This inventor had the bright idea to plant hundreds of palms in Fort Myers, now known as "The City of Palms"
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Fort Myers, FL Visitor's Guide  La Quinta Inn & Suites  You'll find ideas on things to do from waterparks, to racetracks to museums. ... the Caloosahatchee River and known as the City of Palms, Fort Myers is rich in ... Fort Myers is also the winter home of the Boston Red Sox and Minnesota Twins. .... The museum has information on the Calusa Indians, a tribe also known as the...
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Female Pioneers of Fort Myers  Women Who Made a Difference in ...  The historical narrative about the founding of Fort Myers has always been all about the flamboyant ... While the women of that era also played pivotal parts in the town's early ... the ways this diverse corps of women contributed to the City of Palms. .... look at the impact of the two friends, inventors and entrepreneurs in Florida.
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December 2013  Montverde Academy  They will travel to the City of Palms tournament in Ft. Meyers over the holiday. ... Previous: MVA Seniors 2014 College Acceptances Growing .... Some people have no idea how hard these athletes (and coaches) work, they only see the end .... However, the door has now undeniably been opened to turn professional as well.
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Spring Training: Take a Swing at Florida Baseball | VisitFlorida.com  SEATING CAPACITY: 8,500 at Bright House Networks Field ... FUN FACTS: One of the first to be captivated by Fort Myers' natural charms was ... made: the royal palms that line McGregor Boulevard and give the City of Palms its nickname. .... FUN FACTS: Also known as Tiger Town, Joker Marchant Stadium is named after...
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The Philosophical Traveller | Taking the long way home  Dec 9, 2015 ... If I had my druthers, I would not be sitting here at my computer  glancing ... plants such as palmettos, the mighty mangroves, royal palms, mango ... (Natural Resources) website, and you'll start to get an idea of what I am talking about. ... And thanks to Edison, Fort Myers is also known as the City of Palms;...
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George Ballas, Inventor of the Weed Whacker, Dies at 85 - The New ...  Jul 1, 2011 ... George C. Ballas loved tending to his lawn with meticulous care, but the 200 or more ... the Weed Eater was born  or what is more generally known as the weed whacker, ... Mr. Ballas's invention has become one of the crucial tools to our industry, ... He would cut 10 trees in 10 minutes and go off to work.
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A Vacation-Home Owner Makes His Own Hot Spring in the ...  Mar 12, 2009 ... Scott Griesbach, seated with dogs, created a hot mineral spring at his ... in California  was neither gold nor oil, but piping hot mineral water. ... During one visit, he discovered Desert Hot Springs, a town celebrated for its mineral ... Fault runs through the Joshua Tree vicinity, Mr. Griesbach suspected that he...
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The Invention Factory - Edison and Innovation Series, The Edison ...  Edison briefly experimented with electric lighting in 1877 but he did not begin to ... he sought to make it resemble the older lighting system he planned to replace. ... heat in his distribution system it would be necessary to increase the cross section .... of woods and papers, vulcanized fibre, celluloid, cotton lampwick, flax, cork,...
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Grapefruit  In 1962, Florida Citrus Mutual proposed changing the name to something more ... Hill was sold in 1875 to George W. Bowen who developed it commercially. .... Because the fruits of this tree were seedless, C.M. Marsh took budwood from it for ... By 1950, 75% of Florida's grapefruit crop was of the pink or red seedless type.
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Food for Thought: Bridal party prep - The Record Herald  Dec 28, 2010 ... You can serve delicious and healthy food at a bridal shower without hiring a professional chef or ... palm tree, which grows in many tropical climates and is Florida's official state tree. Hearts of palm are slender, ivory-colored, delicately flavored and expensive. They resemble white asparagus, sans tips.
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jeopardy/1301_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  FOOD STUFF | Frenchman Odette Philippe is credited with introducing this large citrus fruit to Florida around 1823 | the grapefruit. right: Joe. Wrong: Value: $200.
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Game Show NewsNet  Sep 18, 2006 ... He bets $3600 on this: the southern tip of Florida has forests of this tree, genus Rhizophora, noted for above-ground knee roots. "What is the...
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Food for Thought: Bridal party prep - The Daily Independent  Sep 25, 2016 ... You can serve delicious and healthy food at a bridal shower without hiring a professional chef or ... palm tree, which grows in many tropical climates and is Florida's official state tree. Hearts of palm are slender, ivory-colored, delicately flavored and expensive. They resemble white asparagus, sans tips.
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CFM - Learn - Florida Stories - Citrus  The pioneers mistakenly believed that the citrus fruits were native to Florida. ... A Frenchman, Count Odet Philippe, is credited with introducing the grapefruit in the Tampa Bay area around 1823. ... + now sprouting out again - the many large Palms Pines Oaks Cypress + with the mosses often reaching nearly to the ground.
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Richard E. Schultes; Botanist Pioneered in Rain Forest ...  Apr 23, 2001 ... In 1947, botanist Richard Evans Schultes was traveling up an Amazon ... father of an entire branch of science: ethnobotany, which studies the ... a slim volume about the pharmacological effects of the peyote cactus. ... For his senior thesis in 1937, Schultes spent a month with the Kiowa Indians of Oklahoma,...
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Catherine Littlefield Greene Facts - Biography - YourDictionary  Catherine Littlefield Greene (1755-1814) is credited with aiding Eli Whitney in his invention of the cotton ginan invention that revolutionized the plantation .... "If you are in want of anything from Boston, write to Mrs. Knox. ," he added. .... recommended improving his prototype by replacing its wooden teeth with wire ones.
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Benjamin Franklin | Statesman and Inventor - Lucidcaf Home  Jul 10, 2016 ... Franklin himself served the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the ... about the "Glass Harmonica" invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1761.
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10 things you didn't know about Johnny Appleseed | MNN - Mother ...  Apr 24, 2014 ... The folk hero planted many an apple tree, but not for the reasons ... Unlike a lot of other legendary figures of the American Midwest, ... else had settled (apple orchards established legal land ownership in ... Accounts of Chapman's travels indicate that he was a lover of all ... Milky Way over Flagstaff, Arizona.
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Luther Burbank - Wikipedia  Luther Burbank (March 7, 1849  April 11, 1926) was an American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science. He developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year ... In Santa Rosa, Burbank purchased a 4-acre (16,000 m2) plot of land, and established a greenhouse, nursery, and...
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DeLand Florida: Home Of The Cowboy Hat University  DeLand Florida is a place of thousands of shade trees and hundreds of historic sites. Enjoy a day or a ... He bought large acreage in the area and founded the town named for himself. Henry Deland's ... Stetson, creator of the first cowboy hat, made the community his winter home in the late 19th century. His house is now on...
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Thomas Edison - New World Encyclopedia  Sep 12, 2013 ... Edison became known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park, New Jersey," where he lived. ... the incandescent electric lamp and was put in charge of tests and records ... of the incandescent light bulb on December 31, 1879, in Menlo Park. ... On October 8, 1883, the U.S. patent office ruled that Edison's patent was...