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A local legend that they are the descendants of monkeys used to enhance the scenery for the Tarzan movies that were shot in the area in the 1930s is not true, since no Tarzan movie filmed in the area featured rhesus macaques. [5] The monkeys are allowed to live in Florida, due to their contributions to science.
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life is a science book by Richard Dawkins and Yan Wong that delves into the topic of evolution.The book adopts a unique approach, retracing the path of humans in reverse chronological order through evolutionary history.
Her black-identified descendants in Jacksonville, Florida, formed part of the Black Upper Class for more than a century after her death: her great-granddaughter Mary Kingsley Sammis was the wife of Abraham Lincoln Lewis, Florida's first black millionaire, and Sammis and Lewis' descendants include the noted academic Johnnetta Betsch Cole, the ...
The 84-year-old’s expression changed as she remembered details passed down by her mother about one of Florida’s darkest moments from 100 years ago. It was a story about Rosewood, a town in ...
Monkeys have been spotted roaming in unusual places in central Florida recently — and the police are warning residents to stay away. The Orange City Police Department said on social media that ...
Books and Books owner Mitch Kaplan sits near empty book shelves to illustrate the effects of Florida’s book bans during a “Freadom” event in Coral Gables in 2023. (Carl Juste/cjuste ...
Strawberry Girl is the second and best known of Lenski's series of regional books. She wrote them specifically to "present vivid, sympathetic pictures of the real life of different kinds of Americans". [1]: x Lenski approached each book seriously; moving into the communities; sketching the plants, animals, homes and especially the children. She ...
The Florida Historical Quarterly. 30 (1): 3– 115. ISSN 0015-4113. JSTOR 30138833. Bullen, Ripley P. (1975). A Guide to the Identification of Florida Projectile Points (Revised ed.). Gainesville, Florida: Kendall Books. Carr, Robert S. (September 1986). "Preliminary Report on Excavation at the Cutler Fossil Site (8DA2001) in Southern Florida".