Bathroom Book of Florida Trivia: Weird, Wacky and Wild
- ISBN-10
- 1897278241
- ISBN-13
- 9781897278246
- Category
- Florida
- Pages
- 216
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-05-29
- Publisher
- Blue Bike Books
- Authors
- Andrew Fleming, Michael Shaffer
Description
Florida is full of fascinating and often humorous stories of strange places, bizarre events, intriguing history and colorful characters: At 345 feet above sea level, Britton Hill is the highest point in Florida and the lowest high point of any U.S. state, The coldest temperature ever recorded was -2[degree]F on February 13, 1899, in Tallahassee, For two weeks in 1983, artists Hristo Yavashev and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon surrounded the islands in Biscayne Bay with two million square feet of polypropylene plastic, Juan Ponce de Leon, a Spanish conquistador, named the area in honor of his discovery on April 2, 1513, for Pascua Florida, the Spanish Easter season, Disney World's 20,000-plus acre property is the largest theme park resort in the world, To win the heart of his lady, five-foot-tall Edward Leedskalnin built a castle from two million pounds of coral Florida has the fastest-growing Hispanic population in the U.S. And so much more... Book jacket.
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