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Military watches are believed to have received their name from a German military request for a soldier in a watch house, otherwise known as a guard tower. One story tells that the military wristwatches came into use when a German naval officer needed to know the time but could not pull out a pocket watch since both his hands were busy operating the machine.
Relojes Centenario (or Centenario Clocks) is the first manufacturer of monumental clocks in Latin America. It was founded by Alberto Olvera Hernández in the municipality of Zacatlán , Puebla , Mexico as a workshop on the family farm when he was a teenager.
With 19,334 faculty and staff as of 2023, the University of Miami in Coral Gables is Miami-Dade County's second-largest employer after Baptist Health South Florida. [1] This is a list of major companies or subsidiaries headquartered in the Miami metropolitan area.
Most of Florida is in the Eastern Time Zone (UTC−05:00, DST UTC−04:00). The following parts of the Florida panhandle in northwest Florida are in the Central Time Zone (UTC−06:00, DST UTC−05:00): Bay County, 2010 population 168,852; Calhoun County, 2010 population 14,625; Escambia County, 2010 population 297,619; Holmes County, 2010 ...
Frontier Florida was founded as the Peninsular Telephone Company by William G. Brorein [1] in March 1901. Brorein, a politician from Ohio, arrived in Tampa in 1901. Noticing the boom in the South, he was convinced by friends to get in the telephone business.
Diagram of electric time system used around 1910 to keep time in factories, schools, and other large institutions. The master clock (bottom center), controlled by a temperature-compensated mercury pendulum, is wired to slave clocks throughout the building.
City National Bank of Florida was established in 1946 when Leonard L. Abess, Sr., Max Orovitz, and Baron de Hirsch Meyer founded the North Shore Bank on 71st Street in Miami Beach. In the 1950s, Industrial National Bank at 46 West Flagler Street was added and the bank moved into new headquarters at 25 West Flagler Street.
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