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Lake Wales, Florida

Index Lake Wales, Florida

Lake Wales is a city in Polk County, Florida, United States. [1]

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Agricultural cooperative

An agricultural cooperative, also known as a farmers' co-op, is a cooperative where farmers pool their resources in certain areas of activity.

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Amar'e Stoudemire

Amar'e Carsares Stoudemire (born November 16, 1982) is an American professional basketball player for Hapoel Jerusalem of the Israeli Premier League and the FIBA Champions League Stoudemire played high school basketball for five different schools, ultimately graduating from Cypress Creek High School in Orlando, Florida and declaring for the NBA draft as a prep-to-pro player.

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Area code 863

863 is the telephone area code in Florida which covers the Heartland, as well as Polk County in Central Florida.

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Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad is a former U. S. Class I railroad from 1900 until 1967, when it merged with long-time rival Seaboard Air Line Railroad to form the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad.

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Bok Tower Gardens

Bok Tower Gardens (also known as) is a contemplative garden, and bird sanctuary located north of Lake Wales, Florida, United States.

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Camp Mack

Camp Mack is a popular fishing lodge, RV resort campground and recreation event venue in the historic town of Lake Wales, Florida situated on the Kissimmee River, in the heart of the Kissimmee Chain of Lakes.  In March, 2018 the lodge was rebranded Camp Mack, a Guy Harvey Lodge, Marina and RV Resort, affiliating itself with Guy Harvey Outpost Collection, the lodging arm of the noted marine scientist, artist, and conservation advocate Dr. Guy Harvey.  The camp’s unspoiled “old Florida” riverfront setting offers bass fishing enthusiasts access to Lake Kissimmee, Hatchineha, Cypress and Tohopekaliga and is host of numerous bass fishing tournaments.  A variety of sporting and musical events use the riverfront setting as a backdrop, including Rockin’ on the River, an annual country music festival supporting autism.  The Kissimmee River watershed comprises 3,000 square miles, supporting a diverse community of waterfowl, wading birds and other wildlife, in addition to its national reputation for holding trophy size largemouth bass.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.

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Chalet Suzanne

Chalet Suzanne (once known as the Carleton Club) is a historic site in Lake Wales, Florida.

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Chicago Cubs

The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois.

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City

A city is a large human settlement.

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College Football Hall of Fame

The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and museum devoted to college football.

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Dixie Walesbilt Hotel

The Dixie Walesbilt Hotel (also known as the Hotel Walesbilt) is a historic hotel in Lake Wales, Florida, United States located at 5 Park Avenue West and/or 115 North 1st Street.

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Dominique Jones

Dominique O'Neal Jones (born October 15, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for Petrochimi Bandar Imam of the Iranian Super League.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing 17 U.S. states in the eastern part of the contiguous United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama in Central America, and the Caribbean Islands.

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Edward Bok

Edward William Bok (born Eduard Willem Gerard Cesar Hidde Bok) (October 9, 1863 – January 9, 1930) was a Dutch-born American editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

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EuroCup Basketball

EuroCup Basketball, commonly known as EuroCup and currently called the 7DAYS EuroCup for name sponsorship reasons, is an annual European-wide second tier level professional basketball club competition that is organized by Euroleague Basketball, since 2002, for eligible European basketball clubs.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are publicly announced standards developed by the United States federal government for use in computer systems by non-military government agencies and government contractors.

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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 land boom of the 1920s

The Florida land boom of the 1920s was Florida's first real estate bubble, which burst in 1925, leaving behind entire new cities and the remains of failed development projects such as Aladdin City in south Miami-Dade County, Miami's Isola di Lolando in north Biscayne Bay, or Boca Raton as Addison Mizner planned it to be.

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Florida State Road 17

State Road 17 (SR 17), also formerly known as U.S. Route 27 Alternate, is a north–south state road in the U.S. state of Florida.

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Florida State Road 60

State Road 60 (SR 60) is an east–west route transversing Florida from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean.

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Florida's Natural Growers

Florida's Natural Growers is an agricultural cooperative based in Lake Wales, Florida.

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Florida's Turnpike

Florida's Turnpike, designated as State Road 91 (SR 91), is a toll road in the U.S. state of Florida, maintained by Florida's Turnpike Enterprise (FTE).

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Frostproof, Florida

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

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout the United States of America and its territories.

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Grassy Lake Preserve

Grassy Lake Preserve is of preserve purchased by the State of Florida in 2003 for $2.1 million to protect eight rare species of plants and one rare species of animal.

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Gravity hill

A gravity hill, also known as a magnetic hill, mystery hill, mystery spot, gravity road, or anti-gravity hill, is a place where the layout of the surrounding land produces an optical illusion, making a slight downhill slope appear to be an uphill slope.

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Haines City, Florida

Haines City is a city in Polk County, Florida, United States.

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Hapoel Jerusalem B.C.

Hapoel Jerusalem Basketball Club (הפועל ירושלים), for sponsorships reasons Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem, is the premier professional basketball club of the City of Jerusalem and competes in the EuroCup, Israeli Premier League, and the Israeli State Cup.

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Hurricane Charley

Hurricane Charley was the first of four individual hurricanes to impact or strike Florida during 2004, along with Frances, Ivan and Jeanne, as well as one of the strongest hurricanes ever to strike the 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 Jeanne

Hurricane Jeanne was the deadliest hurricane in the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season.

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Interstate 4

Interstate 4 (I-4) is an Interstate Highway in the U.S. state of Florida, maintained by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT).

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Israeli Basketball Premier League

Ligat HaAl (ליגת העל, lit., Super League or Premier League), or the Israeli Basketball Premier League, is the top-tier level league of professional competition in Israeli club basketball, making it Israel's primary basketball competition.

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Kansas City Royals

The Kansas City Royals are an American professional baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Ladies' Home Journal

Ladies' Home Journal is an American magazine published by the Meredith Corporation.

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Lake Kissimmee

Lake Kissimmee is a lake located about east of Lake Wales, Florida, USA.

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Lake Wales Commercial Historic District

The Lake Wales Commercial Historic District is a U.S. historic district (designated as such on May 10, 1990) located in Lake Wales, Florida.

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Lake Wales High School

Lake Wales High School is a high school located in Lake Wales, Florida, serving the city of Lake Wales and nearby communities such as Frostproof, Florida, Dundee, Florida and Winter Haven, Florida.

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Lake Wales Ridge

The Lake Wales Ridge, sometimes referred to as the Mid-Florida Ridge, is a sand ridge running for about 150 miles south to north in Central Florida.

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Lakeland, Florida

Lakeland is a city in Polk County, Florida, along Interstate 4 east of Tampa.

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List of counties in Florida

There are 67 counties in the state of Florida.

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List of sovereign states

This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, the oldest of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.

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Mario Gosselin (racing driver)

Mario Gosselin (born October 20, 1971) is a Canadian professional stock car racing driver and crew chief. In 2004, he became the second native of the Province of Quebec to start in a NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race after Superbike legend Yvon Duhamel. In 1997, he became the first Canadian to win the championship title for the NASCAR CARS Pro Cup Series. He currently competes part-time in the Xfinity Series, driving the No. 90 Chevrolet Camaro for King Autosport.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage).

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McLaughlin Middle School and Fine Arts Academy

McLaughlin Middle School and Fine Arts Academy is a Polk County Public Schools middle school located southeast of downtown in Lake Wales, FL.

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Miami

Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.

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NASCAR

National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock-car racing.

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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series

The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (formerly the NASCAR SuperTruck Series presented by Craftsman and the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series) is a pickup truck racing series owned and operated by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, and is the only series in all of NASCAR to race modified production pickup trucks.

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National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a men's professional basketball league in North America; composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).

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Optical illusion

An optical illusion (also called a visual illusion) is an illusion caused by the visual system and characterized by a visual percept that (loosely said) appears to differ from reality.

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Pat Borders

Patrick Lance Borders (born May 14, 1963) is an American former professional baseball player and current minor league manager.

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Per capita income

Per capita income or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Polk County, Florida

Polk County is located in the U.S. state of Florida.

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Polk State College

Polk State College, formerly known as Polk Community College, is a public state college located in Winter Haven, Florida, USA.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit or poverty line is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States Census

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, defined by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin (the only categories for ethnicity).

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Red Grange

Harold Edward "Red" Grange (June 13, 1903 – January 28, 1991), nicknamed "The Galloping Ghost", was an American football halfback for the University of Illinois, the Chicago Bears, and for the short-lived New York Yankees.

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Robbie Tobeck

Robert Lee Tobeck (born March 6, 1970) is a former American football center who played fourteen seasons in the National Football League (NFL).

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Saddlebag Lake Resort

Saddlebag Lake Resort is a snowbird subdivision near the outskirts of Lake Wales, Florida in Polk County.

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Seattle Seahawks

The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football franchise based in Seattle, Washington.

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Spook Hill

Spook Hill is a gravity hill, an optical illusion where cars appear to roll up the spooky hill in Lake Wales, Florida.

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St. Petersburg, Florida

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Ste Anne des Lacs

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Tampa, Florida

Tampa is a major city in, and the county seat of, Hillsborough County, Florida, United States.

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Thomas Wendell McVay

Thomas Wendell McVay, also known as "Cotton" McVay, was mayor of Lake Wales, Florida, United States between the years of 1953 and 1954.

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U.S. Route 27 in Florida

U.S. Route 27 (US 27) in Florida is a north–south United States Highway.

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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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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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.

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Vanguard School (Florida)

The Vanguard School is an independent, co-educational, boarding and day school for students, 6-12 grade, who learn differently and is located in Lake Wales, FL.

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Vero Beach, Florida

Vero Beach is a city in and the seat of Indian River County, Florida, United States.

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Wade Davis (baseball)

Wade Allen Davis (born September 7, 1985) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Colorado Rockies of Major League Baseball (MLB).

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Walt Faulkner

Walt Faulkner (February 16, 1918 – April 22, 1956) was an American racing driver from Tell, Texas.

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Warner University

Warner University is a co-educational, private Christian liberal arts college in Lake Wales, Florida, affiliated with the Church of God.

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Webber International University

Webber International University (commonly referred to as Webber or WIU) is a private institution of higher learning located in Babson Park, Florida, with a setting overlooking Crooked Lake.

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Winter Haven Area Transit

Winter Haven Area Transit is a bus system based in Winter Haven, Florida.

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Winter Haven, Florida

Winter Haven is a city in Polk County, Florida, United States.

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World Series Most Valuable Player Award

The Willie Mays World Series Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award is given to the player deemed to have the most impact on his team's performance in the World Series, which is the final round of the Major League Baseball (MLB) postseason.

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ZIP Code

ZIP Codes are a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS) since 1963.

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1991 in sports

1991 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

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2010 United States Census

The 2010 United States Census (commonly referred to as the 2010 Census) is the twenty-third and most recent United States national census.

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2015 World Series

The 2015 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2015 season.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wales,_Florida

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