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Florida cracker

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Florida cracker refers to colonial-era English and American pioneer settlers and their descendants in what is now the U.S. state of Florida. [1]

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A Land Remembered

A Land Remembered is a best-selling novel written by author Patrick D. Smith, and published in 1984 by Pineapple Press.

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Ben Hill Griffin Jr.

Ben Hill Griffin Jr. (October 20, 1910 – March 1, 1990) was a prominent American businessman, citrus producer, politician, and philanthropist who was a native and resident of Florida.

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Boasting

Boasting is to speak with excessive pride and self-satisfaction about one’s achievements, possessions, or abilities.

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Cowboy

A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks.

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Cracker (pejorative)

Cracker, sometimes white cracker or "cracka", is a colloquial term for white people, used especially for poor rural whites in the Southern United States.

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Cracker Country

Cracker Country, a rural Florida living history museum, was established in 1978 by Mr.

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Craic

"Craic" or "crack" is a term for news, gossip, fun, entertainment, and enjoyable conversation, particularly prominent in Ireland.

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Earl of Dartmouth

Earl of Dartmouth is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain.

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Elizabethan era

The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603).

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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English Americans

English Americans, also referred to as Anglo-Americans, are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England, a country that is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Florida cracker architecture

Florida cracker architecture is a style of wood-frame home used somewhat widely in the 19th century in the U.S. state of Florida, and still popular with some developers as a source of design themes.

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Florida Cracker cattle

The Florida Cracker is a breed of cattle developed in the state of Florida, and named for the Florida Cracker culture in which it was kept.

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Florida Cracker Horse

The Florida Cracker Horse is a breed of horse from Florida in the United States.

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Florida Cracker Trail

The Florida Cracker Trail runs from just east of Bradenton, and ends in Fort Pierce, a total distance of approximately.

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Florida Western

A Florida Western can be used to describe a small number of films and literature set in the 19th century, particularly around the time of the Second Seminole War.

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Frostproof, Florida

Frostproof is a city in Polk County, Florida, United States.

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Georgia cracker

Georgia Cracker refers to the original American pioneer settlers of the Province of Georgia (later, the State of Georgia), and their descendants.

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Harper's Weekly

Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City.

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Homeland, Florida

Homeland is an unincorporated community in Polk County, Florida, United States.

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House

A house is a building that functions as a home.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.

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Joke

A joke is a display of humour in which words are used within a specific and well-defined narrative structure to make people laugh and is not meant to be taken seriously.

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King John (play)

The Life and Death of King John, a Shakespearean historic play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of John, King of England (ruled 1199–1216), son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and father of Henry III of England.

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Lasso

A lasso, from the Castilian word, Lazo.

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Latin America

Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Spanish, French and Portuguese are spoken; it is broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Miami Herald

The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by the McClatchy Company and headquartered in Doral, Florida, a city in western Miami-Dade County and the Miami metropolitan area, several miles west of downtown Miami.

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Middle English

Middle English (ME) is collectively the varieties of the English language spoken after the Norman Conquest (1066) until the late 15th century; scholarly opinion varies but the Oxford English Dictionary specifies the period of 1150 to 1500.

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Northern England

Northern England, also known simply as the North, is the northern part of England, considered as a single cultural area.

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Scotch-Irish Americans

Scotch-Irish (or Scots-Irish) Americans are American descendants of Presbyterian and other Ulster Protestant Dissenters from various parts of Ireland, but usually from the province of Ulster, who migrated during the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Settler

A settler is a person who has migrated to an area and established a permanent residence there, often to colonize the area.

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Seven Years' War

The Seven Years' War was a global conflict fought between 1756 and 1763.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Strawberry Girl

Strawberry Girl is a Newbery medal winning novel written and illustrated by Lois Lenski.

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Thirteen Colonies

The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the east coast of North America founded in the 17th and 18th centuries that declared independence in 1776 and formed the United States of America.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University Press of Florida

The University Press of Florida (UPF) is the scholarly publishing arm of the State University System of Florida, representing Florida's twelve state universities.

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Vaquero

The vaquero (vaqueiro) is a horse-mounted livestock herder of a tradition that originated on the Iberian Peninsula.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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World Digital Library

The World Digital Library (WDL) is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_cracker

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