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  2. List of African American newspapers in Florida - Wikipedia

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    The People's Journal [41] 1883 [42] 1893 [39] Weekly [40] LCCN sn95026045. OCLC 32633998. Published by J.W. Thompson, who formerly published the Progressive Age at Columbus, Georgia. [40] [42] Only African American paper in Jacksonville to survive the 1888 yellow fever epidemic.

  3. East Florida - Wikipedia

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    East Florida ( Spanish: Florida Oriental) was a colony of Great Britain from 1763 to 1783 and a province of the Spanish Empire from 1783 to 1821. The British gained control over Spanish Florida in 1763 as part of the Treaty of Paris that ended the Seven Years' War. Deciding that the colony was too large to administer as a single unit, British ...

  4. Florida East Coast Railway - Wikipedia

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    Florida East Coast Railway. The Florida East Coast Railway ( reporting mark FEC) is a Class II railroad operating in the U.S. state of Florida, currently owned by Grupo México . Built primarily in the last quarter of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century, the FEC was a project of Standard Oil principal Henry Flagler.

  5. Downtown Orlando - Wikipedia

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    Downtown Orlando. /  28.53361°N 81.37583°W  / 28.53361; -81.37583. Downtown Orlando is the historic core and central business district of Orlando, Florida, United States. It is bordered by Marks Street in the north, Mills Avenue ( SR 15) in the east, Orange Blossom Trail ( US 441) in the west, and Kaley Avenue in the south. [citation ...

  6. East Africa Time - Wikipedia

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    b Mauritius and the Seychelles are to the east and north-east of Madagascar respectively. East Africa Time, or EAT, is a time zone used in eastern Africa. The time zone is three hours ahead of UTC ( UTC+03:00 ), which is the same as Moscow Time, Arabia Standard Time, Further-eastern European Time and Eastern European Summer Time. [1]

  7. Flooding wreaks havoc across East Africa. Burundi is ... - AOL

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    Deadly floods are wreaking havoc in many parts of East Africa that face torrential rainfall, with Burundi calling for international help to deal with the aftermath. Lake Tanganyika's rising waters ...

  8. List of first African-American mayors - Wikipedia

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    First African American to be elected mayor of Baltimore, Maryland: Kurt Schmoke. First African American to be elected mayor of Hempstead, New York: James A. Garner. First African American to be elected mayor of Orange, New Jersey: Robert L. Brown. First African American acting mayor of Omaha, Nebraska: Fred L. Conley.

  9. Orlando, Soweto - Wikipedia

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    Orlando. / -26.241; 27.917. Orlando is a township in the urban area of Soweto, South Africa. The township was founded in 1931 and named after Edwin Orlando Leake, mayor of Johannesburg from 1925 to 1926. It is divided in two main areas: Orlando West and Orlando East.