fills in the quad mix of Reelin in the Years. Two songs recorded during the Cant Buy a Thrill sessions were left off the album and this is the only Steely Dan album to include David Palmer as a lead vocalist, having been recruited after Donald Fagen expressed concerns over singing live. Drummer Jim Hodder also chips in lead vocals on one song, by the time recording of the next album began, the band and producer Gary Katz had convinced Fagen to assume the full lead vocalist role. According to writers Marjorie Galen and Gordon Matthews, Cant Buy a Thrill features a soft rock style. Music journalist Paul Lester said that it incorporates mambo, swing, jazz, Robert Christgau described the former song as a toned-down mambo song with tragic lyrics about a compulsive loser. The album cover features a photomontage by Robert Lockart and it includes an image of a line of prostitutes, standing in a red light area waiting for clients, chosen because of its relevance to the album title. The title of the album is taken in reference to the line of the Bob Dylan song It Takes a Lot to Laugh. The cover was banned in Francisco Francos Spain and was replaced with a photograph of the playing in concert. Cant Buy a Thrill was released in the United States by ABC Records in November 1972, the album peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums, and was reissued on August 22,1973, by Dunhill Records. Christgau deemed it an album attached to a hit single in his review for Creem, he found the lyrics oblique. As befit a band named after a dildo in a William S. Burroughs novel, writing for BBC Music, Lester said the album was so fully-formed. In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked Cant Buy a Thrill number 238 on their list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Rob Sheffield was less impressed in The Rolling Stone Album Guide, regarding the record as mellow folk rock that was softened by Palmer, all songs written by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. Christgaus Record Guide, Rock Albums of the Seventies, the New Rolling Stone Album Guide
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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North Beach (Miami Beach)
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For the separate city, see North Miami Beach. North Beach is a neighborhood of the city of Miami Beach, Florida and it is the northernmost section of the city, roughly bound by 63rd Street and Indian Creek Drive to the south and 87th Terrace to the north. It collectively refers to neighborhoods including Isles of Normandy, Biscayne Point, according to the 2013 census, North Beach is home to more than 43,250 people of which 49. 9% are foreign born persons. 65. 5% speak languages other than English at home, the median household income in North Beach is estimated to be $40,775 between 2009 and 2013. The total estimated area of North Beach is estimated to be 4.83 square miles. Mid-Beach South Beach Satellite view on Google Maps North Beach is the best neighborhood in Miami
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Biscayne Point
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Biscayne Point is a neighborhood of North Beach in the city of Miami Beach, Florida, United States. It is located just west of the island that the city occupies. It is actually on three islands, just north of Normandy Shores, bridges connect the three islands which are accessible from 77th Street and from 85th Street by vehicles and a from a pedestrian bridge at 80th Street. The northern one is Stillwater Park and the southern is Crespi Park
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Isle of Normandy
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Isle of Normandy or Normandy Island or Normandy Isles or Normandy Isle is a neighborhood of North Beach in the city of Miami Beach, Florida, United States. It is located along the shore of Biscayne Bay. It is located at 25. 853°N80. 135°W /25.853, -80.135, after building a chain of movie theaters in Cincinnati, Alsace native Henri Levi moved to Miami Beach in 1922. In 1926 he undertook a 2-year period of 24-hour-a-day dredging to create Normandy Isle from the swampy land mass in Biscayne Bay west of 71st street theretofore called Warner-Meade Island. Levy was also instrumental in the construction of the 79th Street Causeway, most streets on Normandy Isle were named after French cities and architectural landmarks
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Mid-Beach
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Mid-Beach is a section of the city of Miami Beach, Florida, United States. It is portion of the city encompasses the area north of 23rd Street. It collectively refers to neighborhoods including Oceanfront, Bayshore, and Nautilus, the main street of the mid-beach section is 41st Street. Famous buildings in the Oceanfront neighborhood are the Fontainebleau Hotel, the Eden Roc, the Ocean Spray Hotel, the historic Collins Waterfront Architectural District is part of Mid-Beach
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Bayshore (Miami Beach)
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Bayshore is a neighborhood of Mid-Beach in the city of Miami Beach, Florida, United States. It is located in the portion of the main island that the city occupies. Originally built around Carl Fishers Bayshore Golf and Country Club, with a designed by H. C. Tippet which opened in 1923, the area is bound by the Collins Canal to the south, 41st Street to the north, Indian Creek to the east. The neighborhood is characterized largely by single family homes and municipal uses
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South Beach
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South Beach, also nicknamed SoBe, is a neighborhood in the city of Miami Beach, Florida, United States, located due east of Miami city proper between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. The area encompasses all of the islands of Miami Beach south of Indian Creek. The area has gone through numerous artificial and natural changes over the years, including a regional economy, increased tourism, and the 1926 hurricane. As of 2010,39,186 people lived in South Beach, in 1870, Henry and Charles Lum purchased 165 acres for coconut farming. Charles Lum built the first house on the beach in 1886, in 1894, the Lum brothers left the island, leaving control of the plantation to John Collins, who came to South Beach two years later to survey the land. He used the land for farming purposes, discovering fresh water, in 1912, Miami businessmen the Lummus Brothers acquired 400 acres of Collins land in an effort to build an oceanfront city of modest single family residences. In 1913 Collins started construction of a bridge from Miami to Miami Beach, although some local residents invested in the bridge, Collins ran short of money before he could complete it. Carl G. Fisher, an entrepreneur who made millions in 1909 after selling a business to Union Carbide. His vision was to establish South Beach as a city independent of Miami. This was the year that the restaurant Joes Stone Crab opened. Fisher loaned $50,000 to Collins for his bridge, which was completed in June,1913, the Collins Bridge was later replaced by the Venetian Causeway. On March 26,1915, Collins, Lummus, and Fisher consolidated their efforts, in 1920 the County Causeway was completed. The Lummus brothers sold their oceanfront property, between 6th and 14th Streets, to the city, to this day, this area is known as Lummus Park. In 1920, the Miami Beach land boom began, South Beachs main streets were all suitable for automobile traffic. The population was growing in the 1920s, and several such as Harvey Firestone, J. C. Penney. Stutz, Albert Champion, Frank Seiberling, and Rockwell LaGorce built homes on Miami Beach, president Warren G. Harding stayed at the Flamingo Hotel during this time, increasing interest in the area. In the 1930s, an architectural revolution came to South Beach, bringing Art Deco, Streamline Moderne, South Beach claims to be the worlds largest collection of Streamline Moderne Art Deco architecture. Napier, New Zealand, another notable Art Deco city, is comparable to Miami Beach as it was rebuilt in the Ziggurat Art Deco style after being destroyed by an earthquake in 1931
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Belle Isle (Miami Beach)
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Belle Isle is a neighborhood of South Beach in the city of Miami Beach on a barrier island in Biscayne Bay, Florida, United States. It is the easternmost of the Venetian Islands, a chain of islands in Biscayne Bay in the cities of Miami and Miami Beach. It is home to apartment buildings, a portion of the Venetian Causeway, a city of Miami Beach park, and it is between Rivo Alto Island and the main barrier island of Miami Beach. Belle Isle was originally called Bull Isle, and was later renamed, unlike the other Venetian Islands, Belle Isle is not completely artificial. Like the Sunset Islands, Belle Isle was originally a rough mangrove hammock island sitting in north Biscayne Bay near the Miami barrier islands, before the use of the term Miami Beach. When Collins dug the Collins Canal, work crews deposited dredged sand around the island at the mouth of the canal, increasing its land mass. The gateway to Miami Beach earned a reputation as an enclave for fashionable millionaires, such as Joseph H. Adams, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s, Belle Isle and Fishers nearby Flamingo Hotel were the site of the famous Biscayne Bay Speed Boat Regattas. In 1942, the University of Miami turned a house on the Joseph H. Adams estate into the first Marine Lab for the Rosenstiel School of Marine. Belle Isle was also the site of the All Souls Episcopal Church as late as 1947, the Belle Isle Residents Association was established in December,2004. Board meets approximately 6 times per year, general Membership Meetings are called as needed at a minimum of once a year. Belle Isle Park, in the center of Belle Isle, recently underwent a renovation project including sidewalks, lighting and landscape improvements, picnic areas, a streetscape improvement project for the Venetian bridges is planned for 2008 and 2009. Island Avenue is now a parking zone, and you must buy a permit for Zone 14. The Miami Beach parking department office at 11th and Washington is temporarily closed during renovation of the city hall building, Belle Isle residents can purchase a one-year residential decal or one visitor permit hang tag per household for $46.00 or a six-month pass for $23.00. Belle Isle residents can purchase up to five scratch-off one-day visitor permits per month for $1.07 each. During park renovations, the city will need to close about 20 parking spaces at a time to make way for roadway construction. They will do the work in sections, using a temporary 20-space parking lot toward the East end of the park to compensate for the closed parking spaces. Biscayne Island – Original site of Viking Airport, Collins Bridge – The first bridge from Miami to Miami Beach, which ran over Bull/Belle Isle. Flagler Monument Island – Site of a monument to Henry M. Flagler
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Di Lido Island
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Di Lido Island is a neighborhood of South Beach in the city of Miami Beach on a man-made island in Biscayne Bay, Florida, United States. It is the island from the east of the Venetian Islands. It is between San Marino Island and Rivo Alto Island and it is home to residential neighborhoods and a portion of the Venetian Causeway. The unfinished artificial island Isola di Lolando from the Florida land boom of the 1920s is located near the tip of Di Lido Island. Arne Quinze Barbara Becker Paulina Rubio Susana Gimenez
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Flagler Monument Island
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Flagler Memorial Island is an uninhabited artificial island of South Beach in the city of Miami Beach in Biscayne Bay, Florida, United States. Unlike the Venetian Islands, the rounded shape of the memorial island was not protected by a sea wall. The powerful tidal flow from Government Cut, as well as hurricanes, exotic species such as Burma reed, seaside-mahoe and beach naupaka have covered much of the island. The project also stabilized the shoreline with the installation of rock boulders. Hurricane Wilma eroded away much of the beaches in the fall of 2005, the City of Miami Beach completed a full restoration of the Henry Flagler Monument. It was illuminating at night but once again the lights are broken, although the island is unpopulated, it is considered a neighborhood in the City of Miami Beach. Miami Beach co-founder Carl G. Fisher commissioned the construction of the obelisk monument and his Alton Beach Realty Company deeded the land to the City of Miami Beach in 1939. During the preliminary dredging in 1919, a Native American war club was discovered by workers, believed to be from the Tequesta, the club is currently in the archives at the Florida Museum of Natural History. The island and the monument were both donated to the city of Miami Beach in 1939, in the years since the city, county and the private sector have all contributed to maintenance. In 1998 a careless picnicker set the island on fire, destroying $250,000 worth of trees, there has been a fence put up to stop people from vandalizing the base of the monument where there is a profuse amount of graffiti. In 2008 there was a group of teenagers who threw human feces at the monument and they were later arrested by law enforcement. In early 2011, Reality Kings, a video maker, filmed Island Adventure on Monument Island. Representing industry, a man in a Roman toga stands facing due north, holding a scroll, the statue suffers from considerable erosion damage to its face, scroll, and left foot. A female figure faces due east, wearing a dress and a cape and she holds a pile of books and reaches out with her left hand in a welcoming gesture. Cracks have exposed metal rebar in her hand and a crack in her cape may soon lead to extensive damage. A statue of a sailor faces due south, shielding his eyes from the sun and he holds a shovel and sits on a plant. He is extensively damaged and may present a safety hazard, a female figure in a long dress with a tiara represents prosperity. She holds a cornucopia and a purse clutched to her chest with her left hand, on February 5,2011 a pornographic film titled Island Adventure was filmed on the island
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Hibiscus Island
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Hibiscus Island is a neighborhood of South Beach in the city of Miami Beach on a man-made island in Biscayne Bay, Florida, United States. Hibiscus Island lies just north of Palm Island and it is an exclusive residential neighborhood with relatively high property values. The island is accessible via the MacArthur Causeway, the dredging which created the reclaimed land on which Hibiscus Island sits was completed in 1922 by the Army Corps of Engineers, work which completed Palm and Star Island the same year. In the post-World War II economic expansion and sprawl in South Florida, Palm, entertainers like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Tony Bennett all intermingled with waves of high-kicking chorus girls to perform three shows a night at the Latin Quarter. The island is now home to several mansions, with converted apartments, home to relatively high property values in the greater Miami area, it is among the first places to evacuate in advance of a hurricane. Hibiscus Island is zoned to schools in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools, zoned schools include, South Pointe Elementary School Nautilus Middle School Miami Beach High School Location of Hibiscus Island Florida Atlas & Gazetteer
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Palm Island (Miami Beach)
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Palm Island is a neighborhood of South Beach in the city of Miami Beach on a man-made island in Biscayne Bay, Florida, United States. It is a neighborhood with relatively high property values, solely accessible by land via the MacArthur Causeway. The entire island is only an area of 82 acres, palm Island is zoned to schools in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools
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Rivo Alto Island
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Rivo Alto Island is a neighborhood of South Beach in the city of Miami Beach on a man-made island in Biscayne Bay, Florida, United States. It is one of the Venetian Islands, a chain of islands in Biscayne Bay in the cities of Miami and Miami Beach. It is between Di Lido Island and Belle Isle and it is home to residential neighborhoods and a portion of the Venetian Causeway. Flagler Monument Island is located near the tip of Rivo Alto Island
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Miami-Dade County Public Schools
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Miami-Dade County Public Schools is a public school district serving Miami-Dade County, in the U. S. state of Florida. The district is managed by the School Board of Miami-Dade County, Alberto Carvalho has been Superintendent since September 12,2008. Miami-Dade County Public Schools is one of a few school districts in the United States to offer optional international studies programs. Bilingual education is offered in Spanish, French, German, Haitian Creole, m-DCPS is the only school district in Florida to offer bilingual education in Mandarin. 35% of MDCPS teachers are graduates of Florida International University, the School Board of Miami-Dade County first met in Miami, Florida, June 27,1885. Those present at the first Board of Education meeting were Superintendent C. H, lumm, and members of the Board, W. H. Benest, Joseph F. Frow, and Adam C. The main order of business consisted of dividing the district, which at the time spanned from current day Florida Keys to Martin County, Superintendent and members divided Dade County into four districts. Lake Worth was declared District #1, while Miami became known as District #2, Coconut Grove fell within the boundaries of District #3, with Elliotts Key, and all other islands or keys comprising District #4. The First Coconut Grove School, erected in 1887, served as both the religious and educational center of the pioneer community, in 1889, the building was rented to the School Board for the purpose of servicing children in District #3. The first teachers at the First Coconut Grove Schoolhouse included Mrs. C. L, the first students in attendance included Annie and Harry Peacock, John, James, Trinni, and Mary Pent, and Lillian, Grace, Charlie, and Joseph Frow. The First Coconut Grove Schoolhouse is a one-story, one-room, rectangular structure, built with a frame. In 1970, the schoolhouse was moved from its location to its current home on the grounds of the Plymouth Congregational Church, at 3429 Devon Road, Coconut Grove. The school was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, the turn of the 20th century launched Miami and its school system into decades of growth. By 1924, the county lines had shifted with the creation of Broward, Palm Beach, Lee, despite losing jurisdiction over many of its schools in just twenty years, the school system still boasted thirty-three separate schools and a student population of nearly 5,000. Following the 1926 Miami hurricane, many schools were destroyed, the hurricane ended the 1920s land boom in Miami, and ushered in the Great Depression to the area long before the actual market crash of 1929. The crash forced many schools not destroyed by the hurricane to be closed. Beginning in 1930 the school board faced its first overcrowding and funding problems, in 1928, Miami Senior High, the districts first secondary school, moved into its fifth and current location. The building cost over $1 million to construct, in 1926, the original Booker T. Washington Senior High School building opened in what is now the Overtown district
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Miami Beach Senior High School
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Miami Beach Senior High School is a secondary school located at 2231 Prairie Avenue Miami Beach, Florida, across from the Miami Beach Convention Center and Botanical Garden. It is located at the corner of Prairie Avenue and Dade Boulevard, the school is in Miami-Dade County and is part of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the fourth-largest school district in the United States. In addition, Miami Beach Senior High is the second oldest in Miami-Dade County, in 2009, the school was recognized as a magnet school. The school was the first in the city to receive the designation, Miami Beach High opened in 1926. It was originally located at 1424 Drexel Avenue, in the heart of the South Beach district and it is one of the oldest high schools in Miami-Dade County, trailing only Miami Senior High. It was designed by August Geiger, carl Fisher provided the funds for the purchase of the land. For the first nine years of the school, it was named after Carls mother, the schools first principal was C. C. The first class motto was, Let us be known for our deeds. At that time, the nickname was the Typhoons, but this name was changed after its 1960 move to its new location at 2231 Prairie Avenue. Under a forced desegregation order from the Florida Supreme Court, Miami Beach High underwent desegregation efforts. Prior to the opening of North Miami Beach High School and Dr. Michael Krop High School, students from North Miami Beach were assigned to Miami Beach High School, the original building at 14th and Drexel Avenue is now part of the Fienberg-Fisher K-8 Center compound. The school is being renovated and new buildings added to replace the demolished ones, soon after, every other school in Miami-Dade followed suit. A new building opened in 1999 was plagued with defects in the construction. Students were not permitted to use the lockers, and rain caused damage to school equipment, Miami Beach Senior High School did not make AYP in 2006. Since the 2006–2007 school year, the school has gone with a schedule consisting of an A-Day and B-Day on alternating school days. It consists of three classes before lunch under Secondary School Reform, the 2007–2008 school year began with a new principal, Dr. Rosann Sidener, who improved the schools overall grade from a D to a B in her first year. This school year saw the move from the old Beach High to the new Beach High in January 2008 with a new library. 2008–2009 was the first year in which Miami Beach Sr, in a two-to-one vote by some students parents and guardians, the vote was ratified
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Rabbi Alexander S. Gross Hebrew Academy
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The Rabbi Alexander S. Gross Hebrew Academy, is a coeducational, yeshiva and college preparatory, Zionistic, private, Modern Orthodox Jewish day school, located in Miami Beach, Florida. The school has awarded a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. Rabbi Alexander S. Gross founded the school in 1947 and was instrumental in its development as the first Orthodox Jewish Day School south of Baltimore, the Hebrew Academy serves a diverse Jewish community that is reflective of South Florida. Beginning with just six students in first grade, the Hebrew Academy has grown over the years to a student body of approximately 600 students and it provides education for children ranging from 6 weeks of age through grade 12. Students complete daily coursework in conversational Hebrew, the study of Chumash, Talmud, graduates of the Hebrew Academy subsequently attend universities and yeshivot worldwide. Hebrew Academy is the religious, Zionistic, and college preparatory school in Miami-Dade County. There are clubs, shabbatonim, school trips, and other activities that provide students with a full school life. The Varsity Basketball program began under Coach Robert Bob King and Assistant Coach Jonathan Grossman in the 1981-1982 school year, the first basket in RASG Varsity history was scored in the St. Patricks gym by freshman Rich Scharlat on a pass from senior Jay Schechter. Avi Littwin, Bernie Schuster, and Gil Neuman also played significant roles for the varsity that year. In 2013, standout basketball player Ellis Greenstein, led the Warriors to a FHSAA JV Championship, fellow Players Nathan Miller, Mikey Shakib, and Caleb Katz, played large roles in helping the Warriors make it to the Big stage. The Warrior Girls Varsity Basketball team has won District Championships for the 2011,2012,2013 and 2014 years, additionally, the Boys Varsity Basketball team won the Tier 2 Championship at Yeshiva Universitys Serachek Tournament in 2016. Recently, Hebrew Academy Junior, Ben Tal, was named Underclassman of the Year and was placed on the 1st Team by All Jewish Hoops America, an Honorable Mention was also received by Junior, Jack Esformes. Faculty at the Hebrew Academy are certified through the State of Florida and/or the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, early Childhood teachers must have at minimum a CDA. During the award it was noted that the Hebrew Academy was Launched in 1947. Several educators associated with the school have won awards, Rabbi Chaim Benhamou of the Rabbi Alexander S. Gross Hebrew Academy. Six deserving recipients from Miami and Broward county Jewish day schools were chosen out of many submissions, Hebrew Academy Second Grade teacher, Mrs. Tammy Goldring, was named one of the recipients. Mrs. Goldrings project is to modernize her classroom learning environment to make it more functional for differentiated learning styles of students, Gross Hebrew Academy, whose student body is largely Orthodox. The students even saw a dormant volcano with different types of formation that the lava had created when it erupted. The students
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St. Patrick Catholic School (Miami Beach, Florida)
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St. Patrick Catholic School, also called St. Patrick Parish School, is a private Catholic school located at 3700 Garden Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida. It is the school for the St. Patrick Catholic Church. In 1926, Monsignor William Barry and five Dominican sisters from Adrian, Michigan changed five polo stables that Carl G. Fisher had donated to the parish into five classrooms and a cafeteria. Due to the damage caused by the September 17,1926 hurricane to the school buildings, also, only 20 of the 150 students registered prior to the hurricane attended on opening day. In 1927, two classrooms were added. There was only one high school graduate in the class of 1927,1928, and 1929, a $75,000 building permit was issued on May 31,1930, for St. Patrick Catholic Elementary and High School. The first of three units opened in September of the school building, which was completed in 1932. Accreditation in the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools became a reality in 1933, the last 12th grade graduation was in 1972 and there were 37 graduates. The school has continued to have 8 grades, in 1976, the school was first accredited by the Florida Catholic Conference. In 1988, it was named a National School of Excellence by the U. S. Department of Education, Mrs. Bertha Moro is the school principal. Below are lists of individuals who have led the school, pablo Garcia Albano Sister Enedina Rodriguez Mrs. Christine Lamadrid Sister Winifred Mrs. Josephine Kenna Mrs. Bertha Moro St. Patrick Catholic School website
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Casa Casuarina
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The Villa, Casa Casuarina, is a property previously owned by Italian fashion impresario Gianni Versace at Ocean Drive in the Miami Beach Architectural District, Florida. Nowadays it operates as a hotel known as The Villa. The house was built in 1930 in Mediterranean Revival style, commissioned by architect Alden Freeman, there is a rumor that during construction a time capsule was hidden in one of the walls. When Freeman died in 1937 the house was bought by Jacques Amsterdam who changed it into an apartment building naming it The Amsterdam Palace, in 1992 it was purchased by Gianni Versace to become his residence in South Beach. He restored and expanded the building by adding a south wing, many famous people stayed in the house. On July 15,1997 Versace was killed in front of house by Andrew Cunanan. The Mansion was purchased by Peter Loftin for 19 Million in 2000, he renovated the property to be used as a hotel, restaurant. The restaurant is Il Sole at The Villa Casa Casuarina, the Mansion was bought by VM South Beach, LLC for 41.5 Million in 2013
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Clinton Hotel Miami Beach
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Clinton Hotel Miami Beach or The New Clinton Hotel And Spa is an Art Deco hotel located in Miami Beach, Florida. Clinton Hotel Miami Beach was originally built in the 1930s by architect Charles Neidler, the Clinton Hotel was renovated in 2004 by designer Eric Raffy. The total cost of the renovation was 12 million dollars, the New Clinton Hotel and Spa is in the heart of Miami’s South Beach. Miamibeach411- Website Clinton Hotel Miami Beach Website Travel, The Palm Beach Post Sunday Hotel Business
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Courtyard Cadillac Miami Beach Hotel (Florida)
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The Cadillac Hotel is a historic U. S. hotel in Miami Beach, Florida. It is located at 3925 Collins Avenue, on October 5,2005, it was added to the U. S. National Register of Historic Places. It is currently called the Courtyard Cadillac Miami Beach/Oceanfront, the hotel is now a Courtyard by Marriott hotel, with 356 guest rooms, after the construction of a new building, between the original Tower and the beachfront. Official website Weekly List Of Actions Taken On Properties, 10/03/05 Through 10/07/05 at National Register of Historic Places
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The Creek South Beach
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The Creek South Beach is a 90-room motel located on Collins Avenue and 23rd Street in the American city of Miami Beach, Florida. The motels building is an example of Miami Modern architecture and is situated just north of the Art Deco District, in the Collins Park neighborhood and the CANDO in Miami Beach. The motels building is one of the few remaining examples of post-World War II motel architecture in Miami, the property has been featured as an architecturally significant structure in the book on MiMo architecture MiMo, Miami Modern Revealed. The Creek South Beach was built in 1954 by the firm of Reiff & Feldman. Designed in a motel or googie-style L shape, the central element is a radically cantilevered-raked delta-wing roof. The lobby design sets the tone for architectural elements throughout – zigzagged lines, floating staircases encased in brick, the popularity of the property rose and fell with Miami Beachs economic tides changing hands and names many times over. By the turn of the 21st century, the motel was operated as a hostel under the name of Banana Bungalow and suffered from severe neglect. In 2003, the property was purchased by Ken Fields, who renamed it The Creek South Beach, young artists from across the country were invited to design individual rooms, re-christened The Creek, Signature Series. The project managers for the Signature Series were Bo Sundius of Bunch Design and Tim Ronan of SBK Global, with curatorial input, the hotel re-opened in time for Art Basel Miami Beach 2002, hosting guests including Jeffrey Deitch of Deitch Projects. The Creek South Beach won Best Hotel in Miami New Times Best Of 2003, list of motels Miami Beach Architectural District Tim Ronan Ellen Jong Hisako Ichiki & Bo Sundius Kenzo Minami
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Delano Hotel
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The Delano South Beach hotel is an upscale resort located in Miami Beach, Florida. Delano is now a part of the Morgans Hotel Group collection and it is located directly on the beach. The Delano is known for its whimsical, art-deco styling and its celebrity clientele, in 2007, the Delano South Beach was ranked in the American Institute of Architects list of Americas Favorite Architecture. On April 18,2012, the AIAs Florida Chapter placed the Delano South Beach on its list of Florida Architecture,100 Years, designed by architect Robert Swartburg, the Delano was built in 1947 by Rob and Rose Schwartz. The hotel was originally utilized for military housing, the then four-winged Art Deco tower of the Delano was the tallest building in Miami. The 1994 renovations were designed by Philippe Starck, the hotel is named after US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Doral Hotel
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The Doral-On-The-Ocean opened in 1963 on the famous Millionaires Row at 4833 Collins Avenue in Miami Beach, Florida. Also known as the Doral Beach Hotel, it was named for its founder and his wife, Doris and it was long considered the most elegant and luxurious hotel in the area. The Doral won several of the coveted Mobil Five Star awards, the hotel hosted the headquarters of George McGovern during the 1972 Democratic National Convention. It was the hotel to the Doral Country Club, where the Doral Open was played until 2006. The Doral was home away from home for movie stars and presidents, several scenes from the 1972 hit film The Heartbreak Kid were shot on location at the hotel. The movie shows extensive footage of the lobby, room 1704, there is also a short clip that was shot in the bar adjacent to the Starlight Roof restaurant on the 18th floor of the hotel. In the 1990s the Doral changed hands several times and it was first purchased from the original family in the early 1990s by a French company and renamed the Doral Ocean Beach Resort. The French OBR company then sold it to Interstate Hotels in 1997, in September 1998 the hotel was purchased by Wyndham and was operated as The Wyndham Miami Beach Resort. In 2006 the Blackstone Group, a conglomerate, purchased the Wyndham hotel chain. Some of the Wyndham hotels were merged into LXR, another chain owned by Blackstone, today, the former Doral is The Miami Beach Resort and Spa, an LXR hotel. The French company OBR retained a portion of the estate adjacent to the hotel when it was sold to Interstate. Originally, a lot, two tennis courts and additional beach access were located on this piece of property. OBR recently built a structure on this adjacent land, the purpose for the new building is not yet public information. However it may be used for a condo/hotel, in addition to the real estate, OBR also retained the rights to the Doral name. Ciudad doral newspaper Time Magazine July 10,1972
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Flamingo Hotel, Miami Beach
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The hotel was built by pioneering Miami Beach developer Carl G. Fisher in 1920, designed by Price and McLanahan, and opened in 1921. An adjoining golf course was designed by Captain H. C, Fisher was determined to avoid the ocean-side beaches where his development partner John S. Collins had established a casino. He saw the smooth waters of Biscayne Bay as the place for a boat racing spectacle, as an attraction for wealthy. The pioneer automobile racing promoter established the famous Biscayne Bay Speed Boat Regattas near Belle Isle as a publicity draw for his giant new hotel. He would continue to stoke the exotic vacation destination image that drove the land boom in the area with stunts like his publicity photos with his elephant Rosie, the Flamingo site overlooks Flagler Monument Island in Biscayne Bay
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New World Center
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The New World Center is a concert hall in the South Beach section of Miami Beach, Florida, that is designed by Frank Gehry. It is the home of the New World Symphony, with a capacity of 756 seats. Located one block north of Lincoln Road in the South Beach stretch of Miami Beach, such wallcasts are planned to occur at least twice a month. A sound system incorporating 167 individually tuned speakers augments the high-definition video presentation, during performances, QR codes are shown to enable the outside audience to scan them and obtain more information about the work in question. In addition to broadcasts of events inside, works in the video arts themselves can be shown on the wall. The projection wall is said to be the largest permanently established projection surface in North America, over a thousand people watched the wallcasts during each of the performances in the centers opening week. By the end of the parks first year, The Miami Herald wrote that the films, video art. The acoustics for the center were designed by Yasuhisa Toyota, Gehry and Toyota had previously worked together on the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. The intentionally small seating arrangement is steeply banked, allowing concertgoers to be close to the musicians, Gehry said the audience is right in the music. Projections upon sail-like panels hanging from the hall ceiling allow performances to be accompanied by video presentations, the symphonys artistic director, Michael Tilson Thomas, was instrumental in emphasizing the public outreach and digital technology aspects of the center. A prime goal of the enterprise was to provide ongoing experiments and architectural support towards making classical music more accessible. After its first half-season in the new venue, a New World Symphony official said, unlike some of Gehrys best-known works, including the Disney Hall, the glass-and-white-plaster exterior is mostly rectangular and unassuming. This was done to stay in commonality with Miami Beachs predominantly plaster-and-glass architectural look, reviews of the New World Center have been favorable. Christopher Hawthorne of the Los Angeles Times wrote, This is a piece of architecture that dares you to underestimate it or write it off at first glance, nicolai Ouroussoff, architecture critic of The New York Times, stated that Tilson Thomas and Gehry had created a building. That spills over with populist ideas, sometimes to the point of distraction and it reflects Mr. Gehrys belief that music, like other creative endeavors, should be more than an aesthetic matter. As a shared experience, one that each of us at our emotional core. The magic sparked by the collaboration of Gehry and Thomas just might fulfill their hope to turn around a perceived faltering interest in music by the young. The 100, 641-square-foot building cost some $160 million, ground was broken for the structure in January 2008
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Ocean Spray Hotel
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The Ocean Spray Hotel is a historic hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, United States built in 1937. It is located at 4130 Collins Avenue, on June 2,2004, it was added to the U. S. National Register of Historic Places. The architects of the building were M. L. Hampton Associates, the Ocean Spray Hotel is an example of original Art-Deco architecture which is outside the Art-Deco-District of Miami Beach. Miami-Dade County listings at National Register of Historic Places Official website
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Raleigh Hotel (Miami Beach)
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The Raleigh Hotel in the South Beach section of Miami Beach, Florida is an art deco building designed by L. Murray Dixon. It is located at 1775 Collins Avenue, the hotel is named after Walter Raleigh. The Raleigh has been one of the hosts of Hard and Zero Film Festival, the music video for the Kenny Chesney song Out Last Night, directed by Shaun Silva, was filmed at the hotel
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Ritz Plaza Hotel
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The Ritz Plaza Hotel is a closed 12 floor/62 meter hotel in Miami Beach. It was the tallest building in the city for 30 years until it was surpassed by 5660 Condominiums and it is located in the Miami Beach Art Deco District. The Grossinger family expanded from their Catskill resort into Miami Beach in 1939, the Art Deco tower was designed by architect L. Murray Dixon and opened as the Grossinger Beach Hotel. It was the first air-conditioned hotel on Miami Beach, the hotel was used by the U. S. Army during World War II to accommodate high-ranking officers. The property re-opened in 1946 as the Ritz Plaza, in 1989, the hotel was purchased by Ignacio Contreras and Manuel Llerandi and restored to its Art Deco roots, reopening in February 1990. The hotel became a member of the National Trust for Historic Preservations Historic Hotels of America in 1991. It was sold to developer Sam Nazarian in 2004 and immediately closed for a reconstruction as a luxury boutique hotel, but numerous plans stalled. In May 2012, it opened as the SLS Hotel South Beach
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Saxony Hotel
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The Saxony Hotel is a hotel at 3201 Collins Avenue Miami Beach. It was built and owned by George D. Sax, designed by architect Roy F. France, it was completed in 1948 as one of the first luxury resorts on Miami Beach. Following the success of the Saxony, other hotels emerged on the opulent beach front, currently it is owned by The Faena Group which is extensively renovating to be part of the New Saxony Hotel & Residences. George Sax was perhaps best known as the president and chairman of Chicagos Exchange International Corporation and he was also president of Sax Enterprises, Inc. Today, Sax is recognized for his contributions to the industry, being credited with the innovation of drive-through banking. The Saxony was famous for its luxurious rooms, complimentary meals, restaurants and it was the first air-conditioned hotel on Miami Beach, and was considered the most expensive and lavish resort of the time. When the hotel first opened, each room was estimated to have cost approximately $21,000, the rooms featured decks that could accommodate large groups. It was nicknamed the Ivory Tower after the nightclub on its top floor, features of the hotel included decks that could accommodate large groups, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, a 600-foot private beach, and two all-weather tennis courts. The Saxony hotel is now known as the Faena Hotel, celebrating its grand opening in December 2015, the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, George D. Sax - biography from the association
