Florida Newspaper
South Florida Regional Transportation Authority
Participation in the DemandStar.com system is not a necessary requirement for doing business with the SFRTA. You will still be able to get bid information at no cost by monitoring the newspaper for our legal ads, calling the fax-on-demand system and searching our website for new information. Also, the SFRTA will continue to maintain a vendor database from which vendors will be notified of upcoming solicitations in their field. Please contact the Contracts Administration & Procurement Department at (954) 788-7905 to obtain a Vendor Application. ... [Read More]
FLORIDA
Complimentary full American breakfast, kitchenette, local phone call, newspaper, iron/board,health club/ fitness center, parking. ... Complimentary newspaper, iron/board, health club/fitness center, in-room highspeed internet access available. ... Complimentary continental breakfast and hors'doeuvre (Monday-Friday),fully equipped kitchen, in-room coffee maker, newspaper, iron/board, health club/fitness center,parking. ... [Read More]
SOFIA - Educational Materials
The USGS (in cooperation with the SFWMD) has helped install a state-of-the-art weather station on the Forest Hill campus that will help the students collect meteorological and groundwater data. The students of Forest Hill will be using these data to help forecast weather and will publish their findings in their school newspaper. The SOFIA web site will also be working with the school to help develop a similar site for their project. Read more about the ... [Read More]
Methylmercury contamination of fish in South Florida
An article, entitled "Awfully Fishy", appeared in the New Times-Broward/Palm Beach newspaper on April 27, 2000. Below are excerpts from the article, which discusses the study conducted by Bill Orem , USGS geochemist, on mercury accumulation and its effects on the South Florida canals and Everglades. The complete article is located on the newspaper's web site. ... [Read More]
US Dept of State
The storm may be traced from newspaper accounts into the Mid-Atlantic States and Canada. Severefresh water flooding (a “ freshet” ) occurred in the Baltimore area. Reports of the disruption of overlandcommunications across coastal Georgia are also evident. The Savannah Republican , August 19, 1817 editionreports, “The late southeast gale [at Savannah, added by author ] was very severe at Amelia [Island, added byauthor ] and St. Mary’s on Thursday night last - most of the vessels in the later port were driven onshore, trees inthe town torn up by the roots and much other damage sustained.” ... [Read More]
List of Awardees : National Digital Newspaper Program (A partnership betweentheLibrary of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities)
Florida Digital Newspaper Library: National Digital Newspaper Project - http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/digital/collections/fdnl/NDNP.htm ... http://www.digitalnewspapers.org ... http://www.lib.utah.edu/digital/index.html showcasing the Utah Digital Newspapers ... [Read More]
U.S. Newspaper Indexes at the Library of Congress
The researcher using this list is cautioned that not all newspapertitles held by the Library of Congress are indexed; however, earlyU.S. newspapers often covered areas much larger than just thetowns where they were published. The user is further cautioned that few indexes are complete, and many errors and omissions can beexpected. ... U.S. Newspaper Indexes at the Library of Congress Home Page ... The format of the entry follows that of the Library's printed catalogcard including the classification number and an indication of the holdingsin the Newspaper and Current Periodical Room. ... [Read More]
Florida's History
The MIAMI HERALD has the largest advertising lineage of any newspaper in the United States, 42.5 million lines in contrast to 33.3 million by the nearest competitor. ... Florida returned to Spain by British for Bahamas. Nearly 10,000 persons, many of whom had fled the American Colonies during the Revolution, left Florida, going for the most part to the Bahamas and the West Indies. Uncounted others traveled West. Florida’s first newspaper, the East Florida Gazette, published at St. Augustine by Williams Charles Wells, a Tory. He rushed out an “extra” to proclaim the British defeat in the Revolutionary War. ... [Read More]
First Grants Awarded in National Digital Newspaper Program
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 28, 2005)--The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress today announced that six institutions have received more than $1.9 million in grants in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a new, long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers now in public domain. Two-year projects in California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia each will digitize 100,000 or more pages of each state's most historically significant newspapers published between 1900 and 1910. When completed, digitized newspapers will be made available through the Library of Congress's Web site ( www.loc.gov ). ... [Read More]
United States Newspaper Program
The USNP has supported projects in each of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Each project is conducted by a single organization within a state or territory, usually the state's largest newspaper repository. A project's staff inventories holdings in public libraries, county courthouses, newspaper offices, historical museums, college and university libraries, archives, and historical societies. Catalog records are entered into a national database maintained by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and accessible through more than 43,500 dedicated computer terminals worldwide. Microfilm copies of newspapers are generally available to researchers anywhere in the country through inter-library loan. ... [Read More]
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