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84 relations: A Land Remembered, American Horror Story: Freak Show, American pickerel, Arsenic, Basket Case (novel), Bluegill, Caloosahatchee River, Carl Hiaasen, Contiguous United States, Crappie, Distant Drums, Dixie on My Mind, Ecosystem health, Estuary, Everglades, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Fisheating Creek, Florida, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Florida Trail, Fort Myers, Florida, Gary Cooper, Glades County, Florida, Hank Williams Jr., Hendry County, Florida, Herbert Hoover, Herbert Hoover Dike, Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda, Hitchiti, Hurricane Frances, Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Jeanne, Hurricane Wilma, Indian River Lagoon, John Anderson (musician), Kissimmee River, Kreamer Island, Lake, Lake Istokpoga, Lake Michigan, Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail, Largemouth bass, Limestone, List of largest lakes of the United States by area, Martin County, Florida, Mayaca people, Mayaimi, Miami Canal, Miami River (Florida), Microcystin, ..., National Scenic Trail, National Weather Service, New River (Broward County, Florida), Okeechobee County, Florida, Okeechobee Waterway, Palm Beach County, Florida, Patrick D. Smith, PBS, Pesticide, Port Mayaca, Florida, René Goulaine de Laudonnière, Rhode Island, Ritta Island, Florida, Sea level, Seminole, Seminole Wind (song), St. Johns River, St. Lucie River, Storm surge, Stuart, Florida, Surface runoff, Tampa Bay Times, Taylor Creek, Florida, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Treasure Coast, Tropical Storm Fay (2008), U.S. state, United States Army Corps of Engineers, United States Census Bureau, Visit Florida, Zora Neale Hurston, 1926 Miami hurricane, 1928 Okeechobee hurricane, 1947 Fort Lauderdale hurricane. Expand index (34 more) »
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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American Horror Story: Freak Show
American Horror Story: Freak Show is the fourth season of the FX horror anthology television series American Horror Story.
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American pickerel
The American pickerels are two subspecies of Esox americanus, a species of freshwater fish in the pike family (family Esocidae) of order Esociformes: the redfin pickerel, E. americanus americanus Gmelin, 1789, and the grass pickerel, E. americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846.
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Arsenic
Arsenic is a chemical element with symbol As and atomic number 33.
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Basket Case (novel)
Basket Case, published in 2002, is the ninth novel by Carl Hiaasen.
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Bluegill
The bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) is a species of freshwater fish sometimes referred to as bream, brim, or copper nose.
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Caloosahatchee River
The Caloosahatchee River is a river on the southwest Gulf Coast of Florida in the United States, approximately long.
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Carl Hiaasen
Carl Hiaasen (born March 12, 1953) is an American writer.
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Contiguous United States
The contiguous United States or officially the conterminous United States consists of the 48 adjoining U.S. states plus Washington, D.C. on the continent of North America.
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Crappie
Crappies are a genus, Pomoxis, of North American fresh water fish in the sunfish family Centrarchidae.
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Distant Drums
Distant Drums is a 1951 "Florida Western" film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Gary Cooper.
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Dixie on My Mind
"Dixie on My Mind" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Hank Williams Jr..
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Ecosystem health
Ecosystem health is a metaphor used to describe the condition of an ecosystem.
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Estuary
An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.
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Everglades
The Everglades is a natural region of tropical wetlands in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large drainage basin and part of the neotropic ecozone.
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Federal Emergency Management Agency
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security, initially created by Presidential Reorganization Plan No.
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Fisheating Creek
Fisheating Creek is a stream that flows into Lake Okeechobee in Florida.
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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 Department of Environmental Protection
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) is the Florida government agency charged with environmental protection.
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Florida Trail
The Florida Trail is one of eleven National Scenic Trails in the United States.
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Fort Myers, Florida
Fort Myers or Ft.
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Gary Cooper
Gary Cooper (born Frank James Cooper; May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961) was an American film actor known for his natural, authentic, and understated acting style and screen performances.
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Glades County, Florida
Glades County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida.
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Hank Williams Jr.
Randall Hank Williams (born May 26, 1949), known professionally as Hank Williams Jr., is an American singer-songwriter and musician.
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Hendry County, Florida
Hendry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida.
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Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American engineer, businessman and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression.
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Herbert Hoover Dike
The Herbert Hoover Dike is a dike around the waters of Lake Okeechobee in Florida.
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Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda
Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda (c. 1536 – after 1575, dates uncertain) was a Spanish shipwreck survivor who lived among the Indians of Florida for 17 years.
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Hitchiti
The Hitchiti were an indigenous tribe formerly residing chiefly in a town of the same name on the east bank of the Chattahoochee River, four miles below Chiaha, in western present-day Georgia, United States.
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Hurricane Frances
Hurricane Frances was the second most intense tropical cyclone in the Atlantic during 2004 that proved to be very destructive in Florida.
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Hurricane Irma
Hurricane Irma was an extremely powerful and catastrophic Cape Verde hurricane, the strongest observed in the Atlantic in terms of maximum sustained winds since Wilma, and the strongest storm on record to exist in the open Atlantic region.
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Hurricane Jeanne
Hurricane Jeanne was the deadliest hurricane in the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season.
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Hurricane Wilma
Hurricane Wilma was the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Atlantic basin, and the second-most intense tropical cyclone recorded in the Western Hemisphere, after Hurricane Patricia in 2015.
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Indian River Lagoon
The Indian River Lagoon is a grouping of three lagoons: the Mosquito Lagoon, the Banana River, and the Indian River, on the Atlantic Coast of Florida; it is the most biodiverse lagoon ecosystem in the Northern Hemisphere and is home to more than 10,000 species of plants and animals.
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John Anderson (musician)
John David Anderson (born December 13, 1954 in Apopka, Florida) is an American country musician with a successful career that has lasted more than 30 years.
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Kissimmee River
The Kissimmee River is a river in south-central Florida, United States.
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Kreamer Island
Kreamer Island is a small island in the south-easternmost part of Lake Okeechobee, located in Palm Beach County, Florida just north of Torry Island.
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Lake
A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land, apart from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake.
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Lake Istokpoga
Lake Istokpoga is a freshwater lake in Highlands County, Florida.
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Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the United States.
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Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail
The Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail (LOST) is a 109-mile multi-use path around Lake Okeechobee, the seventh largest lake in the United States and the largest in the state of Florida.
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Largemouth bass
The largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) is a freshwater gamefish in the Centrarchidae (sunfish) family, a species of black bass native to North America.
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Limestone
Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.
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List of largest lakes of the United States by area
The following is a list of the largest 100 lakes of the United States by normal surface area.
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Martin County, Florida
Martin County is a county located in the Treasure Coast region in the state of Florida, in the United States.
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Mayaca people
Mayaca was the name used by the Spanish to refer to a Native American tribe in central Florida, to the principal village of that tribe and to the chief of that village in the 1560s.
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Mayaimi
The Mayaimi (also Maymi, Maimi) were Native American people who lived around Lake Mayaimi (now Lake Okeechobee) in the Belle Glade area of Florida from the beginning of the Common Era until the 17th or 18th century.
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Miami Canal
The Miami Canal, or C-6 Canal, flows from Lake Okeechobee in the U.S. state of Florida to its terminus at the Miami River, which flows through downtown Miami.
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Miami River (Florida)
The Miami River is a river in the United States state of Florida that drains out of the Everglades and runs through the city of Miami, including Downtown.
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Microcystin
Microcystins — or cyanoginosins — are a class of toxins produced by certain freshwater cyanobacteria; primarily Microcystis aeruginosa but also other Microcystis, as well as members of the Planktothrix, Anabaena, Oscillatoria and Nostoc genera.
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National Scenic Trail
National Scenic Trail is a designation for protected areas in the United States that consist of trails of particular natural beauty.
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National Weather Service
The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency of the United States Federal Government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related products to organizations and the public for the purposes of protection, safety, and general information.
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New River (Broward County, Florida)
The New River is a tidal estuary in South Florida, United States.
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Okeechobee County, Florida
Okeechobee County is a county located in the state of Florida.
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Okeechobee Waterway
The Okeechobee Waterway or Okeechobee Canal is a relatively shallow man-made waterway in the United States, stretching across Florida from Fort Myers on the west coast to Stuart on Florida's east coast.
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Palm Beach County, Florida
Palm Beach County is a county in the state of Florida that is directly north of Broward County.
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Patrick D. Smith
Patrick Davis Smith (October 8, 1927 – January 26, 2014) was an American author.
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PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.
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Pesticide
Pesticides are substances that are meant to control pests, including weeds.
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Port Mayaca, Florida
Port Mayaca (pronounced port my-ak-kuh) is a sparsely populated place located in western Martin County, Florida, United States, on the eastern side of Lake Okeechobee.
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René Goulaine de Laudonnière
Rene Goulaine de Laudonnière (c. 1529–1574) was a French Huguenot explorer and the founder of the French colony of Fort Caroline in what is now Jacksonville, Florida.
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Rhode Island
Rhode Island, officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the United States.
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Ritta Island, Florida
Ritta Island was a settlement in Palm Beach County, Florida.
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Sea level
Mean sea level (MSL) (often shortened to sea level) is an average level of the surface of one or more of Earth's oceans from which heights such as elevations may be measured.
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Seminole
The Seminole are a Native American people originally from Florida.
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Seminole Wind (song)
"Seminole Wind" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist John Anderson.
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St. Johns River
The St.
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St. Lucie River
The St.
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Storm surge
A storm surge, storm flood or storm tide is a coastal flood or tsunami-like phenomenon of rising water commonly associated with low pressure weather systems (such as tropical cyclones and strong extratropical cyclones), the severity of which is affected by the shallowness and orientation of the water body relative to storm path, as well as the timing of tides.
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Stuart, Florida
Stuart is a city in and the seat of Martin County, Florida, United States.
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Surface runoff
Surface runoff (also known as overland flow) is the flow of water that occurs when excess stormwater, meltwater, or other sources flows over the Earth's surface.
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Tampa Bay Times
The Tampa Bay Times, previously named the St.
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Taylor Creek, Florida
Taylor Creek is a census-designated place (CDP) in Okeechobee County, Florida, United States.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 1937 novel and the best known work by African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston.
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Treasure Coast
The Treasure Coast is a region of the U.S. state of Florida.
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Tropical Storm Fay (2008)
Tropical Storm Fay was a strong and unusual tropical storm that moved erratically across the state of Florida and the Caribbean Sea.
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U.S. state
A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.
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United States Army Corps of Engineers
The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is a U.S. federal agency under the Department of Defense and a major Army command made up of some 37,000 civilian and military personnel, making it one of the world's largest public engineering, design, and construction management agencies.
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United States Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau (USCB; officially the Bureau of the Census, as defined in Title) is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.
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Visit Florida
VISIT FLORIDA, the state's official tourism marketing corporation, serves as Florida's official source for travel planning to visitors across the globe.
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Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an influential author of African-American literature and anthropologist, who portrayed racial struggles in the early 20th century American South, and published research on Haitian voodoo.
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1926 Miami hurricane
The 1926 Miami hurricane, commonly called the "Great Miami" hurricane, was a large and intense tropical cyclone that devastated the Greater Miami area and caused extensive damage in the Bahamas and the U.S. Gulf Coast in September 1926, accruing a US$100 million damage toll that would be the second costliest in U.S. history when adjusted using inflation, population, and wealth normalization, yielding a cost of nearly US$196 billion.
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1928 Okeechobee hurricane
The Okeechobee hurricane, also known as the San Felipe Segundo hurricane, was one of the deadliest hurricanes in the recorded history of the North Atlantic basin.
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1947 Fort Lauderdale hurricane
The 1947 Fort Lauderdale hurricane was an intense tropical cyclone that affected the Bahamas, southernmost Florida, and the Gulf Coast of the United States in September 1947.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Okeechobee
