and about 40 percent of American households owned a radio by the end of the decade. With the addition of sound and color, movies also became an increasingly popular form of diversion. Comedies, gangster movies, horror films, westerns, melodramas, and musicals all helped people to forget their...
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Geographical and historical treatment Florida, including maps and a survey of its people, economy, and government. The climate and scenery of the ‘Sunshine State’ have long drawn enormous numbers of visitors. Tourism has surpassed agriculture and manuf
The Florida panhandle blocks Alabama’s access to the Gulf of Mexico except in Alabama’s southwestern corner, where Mobile Bay is located. Montgomery is the state capital. The state offers much topographical diversity. The rich agricultural valley of the Tennessee River occupies the extreme ...
Delaware, located mainly within the Atlantic Coastal Plain, is second only toFloridafor having the lowest average elevation. A long sand beach forms the state’s oceanfront, stretching from the border with Maryland, at Fenwick Island, north to Cape Henlopen, at the mouth ofDelaware Bay. Only ...
which have been defined more by elevations and soils. The inland waters of Georgia consist of some two dozen artificial lakes, about 70,000 small ponds created largely by the federal Soil Conservation Service, and natural lakes in the southwest nearFlorida. The larger lakes have fostered widesprea...
A modification of that design was adopted on March 4, 1865, about a month before the end of the war. In the latter part of the 20th century, many groups in the South challenged the practice of flying the Confederate Battle Flag on public buildings, including some state capitols. ...
Boca Raton, city, Palm Beach county, southeastern Florida, U.S. It is located about 15 miles (25 km) north of Fort Lauderdale on the Atlantic Ocean. Although the Spanish occasionally used Boca Raton’s harbor, the first settlers arrived in the area about
Juan Ponce de Leon, Spanish explorer born into a noble family in the court of Aragon. He founded the first European settlement on Puerto Rico, near what is now San Juan, and is credited with being the first European to reach Florida, which he named for i
After his term ended in 1944, Batista traveled abroad and lived for a while in Florida, where he invested part of the huge sums he had acquired in Cuba. During the eight years that he was out of power in Cuba, there was a resurgence of corruption on a grand scale, as well as a vi...