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| |  | | | WMEN 640 Sports (640 AM) is a sports talk radio station licensed to Royal Palm Beach, Florida, USA. The station primarily serves the West Palm Beach, Florida market and provides strong coverage of nearby Fort Lauderdale and Miami. 640 Sports is a Fox Sports Radio affiliate, carrying hourly sports updates along with weekend and overnight programming. The station is owned by Mark Jorgenson, through licensee ACM JCE IV B LLC, and operated by Palm Beach Broadcasting with studios in Pompano Beach. Un... |
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| |  | | | Miracle Park, also called Miracle Village, is a community outside of Pahokee, Florida that serves as a home for registered sex offenders. It was created by Richard Witherow, a minister working in prisons for 30 years, as an answer to sex offender registration laws that strictly limit where offenders may live. Such laws prohibit offenders from living within a certain distance of places where children gather, such as schools, parks, and places of worship. Within the limits of these rules, offender... |
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| |  | 1942 establishments in Florida, Airports established in 1942, Airports in Florida, Transportation in Hendry County, Florida, Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Florida, USAAF Contract Flying School Airfields, Closed installations of the United States Army, USAAF Eastern Flying Training Command, Military units and formations of the United States Army Air Forces, American Theater of World War II, Hidden categories:, Articles needing additional references from January 2013, All artic... | | |
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| |  | Lakes of Florida, Everglades, Landforms of Palm Beach County, Florida, Landforms of Glades County, Florida, Landforms of Okeechobee County, Florida, Landforms of Hendry County, Florida, Landforms of Martin County, Florida, Lake Okeechobee, Hidden categories:, All articles with dead external links, Articles with dead external links from May 2013, Articles needing cleanup from June 2015, All articles needing cleanup, Cleanup tagged articles with a reason field from June 2015, Wikipedia pages needi... | | Lake Okeechobee (US- o�ki�t�o�bi- ), locally referred to as The Lake, Floridas Inland Sea, or The Big O, is the largest freshwater lake in the state of Florida. It is the seventh largest freshwater lake in the United States and the second largest freshwater lake (the largest being Lake Michigan) contained entirely within the contiguous 48 states. However, it is the largest freshwater lake completely within a single one of the lower 48 states. Okeechobee covers 1,900 square kilometres (73... |
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| |  | | | Port Mayaca is a sparsely populated place located in western Martin County, Florida, United States, on the eastern side of Lake Okeechobee. Named for the Mayaca Tribe, Port Mayaca is centered just south of the Port Mayaca Lock and Dams on the Okeechobee Waterway (St. Lucie Canal) at the intersection of S.W. Kanner Highway, (State Road 76), and S.W. Gaines Highway, (State Road 15, which is signed as U.S. Route 441 and U.S. Route 98). There are a few houses and businesses at this intersection but ... |
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| |  | | | Twenty Mile Bend is an unofficial landmark located in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It is located at the intersection of State Road 80 and State Road 880. This location is both 20 miles (32 km) from West Palm Beach, as well as 20 miles (32 km) from Lake Okeechobee. However, the name is derived from State Road 880. When traveling east from Belle Glade, there are bends in the road at the 9 miles (14 km), 12 miles (19 km), and 20 miles (32 km) points. This bend is located at the 20 mil... |
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| |  | | | The Barley Barber Swamp, once a vast Bald Cypress forest and waterway in the Greater Everglades watershed, is a 450-acre (180 ha) parcel of land surrounded by Florida Power & Lights (FPL) Martin County power plant. The swamp is located just over a mile east of Lake Okeechobee and due west of Indiantown, Florida. The old-growth cypress swamp is named after Barley Barber, a man who lived in the area at the turn of the 20th century. Little is known of the man Barley Barber except that he left the r... |
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| |  | | | The Big Cypress Indian Reservation is one of the six reservations of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. It is located in southeastern Hendry County and northwestern Broward County, in southern Florida in the United States. The reservation lies south of Lake Okeechobee and just north of Alligator Alley. It is governed by the Seminole Tribe of Floridas Tribal Council, and is the largest of the five Seminole reservations in the state. Facilities on the reservation include the tribal museum and a major ... |
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| |  | | | Martin Next Generation Solar Energy Center is the solar parabolic-trough component of an integrated solar combined cycle 1150 MW plant, in western Martin County, Florida, just north of Indiantown, built by Florida Power & Light Company (FPL). The ISCC plant is part of Martin Plant site which consists of 5 units. Unit 1 & Unit 2 are 800 MW steam electric generating units that use natural gas and low-sulfur residual oil. Unit 3 & Unit 4 are 500 MW natural gas-fired combined cycle units. Unit 8 is ... |
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| |  | | | WAFZ-FM (92.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Regional Mexican format. The format plays a variety of new and current hits on the Regional Mexican format. At one time Also played Tejano music Music in the 1980s on its sister station WAFZ-AM. It its beginnings WAFZ use to be WZOR-AM 1490 and English programming adult contemporary music and news on for the morning until 3pm. Then it changed its format to regional mexican- tejano. The early DJs that worked there were Gabino Soliz, EL CHAVO ALE... |
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| |  | | | Wellington is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. As of 2014, the city had a population of 61,485 according to the U.S. Census Bureau, making it the most populous village in the state. It is the fifth largest municipality in Palm Beach County by population. Wellington is part of the South Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. Wellington was named Money Magazines Top 100 Best Places to Live in 2010. Although Wellington is not a village under any standard definition of the term v... |
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| |  | Unincorporated communities in Palm Beach County, Florida, Unincorporated communities in Florida, Census-designated places in Florida, Hidden categories:, Articles needing additional references from December 2009, All articles needing additional references, Articles needing cleanup from December 2009, All articles needing cleanup, Cleanup tagged articles without a reason field from December 2009, Wikipedia pages needing cleanup from December 2009, Coordinates on Wikidata, Vague or ambiguous time ... | | The Acreage is an unincorporated community located in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States, with a 2010 US Census Bureau population count of 38,704 . It is located in the areas north of Royal Palm Beach and Loxahatchee Groves, and is approximately 15 miles (24 km) northwest of West Palm Beach. Most of the population lives in single family homes on 1.14 acres (4,600 m2) and larger lots. It straddles the western fringes of the highly developed eastern portion of Palm Beach County and the agri... |
| |  | | | Hall City is a ghost town in Florida. It was established in what is now Glades County, Florida, during 1910 by Rev. George F. Hall, a retired Disciples of Christ minister living in Chicago, Illinois. Built and run locally by Rev. Halls son, G. Barton Hall, from 1910 until approximately 1925, Hall City was to have been a temperance town (i.e., free of alcoholic beverages) and was to be the site of proposed Hall University. However, the town failed and the bulk of the land was purchased by the Lyk... |
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| |  | | | WFLX (Fox 29) is the Fox-affiliated television station for the Gold and Treasure Coasts of South Florida. Licensed to West Palm Beach, the station broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 28 (virtual channel 29) from a transmitter in Lake Worth west of US 441- SR 7. The station can also be seen on Comcast channel 11 and in high definition on digital channel 434. The stations broadcast license is owned by Raycom Media, but is operated by the E. W. Scripps Company through a share... |
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| |  | | | The Riddle House is an old Edwardian house located in Palm Beach County, Florida. The house was built in West Palm Beach, Florida in 1905 by some of Henry Flaglers hotel construction workers. Originally serving as a funeral parlor (then known as Gatekeepers Cottage), the Riddle House was also a house to the overseers of Woodlawn Cemetery, who would deter grave robbery. By 1920, the house became privately owned by Karl Riddle, a city manager and superintendent of West Palm Beach. He is the namesa... |
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| |  | | | The Battle of Lake Okeechobee was one of the major battles of the Second Seminole War. It was fought between 800 troops of the 1st, 4th, and 6th Infantry Regiments and 132 Missouri Volunteers (under the command of Colonel Zachary Taylor), and between 380 and 480 Seminoles led by Billy Bowlegs, Abiaca, and Alligator on 25 December 1837. The Seminole warriors were resisting forced relocation to a reservation out west. Though both the Seminoles and Taylors troops emerged from the battle claiming vi... |
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| |  | | | WPTV-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for South Floridas Gold and Treasure Coasts. Licensed to West Palm Beach, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 12 (PSIP virtual channel 5) from a transmitter in Lake Worth along U.S. 441- SR 7. The station can also be seen on Comcast channel 3 (in Martin, Palm Beach, Okeechobee, and Southern St. Lucie Counties) and channel 5 (in Indian River and Northern St. Lucie Counties). Owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, WPTV has stu... |
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