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He was convicted and sentenced for violating section 316.193(3), Florida Statutes. In reliance upon section 316.066(4), Florida Statutes (1991), which provides for the confidentiality of certain statements made to an officer during the course of an accident investigation, Perez sought to suppress his spontaneous utterance. The trial court ...
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1497-1514Europeans see Florida for the first time. A Spanish map of 1502 depicts a peninsula like Florida. Peter Martyr writes in 1514 of a land near the Bahamas with water of eternal youth.
1513- In 1513, Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon became the European to explore Florida. He claimed the region for Spain but was unable to establish a colony due to Indian attacks. 1539- Hernando de Soto landed in the Tampa Bay. He explored central and northern Florida on his way to the Mississippi River. 1542- De Soto died near the Mississippi River. Su...
1763- Britain gained control of Florida in 1763 in exchange for Havana, Cuba, which the British had captured from Spain during the Seven Years' War (1756-63). Spain evacuated Florida after the exchange, leaving the province virtually empty. At that time, St. Augustine was still a garrison community with fewer than five hundred houses, and Pensacola...
1812- During the War of 1812, Spain allowed Britain to use Pensacola as a naval base. 1814- American troops captured the base in Pensacola. 1818- On one of those military operations, in 1818, General Andrew Jackson made a foray into Florida. Jackson's battles with Florida's Indian people later would be called the First Seminole War. 1821- Andrew Ja...
1912- Florida grew immensely during the early 1900s. Railroads expanded to Key West in 1912, opening new land for development. Swamps were drained and the growing tourist industry attracted people from all over the world. Citrus groves expanded throughout northern and south-central parts of the state. Florida's population grew considerably at this ...
2000- 1. Six-year old Elian Gonzalez taken from relatives' home by federal officers; reunited with his father and returned to Cuba; 2. Florida Supreme Court ordered recount of presidential election ballots, George Bush declared winner 2001- 1. Racer Dale Earnhardt killed in accident at Daytona 500 2. anthrax bacteria found at offices of Florida mag...
The most important dramatic meditation on the death of Tsarevich Ivan was Aleksei K. Tolstoi’s 1866 verse tragedy The Death of Ivan the Terrible, the first installment in what was to become a trilogy of historical dramas (the two subsequent plays concerned the reigns of Fedor Ivanovich and of Boris Godunov, the latter character being the linchpin of the trilogy as a whole). 40 As with ...
Sep 25, 2023 · Ivan VI’s short and tragic life is often compared to the “Man in the Iron Mask ” from Alexandre Dumas’s 1850 novel Le Vicomte de Bragelonne. In the story, a mysterious prisoner’s face is completely covered with an iron helmet, masking his identity. The legend of a real Man in the Iron Mask inspired Dumas.
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Neither Spain nor Britain maintained a large military or civilian population. It became a territoryof the United States in 1821. Two decades later, on March 3, 1845, Florida was admitted to the Union as the 27th U.S. state. Florida is nicknamed the "Sunshine State" due to its warm climate and days of sunshine.
Jul 3, 2024 · Ivan Burtulin (1661-1738) was a general who served in Peter the Great's army and participated in the Great Northern War (1700-1721). Burtulin's letters were published in the Russian 19th-century journal Russkaia starina in no. 10, pg. 161-86 (1878) and no. 5, pg. 151-8 (1879).
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Abstract. This chapter investigates how Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great served during the first half of the nineteenth century to articulate conceptions of collective selfhood in foundational texts of Russian historiography—Nikolai Karamzin's monumental History of the Russian State and Nikolai Ustrialov's textbook Russian History—as well as in the historical novels The Last Novice by ...
